Republican lawmakers called for a statue of slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk to be installed in the U.S. Capitol following his murder.In a draft letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blamed "hateful rhetoric from the left" for the killing."To honor this legacy, we ca...
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    130·
    3 days ago

    In what universe is Charlie Kirk at all comparable to MLK?

    They’re both famous guys who were in the news for things they said.

    Release the rest of the Epstein files.

    Didn’t we get a big data dump that journalists are actively sifting through? FFS, the UK ambassador to the US just got sacked yesterday over the latest news.

    At least take a minute to chew and swallow before you ask for another bite.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      We got a Google Drive dump of data after thousands of fbi agents spent months redacting trumps name

        • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-01/epstein-files-trump-s-name-was-redacted-by-the-fbi

          That included a mountain of material accumulated by the FBI over nearly two decades, including grand jury testimony, prosecutors’ case files, as well as tens of thousands of pages of the bureau’s own investigative files on Epstein. It was a herculean task that involved as many as 1,000 FBI agents and other personnel pulling all-nighters while poring through more than 100,000 documents, according to a July letter from Senator Dick Durbin to Bondi.

          In preparation for potential public release, the documents then went to a unit of FOIA officers who applied redactions in accordance with the nine exemptions. The people familiar with the matter said that Trump’s name, along with other high-profile individuals, was blacked

          And while that one is new

          Instead, Bondi’s big Epstein files party was a bust. It turned out the documents she called declassified, which included pages from Epstein’s infamous “black book,” had been previously released, most recently during the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell four years earlier.

          Their latest release also was almost entirely published info.

    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      They’re both famous guys who were in the news for things they said.

      Come on, dude, you that’s dishonest. Were Gandhi and Hitler the same person?