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In all, #SCOTUS has sided with #Trump this year in more than 80% of the emergency appeals filed by the #DOJ.

The court, on its regular docket, handed Trump an important win in June by limiting the power of federal #courts to temporarily block his policies.

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‘Lolita,’ passports and more famous figures pictured in latest Epstein photo release | PBS News

Editor’s Note: Some of the images from Friday’s release (December 19, 2025) are included in this post. Please ensure respect for the victims in these photos, and documents. –DrWeb

By — Liz Landers

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‘Lolita,’ passports and more famous figures pictured in latest Epstein photo release

Politics Dec 18, 2025 6:09 PM EST

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another collection of images from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Thursday, on the eve of the Justice Department’s deadline to release all of its files on his case.

Around 70 photographs come from Epstein’s computer and email accounts, and shed more light on his lifestyle and social circles. The photographs, among 95,000 handed over by Epstein’s estate last week, were provided to the committee without context.

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is standing next to a woman whose face has been redacted. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

One image shows former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates standing next to a woman, whose face is redacted. Another shows Noam Chomsky seated next to Epstein on a plane. Several images show a social gathering over a meal and several faces of powerful or public figures, including Epstein. A separate image that appears to be from the same room shows Google co-founder Sergey Brin and New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is a regular contributor to the PBS News Hour. The photos are undated.

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, New York Times columnist and PBS News contributor David Brooks is seen seated next to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

A New York Times spokesperson said in a statement, “As a journalist, David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner.”

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is seen smiling. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

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Several images in the new release show Epstein photographed with women whose faces have been redacted. One photograph appears to show three women with Epstein, with an open computer nearby. One of the women has her arm around his shoulder. Another photo shows Epstein seated on a plane, pointing out a window while a woman sits closely beside him. Her face has also been obscured.

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender is seated on a plane next to a woman whose face has been redacted. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender is seen with three women whose faces have been redacted. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

Some photos in this batch show closeups of a foot and a neck. In both images, quotes from the book “Lolita” appear to have been written in black pen on the person’s body.

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a quote from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is seen written on someone’s foot. The book appears in the background. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

In this undated photograph from the personal collection of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a quote from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is seen written on someone’s neck. The photo, from Epstein’s estate, was released Thursday by Democrats on the House Ov

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Also, who were all the Russian, Ukrainian, etc... passports for?

Did they belong to the girls that Epstein trafficked?

About the only part of the passports that is not redacted is the part that labels them "F" for female.

#JeffreyEpstein #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Photo #Passports #Russia #Ukraine

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@beka_valentine it is a problem for folks that get retroactively forcibly detransitioned by law and those facing said mismatch between ID and actual gender [identity], facing complications ranging from #NakedScanner to false suspicion for "#IdentityFraud"...

  • Like ideally #ICAO would not just abolish the Gender field in #Passports but ban it outright, but that won't happen!