Guido Jouret

Passionate about the need to reinvent the future of energy, transportation, food, & water.

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

I am not conspiracy-minded by any stretch of the imagination; I generally believe that what can be attributed to malice is more often explained by incompetence.

However, if your objective were to systematically diminish the United States’ standing in the world, the economic, military, and political policies you would pursue would not look significantly different from many of those being pursued by the Trump administration.

Just saying 😉.

[juan @juanbuis]

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full credit to michael chu, who invented the format back in 2004 (!)

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

The Senate cannot confirm Todd Blanche on Wednesday, because Todd Blanche is actively covering up the Epstein files.

Thirty miles south of Santa Fe there are 10,000 acres called Zorro Ranch. Jeffrey Epstein owned it for a quarter century. Survivors say girls were flown there and abused there. There was a tip about girls buried in the hills, disturbing enough that the state searched with cadaver dogs this spring.

In all those years, no law enforcement agency ever searched that ranch. Not once. In 2019 the FBI raided Epstein's Manhattan townhouse and his island the week of his arrest. The ranch? Never. And when New Mexico's attorney general built his own case that year, with victim statements and suspects beyond Epstein and Maxwell, federal prosecutors called and told him to stand down. They promised to share their evidence for state charges later. His words, on the record: "I don't think that they were forthright, and I don't think that they were operating in good faith." Epstein died and the case of Zorro Ranch died with him.

This February, New Mexico tried again. A new attorney general, Raul Torrez, reopened the case: the only active criminal investigation into Zorro Ranch anywhere on earth. In March his investigators became the first law enforcement officers to ever search the property. To charge anyone still living, he needs one thing from Washington: the unredacted files. The names of victims, witnesses, and co-conspirators that are blacked out in the public release.

He asked on February 13. He asked again. And again. Five times, plus a formal legal letter, plus an attempted meeting in Washington. On June 30 he sent a letter addressed to Todd Blanche, by name: 130+ days of silence. The delay is "unreasonable under any rule of reason." And this sentence, which should be read aloud at Wednesday's hearing: "Every avenue of investigation that begins with a redacted name, a blacked-out face or an obscured date is an avenue that ends before it begins." Statutes of limitation are dying while the files sit in a building in Washington.

The man that letter is addressed to is Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General of the United States.

Before he ran the Justice Department, Todd Blanche had exactly one job: personal criminal defense lawyer to Donald Trump. Trump's PAC paid his firm nearly $10,000,000. Trump appears in more than 5,300 of the released Epstein documents. The Justice Department's own ethics chief told Blanche, in writing, in his first two weeks, to recuse himself from his former client's matters. He refused. Then he took personal control of everything Epstein.

Personal control looks like this. He flew to Florida and spent nine private hours with Ghislaine Maxwell, the only living witness who knows everything. She came out announcing Trump did nothing wrong. A week later she was moved to a minimum-security camp that Bureau of Prisons policy says sex offenders can't be in. Under oath, Blanche described it as "low-security to low-security." That is false on the Bureau's own records. She has made it public that she'll "speak fully and honestly" if she gets clemency. Think about that...

Personal control looks like this. When a 2015 DEA memo surfaced in the files tying Epstein and 14 redacted names to drug and prostitution money, about $50 million in flagged wire transfers, a senator demanded the unredacted version. The DEA administrator was ready to hand it over. Senator Wyden says Blanche personally stopped him. Blanche's response was to call a sitting senator a fabricator. The memo is still sealed today. And the 43-year-old task force that wrote it, the one that caught El Chapo? Blanche shut the whole thing down.

Personal control looks like this. His department withheld FBI interviews of a woman whose abuse allegation mentioned Trump, and quietly deleted one from the public database after release. It came back only when reporters caught it. He certified to Congress, in writing, that nothing was withheld for political reasons. A federal judge has now ruled, in the government's own words, that "the Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act." Blanche's answer to the unsealing order was to refuse and ask for 60 more days. His answer to you was: "We are not sitting on a single piece of paper."

One man sits between the Epstein files and every investigation trying to open them. That man was paid ten million dollars by the most famous name in them.

And Epstein is only the first file. The deep dive covers the rest: the tax immunity he signed for Trump's family, "FOREVER BARRED," worth $600M+, that a judge is now probing as a possible fraud on the court.

The prosecution a federal judge dismissed as vindictive, finding Blanche "started the investigation to implicate" the defendant.

The bodycam of an opposition mayor arrested "per the deputy attorney general of the United States" as the cameras were ordered off.

