helping organize crowdsourced information about the 1/6 Capitol attack.
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Epstein's elite world was VERY elite: Yale Law prof Jed Rubenfeld's wife Amy Chua, also a Yale Law prof, was the mentor of Yale Law student JD Vance. Ken Starr was the mentor of Yale Law grad Brett Kavanaugh, also accused of sexual assault but now seated on the Supreme Court. 2/ 
Backing up: the exchange is with Linda Stone, a tech exec who'd known Epstein since the 1990s: she brokered his entrance into academia, linked him with scientists. In 2016 they were close enough to be chatty, far enough to go months between emails. 2/
in short: Trump spent so much time with Epstein and underaged girls that even Epstein couldn't figure out how it wasn't news!
On Jan 6, Ed Martin, as a founding member of Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal team, had a better seat than George Santos, a lesser figure. Brandon Straka, the man who first got Santos into politics, sat in the front row center; Ed two rows back; Santos deeper in the crowd. 2/ 
Sixtus' documentary examines how AI slop is infecting the internet, making it a "dumping ground for machine-generated nonsense". He's based in Berlin, but interviews famed US AI researcher Melanie Mitchell. Now he can't come to the US to promote it. 2/
The article by @etuckerAP & @stephengroves gives the basics, but not why this information was released now or why these Senators were chosen. Before Jan 6, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz were talked of as a team plotting something - so why isn't Cruz here? 2/
Slate picked up this article (kudos!) but both journos are independent.
The WSJ, which first reported on the offer, buried the lede here. What's demanded of the 9 universities if they accept Premier Status is that they make 'governance changes' and abolish departments seen as 'belittling' 'conservative ideas'. Bribed speech is compelled speech. 2/ 
It is not a coincidence that the RNC & DNC bombs were discovered each within 15 minutes of the Capitol attack. For the RNC bomb, we know the finder, but don't see it dropped. For the DNC device, we see the drop on Jan 5, but never got the name of "an officer" who found it. 2/
When in history has the president's Deputy Chief of Staff made a solo public announcement about urgent responses to ongoing terrorist attacks? 
The new documents posted show a 2017 lunch with Peter Thiel. But Thiel knew Epstein already by Fall 2016. At that time Thiel had endorsed Trump and was pushing dirty tricks for him. Epstein then introduced Thiel to the Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin. 2/
The NYT wrote a bit about gay MAGA, but it was pretty thin. Donald Trump was first pushed to run for president in 2011 by Chris Barron of GOProud. In 2016, the key RNC event was the Gays for Trump party thrown by Barron, Jim Hoft, and a Peter Thiel guy. 2/