Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent.
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Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
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Subject: E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Dear Xbox LIVE member,
This message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address. This action is based on the New York Attorney General&s partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able to connect to Xbox LIVE.
If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, or any unused Microsoft points, we are refunding the remaining value of those to you within 30 days.
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January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
I miss when the president and his buddies were doing boring, all-ages stuff
Having to confirm that you’re over 18 when you click to open an Epstein file hosted by the US government is a real vibe.
January 31, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I miss when the president and his buddies were doing boring, all-ages stuff
Of course. Also hadn’t grasped that dude is Ron Lauder’s son-in-law
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.
Trump's Fed chair pick named in Epstein files just hours after his nomination
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.According to The New Republic, "Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to 'St. Barth’s Christm...
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January 31, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Of course. Also hadn’t grasped that dude is Ron Lauder’s son-in-law
“if you don't know how to judge this, i and bill ackman could come and see you”
Former TNR publisher Marty Peretz writing regretfully to Epstein in 2010 about his "troubles" and saying "i am happy you are back among the 'free'" www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Cc: Marty Pere
From: MP
Sent Mon 9/13/2010 12:19:34 AM
Subject: stanley fischer
dear jeffrey,
i want to repeat my apologies to you.
we'd met three times, maybe four.
once at the safdie house after the dedication of rosovsky hall.
once in london. and one more time, i don't remember where.
i thought you and your girlfriend genuinely enchanting...but time passed.
and then came your troubles. i felt i should write you, and i didn't.
i am happy you are back among the "free."
YIVO, which is an archive, library, academic center, etc founded in vilna in 1926, moved with its
last hair to new york in 1939. it's an important center of scholarship, and i believe it is worth
much more than the money it raises. the burgeoning of jewish studies in american colleges and
universities would be impossible to imagine without YIVO having been around. it's a constituent
of the center for Jewish studies which is a condominium with five other institution. but YIVO is
the living core and plans much more if it has the money.
we arc asking for as much as people are willing to give...and then a bit more. if $100,000 is too
much how about $25,000 or $50,000. if you don't know how to judge this, i and bill ackman
could come and see you. but i think the thrust of our argument will impel you to give truly a lot.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tnlhrgmbce34nvpyti46miej/bafkreieg7r6ca3c3qjv57odpdp6aowgt2bjhlxr7hixiqdzcg34sgkbz7q@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 2:06 AM
“if you don't know how to judge this, i and bill ackman could come and see you”
Probably a good way to get a pedo island invite is to advertise that you’re arriving on a boat full of teenagers
But the new Epstein files show a series of subsequent interactions. That included this email from Lutnick about bringing his family and others to visit Epstein at his private island, Little St. James.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Probably a good way to get a pedo island invite is to advertise that you’re arriving on a boat full of teenagers
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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I love that every time I look at the feed there's another post like this
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I love that every time I look at the feed there's another post like this
How is this REAL
Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
January 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM
How is this REAL
And Epstein’s like “trust me your wife is not going to like these parties”
So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.
January 30, 2026 at 10:29 PM
And Epstein’s like “trust me your wife is not going to like these parties”
This Epstein cache is quite the Friday document drop
January 30, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This Epstein cache is quite the Friday document drop
Oof
January 30, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Oof
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“Every single day that a kid is in a place like this, they deteriorate,” Hidalgo said. “I’ve seen [them] withdraw. They lose weight; they just get physically worse.”
Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term
With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
“Every single day that a kid is in a place like this, they deteriorate,” Hidalgo said. “I’ve seen [them] withdraw. They lose weight; they just get physically worse.”
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Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
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OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
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Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch
Not even clear yet what the charges are. Assuming the Constitution applies to you while Black?
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Not even clear yet what the charges are. Assuming the Constitution applies to you while Black?
Many questions here! But also this whole culture is so weird — when I was an editorial assistant in NYC I just got used to thinking of food delivery as something for other people and never really grew out of it. Like why double your food costs just to avoid walking over there
Absolutely fascinated by everyone in this article (🎁🔗). Why is the gay couple ordering homophobia chicken all the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Many questions here! But also this whole culture is so weird — when I was an editorial assistant in NYC I just got used to thinking of food delivery as something for other people and never really grew out of it. Like why double your food costs just to avoid walking over there
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I know it isn't fun to find out that lots of people in this country can't wait to cash in on concentration and death camps but it's true and you can't ignore it. Same goes for our reps in Congress. You can't claim you didn't know. The bar is now at "don't sell your warehouse to become a death camp"
Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I know it isn't fun to find out that lots of people in this country can't wait to cash in on concentration and death camps but it's true and you can't ignore it. Same goes for our reps in Congress. You can't claim you didn't know. The bar is now at "don't sell your warehouse to become a death camp"
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A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.
January 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.
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"I will send heli for you"
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"I will send heli for you"
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What the fuck man
January 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
What the fuck man
What constitutes a "real American" is getting so narrow that soon maybe we could find them an uninhabited little harbor island or something and then the rest of us can get on with our lives
skipping straight past "Italians and Irish aren't really white" and going straight for Swedes. lol
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 6:06 PM
What constitutes a "real American" is getting so narrow that soon maybe we could find them an uninhabited little harbor island or something and then the rest of us can get on with our lives
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On cusp of widespread layoffs, 'Washington Post' staffers to Bezos: don't gut our newsroom
My story for NPR
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
My story for NPR
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'Washington Post' journalists plea to Bezos: Don't gut our newsroom
Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
On cusp of widespread layoffs, 'Washington Post' staffers to Bezos: don't gut our newsroom
My story for NPR
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
My story for NPR
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...