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Round the decay // Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare // The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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In the 2010s, Deutsche Bank was Trump, Jared Kushner, and Jeffrey Epstein’s financial institution of choice.

In July 2016, Qatar became Deutsche Bank’s largest shareholder.

On Dec. 7, 2016, Qatar made the single largest investment in Russia since 2014.
friend (and spy academy grad) Sergei Belyakov visited the US in *2015*, an itinerary sent to Epstein shows that *UBS specifically* was one of only a handful of stops he had planned.

During this same visit, Epstein made sure to set up a meeting between Belyakov and Peter Thiel.

#SPIEF #JoelZamel
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
at Credit Suisse, which like Deutsche has a reputation for money laundering.

Credit Suisse is now part of UBS, the specific Swiss bank that moved large amounts of money around for Ghislaine Maxwell immediately after Epstein’s death.

When Epstein’s top *Russian gov foreign investment* official…
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Bank of Cyprus.

In the Epstein Files, Epstein openly discusses the fact that Israelis use Cyprus specifically to evade taxes with his business partner Ehud Barak.

Ackermann headed Deutsche throughout the period the bank extended its most oddly generous loans to Trump.

Ackermann got his start…
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Trump’s first Commerce Secretary, for anybody that doesn’t know, was a guy named Wilbur Ross.

A couple years prior to Trump putting him in charge of the Commerce Department, Ross worked with Russian-Israeli oligarch Viktor Vekselberg to install former Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann atop the…
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Trying to process the fact that the current U.S. Commerce Secretary entered into a financial agreement with Jeffrey Epstein 5 days after bringing a boatload of teenagers to Epstein Island, and failing.

How is this real life?
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Howard Lutnick went to Jeffrey Epstein's island 5 days before Lutnick and Epstein went into business together.

12/23/2012 — Lutnick goes to Epstein's island.

12/28/2012 — Lutnick and Epstein sign a stock purchase agreement.
February 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Sino-Emirati money launderer Changpeng Zhao negligible and insignificant to even the world’s richest?

Again, of course not.

Which brings me to the final piece of the Epstein saga I — and hopefully others — find to be illuminating within the broader context I just described.

What seems to have…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Is it a coincidence that the Epstein estate’s largest asset by far at present — and we’re talking close to a couple hundred mil here — is held by a Thiel fund?

Of course not.

And are ‘donations’ worth hundreds of millions from ultimate sources like Jeffrey Epstein, Gazprombank, and convicted…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
an official excuse to be passing funds through Axos at the time — to pay back the loans they took out, of course) were Changpeng Zhao and Vlad Doronin.

No Trump or Elon or Thiel has his position purely by virtue of a single funding source, no matter how massive, but these things add up.
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
banks avoid, on account of these clients being literal criminals

- and lending to foreign citizens interested in buying US real estate (also not a joke, unfortunately)

During the period that Axos helped Trump out in a big way, two other noteworthy clients of theirs (translation: individuals with…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
turned around and loaned a similar amount to one Donald J. Trump.

And during the post-J6 period, Trump received significant financial assistance from a supremely sketchy Vegas bank called Axos (formerly “Bank of the Internet”; not a joke) known for a couple of things:

- lending to clients other…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
nothing happens in a vacuum.

For example, part of the reason Trump is where he is right now is that in late 2013, when Trump was hosting Miss Universe in Moscow,

Russia’s Gazprombank lent hundreds of millions to (Epstein-beloved) Deutsche Bank’s US subsidiary, and that subsidiary…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
to get more precise.)

But like Masha Drokova’s rapid — and similarly inexplicable, if it weren’t for ‘the Epstein factor’, which in her case is quite unmistakable — ascent to the heights of the US tech (meets finance, in total accordance with Epstein’s choice of CEO pals) sector,
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
that he can ‘bring his girls’ and use a fake name if he wishes — in the Files,

it really does start to feel like everybody who’s anybody was messaging Epstein, and certainly the average top bank or tech CEO in the US — or Trump cabinet member — seems to have hung out with Epstein at some point,
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
in power (in business, in government, and beyond) were chummy with a middle-aged man convicted of trying to force himself on 14-year-olds.

(50% might *seem* like an exaggeration, but once you’ve come across *Deepak Chopra* of all people inviting Epstein to join him on vacation — telling Epstein…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
It’s the Masha Drokova saga that helped me put the final pieces together in this respect.

There are lots of fundamental, inborn aspects of US society & culture,

and wider issues that go far beyond Epstein,

that helped lead us to where we are now, a country in which seemingly half of those…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
and visibly tweak out on 50 different mind-altering substances in front of the entire world (while performing a flawless Nazi salute, twice)

seems damn close to inexplicable.

How did we wind up with all these individuals whose behavior is so transparently unhinged in charge?
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
US’s current predicament.

For anyone remotely left-of-center, the fact that the most powerful & wealthy people within American society are now people who travel around ranting & raving about the Antichrist,

consistently post walls of barely coherent extremist insanity late into the night,
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
I have no faith that this issue will be addressed to the degree necessary by the current Democratic Party,

but to me there are a couple things in the Epstein Files — both related to funding/finance — that helped me to see in the clearest way yet the specific forces that have led to the…
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: W3-JWST-3A-FINAL.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Donald Trump won this district in Louisiana by 13 points in 2024.

The Democrat just crushed a Republican extremist in this district by 24 points.

Folks, that’s a 37 point swing to the left. We can compete everywhere and win anywhere. Let’s keep this up!
February 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Good morning dear friends, We don’t have an electricity and heating for now. I wish everyone happy, healthy, productive, safe and peaceful week. Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦
February 9, 2026 at 6:51 AM
It's at moments like these -- by which I mean literally every other day, when they hear or read a single thing they don't like -- that the GOP's passionate love & unyielding defense of free speech as a core foundational value really shines through.
Criticizing your country isn’t unpatriotic — this is 👇🏽
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 AM
8VC has two Russian oligarchs' sons on its board, and provided critical funding for Elon's 2022 Twitter takeover, alongside Changpeng Zhao, P. Diddy, a UAE front for #YuriMilner, and a whole bunch of $$$ from the Arabian Peninsula.)
February 9, 2026 at 6:29 AM
has joined known Epstein associate #LarrySummers at the new Texas university I mentioned earlier, UATX, which has been chiefly championed by none other than Joe Lonsdale and Bari Weiss.

(Lonsdale is also the founder & managing partner of the firm #8VC, which like UATX is Austin-based.
February 9, 2026 at 6:29 AM