Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.

The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.

The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein’s crimes.

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        It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn’t evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn’t damning by itself.

        Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.

        Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.

        Context is important, and that’s why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.

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        Imagine if Trump, Clinton, Gates and all the other high profile people implicated in this actually got arrested. It wouldn’t just change the nation, probably change the world given who all had dealings with Epstein.

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      The girl’s hands in the picture with Bill Gates gives me the worst feeling, they look anxious, I don’t know why, they just do.

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        it’s the tense closed body language, it looks very much like an “i do not fucking want to be here or near this person, i am trying to cover my private areas inconspicuously, do not fucking touch me”

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    4 months ago

    What does the foot say?

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    The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body.

    Great.

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      Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book…:

      She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.

      Which in the book continues with…;

      She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

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      Top one looks like it’s from an intermediate level quantum mechanics lecture. Less sure about the bottom one as it’s generally less legible but it looks like it’s dealing with probability density functions of some kind to me.