Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.

The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.

The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein’s crimes.

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      So you assume that every dog in existence has fleas? Can’t be around any dogs whatsoever at any point for fear of getting fleas? Shitty analogy for the situation.

      Better hope none of your old friends from say high school or college that you haven’t seen for years end up being sexual predators at any point in time. Might have photos taken with them that others will see and assume you knew what was going on because you were with them. Especially if they were doing that at the time.

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      Lemmy intellectuals will attack this take, and they will also be the people who listen to the arguments from the world’s most evil people and their lawyers and say “We need to hear them out, we have a system with rules.”

      Towards a class of people who live above the rules and have no system other than wealth and power. Our “laws and rules” are designed to control the population, not the donor class, not the elite, not the ones who have never known hardship. People who can systematically abuse others for their own satisfaction are ruining whatever potential our species had, in my opinion this isn’t just an ideological or legal issue, it’s fucking existential.

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        Lemmy intellectuals

        You mean people who believe in a justice system that doesn’t randomly imprison you until you prove your innocence?

        Nah, that’s most sensible people.