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In just the first few paragraphs of your bullshit February 7 article, @AlanRMacLeod -- see screenshot below -- there are so many preposterous canards, one after the next, it's almost incredible. I guess that's why it had to be published at "Mint Press News," although it's true that most of the "mainstream" press isn't much better. But it should really say something that the "alternative" media would sink to such revolting depths to defame Noam Chomsky. -- Jeffrey Epstein was never charged, convicted, or even credibly accused of anything to do with "pedophilia," which is defined in all the relevant medical literature as a pathology denoting sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children. I know people get extremely incensed if this term's actual definition is ever clarified, but the blithering indignation doesn't make it any less accurate. -- Epstein's plane was never named the "Lolita Express." For Christ's sake. According to all available evidence that's ever been produced, Epstein never called his plane the "Lolita Express," and his friends and associates -- Chomsky included -- never called it the "Lolita Express." This is just a recurring nonsensical myth that won't die. The salacious and cheeky "nickname" was invented by a British tabloid newspaper in 2015. -- Epstein's island was not the "location of many of Epstein's worst sex crimes." In fact, there's never been any credible evidence that any "sex crimes" ever took place on the island at all. And there's definitely never been credible evidence that any children were ever sexually "trafficked" or raped on that island. Isn't this supposed to be a giant pedophilia scandal? Aren't Epstein's "worst sex crimes" supposed to involve children? -- Chomsky's relationship with his three adult children was not damaged because of his relationship with Epstein, it was damaged after the adult children started to restrict Chomsky's access to his own financial resources, which were held in a trust that one of the adult children controlled. What damaged the relationship was the adult children's suspicion of Chomsky's second wife, Valeria, and the influence they suspected she had over him. Epstein was only brought in after the fact to help resolve the financial dispute. -- "36 survivors" never "came forward" in the Palm Beach investigation circa 2005-2008. They were aggressively tracked down first by local police, then by the FBI, and many either denied they were ever victimized by Epstein, opposed efforts to prosecute him, refused to cooperate, or acknowledged lying about their ages, telling other girls to lie, and having fake IDs. The 14-year-old, Saige Gonzales, expressly told investigators that she had lied about her age to Epstein, after an older girl, Haley Robson, who was then an adult (18-19), instructed her to lie, because it was understood by them that Epstein would believe anyone brought to the house was at least 18. And even on the one occasion Saige Gonzales went to the Palm Beach house, it was established that no overt sexual contact took place. -- The 2008 charges to which Epstein pleaded guilty did not relate to any "child sex crimes." They were prostitution charges related to sexual activity with a single 17-year-old female, who said the activity she participated in with Epstein was consensual. While consensual sexual activity with the 17-year-old was statutorily unlawful in the state of Florida, it would have been legal in a majority of US states. -- Epstein's incarceration at the Palm Beach County jail from 2008-2009 has been extensively investigated by the relevant Florida state agencies, which have produced reports you've clearly never bothered to read. Perhaps you only watched the dramatized Netflix version of the story, but Epstein was granted work release pursuant to the same criteria available to any other inmate at the Palm Beach County jail. It had nothing to do with the federal Non-Prosecution Agreement -- state and local regulations governed the terms of Epstein's incarceration, not the Feds. -- The fact that you're still repeating this bogus "belonged to intelligence" quote, a central tenet of the online Epstein folklore circa 2019 onward, just shows how little legitimate research you're prepared to do before rattling off a slew of disgraceful defamations. The quote is a nonsense quadruple-hearsay concoction of Vicky Ward, a former British tabloid trash journalist, who repackaged some gossip she heard from Steve Bannon -- himself, it turns out, a close friend of Epstein. Ward never meaningfully followed up on the supposed bombshell revelation, which was conspicuously buried in her original 2019 Daily Beast article, and she's never corrected the record in the many years since, even after Acosta has repeatedly denied ever saying this, including under oath to DOJ investigators in 2020, and as recently as September 2025 before the House Oversight Committee. Basic research into the facts and circumstances of the 2008 federal Non-Prosecution Agreement, which you've clearly never done, would also thoroughly demonstrate that this fake quote makes absolutely no sense in context; there were a host of other evidential and legal factors that went into the brokering of that federal Non-Prosecution Agreement, which you could easily learn about if you wanted to, even though it would probably be less exciting than perpetuating your sleazy little pedo-espionage fairy tale. You should be ashamed of yourself, @AlanRMacLeod, for so flippantly defaming Noam Chomsky, a 97-year-old man debilitated by a stroke, based on such catastrophically poor journalism and research, which proves nothing except your own laughably impoverished knowledge of this issue. But of course, that didn't stop you from spewing the defamatory garbage. If you had any shame, you'd take down this repulsive article -- but no one should hold their breaths for that, because freely spewing fact-devoid idiocies is par for the course with this topic, and richly rewarded by the hysterical-slop algorithm. Anyone who wants reality-based information can start here: compactmag.com/article/noam-c… mtracey.net/p/chomsky-was-…

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work today. texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor…

ICE agents aren't Disney villains. They're our neighbors, friends, and loved ones. These immigration and customs enforcement officers are red-blooded American patriots doing a tough job to keep our nation safe. Assaults against ICE are up 1,300%. I stand with @DHSgov.