The Redactions Are Whispering
We dove deep today into THE EPSTEIN FILES 🕵️ and the newly released emails tying Trump closer than ever to a mess that refuses to disappear.
Our YouTube playlist — “What They Don’t Want You Asking” — just got stacked with fresh breakdowns from every angle: the timing, the context, the big unanswered questions. Start with today’s clips »
Next up: the House is preparing a vote to release the files. Trump could lose as many as 50 Republicans who are more worried about angry constituents than party loyalty. MAGA loves Trump, but they also want the real story behind Epstein’s trafficking of minors to the rich and powerful.
Damning emails from Jeffrey Epstein to journalist Michael Wolff indicate that Donald Trump knew of his pal’s conduct with underage girls, the president wants to put his face on a new $1 coin, and a former White House usher claims the Lincoln Bedroom is haunted.
Josh Johnson dives into newly released bombshell emails from Jeffrey Epstein that might implicate Trump, considering he referred to the president as the “dog that hasn’t barked.” Plus, on the heels of whistleblower revelations that Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison accommodations include puppies and TV time, Ronny Chieng explains why this is all perfectly normal.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/house-bill-government-shutdown-vote
also in today’s guardian about other emails released
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/jeffrey-epstein-emails-trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/epstein-emails-trump-bill-clinton-prince-andrew-what-documents-say-rcna243526
MAGA Revolt Against Trump?
Now we count the votes…
Turning the White House Situation Room into a political panic room, Trump’s team spent all day yesterday trying to bail him out. It didn’t work. He still lost enough Republicans to trigger a discharge petition forcing a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
This isn’t Democrats cornering him. It’s a MAGA-adjacent revolt inside his own House GOP.
Now the real count begins. The petition only needed a handful of defectors; the floor vote will require many more. Trump’s whip team knows every Republican who flips now is signaling they’re more afraid of MAGA voters demanding answers than of Trump demanding loyalty. The question isn’t if there’s a GOP break — it’s how wide the crack gets once members admit their constituents want those files unsealed.
For the first time in years, Trump’s grip on his caucus is facing a pressure test he can’t spin. The emails landed, the redactions backfired, and his own allies can smell that the cover-up is worse than whatever’s underneath.
Another Crack in Trump’s Epstein Timeline
Not a salacious detail, but one worth flagging: buried in the newly released Epstein emails is a 2017 Thanksgiving thread where Epstein name-drops the people he was with. The list is the usual Palm Beach mix… and then comes “trump.”
That wouldn’t matter much except for this: it’s at least a decade after Trump claims he cut ties. And we know exactly where Trump spent Thanksgiving 2017 — at Mar-a-Lago, hosting a large holiday crowd during his first term (CBS News, 11/27/2017).
So once again the timeline wobbles. Trump has sworn he broke with Epstein years earlier, variously dating the split to 2004, 2007, or “about 15 years” before 2019. But this email is one more data point showing Epstein still believed he had proximity, access, or at least some social overlap with the future president long after Trump says the relationship ended.
In another email, much later on, Epstein notes that Trump claimed he was thrown out of the Mar-A-Lago club, but says he was actually never a member — “ever”.
It’s not the splashiest revelation in the batch, but it’s another loose thread tugging at the myth that those ties were cleanly severed when Trump insists they were.
Repulsivecans
They will, of course, in the end vote for whatever Stump wants them to.
Who they trying to bullshit?
You think there’s any way in hell that trailer maid idiot Boebert is going to hold up under all that snake-pit pressure?
Nahh.
Never happen.
Even with all the sexual possibilities, I think the general public/MAGA will be more appalled by the business sleight of hand. He has sold them on being a multimillionaire, successful businessman courtesy of The Apprentice. The truth is that he has been basically broke, constantly hounded by debts, several bankruptcies, a swindler and not an owner of hotels just a name label.
He didn’t really become wealthy until in a position to raid the Presidency and taxpayer.
AXIOS: Epstein files become a fiasco of Trump’s own making
Epstein Vote, The House GOP Head Count
Every reporter I can find says there’s no public GOP head-count yet on the upcoming floor vote to release the Epstein files — but the whispers about defections are getting loud and Trump’s team is clearly worried, bending lots of elbows.
