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bolverk

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  1. OUsux has a secondary logo with the state outline, which is where I think you’d find those types of logos.
  2. They've had MONTHS to get it right, and over a single weekend, the NYTimes finds all this shit. And yet, the Justice Department claims it has a team of more than 500 lawyers and reviewers poring over these documents? The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files The photos, which showed young women or possibly teenagers with their faces visible, were largely removed after The New York Times began notifying the Justice Department. The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted nude images on its website, showing young women or possibly teenagers whose photos were contained in files related to the wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As part of its required disclosure of the Epstein files, the federal government was tasked with redacting both sexually explicit imagery and information that could be used to identify victims. But in the process of reviewing more than three million pages uploaded to the Justice Department’s website on Friday, The New York Times came across nearly 40 unredacted images that appeared to be part of a personal photo collection, showing both nude bodies and the faces of the people portrayed. The people in the photos appeared to be young, although it was unclear whether they were minors. Some of the images seemed to show Mr. Epstein’s private island, including a beach. Others were taken in bedrooms and other private spaces. The release of these explicit photos comes after government lawyers have scrambled for weeks to meet the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which set a December 2025 deadline for releasing all of the files. The Times notified the Justice Department on Saturday of nude images that journalists had encountered and flagged more of them on Sunday. A spokeswoman said that the department was “working around the clock to address any victim concerns, additional redactions of personally identifiable information, as well as any files that require further redactions under the act, to include images of a sexual nature.” “Once proper redactions have been made, any responsive documents will repopulate online,” the spokeswoman said. Officials have largely removed or redacted the images that The Times flagged for them. The images appeared to show at least seven different people, although The Times did not seek to identify them. Annie Farmer, who has testified in court about how she was groomed and abused as a teenager by Mr. Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, said the news of such imagery being public was “extremely disturbing.” She said it left her feeling naïve in thinking that the government would follow the law in protecting the victims. “It’s hard to imagine a more egregious way of not protecting victims than having full nude images of them available for the world to download,” Ms. Farmer said on Sunday. Other victims have expressed outrage that their names and other identifying information have been found in the files. Brittany Henderson, a lawyer for one woman who was identified in the files even though she had not previously been linked publicly to Mr. Epstein, called the redaction failures “abhorrent.” “We are frankly shocked by the level of carelessness that the department has shown towards these women,” she said. The Justice Department was supposed to release all of the Epstein files by Dec. 19 but missed the deadline. Friday’s release included not only millions of documents but also 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, and the Justice Department said a team of more than 500 lawyers and reviewers had worked on the publication process. The redactions at times appear haphazard and contradictory, with some files shielding someone’s name and a duplicate file elsewhere making the name public. One email described an “Epstein victim list” but then left dozens of subsequent names exposed, except for one that was redacted. Some victims are angry that their information was disclosed while powerful people’s names were shielded. In one case, records showed a text exchange between the former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon and Mr. Epstein that referenced a news article about President Trump. An associated image of Mr. Trump appeared in the Justice Department files with a redaction box over his face. Last year, the Trump administration teased the release of investigative files but then backtracked. Democrats and a few Republicans then led an effort to pass a law requiring the files to be made public.
  3. bolverk replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    I suppose I understand why they don't want everything out in the open to see how the sausage is made in real time, but how can the citizens of a democracy fully trust court decisions -- even in the most normal of times -- when they double down by placing armed guards at the kitchen door. It simply raises more suspicion that the process isn't on the up-and-up, especially since they're the least representative and democratic branch of the government, with lifetime appointments and repeatedly issuing "shadow docket" bullshit decisions. A couple of quotes from the article: "The justices have immense power — they’re not elected. That power depends on our consent as a democracy and we have some interest in seeing how they’re using their power and making decisions." - Daniel Epps, Washington University School of Law “Many of the court’s decisions are being made out of the public eye in a way that makes it difficult to assess or criticize them, or to understand what actually motivated the justices. The lack of transparency makes it difficult for the broader public to know how to respond.” - Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School Aside from some really shitty decisions, according to this layman, this only goes further to undermine their credibility and, thus, legitimacy.
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  5. I'm not sure; they could've been longer than I thought. If we assume 45+45+30=120 minutes for the first three and apply it to the next three, we're looking at a four-hour watch, plus breaks. So, yeah, you still knock it out in an evening.
  6. Or the Britons when the Anglo-Saxons came along. By the way, I'm really enjoying this show but echo the complaint about the episodes’ lengths. Pretty sure that when the whole thing's done, I'm going to go back and watch the full season back-to-back. With 6 episodes at 30 minutes a pop, that'll make for a fun evening.
