What Happened Today - 10 Feb 2026
What Happened Today – 10 Feb 2026
Unredacted Epstein Files Being Viewed
Zorro Ranch, NM
Keto Diet…cures Schizophrenia (it doesn’t)
Trump’s Bridge Rant…
DOJ in Collapse
Maxwell Testimony
World Fall Out from Epstein
MAGA Propoganda on Trump “ending” his relationship in 2007
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Unredacted Epstein Files Being Viewed
The first wave of lawmakers coming out of that DOJ reading room are basically all saying the same thing: what they’re seeing behind those black bars is worse than what the public’s been allowed to see, and a whole lot of powerful men were clearly being protected. Jamie Raskin walked out and straight‑up said the Justice Department “improperly” redacted names that did not need to be hidden under any federal rule, and that what he saw makes it obvious they went way beyond what the law allows. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, who pushed the transparency law, are both saying they can already identify at least half a dozen “prominent” men whose identities were scrubbed from the public versions for no legitimate reason, and that it looks like Trump’s DOJ used redactions as a shield for the well‑connected. None of them are naming names yet, but the subtext is loud: the redactions weren’t about victims’ privacy or ongoing investigations — they were about sparing certain guys humiliation and potential criminal exposure.
The physical setup they’re describing tells you everything about how reluctant DOJ still is. The “Epstein room” is literally a little reading room with four standalone computers — four — to handle 3‑plus million pages, and only actual members of Congress are allowed in. No staff, no phones, no laptops, no copying files; they can only scroll through documents on those terminals and take handwritten notes like they’re in some Cold War archive. Raskin said after a long session he got through maybe 30 to 40 documents out of millions, and Massie pointed out that at this rate, if all 217 members who signed the discharge petition tried to read everything using four machines, it would literally take years. That’s not a serious research setup — that’s DOJ technically complying while making it as slow and painful as possible, which is exactly why Raskin called it a de facto cover‑up and said “this is what a cover‑up looks like.”
As for why they were finally forced to open the doors at all, that’s pure pressure and law. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act last year, which says DOJ has to release the files and only lets them redact for a few narrow reasons: victim privacy, child sexual abuse images, classified material, ongoing investigations, that kind of thing — not “this might embarrass some VIP.” When Trump’s DOJ first did their “big release,” they dumped millions of pages online covered in black ink, withheld roughly half the total archive, and even redacted parts that clearly referred to the exploitation of minors while leaving in stuff like random copyrighted books and software manuals. That pissed off people across the aisle — Khanna, Massie, Raskin, others — who basically said, “No, that’s not what we passed,” and demanded unredacted access so Congress could see what DOJ was hiding and whether they obeyed the law. The “compromise” the department came up with is this reading‑room setup: they keep control of the files and the pace, but they can’t stop members from seeing the names and patterns and then going back to the Hill and blowing the whistle in hearings or on the floor.
So the early read is: the people who’ve gone in there are already saying the redactions were absolutely used to shield “prominent” men, the access is set up to be as limited and slow as possible, and DOJ only agreed to this because Congress wrote a law that boxed them in and then refused to back down. What happens next depends on whether these members decide to actually use what they now know — but their initial reactions make it pretty clear that the public version of the Epstein story is still the sanitized, kid‑gloves version, and the real rot is only just starting to surface.
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Zorro Ranch, NM
Zorro Ranch has gone from being the creepy footnote in the Epstein story to its own full‑blown horror chapter, and the more that comes out, the worse it looks. This place wasn’t just some vacation property — it was a nearly 10,000‑acre compound outside Santa Fe with a 26,000‑plus square‑foot mansion, its own private airstrip, and enough isolation to make sure whatever happened there stayed off the radar for decades. Survivors have told New Mexico officials and reporters that Epstein abused teenage girls at that ranch for years, and new records in the latest document dumps show the feds actually interviewed his ranch manager back in 2007, then somehow never followed through with a real, visible search of the property like they did with his other homes.
What’s pushed Zorro Ranch back into the spotlight now is a combo of new documents and state lawmakers finally saying, “We’re done pretending this is a mystery.” One of the most sickening new pieces is a federal document that includes an email from someone claiming to have worked at the ranch, saying flat‑out that two girls were buried near the property — and that allegation has advocacy groups and legal observers demanding ground‑penetrating radar, digs, the whole thing, not just polite hearings. On top of that, you’ve got the long‑running reporting that Epstein bragged to scientists and rich guys about using Zorro Ranch as a base for his deranged eugenics fantasy — having women inseminated with his sperm so he could “seed the human race” from New Mexico, which sounds like a bad sci‑fi plot until you realize multiple award‑winning scientists and advisers all say he told them the same thing.