Four Republicans have already gone on record by signing the petition (Massie, Greene, Boebert, Mace), and Massie himself is predicting “40 to 50 Republicans” could vote yes once it hits the floor. News reports say House Republicans are “bracing” for a significant chunk of their caucus to break ranks. So the official number is four, but the expectation is a much bigger crack.
Washington Post
The Guardian
CPR News
if it looks like a lot of GOP defections, they’ll first try a voice vote for cover and leave it up to whoever’s holding the gavel to call; but the dems (or MTG) will demand a count just to put folks on record.
According to the daily schedule sfb made an offer to the first professional lady to come to the WH this afternoon. She will sit near him for this afternoon’s fantasy Executive Order signing. Oh boy. He must have given her a good dollar amount on their contract of her appearances to come flying in to show he really is a good husband, even when he went searching for Stormy.
Odd how she shows up whenever his deviant behaviour is exposed.
For those thinking of decamping to Canada, you may not have to …
“Yesterday, I posted a video of Melania Knauss’ advertisement as an escort/mail-order bride on a website called An Affair to Remember.”
BiD, not so sure about that mail order bride story. wasn’t it also included in her defamation suits against several tweeters and media folk which were settled?
snopes in september of 2025
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/01/melania-trump-escort-ghislaine-maxwell-party/
snopes published in may of 2025:
https://www.snopes.com/collections/melania-trump-collection/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-senate-deal/
Government funding extension until Jan. 30
The final deal will include a 31-page continuing resolution that extends current levels of government funding through January 2026 to give lawmakers more time to finalize full-year spending bills.
A future vote on health care tax credits
Under the deal, a vote would be held by the end of the second week of December, and the Democrats would have final say on what is in the bill. But a Senate vote on the issue is likely to fail, since most GOP senators are opposed to the Affordable Care Act overall and the tax credits in particular.
A “minibus” of 3 appropriations bills
The three bills include funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Department of Agriculture and FDA; and operations for the legislative branch. Notably, it would restore full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which faced funding shortfalls due to the shutdown.
A reversal of shutdown layoffs and restrictions on future cuts
The new continuing resolution includes language that reverses the layoffs that the Trump administration implemented during the government shutdown, and prevents any cuts until the end of January.
Back pay for federal workers
The continuing resolution explicitly provides money to provide back pay for federal employees, both those who have been furloughed and those who have continued to work. *THIS WAS ALREADY THE LAW! DESPITE WHAT REPUGZ SAY
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5603174-house-republicans-senate-litigation-provision-funding-bill/
House Republicans are pushing to repeal a provision in the shutdown-ending funding measure that would allow senators to earn a significant amount of money from litigation challenging the seizure of their phone records as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack probe.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote on social platform X that House Republicans are introducing a standalone bill that would undo the provision, and he added that the bill will be on the “fast track suspension calendar” in the lower chamber for next week.
Passing a bill under suspension of the rules requires a two-thirds majority, and the legislation is expected to get bipartisan support. Both House Democrats and hard-line conservatives have blasted the provision as “wrong” and “blatantly corrupt.”
The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, allows members of the Senate to sue for $500,000 if their data was sought or obtained without them being notified. Smith sought the phone records of eight senators as well as one member of the House during his investigation.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) had secured the provision in the funding measure, according to Politico.
After the funding vote, Johnson said he “was very angry about it” and that House members “had no idea that was dropped in at the last minute.”
*Guess whose office I called yesterday to say “shame” about a dozen times. Ha!
Wow!
— POLITICO
that will make it tough to call this a democratic hoax
If there are pictures like the one with Andrew (or worse) we need to see them. Not that I want to see the unseeable, but the deal needs to be sealed in the public’s eye.
Ivy, there are pictures of topless girls on his lap that were seized in FBI searches of Epstein’s safe, according to Michael Wolff, who claims Epstein showed them to him.
Sen. Whitehouse grilled Bondi about the pictures. Her hysterical dodge says it all..
Too funny. They actually think this fiasco can be fixed with more of Trump talking talking talking…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/trump-economy-white-house-strategy
Ivy – items that are not email are what I am holding off commenting much. The pictures of pervert pedo mangomoron with female children is a given. There are pictures of him feeling up his daughter and life goes on. I stick to what I stated a very long time ago, there has to be something real disgusting in the pictures and other files that Congress does not have.
As long as people fell like they are having trouble making ends meet, Dumbass’ inane babbling won’t help his standing one bit.
