We were delighted to welcome our official legal correspondent Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. back to The Daily Whatever Show for Fucked-up Friday. We managed to cover Jeffrey Epstein’s secret bank, AI-induced societal collapse, Hantavirus surviving in sperm for six years, global financial manipulation, trademark law, goat hiking, and whether humanity is building the technology that eventually destroys it.
We call it the “whatever” show for a reason.
Anne joined us to talk about the increasingly wild Epstein revelations emerging from the work she’s doing alongside Zev Shalev, including a secret three-hour recording involving Epstein, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers that appears to point toward far larger geopolitical and financial manipulation than most people understand. The conversation kept circling the same unsettling idea: Epstein may have been far less about sex crimes alone and far more about power, leverage, intelligence networks, and global economics.
Then Anne casually dropped the revelation that Epstein literally owned his own bank.
Not metaphorically. An actual bank. In the Virgin Islands. As one does.
Meanwhile, Lawrence Winnerman sent the show spiraling into existential dread discussing the AI-powered peptide research company he just built almost entirely using Claude. What started as “look what AI can do” quickly became “oh my God, what happens when 93 million white-collar workers become obsolete?” followed shortly thereafter by “also AI may accidentally wipe out civilization.” You can read his full essay here.
But Dana DuBois hands-down won Fucked-up Friday for her story: “We Will Find You, and We Will Kill You,” a harrowing story by our dear friend Melissa Corrigan, she/her detailing the latest Trump atrocity. He’s actively threatening to kill trans people and those who support a “radically pro-transgender” ideology. Add to this the same day murder of trans University of Washington student Juniper Blessing, and… well, we have no words, truly. Just horror.
Thank you Cat: Poli-Psych, Mandy Ohman, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Karen Marie Shelton, ShālahBPookie - TheRebelCrone, and many others for tuning in, and to Karen Marie Shelton and Yanni Hamburger for moderating.
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