Collateral Damage!

      The ICE invasion causes much collateral damage. Many residents, here legally, are afraid to leave their houses. Consequently house construction is lagging for lack of workers. Many restaurants are short of workers, especially minority owned, and many have had to close. Numerous students are too afraid to attend school, so they are missing out on learning. School districts' reimbursement is tied to pupil days so, with many students staying home, the districts are suffering financially. 

   On and on it goes, all to keep orange man from facing up to the Epstein Files.

Takk for alt,

Al

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.

Heather Cox-Richardson

"As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released. As Herb Scribner of Axios explained, the documents are available from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on computers in the DOJ building in Washington, D.C. The lawmakers cannot bring electronic devices into the room with them, but they are allowed to take notes. They must give the DOJ 24 hours notice before they access the files.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the DOJ to release all the Epstein files by December 19. Only about half of them have been released to date, and many of them are so heavily redacted they convey little information. After members of Congress complained, on Friday, January 30, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said they could see the unredacted documents if they asked.

In a letter dated the next day, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) immediately asked for access on behalf of the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, saying they would be ready to view the files the following day, Sunday, February 1.

After viewing the files briefly yesterday, Raskin told Andrew Solender of Axios that when he searched the files for President Donald Trump’s name, it came up “more than a million times.” Raskin suggested that limiting members’ access to the files is part of a cover-up to hide Trump’s relationship with the convicted sex offender, a cover-up that includes the three million files the DOJ has yet to release despite the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. One of the files he did see referred to a child of 9. Raskin called it “gruesome and grim."