(Google AI)
And if Congress does not pass the ACA subsidy package and healthcare insurance costs skyrocket, it will be at the Repugnicons’ feet in November, and nothing D,OA can say will make that go away.
BB, and Blondi will fight like hell to resist producing what DOJ has.
This happened in the first term when his numbers were plummeting. He always thinks he can talk his way to higher approval. Like when he started doing daily COVID monologues in the press room. Total disaster.
I can think of about a half dozen Senators who won’t vote for that legislation.
I would love to see that issue of Senator phone records run out in a real court of law. Firstly, all prosecutors did was look at phone numbers called and received — no conversations were tapped. The pursuit was for evidence of contact with January 6th organizers and perpetrators of the fake electors scheme. Some of these senators might not actually want that evidence probed. Bring it on.
OK Ivy if Craig’s‘s going to say it, that’s what I heard also
if they repeal that hemp provision, literally like 100 local businesses will close overnight
today’s meme…
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/11/senate-funding-package-includes-major-cuts-to-food-safety-programs/
Emergency funding legislation for the federal government approved by the Senate includes provisions that will hamper food safety efforts already in motion — industry lobbyists have been working to halt those efforts.
In a scathing report, The Lever outlined how groups such as the National Restaurant Association, the National Grocers Association, and the International Foodservice Distributors Association, have spent millions lobbying federal regulators on food safety provisions this year.
The funding legislation puts on hold or specifically defunds a number of food safety measures that the Food and Drug Administration has in the works. The agency did not respond to requests from Food Safety News for comment on the situation.
The Senate amendment includes language specifically targeting provisions of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act.
Among the key provisions of that Act is a traceability rule that was supposed to go into effect next year. The Food and Drug Administration proposed that the rule be put on hold until 2028 and the funding legislation upholds that plan.
Part of the traceability rule would establish new record-keeping standards for companies to track their food products across the supply chain. Food safety proponents say such records are needed so that the sources of foodborne illness outbreaks can be detected more quickly.
The funding bill also targets rules designed to minimize the risk of serious adverse health consequences or death from consumption of contaminated produce.
The Government Accountability Office also reports staggering numbers, saying that there are 10 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually.
“Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce. One provision in the legislation states that no funds ‘may be used to administer or enforce the ‘Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods,’ published on Nov. 21, 2022,’ “ The Lever reported.
In addition to slashing food safety provisions, the Senate-approved legislation would also hamper the development of regulations for ultra-processed foods, which are a pet peeve of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The funding bill also cuts money for the FDA to develop or administer new regulations for “long-term population-wide sodium reduction actions until an assessment is completed on the impact of the short-term sodium reduction targets,” another of Kennedy’s focus points.
lol because Bobby has a problem I can’t eat salt, **** you, Bobby
my food is too salty. Call the cops.
https://www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/megyn-kelly-questions-whether-jeffrey-epsteins-desire-very-young-teen-types-made-him
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): As for Epstein, I’ve said this before, but just as a reminder, I do know somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything. Not everything, but virtually everything. And this person has told me from the start years and years ago that Jeffrey Epstein, in this person’s view, was not a pedophile. This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. And I realized this is disgusting. I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts, that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.
And that is what I believed, and that is what I reliably was told for many years. And it wasn’t until we heard from Pam Bondi that they had tens of thousands of videos of alleged — forgive me, they used to call it kiddie porn, now they call it child sexual abuse material — on his computer that for the first time, I thought, oh, no, he was an actual pedophile. I mean, only a pedophile gets off on young children abuse videos. She’s never clarified it, I don’t know whether it’s true. I have to be honest, I don’t really trust Pam Bondi’s word on the Epstein matters anymore.
*So, blaming teenaged victims, while casting doubt on (giving herself cover for victim blaming) what other info is out there.
BATYA UNGAR-SARGON (GUEST): Or anything else.
KELLY: Yeah, so I don’t know what’s true about him, but we have yet to see anybody come forward and say I was under 10, I was under 14 when I first came within his purview. You can say that’s a distinction without a difference. I think there is a difference. There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?
UNGAR-SARGON: Yeah.
KELLY: Whatever. It’s sick. Every time we start talking about Epstein, it makes your skin crawl. You’re right. The whole thing is just disgusting.
*Separating Epstein from tRUMP.