  7. FYI: This was one of the 50-60 handles GRUhorn has used over the last few years. @Satoshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
  8. This one is from the Financial Times, showing how Epstein was well-connected to the levers of power across the Pond as well. F https://www.ft.com/content/91e8142a-3d4c-4222-a5ad-6548fc9907d1 Lord Peter Mandelson told Jeffrey Epstein in 2009 that the boss of JPMorgan should “mildly threaten” Britain’s chancellor over a tax on banker bonuses proposed by the government in which Mandelson was serving as business secretary, according to newly-released documents. The revelations add further pressure to Mandelson, who is already facing calls to be ejected from the UK’s Labour Party after the FT reported that he received £75,000 from Epstein beginning in 2003 and that his husband also took money from the convicted sex offender. Emails released by the US Department of Justice show Mandelson, who served in government under successive Labour administrations, trying to “amend” a supertax on bank bonuses announced by then-chancellor Alistair Darling in December 2009. The policy meant that bonuses over £25,000 would pay an additional 50 per cent tax rate. It was introduced in the wake of the financial crisis at a time when there was widespread public anger at the banking sector. Mandelson was business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister at the time. A week after Darling announced the measure, Epstein, who was well-connected on Wall Street, was messaging Mandelson with suggestions for how Mandelson could soften the policy, according to the emails. “[A]ny real chance of making the tax only on the cash portion of the bankers bonus,” Epstein wrote in an email on December 15. Two days later on December 17, Epstein emailed Mandelson asking whether Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan, should “call darling one more time?” Mandelson replied, saying: “Yes and mildly threaten.” Dan Neidle, head of think-tank Tax Policy Associates, said: “It is quite extraordinary for a serving government minister to advise a foreign bank to threaten the chancellor in order to reduce its UK tax bill.” Lord Mandelson told the FT on Sunday that his concerns about the bankers’ bonus tax reflected wider concern in the financial services industry. “Every UK and international bank was making the same argument about the impact on UK financial services,” he said. “My conversations in government at the time reflected the views of the sector as a whole, not a single individual.” After leaving government in 2010, Mandelson went on to set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, which has included JPMorgan on its roster of high-profile clients. Darling stuck to his guns with the tax, which ended up raising more than £2bn from the banking sector, although he later regretted the policy. Documents showing the conversations were buried in a vast tranche of 3mn documents released by the DoJ, which also included papers showing transfers of large cash payments from Epstein to Mandelson in 2003 and 2004 and to his partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva in 2009 and 2010. Mandelson sent Epstein another email on Christmas Day 2010, at which point the Labour veteran was no longer in government, referring to his desire to work with JPMorgan. “If I am going to do something for JPM, it should be a discreet Global Counsel project, something that does not directly compromise my Lazard relationship and which also does not trample on Tony (Blair’s) territory,” he wrote. Blair was a paid adviser to Dimon at JPMorgan from 2008. “My aim is to acquire enough knowledge and networks in time to participate in real deals. I do not want to live by salary alone. That’s why I need to do as much as possible to build with JPM.” An internal investigation by JPMorgan in 2023 revealed that Epstein had claimed to have brokered meetings between Staley and both Darling and Mandelson at Davos. An ensuing exchange recounted in the report suggested that Staley was interested in the pending sale of the non-North American units of Sempra Commodities by Royal Bank of Scotland, which was forced to divest the unit following a UK government bailout. Months later, JPMorgan bought the business for $1.7bn. Other documents have shown Mandelson using a speech in New York in 2010 to pan Barack Obama’s attempt to rein in US banks by limiting their risk-taking — having dined the previous night with Epstein at his Manhattan mansion. JPMorgan declined to comment.
  9. Yeah, no sweat. I'm still getting used to the new software, and the screenshot embedding issues are kinda pissing me off. It also didn't help that, as a Bksy lurker with, like, two posts in two years, I wasn't aware of the equivalent bot on Bsky that I used to use on Xitter to unroll threads. Now, I know. You gotta tag @unroll.skywriter.blue and type "unroll." Anyway, for the benefit of everyone else, here's the output to read the full thread: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:l3k4ivyknlg4yv4as4b6anmt/post/3mdqpfcpfcc2d As to her releasing the report itself, she ends the entire thread with: She's stated a few times that everything is from Friday's release.
  10. If you'd like to read the full thread, click the little butterfly icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Blusky post.
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  12. There are still constituent services to conduct between now and November, giving her a chance to continue to build support from the grassroots.
  13. Yeah, I can't see them either. That's why I tagged Immamac to give him a heads-up. There's all sorts of weirdness going on with embeds since the new site update. It started (for me) sometime in the last day or so. Sometimes when I post screenshots now, it sorta works if I force it by clicking the insert link when pasting content, and other times, this is the result. He knows (because I also mentioned it to him in the shit's borked thread regarding another post I made before this one), and I hope he can get it sorted out soon. At the same time, he's got a family and work outside this website, so I'm not going to make too much of a stink about it now. Others have been complaining a good bit about this or other similar issues in both the borked thread and the new site/software thread for a week or so now. I don't know how well this is going to read without it being in separate posts. She's got a couple of screenshots in there, as well, and I'll copy/paste those over too in the right places, but I don't know if they'll show. With that said, the following is all the text as she's going through the documents from that long-ass thread (spoilering for length). Long ass thread on the lack of follow-through by Alex Acosta et al on the initial investigation of Epstein.
  14. Nothing to see here, other than watching them march down the path of being the single largest diploma mill / trade school in the country.
  15. bolverk replied to Caracara's topic in Cloak Room
    Just sayin' https://surlyhorns.com/board/topic/16294-lordy-i-hope-there-are-tapes-woodward-booktapes/page/4/#comment-2536595 Uploading Attachment...
  16. Edit: This is a long thread, so I did a bunch of screenshots to save you guys from having to click through, but ongoing Surly site changes are fucking up the copy/pasting of screenshots. @immamac Heads up on this glitch. https://bsky.app/profile/ecmclaughlin.bsky.social/post/3mdqpfcpfcc2d
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