1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

January 31, 2026 - 20:33 UTC

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Now see Heer!
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The Venn diagram for everyone mentioned in this thread (and there's a lot of names) for the 3 categories of:
Jewish
Epstein associate
Reactionary centrist

Is a single circle with only 2 exceptions (apart from the 3 names she wants to shut down who are none of the above).
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It is truly shocking how Bari’s network has SO many friends of Epstein, and how she’s been trying to signal boost so many of them 🤔

As an aside: Am left of center here. We don’t want any of these people.
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Coming this fall to CBS: Law & Order - Sexy Victim Unit, starring Rob Schneider.
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Epstein was murdered
Trump is a serial pedophile
Melania is a whore who married a pedophile for money
Trumps kids were involved and attended pedo parties
Most of the upper US government is staffed with pedophiles who are being blackmailed by Putin.
We are witnessing the end of sanity.
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Given that trump was to the left of Hillary this is surprising
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pity engagement here: what a stupid thing to type out and then hit reply
do you also believe in donald the dove?
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From the Tiffany Network to the Epstein Network.
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Harper's letter signatory says what?
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May she expose them all, and may we remove them from society forever
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Niall Ferguson is a nasty waste of skin but a lot of those mentions are like automated news digests just referring to his books - I checked because I have my Suspicions about the guy. he really sucks but the whole story is so outlandish every exaggeration will be used to undermine the truth
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Toxic patriarchal bargaining always harms other women, but those benefiting from the arrangement don’t care.
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Re: Peter Attia

bsky.app/profile/robvo.bsky.social/post/3mdqaz27xi22f
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2. Let's lay out the connections. Weiss' partner and ideological collaborator Nelli Bowles was on very familiar terms with Epstein.
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Without commenting on your overall point, I think accuracy is important - Nellie Bowles reported on Epstein pretty negatively. Also, she’s Weiss’s *wife*.
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You do not gotta hand it to them but they met like once, c'mon
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Hey aren't you pretty tight with Noam Chomsky? I hear he was one of Epstein's pals.
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I’ve noticed a lot of emails from a variety of individuals have substitute an equal sign “=“ for certain letters in certain words. It’s weird. Is it an artifact of producing these documents for the public or is there some reason powerful people do this in their emails?
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3. Announcing her plans for CBS, Weiss said she wants to marginalize the radical right and left while elevating charismatic centrist voices such as Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's former lawyer and crony.
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Not at all a defender of Bari but this list is already off the rails in point #2. I'd be happy to rake Bowles over the coals but she was doing a disparaging story on Epstein and wrote about those exact emails in the article. So it's a stretch to put her in the Epstein associates camp.
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wife! Nellie Bowles is Weiss’s wife
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This isn't really fair. Nelli Bowles contributed to NYT coverage on Epstein and wrote about emailing with him bsky.app/profile/clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social/post/3mdqnbzx3jc2w
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Just how many Harper’s letter signatories are in the files?
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You associate with Bari Weiss as a Harper Letter signatory.
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It’s even more clear now that Bari Goebbels Weiss’s CBS should be renamed Pae*dophile Network
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Apparently, Bari Weiss's wife, Nellie Bowles, is in the Epstein Files 17 times.
bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3mdqa3xmyps2a
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It's difficult for me to take Weiss seriously. She looks and sounds like a grad student, high on her own supply. The woman has no sense of style. Get a grown up hair cut at least!
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“Reactionary centrism” is not a term recognized in political science. It’s an internet trolling term. You used to be a serious intellectual. Jeesh.
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bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3ldz2new6ck2s
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Uh you buried the lede, the important email is the one showing that she knew Epstein was a rapist on par with Cosby!
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This right here. They all knew. They all knew and didn’t care.
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So it's just like they did it the first time around too? Like. The cohesion and weird synergy between like the Infowarsy, 4channy, anonymous yet always weirdly white supremacist aiding groups and the "mainstream"?
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Oh boy fresh Jeet
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A new Jeet Skeet!
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Heer we go!
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She recently interviewed Woody Allen. WA also wrote about Diane Keaton for The Free Press.
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Bari Weiss is continuing the work Jeffrey Epstein himself would be doing if he were alive
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i think weiss is a rather banal authoritarian personality type, she’s one of the 35~40% of society that just reflexively supports it, she probably tells herself it’s because of ‘fill in the blank’ rationalizations, but it’s just a bunch of bs she uses to give herself a permission structure
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Didn't she actually say something along the lines of "We have our differences, but we all want lower taxes"?
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it’s what all authoritarians do, “X” is really bad so we have to do this evil vile shit to fight “X”
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Centrism is compatible with her support for the fascist ethnic cleansing zionist settler project. She’s fine with stuff like that as long as it happens over there and does not affect her personally. Centrists love to support just the right amount of exploitation, just the right amount of deaths etc.
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Hey Jeet, been a while since you seemed to stay on Twitter. Did you ever apologize for signing the Harper's Letter, the key text of 2020s reactionary centrism, alongside Bari Weiss and most of her fellow travelers?

Good analysis otherwise though!
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It is indeed a remarkable display of unselfconsciousness
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www.thenation.com/article/society/harpers-letter-free-speech-trump/tnamp/
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The whole modern anti-trans movement WAS brought on about by Jeff's cronies, so anyone supporting that movement IS supporting the sick fucks and his buddies, soooo
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It appears her idea of "centrist" is "rabid Zionist."
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So when will we find out Larry Ellison is in there?
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Are you capable of taking a step back from this thread & realizing how flimsy & absurd these connections you're trying to make clearly are? I'm being serious. I recall seeing threads exactly like this on Twitter years back, from the Epstein truthers on the far right. Now we get it from the far left.
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Looking at the rundown for tomorrow's Face The Nation it looks like Margaret Brennan's been given a gag order regarding the Epstein File drop this werkend
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She’s a willing accomplice.
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Love it when Jeet Heer posts a thread on BlueSky. I wish he would do it more. I can't stand X.
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I would
Agree with this were it not for the fact Weiss does not have the crusty college jock with a crusty sock energy Epstein has and rich old guys trust, and thus cannot get rich old guys to look her way
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Bari Weiss to give Noam Chomsky Andy Rooney's old spot on 60 Minutes.
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Chomsky is unable to speak these days, due to a stroke.
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You've got some bare-faced fucking cheek.
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Much clearer to frame as an Israeli
media control op. They’re all known or suspected israeli agents.
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Gotta stop you there buddy - before you explain anything else, can you explain signing the Harper’s Letter?
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Thank you. I couldn't remember why I unfollowed.
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disappointing to learn he signed it actually. damn
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I had forgotten about that particular piece of shit.

Yeah let's hear it, buddy
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Fuckin' co-signed. The fact that this was posted as if they didn't materially contribute to the current situation is horrific.
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Bari is like Forrest Gump but instead of appearing in every photo and landmark historical moments, she is appearing in every ill conceived scandal of the last 10 years.
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