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Extra! Extra! 3/8

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QSz6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff77f594e-6606-41d3-a0d0-47208fab47b5_1488x1348.jpeg) Spotted in Jay Kuo’s “[Just for Skeets and Giggles](https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-skeets-and-giggles-3726).” Hi, all, and happy Sunday. It’s been another bear of a week, so it’s more important than ever to stop and take in the remarkable amount of good news we ALSO had. Remember, it’s not only OK to take a break from doomscrolling to celebrate these wins—it’s necessary. Every army needs the occasional morale boost; ours is no exception. So read this list, please, and share it with others who feel like “nothing good is happening.” In fact quite a bit is, but folks won’t know about it if we don’t spread the word. Your hard work matters. It’s the reason these good news lists come out every week. So enjoy this post, celebrate it…and know that you’re the reason we’ll have another one next week. ## Celebrate This! 🎉 Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s polarizing vaccine chief, [is leaving the agency](https://apnews.com/article/vinay-prasad-fda-vaccines-laura-loomer-83030ad6eb7651095e3c40444dd69f12). Cook County prosecutors [dismissed 21 cases](https://article.wn.com/view-lemonde/2026/03/04/Cook_County_prosecutors_dismiss_21_cases_against_ICE_protest/#/related_news) that were filed against protesters at the ICE processing center in Broadview, IL, including charges for 15 moms who hopped concrete barricades in a highly-publicized act of civil disobedience. A federal judge [ruled](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html) that the appointment of Kari Lake, the head of Voice of America’s oversight agency, was invalid, voiding mass layoffs that she had carried out at the federally funded news group last year. Support for abolishing ICE has hit a new high in [this week's Economist / YouGov poll](https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_ubu5DXD.pdf#page=37). Half (50%) of Americans now somewhat or strongly support abolishing ICE. Only 39% oppose abolishing the agency. In Los Angeles, a mobile clinic [is now bringing mammograms](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mobile-clinic-brings-mammograms-women-110000308.html?ck_subscriber_id=2496857656&guccounter=1) to women on Skid Row. Oregon state Democratic lawmakers [approved a measure that would prevent federal immigration officers from wearing masks](https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/05/oregon-lawmakers-approve-measure-prohibit-masks-ice-agents/). A federal court [ordered the Trump administration](https://ctmirror.org/2025/12/12/fema-funding-bric-judge-orders-restored/) to restore billions in funding for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, which had been canceled. This ruling came after a lawsuit from 22 Democratic Attorneys General. EVs are officially [making the air cleaner.​](https://grist.org/solutions/evs-are-already-making-your-air-cleaner/?sh_kit=7a2950363f4b90b1881ae76c68d24551846eea9063b67a6a14e9fa39bc419e40) A Minnesota prosecutor [said her office in Hennepin County is investigating the "potentially ​unlawful behavior" of federal agents](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/top-border-patrol-official-other-federal-agents-being-investigated-by-2026-03-02/?sh_kit=7a2950363f4b90b1881ae76c68d24551846eea9063b67a6a14e9fa39bc419e40), including Gregory Bovino, during the ICE surge earlier this year. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Governor Kathy Hochul [announced the first neighborhoods in the city that will get free childcare for 2-year-olds](https://9905ebc8.click.kit-mail3.com/gku2xo2do4b5hl9l76wtrh8elgvx5cnm6o68d7p782zg636ozlk9ew0xwvwmgeqzz3r780kdnqvevm69r07573kpzx56nkz4m8p25ne22kq3dk5rnexddzln745h9p9e5/58hvh7hgqdnzmga7/aHR0cHM6Ly9hYmM3bnkuY29tL3Bvc3QvbWFtZGFuaS1ob2NodWwtdW52ZWlsLWZpcnN0LW55Yy1uZWlnaGJvcmhvb2RzLWdldC1mcmVlLWNoaWxkLWNhcmUtMi15ZWFyLW9sZHMtZmFsbC8xODY3MTQ4NS8=). [More people in rural majority-Latino TX counties turned out to vote in the Democratic primary](https://bsky.app/profile/tonolatino.bsky.social/post/3mgbtqsico22y) than the number of people who voted for Harris in 2024. GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales [dropped his re-election bid](https://ground.news/article/gop-rep-tony-gonzales-drops-re-election-bid-amid-ethics-probe-into-his-affair-with-a-staffer_dc69c3) amid an ethics probe into his affair with a staffer. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) [will not seek reelection this November](https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2026/03/04/burgess-owens-wont-seek-reelection?emci=9406156c-bd19-f111-a69a-000d3a1

