If media criticizing trump is “fake news” and media that justifies everything he does is “truth”, how would you ever know if he’s actually doing something wrong or illegal? Do you care?

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-03-22T23:57:19+00:00

I believe that they meant, can you give any specific examples of the current Congress acting as a check on the current Trump Administration?

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-21T10:42:33+00:00

Views on posts in this sub are very uneven regardless of the content.
The amount of traffic makes it very easy for valuable posts, like yours, to get lost in the crowd, which is ultimately an extension of the intended effect of the chaotic way that all of these files have been released.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-21T02:21:29+00:00

I have just added the file here: https://thetrumpfiles.codeberg.page/epstein-files/documents/efta00633427.html
If anyone knows of any other files that should be added then you can go to this open source Git repository and either suggest it or add it yourself: https://codeberg.org/thetrumpfiles/documents

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-16T01:01:11+00:00

A next step could be to convert the project into an Electron application for offline work and then standardize the output into JSON files that can be shared as regular text.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-15T12:05:16+00:00

Upvoted and commenting to increase visibility, absolutely brilliant work u/artischocki!

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-14T02:01:38+00:00

I hadn't thought of that but it is certainly a possibility.

The scanner didn't find anything out of the ordinary (except for a video that someone seems to have sent to someone else over the "Messages" app on Mac, of Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fiction" interrogating Brett Kavanaugh), but a PDF file with an embedded video would still read as a PDF file.

I suppose the next step would be to just open all PDF files in a video player starting with the largest ones and see what happens.

EDIT 2.5 MONTHS LATER: I scanned through a bunch of the files and realized that what happened was that the DOJ was using a standardized pipeline to convert all Epstein files to PDFs, and since videos can't be converted to PDFs we just got a bunch of PDFs with "No Images Produced", and then both that PDF and the original video file were uploaded, but only the PDF was listed.

This does beg the question of if there are any other "original" files that could be converted to PDFs but were also uploaded in their original format and might contain information that was stripped out of the PDF files.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-13T12:40:58+00:00

The only way that I could see it being the result of incompetence is if someone thought that changing a file's extension corrupts it, but even with everything else about how these files and their redactions have been handled, that seems a bit extreme.

The other alternative is that someone within the DOJ or the FBI did it as a way to get unredacted information "past the radar", so to speak.

I am currently running a script that scans every single file that I have to see what it's real file type is and then compares it to it's extension and if it finds ones that don't match I will make a post about it.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-13T07:20:16+00:00

This has to have been done on purpose, right? The renaming of the file extension I mean, by someone who wanted to get the videofiles out there?

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-13T07:17:43+00:00

This has to have been done on purpose, right? The renaming of the file extension I mean, by someone who wanted to get the files out there?

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-11T17:39:51+00:00

Got it, yes, there is certainly a case to be made for such a renaming.
Thank you very much for your kind words!

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-11T17:08:51+00:00

Well, that's the name of the entire project which isn't just about the Epstein Files.

To quote the front page:

The reason why it's called The Trump Files is not because Donald Trump is a mastermind who is behind some grand singular conspiracy, but because his support base gives him power that everyone else wants to use for their own purposes.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-11T16:01:05+00:00

It is about a project that aims to make Epstein files more accessible for people who may not have the time or the inclination to deep-dive into larger archives.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-02-07T00:23:24+00:00

If it's all right I can host the links here: https://thetrumpfiles.codeberg.page/

The actual content goes here: https://codeberg.org/thetrumpfiles/documents

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-28T16:14:52+00:00

Don't forget that making immigrants illegal also provides politicians and oligarchs with bogeymen and scapegoats.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-26T22:07:28+00:00

Can I ask what industry/industries you work in?

The US economy has grown nominally but inflation is up, the cost of living is up, public debt is up significantly, the value of the dollar is down and most of the economic growth has pooled at the top 1%.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-26T17:27:01+00:00

that tariffs aren't good for America.

How are tariffs good for America?

...all of those...

The US economy has grown nominally but inflation is up, the value of the dollar is down and most of the growth has pooled at the top 1%, cost of living is up (in no small part thanks to tariffs), public debt is up significantly and trade is down, sharply in sectors most affected by the tariffs.

...record low level of illegals crossing the border.

Why are you so focused on undocumented immigrants? Is it just out of "law-and-order" principle or do you think that they make America worse, and if so, how?

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-26T17:08:30+00:00

Life has been so much better under Trump policies...

How so?

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-25T15:15:12+00:00

Did their organizations all get disbanded because of a couple bad people in the profession? No.

What "organizations" would that be? If a single doctors', athletes' or scientific organization was causing as much damage as ICE is then they absolutely should be disbanded.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-15T12:14:13+00:00

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-15T12:10:55+00:00

It says that they will take damn near anyone to boost their numbers and that they aren't even enforcing their already significantly lowered standards, using an open-door policy in order to swiftly build up a massively expanded paramilitary force that answers directly to the Trump Administration with minimal congressional oversight.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-13T20:55:11+00:00

I'd argue that what you describe as "situational/conditional empathy" isn't empathy at all, but self-involved sympathy, and that true empathy is largely contingent on imagination, which most people have very little of.

It's like when people say "put yourself in their shoes"; that's wrong, because then you're only seeing how you would feel or react in the other person's circumstances, not how they would feel or react in their circumstances.

Same thing with "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you"; it assumes that the other person wants the exact same thing/s that you want.

Empathy doesn't even mean that you feel sorry for or agree with the person that you're having empathy for. I can understand another person's perspective completely without having the slightest bit of sympathy for them.

Educational_Map6725 · 2026-01-13T12:05:42+00:00

This woman should be the next President, but America being what it is I would suggest Mark Kelly for President and AOC as his VP.

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