"Quantum events may look unpredictable locally, but globally they form patterns."
A good take wrt global vs. local. Quantum mechanics is the most local theory we have - it just refuses to let reality be locally real.
R to @rosenbusch_: https://www.jns.org/iraqi-kurds-reject-role-in-anti-iran-operations/
http://t.me/Rosenbusch
Irakische Kurden lehnen von CIA vorgesehene Rolle bei Anti-Iran-Operationen ab:
„Lasst die Kurden in Ruhe“, schrieb die irakische First Lady Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed. „Wir sind keine Söldner.“
„Heute haben die Kurden im Irak endlich ein gewisses Maß an Stabilität und Würde in ihrem Leben erreicht“, schrieb sie. „Aus diesem Grund ist es für die Kurden sehr schwierig, ja sogar unmöglich, zu akzeptieren, dass sie von den Weltmächten als Schachfiguren behandelt werden.“
Wenn Ihr Euch mal nicht sicher seid, wie ihr diesen oder jenen Konflikt moralisch einordnen sollt - @snicklink spürt eigentlich immer das Richtige👇
This wasn't predictable. 🤦♀️
Die amerikanischen Streitkräfte sind auf europäische Basen angewiesen. Das rückt diese ins Visier Irans. Europa reagiert auf die Gefahr – aber erst langsam. https://www.nzz.ch/international/wie-europa-die-usa-in-ihrem-krieg-gegen-iran-unterstuetzt-ld.1927659?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dcf
“If you think James Talarico is going to become the senator from Texas without a thorough proctological exam of everything he's ever said, written and done, you are wrong,” says @MarkHalperin. “And you don't need to be the best opposition researcher in the history of opposition research to start looking at this guy.” Talarico’s recent controversial remarks on social media are “the tip of the iceberg of what you're going to see about this guy.” #Talarico @2waytvapp
R to @rosenbusch_: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/
http://t.me/Rosenbusch
US-Ermittler halten es für „wahrscheinlich“, dass US-Streitkräfte für einen Angriff auf eine iranische Mädchenschule in Minab verantwortlich sind, bei dem am Samstag rund 160 Kinder getötet wurden.
Die Ermittlungen sind noch nicht abgeschlossen, heißt es.
Well done dear friend and Food Lion.
while i’m on hold in India awaiting a flight back to UK i have some reading to catchup on ! I have the hard copy at home ! But as there’s no direct flights atm - I’m glad to have this ! @ClareCraigPath
You didn't know? https://progressive.org/magazine/how-the-biotech-industry-cultivates-positive-media/
⚠️ 🚨The jamming signal on 7910kHz that is blocking the Farsi/Persian-language Numbers-Station broadcasts, is identical to the jamming that has long been disrupting “Radio Farda”, an anti-Iranian regime shortwave station.
We can now say that jamming is of Iranian origin.
An old idea from Friends. It's not hot-water worthy. It's just... smart.
@Jikkyleaks He seems to have stopped comment, perhaps because someone asked him to disclose his funding sources:
Autos werden grösser, schwerer und teurer. Die EU will mit einer neuen Klasse Kleinwagen fördern. Kann das funktionieren? https://www.nzz.ch/mobilitaet/neue-eu-kleinwagen-wie-europa-das-auto-neu-erfinden-will-ld.1926944?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dce
after being in the brilliant & best show @MarkSteynOnline that was - on the now unwatched @GBNEWS
Individualismus ist eine von 26 empirisch identifizierten Sinnquellen. Die Forscherin Tatjana Schnell erklärt, wer darin Erfüllung findet und was die Einzigartigkeit ausmacht. Der Sinnimpuls. https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/sinn-durch-individualismus-selbst-sein-und-dazugehoeren-ld.1920390?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dcd
THE DONALD TRUMP FILES
What about Donald Trump? Isn't he in the Epstein files?