New Mexico lawmakers are basically calling out everyone who looked the other way. Democratic Rep. Andrea Romero and others are pushing a full “truth commission” focused specifically on Zorro Ranch: who enabled Epstein there, what state and local officials knew, how he could keep operating even after his 2008 conviction, and why he was never forced to register as a sex offender in New Mexico. Survivors told them trafficking extended to the ranch, yet Epstein kept his leases on state trust land, moved around under the radar with that private runway, and even after his death the place was quietly sold through a shell company called San Rafael Ranch LLC in 2023, with no clear sign that victims got anything from that sale. Lawmakers are now openly talking about subpoenas — including for a New Zealand couple who worked there — and making it clear they see Zorro Ranch as a symbol of how power and money let someone turn a chunk of American desert into a black site for abuse.
The bottom line is that Zorro Ranch blows up the “lone spooky island” myth. This was American soil, in a U.S. state, sitting under the noses of local and federal authorities, and yet nothing meaningful happened for years while Epstein trafficked girls, entertained rich and connected guests, and pitched sci‑fi breeding schemes to the elite. The fact that we’re only now talking truth commissions, possible graves near the property, and missed opportunities to shut it down is exactly why people look at this whole system and see a protection racket, not a justice system — because if this ranch had belonged to anyone without that level of money and connections, it would’ve been swarmed, searched, and seized a long time ago.
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Keto Diet…cures Schizophrenia (it doesn’t)
RFK going out and telling a crowd that a keto diet can “cure” schizophrenia is exactly the kind of reckless, pseudo‑scientific garbage that makes him so dangerous in charge of public health. He stood in Tennessee, pushing his new “real food” guidelines, and bragged that a Harvard doctor had “cured schizophrenia using keto diets” and that people were “losing their bipolar diagnosis” just by changing what they eat — as if decades of brutal, complicated mental illness can be fixed with steak and butter. The Harvard psychiatrist he name‑dropped, Dr. Christopher Palmer, immediately had to say: absolutely not, I never said “cure,” I’ve seen a couple of remarkable cases and I’m doing early research, but this is a metabolic intervention we’re still studying, not some magic brain detox you try at home.
Experts across the board have already smacked this down as flat‑out false and misleading. Columbia psychiatrists Paul Appelbaum and Mark Olfson, plus others, are saying the same thing: there is zero credible evidence that keto cures schizophrenia; at best, there are tiny pilot studies and a handful of case reports where some patients saw improvement, usually while still on antipsychotic meds, and we don’t have large, controlled trials yet. The actual science says keto might end up being a helpful adjunct for some people in tightly supervised, clinical settings — the way it’s been used for rare seizure disorders — not a do‑it‑yourself cure that lets you dump your meds because RFK saw a headline. Even Palmer himself is warning that when psychiatrists talk about keto, they mean a rigid, medically monitored protocol, not someone deciding to “go low‑carb” and expecting their hallucinations to vanish.
And this is exactly the pattern with RFK, which is why he’s so dangerous to Americans’ health. He takes a complicated, early‑stage scientific idea — vaccines, Covid, now metabolic psychiatry — strips out all the nuance, slaps the word “cure” on it, and blasts it to millions of people from the podium of the federal government. That isn’t harmless chatter; it’s an HHS Secretary telling some of the most vulnerable patients in the country they might not need antipsychotics if they just eat like he does, in a country where people already stop their meds because of stigma, side effects, and cost. Psychologists are already warning that promising miracle “cures” for severe mental illness leads people to mistrust real treatment, delay care, and blame themselves when diet or supplements don’t fix them — and for schizophrenia, that kind of delay can mean permanent worsening.
So when RFK does this, he’s not being “edgy” or “open‑minded about new science”; he’s doing the same thing he’s always done: laundering half‑understood research into sweeping claims, feeding conspiratorial thinking about mainstream medicine, and pushing people toward risky choices under the guise of “natural” solutions. Coming from a random podcaster it would still be gross, but coming from the guy in charge of HHS, it’s a public‑health hazard — because every time he opens his mouth like this, some desperate family hears “you don’t really need psychiatry, you just need ribeye,” and that’s how people get hurt.