From wiki:
States where the age of consent is 16 (30): Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio,[b] Pennsylvania,[c] Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.
States where the age of consent is 17 (7): Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Wyoming.
States where the age of consent is 18 (13): Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Megan Kelly is off her rocker
(actually I think she is deliberately trying to take on a persona that embodies who she thinks the average MAGA idiot is)
your trauma isn’t real until Megan Kelly validates it
oh by the way, BiD if you ever have to talk with people like this, you just say “OK so what if it was a 15 year-old male then are you still fine with that?”
oh Pod Save played a clip yesterday of Megan Kelly defending Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism to Ben Shapiro (who wasn’t having it)
Quite the career choice she’s made
Anon got it. Funny how Megan ignores the other side of the issue – the age of the guy. In WV third degree sexual assault is when a person 16 years old or more, engages in sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion with another person who is less than 16 years old and who is at least 4 years younger than the defendant. It’s a felony and has a 1-5 year prison penalty and up to $10K fine. So while a 15 year old girl is certainly different from a 5 year old (that would be 1st degree SA of the 5 year old, 15 year minimum), the adult male is different from a horny teenager. So Megan -OK if the 15 year old is having sex with a 45 year old guy (instead of just her 15 year old boyfriend)?
Even among Republicans he’s down by double digits.
We need to see the “lap top” photos. 📸
Daily Mirror gets all of it on one cover
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/in-matt-gaetz-scandal-circumstances-left-girl-vulnerable-to-exploitation.html
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Girl Vulnerable to Exploitation
A teenager with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men. She wants the public to have a fuller understanding of how she was victimized.
She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter.
Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money.
Mr. Gaetz was investigated by the Justice Department for child sex trafficking but never charged. Following the election last year, he was President Trump’s first choice to serve as attorney general. He subsequently resigned from Congress, and then withdrew from consideration as attorney general under a storm of scrutiny.
A bipartisan House Ethics Committee investigation later determined there was substantial evidence that he had sex with the 17-year-old and the report included testimony from the girl about how she was paid by Mr. Gaetz for the sex.
In response to questions about the girl, Mr. Gaetz said in a text message on Thursday: “I never had sex with this person.”
“This person threatened me with a lawsuit if I didn’t pay her $2.3 million dollars,” Mr. Gaetz said. “She never sued me because her story is fiction.”
“Power imbalances can be age, but they can also be financial. My client had little economic security, which allowed for financial leverage over her.”
In some cases, the girls or women are physically trapped and unable to escape men who are taking advantage of them. In other cases, the girls or women find themselves at the whims of more powerful men after turning to sex trafficking out of economic need.
To make extra money, the girl worked at McDonald’s. But she began looking for other ways to make money and turned to a website that “advertised itself as a ‘sugar dating’ website that primarily connected older men and younger women seeking ‘mutually beneficial relationships,’” according to the report by the House Ethics Committee.
Through the website, in April of her junior year in high school, she met Joel Greenberg, a local Florida tax collector who was becoming a friend and ally of Mr. Gaetz’s, according to court documents.
Mr. Greenberg, using his personal credit card and one for the local tax collecting office he was in charge of, would have sex with her seven times for money before she turned 18, the documents said. Often during those encounters he would give her ecstasy, and he would often pay the girl and other women additional money for taking the drug during sex.
On July 15, 2017, Mr. Greenberg asked the girl and others to attend a party at the home of Chris Dorworth, a former Republican member of the Florida state House of Representatives who worked as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, which is run by a major Trump fund-raiser.
Court documents described the party as involving “alcohol; cocaine; middle-aged men; and young attractive females.”
Mr. Gaetz, then 35, attended the party along with a girlfriend.
At the party, the girl who was 17 later testified, both cocaine and ecstasy were offered to her. She took the ecstasy and drank, according to court papers. She testified that she danced naked in front of Mr. Dorworth and swam naked in his pool.
The ethics committee heard testimony that the girl twice had sex with Mr. Gaetz that evening, and a court document quotes her as having testified that she had sex with him once on a “pool table or … air hockey table.” She testified that Mr. Dorworth saw Mr. Gaetz have sex with her on the game table and “then laughed about it with other partygoers.” (Mr. Dorworth has claimed that he was not home at the time, an assertion undercut by phone records that became part of litigation in the case.)
