When the Epstein Files are released...

[Noodles]

. Of course, her objective was not to get help. It was for me to do a big story exposing the 1950's Yankees for the fiends she believed they were.

Well, did you? I need to know.... for a uh... friend...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Independent: The Epstein files have revealed a dark truth about rich people and the twisted games they play with money

Evernote Link

Between all the grim lines in the Epstein files are illustrations of just how much wealth is about a series of backroom deals and shady business practices. The begging bowls that so many of Epstein’s acquaintances came holding are laid out clearly within the thousands of emails (which came with the mistaken confidence of anonymity). People we might have associated with great privilege and access to wealth, thanks to connections, turn out to be the most basic of grifters, including Ghislaine Maxwell herself.

Interesting look at how the apparently wealthy juggle debt to maintain the appearance of being rich.

What all these documents expose is the cloak-and-dagger world of high finance and wealth. What many people don’t understand is that wealth is often a game of appearances, an often hollow one predicated on all kinds of things, including extensive borrowing. So many toys – cars, yachts, properties, jewels – are available to lease (or even rent by the hour for an Instagram picture), so if you want to give the illusion of being rich, it’s not all that difficult. If you don’t lease or rent your luxuries, you can always steal, as in the case of the debt-ridden socialite entrepreneur David Tang, who transferred funds from his company to his private account to fund his lifestyle.

 

[Free]

Does this come up in the Melania doc?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Well, did you? I need to know.... for a uh... friend...

You don't remember my big exposé, "The Yankees are Creeps?"

Oh, wait, sorry -- that was something the home crowd was chanting at a Mariners/Yankees game. Never mind.

 

[Free]

You don't remember my big exposé, "The Yankees are Creeps?"

(OMG, I only now just learned the photo above is FAKED! The past 20 years of my life have been a lie...)

 

[Free]

This article title...

No, Jeffrey Epstein Is Probably Not Satoshi Nakamoto

There are lots of revelations about Epstein's relationship with the crypto world in the files. That's not one of them.

gizmodo.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

This article title...

No, Jeffrey Epstein Is Probably Not Satoshi Nakamoto

There are lots of revelations about Epstein's relationship with the crypto world in the files. That's not one of them.

gizmodo.com

Okay, "probably not." That means he was almost for sure Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Hoffa, or D.B Cooper, right?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Okay, "probably not." That means he was almost for sure Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Hoffa, or D.B Cooper, right?

John Barron.

 

[Free]

‘Do you think you’re the devil himself?’: highlights from the bizarre, newly released Bannon-Epstein interview

Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to Donald Trump, has long styled himself as a populist nemesis of the global elites. Yet the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files shows that he exchanged hundreds of friendly texts with the wealthy financier, discussing politics, travel and other topics.

One of the biggest surprises in the files was a bizarre video in which Epstein – who exploited and abused dozens of young girls – is interviewed by Bannon at what appears to be Epstein’s New York home.

A telling bit from the video "interview:"

At one point, Bannon comments: “There’s something deeply fucked up with you.”

One could point out the same of Bannon.

If you're willing to sift through it, here's the video.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian: More on Epstein and his close ties with the then Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

‘I am always on your team!!’: how Andrew’s aide kept close ties with Epstein right to the end

Andrew vouched for Epstein on state visit to UAE with queen in 2010

This isn't a conspiracy of pedophiles. It's rich and powerful people and their hangers-on being themselves.

And the Financial Times: The Epstein rot goes deep (Evernote because paywall)

 

[Free]

Gizmodo continues busting Epstein conspiracies.

Why People Think Jeffrey Epstein Is Alive and Playing Fortnite

There's no evidence that Epstein is alive and hiding in Israel.

gizmodo.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social)

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

bsky.app

James Ball (@jamesrball.com)

Seriously, I’m British and if we’re your model for actually taking action on stuff like this you have gone spectacularly off the rails. When our actual *royal family* is ahead of you on accountability, you’ve left the track, plowed across the fields and dropped right into the sea. [contains...

bsky.app

 

[Casey Pelous]

Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social)

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

bsky.app

Yeah! Somebody should DO SOMETHING! Haul 'em before Congress! That'll show 'em!

Someone doesn't seem to quite grasp how the present US Congress works -- or, more accurately, doesn't work. Who is this guy, anyway?

Oh. US Congressman from CA.

 

[Free]

I have to say , that's a unique take on it.

'If you're not in the Epstein files, it just means you were a bit of a loser,' claims Andrew's ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey

Lady Victoria Hervey dated the disgraced royal briefly back in 1999.

