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The tabs of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls …





Ed: If you want some backstory on why Melinda Gates is speaking out now, follow this link. At least she got out.  

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Associated Press: The charity founded by Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, is shutting down following the release of emails showing the depth of her friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Sarah’s Trust, which focused on improving the lives of women and children, said it will close for the “foreseeable future,’’ following the revelations in latest documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice. Ferguson is the ex-wife of the former Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his royal titles due to his own links with Epstein. …

Emails released on Friday revealed that Ferguson remained in contact with Epstein long after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. In the email exchanges, Ferguson referred to Epstein as a “legend’’ and “the brother I have always wished for.’’

Ed: This is just drenched in unfortunate irony. Most of the revelations thus far from the final Epstein Files release have tended to indict precisely those who one could predict would have relationships with Epstein – the cultural elites from whom Jeffrey Epstein curried favor. And clearly succeeded in doing so. 

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Ed: Plaskett wasn’t just someone in Epstein’s social circle. Plaskett performed legal work for Epstein, including his taxes and his purchase of Little St. James Island. Five of Epstein’s victims sued Plaskett, although they later agreed to let Plaskett out of the suit. 

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Cockburn at Spectator World: Specifically, Andrew denied ever having stayed at Epstein’s house on New York’s Upper East Side on April 11, 2001 – the occasion when Roberts Giuffre says she had sex with the prince for a second time, when she was aged 17. “I wasn’t staying there. I may have visited but definitely didn’t, definitely, definitely no, no, no activity,” he told interviewer Emily Maitlis. …

However, a March 10, 2001, email from Andrew to Ghislaine, released by the Department of Justice Friday, reads, “I will be arriving on the evening of 9th April and in town for 10/11 and then off to Bahamas on 12.” …

The second encounter between Andrew and Roberts Giuffre is when, according to Roberts Giuffre, Andrew groped her and another young woman with a puppet designed to resemble him, from the British satirical show Spitting Image. A photograph showing that puppet to be present in Epstein’s New York residence was released in the December 2025 Epstein Files release.

Ed: Unfortunately, Roberts Giuffre took her own life last April. There have been some challenges to her recollections from this period, but this one appears to have hit the mark. 





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Ed: Blanche said that charging decisions are driven by evidence, not just innuendo or inference, which is precisely how it should be. Jonathan is exactly correct about the law, and the risks of mob justice too. 

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Ed: Time to return to “affordability”!

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KTLA: 

“I want to know why you could do this to kids,” said Cruz. “What kind of heart do you have to do this?”

Eleventh-grader Catherine Cruz said the students are turning to God for comfort during a trying time.

“Our message right now is truly prayer,” she said. “They are still created by God, and so we still want to love them, even though they did a terrible thing, we still want to pray for them.”

Ed: What in the world is wrong with people? That’s not far from where I grew up. One quibble: we Catholics do not worship the icons, but use them to enter a more prayerful state. Otherwise, kudos to KTLA for covering this story, and I certainly hope people in the area will come forward to identify those who committed this evil act. 





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Ed: This is the weirdest story of the day. And it’s been a bad day. 

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Scott Johnson at Power Line: Two of the defendants are journalists: Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. The fog machine at the Star Tribune was working overtime this past weekend to obscure the issue raised by their alleged illegal misconduct. Assuming they committed the misconduct in issue, does the First Amendment shield them from the law? The Star Tribune featured “Minnesota law professors call arrests of journalists for documenting church protest an attack on free press.”

The Star Tribune story quotes Professor Julie Jonas of the University of St. Thomas Law School opining, for example, “What the administration is basically saying is that you can’t report on this unless we approve of what you’re reporting on. They are trying to chill journalistic endeavors, and they’re successful in many ways.”

That is rank stupidity. The indictment treats Lemon and Fort as persons subject to the law like their fellow rioters — like former University of St. Thomas Law School Professor Nekima Levy Armstrong. According to the Star Tribune story, Jonas was commenting on “the arrests.” No mention of the indictment. That too is stupid.





Ed: There may be an effective defense for Lemon in this case, but … this ain’t it. Next up, however, Nate the Lawyer offers some skepticism as to getting a conviction in the case. 

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Ed: I’m less skeptical about this case than Nate, but Nate is (a) an attorney, (b) normally inclined to be conservative in nature, and (c) detached enough to give a dispassionate argument about the facts. However, I am more inclined to think that the DoJ could get a conviction in almost any other jurisdiction except the Twin Cities.  

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Ed: Great commentary from my pal Guy, as usual. 

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Jonathan Turley: In the last week, protesters in Minneapolis began putting up barricades to create checkpoints that bar federal immigration officers from entering certain neighborhoods. It is all too familiar to those of us who remember what the mayor in 2020 called “the Summer of Love” in Seattle and the establishment of an autonomous area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Ironically, these barricades are being set up after a jury ruled against the City of Seattle for negligence after the killing of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. in CHOP. …

The jury awarded the Mays family more than $30 million in damages — $4 million to the estate of Mays Jr. and $26 million to Mays Sr., according to The Seattle Times.





Mays Jr. was visiting Seattle from San Diego when he went to the area to join the protests. He was later shot and the police failed to respond for five hours due to the limits on entry into CHOP. At that point, the crime scene was hopelessly corrupted.

Ed: Good. Hopefully the political liabilities that follow from allowing mobs to seize sovereignty and capture citizens would be severe enough to deter these kinds of situations, but paying through the nose in this instance will remind Seattle that it’s supposed to enforce the law, not allow anarchy. If the state of Washington was even marginally competent, they would have suspended Seattle’s charter and took over direct control of the city. 

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Ed: Is our Minnesotans learing?? 

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Ed: Just saw this today from the Morose Morrissey, and … I find myself in total agreement with him for once. He nails the whole hypocritical “diversity” dodge, which is an Orwellian construct for silencing dissent. 





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Ed: Why yes, yes indeed, he was the guy. So let’s not do that again. 

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