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(DIR) Post #Axm3eNkhfmBfG1A45w by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:03:43Z
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Acosta has been subpoenaed to testify before congress. Acosta has not talked much about the extraordinarily leniently plea deal he made with Epstein. I hope he's asked some tough questions. Acosta has said that he wanted to at least get Epstein registered as a sex offender. And perhaps he really felt that Epstein was too wealthy and well connected to beat in court. But that doesn't explain the non-prosecution agreement. This agreement protected Epstein's accomplices.
(DIR) Post #Axm3wDi7kJI1KISccq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:06:57Z
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The non-prosecution agreement tips the leniency from merely a different standard of justice for the wealthy into the territory of a cover up. As if the real issue was the attention of a trial... not just keeping Epstein from punishment.
(DIR) Post #Axm3x8i5p68K6hstzU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:07:00Z
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There is also a statement attributed to Acosta that says that he didn't go after Epstein more because he was "told" (how, by who??) that Epstein was "intelligence." But, I have not been able to verify that he really said this. So, it would make sense to ask him about that too.
(DIR) Post #Axm4FYTMmGuTDjmGaO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:10:27Z
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If Acosta mentions "pressure" in this testimony (if it ever even happens, if he doesn't just plead out the whole time) it is critical to press him on who was creating that pressure. How?Acosta had his Whitehouse career cut short by this scandal. Many people hate him or are suspicious of him for what he did. He could clear his name by exposing who made him feel he was making good choices when he let the predator off with a tap on the wrist.
(DIR) Post #Axm4RNpMBN2HgChg80 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:12:34Z
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I don't really have much hope for this, but now and then people are touched by better angles.
(DIR) Post #Axm4f45eMTw4WIqfFw by Moss@beige.party
2025-09-01T21:15:00Z
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@futurebird Sometimes acutely!
(DIR) Post #Axm4mBRtOslJMze9eS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:16:20Z
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@Moss you leave me alone... grumble
(DIR) Post #Axm5EcYaCuepYHKtLU by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-09-01T21:21:26Z
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@futurebird Acosta wants to not be murdered.It's important not to pretend that the cops don't just straight up murder people, and that enough of the right kind of money and power doesn't give you access to extra-judicial murder (that is, there's a guarantee it will never be prosecuted) as a service from the cops.There's an historical general reluctance to use this, because you're risking foundation-of-the-Han-Dynasty conditions when you do it, but it's absolutely there.
(DIR) Post #Axm5l5iRKXdDFmQggS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:27:21Z
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Also among subpoenaed material? The infamous "birthday book" with letters from two presidents and many other famous people. It is just one of many "birthday books" This was something of a tradition and there are at least two other such books I've seen mention of for other Epstein birthdays. Each a collection of letters from "friends" all compiled by Ms. Maxwell.
(DIR) Post #Axm5vpHAnFXvS4nJeC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:29:17Z
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I wish they asked for all of the books. They were leather-bound by a bookbinder in NYC who specialized in fine bindings. As a bookbinding nerd this would cost about $400 up to $4000 depending on what we are talking about. It's a pretty expensive process and something you do when you want to preserve documents forever and ever. As in... beyond the years you may even live. This makes me think they may all still exist. In a way, this is the social graph."the list"
(DIR) Post #Axm6LWfiaMiFHVWuZM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T21:33:56Z
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I think that one of the big secrets all of these people are trying to cover up was how these young women were nothing more than furniture to them. Even for those who didn't participate they didn't see those girls, didn't think about how they might feel, how they got there anymore than they wondered about all of the strange art and fancy food. And of course such a big important connected person couldn't be doing anything wrong! How would that be possible?
(DIR) Post #Axm6nQ0kwXsmjRfcuG by Npars01@mstdn.social
2025-09-01T21:38:55Z
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@futurebird It is definitely a cover up.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-mueller-subpoena-withdrawn-jeffrey-epstein-house-overnight/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-trumphttps://www.npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5478620/jeffrey-epstein-crimes-timeline-legal-casehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeffrey-epstein-how-make-money-b2473269.htmlNote that they don't identify is which intelligence service Epstein worked for; possibly not US intelligence services. Was it Putin? Or his cronies? Vladimir Potanin? Viktor Vekselberg?https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/russian-oligarchs-philanthropy-ukraine-war-invsWas it Trump or his cronies?Les Wexner? Leon Black?https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2025/07/25/how-jeffrey-epstein-got-so-rich/1/
(DIR) Post #Axm9SsxcPm5iIY6Tp2 by negative12dollarbill@techhub.social
2025-09-01T22:08:50Z
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@futurebird Is the "birthday book" thing something common with wealthy people or unique to Epstein and his circle? I find the whole idea cringey and weird. And it wasn't even a round-number birthday, right? Maybe if you were 70, or retiring, it would make more sense.
(DIR) Post #Axm9rW34jolyTfOtpQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T22:13:17Z
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@negative12dollarbill I've only ever encountered it once and oddly it was when this creepy director was retiring from a theater company and his assistant, who was also his boyfriend and like 30 years younger than him constantly ran around making everyone make a big fuss about him. He wanted everyone to write "tributes" for him. I got out of it somehow ... but the assistant laid on the guilt think "he's so sad, he feels old, this would mean so much..."it's ... a dynamic.
(DIR) Post #AxmA104qShZGDQkcDo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-01T22:15:02Z
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@negative12dollarbill I didn't want to write a letter because he was disrespectful about the bodies of some of the dancers. I heard a few comments about their weight out of his mouth and I just didn't like him. So, I think it's not so much a "rich people" thing, but it might be a thing for abusers and their loyal enablers.
(DIR) Post #AxmH6iz9cZDGcglWu8 by fullyabstract@fosstodon.org
2025-09-01T23:34:28Z
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@futurebird @negative12dollarbill In academia, the peers of an important scholar often celebrate their 60th/65th birthday with a "festschrift", a collection of papers relating to a scholars body of work. A different kind of birthday book.