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Giants Co-Owner Steve Tisch Says His Creepy Emails With Jeffrey Epstein Were About “Adult Women”

Giants Co-Owner Steve Tisch Says His Creepy Emails With Jeffrey Epstein Were About “Adult Women”

The United States Department of Justice on Friday released another batch of files from its investigation into sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Included in these latest files are several emails between Epstein and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, in which Epstein appeared to be scouting girls for Tisch.

Like a lot of the sad, old rich men who ended up Epstein's orbit, Tisch seems to have reached out to the infamous sex criminal for romantic assistance. All of the emails between Tisch and Epstein that were released in this batch of documents were sent in 2013, when Tisch was 63 years old, and five years after Epstein pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges.

On April 26, 2013, Tisch wrote an email to Epstein with a subject line of "Ukrainian Girl":

McSweeney’s
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A Daughter Goes Through Her Dead Millennial Father’s Storage Unit

Why the hell did he save so many Funko Pops? “Dr. Ian Malcolm with His Shirt Open.” “Homer Simpson in a Muumuu.” He’s got two Green Power Rangers, one with the Dragon Dagger and one without. A lot of these say COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVE, which probably makes them more valuable? Alt...

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Privacy Telecom ‘Cape’ Introduces ‘Disappearing Call Logs’ That Delete Every 24 Hours

Usually telecoms keep customer's call and text logs for months if not years.

The Texas Observer
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A Reporter’s Religious Quest in Houston Suburbia

In Hindu folklore, the goddess Durga appears with her dark eyes serene, wearing a billowing scarlet sari, and riding atop a lion as she battles the half-beast, half-human demon Mahishasura, who seeks world dominance. For nine long days and nights, Durga manifests in different forms, her power growing with each, to prevail where male gods […]

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Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Bob Dunn

On Being Flexible

Over the years there has been one single piece of advice I have given small business owners and freelancers.

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How Identity Literally Changes What You See (with Samuel Bagg)

Joseph speaks to Samuel Bagg about all the ways identities dictate what people see, and how what they choose to believe is based much more on those identities than the evidence in front of them.

WIRED
Text • Simon Hill

3 Best Floodlight Security Cameras (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Light up and secure your driveway, backyard, or porch with a floodlight security camera.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Max Liu

S3 is the new network: Rethinking data architecture for the cloud era

A bearded man sitting at a computer with cloud servers floating behind him.

For decades, distributed databases have been built around the assumption that storage will live close to compute. The farther data

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WIRED
Text • Luigi Mastrodonato

ICE and Qatari Security Forces at the Winter Olympics Put Italians on Edge

The influx of security personnel from around the world is sparking concern among Italians ahead of the Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

WIRED
Text • Boone Ashworth

How to Watch the 2026 Winter Olympics

Chill out and watch all the hockey, skiing, and skating competitions through the whole month of February.

WIRED
Text • Giulio Zoppello

5 Movies You Must Watch Before the 2026 Winter Olympics

Want to get warmed up to watch a bunch of cold competition? Here are five films you should watch right now, from I, Tonya to Cool Runnings.

WIRED
Text • Daniele Polidoro

Your Complete Guide to the 2026 Winter Olympics

From medals to mascots, schedules to slopes—here’s everything you need to know to be ready for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

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Can Trump Force Blue Cities to Cooperate With ICE?

Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, traveled to Minneapolis a few days ago with a message: the faster local officials cooperate with federal immigration agents, the faster those agents will leave. Hamed Aleaziz and Ernesto Londoño, New York Times reporters, explain why...

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
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Trump Tirade over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits

Donald Trump appears in deep denial about how widely hated his ICE raids have become. He let out a strange, rambling tirade to reporters about how the “silent majority” is still behind what ICE is doing, bizarrely citing approval of the raids among his own Whi...

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Scripting News: Monday, February 2, 2026

Monday, February 2, 2026
I have an array built into every app I do, on server or in the browser, called snarkySlogans. When I need a bit of text to test with I just choose a random snarky slogan. They are little truths that have occurred to me over the years. You're free to steal this code, they do come in handy at times. There's a snarky slogan to cover that -- "Only steal from the best." Another one I really like: "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right."#

Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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EPSTEIN: HOW TO PEACEFULLY END TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY.......TODAY - 2.2.26

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 55: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: So would you like to collapse the Trump Regime? Today? Peacefully? Legally?  You - the White House press corps. It only takes one of you. You go into the next Oval Office Scrum, and you ...

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The UT tower as we’re heading back from Blade Runner Live. Don’t think I had ever been to a movie or video game in concert before, but always wanted to. Great movie and great music.

Simon Carstensen
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Starting IndieAuth

Today I'm beginning work on IndieAuth endpoints for Jottit. The goal is to let people publish to their Jottit sites from any Micropub client, whether that's web apps, mobile apps, or desktop tools. IndieAuth is OAuth 2.0 for the open web. Users authenticate with their own do...

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Why did we need all those programming languages?

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Imagine building blocks to assemble your own social web app. A toolkit you could plug into your bot.