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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.

The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel "Lolita" written on a person's body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.

The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein's crimes.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

What does the foot say?

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The release includes images of lines from the novel "Lolita" written on a person's body.

Great.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

That’s really weird… straight up abuser stuff

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 hours ago

Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book..:

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.

Which in the book continues with..;

She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

[–] yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Yeah, they said that in the antitrust trial in the 90s. It was horseshit then and it's horseshit now.

Billionaires never see justice for the same reason no one has ever seen the easter bunny. Justice doesn't exist. Just a legal system designed to punish the poor and minorities.

Definitely not lol. Why would he be in trouble? He is rich...

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

melinda found out years ago

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 hours ago

Imagine if Trump, Clinton, Gates and all the other high profile people implicated in this actually got arrested. It wouldn't just change the nation, probably change the world given who all had dealings with Epstein.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The girl in that pic is not at all, in any way, comfortable.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

For reference,

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 12 points 8 hours ago

Yeah even my autistic ass can tell this is close to a hostage situation.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

The girl's hands in the picture with Bill Gates gives me the worst feeling, they look anxious, I don't know why, they just do.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 hour ago

As a male, I don't understand how can you fuck a person who doesn't want it, who feels uncomfortable around you, let alone is underage.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

it explains why he switched to reinventing his image with "philantrophy" decades ago, and how some of it has been disengenious.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

oh yea, his vaccine, and charity initiatives are probably money laundering/tax breaks.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 hours ago

it's the tense closed body language, it looks very much like an "i do not fucking want to be here or near this person, i am trying to cover my private areas inconspicuously, do not fucking touch me"

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 53 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

oh look David Blaine does magic for rapist pedophiles.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What is it with magicians and Epstein, there's also David Copperfield

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 32 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn't evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn't damning by itself.

Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.

Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.

Context is important, and that's why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

If you lie with dogs then you will get fleas

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

So you assume that every dog in existence has fleas? Can't be around any dogs whatsoever at any point for fear of getting fleas? Shitty analogy for the situation.

Better hope none of your old friends from say high school or college that you haven't seen for years end up being sexual predators at any point in time. Might have photos taken with them that others will see and assume you knew what was going on because you were with them. Especially if they were doing that at the time.

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 17 points 7 hours ago

Chomsky said that, at the time of his meetings with Epstein, "what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate."

that kinda says all it needs to right there

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Bummer, but into the trash heap with all the rest.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Anyone have any idea what all those formulas on the blackboard are all about?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

The top looks like an explanation of the Higgs mechanism, the bottom has very low quality.

Should probably run the faces via pimeyes and find the papers by these clowns

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 8 minutes ago

Looks like a Hall effect explanation

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Top one looks like it's from an intermediate level quantum mechanics lecture. Less sure about the bottom one as it's generally less legible but it looks like it's dealing with probability density functions of some kind to me.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

But I thought there was only bad people in the files.

At least fascism is finally comer to an end. This is it ridge? The files that tend Trump or whatever. The definitely not a distraction files.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh those are very bad