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December 23, 2025
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptxtjv/trump_raped_13_year_old_and_witnessed_murder_of/
Justice Dept. document: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf
Statement regarding Trump:
One of the Epstein documents is a victim's statement that when she was 13 and pregnant, Trump raped her
Additionally, Trump was present when her uncle killed the newborn.https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptxtjv/trump_raped_13_year_old_and_witnessed_murder_of/
Justice Dept. document: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf
Statement regarding Trump:
He participated regularly in paying money to force
me to (redacted) with him and he was present when my uncle murdered
my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.
me to (redacted) with him and he was present when my uncle murdered
my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.
December 23, 2025
Trump is taking us to war with Venezuela.
Russia evacuating its people from Venezuela.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/world/russia-evacuates-diplomats-families-from-venezuela-as-us-seizes-oil-tankers-3211754?s=2Russia's Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating the families of diplomats from Venezuela, a European intelligence official told AP on Monday, as the United States pursues its third sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean and President Donald Trump convenes senior national security officials at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
The evacuations, which started Friday and include women and children, come as Russian officials assess the situation in Venezuela in what the intelligence source described as "very grim tones." The withdrawals signal heightened concerns about stability in the South American nation as the Trump administration escalates its four-month pressure campaign against President Nicolas Maduro's government.
The evacuations, which started Friday and include women and children, come as Russian officials assess the situation in Venezuela in what the intelligence source described as "very grim tones." The withdrawals signal heightened concerns about stability in the South American nation as the Trump administration escalates its four-month pressure campaign against President Nicolas Maduro's government.
Trump is taking us to war with Venezuela.
December 22, 2025
The above three sections are completely redacted from this document on the government website. However if you select the redaction region, copy and paste it, you get the entire text for the redacted portion.
I know others have fully downloaded the data so this should be doable on the downloaded content as well.
On edit: you can also search the redacted document and it highlights the redacted regions with the matching text.
The DoJ did not properly redact the documents. Hopefully these are fully downloaded.
But it looks like the Government released Epstein files are not properly redacted.
Check out this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/DHOfbE8nVr
The below excerpt is copied from a redacted portion of this document:
DoJ Link
203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse
conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their
attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct.
204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories
about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being
trafficked and sexually abused.
205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to
destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex
trafficking and abuse conduct.
conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their
attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct.
204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories
about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being
trafficked and sexually abused.
205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to
destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex
trafficking and abuse conduct.
The above three sections are completely redacted from this document on the government website. However if you select the redaction region, copy and paste it, you get the entire text for the redacted portion.
I know others have fully downloaded the data so this should be doable on the downloaded content as well.
On edit: you can also search the redacted document and it highlights the redacted regions with the matching text.
December 22, 2025
The videos are hidden due to location (US). Looks like Canada and UK are blocked as well. I know you can always go direct to MS NOW but many people use youtube for their main TV Access.
We are in full on dictatorship with no freedom of speech.
Looks like Youtube is blocking MS NOW
https://youtube.com/@msnow?si=vAjkjqstlLbs6TJgThe videos are hidden due to location (US). Looks like Canada and UK are blocked as well. I know you can always go direct to MS NOW but many people use youtube for their main TV Access.
We are in full on dictatorship with no freedom of speech.
December 16, 2025
I had a vision and I now know how Trump will die
It will be Trump Derangement Syndrome!
Only a narcissistic psychopath as severe as he is would die from the constant stress of vanity.
When It Happens…
December 1, 2025
Lawrence Tribe on how fucked Kegsbreath is...
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
— Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T13:48:59.972Z
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 25, 2025
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/just-staggering-trump-aides-leaked-phone-call-with-putin-advisor-stuns-pundits/
BREAKING: Leaked calls prove Russia authored the peace deal
‘Just Staggering’: Trump Aide’s Leaked Phone Call With Putin Advisor Stuns Punditshttps://www.mediaite.com/politics/just-staggering-trump-aides-leaked-phone-call-with-putin-advisor-stuns-pundits/
Bloomberg News stunned the political world on Tuesday by releasing the leaked transcript of a call between Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian foreign-policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, which took place on Oct. 14.
The transcript shows Witkoff coaching his Russian counterpart on how to flatter President Donald Trump in order for him to be more amenable to Russia’s wants in the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
The transcript also included Witkoff telling the Russians, “ I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal.”
Bloomberg also published an October 29 “phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.”
During that call, Dmitriev appeared to suggest that the draft of the recent peace plan came from Russia. “ No, look. I think we’ll just make this paper from our position, and I’ll informally pass it along, making it clear that it’s all informal. And let them do like their own. But, I don’t think they’ll take exactly our version, but at least it’ll be as close to it as possible,” Dmitriev. The Trump-backed proposal was quickly derided as offering too many concessions to Russia, including by many GOP members of Congress.
The transcript shows Witkoff coaching his Russian counterpart on how to flatter President Donald Trump in order for him to be more amenable to Russia’s wants in the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
The transcript also included Witkoff telling the Russians, “ I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal.”
Bloomberg also published an October 29 “phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.”
During that call, Dmitriev appeared to suggest that the draft of the recent peace plan came from Russia. “ No, look. I think we’ll just make this paper from our position, and I’ll informally pass it along, making it clear that it’s all informal. And let them do like their own. But, I don’t think they’ll take exactly our version, but at least it’ll be as close to it as possible,” Dmitriev. The Trump-backed proposal was quickly derided as offering too many concessions to Russia, including by many GOP members of Congress.