Well, we have now read 1.39 million DOJ documents in the Epstein case. Every one. We have built investigation dossiers on eight people: Bill Gates (2,265 documents), Woody Allen (2,613), Reid Hoffman (1,976), Bill Clinton (1,586), Larry Summers (739), Leon Black (667), Elon Musk (55), and Donald Trump.
For Donald Trump, across the entire corpus, we found 40 documents.
Not 40 damning documents. 40 documents total -- every sworn deposition, every FBI interview, every civil complaint, every flight log entry, every media reference of any kind linking Trump to Epstein in the largest document production in DOJ history.
As with Elon, the number is the story. And as with Elon, the documents themselves tell that story even better.
Every quote below is verbatim. Every citation is a DOJ document number you can verify. Click the links. This post comes from those links. There are just 40. You can read them yourself.
THE FRIENDSHIP
It must be made clear:
Trump and Epstein were friends. This must be stated plainly, because everything that follows only makes sense if you understand that.
They were Palm Beach neighbors in the 1990s. Both owned waterfront estates. Both moved in the same Manhattan social circles -- the dinner-party circuit that included Mort Zuckerman, Leon Black, Ronald Perelman, and a dozen other New York billionaires. In March 2003, Vanity Fair profiled Epstein as "The Talented Mr. Epstein" and named Trump as one of seven businessmen who dined at his 71st Street townhouse [187-11]. Juan Alessi, Epstein's house manager, named Trump among many prominent visitors to the Palm Beach property [055-12]. A 1993 photograph shows Trump and Marla Maples with Epstein and Maxwell at a New York party [EFTA00787056].
This was before Epstein's convictions.
In 2002, reached by phone for a New York Magazine profile, Trump gave the currently most weaponized quote in the entire archive:
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it -- Jeffrey enjoys his social life." [EFTA00013640]
That quote has been cited thousands of times. It was given on speakerphone, before any public allegations, before any investigation, before any reason to be cautious. "It is even said that" is hearsay framing -- Trump reporting what others say. "On the younger side" is ambiguous. But the quote exists, and it reflects a social warmth that post-Epstein scandal Trump would prefer to erase.
In 2003, Ghislaine Maxwell assembled a leather-bound album for Epstein's 50th birthday. Trump's contribution: a card with "several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker," signed below the waist [senate_judiciary_to_bondi].
These are the facts, and the facts must be stated openly.
The friendship was real. But what happened next matters more.
THE FALLING OUT
Around 2004, that friendship ended.
Trump outbid Epstein at auction for the Maison de L'Amitie estate in Palm Beach. In Michael Wolff's 2017 recordings, Epstein himself confirmed the real estate dispute as the breaking point [wolff_tapes_transcript_exhibit].
But the real estate dispute was simply the excuse that Epstein made for something darker. Brad Edwards, the attorney who represented Epstein's victims, established under oath that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after Epstein sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club [773-04].
There is no documented contact between Trump and Epstein after the falling out in 2004. Not one email. Not one phone call. Not one schedule entry. Not one reference of any kind in 1.39 million documents.
After 2004, the relationship was over. Trump had drawn a hard line.
THE GIRL IN THE SPA
Virginia Roberts was sixteen years old, earning nine dollars an hour as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago [1218-11]. In her memoir, she described the club in awestruck terms -- "sheer awe at the gold arches."
Ghislaine Maxwell approached her while she was reading a book about massage [EFTA01689026].
"I was working at Donald Trump's spa in Mar-a-Lago and I was prompted by Ghislaine to come to Jeffrey's mansion in Palm Beach that afternoon after work." [1090-16]
Roberts names many powerful men in her testimony. Clinton. Prince Andrew. Dershowitz. Wexner. She does not name Trump. He was the property owner. But Maxwell did the recruiting.
An FBI interview of a different victim's mother captures how this worked: she "heard that a prince and DONALD TRUMP visited EPSTEIN's house and this made [her] think that if they are there then how could EPSTEIN be a criminal" [EFTA00089603].