The ex-Prince lost all of his titles in 2025 due to his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew has always vehemently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

The former Duke of York is included in the latest release of the Epstein files, including a picture of him crouched over an unidentified woman, whose face has been redacted.

Amid the fallout from the latest release, Lady Hervey told LBC that Andrew is "a guy" who "needs to date".

"It's very hard for anyone to kind of try and imagine being in his shoes.

"But he's a male, he's single, he needs to date. He's not going to be sitting in a monastery his whole life."

Prince Andrew was a monastic monk? Then how did he meet you?

No reason to add further here. She just goes on to show just how different her breed is from most other humans.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have to say , that's a unique take on it.

'If you're not in the Epstein files, it just means you were a bit of a loser,' claims Andrew's ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey




Prince Andrew was a monastic monk? Then how did he meet you?

No reason to add further here. She just goes on to show just how different her breed is from most other humans.

It might be fair to say that if you were famous at all to any extent in those days Epstein would likely at least try to contact you. ....but that obviously doesn't mean you had to go to his parties and sleep with under age girls like Andrew likely did.

 

[Casey Pelous]

It might be fair to say that if you were famous at all to any extent in those days Epstein would likely at least try to contact you. ....but that obviously doesn't mean you had to go to his parties and sleep with under age girls like Andrew likely did.

I have been struck by how a lot of the correspondence that has come to light has such an air of "ah, yes, very well then, Friday it is" normalcy about it. Few seem to say anything like, "I'm sorry. WHAT is this party?" unless they are utterly clueless like Elmo. It is enough to make one wonder if Epstein was unique or just one of many ... erm ... providers.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Epstein files have so far done considerably more damage to the UK's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who isn't named in them, than they have to Donald Trump and his administration.

Politics latest: Starmer to discuss 'every lever available' to deal with cost of living

The PM is to chair a COBRA meeting on the Iran war's effect on the cost of living. It will take place in the late afternoon, after a grilling by parliament's powerful Liaison Committee. Watch and follow the latest from Westminster.

news.sky.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

The Epstein files have so far done considerably more damage to the UK's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who isn't named in them, than they have to Donald Trump and his administration.

Ironic, isn't it? Apparently the British government isn't as riddled with shameless corruption as ours is. They are still capable of performative shame, at the least.

But I'm struggling to get my head around this McSweeney person. From all indications, he's a capable person holding a key position in Starmer's staff. Why would he have been such a staunch advocate for McFadden? Did they think the Epstein connection would be an advantage when dealing with the Trump Administration? Was it such an advantage that they were willing to risk the potential for bad PR?

Admittedly, the news that Mandelson (corrected) shared government secrets was probably an unexpected blow. But given all that was known about McFadden's character, was it really such a surprise?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ironic, isn't it? Apparently the British government isn't as riddled with shameless corruption as ours is. They are still capable of performative shame, at the least.

But I'm struggling to get my head around this McSweeney person. From all indications, he's a capable person holding a key position in Starmer's staff. Why would he have been such a staunch advocate for McFadden? Did they think the Epstein connection would be an advantage when dealing with the Trump Administration? Was it such an advantage that they were willing to risk the potential for bad PR?

Admittedly, the news that McFadden shared government secrets was probably an unexpected blow. But given all that was known about McFadden's character, was it really such a surprise?

I think you mean Mandelson rather than McFadden (autocorrect?).

McSweeney is a long-time protégé and admirer of Mandelson, whose success in expelling the Labour Party's far left in the 1990s and thus helping Tony Blair's landslide victory in 1997 he emulated on behalf of Kier Starmer in 2024.

He's thus made a lot of enemies along the way, and more recently has been blamed (not without reason) for the government's obsession with winning back fickle and socially conservative (code for anti-immigration) Labour voters who voted Conservative in 2019, returned to Labour in 2024 and are now backing Reform, at the expense of more left-wing supporters who are now backing the Greens or the Liberal Democrats.

Mandelson apparently was not Starmer's first choice but when he finally chose Mandelson the appointment was welcomed by both the Conservatives and Nigel Farage's Reform on the grounds he'd be a good fit with the Trump administration and be able to charm and flatter Trump himself.

Mandelson has always had something of a charmed life in the Labour Party. He was twice fired from ministerial jobs under Blair for questionable financial behaviour, but has always bounced back, presumably because he is such a skilled political operator and is also, by all accounts, personally extremely charming and likable (at least until you get to know him better, it would seem).

 

[Beebo Brink]

I think you mean Mandelson rather than McFadden (autocorrect?).

Yup, lost control of the "M" names.

Well, it all sounds a bit skeevy, and now they're reaping the results. No sympathy.