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Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files as “a full-blown cover-up”.

Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”

"We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there."

A reminder that US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said on Friday that every woman’s image had been redacted, adding that if any members of Congress wanted to see the unredacted material they should contact the DOJ so that could be arranged.

Raskin went on:

"Remember, they’ve said there are six million potentially responsive documents there. They’ve only released three million with more than 10,000 redactions. So we have to go look at those redactions. They’ve not sent us the explanation yet for those redactions. But then what about the other 3 million files?"

"Because we are witnessing a full blown cover up. Remember, not only is there a subpoena to attorney general [Pam] Bondi to turn everything over to Congress now; there’s a federal law compelling them to turn it over, and yet we’re just getting the dribs and drabs of information coming out of this stuff that they want us to see."

To the suggestion that three million files was not “nothing”, Raskin added:

"Well it’s close to nothing when they’re deciding which documents are coming out and there’s a federal law and a subpoena compelling them to just turn everything over to Congress."

"And they said that they had done this process many months ago, and there’s nothing to see there."

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't understand why all of these people haven't been fucking shot in the face.

No system will ever hold them accountable.

Only more Luigis can.

Also, the scifs are pointless now, after Elon's DOGE clowns blew open the security to basically the entire government's digital infrastructure, and Hesgeth is plugging xAI/Grok directly into our military systems on purpose.

In case you are unaware, LLMs are security breaches, whenever implemented in anything other than a totally sealed off sandbox.

There are an endless number of ways to exploit them, and an endless number of things they might be connected to and thus able to fuck up.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

100% the wealthy elite pedophiles must be stopped. Man the far right pizza gate/Q mofos were aiming their hate at the wrong people while being manipulated by their billionaire pedo handlers were projecting lies about their wrong doings onto their enemies via social media.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another commenter in another thread, noting that uh... well /pol/ on 4chan was set up by m00t... either the same day or day after an email indicates he had some kind of meeting with Esptein...

This other commenter just said 'Epstein was Q'.

As... utterly insane as that sounds at face value, its far from impossible and imo this or something very close to this is entirely plausible.

Q is the greatest psyop that has ever happened.

It formed and melded and shaped and metastisized the entire online right wing culture. It transformed a myriad of interwoven conspiracy theories into functionally a religious cult based around Trump as an inevitable, religious savior figure, based primarily on faith.

Many intelligence agencies have often used religion or manipulation thereof as a means of achieving their ends, a basis from which to build or orient an often violent political movement.

The CIA in particular has a well established history of promoting evangelical Christianity directly as a means of combatting 'communism' in Latin and South America... as well as here at home.

And... imo, also the fact that QAnon was... so novel in concept, when one attempted to analyze and understand, comprehend it, how it worked, how it functioned, what it even was... for years it defied conventional academic means of categorization and arguably still constitutes something either novel or very uncommon, in terms of what kind of a social phenomenon it even is.

That, to me, reads like something that is the work of people who spend all their time figuring out how to make people go insane in exactly the way they want them to go insane, something that is crafted to also be so incomprehensible that no one even knows how to react to it or counteract it.

Epstein had ... stupendous amounts of ties to all kinds of intelligence agencies, the kinds of people who specialize in psyops.

Ghislaine Maxwell was the first reddit account to reach a million karma, had the 8th most link karma as of 6 years ago, around when she got put away.

She was a powermod of many, many subreddits, since 2006.

Means, motive, opportunity, all are present here in spades.

Trump is an idiot manbaby of a Manchurian Candidate, Epstein was his handler, and Epstein was mostly working for/with the Israelis and the Russians, doubtlessly also the CIA, as we can see by Trump becoming president being incredibly advantageous for the Israelis and the Russians, and also incredibly advantageous for American Capitalists, the people the CIA exist to uh, facilitate.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Wow you put it all together, well said!

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I've added a bit and revised it since.

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

TIL the link to 4chan and reddit… how the hell did I miss that….

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey don't beat yourself up, there are 3 million files, its gonna take a while for people to go through them all, for people to write articles about each bit.