The girl later told congressional investigators that she saw Mr. Gaetz use cocaine that night.
For having sex with him twice, the girl was paid $400, according to testimony she gave to the Ethics Committee.
Several years later, Mr. Greenberg came under investigation for trying to undermine a political opponent in an upcoming election by mailing fake letters to the school where the opponent worked as a teacher, claiming that the opponent had sexual relations with a student.
As part of that investigation, the Justice Department learned about Mr. Greenberg’s relationship with the 17-year-old girl, leading the authorities to broaden their inquiry into Mr. Gaetz and others.
Mr. Greenberg pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a minor for having sex with the girl in exchange for money. He was sentenced to a decade in prison. But the department declined to charge Mr. Gaetz.
In late 2022, lawyers for the girl sent letters to Mr. Gaetz and Mr. Dorworth about whether they would reach a financial settlement with the girl. The girl never sued. But Mr. Dorworth sued the girl, setting off depositions and an exchange of evidence. Mr. Dorworth would drop the case against the girl, but some documents generated by the case were given to Ethics Committee investigators who later used them in their report.
The documents that revealed that the girl was “homeless” were unsealed in October.
Fritz Scheller, Mr. Greenberg’s lawyer, said that throughout the entire ordeal, including the investigations and the civil litigation, it became apparent that the girl was a “victim that embodied unwavering strength and courage.”
*Because Meghan Kelly (and probably MAGAts) will say the Epstein/Maxwell victims were older teens and weren’t physically being held captive, they were carefully chosen and groomed. Virginia Roberts (Guiffre) did not come from a safe, stable home. Predators are good at picking out victims.
🤭
Pogeaux
D,OA
Dumb on Arrival
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/13/emails-jeffrey-epstein-offered-to-give-russia-insight-into-trump/
New emails show that Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact Russia’s top diplomat with knowledge about President Donald Trump prior to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018.
“I think you might suggest to Putin that Lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote to Jagland in June 2018, referencing longtime Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. Epstein indicated that he had also spoken to Russia’s former UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, who died in 2017.
“Churkin was great,” Epstein wrote. “He understood Trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”
The July 2018 meeting with Putin in Helsinki was widely seen as a foreign policy disaster for Trump. Indeed, Larry Summers, former Clinton administration Treasury secretary, called it “appalling” in an email to Epstein.
“Do the Russians have stuff on Trump?” Summers asked Epstein, who called Trump’s actions at the meeting “predictable.”
“Im sure his view is that it went super well,” Epstein wrote to Summers. “He thinks he has charmed his adversary.. Admittedly he has no idea of the symbolism. He has no idea of most things.”
*Why was Larry Summers emailing Epstein?
“ you see, i know how dirty donald is.” Epstein wrote to former Obama White House lawyer Kathy Ruemmler in 2018. “my guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea what it means to have your fixer flip,” he wrote, referencing Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen.
Epstein also claimed that Trump had knowledge of his sex trafficking practices at Mar-a-Lago, something that allegedly got him removed from Trump’s club.
“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein wrote to American journalist Michael Wolff. “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” he wrote to journalist Michael Wolff, referencing his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
*Which sounds like tRUMP wanted to stop having his staff trafficked (stolen, as he said on AF1), not that he was telling them not to abuse the girls.
“[VICTIM] has spent hours at my house with him,” Epstein wrote. “He has never once been mentioned. Police chief, etc.”The victim in question was identified as Epstein accuser, Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year.
Trump has denied going to Epstein’s residence, yet an email from 2015 suggests he was present there with “girls.”
In an email to New York Times journalist Landon Thomas, Epstein asks if they would “like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen.”
*Who says dead men don’t talk?
Information – the House of Representatives will return Monday, November 17,. 2025.
afternoon groove slightly more upbeat than Lana Del Rey
Kelly coulda been somebody…..she goes straight into The Broadcasters Who Blew it All to Hell Hall of Fame
But if money is the object, then what the hell….she’s got plenty, I guess.
It must feel good to have plenty.
White House lawyers are reportedly concerned that Representatives Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace recorded their phone calls with former President Donald Trump. According to sources, during these calls, Trump allegedly begged, bribed, threatened, and expressed distress in an attempt to persuade them to reverse their votes regarding the release of the Epstein files.
*So, before he shuttled Boebert into the Situation Room (where phones aren’t allowed, I assume), there were other calls to her and Mace?