That is what Epstein did with famous names. He wore used them as bait. As camouflage. If Epstein was associated with so-and-so, then how could he be a predator? Trump, unlike others, immediately put a stop to that.
THE ACCUSATIONS
Three allegations against Trump exist in the corpus.
A Jane Doe civil lawsuit against Epstein's estate alleges that Epstein introduced her to Trump when she was fourteen, "allegedly elbowing Trump and saying, 'This is a good one, right?' Trump smiled and nodded in agreement" [1078-5].
At the Maxwell trial, a victim testified under oath that Epstein introduced her to Trump and took her to Mar-a-Lago when she was fourteen [120-cr-00330/745]. That testimony confirmed the social introduction. It contained no allegation of misconduct by Trump. Defense counsel used Trump's name to establish Epstein's social reach, not to implicate Trump.
In 2016, during the presidential campaign, a civil complaint alleged the rape of a thirteen-year-old at Epstein's 71st Street house in the summer of 1994 -- Katie Johnson v. Trump & Epstein [EFTA01386393]. It was filed pro se, dismissed for improper filing, refiled with an attorney, and dropped before trial. It was never proven, never tested under cross-examination, never corroborated by any other witness in the criminal investigation.
In August 2017, Epstein told Michael Wolff on tape: "I was Donald's closest friend for 10 years" [wolff_tapes_transcript_exhibit]. He claimed Trump liked to "f--- the wives of his best friends" and that Melania first slept with Trump on Epstein's plane. These recordings were released days before the 2024 election. They are unsworn claims by a convicted pedophile and serial liar to an author -- a man who told the same journalist his week included "woody allen, elon musk, frank gehri... bill gates" [EFTA02561193].
And that pedophile and liar had an axe to grind. A big one.
Those are the allegations. What follows is what happened when they were investigated.
THE INVESTIGATION
The FBI investigated Donald Trump in connection with the Epstein case.
The master case index lists him as a "positive case hit" with "salacious information": "Donald Trump (one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate)" [EFTA00161528]. One allegation. One victim who refused to cooperate. No prosecution.
The FBI's National Threat Operations Center received four separate complaints naming Trump [EFTA01660679]. A hearsay oral sex claim via a friend-of-friend chain. An anonymous party guest list. A claim about "big orgy parties" from a sixteen-year-old model. A Trump Golf Course allegation "deemed not credible." All anonymous. None corroborated.
The Senate Judiciary Committee -- bipartisan, Grassley and Durbin -- reported that FBI personnel were specifically instructed to "flag" any records in which President Trump was mentioned across all 1.39 million documents. The result: no incriminating "client list." No evidence of criminal conduct [senate_judiciary_to_bondi].
The Southern District of New York, which prosecuted the Epstein case, had Trump's phone records in their evidence. Their grand jury presentation includes a message slip showing Trump called Epstein on November 1, 2000 -- a routine call, no message content [EFTA00008599]. The same presentation, same pages, includes message slips reading "She has females for Mr. J.E." Prosecutors had Trump's innocuous call alongside explicit trafficking procurement. They found nothing to charge.
Attorney General William Barr, under oath before the House Oversight Committee:
"I was never informed of the evidence, and I'm skeptical there is any... if they had evidence, this would've been low-hanging fruit." [oversight_republican_staff_memo]
THE ATTORNEY WHO WOULD KNOW
Brad Edwards represented Epstein's victims for years. He investigated every lead. He subpoenaed records, deposed witnesses, and built the case that led to federal prosecution. He was the attorney most motivated to find evidence against anyone connected to Epstein.
In April 2010, Edwards filed a sworn affidavit:
"While research by other plaintiffs' attorneys and myself has uncovered other persons that were acquaintances of Mr. Epstein, specifically Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, Tommy Mottola, and David Copperfield, we have no information that any of those people (other than Mr. Dershowitz) have spoken to Mr. Epstein about Jane Doe or any of the other specific victims of Mr. Epstein's molestation." [560-03]
Edwards' attorney Jack Scarola: "There is no evidence the President was involved in Epstein's schemes" [773-04].