But yeah, here are the original reddit links going over Maxwell's reddit account:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/

More on Epstein / Chris Poole (m00t) / 4chan connections:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/epstein-4chan-connection

More general context:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/jeffrey-epstein-files-bannon-musk-00758613

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

How many people have you shot in the face?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago
[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Because you seem pretty eager to lay down other people's lives on your behalf just wondering if you practice what you preach

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

... What do you mean?

Are you saying that the corporate / political pedophiles ... don't functionally deserve the death penalty?

Or are you saying because I, myself, a currently crippled person, who doesn't own (and can't afford) a firearm... sn't volunteering myself as a viable triggerman, that makes me a hypocrite?

I lack the means and the opportunity.

There are tens of millions of gunowners in this country, I am commenting on how ludicrous it is that in this highly armed society full of people drastically more capable and better equipped to do take the shot, nobody has yet.

Instead, we get a mass casualty incident at a school every week, or at a church, or some other public area.

It is ridiculous to me that in a country full of suicidal mass shooters, none of them pick worthwhile targets.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are you saying that the corporate / political pedophiles … don’t functionally deserve the death penalty?

I wouldn't mourn them but I don't believe an ethical criminal justice system executes its own people, no. I also don't believe any criminal justice system performs executions via a gunshot to the face so lets not pretend that's what you were talking about.

Or are you saying because I, myself, a currently crippled person, who doesn’t own (and can’t afford) a firearm…

Guns are surprisingly cheap. And considering that if you decided to be an assassin your life would be effectively (or perhaps literally) over, it's not like you would need your other possessions anymore. If you were serious you'd sell them. You're not. You're waxing rhetoric about how someone, anyone, who isn't you should do this for you.

sn’t volunteering myself as a viable triggerman, that makes me a hypocrite?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

There are tens of millions of gunowners in this country, I am commenting on how ludicrous it is that in this highly armed society full of people drastically more capable and better equipped to do take the shot, nobody has yet.

2 people have tried to assassinate Trump. They failed, and it's doubtful if the one who survived will ever be released from prison. That alone is a pretty compelling reason why nobody else wants to try.

It is ridiculous to me that in a country full of suicidal mass shooters, none of them pick worthwhile targets.

Those people are mentally ill. They don't want to change the world, they want to get a high score.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok so you've clearly got 0 experience with firearms if you think someone who needs a wheelchair on a bad day, and crutches or a cane on a good day...

... is of comparable fitness and capability to wield a firearm, you know, with the intent to surivive the encounter, as an able bodied person.

Uh lets see here, specifics;

Ok I also don't believe in a codified death penalty.

But I believe its the only solution for the people who the system will never touch, because they are its prime operators.

A well done firing squad execution is probably actually more humane than death by lethal injection or gas chamber, guess you don't know much about how that actually works either.

Your blathering about me being of disingenuous motivation is completely pointless... I am crippled. No amount of me selling things would make me capable of the task.

It is infact possible to survive and even escape an assasination. Luigi survived his. Others in the past have escaped totally.

You seem to just think it is impossible to do this. Extremely difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok so you’ve clearly got 0 experience with firearms if you think someone who needs a wheelchair on a bad day, and crutches or a cane on a good day…

I own several guns and there's guys in wheelchairs at the range that shoot better than I do. Convenient excuse, though.

A well done firing squad execution is probably actually more humane than death by lethal injection or gas chamber, guess you don’t know much about how that actually works either.

I know they aim for center mass and not the face. I apparently know more about it than you do.

I am crippled. No amount of me selling things would make me capable of the task.

Then why bring up your finances in the first place?

It is infact possible to survive and even escape an assasination. Luigi survived his.

And he's probably going to spend the rest of his life in prison. Sounds awesome, who doesn't want that for themselves?

Others in the past have escaped totally.

If you call being hunted forever "escaping"

You seem to just think it is impossible to do this.

I don't think it's impossible. I think you asked why somebody doesn't do it and I gave you a myriad of reasons why they don't and asked why you don't do it yourself.

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