Dems Need to Wise Up: ICE Is a Threat to Our Elections

 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press conference on DHS funding at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 4, 2026. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A high-profile election denier is [leading election integrity work](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) at the Department of Homeland Security. Trump and congressional Republicans are pushing the [SAVE America Act](https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-lee-roy-introduce-the-save-america-act/) and threatening to “[nationalize](https://stateline.org/2026/02/06/trumps-calls-to-nationalize-elections-have-state-local-election-officials-bracing-for-tumult/)” elections, purportedly to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. But despite an occasional [murmur](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/podcasts/the-daily/ice-democrats-senator-catherine-cortez-masto.html) from Democrats that they are concerned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploying to polling places around the country, they’re doing almost nothing to stop this nightmare scenario. In response to the horrific killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Democrats have partially shut down the government, holding DHS spending in limbo as they [demand reforms to ICE](https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/schumer-ice-reforms-elizabeth-warren/). But instead of looking ahead to the midterms, Democrats have drawn most of their demands from the [same well](https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/) of “community policing” policies that became popular during the Black Lives Matter era, like better use-of-force policies, eliminating racial profiling, and deploying more body cameras. The rest of the Democrats’ wish list are proposals to ban things that are already illegal (like entering homes without a warrant or creating databases of activists) or are almost comically toothless, like regulating the uniforms DHS agents wear on the street. > The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy. The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy — and Democrats are wasting time worried about their uniforms. Although Heather Honey, who pushed the theory that the 2020 race was stolen from Trump and serves in a newly created role as the administration’s deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, told elections officials on a private call last week that ICE would not be at polling sites, state officials reportedly [weren’t reassured](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dhs-official-state-election-chiefs-wont-be-ice-agents-polling-places-rcna260706). Advocacy organizations have warned that even if that holds true, just the possibility could have a [“chilling” effect](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) on turnout. If Democrats want to prevent ICE from being used to interfere with elections, they have to be prepared to demand more — and be willing not to fund DHS until next year if they don’t get these concessions. First and foremost, Democrats need to stop the department’s heavily politicized “[wartime](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push)” recruitment drive. Thanks to H.R. 1, otherwise known as the [One Big Beautiful Bill Act](https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-big-beautiful-bill-passes-ice-budget/), ICE has more than [doubled](https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/ice-more-doubled-its-workforce-2025/410461/) the number of officers and agents in its ranks since Trump took office. In spite of [merit system](https://www.mspb.gov/msp/meritsystemsprinciples.htm) principles which prohibit politicized recruitment, DHS has used its massive influx of cash to target conservative-coded media, gun shows, and NASCAR races, and has [used](https://www.cbc.ca/news/ice-recruiting-9.7058294) white nationalist, [neo-Nazi iconography](https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/) in its recruitment advertising. The Department of Justice has similarly [focused](https://www.nytimes.

ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections

 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press conference on DHS funding at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 4, 2026. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A high-profile election denier is [leading election integrity work](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) at the Department of Homeland Security. Trump and congressional Republicans are pushing the [SAVE America Act](https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-lee-roy-introduce-the-save-america-act/) and threatening to “[nationalize](https://stateline.org/2026/02/06/trumps-calls-to-nationalize-elections-have-state-local-election-officials-bracing-for-tumult/)” elections, purportedly to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. But despite an occasional [murmur](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/podcasts/the-daily/ice-democrats-senator-catherine-cortez-masto.html) from Democrats that they are concerned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploying to polling places around the country, they’re doing almost nothing to stop this nightmare scenario. In response to the horrific killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Democrats have partially shut down the government, holding DHS spending in limbo as they [demand reforms to ICE](https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/schumer-ice-reforms-elizabeth-warren/). But instead of looking ahead to the midterms, Democrats have drawn most of their demands from the [same well](https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/) of “community policing” policies that became popular during the Black Lives Matter era, like better use-of-force policies, eliminating racial profiling, and deploying more body cameras. The rest of the Democrats’ wish list are proposals to ban things that are already illegal (like entering homes without a warrant or creating databases of activists) or are almost comically toothless, like regulating the uniforms DHS agents wear on the street. > The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy. The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy — and Democrats are wasting time worried about their uniforms. Although Heather Honey, who pushed the theory that the 2020 race was stolen from Trump and serves in a newly created role as the administration’s deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, told elections officials on a private call last week that ICE would not be at polling sites, state officials reportedly [weren’t reassured](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dhs-official-state-election-chiefs-wont-be-ice-agents-polling-places-rcna260706). Advocacy organizations have warned that even if that holds true, just the possibility could have a [“chilling” effect](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) on turnout. If Democrats want to prevent ICE from being used to interfere with elections, they have to be prepared to demand more — and be willing not to fund DHS until next year if they don’t get these concessions. First and foremost, Democrats need to stop the department’s heavily politicized “[wartime](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push)” recruitment drive. Thanks to H.R. 1, otherwise known as the [One Big Beautiful Bill Act](https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-big-beautiful-bill-passes-ice-budget/), ICE has more than [doubled](https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/ice-more-doubled-its-workforce-2025/410461/) the number of officers and agents in its ranks since Trump took office. In spite of [merit system](https://www.mspb.gov/msp/meritsystemsprinciples.htm) principles which prohibit politicized recruitment, DHS has used its massive influx of cash to target conservative-coded media, gun shows, and NASCAR races, and has [used](https://www.cbc.ca/news/ice-recruiting-9.7058294) white nationalist, [neo-Nazi iconography](https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/) in its recruitment advertising. The Department of Justice has similarly [focused](https://www.nytimes.c

February 13, 2026

At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Border Patrol made Senate Democrats refuse to agree to fund DHS without reforms. And yet, because the Republicans lavished money on ICE and Border Patrol in their July 2025 budget reconciliation bill—the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—those agencies will continue to operate. The 260,000 federal employees affected by the partial shutdown will come from other agencies in DHS, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), and the Coast Guard. A measure to fund DHS passed the House by a majority vote, but in the Senate, the filibuster allows the Democrats, who are in the minority, to make demands before the measure can pass. On February 4, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sent Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) and House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a letter outlining demands Democrats want incorporated into a measure to appropriate more funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Those demands are pretty straightforward. The Democrats want federal agents to enter private homes only with a judicial warrant (as was policy until the administration produced a secret memo saying that DHS officials themselves could sign off on raids, a decision that runs afoul of legal interpretations of the Fourth Amendment). They want agents to stop wearing masks and to have their names, agencies, and unique ID numbers visible on their uniforms, as law enforcement officers do. They want an end to racial profiling—that is, agents detaining individuals on the basis of their skin color, place of employment, or language—and to raids of so-called sensitive sites: medical facilities, schools, childcare facilities, churches, polling places, and courts. They want agents to be required to have a reasonable policy for use of force and to be removed during an investigation if they violate it. They want federal agents to coordinate with local and state governments and for those governments to have jurisdiction over federal agents who break the law. They want DHS detention facilities to have the same standards as any detention facility and for detainees to have access to their lawyers. They want states to be able to sue if those conditions are not met, and they want Congress members to have unscheduled access to the centers to oversee them. They want body cameras to be used for accountability but prohibited for gathering and storing information about protesters. And they want federal agents to have standardized uniforms like those of regular law enforcement, not paramilitaries. As Schumer and Jeffries wrote, these are commonsense measures that protect Americans’ constitutional rights and ensure responsible law enforcement, and should apply to all federal activity even without Democrats demanding them. Democrats said White House offers were insufficient to address their concerns, although the White House did not make its position public. Before they left Washington yesterday for a ten-day break, senators refused to fund DHS in its current state.Before the vote, administration officials appeared to try to soften the image of the federal agents who have terrorized Americans, arrested citizens and legal immigrants as well as undocumented immigrants, and shot people. Trump’s immigration advisor Tom Homan, who took over in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agents acting under the leadership of then-commander Greg Bovino shot and killed a second American citizen in that city, told reporters yesterday that that administration will end its surge of federal agents into Minneapolis, saying it had achieved “successful results” including 4,000 people arrested. Agents will remain in the city, he said, but the surge of thousands of agents will end. Torey Van Oot of Axios adds that more than a dozen federal prosecutors resigned after the Department of Justice declined to investigate the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and support for Trump’s handling of deportations cratered as Americans saw children tear-gassed and citizens shot. Acting director of ICE Todd Lyons told the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that the agency is training agents adequately before they go into the field and that once there, they are properly enforcing U.S. immigration laws. “And,” he added, “we are only getting started.” But Lyons’s claim that federal agents are adequately trained was belied on Wednesday when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) abruptly closed the airspace over El Paso, Texas, for what it initially said would be ten days. Such a closure would shut down all flights below 18,000 feet, including medical helicopters, and is rare enough that the comparison med

