Try this instead: I was wrong. I overstated narrow election results, underappreciating how many Trump voters didn’t believe he’d do what he said. I miscast fascists and oligarchs gaining political power as a popular cultural shift. I got some of this on X, failing to recognize it’s skewed that way.”

Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators.

Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.

What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?

Now the real question: what are our representatives in Congress going to do about it?

Are they actually going to hold hearings, apply all punitive measures possible? Speak out loudly and often online, on the news, and everywhere else?

Where’s the leadership?

By the Epstein law directly, the only redactions allowed: A) victim identification and medical privacy data. B) Child abuse materials. C) Anything jeopardizing an active investigation. D) Snuff photos. E) National defense data. Each redaction requires a written justification – so where are those?

They law states they can’t redact it just because it embarrasses them. For example, here’s a snippet of my book (NSA #PP-2743-2429) where I outline when they lied to congress after the Snowden situation. Notice: no redactions at all:

The law:

(b) PROHIBITED GROUNDS FOR WITHHOLDING.— (1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary. www.congress.gov/119/plaws/pu...

Most importantly, Classified data has to be national security relevant. Ex: on the left, the redacted page and on the right, the fully declassified version. That’s the level of information that warrants classification and the Epstein files isn't that.

Even "Controlled Unclassified Information" is required to be marked clearly to prevent any ambiguity about handling. As an example, here's a U//FOUO document that was FOIA'ed by governmentattic in 2020. Notice the header? And how it had to be altered for release?

The genuine kid interactions are an element that modern SESAME STREET has abandoned, which is a shame, because as a kid, this made the characters even more real. Look at the way they all make eye contact, or drape an arm around the Muppets. A true connection...