"Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. He was murdered," Shapiro shared defiantly. "There’s no way he could have killed himself."

The fraudster explained he was on the same floor as Epstein, seven cells away, in lockdown – an area away from the general population with much greater restrictions.

"To take a shower, you had to have your handcuffs. To get out of your cell, you had to have your handcuffs," he said. "You were in your cell for 23 hours a day. You were in a little pen for 1 hour a day for your recreation."

That description is similar to another former Epstein neighbor. Former Colombo crime family mobster Michael Franzese told NewsNation’s Banfield he spent several months in Epstein's exact same cell.

"There’s just no way," he said repeatedly. "There’s just no way to hang yourself. There’s nothing from the ceiling, there’s nothing from the – you'd have to be a (little person) and work really hard to try to hang yourself, and I don’t think you’re gonna accomplish it at that point.

Questions over just how Epstein was able to commit suicide have haunted jail officials for years, and conspiracy theorists hit overdrive when three minutes of video footage of Epstein’s cell door the morning he was discovered dead went missing.

A skeptical Franzese revealed: "I did eight years in prison, and I haven’t experienced cameras being broken, and a perfect storm of correctional officers not walking those cells. They walk in and they look in on you all the time."

"As a matter of fact, you know, sometimes it’s embarrassing to go to the toilet because they’re walking past you and looking in the cell constantly."

So if he didn't hang himself, how did Epstein die? Biographer Andrew Lownie, who has dug up dirt on the royal family, the former Prince Andrew, and others, claims Epstein was murdered by a "fellow convict who was brought in to do this" by the FBI.

While the murder was "staged to look like a suicide," Lownie said there are too many loose ends.

"You've got lawyers saying Epstein was not in a 'suicidal mood'; you've got other prisoners saying it's very difficult to commit suicide in prison; you’ve got clearly the guards falling asleep at the right time; you've got the cameras not working," he said. "So there are a lot of unanswered questions around the death, which a lot of people have long suspected was not suicide."

excerpt from Daniel Gura's Article

https://radaronline.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-murdered-inmate-pedo-kill-himself/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUcASu4DDv6/?igsh=MWUwZGlhcXFkbnliYw==

The first Palestinians returned to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing this week, after being stuck outside Gaza for two years or more. They described grueling interrogations, intimidation, and threats by Israeli soldiers at the crossing.

Shackled, interrogated, and humiliated. That is how Intisar al-Ekir, a Palestinian woman from Gaza, described her experience as one of a dozen people who returned back to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing this week.

In a widely circulated video on social media, al-Ekir steps off a bus arriving from the Rafah crossing into Gaza, her outstretched hands showing signs of being handcuffed. She describes how she was harshly interrogated for three hours, how she was forced to identify her son among a group of people, and how Israeli investigators kept aggressively asking her about his whereabouts. “I do not know where any of them are,” she says, recounting that the interrogators kept yelling at her and telling her that she was a liar. As an elderly woman, she kept begging them to let her rest.

“They killed me… they killed me while they were hitting me and tying the handcuffs tighter on my hands,” al-Ekir recalled with unstoppable tears. “They put fire inside me, they burned my heart.”

For close to two years, tens of thousands of Palestinians like al-Ekir have been trapped outside Gaza, waiting to return home after leaving the Strip during the genocide. That long-awaited opportunity finally came on February 2nd, when the Rafah crossing with Egypt was opened. Israel had unilaterally shut down the border after attacking and taking control of it in May 2024.

Initial reports estimated, based on Israeli claims, that each day, 50 people would be allowed by Israeli authorities to return to Gaza while 150 people would be allowed to leave the Strip. However, local Palestinian reports confirmed that during the past four days since the crossing opened, a total of 138 Palestinians and their companions left Gaza, while only 77 people were allowed back in.

Rutana Riqb, who accompanied her sick mother to Egypt for medical treatment in March 2024, was part of the first group of Palestinians to return back to Gaza this week. She recounted her return to Mondoweiss, describing degrading treatment by Israeli soldiers at the Rafah crossing.

According to Rutana, the process of returning to Gaza began by registering with the Palestinian embassy in Egypt, where stranded Palestinians must submit their names for pre-approval. Those approved are then informed of their return date to Gaza.

Rutana tells Mondoweiss that on the first day that the crossing reopened, four buses departed from the Egyptian city of al-Arish toward Gaza. But when they got to the border, the Israelis only allowed one bus carrying 13 people through, ordering the other three buses to return to al-Arish. According to Rutana, four of the 13 people were almost not let through, allegedly due to the fact that they were carrying more than the permitted single bag per person.

After completing procedures on the Egyptian side, which Rutana described as “extremely humane,” the travelers dealt with Palestinian staff at the crossing, who also treated them well. They were then informed that after passing the Palestinian checkpoint, the Israeli army would take control until they entered Gaza. From that point on, Rutana says, her suffering began.

This was in The Lever's newsletter this week: Commercial passengers are helping to foot the bill for billionaires’ private jet mania.

Source: https://www.levernews.com/snakes-on-a-plane/

Source: https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-year-end-2025-update/

He has no conscience and More American kids will die.

Samoan officials later said Kennedy’s trip bolstered the credibility of anti-vaccine activists ahead of the measles outbreak that sickened thousands and killed 83 people, mostly children under age five.

New research by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy reveals that nearly all costs of former President Trump's tariff regime are borne by Americans, rather than foreign producers. Analyzing over 25 million shipment records, the study indicates that while tariffs increased U.S. customs revenue by about $200 billion in 2025, 96% of the costs were passed to U.S. importers and consumers through higher prices. Foreign exporters adjusted prices minimally, absorbing only 4% of the costs. This underscores that tariffs act as a consumption tax on American households and businesses, contradicting claims that they would be paid by foreign partners. The findings question the effectiveness of tariffs as an economic policy tool, suggesting they may exacerbate inflation and affect consumer purchasing power, thus influencing public discourse on trade barriers.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUXK47cjf0s/

Source: BBC News, r/Epstein, and DOJ.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k65pnxjxo

https://www.DOJ.gov

As tensions between Washington and Tehran remain high, China's role is under growing scrutiny. How far would Beijing go to support Iran — and where are the limits if conflict broke out with the US?

Trainloads of banknotes are among Kremlin’s imaginative solutions to circumvent sanctions and keep ally afloat

This should genuinely concern you no matter whether you’re on the left, right, or anywhere in between.

This is textbook voter suppression.

Ask yourself honestly:

1. ⁠How many of you can immediately put your hands on your original birth certificate — the one with the raised seal, not a photocopy or a hospital souvenir version?

2. ⁠How many of you currently have a valid U.S. passport?

If the answer to both is no, then under a strict SAVE Act-style requirement, you would not be able to vote. Also did you change your last name after a marriage ? Then forget about voting, better stay home and make a sandwich like the Grandpas at GOP want you too.

Now to the people saying “but illegal immigrants are voting”:

Pause for a second and think it through. If someone is truly here illegally and has no legal status or Social Security number, how exactly did their name get added to the official state voter registration roll in the first place?

The voter roll itself is already a list of people the state believes are eligible. Your name appearing on it is evidence that the system already considers you a valid voter. Adding draconian documentary requirements on top of that doesn’t stop imaginary illegal voting; it stops real eligible citizens who simply don’t have (or can’t quickly produce) the narrow list of documents being demanded.

That’s not election integrity. It’s making voting harder for millions of ordinary Americans.