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Let’s get to work. A searchable database is helping people wade through 3.5 million Epstein documents. Stephen Colbert responds to FCC censorship while CBS glares over his shoulder. Trump doesn’t remember a congressional candidate he endorsed. And park rangers and conservation groups bravely battle the Trump Administration to fight against the erasure of history.
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The Epstein Database Nobody’s Talking About
Finally, there’s a way to search the entire Epstein database: epsteinsearch.info.
This easily searchable database was built to help navigate the mountain of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents released by Trump’s DOJ. And when I say “mountain,” that’s not an exaggeration. The Epstein files so far released contain approximately 3.5 million documents. Without this website, most people don’t stand a chance of finding anything meaningful.
The database was created by a retired Chicago-area legal aid attorney named Barry R., who decided that the public deserved better access to this material than a raw document dump provides.
What makes epsteinsearch.info particularly useful is that it allows searches by name. Every prominent figure connected to Jeffrey Epstein — associates, clients, visitors, contacts — can be searched directly.
Trump’s DOJ is hoping to bury us in an avalanche of information so we’ll grow fatigued and stop searching for the most damning bits the administration wants to keep hidden. Take a look for yourself.
Colbert to FCC Chair: ‘FCC You’
CBS’ Trump-aligned billionaire owners are pushing back on Stephen Colbert.
On Monday, Colbert told his Late Show audience that CBS lawyers had called his team “directly” to block an interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas.
Colbert said on air he was told not only that the interview couldn’t run, but that he couldn’t even mention that the interview wasn’t running. He mentioned it anyway. The audience loved it.
CBS then responded. Today, they issued a statement saying the show was never “prohibited” from airing the interview. Instead, the network says it provided legal guidance that broadcasting the interview could trigger the FCC’s equal time rule, which would require the network to offer equivalent airtime to the other candidates in the race. CBS says the show was given options and chose to put the interview on YouTube instead.
Colbert acknowledged the explanation, but didn’t accept it gracefully.
“Well, sir, you’re chairman of the FCC. So, FCC you,” he told FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee.
He then went further, saying Trump’s administration wants to silence television criticism because Trump watches too much TV. A bit about Brendan Carr sending a “tasteful nude” got a big laugh. But behind the jokes, Colbert was making a serious point.
The equal time rule, as written, doesn’t apply to online platforms. That’s why the interview ended up on YouTube. Whether CBS was protecting itself legally or caving to political pressure, the practical result was the same: the interview didn’t air on television. And we all need to ask what CBS’ owners are so afraid of.
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Trump Can’t Remember His Own Endorsement
President Trump, who will turn 80 this year, travelled to Rome, Georgia this week ahead of a special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene resigned last month; the special election is scheduled in March.
When asked about the race on Air Force One on Monday, Trump said he still had to “choose one” from among the many candidates who wanted the seat.
The problem? He’d already picked. Nearly two weeks ago, Trump posted a full endorsement of Republican candidate Clay Fuller on Truth Social, calling him an “America First Patriot” and giving him his “Complete and Total Endorsement.”
Fuller has been running with that endorsement prominently displayed on his website ever since. He’s been posting about it constantly. Trump apparently forgot it existed.
Here’s what we can say: an endorsement from a president who doesn’t remember making it isn’t exactly a powerful one.
Suing to Save History in the National Parks
Finally, a coalition of park advocacy organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over what they’re calling a deliberate campaign to “erase history and undermine science” across America’s national parks.
The suit alleges that the administration has identified and begun removing hundreds of signs and exhibits from parks around the country. Among those targeted: an exhibit at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park memorializing the enslaved people owned by George Washington. Signage at Fort Sumter and Glacier National Park about climate threats. And a sign at Grand Teton explaining that a member of an early Yellowstone expedition had involvement in a massacre of Native Americans.
The lawsuit says the administration is running “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science” so that parks no longer reflect diverse cultural backgrounds or uncomfortable truths about American history.
This stems from a Trump executive order directing the Interior Department to remove public content that “inappropriately disparages Americans.”
In practice, this meant officials flagged information about slavery, the mistreatment of Native Americans, and climate science. The Trump regime is hoping to turn our national parks into propaganda outlets.
Among the groups suing are the National Parks Conservation Association and the Association of National Park Rangers.
“Censoring science and erasing America’s history at national parks are direct threats to everything these amazing places, and our country, stand for,” said Alan Spears of the National Parks Conservation Association. Hard to argue with that.
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