A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.

A selection of Lolita-themed body drawings taken from the new Epstein release

NEW: Video obtained by 9NEWS shows a Flock representative talking to a private investigator about partnering with PIs. The surveillance camera system company used by law enforcement insists it does not sell tracking data. Spencer Soicher reports.

Another detail from Epstein's leaked Yahoo inbox is that in 2005 Ghislaine Maxwell told him that she was discussing with a CIA operative how to recover lost assets from the fortune of her Mossad operative mogul father Robert Maxwell:

I'm reading through Ghislaine Maxwell's habeas petition. There's some fascinating stuff in there. The most interesting to me — Maxwell claims that Jeffrey Epstein victims' lawyers reached secret settlements with 25 men. Who are these people?

NEW: A short video clip in the files released today by the Department of Justice shows convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein talking to a man who appears to be Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. More TK as The Harvard Crimson parses thousands of new documents from Epstein's estate.

Here is Epstein's assistant keeping track of who is staying in the apt bldg where he harbored victims but also allowed his wealthy friends a place to stay. Here the former Israeli PM and spouse were slated to stay in 11-J.

Light of day...Epstein's Austrian Passport.

NEW: The DOJ has filed the 2008 government emails pertaining to the events that led to the secret provisions of Jeffrey Epstein's plea agreement, including his work release. ALMOST ALL THE NAMES of those government officials involved are redacted. This means no one can see who

Wow. Police were looking into Ghislaine Maxwell as early as 2001.

Tanzania has made the knockouts at AFCON for the first time ever Tanzania has also never won a match at AFCON in its history Welcome to AFCON

Relatively shocking Epstein story, female employee were sent 2 miles away to Epstein's home for "house calls," 18-year old complained to HR. Marla Maples was warning people about Epstein. wsj.com/us-news/trump-…

This is the guy who the vice president wants to win a Pulitzer Prize. The modern American right is a joke and the likes of Edmund Burke are turning in their graves.

The inevitable result of video terrorism masquerading as journalism is actually terrorism.

A Palestinian restaurant in Astoria got a boost of popularity after its “walk of shame” featuring images of war criminals and genocide profiteers patrons can step on, went viral. Since then, it’s been subject to seemingly incessant fines by the city.

a @spotify funded production, btw

Otherwise known as sex-trafficking.

Gabon just dissolved its national team for failing to get a point at AFCON If Italy misses the World Cup again I think this is the only logical path forward

Five hrs ago the US created a permission structure to invade any country and arrest any head of state for the crime of being an obstacle to Trump’s agenda. Can’t emphasize enough how your personal opinion on Maduro should be a thousand yards away from this conversation right now