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✍️“Epstein Update” Edition

And a measles update, as well

Feb 11, 2026
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Rep. Ro Khanna marched onto the House floor this week to do what the Justice Department apparently couldn’t manage with three million pages and a black Sharpie: read names out loud.

After he and libertarian co-star Thomas Massie peeked at unredacted Epstein files, they discovered that several “wealthy, powerful men” had been discreetly hidden behind thick DOJ censorship bars. Khanna, invoking the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause like it’s a congressional invisibility cloak, decided to skip the suspense and just drop the names into the Congressional Record.

Meanwhile, Rep. Jamie Raskin told Axios on Tuesday that when he typed President Trump’s name into the unredacted Epstein files, it popped up “more than a million times”—which is either a staggering statistic or totally on-brand.

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