It’s also cover-up 101. https://t.co/s82HxeJ3nh

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Nov 19, 2025

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November 19, 2025 at 01:01PM
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Rich Lowry confidently says the cast of characters revealed by the Epstein emails shows “This conspiracy wasn’t the work of the Deep State, or Israel …”

What’s Ehud Barak, chopped liver? https://t.co/MLktRgfAY0

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Nov 19, 2025

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November 19, 2025 at 12:47PM
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This is perversely true, even though Trump is vastly preferable on immigration. https://t.co/bXUeWP0V37

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Nov 19, 2025

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November 19, 2025 at 12:24PM
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Is there a market where I can short Bill Gates?

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Nov 19, 2025

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November 19, 2025 at 11:39AM
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Aren’t property taxes an engine of class segregation—making sure poorer people in richer neighborhoods can’t afford to stay in their homes (that they own). That seems like a distorting effect. https://t.co/rDd6oRgI68

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Nov 19, 2025

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November 18, 2025 at 07:11PM
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This is today’s CW. Excitable groupthink.
Tomorrow’s CW: “Wait. Trump’s not finished yet.” https://t.co/hdTqd7Mo9e

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Nov 18, 2025

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November 18, 2025 at 02:28AM
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Two strong grafs from @sharonwaxman:

“So often journalists like myself attempt to demonstrate to family members and voters in the far reaches of the country, away from centers of power and money, that their conspiracies are false. That politicians are flawed, but that

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 06:12PM
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“The number of international students on Optional Practical Training (OPT) reached 294,253 students, an increase of 21% from the prior year.” https://t.co/MLWgdeuoni

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 05:23PM
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Do they want ‘closure’? https://t.co/FO0wRYQpwL

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 04:53PM
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If Epstein had lived, wouldn’t Trump have eventually pardoned him?

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 04:47PM
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TODAY IN ANALOGIES!

Michael Wolff : Epstein :: Ben Smith : Michael Wolff

(former drawn to latter, despite obvious moral flaws; winds up writing implausible apologia)

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 04:33PM
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Maybe this is obvious, but probably Epstein revered Lolita not just because he liked young girls but because he wanted someone (Wolff?) to depict him the way Nabokov depicts Humbert–ie recognizing his destructive immorality but sucking you in. Nabokov just left out the money

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 04:21PM
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If it’s Podesta, Darryl Cooper is going to faint. (Cooper goes on and on about John Podesta’s brother’s sick art collection.)

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 01:50AM
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Close, I tell you! Always sorta trust content from kausfiles. https://t.co/z6mBZyrbsF

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 01:47AM
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A morning Breakfast at Jeffrey’s included Epstein, Ehud Barak and “a high ranking official from the Obama White House, whose name I am asked not to use,” Wolff writes in his unpublished 2014 profile. https://t.co/wgE9i1Cegb

Who dat? (It’s not Summers, who is mentioned by name

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 01:29AM
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Maybe the journalistic payoff is in Wolff’s 2021 collection of essays about the rich and powerful, which discusses Epstein. Smith doesn’t cite anything revealing from it. https://t.co/q2PUWYjDWI The unpublished 2014 draft profile Smith just disclosed is embarrassing, not because https://t.co/lHoJ99ASU2

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 17, 2025 at 01:15AM
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The unpublished profile is here https://t.co/wgE9i1Cegb

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 11:39PM
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Note that in his defensive interview with Joanna Coles Wolff doesn’t say he would’ve gotten around to writing about Epstein’s sins. He says it was worth it to suck up to Epstein because Epstein became a “very significant source for me ” for his writing about Trump. [See https://t.co/yLVzWLgzc5

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 11:38PM
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You’re only at the 3rd sentence of Wolff’s *unpublished* Epstein profile, when you hit this: “Once I arrived for a visit and found several police cars blocking the street and thought the worst-they’d come for him again.” Why was that ‘the worst’?

Sure, Wolff would’ve turned on https://t.co/yLVzWLgzc5

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 11:24PM
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Releasing the Epstein files is what, a 70-30 or 80-20 issue in favor? Are all those people ‘they’re-all-pedos’ or TDS types? Is Massie? Doesn’t the overwhelming civic-minded opinion of a bipartisan majority have political force of its own in raising the issue? York seems to https://t.co/LblAhkE7ib

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 11:13PM
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The backstory to this reversal, if it’s not fake, may be as revealing as the files. Why did Trump wait until his cover-up had ripped his party apart? Did he need to get permission from someone or some institution? What were his calculations? He could’ve done this months ago, no? https://t.co/v19MVFP4m7

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 11:01PM
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Wolff just never got around to publishing about Epstein, you see, argues @semaforben. “There’s no reason to think, given his record, that he wouldn’t have burned Epstein once he’d filled his notebook.” But there are plenty of reasons. One is he’s had the time since Epstein died https://t.co/lHoJ99BqJA

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Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 10:50PM
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“But it’s impossible to deny that in his coverage of Murdoch, of Trump’s circle, and of Epstein he captured scenes and voices that would otherwise have gone unrevealed.” Huh? Give him Murdoch and Trump? Where are the instructive scenes about Epstein? https://t.co/uNVRxPBaQD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 17, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 10:46PM
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#3 a good point *if* you think Epstein killed himself …. https://t.co/OJLLPGPbw7

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Nov 16, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 05:35PM
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There were & still are very good civic-minded reasons to release the Epstein files. It’s not just the “they’re-all-pedos” crowd. In part it’s a “were-powerful-officials-compromised-in-a sex-ring” crowd and also a “how-sick-is-our-ruling-elite” inquiry. https://t.co/LYUJrdNvET https://t.co/fYCu7FAJ5k

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Nov 16, 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 03:39PM
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