The Chomsky-Epstein Files: Unravelling a Web of Connections Between a Star Leftist Academic & a Notorious Pedophile

By Alan MacLeod – Feb 7, 2026 6 Key findings of this investigation: * + Right up until his arrest for child sex trafficking, Chomsky was advising Epstein on crisis management, sympathizing with the “horrible way you are being treated in the press and public.” + On multiple occasions, Chomsky expressed his desire to visit Little St. James Island, site of Epstein’s infamous sex crimes. + Chomsky flew on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet, stayed at his mansions in Manhattan and Paris, and regularly met him for dinner and other social occasions. Chomsky quietly met with a host of other highly questionable characters, including Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, and Ehud Barak. + Chomsky considered Epstein his “best friend,” and his closest advisor, and regularly exchanged gifts with the disgraced pedophile. + Chomsky’s relationship with his children broke apart, due in part to their protests over his attempts to name Epstein’s accountant and right-hand man to the board of the family’s trust fund. + Chomsky’s relationship with his children broke apart, due in part to their protests over his attempts to name Epstein’s accountant and right-hand man to the board of the family’s trust fund. Newly released documents have shed light on the unlikely relationship between renowned leftist professor Noam Chomsky and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Analyzing over 3800 emails and texts involving the academic, MintPress News has uncovered a deep, years-long friendship between the two, one where they became “best friends” and each other’s closest confidants. Chomsky flew on Epstein’s notorious “Lolita Express” jet, stayed at his apartments in Manhattan and Paris, and expressed his desire, on multiple occasions, to visit Little St. James Island, the location of many of Epstein’s worst sex crimes. Years of exchanging gifts and dining together – events that frequently included other highly controversial characters, such as disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen, far-right political strategist Steve Bannon, and former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, turned the pair into the closest of friends. Chomsky became a key figure in Epstein’s attempts at crisis management, sharing his thoughts about strategies to quash and counter what he called “the onslaught of venomous attacks” against him. Meanwhile, Epstein became the star political philosopher’s trusted legal and financial advisor, a fact that would lead to a near collapse in the relationship between Noam and his children. This is the story of the previously unknown relationship between the man who The New York Times [called](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/25/archives/the-chomsky-problem-chomsky.html) “the most important intellectual alive” and the world’s most infamous sexual predator. **Noam Chomsky: Jeffrey Epstein’s Crisis Manager** After 36 survivors – some as young as 14 – came forward, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 on charges related to child sex crimes. He was, however, given only an 18-month sentence, and served only 13 months in a minimum security prison that he was allowed to leave six days per week. The U.S. attorney who struck this lenient deal [reportedly](https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/14/20803950/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-clinton-trump-acosta) stated that he did so under duress, and was told to “back off,” as Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Key to Epstein’s crimes becoming known was the testimony of his victim, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre alleged that Epstein and his partner [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/) operated a worldwide sex trafficking operation, where women and girls were kidnapped and forced to have sex with the world’s rich and powerful. This [allegedly](https://time.com/6552063/jeffrey-epsteins-unsealed-court-documents/) included royals like Prince Andrew, politicians such as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, and academics, like Alan Dershowitz. Epstein reportedly made his fortune by keeping copious evidence of their sex crimes and extorting his clients. Previous Epstein Files releases have strongly indicated that Epstein, like Maxwell’s [father and family](https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/), worked for Israeli intelligence. The testimony from Giuffre and others sparked worldwide uproar, eventually forcing the U.S. government to act. In 2019, the FBI arrested Epstein, holding him in a high security Manhattan prison. Just weeks later, he was found dead in his cell, under highly suspicious circumstances. Epstein was aware that the walls were closing in. Months before his arrest, he sent Chomsky a number of panicked emails, desperately asking for guidance on how to squash the widespread demands for his arrest. On February 23, 2019, he [wrote](https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02633330.pdf): “Noam. I’d love your advice on how I handle my putrid press. Its is spiralling out of