The armed marshals at a whistleblower's door the night before her testimony.

This is a dangerous man. Not a partisan, a dangerous man: one who has proven he will point the entire machinery of American justice at protecting a single client and burying a single story, and who is days away from owning that machinery permanently.

The hearing is Wednesday, 9am. Your two senators decide. Tag them below and ask one question: "Will you confirm the man covering up the Epstein files before the Inspector General tells you whether he lied to you?"

@SenThomTillis @SenatorCollins @LisaMurkowski @JohnCornyn @SenBillCassidy @HawleyMO: you said you had concerns. This is what they look like on paper. I'll email you the full 20 page report.

Repost so no senator can say they didn't know.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@ellencarmichael Now that Belgium wiped the mat with the best the US had to offer, do you have a rejoinder to your story?

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@MilkRoadAI Or... https://t.co/slWPv5vzoT datacenter utilization was ~11% and they need to stem their deficit spending so renting out the unused capacity made sense.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@levie Great article. I often say that with AI "the last 20% takes the other 80%". Getting to done is hard--probably because as you say, today's 90% is tomorrow's 50%, so we push against the "brittle boundary" of today's LLMs: context windows fill up, code complexity zooms up.. etc.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@vkhosla Since the industrial revolution, there's been a tension between capital and labor. Changes in the tax law since the 1980s have tilted even more in favor of capital. AI will accelerate this further: owners of the robots and datacenters will own more of the means of production.

[Max Musing @MaxMusing]

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[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

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[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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[Johannes Köpl @JohannesKoepl]

In France, a few politicians are implicated in the Epstein files. They all had to resign.

In the US, the president and half his cabinet are implicated in the files, and nothing happens.

That is the difference between the rule of law and autocracy.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇺🇸 The United States has reached a point where nothing is sacred anymore. Not the protection of children. Not public health. Not truth. Everything is processed through the same machine: us versus them. The United States now lives in two parallel realities.

During Trump’s campaign, people weaponized the idea that Biden was “in the Epstein files.” Before that, Bill Clinton was the political piñata of the same story. The pattern is the point. It is not about whether a name is mentioned. It is about how the mention is used. Not to protect citizens, not to clarify facts, not to build accountability, but to score points.

When child abuse is processed like campaign material, the moral floor is gone.

The pandemic revealed the core disorder. The U.S. could not treat a virus as a virus. It had to treat it as a referendum on identity. Vaccination became a costume. Masks became a flag. Basic epidemiology became a culture war. People were not arguing about risk. They were defending identities.

This logic does not stop at culture wars. It spreads into concrete, steel, and electricity.

Roads are not rebuilt because a win would belong to the other side. Bridges collapse while committees argue about messaging. Schools rot because fixing them might validate a rival governor. Airports feel like relics. Rail is a joke. Water systems leak. The power grid is decades past its intended lifespan. Blackouts are normalized. Wildfires burn through outdated infrastructure. Floods overwhelm systems designed for a climate that no longer exists.

Nothing moves, because movement would imply agreement.

The country that put humans on the moon cannot maintain a stable electrical grid. The nation that built the interstate highway system cannot repair its own roads. The place that once executed moon landings, mass vaccination campaigns, and continental scale engineering projects now cannot agree that children should be protected from abuse without checking which party benefits from saying so.

This is what a frozen superpower looks like.

The two party system has turned governance into permanent opposition. Every solution is framed as surrender. Every improvement is treated as propaganda. Progress itself becomes suspicious, because if something works, it must belong to them.

So the country drifts. Living on achievements from the mid 20th century. Airports from the 70s. Power lines from the 40s. Schools built for a different economy, a different century, a different social contract.

And while the physical world decays, the political class debates symbols, scandals, and loyalty tests. Reality becomes optional.

A society like this does not collapse in a single dramatic moment. It erodes. It stalls. It forgets how to do big things together. It forgets that some problems are not ideological. They are human.

When everything is politics, nothing gets built. And when nothing gets built, the future quietly cancels itself.

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[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@Microinteracti1 Your posts are a rare breath of oxygen on this site. Thank you for your perspectives.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

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[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come.  This is one of them.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@daveg @TVNewsNow @CharlesBayless @ByronYork and it's worse: Canada lost $13B in trade with the US, but made up for it with $18B in trade with China, the EU, and others. Europeans are now resolved more than ever to reduce dependence on US military procurement, sell off their holdings of US treasuries, etc.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

@adamscochran And that... is why we are where we are.

[Guido Jouret @gjouret]

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