@vosje62@mastodon.nlOud-modellen trekken deksel van Franse #Epstein-doofpot; een Nederlands slachtoffer deelt haar verhaal | de #Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/oud-modellen-trekken-deksel-van-franse-epstein-doofpot-een-nederlands-slachtoffer-deelt-haar-verhaal~bd736323/
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialLooks like the in spite of #47s best efforts , the #EpsteinFiles just won't go away. #Good.
Journalist Katie Phang sues acting attorney general Todd Blanche over Epstein files
@paulwermer@sfba.socialLooks like the in spite of #47s best efforts , the #EpsteinFiles just won't go away. #Good.
Journalist Katie Phang sues acting attorney general Todd Blanche over Epstein files
@annsev@troet.cafe
@cdarwin@c.imThe Justice Department on Thursday released additional Jeffrey #Epstein files
involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against Donald Trump that the department said had been "mistakenly" withheld during an earlier review.
The department said last week that it was working to determine if any records were improperly withheld
after several news organizations reported tha…
@Simone21@mastodon.social @PaulWermer@sfba.social#EpsteinFiles - is someone worried they might embarrass someone? (Or smeones?) Maybe powerful people? Surely pedophiles of wealth and their enablers are OK, aren't they? After all they have wealth and are important. Isn't wealth a sign that you are good and wise?
Trump DoJ’s mixed messages bode ill for Epstein victims, experts fear
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlMelania Trump does a Bill Clinton about her relationship with Jeffrey #Epstein https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/melania-trump-jeffrey-epstein?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaRedistributing - Trumpstein files #trump #epstein #epstein_files
@paulwermer@sfba.social#EpsteinFiles - is someone worried they might embarrass someone? (Ore smeones?) Maybe powerful people? Surely pedophiles of wealth and their enablers are OK, aren't they? After all they have wealth and are important. Isn't wealth a sign that you are good and wise?
Trump DoJ’s mixed messages bode ill for Epstein victims, experts fear
@kctipton@mas.toMeet three scientists who said no to Epstein money | Science | AAAS #Epstein
@annsev@troet.cafeEin sehr gut recherchierter und geschriebener Artikel zu #Epstein und die Zoro-Form.
Es zeigt sich wie verkommen die #Geldaristokratie ist und wie gut vernetzt. Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass viele darunter glauben, sie stünden über dem Gesetz und wären unangreifbar.
Fassungslos bin ich …
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioI wonder if the "prediction markets" are taking bets on whether Trump mucks up any peace deal with #Iran before long, and on the next #distraction from #Epstein files.
Taking over Greenland has to be high on the list of distractions.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/17/world/iran-us-war-trump
@kurtsh@mastodon.social#KatiePhang spotlights the new exhibit, the "Donald J. #Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room".
All the released #Epstein files, printed & bound for public reading.
@cdarwin@c.imAOC says Trump is willing to
‘risk world war’ by using Iran attack
as #Epstein files distraction
The Progressive Democrat accuses Donald Trump of ‘impulsively’ launching military action overseas
with no exit plan
@nohillside@smnn.chIn different news, the #epstein files are still not fully released.
Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs - Slashdot https://entertainment.slashdot.org/sto
@hex@kolektiva.socialI think this is an anti-capitalist framing that fails to really engage with intersectional feminism. (Now, please call me out if I'm wrong on this, because I'm still figuring a lot of shit out but...) Racism, misogyny, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry are not distractions that allow capitalist exploitation. They are interlocking systems, of which capitalist exploitation is a part.
The standard framing fails to engage with *what power is.* Impoverishing communities is not the goal. The goal is power. The goal is to create more coercive relationships, which interlock with all the other forms of coercion.
When you understand what the #Epstein class was doing, when you understand the way he specifically leveraged transphobia, misogyny, and economic power *together* as part of his sex trafficking, you realize there's actually something else going on here.
The anti-capitalist framing misses one of the the most important opportunities we have in this moment: the ability to permanently tie this structure to the natural repulsion we all feel towards coercion (especially as it manifests as sexual violence against children).
@frankstohl@mastodon.social @Simone21@mastodon.social @vosje62@mastodon.nl @hex@kolektiva.socialI wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@shaun@mastodon.xyzDonald #Trump, who appears in the #EpsteinFiles perhaps more than Epstein himself, began #Easter Sunday with a vulgar post that concluded “Praise be to Allah!”
That’s the news today. From now to eternit…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubDet ender med at Trumps Epstein-ballroom bare bliver et gigantisk hul i jorden. #trump #epstein #whitehouse #epsteinBallroom
@frankstohl@mastodon.social @smurthys@hachyderm.ioLooks like Donald also failed to negotiate the annual "public appearance and behavior" agreement with the First Lady. 😭
#negotiation #sarcasm #fail #Melania #Epstein
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioI think #NYT meant to say "unprecedented violations of transparency requirement". 🙂↔️
#transparency #Epstein #DOJ
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioIMO, Trump posting a video of a "Haitian immigrant beating a woman to death with a hammer" (supposedly because the video doesn't play for me):
1. Stirring up #hate as usual
2. Responding to Melania's Epstein presser
3. Distracting from #Iran, #Epstein
4. "Eyeballs, on me"
#unpresidential #socialMedia
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioFTW you watch some news segments on #YouTube about that #Melania #Epstein presser and the #algorithm immediately starts listing unrelated sitcom, late night clips etc. with (flirty) discussions of nudity. 🤨
I suppose that's a clue to the First Lady's #reputation, unfortunate/unreasonable it may be. 😟
