More truth telling...IJS
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on Earth isn’t because we can't feed the poor. It's because we can't satisfy the rich. - James Talarico
Quite new to see russian forces using net throwers to take down Ukrainian ISR drones.
Previously, we have seen a lot of that against static airborne quadcopters.
BREAKING: “JANE DOE” IN EPSTEIN CASE IDENTIFIED! Woman behind massive $72.5 MILLION lawsuit reveals her identity for the FIRST TIME – and tells how she escaped Epstein’s “CULT!”
For more than a year, the Epstein survivor at the center of a massive lawsuit against Bank of America was known to the public only as “Jane Doe.” Now she has a name and a face.
Julia Molchanova, 37, has revealed her identity for the first time in a blockbuster new Wall Street Journal investigation – telling the harrowing story of how Jeffrey Epstein ensnared her when she was just 22 years old.
Molchanova was a young Russian design student who spoke little English when she met Epstein by chance on a New York City street in 2011. He offered to help her get into the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Instead, Molchanova says, he sexually abused her and pulled her into a nightmare that consumed years of her life.
“It was like a cult,” Molchanova told the Journal. “He was very manipulative.”
Epstein controlled what she wore, how long she kept her hair, which doctors she saw, whom she spent time with and how she spent her money, she says. He even had a company put in her name without telling her and used it for financial transactions she didn’t understand and he didn't explain.
Then, in early 2019, Molchanova discovered credit cards and spending she didn’t recognize and started demanding answers.
She wanted to see her tax returns, wanted out of the company and finally confronted Epstein, telling him she wanted to “have my normal life.”
Epstein summoned her to Palm Beach, but Molchanova was terrified to go. “I thought for sure, at that moment, someone would find me on the bottom of his pool if I go." Shortly after, Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
Molchanova went on to become “Jane Doe,” the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit accusing Bank of America of knowingly helping Epstein maintain the financial network serving his sex-trafficking operation despite glaring warning signs.
The bank denied wrongdoing, but agreed to pay $72.5 MILLION to settle the case. The money will go to dozens of Epstein survivors.
Molchanova also pointed to the institutional failure that allowed Epstein to evade justice before he lured her into his web, despite his earlier prosecution for sexually abusing girls.
“The man was supposed to be in jail,” Molchanova told WSJ. “It was the system that failed us.”
That may be the most important line in her entire story.
The payout is a major victory for Epstein’s survivors. But no settlement can start to answer all of the questions that still surround one of the most disturbing sex-trafficking scandals in modern American history – or explain how a wealthy, well-connected predator was allowed to operate for so long.
The Epstein files cannot be allowed to quietly disappear from public attention. Molchanova’s story puts a human face on what is at stake: a young woman who says Epstein controlled her body, her money and her life, who became so frightened of him that she believed answering his summons could get her killed.
She escaped. She fought back. She helped win $72.5 million for his survivors.
Now the world knows her name.
A Federal judge has ruled that the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Michael Jeffries 82 is competent to stand trial in October of 2026 for charges of running an International sex trafficking and prostitution ring got young male models.
Great to be in Cloquet this morning for a Labor Day Parade!
Today is about recognizing the workers who build and strengthen our state – and I’m proud to have the endorsement of so many of the unions that keep our state moving forward.
As Governor, I will continue standing up for workers’ rights and for the idea that everyone who works hard should be able to get ahead.
🚨 BREAKING: Trump steps off Marine One after raging against Canada, looking CHAOTIC and FRIED. He seems to snap at the pilot, forgets the traditional salute to the marines right in front of him, fumbles his jacket, and walks like a zombie.
Something is terribly off. Damn.
Texas woman ready to call ICE on Dollar Tree employee—for speaking Spanish.
"Speak English!" she yells.
"You're in my America!"
"I'm not being racist... this is my space and I'll slap the crap out of you!"
Woman filming was another customer in line who stood up for employee.
"America has no official language," she responds.
Incident occurred at a Dollar Tree location in Texas.
Steamed Bunny doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
Trump wants to be able to say, ‘I ended the war in Ukraine,’ which, as we know, would be total bullshit.
Any limited ceasefire would be exactly that, limited. It wouldn’t end the war; it would simply give Trump something he could sell as a diplomatic victory before the midterms.
It’s a dangerous moment because Putin needs Trump politically, and both men could benefit from the appearance of peace without delivering the reality, something I already wrote about.
https://t.co/S5KbKbsoLx
Hundreds marched to Peter Thiel's house to read him an “eviction notice”, calling for him to leave Argentina and close his businesses. They cited water use & land purchases for AI infrastructure, Palantir, and the Súper RIGI bill, which they said is written to facilitate AI data-centre projects.
The stupidity of MAGA never ceases to amaze. These dumbfucks are treating an NBC clip of Trump talking as empirical proof their Dear Leader was at Ground Zero. 😂
The record is simple: Trump was never documented at the actual Ground Zero pile in the days immediately after 9/11. The verified appearances — photo-ops and TV interviews — were a few blocks away.
What's beyond the pale is that 25 years later the serial lying sociopath is still claiming he went down there to clear rubble and sent hundreds of his own workers to help. Investigative reporting and New York Fire Department officials have found zero evidence he ever entered the restricted pile or took part in first-responder efforts. ZERO.
Early ballots are already in motion in some states. The fight over the mail-voting rule is not.
Tell your Representatives to shut the loophole before they reopen it.
https://t.co/DrMektxq36
A residential area in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is on fire tonight after Russia struck the city with nearly a dozen missiles. Ukrainian PATRIOT systems, low on ammunition, are conducting intercepts.
Additional Russian cruise missiles are now entering Ukrainian airspace.
Kyiv. This is how russian ballistic missiles rained down on the capital today — a city of more than 3 million people.
russia is a terrorist state.
Enough pretending you don’t see it.