November 24, 2025
The next Democratic POTUS
Better not ignore the past and “move forward”.
We need justice.
We need to prevent anything like a Trump again. There are far smarter and more evil versions of him quietly watching and waiting from the shadows. We need to send them all a message: that fucking with the People’s Democracy comes with the ultimate price.
Otherwise we are doomed to more greater suffering. No Garlands. We need prosecutorial bull dogs. Follow the law, but don’t give into the bullshit platitudes that allowed Trump’s second Presidency.
We also need to send a message to MAGA. Education matters. Individual freedoms matter. Make it impossible to discriminate. Pardon all illegal immigrants with no violent criminal records and give them immediate citizenship. Reaffirm this country’s status as a melting pot nation of immigrants.
And finally, but most importantly, make the rich pay while taking away their power. Codify the reversal of Citizens United and tax the ever loving fuck out of the 1%.
We may get only one more chance to do this, and that’s only if we continue to resist with tenacity.
November 21, 2025
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian
Certain phrases in Trump’s proposed deal seem to be using Russian language.
Breaking: Putin authored Trump's Ukraine "deal"
https://newrepublic.com/post/203517/trump-ukraine-peace-deal-russian-languageTrump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian
Certain phrases in Trump’s proposed deal seem to be using Russian language.
The U.S. peace plan presented to Ukraine appears to have been translated from Russian.
The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language, such as the third point of the 28-point plan: “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries and Nato will not expand further.”
“It is expected” is not commonly used in English, but it is common in Russian and appears to come from the phrase ожидается or ozhidayetsya, according to The Guardian’s Luke Harding. Other words that appear to be translated from Russian include “ambiguities” (неоднозначности
and “to enshrine” (закрепить .
The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language, such as the third point of the 28-point plan: “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries and Nato will not expand further.”
“It is expected” is not commonly used in English, but it is common in Russian and appears to come from the phrase ожидается or ozhidayetsya, according to The Guardian’s Luke Harding. Other words that appear to be translated from Russian include “ambiguities” (неоднозначности
and “to enshrine” (закрепить .
November 20, 2025
Holy Shit! Halligan spliced transcripts to court claiming Grand Jury did see both indictments!
This judge is about to go nuclear when they read this response:
Reddit Law Subreddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/CofesKS6XW
Response filed by Halligan: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.206.0.pdf
Link to explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/YJpoEvNNoV
Look at Section Il in the filing, for example:
"Il. The Court Acknowledged the Clerical Discrepancy and Directed That the Two-Count True Bill Be Docketed"
Below it, sentence fragment --> transcript image --> paragraph --> image.
The first transcript image shows that the magistrate identifies the two conflicting documents, "I'm a little confused as to why I was handed two things with the same case number that are inconsistent." (Magistrate's quote)
Discrepancy -- check; court confirmed.
Now, let's go back to the Sect. Il title: "Direct That the Two-Count True Bill Be Docketed"
That's not exactly what happened though...
"I assume you intended to make it public, so these both will go on the docket in -272 now that it's been presented in open court. I just want to make sure that you understand that and that was your intention."
That, on one hand, is a magistrate judge obviously declaring what will or won't be on the record, but the key point (for me -- I'm sure someone else will vociferously disagree) is that when the judge is clarifying or trying to elucidate intent, they're not actually in direction or control of the substantive matter, rather they're procedurally ensuring that the jury's will be enacted.
The jury, it seems, never actually saw the indictment that Halligan was pushing forth, because only the foreperson and juror (from the reporting elsewhere) signed it, not all 12.
That's just example, but when you piece it together with, "any assertion that the grand jury
"never voted on the two-count indictment" is contradicted by the official transcriptLI" it doesn't pass the smell test on whiff.
Even their conclusion doesn't hit the real problem: the federal grand jury NEVER SAW THE INDICTMENT THAT THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR PURSUED.
"Il. The Court Acknowledged the Clerical Discrepancy and Directed That the Two-Count True Bill Be Docketed"
Below it, sentence fragment --> transcript image --> paragraph --> image.
The first transcript image shows that the magistrate identifies the two conflicting documents, "I'm a little confused as to why I was handed two things with the same case number that are inconsistent." (Magistrate's quote)
Discrepancy -- check; court confirmed.
Now, let's go back to the Sect. Il title: "Direct That the Two-Count True Bill Be Docketed"
That's not exactly what happened though...
"I assume you intended to make it public, so these both will go on the docket in -272 now that it's been presented in open court. I just want to make sure that you understand that and that was your intention."
That, on one hand, is a magistrate judge obviously declaring what will or won't be on the record, but the key point (for me -- I'm sure someone else will vociferously disagree) is that when the judge is clarifying or trying to elucidate intent, they're not actually in direction or control of the substantive matter, rather they're procedurally ensuring that the jury's will be enacted.
The jury, it seems, never actually saw the indictment that Halligan was pushing forth, because only the foreperson and juror (from the reporting elsewhere) signed it, not all 12.
That's just example, but when you piece it together with, "any assertion that the grand jury
"never voted on the two-count indictment" is contradicted by the official transcriptLI" it doesn't pass the smell test on whiff.
Even their conclusion doesn't hit the real problem: the federal grand jury NEVER SAW THE INDICTMENT THAT THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR PURSUED.
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