Images, undated and uncaptioned, include Vladimir Nabokov lines written on women and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a new batch of photos from the estate of convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, as the deadline for the justice department to release its files related to Epstein looms.

The images, released on Thursday, are undated and lack captions or context. Among them are photographs of what appear to be lines from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita written on different parts of a woman’s body.

In a statement after the release Robert Garcia, a US representative and ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, said that “oversight Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from the Epstein estate to provide transparency for the American people.”

“As we approach the deadline for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession,” he said.

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    Steve Bourbon, with his cocktail, water, and coffee, helping Epstein get away with everything

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    lines from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita written on different parts of a woman’s body.

    What an enigma

    Who are these people?

    Looks like Sergey Brin to me. With whats-his-face- . . David Brooks? Dunno about either, just a guess.

    There’s other photos of them in there, yeah definitely Brooks.

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      Seeing Noam Chomsky with Epstein is pretty wild. If they release a photo of Dolly Parton on Epsteins jet I’m packing up my stuff and leaving this planet lol

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        Eh Chomsky has always been a bastard IMO. Fun fact I first came across his name when doing research on the Cambodian genocide in middle school (I was that kid who chose the worst things to write about in open ended essays) wherein he sided with the fucking Khmer Rouge. Seriously the one fucking time siding with the Soviet Union is the correct choice and you align yourself with the fucking Khmer Rouge.

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          AFAIK he during that time (1970s-ish) said the number of deaths were exaggerated at by western media because there was a lack of (hard) evidence. Not that he was a fan Khmer Rouge and did call their acts atrocities.

          I’m not like a Chomsky super fan or anything though, so if you can send a source that says otherwise I’d love to read it

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    I’m always bemused by people that think that Lolita promoted sex with minors. Like, did you not finish the book? Come to think of it, they probably didn’t.

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      U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, the guy that wears a Nazi costume as part of his official uniform has a favorite movie and book. That favorite book AND movie is Starship Troopers.

      Think he understands that one is a satire of the other?

      These guys aren’t big on media literacy.

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        In the defense of Heinlein all his books are weird regardless of the politics within, looking at you Stranger from a strange land. Seriously that whole book goes from Heinleins vaguely horny thought experiment to psychic sex cult real fucken quick, also why do I get the feeling Heinlein and Roddenberry shared a surprising number of friends.

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          why do I get the feeling Heinlein and Roddenberry shared a surprising number of friends

          Probably because Heinlein was a hack that stole unashamedly from everyone around him. His politics are literally just a reflection of whatever was most popular with whoever he was associating with at the time. He went from being a new deal democrat to libertarian because he changed who he was dating.

          I think his closest literary “friend” was Philip K Dick who was grateful that Heinlein (who never actually was friends with) once loaned him money.