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Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish accept the Song of the Year award during the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on February 1, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
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By Suzy Weiss and Sascha Seinfeld
02.06.26 — TGIF
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It’s happened; your beloved, populist queen of TGIF has been unmasked as a certified member of the emailed-Jeffrey Epstein-community. We’re as shocked as you. Nellie has been penalized with a one-game suspension from TGIF and a $5,000,000 fine, which she assures us she is good for, but only after she goes to a big house on the Upper East Side to “pick something up.” She’ll be back for the next edition, unless someone finds a pic of her at a Diddy white party. While she figures all that out, you’re stuck with us—Suzy in the driver’s seat, and Sascha as passenger princess.

If you’re a Free Presser in Atlanta, we have a big treat for you. Coleman Hughes will be at the Ebenezer Baptist Church next month, alongside former UN ambassador Andrew Young and MLK biographer Jonathan Eig. Get your tickets here.

And now, on to the biggest stories of the week, according to us.

→ The emails will continue until morale gets worse: A specter has been haunting America—the specter of jeevacation@gmail.com, also known as Jeffrey Edward Epstein. Last Friday, the Department of Justice said “release the Kraken” and made available to the public three million pages of documents connected to the late disgraced financier, including volumes of email correspondence. The fallout hasn’t let up since.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
Sascha Seinfeld
Sascha is a writer and junior editor at The Free Press. While at Duke University, her sketch “O-Week” appeared on Inside Amy Schumer and contributed to a Writers’ Guild Award-winning season. She later worked for screenwriting duo Lauren Blum and Rebecca Angelo (Business Affairs Productions), pitching ideas for projects including Dumb Money (2023). After graduating, she wrote, directed, and fundraised for her short film The Final Cut (2024).
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