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Amy Wallace says the FBI and DOJ have the list. Twenty abusers. Zero accountability. How long will we tolerate this cover-up? When Emmett Till's mother lifted the veil from her son's mutilated body in 1955, she forced America to face itself. She knew that if the nation could see what had been done to her child, it could no longer pretend innocence. That open casket was a moral explosion: it turned private grief into a public reckoning. The same courage is needed now. Amy Wallace, the co-writer of Virginia Giuffre's memoir Nobody's Girl, has said she knows the names of the men who raped and trafficked children with Jeffrey Epstein. She says the FBI — and, presumably, its director Kash Patel — knows the names of those men.

He's learning what every would-be king learns: fear works only until people remember who they are… Trump and his people, with all their strut and swagger, want you to think he's the most powerful man in America and will continue in power indefinitely. Don't believe it. The reason he's rushing so hard and fast to spread his secret, masked police across American cities while mobilizing the military against civilians is precisely because he's so extraordinarily weak.

Friedrich August von Hayek studied at the knee of Mises during what Mises called his “private seminars” in the offices of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce on that city’s Ringstrasse (Grand Boulevard) between 1920 and 1934. Out of this developed both a lifelong friendship, the formation of the Mont Pelerin Society, and the new economic religion of neoliberalism. By 1940, the year Mises emigrated to the US, Hayek had also fled the Nazis, although he’d moved to London (he became a British citizen in 1938) which was then being regularly bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe. As the bombing campaign, the Blitz, became more aggressive that year Hayek began to seriously worry about the possibility a bomb could kill his children. This was a turning point for his family and he thought that America, daily becoming more egalitarian and leading the world out of the Republican Great Depression with FDR’s New Deal, would offer them the best opportunities.