Flutterby™! : more blacked out than Hegseth on New Years

Courier: We created a searchable database for the Epstein Files, including everything the DOJ wants hidden (Via)

There's a lot of buzz that much of the redactions involved black rectangles drawn over text on the PDFs, leading to things that I haven't delved too deeply into yet, like Lee Drake‬ ‪@leedrake.bsky.social‬

I wrote up a batch converter that should extract all the text and keep pagination/layout comparable. Putting docs here.

If anyone else can send me PDFs, I can give it a go.

Epstein Docs Unredacted — Google Drive

There's a lot of misinfo flying around, but I think it's worth linking to this assertion that one of the images released of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, with Jackson's and Ross's kids blacked out is just a Getty Images picture.

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin@c.im has a link to Mi ke Baker posting some documents that collaborate Maria Farmer's 1996 FBI complaint.