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sky.skymarchini.net
Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
Matt Gaetz, wearing a paisley tie and black suit jacket. A headline reads: "In Matt Gaetz Scandal, A 17-year-Old Was Left Vulnerable to Exploitation." Photo by Kenny Holston/New York Times
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

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November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
guess im naive, really thought epstein was being shunned after his arrest and it became common knowledge that he was running a child sex trafficking ring/blackmail operation but these rich perverts really didnt give a shit
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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noahshachtman.bsky.social
Murdoch's New York Post calls the new Epstein emails a 'hoax" ... while running 13 separate stories on 'em.

Did they pull a hoax ... on themselves?

nypost.com/tag/jeffrey-...
NYP Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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rfcapsmoustache.bsky.social
what popular culture did to the olsen twins, in particular, was vile.
emilylhauser.bsky.social Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Landon Thomas’s behavior seems to be embarrassing enough to the Times hierarchy that they had their spokesman go on record insinuating to the Post that he was fired for cause. I wonder whether legal signed off on that. nypost.com/2025/11/12/u...
"Landon Thomas Jr. has not worked at The Times since early 2019 after editors discovered his failure to abide by our ethical standards, " Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha told the Post.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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thefarce.org
This is the kind of thing a functional Congress would be holding hearings about before it takes down all of us.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d
While I do not have the full extent of its revenues, it is obvious that OpenAI's costs are dramatically higher - by several billion dollars - than previously reported. Similarly, the implied revenues are much lower than reported.

I am deeply concerned.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/#wh...
What This All Means Due to the sensitivity and significance of this information, I am taking a far more blunt approach with this piece. Based on the information in this piece, OpenAI’s costs and revenues are potentially dramatically different to what we believed. The Information reported in October 2024 that OpenAI’s revenue could be $4 billion, and inference costs $2 billion based on documents “which include financial statements and forecasts,” and specifically added the following: OpenAI appears to be burning far less cash than previously thought. The company burned through about $340 million in the first half of this year, leaving it with $1 billion in cash on the balance sheet before the fundraising effort. But the cash burn could accelerate sharply in the next couple of years, the documents suggest. I do not know how to reconcile this with what I am reporting today. In the first half of CY2024, based on the information in the documents, OpenAI’s inference costs were $1.295 billion, and its revenues at least $934 million. Indeed, it is tough to reconcile what I am reporting with much of what has been reported about OpenAI’s costs and revenues. OpenAI’s inference spend with Microsoft Azure between CY2024 and Q3 CY2025 was $12.43 billion. That is an astonishing figure, one that dramatically dwarfs any and all reporting, which, based on my analysis, suggested that OpenAI spent $2 billion on inference in 2024 and $2.5 billion through H1 CY2025. In other words, inference costs are nearly triple that reported elsewhere. Similarly, OpenAI’s extrapolated revenues are dramatically different to those reported. While we do not have a final tally for 2024, the indicators presented in the documents viewed contrast starkly with the reported predictions from that year. Both reports of OpenAI’s 2024 revenues (CNBC, The Information) are from the same year and are projections of potential final totals, though The Information’s story about OpenAI’s H1 CY2025 revenues said that “OpenAI generated $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about $16% more than it generated all of last year,” which would bring us to $3.612 billion in revenue, or $1.145 billion more than are implied by OpenAI’s revenue share numbers paid to Microsoft. I do not have an answer for inference, other than I believe that OpenAI is spending far more money on inference than we were led to believe, and that the current numbers reported do not resemble those in the documents. Based on these numbers, it appears that OpenAI may be the single-most cash intensive startup of all time, and that the cost of running large language models may not be something that can be supported by revenues. Even if revenues were to match those that had been reported, OpenAI’s inference spend on Azure consumes them, and appears to scale linearly above revenue. I also cannot reconcile these numbers with the reporting that OpenAI will have a cash burn of $9 billion in CY2025. On inference alone, OpenAI has already spent $8.67 billion through Q3 CY2025. Similarly, I cannot see a path for OpenAI to hit its projected $13 billion in revenue by the end of 2025, nor can I see on what basis Mr. Altman could state that OpenAI will make “well more” than $13 billion this year.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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letscallitsteve.bsky.social
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
The Bottom Line As we have documented, 17 women have claimed Trump engaged in sexual misconduct. A Manhattan jury found that Trump sexually abused and defamed one woman on our list. But no credible allegation has emerged to connect Trump to any of Epstein's crimes. If the full file is ever released, we are confident that no connection would be found. Rest assured - if Trump were prominently mentioned, it would have been leaked by now.
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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mford.bsky.social
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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datadrivenmd.social
This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?
A former New York Times staffer quietly left the paper after revealing he had solicited charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. told his editors he became friends with Epstein after profiling him in 2008, NPR reported Thursday.
www.businessinsider.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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datadrivenmd.social
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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datadrivenmd.social
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 1d
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
From: Sent: To: Subject: Kathy Ruemmler 9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM jeffrey E. ljeevacation@gmail.com] Re: Importance: High Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effeetively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too....l'Il be here all week -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely. On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: "girls?", careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers, bill burns, gordon brown, jagland, ( council of curope and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep puree (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), leon black, woody. you are a welcome guest at any... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on for next 30 minutes On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler - > wrote: Most girls do not have to worry about this crap. On Sep 19, 20147:09 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, cmotional. and financial On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him. wrote: Sent from my iPad On Sep 19,2014, at 1:21 AM, "jeffrey E." <jcevacation@gmail.com>wrote:
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
They thought they were going to get pretext to throw a bunch of liberals in prison bsky.app/profile/maya...
mayasen.bsky.social Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 1d
Will always be puzzled as to why Republicans hammered so hard on the Epstein stuff given that it was obvious that it would be a huge risk for their own guy

Trump and Epstein were buddies throughout the height of his trafficking -- what did they think would happen?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Remember how Elon said that Trump was in the Epstein files and that’s why he won’t let them be released and he apparently knew all about that but then decided to be friends with Trump again a week later so he just deleted that tweet and doesn’t mention it and no one regards that as a bit of an issue
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
The Democrats' election plan, as always, is to point at the Bad Man and say he's bad. But this is the time to talk about how this oligarchic political and economic system allowed this kind of person to take power in the first place, and how it should be changed. No appetite for that
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
hmmmm
fleerultra.bsky.social Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Jul 23
i gotta say tho if it turns out the biden/garland doj was sitting on damning evidence that trump fucked kids on pedo island, i’m gonna be real mad that it never leaked
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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esqueer.net
Damning new emails released by House Dems indicate that Trump "spent hours" with an alleged victim at Epstein's house and he was "the dog that didn't bark."
A screenshot of an email thread. At the top, an email header shows: From: Gmax Sent: 4/2/2011 7:09:39 PM To: jeevacation@gmail.com Subject: “Re:” Importance: High The body says: “I have been thinking about that…” Below is the quoted original message: From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Sat Apr 02 14:25:45 2011 To: Gmax Subject: (blank) Message text: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. VICTIM spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there” At the bottom is a confidentiality disclaimer stating the communication may be confidential or privileged, and unauthorized use or copying is prohibited. --- A screenshot of an email. Header shows: From: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: 1/31/2019 10:47:52 PM To: Michael Wolff Body includes partially redacted text: “VICTIM mara lago. . trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop” Below is a confidentiality disclaimer similar to the first image, stating the message may be confidential or privileged, and unauthorized use or copying is prohibited. --- If you want, I can also: convert the visible text into plain, copy-ready transcription, summarize the emails without sensitive details, or generate alt text that is even more minimal for screen readers.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM