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An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...

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"Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections" Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. From Zeteo:

Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections

Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.

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An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...

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Peter Thiel exchanged 2,000+ emails with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein invested $40 million in Thiel's Valar Ventures funds. They swapped strategies to avoid IRS tracking of hidden wealth. When billionaires teach each other to hide wealth from the IRS, that's not tax planning.

Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.

Alex Jones saying there's going to be a national draft in 3 weeks.

Barnes’ family residence is in Chicago and he rents here while making frequent trips home and out of town in general. Ive reached out to SPD; during past emergency incidents when he’s been elsewhere, they’ve told me it’s no problem because of his qualified staff.

Meta is currently testing "super sensing" AI glasses that will continuously record surrounding audio while snapping pictures every few seconds. The new hardware also gets rid of the LED light that notifies bystanders when the glasses are recording. www.ft.com/content/ac28...

Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment

Mark Zuckerberg’s hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded

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Trump: they say we need a new star fox can you believe that? No more Slippy Toad, no more Peppy Hare, now it’s women, but women can’t be foxes, maybe they can *20 seconds of unblinking staring* *band tries to begin to play God Bless America* Trump: no I’m not done yet, FALCO Lombardi-

NEW: SCOTUS’ narrow decision to uphold birthright citizenship should worry anyone concerned about voting rights. Why? A successful bid to restrict birthright citizenship would supercharge efforts to restrict ballot access. And for Republicans, this is just the beginning.

Despite Supreme Court ruling, the battle over birthright citizenship is just beginning

“While this outcome provides welcome relief, it shows how fragile even our most foundational constitutional guarantees have become,” one immigration expert said.

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I just want to thank @governorferguson.bsky.social and all the other bootlicking moderate dems in Washington State who cut vital services for kids and poor folks to ensure that my tax money (that rich fucks don’t have to equally pay) goes to paying for this guys salary. Which is $150k to $500k.

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A Seattle gang sergeant was found passed out behind the wheel at an intersection with a half-empty bottle of Kirkland Signature Vodka in his cab. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

Big week over at The Onion. — Thursday: InfoWars launches live at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube, Twitch and wherever you watch video. New handles and everything. Expect surprises. It is insane. — Friday: An entire history of the country, AMERICA: Birth of a Nation, airs at 8 p.m. ET on all Onion channels.