Edwards filed a notice to depose Trump in September 2009 [701]. As a witness. Not as a suspect. He sought Trump's testimony to help the victim's case.
And there is this: when Edwards was investigating Epstein, reaching out to the powerful men in Epstein's orbit for cooperation, Trump was the only person who picked up the phone and returned his call [50-2009-CA-040800/549].
The attorney who spent years investigating on behalf of Epstein's victims -- who had every reason to find evidence, every incentive to implicate the powerful -- swore under oath that his investigation found nothing linking Trump to the abuse.
When he called, Trump answered. Readily. Trump knew what Epstein was and wanted to talk about it.
WHAT THE DOCUMENTS DON'T SHOW
Pilot David Rodgers flew Epstein's planes for twenty-eight years. He sat for a seventeen-page FBI interview and reviewed his flight logs covering 1991 through 2007 [EFTA00159180]. Trump appears once: Flight 934, January 5, 1997. Passengers: Epstein, Maxwell, Donald Trump, Mark Epstein, and Didier, a chef. Route: Palm Beach to Newark.
No flight in the corpus shows Trump traveling to Little Saint James, to Zorro Ranch, or to any international destination on Epstein's aircraft.
Epstein's famous ninety-two-page personal contact book does not contain a "Donald Trump" entry [black-book-redacted]. It lists Robert and Blaine Trump, Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Trump Management Inc. -- the socialite channel, not Donald.
There are zero financial transactions between Trump and Epstein in any direction. No donations. No investments. No advisory fees. No foundation grants.
Even Epstein's own defense lawyers, in a motion to pare down a 169-person witness list, argued that Trump had "no connection at all" to the case [1338]. And Epstein himself, in a draft letter, grouped Trump among "friends and other innocent bystanders" whose names had been dragged in by "abusive discovery" [EFTA01128737].
THE COMPARISON
The Epstein documents reveal concentric circles of association. At the center: people who were financially entangled, who visited the island repeatedly, who maintained the relationship through and after Epstein's conviction.
Trump was not in any of these circles.
Woody Allen: 2,613 documents. Nine years of regular contact. Dinner companion. Epstein attended his film shoots.
Bill Gates: 2,265 documents. Multiple confirmed meetings. Donations routed through Epstein. Boris Nikolic named in Epstein's will.
Reid Hoffman: 1,976 documents. 36 documented gift exchanges. Slept at Epstein's 71st Street mansion.
Bill Clinton: 1,586 documents. 147 sexually explicit messages with Maxwell. Multiple confirmed island visits. Flights on Epstein's plane confirmed by his pilot ("ten or twenty times"). Active participation in the post-arrest denial campaign.
Larry Summers: 739 documents. Regular dinner companion. Island visits with family. Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics funded through Epstein.
Leon Black: 667 documents. $158 million paid to Epstein across a decades-long financial relationship.
Elon Musk: 55 documents. Zero financial transactions. Twenty-two months of sporadic, taciturn emails with Epstein chasing Musk, but leaving Epstein little to grab onto.
Donald Trump: 40 documents. Zero financial transactions. Zero island visits. One commuter flight. A friendship that ended in 2004, eleven years before the first federal prosecution, after Trump drew the line and Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago for his behavior. The only person in Epstein's orbit who returned the victim's attorney's call.
Trump's entire file is 1.8% the size of Gates's.
WHAT REMAINS
These documents show a man who was part of an early social world he did not yet completely understand, who called a predator "terrific" before anyone knew what that predator was, who sent a crude birthday card before there was any reason not to, whose property was used as a hunting ground without his knowledge or permission -- and who, when the investigation came, banned the predator from his club, picked up the phone for the victim's attorney, and was cleared by every investigative body that looked.
