Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files, a @hope.net featured panel with myself, @raphae.li, @mikaelthalen.bsky.social and one of the Epstein hackers, is now available as an standalone video (complete with a transcript) Watch it here: emma.best/2026/08/14/l...

Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files

This unique panel brought together leading journalists who published and investigated leaked emails from the Epstein files, exposing his network of collaborators and enablers in one of the most explos...

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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy@emma.best · 3w ago

Here it is, the updated line-up for the @hope.net panel on Leaking & Investigating the Epstein Files: Emma Best (@ddosecrets.org) @mikaelthalen.bsky.social (@san.com) @raphae.li (@reuters.com) Special guest: Kyrie: The hacker behind the Epstein emails schedule.hope.net/hope26/talk/...

"Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires are building a world they read about, as boys, in the pages of books they failed to understand," Jill Lepore writes in her new book "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State," excerpted in @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like ‘Foundation’ and ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ It’s evident in their te...

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Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈‍⬛ Black cats are amazing and, as Welsh folklore tells us, bring good luck to the home: "A black cat, I’ve heard it said, Can charm all ill away, And keep the house wherein she dwells From fever’s deadly sway." #BlackCatAppreciationDay #Wales

Black cats can bring good luck too! This one was an amulet for a British soldier in WWI. And it worked! He came home with it. #BlackCatAppreciationDay

🧡 #BlackCatAppreciationDay is today 🧡🖤🤍🖤🧡🖤🤍🐈‍⬛️

The Trump administration plans to deploy approximately 1,000 DOJ election monitors across the country in November. 🤔 What exactly is an election monitor? We’ve got a quick refresher. Here’s what you need to know for the midterms: https://demdock.com/4gi2fLc

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Harmeet Dhillon just announced the DOJ will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. The DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but I break down why this deployment is laying the groundwork for what comes after Election Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZjB...

BREAKING: Trump DOJ Announces 1,000 Monitors to Watch You Vote

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Russia has deployed a warship armed with cruise and hypersonic missiles close to a German island in the Baltic Sea. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

How this man is allowed to freely move about is beyond me, disgusting human: Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for nightly "targeted assassinations" in Gaza: "They're not even people." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

Senior Israeli official calls for killing of "30 to 40" people in Gaza every night: "They're not even people"

Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for nightly "targeted assassinations" in Gaza: "They're not even people."

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I went into this in recent days trying to figure out what the numbers were after I kept seeing stories — including by the great Erin Banco (former Beast comrade) — about how “virtually all” of these specifics types of critical munitions were getting blown thru by trump, Hegseth, et al in this war…

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 7h ago

SCOOP: Trump’s Iran War has burned through well *over 90%* of key long-range missiles Sources tell @swin24.bsky.social that the percentage of critical long-range missiles that the Trump administration has depleted in its failing war is in ‘at least the high nineties.’ From @zeteo.com —

Please, for the love of God, let him keep doing this for the next 86 days.

I'm pretty sure I understand why we haven't seen the Epstein Files.

Fox is not journalism – it's anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has spent a good portion of his adult life sitting on gold toilets and doesn't know what hardship is, and doesn't understand our service members. In fact, it's insulting what he said -- that the deployment wasn't long enough. He doesn't know sacrifice."

Mass surveillance depends on one core idea: *Privacy is suspicious.* Reject it.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask why everyone in Congress is 87.

“What an absolute crook” — Ossoff on Trump

. Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day! . "Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" -Theophile Gautier . #cats #BlackCatAppreciationDay #greenyes #cateyes

Hey MAGA, surely even you can do better than THIS?

Congressman Ro Khanna on the rise of suspicious deaths of Black people in America. Again, Black people do not hang themselves. There is something disturbingly wrong. Thank you @rokhanna.bsky.social

Can you guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?

Legacy media failed Americans once again on Sun. by not posing a single question about the Epstein Files & contempt of court to Todd Blanche. Instead, he made blanket assertions w/no push-back or follow-up. At least independent media is independent, even if the DOJ isn’t. youtu.be/RLpl0ILXCXo?...

AG Blanche HUMILIATES Himself With SHOCKING Admission On LIVE TV!!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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just keeps happening

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · yesterday

RIP pivot to Asia

Have you seen this man?

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterday

The gift that keeps on giving…..

“On the day Renée Good died, he’d posted about her death on his own Facebook page. The caption was one word: “FAFO.””

EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas

Watch now | The Chicago-based agent was already identified on social media and by Unraveled Press. Now, two Department of Homeland Security sources have confirmed his name to Migrant Insider.

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Who else doesn’t want to hear a word out of billionaires when it comes to taxing the wealthy? Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk… all of you can sit down & shut up. None of you are “self-made”, all of it is on the backs of workers & society. Insatiable greed must be balanced w/taxes.

cate_the_gr8@catethegr8.bsky.social · 12h ago

You know whose opinion means absolutely nothing, less than nothing even, in the discussion about wealth taxes? Billionaires. STFU. Lookin at you, Mark Cuban.

18/ This isn't a Korea story. It's a playbook story: same brand, same training model, same rhetoric, showing up wherever a right-wing leader hits legal trouble. If it ran in Seoul for five years unnoticed, it can run anywhere. Watch the pattern, not just the country.

1/ On January 19, 2025, a mob stormed a courthouse in Seoul to stop a judge from arresting South Korea's president. It looked spontaneous. It wasn't. That mob was 50 years in the making, and part of the money and training behind it traces back to the US. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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