Alp Beck

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Writer and nightmare builder. Professional fibber. HWA geek. NYWIFT lurker. Accidental activist. Insomniac. I write all night, to keep you up all night. - I block all Crypto bros. No DMs. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦💙🏳‍🌈🇺🇦 AlpBeck.com - https://alpbeck.substack.com/

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.

Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care

MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration

meidasnews.com

SCOTUS again rejects Trump, ​for a second time, as U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his appeal ‌of a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist. Hahahaha. Miserly tightass.

It's an all hands on deck moment. Lawyers need to do their job to protect elections. Courts must do their job to ensure the law is followed. And, voters must make sure they have a plan to vote and turn out.

Bleak tidbit from Regime Change — Bessent attempted a Hitler-style shakedown of Zelenskyy as one of his first acts as Treasury Secretary

“Bessent’s proposal would require Ukraine to pay the United States 50 percent of future revenue from state-owned natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The document prescribed very specific commitments from Ukraine, but offered no security commitments from the United States. Even though the minerals deal had been Zelensky’s idea, part of the “Victory Plan for Ukraine” he had recently unveiled, he was shocked by Bessent’s terms.
Zelensky explained that he was leading his country through a particularly violent phase of the three-year-old war, and insisted that he and his staff needed more time to consider the proposal. Bessent saw things very differently. He had traveled nearly five thousand miles to an active war zone to obtain Zelensky’s signature, and now Zelensky was telling him no.
“You need to sign this,” Bessent urged. “The purpose of this is to show that there is no daylight” between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Zelensky, furious, replied that the document was an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. This was not the way international agreements worked—this was a shakedown.”

Excerpt From
Regime Change
Maggie Haberman
https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648
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Interesting. #Amazon changed the Conditions of Use for #Prime. The most striking change is if you use prime, you cannot join in a class action suit against them. Which makes me wonder, is there some legal action coming down the pike we’re unaware of? DISCLAIMER: AI was used to simplify legalese.

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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Trump has reappointed Musk ally Jared Isaacman to lead NASA. And of course there’s the federal cash flow into Musk coffers. The two now speak every month. Musk plans to keep a lower political profile than he did during the 2024 election. To protect his business profile. If we let him. 3/3

Average life expectancy was distorted by the *astronomically* high infant and child mortality rates of virtually every pre-modern society, so if you made it to adulthood you'd probably make it to your 40s or 50s, but that's not too impressive when most G20 countries now average 70-80 years.