40 documents. Every quote verbatim. Every citation verifiable.
Full compendium (40 docs): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HhFLNr0AUlKcdDZS-OOKlKJaLMms8lGj/view?usp=sharing
AI-optimized compendium (upload to any LLM and ask it anything): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sl1Su1Jm0N73NrIt3DDQxSSSU3AlOaZb/view?usp=sharing
Who needs a carbon tax when we have this much tree coverage? Someone please tell Ottawa.
Das Wichtigste aus der Wirtschaft – sachlich, auf den Punkt: Dieses Audio-Briefing filtert und verdichtet aktuelle Wirtschaftsartikel. Von der NZZ kuratiert, redaktionell geprüft und mithilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz aufbereitet, werden die Themen... https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/wie-der-iran-krieg-lieferketten-energiepreise-und-maerkte-erschuettert-ld.1927771?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dcc
NEW: The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is facing internal pressure to back away from its recent policy recommendation against gender surgeries for individuals until they are “at least 19 years old.”
The critics of that recommendation strongly imply that the ASPS bowed to political pressure in its decision. But many of those very critics are affiliated with The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Remember, documents in the Boe v. Marshall case revealed that WPATH made the blatantly political decision—at the request of Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine—to remove ALL recommended age minimums for gender drugs and surgeries from its standards of care. In other words, WPATH leadership wouldn’t support ANY reasonable age limits before subjecting kids to sterilizing drugs and surgeries.
Now, look at the names of the “concerned task force members” who wrote an open letter criticizing the ASPS’s commonsense decision:
- Asa Radix, current President of WPATH
- Loren Schecther, president-elect of WPATH
- Scott Leibowitz, Chair of the WPATH SOC8 Adolescent Chapter team (the very team that dropped all minimum age limits for all surgeries in minors!)
- Rachel Bluebond-Langner, specialist in “gender-affirming surgery” at the NYU Langone Medical Center in NYC (which just announced it is ceasing all such surgeries on minors, biting into her profits.)
- Dr. Jens Berli, WPATH member
- Melissa Poh, WPATH member
It’s beyond hypocritical for this cast of characters to suggest that the ASPS politicized its recommendations at the behest of a presidential administration.
The ASPS should stand firm. An ever-growing body of evidence stands on the side of caution toward these harmful, irreversible surgeries. So does the $2M jury award in detransitioner Fox Varian’s recent malpractice case.
The reckoning for this unconscionable medical experiment on a generation of vulnerable children has only just begun.
Washington hat die KI-Firma nun tatsächlich als Lieferkettenrisiko deklariert. Ausschlaggebend dafür dürfte auch eine interne E-Mail von Anthropics CEO gewesen sein, in der dieser über die Regierung und den Konkurrenten Open AI herzog. https://www.nzz.ch/technologie/streit-um-ki-das-pentagon-erklaert-anthropic-zur-gefahr-fuer-das-militaer-ld.1928023?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dcb
New Hand Carved Wood Sign
Accepting New Patients 😄😎
My husband has suffered lyme disease for over 20 years.
Are you telling me my government did this to him?
People have asked about today’s Reuters article.
Coverage of the IACC highlights the difficulty of conveying nuance in complex scientific and policy discussions.
The reporter received thoughtful, detailed responses about autism research priorities and the committee’s role, yet the article largely reduces the discussion to controversy and insinuation.
Families deserve better than click-driven narratives.
In the interest of transparency, I’m sharing the written responses I provided. I welcome your observations comparing them with the tenor of the article.
