"Justice may still be hard won. Justice may still not come. Prosecutions may still not happen immediately or in the near future. But I think holding onto that belief that we can move towards what is right and we must keep speaking out about that.

I think that's what's really powerful and the sort of wider lesson we should take from the Epstein files."

~ Hardeep Matharu

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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-epstein-files-from-darkness-to

The Epstein Files: From Darkness To Light

A recording from Adrian Goldberg's live video

Byline Supplement

"We only have them and we can only begin to piece together a better understanding because those survivors kept speaking the truth, speaking truth to power. You know, power that has abused and has corrupted itself many times over."

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"So I think actually, Darkness Visible, which is our theme for this latest print edition, I hope readers come away not feeling depressed, but not only depressed, but with some sense of we can keep moving towards the truth."

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"Everyone who's essentially running our country right now, it appears, has some tie to the Epstein files."

~ Joy-Ann Reid

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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/trump-demands-no-more-epstein-while

Trump Demands: No More Epstein, While MAGA Is Groomed to Accept Jeff | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!

A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live video

Welcome to Joy's House!

"Hillary Clinton has accused US President Donald Trump's administration of a 'cover-up' over its handling of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

'Get the files out. They are slow-walking it,' the former US secretary of state told the BBC in Berlin, where she attended the annual World Forum."

~ Jessica Parker

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx47k34yqxo

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files cover-up in BBC interview

"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it," the former US secretary of state says. The White House says it has done "more for the victims than Democrats ever did".

"This evening, President Donald Trump publicly denied any involvement with Epstein, stating, 'I have nothing to hide. I have been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I have been totally exonerated on Epstein.' Trump has repeatedly insisted that investigations have cleared him of wrongdoing."

~Aaron Parnas

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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-update-new-mexico-launches

Major Update: New Mexico Launches First Ever Probe of Epstein Ranch as Trump Falsely Claims he is "Totally Exonerated"

Major developments unfolded this evening in the ongoing controversy surrounding the release of files connected to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, intensifying political tensions and renewing calls for transparency.

The Parnas Perspective

"That’s not true, however. As I reported yesterday, there is at least one instance where FBI investigators believed there to be sufficient, credible allegations to interview a accuser of the President. What materialized from that investigation remains unclear to this day."

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"Whenever Jill and I travel, we always make a point to attend a local Catholic church for Sunday mass. This week, we are in Tennessee. We located a nearby church and went to mass on Sunday morning. The church and the congregation had several obvious signs of being a pre-Vatican II enclave within a broader church that is inching toward the 21st Century."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-be-like-anderson-cooper

Don’t be like Anderson Cooper.

February 17, 2026

Today's Edition Newsletter

"The details are not important for this anecdote until we get to the sermon.

As expected, the sermon focused on faith as a 'rules-based' exercise, which has been out of fashion since the Baltimore Catechism in the 1960s. About 15 minutes into a rules-based sermon, the priest said, 'And now we must address the elephant in the room: The Epstein Files.'

Whoa! That was a left turn we were not expecting."

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"The priest went on to condemn the administration for 'redacting the names of the powerful men who abused children.' He then urged the parishioners to 'call your representatives and Senators, tell them to release the Epstein files in unredacted form.'

There were additional head-spinning comments relating to the Epstein files, but my point is this:"

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"In the middle of a conservative town in Tennessee, in a conservative Catholic congregation that is still worshipping in a form recognizable in the 1950s, the priest was visibly angry at the administration for failing to release the files in unredacted form.

If unhappiness about the Epstein files has reached into that small corner of the universe, it is everywhere."

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"If Joe Rogan is any indication, February 2026 may go down as the month that the Epstein files saga cemented itself as a lasting political liability for President Donald Trump and Republicans. ...

Rogan is representative of a large swath of voters who delivered Trump his 2024 victory: distrustful, low-propensity, and anti-system voters."

~ Christian Paz

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https://www.vox.com/politics/479159/epstein-trump-bondi-rogan-conspiracy-files-release-young-men

Anti-system voters are turning on Trump over Epstein

And young Republicans are particularly enraged.

Vox

"And what he and other spokespeople for this suspicious segment of America — Tim Dillon, Shawn Ryan, Andrew Schulz — are saying matters: it suggests that these anti-system voters, who were once thought to be a permanent part of the new GOP coalition, are nothing of the sort.

Those voters tend to skew politically moderate, independent, and, perhaps most importantly, young."

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"They don’t tend to follow the news or know too much about Trump or politics. They get informed through nontraditional avenues like podcasts and social media, and aren’t wed to a political party or identity."

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"The slippage [in support for Trump] is especially drastic with young voters. In the 2024 election, a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds voted for Kamala Harris, but compared with 2020, young voters swung hard toward Trump. According to the Cook Political Report, on March 1, 2025, Trump’s net approval rating with these voters was minus 7. Yet by February 1 of this year, it was an astonishing minus 31.8."

~ Sarah Longwell

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/gen-z-trump-red-wave/686006/?gift=_ZIU2b-u6NxEmt_0j2INZnATQFic788Wfje7HHHp-_g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters

Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.

The Atlantic

"Now young people are abandoning Trump faster than any other voting bloc. ...

All of this suggests that Trump didn’t own the votes of young people who supported him in 2024; he rented them. And many of them are now getting tired of antics that, in their minds, take the focus away from the economy."

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@wdlindsy

Trump's support from the young was mystifying.

They can't afford homes because the Epstein Class laundered their loot through the residential housing market.

They can't get decent paying jobs because the Epstein Class froze wage growth in the 1970's to "control inflation".

They're told the nation it "can't afford" #Medicare4All because the Epstein Class bought tax cuts for themselves.

They can't have clean air or water because the Epstein Class colludes with petrostate despots.

@Npars01 @wdlindsy Looking at r-wingers in UK, it's as though they've had imagination stifled by media normalising 'austerity' for the w class, to the point that they think improvements to our lives 'unaffordable', & seek the buzz of power in making someone else suffer.

@CableSt @wdlindsy

The Moneyed always blameshift to the marginalized whenever there's risk that attention may focus on their corruption.

They irresponsibly orchestrate mass immiseration by tax evasion (1929 financial crash) then foment antisemitism to thwart real answers to aristocratic greed.

The Duke of Windsor & Henry Ford promoted Hitler to evade taxation.

Today, the Epstein Class is doing the same, colluding with despots, orchestrating financial collapses, & blameshifting to migrants.

@Npars01 @CableSt @wdlindsy I’m not a Bible person but sometimes a broken clock can be correct, 1 Timothy 6:10, "the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."
@Npars01 Yes, I find it mystifying, too. One lens through which I view this is my lens as a retired educator who retains a passion for education. I think it's no accident that for years now, Republicans have gutted public education, as Trump has crowed that he loves his uneducated voters. I'm very concerned about the loss of literacy on the part of many younger folks, and the reliance on soundbytes and entertaining clips at places like TikTok to access "news."
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