France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'

France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.

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French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.

lemonde.fr

The threat of contempt worked. It’s over. Missouri republicans can’t use their stupid map for the midterms. The old map is still gerrymandered to hell, but we can correct that by adding seats to SCOTUS in 2029 and banning gerrymandering (among other things, of course)

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 17h ago

Lo and behold:

Billionaire tax cuts are a choice. Cutting healthcare is a choice. Gutting food stamps is a choice. Spending billions on an illegal war is a choice. Slapping tariffs on everything is a choice. A $5000 bribe barely offsets the pain people are feeling — and sure as hell won't erase it.

⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.

Q: What’s one thing Senator Talarico would propose on day one to cut costs for Americans? Talarico: Repeal these crazy tariffs to drive down grocery prices and food prices. Suspend the federal gas tax and the federal diesel tax. Bring this disastrous war in Iran to a close.

NEW: On behalf of the Democratic Party we have filed in the U.S. Supreme Court to protect mail-in voting from the unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to subvert it.

Elon Musk’s first wife has spoken out about how he made her feel “insignificant” throughout their eight-year marriage.

Elon Musk’s First Wife Spills on Their Rocky Marriage in Bombshell New Film

The world’s richest man is the subject of a new four-hour documentary.

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Taxing income alone isn’t sufficient, because the super-rich find ways to report little to no income. That’s why we must tax extreme wealth. And we must endorse the principle that extreme wealth comes with unavoidable duties toward society. #WealthTax youtu.be/ZNg2Uea6uUs?...

How Would a Wealth Tax Really Work? (ft. Gabriel Zucman)

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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MIAMI (AP) — Federal judge in Miami rules the Tate brothers must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the UK.

Good

We need smart, committed progressives such as Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate. And we need right-wing Trump suckups such as Mike Rogers out of the Senate. I hope Michiganders elect El-Sayed, who will be a great U.S. senator. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-abdul-el-sayed

Hey, American food suppliers... Regulations don't cost you a cut of your profit, they generate profits, Because I'm not buying something I don't trust.

JB Pritzker on JD Vance: The chief bootlicker for Donald Trump is JD Vance. We're not going to let JD Vance try to run away and say, "oh, he's a rational Republican," while Donald Trump is suffering from dementia and taking us off the deep end.

Only an immoral evil criminal fascist would deliberately start a trade war with Canada in order to destroy a very longstanding alliance and turn some of the nicest people on earth into an enemy out of spite. Glad to see Canadians fighting against the orange felon.

BREAKING: after the Tate brothers’ lawyer had to expose their wealth as fake to prove they’re not a flight risk, a judge has DENIED their release pending extradition anyhow. So now we know their fake rich and they have to stay in jail anyhow HAAAAHAHA www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Tate brothers lose bid for release from US jail pending extradition

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate lost their bid for release from a Miami jail on Wednesday as they contest extradition to Britain, where they are wanted on rape charges.

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btw it is really a trip to see how intellectuals lost their minds after the invention of nuclear weapons and how much they sound like AI people nowadays.

DOJ refused to hand over handwritten notes of interviews with the 13 year old girl who said Trump raped her. As a former federal prosecutor who compared FBI handwritten notes with the formal report, they are not always the same. The notes could be a smoking gun. www.instagram.com/reels/DcB9gb...

NowThis Impact on Instagram: "Why won’t the DOJ release them if the law requires it?"

91K likes, 2,632 comments - nowthisimpact on August 14, 2026: "Why won’t the DOJ release them if the law requires it?".

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Soon after the illegitimate Supreme Court rejected the orange felon’s push to reinstate the illegal GOP gerrymandered maps in Missouri, a corrupt MAGA judge ruled that Missouri could use those corrupt maps. The only way republicans win is by cheating and causing as much election chaos as possible.

Pritzker: Republicans are working to suppress the vote across the country. Trump is attempting to have the postal service interfere with mail in ballots in every state. They know they can’t win on the merits of their unpopular policies so they’re working to rig the 2026 election.

God, this is actually hilarious and I hadn’t thought about it. They can’t really contradict him and say he can’t run. But if they refuse to admit he can’t run, they’re stuck suggesting that he COULD run, but SHOULDN’T which is even worse.

Jon Plotkin@jplot.bsky.social · 2d ago

One thing I’m looking forward to in the next presidential election cycle is who is going to be the first major republican to announce their candidacy and tacitly admit that Trump isn’t eligible to run. You know nobody wants to be the first.

BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for allegedly violating the court’s injunction blocking Trump-backed congressional maps. 1/

Washington state has printed 5 million ballot envelopes. North Carolina has already sent out their absentee ballots. The Trump Administration is trying to cause chaos and disenfranchise voters as we draw near the midterms. We are defending our state from that interference.

You know, there is a constitutional mechanism to remove a president who is unable to discharge the duties of his office.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected a last-ditch effort by Missouri Republicans to use their new congressional map for the midterms. That leaves in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling from that said the map could not be used while a ballot initiative moves forward.

before they decide to memory hole this article explaining that Trump was FOUR MILES AWAY at trump tower, screenshotting this 2016 article clip in particular. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York & I took the whole crew down there right after this happened & they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me... we thought it was coming down on top of us... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"

Mamdani is the mayor. I’m curious as to what kind of backlash he’d face if he *didn’t* attend. And why aren’t we talking about the fact that Trump refuses to go because they won’t let him speak?

Forbes@forbes.com · 3d ago

The New York City Mayor has said he will be present at the ceremony and wants the focus to be on the families who lost their loved ones to "the horrific act of terror."

The Trump tax is real