Survivors are forcing a reckoning that political actors can’t outrun.
The paper trail is larger—and more compromised—than officials want anyone to grasp.
Every attempt to contain the scandal exposes new rot in the system that protected Epstein.
Rick Wilson and Julie K. Brown — the Miami Herald investigative journalist whose reporting is widely credited with forcing the Epstein case reopened in 2018 — start from hard-earned clarity: this moment isn’t about legal timelines or bureaucratic process, it’s about power scrambling to outrun accountability. The week’s theatrics from DOJ leadership signal a strategy built on delay, selective disclosure, and the fantasy that public attention can still be managed, but the Epstein survivors’ PSA shattered that illusion by reminding the country what’s actually at stake.
The real tension isn’t partisan; it’s between those trying to resurrect impunity and those insisting the truth, in all its messiness, finally belongs to the public. What hangs over the conversation is the uncomfortable fact that the system failed at every level—prosecutors who walked away, officials who stayed quiet, and political actors now pretending not to understand the very laws they spent careers invoking. This moment lands differently because the excuses no longer hold, and the people who were ignored for decades refuse to fade back into the shadows.
Tune in for this urgent conversation with Julie K. Brown.
MAGA Logic: If Trump Did It, It Wasn’t a Crime
By now, most of us know there’s no bottom for Congressional Republicans—or Senate Republicans for that matter. There’s not even a basement. “Grab ’em by the pussy” didn’t do it. January 6 didn’t do it. Hell, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative fever dream that gutted Medicaid and gift‑wrapped the country for corporations—didn’t even get a side‑…