I take everything I said about those two back and want to be best friends with them now
wait. actually, just the Boebs
we could hang out and shoot guns and eat barbecue and bail deadbeat husbands out of jail and go to the movies
What We’re Really Arguing About | Trail Mix Brief
If we’re going to fight about the Epstein FBI files for another week, let’s at least know the size of the beast. Start with 100,000+ pages of documents and over 10,000 images and videos, most of it pulled from his homes, devices, and safes.
And forget the grand jury-transcript ruse — it’s just seventy pages of investigators talking, no direct evidence, and nowhere near the real archive.
Full breakdown here:
https://trailmix.cc/home/epstein-files/
Sturg, yes, that fits – not what goes through my mind, with the exception of Dumb…
BB, I guess all that work yesterday just wore the Repugnicons out.
BID – Interesting that the Demstate article refers to Dumbass as “former President Donald Trump.”
Pog, that could be a giveaway they used AI. I have noticed that Trump’s two terms apart weirdly confuses AI, frequently leads to results saying “former president trump”. We had a big discussion about it recently and fiddled with its memory to fix that. Dates, days and time zones are also glitchy. Like an absent-minded professor it might cure ancer but sometimes doesn’t know what day it is.
ooh nice two more afternoon groovers in a row
movie interstitial pop
indie contemporary throwback to late 90’s 60s mod-art revival (a subgenre shared by Of Montreal, for all you Of Montreal fans)
Such a well-written song i was going to cry if she wrote it solo
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/ad-featuring-ai-generated-senator-georgia-highlights-use-technology-political-campaigns/NJINSEUNAVFERA5VH5XHSIKS2I/
An AI-generated political ad featuring a deepfake of Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff is raising concerns as it highlights the growing use of artificial intelligence in political campaigns.
The ad, created by Republican Congressman Mike Collins’ campaign, mimics Ossoff’s appearance and voice.
This use of AI technology in political advertising is legal under current laws, and experts suggest it could become more prevalent as elections approach.
“I think this is the future of negative campaigning,” Dr. Nathan Price, a political science professor at the University of North Georgia, told Channel 2’s Richard Elliot. “While you and I might recognize an AI-generated video as inauthentic, some people are going to believe what they see.”
The ad portrays a fabricated version of Ossoff making controversial statements, which were actually generated by AI. This technique is part of a strategy by Collins’ campaign to engage voters using new technology.
*How is it legal ? A human directed a machine to do something, creating a falsehood.
it’s a legal goldmine is what it is
Technically, the humans fed AI to make it appear that someone said something they didn’t…AI doesn’t self-ignite without prompts, at least not yet, right?
So, tracing it back to the source, it’s the human and they could be sued for slander, I guess.
The AI creation is no different than if a human had used a TV show, podcast, or some other means to spread their disinformation. If they went on a podcast and said something, dishonestly crediting it to someone, what’s the charge?
https://www.alternet.org/epstein-trump-kavanaugh/
One of the emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recently released by the House Oversight Committee reportedly shows correspondence with Steve Bannon — one of President Donald Trump’s longtime advisors — about getting Trump’s embattled second Supreme Court nominee through a major controversy.
On Wednesday, journalist Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union posted a September 2018 email exchange between Epstein and Bannon, in which the two are seen discussing a potential line of attack on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
According to the emails, Epstein suggested that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s attorneys press Ford — who accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a high school party — on medications she may have been using that can sometimes cause memory loss.
“I delayed my trip a day. So I’m still around,” Epstein wrote from a personal gmail account. “Tell [Kavanaugh attorney Bill Burck] they should make sure they ask Ford about her medications, what type and for how long. My guess is that [Ford lawyer Debra Katz] won’t let her answer.”
Epstein then sent Bannon another email with a link to a 2015 Pharmacy Times article entitled “8 Medications That May Cause Memory Loss.” Bannon wrote back: “Is this a hint,” with Epstein replying: “Duh.”
Morrow wrote that while the email address Epstein had been corresponding with was redacted, he determined the recipient was Bannon, as previous exchanges with that recipient mentioned that they had been on comedian Bill Maher’s show. Morrow reported that he verified that Bannon was indeed a guest on Maher’s program on the night in question.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/13/jeffrey-epstein-emails-trump-thanksgiving/87251228007/
Jeffrey Epstein mentioned President Donald Trump in an email exchange about his plans for Thanksgiving in 2017, according to documents released by members of the House Oversight Committee.
