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We've got a dot hint to today. But first, an announcement. Your first beautiful bastard drop at 2026 just went live and I listen to you. A lot of you said that you wanted pieces I felt kind of more rooted in everything that we're experiencing right now. So that's exactly what we did. You get nine new pieces across T's and long sleep crews, police state of America, Honesty before loyalty, because that's really what we need more of.

Stay rooted, resist, America in distress, truth is a lonely road, better a weed than a trained rose and more and more and more, including if you just want to say I'm about to fucking lose my sanity. All now available for you at beautifulbatch.com, top links in the description and comments, but that's said, we have so much we've got to break down today, starting with this. Trump's DOJ is exposing victims, protecting the perpetrators, possibly including Donald Trump himself,

and still failing to meet its legal obligation to release all of the Epstein files.

That's what you have so many people saying right now after the department has released another 3.5 million pages of of documents along with 2,000 videos and 180,000 images more than one month after the December 19th deadline set by the Epstein-Files Transparency Act. While Trump officials claim that they have now fully complied with the law, survivors, lawmakers, and watchdog groups say that they're withholding roughly half of the records being held by the government. Right in that, it's not even the only way that the law may have been broken. The Epstein Files Transparency Act tasked the government with releasing the files, but also with protecting the victims. Right, which was also one of the DOJ's original excuses for refusing to release the files, even as survivors called for their release. And when the department published this new batch of files on Friday, They claimed that more than 500 attorneys and reviewers had contributed to this effort.

But those files, when they were released, they contained the full names of dozens of victims as well as nearly 40 unredacted nude images of young women and possibly teenagers.

Those photos appearing to be part of a personal photo collection, some seeming to have been taken on Epstein's private island and the bodies and faces of people in them, they were fully visible. And then as far as the names,

according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, several women's full names appeared more than a hundred

times in the files, including more than two dozen who were minors when they were abused. You also

have some files hiding someone's name, but then a duplicate file is somewhere else, making the name

public. And some, they had personally identifying details such as bank information and home addresses posted without redactions as well. Right. And overall, you had lawyers representing more than 200 victims saying that they reported thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors whose lives have been turned upside down by the DOJ's latest release. Right. had to ask federal judges to order the immediate take-down of the Justice

Department's entire Epstein Files' website, writing a letter saying the DOJ committed what may be

the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history.

And saying it is no longer ethical, moral, or responsible to attempt to remedy these violations

through DOJ's torturously tedious game, saying this was never a complex undertaking

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