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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.

The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel "Lolita" written on a person's body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.

The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein's crimes.

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oh look David Blaine does magic for rapist pedophiles.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is it with magicians and Epstein, there's also David Copperfield

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn't evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn't damning by itself.

Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.

Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.

Context is important, and that's why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

James Randi is still clean. Still my hero.

[–] yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The girl in that pic is not at all, in any way, comfortable.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 29 points 2 days ago

Yeah even my autistic ass can tell this is close to a hostage situation.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, they said that in the antitrust trial in the 90s. It was horseshit then and it's horseshit now.

Billionaires never see justice for the same reason no one has ever seen the easter bunny. Justice doesn't exist. Just a legal system designed to punish the poor and minorities.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

billionaires never see justice

It’s because they have successfully convinced the majority of this country that having money makes you a better person.

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes. It's rare but it does happen.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And all you have to do is defraud the billionaire pedo class.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

melinda found out years ago

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 days ago

Imagine if Trump, Clinton, Gates and all the other high profile people implicated in this actually got arrested. It wouldn't just change the nation, probably change the world given who all had dealings with Epstein.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The girl's hands in the picture with Bill Gates gives me the worst feeling, they look anxious, I don't know why, they just do.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 days ago

it's the tense closed body language, it looks very much like an "i do not fucking want to be here or near this person, i am trying to cover my private areas inconspicuously, do not fucking touch me"

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a male, I don't understand how can you fuck a person who doesn't want it, who feels uncomfortable around you, let alone is underage.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Rape is rearly about sexual gratification. We know the pm from Israel gets off on rape. This is another reason why I oppose un-needed wealth. After a point they almost without fail become monsters.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

it explains why he switched to reinventing his image with "philantrophy" decades ago, and how some of it has been disengenious.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

oh yea, his vaccine, and charity initiatives are probably money laundering/tax breaks.

Definitely not lol. Why would he be in trouble? He is rich...

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

What does the foot say?

Edit:

The release includes images of lines from the novel "Lolita" written on a person's body.

Great.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book..:

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.

Which in the book continues with..;

She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don't feel dirty while reading it.

English wasn't even Nabokov's first language! That's insane!

The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Which suggests Epstein never actually read the novel to completion.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

That’s really weird… straight up abuser stuff

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[–] muxika@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Chomsky said that, at the time of his meetings with Epstein, "what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate."

that kinda says all it needs to right there

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”

Ha. Try getting a job with a felony on your record, asshole.

He's pretending to not know anything because he doesn't want to "commit suicide" in prison if the billionaire pedos think he's gonna testify against them.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

You can get a job as president with 37 of them

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, "his sentence". If you can even call it that.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bummer, but into the trash heap with all the rest.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

I feel vindicated. I'm a little antifa leftist slut and Chompsky still triggered my creep detector.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

He was recently asked about it and did not respond. His wife in his place said he has no comments to add.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anyone have any idea what all those formulas on the blackboard are all about?

collapsed inline media

collapsed inline media

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Top one looks like it's from an intermediate level quantum mechanics lecture. Less sure about the bottom one as it's generally less legible but it looks like it's dealing with probability density functions of some kind to me.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The top looks like an explanation of the Higgs mechanism, the bottom has very low quality.

Should probably run the faces via pimeyes and find the papers by these clowns.

Edit: Mikhail Gromov is his name

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a Hall effect explanation

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like I don't know what the fuck it looks like.

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

The name of the person delivering the lecture is Mikhail Gromov

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