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Trump’s Bridge Rant…
Trump went on an over-the-top rant where he whined that Canada has been “unfair” to the U.S. for years, mostly because of tariffs and trade rules that he thinks hurt American farmers and booze producers. He’s furious that Canada paid for and controls the new Gordie Howe bridge and basically says he’ll block it from opening unless the U.S. gets paid back and handed a big ownership stake. Then he drags China into it, claiming that if Canada gets closer to China, China will somehow “eat Canada alive” and, in his most ridiculous leap, “terminate all ice hockey” and “permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup,” which is just him trying to scare people by threatening their national sport with zero realistic way it would ever happen.
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DOJ in Collapse
What’s happening at DOJ right now feels less like a functioning justice system and more like a patch job on a building that’s already half‑collapsed, and pulling in active‑duty military lawyers to prop it up is a flashing red warning sign. You’ve got mass resignations from career prosecutors, U.S. Attorney’s Offices like Minnesota visibly hollowing out, and a Trump team that’s spent years attacking, sidelining, or punishing anyone inside DOJ who insists on following the law instead of the political script. Into that mess, they’re now flooding in JAGs — military lawyers — to do jobs that should be handled by independent civilian attorneys: special assistant U.S. attorneys in places like West Texas, New Mexico, D.C., Minneapolis, and even full‑on immigration judges deciding who gets deported.
The Pentagon has already signed off on sending up to 600 military lawyers to act as immigration judges, plus dozens more to serve as federal prosecutors, often on involuntary orders, because DOJ can’t or won’t hire and retain enough civilian lawyers to handle the caseload it created. Legal scholars and former JAGs are screaming about this for good reason: it blurs the line that’s supposed to exist between the military and domestic law enforcement, pushes right up against the spirit of the Posse Comitatus Act, and drains legal talent away from actual military justice just to keep Trump’s deportation and prosecution machine grinding along. One Army Reserve lawyer who was detailed as an immigration judge and dared to grant asylum against Trump’s wishes was booted off the bench in about a month, which tells you exactly how “independent” these military judges are allowed to be.
When people say the DOJ is collapsing, this is what they mean: instead of rebuilding a strong, nonpartisan civilian justice system, this administration is papering over the cracks with soldiers in suits, turning JAG officers into deportation judges and line prosecutors while career DOJ lawyers head for the exits. That’s not law and order; that’s the slow militarization of law enforcement and a sign that the core of the Justice Department — the piece that’s supposed to be independent of the president’s whims — is being hollowed out and replaced with people who ultimately answer to the commander in chief, not to the idea of equal justice under law.
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Maxwell Testimony
Maxwell’s “testimony” yesterday was basically a performance of silence, and the message she sent by hiding behind the Fifth was louder than anything she would have said out loud. She logged into the House Oversight deposition from that federal prison in Texas, read a prepared statement, and then, for all practical purposes, shut down — invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self‑incrimination to every real question about Epstein, the men who abused girls, the money, the co‑conspirators, all of it. Democrats came out furious, saying she provided “no information about the men who raped and trafficked women and girls,” and even Comer — who helped drag her in there — had to admit it was “very disappointing” because she answered nothing of substance.
What she did communicate, without saying it, is that she’s still trying to use her silence as leverage. Her lawyer opened by telling the committee that Maxwell would be “willing” to cooperate if President Trump grants her clemency or she’s given immunity, and Republicans actually repeated to reporters that she’s prepared to testify that neither Trump nor Bill Clinton did anything wrong — conveniently, but only after she’s freed. That’s not a woman afraid of misspeaking; that’s someone dangling what she knows as a bargaining chip: protect me, and I’ll protect you. It lines up with what we already know — she previously sat down with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, and didn’t plead the Fifth when she gave him a version of events that just so happens to clear Trump and Clinton and deny there’s any “client list.”
Legally, the whole “I might incriminate myself” routine from someone who’s already been convicted and sentenced is incredibly thin. Yes, in theory she can argue there’s still some sliver of exposure out there: her conviction is on appeal in New York, there could be additional federal charges, foreign charges, perjury traps based on inconsistencies with past statements — that’s the fig leaf her lawyer keeps waving. But the reality is, she’s already been found guilty of sex trafficking minors for Epstein, the Supreme Court has refused to touch her case, and she’s sitting on a 20‑year sentence; there isn’t some magical clean slate left to protect. When you’re at that point and still invoking the Fifth to every question, what you’re really saying is: the truth I could tell would be so explosive — for me and for other people — that I’m going to stay silent unless I’m either out of prison or fully insulated. That’s not about constitutional rights anymore; that’s about power, leverage, and a system that still hasn’t decided it actually wants all of this to come out.