The Chomsky-Epstein Files: Unravelling a Web of Connections Between a Star Leftist Academic & a Notorious Pedophile

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/25970 > ### 6 Key findings of this investigation: > > * *Right up until his arrest for child sex trafficking, Chomsky was advising Epstein on crisis management, sympathizing with the “horrible way you are being treated in the press and public.”* > * *On multiple occasions, Chomsky expressed his desire to visit Little St. James Island, site of Epstein’s infamous sex crimes.* > * *Chomsky flew on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet, stayed at his mansions in Manhattan and Paris, and regularly met him for dinner and other social occasions.* > * *Chomsky quietly met with a host of other highly questionable characters, including Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, and Ehud Barak.* > * *Chomsky considered Epstein his “best friend,” and his closest advisor, and regularly exchanged gifts with the disgraced pedophile.* > * *Chomsky’s relationship with his children broke apart, due in part to their protests over his attempts to name Epstein’s accountant and right-hand man to the board of the family’s trust fund.* > > Newly released documents have shed light on the unlikely relationship between renowned leftist professor Noam Chomsky and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Analyzing over 3800 emails and texts involving the academic, MintPress News has uncovered a deep, years-long friendship between the two, one where they became “best friends” and each other’s closest confidants. Chomsky flew on Epstein’s notorious “Lolita Express” jet, stayed at his apartments in Manhattan and Paris, and expressed his desire, on multiple occasions, to visit Little St. James Island, the location of many of Epstein’s worst sex crimes.  > > Years of exchanging gifts and dining together – events that frequently included other highly controversial characters, such as disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen, far-right political strategist Steve Bannon, and former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, turned the pair into the closest of friends. Chomsky became a key figure in Epstein’s attempts at crisis management, sharing his thoughts about strategies to quash and counter what he called “the onslaught of venomous attacks” against him. Meanwhile, Epstein became the star political philosopher’s trusted legal and financial advisor, a fact that would lead to a near collapse in the relationship between Noam and his children.  > > This is the story of the previously unknown relationship between the man who The New York Times [called](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/25/archives/the-chomsky-problem-chomsky.html) “the most important intellectual alive” and the world’s most infamous sexual predator.  > > Noam Chomsky: Jeffrey Epstein’s Crisis Manager > ---------------------------------------------- > > After 36 survivors – some as young as 14 – came forward, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 on charges related to child sex crimes. He was, however, given only an 18-month sentence, and served only 13 months in a minimum security prison that he was allowed to leave six days per week. The U.S. attorney who struck this lenient deal [reportedly](https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/14/20803950/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-clinton-trump-acosta) stated that he did so under duress, and was told to “back off,” as Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” > > Key to Epstein’s crimes becoming known was the testimony of his victim, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre alleged that Epstein and his partner [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/) operated a worldwide sex trafficking operation, where women and girls were kidnapped and forced to have sex with the world’s rich and powerful. This [allegedly](https://time.com/6552063/jeffrey-epsteins-unsealed-court-documents/) included royals like Prince Andrew, politicians such as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, and academics, like Alan Dershowitz. Epstein reportedly made his fortune by keeping copious evidence of their sex crimes and extorting his clients. Previous Epstein Files releases have strongly indicated that Epstein, like Maxwell’s [father and family](https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/), worked for Israeli intelligence.  > > The testimony from Giuffre and others sparked worldwide uproar, eventually forcing the U.S. government to act. In 2019, the FBI arrested Epstein, holding him in a high security Manhattan prison. Just weeks later, he was found dead in his cell, under highly suspicious circumstances.  > > Epstein was aware that the walls were closing in. Months before his arrest, he sent Chomsky a number of panicked emails, desperately asking for guidance on how to squash the widespread demands for his arrest.  > > On February 23, 2019, he [wrote](https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02633330.pdf): > > *“Noam. I’d love your advice on how I handle my putrid press. Its is spiralling out of control. Do I have someone write an oped? Defend myself.

