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[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@Reuters He’s got the mentos & coke stockpiled and ready for immediate deployment

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Cool story. On a related note, here's a pic of The Atlantic's owner with Ghislaine Maxwell.

[Brandy Bryant 🏳️‍⚧️ @InkMasterbator]

This 1,000% confirms the pedo accusations are legit.

[Old Lady Brain 🩸 @oldladybrain]

In 2010, a billionaire from Iowa bought his girlfriend a gift.

A 240-foot yacht. Five decks. A helipad.

And something most people wouldn't notice: a compartment beneath the waterline.

Big enough for a submarine.

They named it Plan B.

His name was Ted Waitt. He'd built Gateway computers into a billion-dollar company. He was wealthy, recently divorced, and interested in ocean conservation.

Her name was Ghislaine Maxwell.

And over the next two years, something strange happened.

Waitt donated ten million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.

Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in August 2010.

Within months, she was speaking at the United Nations. At TED conferences. At events where world leaders gathered.

She'd launched a nonprofit called TerraMar. Its mission: protecting international waters—the sixty-four percent of the ocean that belongs to no country.

No coast guard patrols there. No customs. No jurisdiction.

And for private submarines? No required logs.

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Between 2012 and 2017, TerraMar gave out zero dollars in ocean conservation grants.

The organization spent less than nine hundred dollars total.

But on tax returns, TerraMar claimed it owed Ghislaine Maxwell over half a million dollars.

Meanwhile, Maxwell was getting certified. Submarine pilot. Helicopter pilot. Deep-sea vehicle operator. Emergency medical technician.

She posted photos of herself diving. "Cleaning ocean trash," she said.

But why would a socialite spend years learning to pilot submarines?

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In 2019, drone operators flew over a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The island belonged to Jeffrey Epstein.

The footage showed something most people had missed: a structure on the coastline. Hidden. Leading underground.

Engineers who analyzed it said it looked like an entrance to a docking facility.

For boats. Or submarines.

People could arrive underwater. In international waters, where no country watches. No manifests. No customs forms. No record.

And then walk through that entrance as if they'd never been there at all.

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On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested at an airport in New Jersey.

Six days later—July 12, 2019—TerraMar announced it was closing.

Immediately. No explanation. Website went dark. Phone disconnected.

Why would an ocean charity need to shut down the moment Epstein was arrested?

Maxwell disappeared. For a year, the FBI couldn't find her.

In July 2020, they located her hiding in New Hampshire. She was convicted in December 2021.

But in July 2025, something unusual happened.

Maxwell was moved from a harsh federal facility in Florida to a minimum-security prison in Texas. The kind with outdoor recreation. No bars. Regular clothing.

Inmates call it "Club Fed."

Why is someone convicted of what she did getting transferred to the most comfortable federal prison in the system?

Congressional investigators asked. The Justice Department declined to comment.

And here's what no one can find:

The logs for Plan B's submarine.

Private submarines don't require the same documentation as aircraft. If someone used that submarine to move between international waters and that island, there'd be no record.

The FBI won't say if they ever looked.

Ted Waitt sold the yacht in 2014. He's never spoken publicly about Maxwell. He declined all interview requests after her arrest.

So the questions remain:

How many people used that submarine?

How many walked through that underground entrance and then went back to their normal lives?

And why—after everything Maxwell was convicted of—is she now in the most comfortable prison in America?

There's something in the newly released FBI files. Something about that nine-hour meeting in July 2025. Something about what Maxwell knows.

And something about why powerful people might want to keep her comfortable.

(Full investigation—including the blackmail attempt, what happened to the billionaire, and why her father died on a yacht named after her—continues in first comment.)

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A list of countries that currently have mail-in voting:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Zimbabwe

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Women have the right not to undress in front of men at work.

Twenty years ago, that sentence would have been a statement of such obviousness that people would have laughed at you for saying it aloud. Now it's a matter for celebration. Congratulations, you heroines 🎉😘👏

[Alina Sarnatska @ASarnatska]

This image shows an official leaflet issued by the Russian Orthodox Church and addressed to the civilian population of russia.

One sentence is highlighted in red:
“Your task is to erase the Ukrainian nation from the face of the earth.”

The text frames genocide as a moral obligation, presenting hatred and violence as a “spiritual duty.”

[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@HorrorCalendar shameless rip-off of the 28YL trailers...

[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@Collider I'll save you guys the click, it's

Anne Frank: Hot Nights On The 'Dam

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Jan. 6 participant @PamHemphill79, who refused Trump’s pardon:

“Once I got away from the MAGA cult and started educating myself about January the 6th, I knew what I did was wrong...I am guilty…I had fallen for the president’s lies."

[FactPost @factpostnews]

January 6th participant: You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent. Don't come to me with that ever again.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@TheMicheleWojo

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

stuff like this is part of why I generally prefer movies to TV— a film is, in most ways, ONE artistic statement. It has a unity. A show is a group project that can warp over time to become something else, and sometimes something worse

[Words @itswords_]

Note for 2026

[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@bryan_johnson Have you thought about just.......dying?

It would totally cut out all this middle-man stuff and *technically* defeat the aging process like you promised.

(Bonus: all that hair dye money could be gifted to friends/family members)

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

🚨At the same time as el-Fattah is apologising ‘unequivocally’, over on Arabic Facebook he is liking posts claiming he’s just the victim of a 'Zionist campaign'.

Get this disgusting man out of our country now.

[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@TheOnion This cut a little too close to home. (Still love you, though)

[Paddy @wpaddypaterson]

@Oirisheye imagine if they had included the deleted stuff!