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World Fall Out from Epstein
Outside the U.S., the Epstein fallout looks like what accountability is supposed to look like, and it just throws into relief how protected our own creeps still are. Across Europe, this thing is blowing up careers: Peter Mandelson, the U.K. ambassador to Washington and a longtime insider, was fired when the files showed deeper ties to Epstein than he admitted, and he’s now facing a police probe into whether he leaked sensitive government info to Epstein. Keir Starmer, who isn’t accused of anything himself, is still fighting for his political life because he appointed Mandelson in the first place; his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has already resigned over the scandal, and Starmer’s had to stand there, apologize to victims, and submit to a full‑blown leadership crisis over his judgment.
And it’s not just Britain. In Sweden and Slovakia, senior officials like Joanna Rubinstein and Miroslav Lajčák have stepped down after the files showed visits to Epstein’s island and gross emails about “gorgeous” girls, because their governments decided that alone was disqualifying. Norway’s dealing with its own political storm over links between top politicians, a crown princess, and Epstein; several countries in Eastern Europe — Latvia, Lithuania, Poland — have opened formal investigations to hunt for victims and to dig into possible connections between Epstein’s network and Russian intelligence. Poland’s prime minister literally said out loud that there’s “mounting evidence” this pedophilia operation may have been co‑organized by Russian services and ordered his government to scour the files like it’s an existential national‑security problem, because for them, it is.
Meanwhile, here in the U.S., we’ve got world leaders apologizing, resigning, and launching serious probes overseas, and at home we’re still arguing about how many black bars DOJ is allowed to slap over names. Our big “accountability” moment so far is a reading room with four computers and a convicted trafficker pleading the Fifth while politicians fight about who gets embarrassed. Trump is still president, still dodging basic questions about his Epstein ties, still leaning on a Justice Department that tried to wall off “prominent individuals” with redactions until Congress pried it open a crack, and you can feel the contrast: in other democracies, proximity to Epstein is politically radioactive; here, it’s an awkward story you try to ride out. The rest of the world is showing us exactly what it looks like when institutions decide that victims matter more than elite friendships — and the fact that our system can’t or won’t do the same is its own kind of indictment.
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MAGA Propoganda on Trump “ending” his relationship in 2007
MAGA is doing what MAGA always does: grabbing one flimsy scrap of “evidence,” stripping it of context, and blasting it all over social media as if it wipes Trump’s hands clean. The latest version is this document/claim that Trump supposedly called Epstein a “monster” back in 2007 — the idea being, “See, he hated Epstein, he threw him out, he’s the good guy here.” Even if you take the friend‑of‑a‑friend accounts at face value — that Trump eventually banned Epstein from Mar‑a‑Lago after he allegedly went after a member’s teenage daughter, that he later told people Epstein was a creep or a monster — that does not erase the years of cozy relationship before that or the evidence that contact and overlap continued well after Epstein’s crimes were public.
The timeline we actually have is messy and damning. Trump and Epstein were social for years in the 1990s and early 2000s: parties together, that gross quote where Trump says Epstein likes them “on the younger side,” flights on Epstein’s jet, Mar‑a‑Lago as a recruitment pool for girls. The “he banned him in 2007” story comes from Trump world and a couple of secondary accounts, but club and flight records show Epstein remained in that orbit into the late 2000s, and the new DOJ files reference Trump more than 1,500 times — including e‑mails, scheduling, and victim statements that don’t magically cut off just because Trump later decided to distance himself. There’s even a birthday note attributed to Trump to Epstein that’s circulated, underscoring how friendly they were, which completely undercuts the MAGA fantasy that he was always sounding the alarm about Epstein being a monster.
So when MAGA accounts start posting that Trump “called him a monster in 2007” as if that’s the end of the story, what they’re really doing is classic misdirection: cherry‑picking one late‑stage, self‑serving anecdote and pretending it erases a long, documented relationship and a mountain of unanswered questions. That’s not exoneration; that’s PR. If you see this stuff floating around on social media, don’t just scroll past it. Correct it when you can: remind people of the full timeline, the documented ties, the thousands of mentions in the files, and the fact that a guy saying “he’s a monster” after the world finds out he’s a monster doesn’t mean he was innocent all along — it just means he knew when to start rewriting his own story.
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Today is going to be another wild news day. Massie is now going directly to survivors, asking if they want those 6 names exposed — the ones that never should have been hidden in the first place. If those names come out, it’s going to set off an absolute firestorm, but it will also finally give us a slice of the transparency we were promised as Americans and never really got. Keep staying informed, keep paying attention, and keep using your voice.
Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!
Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!
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