The Chomsky-Epstein Files: Unravelling a Web of Connections Between a Star Leftist Academic & a Notorious Pedophile

### 6 Key findings of this investigation: * *Right up until his arrest for child sex trafficking, Chomsky was advising Epstein on crisis management, sympathizing with the “horrible way you are being treated in the press and public.”* * *On multiple occasions, Chomsky expressed his desire to visit Little St. James Island, site of Epstein’s infamous sex crimes.* * *Chomsky flew on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet, stayed at his mansions in Manhattan and Paris, and regularly met him for dinner and other social occasions.* * *Chomsky quietly met with a host of other highly questionable characters, including Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, and Ehud Barak.* * *Chomsky considered Epstein his “best friend,” and his closest advisor, and regularly exchanged gifts with the disgraced pedophile.* * *Chomsky’s relationship with his children broke apart, due in part to their protests over his attempts to name Epstein’s accountant and right-hand man to the board of the family’s trust fund.* Newly released documents have shed light on the unlikely relationship between renowned leftist professor Noam Chomsky and disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Analyzing over 3800 emails and texts involving the academic, MintPress News has uncovered a deep, years-long friendship between the two, one where they became “best friends” and each other’s closest confidants. Chomsky flew on Epstein’s notorious “Lolita Express” jet, stayed at his apartments in Manhattan and Paris, and expressed his desire, on multiple occasions, to visit Little St. James Island, the location of many of Epstein’s worst sex crimes.  Years of exchanging gifts and dining together – events that frequently included other highly controversial characters, such as disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen, far-right political strategist Steve Bannon, and former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, turned the pair into the closest of friends. Chomsky became a key figure in Epstein’s attempts at crisis management, sharing his thoughts about strategies to quash and counter what he called “the onslaught of venomous attacks” against him. Meanwhile, Epstein became the star political philosopher’s trusted legal and financial advisor, a fact that would lead to a near collapse in the relationship between Noam and his children.  This is the story of the previously unknown relationship between the man who The New York Times [called](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/25/archives/the-chomsky-problem-chomsky.html) “the most important intellectual alive” and the world’s most infamous sexual predator.  Noam Chomsky: Jeffrey Epstein’s Crisis Manager ---------------------------------------------- After 36 survivors – some as young as 14 – came forward, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 on charges related to child sex crimes. He was, however, given only an 18-month sentence, and served only 13 months in a minimum security prison that he was allowed to leave six days per week. The U.S. attorney who struck this lenient deal [reportedly](https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/14/20803950/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-clinton-trump-acosta) stated that he did so under duress, and was told to “back off,” as Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Key to Epstein’s crimes becoming known was the testimony of his victim, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre alleged that Epstein and his partner [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/) operated a worldwide sex trafficking operation, where women and girls were kidnapped and forced to have sex with the world’s rich and powerful. This [allegedly](https://time.com/6552063/jeffrey-epsteins-unsealed-court-documents/) included royals like Prince Andrew, politicians such as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, and academics, like Alan Dershowitz. Epstein reportedly made his fortune by keeping copious evidence of their sex crimes and extorting his clients. Previous Epstein Files releases have strongly indicated that Epstein, like Maxwell’s [father and family](https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/), worked for Israeli intelligence.  The testimony from Giuffre and others sparked worldwide uproar, eventually forcing the U.S. government to act. In 2019, the FBI arrested Epstein, holding him in a high security Manhattan prison. Just weeks later, he was found dead in his cell, under highly suspicious circumstances.  Epstein was aware that the walls were closing in. Months before his arrest, he sent Chomsky a number of panicked emails, desperately asking for guidance on how to squash the widespread demands for his arrest.  On February 23, 2019, he [wrote](https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02633330.pdf): *“Noam. I’d love your advice on how I handle my putrid press. Its is spiralling out of control. Do I have someone write an oped? Defend myself. Or try to ignore. Realizing that mobs are dangerous!”* “Can use some advice. The press is painting me as a monster. C