From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who attended the briefing, said Bondi will have to answer “why there are still 3 million documents being hidden” and “why there was a cover-up of those files that implicated Donald Trump.” Khanna also comments on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, noting that Trump’s military actions are “a total betrayal of his promise that he was going to focus on American needs.”

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Israeli strikes hit Iranian oil depots near Tehran. The attacks marked the first on Iran’s energy infrastructure in the 10-day war and come as average gas prices in the US are up 14% to $3.41 per gallon as of this writing.
Trump will do anything to distract you from what he did to little girls.
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Missing DOJ Files: As Clintons Testify About Epstein, Where Are FBI Interviews with Trump Accuser?

As fallout from the Epstein files continues, we speak with investigative journalist Barry Levine, author of The Spider: Inside the Tangled Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Recordings of the House Oversight depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton are set to be released today and tomorrow. The Clintons were called by House Republicans to testify on their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, but Levine emphasizes that credible allegations tying either the Clintons or Donald Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities are currently limited. Meanwhile, files known to contain allegations of sexual abuse of a minor by President Trump have been withheld or removed by the Department of Justice. Levine says that the focus on the Clintons is a political distraction targeted at Trump’s “perceived enemies” while millions of documents on the Epstein case that could directly implicate his other associates have still not been released or unredacted for the public. “There are men who are out there who took part in the sex trafficking that have not been brought to justice,” says Levine.

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The ‘Crazy’ Plot to Release the Epstein Files

How an unlikely duo of lawmakers partnered with victims to try to hold the powerful accountable

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Surprise! #Jan6 rioter pardoned by #drumpf convicted of child #sexabuse

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Birds of a feather….

British Politicians Still Have Shame

The Epstein case keeps threatening politicians—just not in the United States.

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Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links, Grok’s Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger

French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris. The French probe comes on the heels of a U.K. investigation into Musk’s AI tool Grok over its “potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content.” Last month, the European Union also launched an investigation into sexual deepfakes created by Grok. “It’s a part of a kind of a pushback that we’re seeing now against Musk that’s probably more forceful than anything we’ve seen to date,” says Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University and author of the upcoming book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

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The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into ‘Withdrawal’ Without Jeffrey Epstein

Peter Attia is all over the Epstein files.

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X's Paris office raided Tuesday the Paris prosecutor's #cybercrime unit launched a search of #X offices connected to an ongoing investigation over alleged algorithm manipulation & illicit #data extraction expanded to incl complicity in spreading child #SexAbuse. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

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Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit raids X’s French office

The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office on Tuesday launched a search of the French offices of social media platform X. The raid was connected to an ongoing investigation launched in January 2025 over alleged algorithm manipulation and illicit data extraction that has since expanded to look into allegations of of complicity in spreading child sex abuse materials and sexualised deepfakes.

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“Billionaire Boys Club”: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity

The Justice Department on Friday released an additional 3 million pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration says it was the final release of Epstein files, even though some 2 million more documents remain unreleased. The latest batch reveals new details about Epstein’s connections to the rich and powerful, including Hollywood figures, tech billionaires, public officials and more. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said it is unlikely anyone else would be prosecuted. Attorney Arick Fudali, who represents 11 Epstein survivors, says the release of the files has been a “perfect storm” of “incompetency and an active cover-up” by the Trump administration. “It’s so mind-boggling, because they’re withholding documents that they shouldn’t be withholding … but, on the other hand, they’re showing documents that they shouldn’t be showing because they contain unredacted names of survivors,” says Fudali. Investigative journalist Vicky Ward, who has covered the Epstein case for many years, says despite the flawed release of the files, they continue to shine light on a world of elite impunity and excess. “We just see over and over again in these documents, this was just one big billionaires boys club that treated women like objects,” says Ward.

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