Apologies in advance for the length. 🧵
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/kennedys-new-us-autism-panel-examine-potential-causes-2026-03-05/
Vor zwanzig Jahren galt das Craft-Beer-Label als Marketingwunder. Die wilden PR-Stunts waren legendär. Aber dann ging es bergab. Jetzt stehen 500 Mitarbeiter auf der Strasse, und die «Equity-Punks» fühlen sich verraten. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/die-cannabis-firma-tilray-kauft-die-kult-biermarke-brewdog-die-equity-punks-gehen-leer-aus-ld.1927813?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dca
The thing people like @hopenothate have to realise is that they don't just need to 'pivot', they need to *apologise* to the people they have smeared. And I'm not sure apologising should be enough. Whatever nuanced take you have on @TRobinsonNewEra, to place @joshxhowie (who is Jewish) on a hitlist alongside him, is domestic terrorism. And I'm sure both Howie and Robinson will agree with me.
The head of Hope Not Hate appears to have disappeared from Twitter because he spread the rumour during the Southport riots that there were acid attacks on Muslim women and he GOT AWAY WITH IT while @LucyTCWife got TWO YEARS IN PRISON.
And that's not even the end of it! Another one of the fucking Dick Tracy villains at @hopenothate has just been arrested for sex offences against children!
CAN YOU SEE WHAT IT IS YET?
They accuse others of that which they themselves are guilty.
And when anyone points out what they're up to, they use Putin's trick. They just casually let people know who is currently inviting their displeasure in the hope that someone will kill them.
They still put women like @ThePosieParker on their hitlist, but why not me? Am I not the most evil man who has ever existed? Why would I be left out of this list?
I'll tell you why: because more people know the facts of my case than they do about the facts of Posie Parker's case. They think they can get away with putting Posie Parker on the hitlist because she didn't write 'Father Ted'.
I think the offices of @HopeNotHate should be raided, their computers confiscated, and they should join Palestine Action as a proscribed terrorist organisation. One paedophile and one rabble rouser is bad enough, but publishing hitlists is surely adequate to get them downgraded from whatever they are at the moment.
Okay I just checked. For a horrible second I thought they might be a charity. At least they're not a charity.
Sozialausgaben machen inzwischen knapp die Hälfte des deutschen Bundeshaushalts aus und lähmen die Politik. Realistische Ansätze, wie diese signifikant reduziert werden können, gibt es nicht. Ökonomen begrüssen die jetzt vom Parlament beschlossene... https://www.nzz.ch/international/trotz-stagnierender-wirtschaft-wird-der-sozialstaat-immer-groesser-auch-die-reform-der-grundsicherung-bringt-kaum-einsparungen-ld.1927674?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dc9
While antisemitic pro-Palestinian propaganda films are pushed to the forefront of film festivals, the 'October 8' films about the rise of antisemitism since October 7th, 2023, have not been accepted to a single film festival.
Antisemitism has become endemic to the film industry.
The film is available to stream on all major platforms. Please make sure you watch and share with others.
The history of vaccines, and their catastrophic (and intentional) impact on the world cannot be overstated.
It is difficult for the mind to comprehend.
From chronic disease to altered behavior. From creating drug addicts and criminals to destroying human interaction and relationships.
The extent to which immune system and neurological damage touches our lives is nearly beyond comprehension, and is occurring at scale.
And once you see it all... you won't be able to look away.
And the likely outcome of this information is being converted to Christianity.
Because once you know the devil exists...
2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Wissen ist eine von 26 empirisch identifizierten Sinnquellen. Die Forscherin Tatjana Schnell erklärt, wer darin Erfüllung findet und wie Lernprozesse das Leben bereichern. Der Sinnimpuls. https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/wissen-als-sinnquelle-persoenliches-wachstum-durch-neugier-ld.1920407?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030669a7760138899b1522817dc8
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is issuing a "30-day waiver" to allow India to purchase Russian oil amid the war with Iran.
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mohsen Rezaee, former head of IRGC, while trying not to laugh: “We have secret new tactical methods that we will use at the right time.”
The remark was so stupid that even the regime TV presenter started laughing 🤣
Iranians hate the regime so much that the moment they manage to connect to the internet, they use it to report the exact locations of regime forces, so the IDF could strike them 👇