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Actor. Original Ford Prefect, 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' [BBC Radio] Barclay in 'Ghosts'. Uncle Geoff in 'Back', [Netflix/C4.]
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This is big news. Peter Thiel and US billionaires are all over Epstein and global actors.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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This is complete, self-serving fiction. The Trump-Epstein friendship didn't end over raping young girls. That is *why* it existed in the first place. It ended over, more predictably, money. Donald outbid Epstein on property Epstein had told Donald he was interested in. Epstein never forgave Trump.
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion."

That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts
The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'
www.politico.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Poland - investigations into trafficking of Polish girls and links to broader networks

Lithuania - Prosecutors investigating human trafficking after reports of Lithuanian models named in the files

Norway - former PM Jagland being investigated for aggravated corruption over Epstein links

February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Turkey - Prosecutors reviewing files over allegations of trafficking Turkish children

UK - investigations into Peter Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office related to Epstein ties and leaked information. Public pressure on Andrew to testify

February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Ten countries have launched investigations related to the released Epstein files.

Norway, UK, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Australia, North Macedinia, Turkey, Poland.

Conspicuously absent is the United States, the epicenter of this scandal.

We know why.

February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Watch this video from Drew.

Bezos thinks a newspaper shouldn't have photographers, just AI slop.
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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DEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...
Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her
U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis pointed out that Martinez is "presumed innocent of any offense of which she has not been convicted." Martinez's attorney said the text messages and other evidence ...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Illegally withholding billions in transportation infrastructure funding to get shit named after you isn’t just an instantly impeachable offense, it should get you laughed out of public life forever.

Instead it’s just, “Well, at least he isn’t killing people.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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Is the NY Times trying to tell us that Trump didn't mean to be a racist? Because he obviously does mean to be a racist. The evidence is all over the behavior of his regime.
February 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
how soon we forget [well, I do, but I'm getting on.]
The X account that created the video Donald Trump shared depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was previously behind the clip the US president shared that portrayed him as a pilot dumping excrement on "No Kings" protesters. Note the matching watermark.
February 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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The X account that created the video Donald Trump shared depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was previously behind the clip the US president shared that portrayed him as a pilot dumping excrement on "No Kings" protesters. Note the matching watermark.
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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White House Press Sec’y Karoline Leavitt insists there is no reason for the Obamas to take this personally, given that the posting is clearly intended to incite racial hatred against non-White people in general.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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The international Disney Fans I talk to are going to Paris or one of the other more "Local" parks. No desire to come here, especially to Florida.
Looks like Disney’s warning about fewer foreign tourists to the US was no joke.

@financialtimes.com #$DIS
www.ft.com/content/8f6d...
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Guys no joke - that’s my gran!
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM