What would it look like if you printed out every page of the Epstein Files?
@redactedreadingroom has put all 3.5 million pages, bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit that opens Friday in Tribeca.
David Garrett, one of the organizers, says the goal is to push for the release of all of the files and make sure they are properly redacted to protect Epstein’s victims, not witnesses or co-conspirators.
The richer the crime, the rarer the punishment.
The U.S has long treated wealthy offenders with more leniency — but that gap has widened sharply since the 1980s. While punishments for street crime surged, enforcements against corporate crime declined across both parties.
From the dot-com bubble to Enron to the 2008 crash, major scandals piled up as white-collar FBI staffing fell by 36% between 2001 and 2008.
Then came Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and the age of unlimited political spending. Sixteen years and a steady decline later, white-collar prosecutions are about to hit their lowest level in modern history.
In 2025 alone, the Trump administration canceled 145 Biden-era enforcement actions against 153 corporations that allegedly broke the law, per progressive consumer rights group Public Citizen.
The U.S. loves itself a conflict in a Middle Eastern and African nation.
President Trump overnight announced that the U.S. military had launched a “major” military operation in Iran to eliminate its nuclear program and force regime change. Explosions have been reported in several Iranian cities.
The U.S. had various reasons for attacking nations this century, the most common being bombings or drone strikes on terrorist groups as part of America’s decades-long War on Terror. The operations have cut across party lines as well, with Democratic presidents (Obama and Biden) attacking some of the same nations. Obama, in particular, has been criticized for an expansion of American drone attacks, allowing the U.S. to easily strike nations without having to send troops on the ground.
But President Trump is suggesting taking the U.S. into new areas of war. Already in his first year back, Trump has bombed Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela — three nations the U.S. has not directly attacked this century. The attacks on Venezuela and Iran represent America’s most notable foreign interventions since the invasion of Iraq under President George W. Bush.
Sources: PBS News, CNN, U.S. statements, DOD, CIA records, Al Jazeera, Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Well, that sure is lucky!
President Trump bought and sold millions of dollars in stocks and bonds in technology companies in the first quarter of this year, government documents posted Thursday reveal. The government regulates or has business with some of those corporations, such as Nvidia and Palantir. And CEOs of several of these companies traveled with Trump on Air Force One for his state trip to China this week.
The timing of several of Trump’s trades raises eyebrows: He purchased $1 million to $5 million worth of the Nvidia stock on Feb. 10, a week before the company announced a semiconductor chips deal with Meta.
The news does little to quell claims that insider trading is rampant within the administration. Unknown individuals have placed suspiciously timed bets and stock trades ahead of administration actions, such as the U.S. pause on airstrikes on Iran.
A striking trend is emerging in courts over ICE detentions.
Since July 2025, when ICE instituted a policy of mandatory detention for immigrants facing deportation, federal judges have overwhelmingly ruled against the Trump administration. The new ICE policy effectively seeks to deny bond hearings to many immigrants — including some longtime U.S. residents with no criminal record — instead of leaving them the option to be free while their deportation cases move through court.
An analysis of more than 11,600 federal rulings that Politico reviewed found judges, including many Trump appointees, sided against the administration in roughly 90% of those bond disputes. The cases focus specifically on whether immigrants can be detained without a chance to request release on bond — not whether they can remain in the U.S. permanently.
The Trump administration argues immigration law allows ICE to detain most noncitizens during removal proceedings. Opponents say the policy breaks with decades of legal precedent and violates due process protections. The policy is certain to end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Americans don’t like their newest noisy (AI) neighbors.
A new Gallup poll finds that vast majorities of Americans don’t want AI data centers to be built in their backyards, even as tech giants fervently push expansion to keep up with the technology’s energy demands. Americans are concerned about how data centers will impact their communities.
That is particularly poignant in the Lake Tahoe region that borders California and Nevada. Tens of thousands of residents on the California side are about a year away from losing their electricity, which is set to go toward data centers.
NV Energy, the utility company that has supplied the region with most of its power, says the town’s energy transition had been planned for years, but the company kept temporarily supplying energy because Liberty Utilities, the California company that supplies power for the area, has not gotten an independent source of energy.
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Rent stabilization and the cost of living have become some of the hottest debates in politics (thanks, Mamdani).
But what is rent regulation and how does it actually work? @whatisthis_nyc breaks it all down.
No, Trump didn’t make off with $59 million from customers who pre-ordered his gold T1 phones — and established journalists like Ari Melber and Chris Cuomo all fell for it.
@grayyyy went full sleuth mode to see how so many people failed to do something basic: Check the sources.
Full newsletter on the @who_brokeit Substack. Link in bio.
Child marriage will soon be illegal in Oklahoma.
A new state law raises the minimum marriage age to 18 with no exceptions, ending a policy that previously allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to wed with parental consent, and children 16 or younger to marry with court approval.
Nearly 3,500 minors got married in Oklahoma between 2000 and 2021, most of them girls who were married to adult men, according to anti-child marriage advocacy group Unchained At Last.
The measure passed the state Senate unanimously, but cleared the House by only a single vote — with 36 Republicans voting against it. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to sign or veto the bill, allowing it to become law automatically. The law is set to take effect Nov. 1, 2026.
Kylian Mbappé won’t “shut up and dribble.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair published Tuesday, the Real Madrid and French international soccer star defended making his political views known. In 2024, as the far right in France looked to gain a majority of seats in the parliament, soccer players sounded alarm bells, and Mbappé urged French citizens to vote against “extremes.”
French far-right political leader Jordan Bardella attacked the World Cup-winning striker for speaking out: “I am a little annoyed to see these sports figures giving lessons to people who…struggle to make ends meet.”
Mbappé again didn’t back down in the Vanity Fair interview: “We are citizens,” he said. “We have the right to give our opinion like anyone else.”
And Bardella again went after France’s biggest star in a viral tweet.
Ending the Electoral College isn’t a liberal dream anymore — local elections in swing states this year could pave the way for Democrats to control enough states to change how presidents are elected.
Steve Morris looks at how we got to this point, and how it could all play out, on a new episode of Margin of Error. Link in bio.
