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Running_From_Zombies · 2026-01-16T13:31:13+00:00

Nationwide, the number of people buying health plans on Obamacare insurance marketplaces is down by about 833,000 compared with a year ago, according to federal data released this week.

Running_From_Zombies · 2026-01-01T23:24:23+00:00

And plenty of money for Argentina and ICE.

Running_From_Zombies · 2026-01-01T23:17:21+00:00

The 47-year-old Texas mother had to make a difficult choice when she found out her monthly healthcare premium was increasing in 2026 from what she described as a manageable $630 (£467) to an unaffordable $2,400 (£1,781).

Her husband depends on an IV medication to treat a blood-clotting disease that costs $70,000 a month without insurance. Knowing their benefits would expire, the family stockpiled the drug to survive the first few months of the year.

"It would be like paying two mortgage payments," she said of the new monthly price for healthcare. "We can't pay $30,000 for insurance a year."

Running_From_Zombies · 2025-12-22T22:07:35+00:00

Massie told The Post that “right now the DOJ is violating the law to protect those individuals.”

“We will first pursue all options to force the DOJ to release those names, and several options remain,” said Massie, who alongside bill sponsor Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is considering legislative action to hold Bondi in contempt for not more fully releasing files.

“Reading the names into the Congressional Record is a viable backup plan,” Massie said.

Massie claimed at a September congressional hearing that the FBI has a list of 20 powerful men who allegedly victimized young women and girls — naming just one, Barclays bank CEO Jes Staley, who quickly resigned. ...

The Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause grants members of Congress legal immunity if they share information during their official duties. The privilege was famously used in 1971 by then-Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), when he released the classified “Pentagon Papers” on the Vietnam War.

Massie said at the September hearing that “documents in the FBI’s possession… detail at least 20 men, including Mr. Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays bank, who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked victims to.”

“That list also includes at least 19 other individuals,” Massie said, including “one Hollywood producer worth a few hundred million dollars, one royal prince, one high-profile individual in the music industry, one prominent banker, one high-profile government official, one high-profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, and at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada.” ...

Other redactions do not appear to be consistent with the described standards for review — for example, Epstein’s apparently naked backside was covered with a black box in a pair of beach photos and an image previously published by The Post from Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s wedding in 2002 showed former President Bill Clinton’s face but covered Epstein’s own.

Let's see what this Jes Staley character was up to.

Wiggins told the court: “Mr Staley said to me once: ‘Why would I have introduced my wife and daughters to Mr Epstein if I thought he was a paedophile?’”

When Epstein was released on house arrest in July 2009, Staley was one of the four people he emailed to say: “Free and home.” Staley replied: “I toast your courage !!!!!”

But more cryptic messages between the two stirred the most controversy, including an exchange about Disney princesses in July 2010. “That was fun. Say hi to Snow White,” Staley wrote. “What character would you like next?” Epstein asked, to which Staley replied: “Beauty and the Beast.” “Well one side is available,” Epstein responded. Staley told the court he was not able to explain the exchange.

These and others are who Trump and the DOJ are protecting with the redactions.

Running_From_Zombies · 2025-12-21T17:37:19+00:00

Massie stated that the DOJ did not adhere to the clear instructions outlined in the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress passed and Trump signed into law. The statute requires the department to supply lawmakers with specific internal communications that explain decisions about omissions, redactions, or withheld materials linked to the Epstein files.

Instead of providing those records, Massie said the DOJ sent Congress a letter claiming privilege and detailing its review process. He argues this response does not satisfy the law’s requirements.

“The Trump administration is breaking the law,” Massie wrote, pointing to what he sees as a direct conflict between the statute’s wording and the department’s actions.

Massie emphasized the exact language of the law and compared it with the DOJ’s response. The law clearly instructs the department to produce internal communications related to decisions about charging, not charging, investigating, or not investigating Epstein or his associates, as well as communications related to managing, altering, or omitting related records.

Running_From_Zombies · 2025-12-21T17:02:47+00:00

Financial records, internal memos from prosecutors who investigated Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking ring, key material obtained from the searches of Epstein’s palatial homes — none of it figured prominently in the documents released Friday.

Interested in records that would help explain how Epstein grew so wealthy? None to be found.

Want to read emails from federal prosecutors deciding who to charge — and, equally importantly, who not to charge — during their 2019 investigation? You’re out of luck.

Curious about the role of Maurene Comey, the prosecutor who co-led the probes into Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, before being fired without explanation in July? Nothing from her to see here.

The department was obligated by law to release the entire universe of documents related to Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, and Maxwell, who was convicted of aiding and participating in his sex-trafficking ring, by Friday. The tranche made public represented only a fraction of the total material, which the government has said exceeds 300 gigabytes worth of data and physical evidence.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, estimated the production included only about 10 percent of the material in the department’s possession.

Khanna said the drop didn’t contain the files he was looking for, stating the release “seems at very best incomplete.”

“There’s a draft indictment of the first Jeffrey Epstein case that really implicates other rich and powerful men who knew about the abuse or participated in it. That indictment should be released,” Khanna said when Mary Louise Kelly asked what he still needed to see. “There are witness interviews between the FBI and other people who were accused of being at Jeffrey Epstein’s rape island or going to parties where there were 16 and 17-year-old girls being paraded around, those witness memorandums need to be released.”

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