In an email exchange on Nov. 23, 2017, Faith Kates, the founder of NEXT Model Management, asked the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender where he was spending Thanksgiving.
Epstein replied, “eva,” possibly a reference to his former girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin. Kates said that means “glenn” must be there, a likely reference to Glenn Dubin, Andersson-Dubin’s husband.
Kates then asked, “who else is down there?”
“David fizel. hanson. trump,” Epstein replied.
“Have fun!!!” Kates wrote back.
Records show that Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as president at his properties in Florida, including his private club Mar-a-Lago and a few hours at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
*Soooo they didn’t gave a falling out years ago?
https://www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche-ghislaine-maxwell-2674292728/
Todd Blanche buried for ‘huge admission’ on Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘Charge her if she lied’
“An important side note about today’s Epstein/Trump revelations,” noted conservative attorney George Conway on X. “They show that Todd Blanche’s questioning of Ghislaine Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
“Todd, didn’t the Justice Department have these emails when they seized Epstein’s computers, phones, iPads, and other electronic devices from his homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands?” posted Business Insider’s Jacob Shamsian.
“Mr. Blanche – When you questioned Maxwell you simply let her spew a narrative contradicted by evidence already in your possession,” said retired attorney Tirah Att. “I’m not sure what the point of the interview was, but we know the result – she was moved to a cushy prison not meant for sexual predators.”
“Hey, so why did you transfer a pedophile and child trafficker to a much more comfortable prison?” asked writer and comedian Mike Drucker. “What did she say that made you think, ‘This pedophile deserves a break’?”
“Leaving aside all the other legitimate questions about your interview with her, the question now is: So now that you DO have them, will you re-interview her and charge her if it becomes clear she lied to you originally?” wondered consultant John Olberding.
“Todd Blanche acknowledges that yesterday’s email dump undermines his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell,” said attorney Aaron Parnas. “Will they move her back to her prior prison?”
Dodo’s “fallings out” with his friends and enablers are always fake. Roger Stone “fired.” Fake. Steve Bannon “fired.” Fake.
it’s a civil matter until legislation has passed
How much faith you have in Congress
there are no good answers to your questions, especially since ease of access to the technology is going to result in an explosion of the stuff
we were warned, elected a buffoon instead of doing something about it
this is why Gerontocracy doesn’t work in the tech era
Problem being: Jeffrey dead. Somebody knew what they were doing.
Ghislaine worried?
How many of the Epstein files is Donald Trump still keeping under seal?
— 100,000+ pages still locked up
— 10,000+ videos & photos unreleased
🧠 Dive into the full breakdown at
https://trailmix.cc/home/epstein-files/
I had all these heavy thoughts going on and all swirling around and shit like a dream tornado and then all of a sudden I just got real tired of thinking.
So I quit.
And popped in a cassette of the monster band down at the “5 O’Clock Club” in 1972 ——let the memories do the thinking.
LTM (Laugh to myself)
Thinking about all them people really just makes me tired. Effum.
I think that was the night the guitarist, bassist, drummer and I (Hammond) split a 4-way tab of Orange Sunshine. Took that vocalist to the mountain top.
The night had a peculiar glow to it.
Busy days here lately. We’ve been growing. These are trailmix.cc numbers, not youtube.
from
Robert Plant’s playlist:
“Thinking about all them people really just makes me tired. Effum.“
yeah, you should definitely compartmentalize
and we will go all the way back to 1970 for one more from his playlist
how you need to think now:
https://x.com/LifeofaTroll6/status/1977856917356552501?s=20
(in the context of “Taylor Swift”)
*link fixed
ah, the days when it had seeds
Charleston International Airport tells Nancy Mace to GFY
https://www.counton2.com/news/charleston-airport-changes-security-protocol-for-dignitaries/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WCBD_News_2
Seed craft in days of yore.
Nancy Mace calls it “dropping the F Bomb”, you know, like it’s kind of cute or something. She didn’t “drop an F Bomb”, she was repeatedly screaming “fuck” in the middle of a crowded airport at the top of her lungs at people trying to help her even after she screwed it all up by being
late and in a different car.
F Bomb her and the broom she flew in on.
“When pigs fly!”
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