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Julie K. Brown, the award-winning Miami Herald reporter who unraveled the massive Epstein story, thinks Maxwell will be "successful" in securing some form of reprieve"whether a commutation or a pardon"for her close involvement in her onetime boyfriend's years-long scheme to sexually exploit and abuse young girls.
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Since you are A Friend, here's an invitation to brush up on your physics:
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Because ridicule is a terrible thing to waste; one should be completely prepared to defend it as unquestioningly deserving.... that's what happened to the New Atheist movement, you know; they died a fairly sudden death from their own 'edgy' snark.
Agnostics, and even atheists like Bryan Appleyard were disgusted by it.
"Broadly speaking, as the title suggests, the solution is scientific. But Rees is no believer in scientism, the idea that science is the only route to all the truth of the world, especially when it is reinforced by the cult of the New Atheism championed by the likes of Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. Some of the NAs " "small-time Bertrand Russells", he calls them " stirred up trouble at the Royal Society.
He responded that the RS should be secular but not anti-religious and, as evidence, he supplies a beautiful quote from Darwin, the greatest hero of the NAs, on atheism:
"The whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe as he can."
Amen to that."
"Here is why I believe this. She is the woman who knows too much," Brown wrote on her Substack on Thursday.
"And there are indications she has the goods to spill details about Epstein's crimes and those who helped him or participated in them. This means there [are] some nervous and powerful men out there."
In the email dated Oct. 19, 2025, Maxwell references Leon Black, a Wall Street billionaire and longtime Epstein client who has been accused of sexual abuse by multiple women. He has denied any wrongdoing.
"Send Leon's emails etc stuff to Leah," Maxwell wrote, referring to her friend and lawyer Leah Saffian. "Of course it is in the papers from Congress too. One day the spigot will dry up."
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"I am shocked that some of my former Republican colleagues on the Oversight Committee are supporting pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell," former Georgia firebrand Marjorie Taylor-Greene said.
"The Epstein survivors are adamantly against her receiving a pardon as she was one of their main abusers next to Jeffrey Epstein and they say she is a serial liar."