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In January, Zohran Mamdani took action against bankrupt landlord Pinnacle, which was responsible for over 5,000 housing violations. Thanks to his intervention, Pinnacle's new owners have forgiven millions in tenants' back rent. This is what governing for the people looks like.
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
404media.co
Palm Beach police chief, who led initial efforts to unravel Epstein's human trafficking operations and pressed for his prosecution, spills the beans on George W Bush's Justice Department, which was determined to protect Epstein from prosecution and insisted that he was an intelligence asset.
Exclusive: The Palm Beach cop who Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t stop
“He was just a police chief of a small town up against a powerful man. Had the system listened to him, Epstein would have been cut off a long time earlier.”
miamiherald.com
IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up. With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former senior Trump administration official, said she resigned last month in part because she was increasingly frustrated with the lack of oversight of the intelligence community’s use of taxpayer funds—including gold bullion. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4dNTc4K
Wow. A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter has been hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information. Elias Irizarry was hired to work in the DOD’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and internal alarms are going off. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Jan 6 Capitol Rioter Elias Irizarry Hired at Pentagon: Rpt
A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter is raising concerns after reportedly being hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information.
mediaite.com
BIANCO: “.. Feb 27 is the day before the war began. The black line is the S&P 500; it is up 10+% since Feb 27. The blue line is the S&P WITHOUT the AI stocks. .. It is still DOWN 0.66%. Maybe soaring gas prices are having an impact on the market after all?”
In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible. Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
Thank you for explaining the physical layout. I prefer photos. The link to the NY Times article with its 3D rendering and videos helped me greatly. Everyone should take a look if you have access. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... For those w/o access, a summary of the perspectives being disrupted.
This is wild: homelessness is now so intertwined with low-wage work that *proof of employment is actually a prerequisite* for housing programs like this one.
Presidential emoluments, presidential emoluments, unconstitutional presidential emoluments.
Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov · 2mo agoNot enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Part of every cover-up is a denial that there was a cover-up. And if the 3 million pages being held back have nothing to do with Epstein, is that because they are about Trump?
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 3mo agoTodd Blanche said there was never an Epstein coverup and “the 3 million pages that are being held back …having nothing to do with Epstein.”
Utah Republicans expanded the court to create two seats, bullied a justice into retiring, and now are benefiting from yet another retirement — and will be able to significantly re-haul the majority of the court.
Ben Winslow@benwinslow.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING NEWS: Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew Durrant announces his retirement, effective August. He has served on the state's top court for 26 years. #utpol #Utah
For decades, the IRS has been required to audit every sitting president annually; a critical safeguard to ensure no president has a secret financial stake in betting against the American people they swore to serve. Every president accepted those audits without question. - Until now.
One of many reasons why the Founders specifically chose not to require that is because 8 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born outside the colonies and 9 of the 95 representatives elected to the first Congress were born outside the US.
“.. A new study from North Dakota State University says China’s retaliatory tariffs are causing greater losses for U.S. agricultural exports than the previous trade war.” (via @scottlincicome.bsky.social) www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/ndsu-st...
The January 6th Slush Fund hasn’t even opened applications yet, and look who’s lining up. Andrew Taake, accused of attacking police with bear spray on January 6th, while he was already out on pretrial release for child solicitation in Texas. He now has to register as a sex offender.
The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member).
Fun fact: North Carolina still hasn’t recovered from hurricane Helene, and Trump wants $2 billion to give people who smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol.
Half the GOP is saying Israel rigged the vote against Massie and the other half is celebrating the fact that the guy who wants to hold pedophiles accountable lost. Totally normal party.
This is atrocious. Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, now serving as Acting Attorney General of the United States, signed a one-page document in which the United States government “RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES” Donald Trump, his sons, his businesses,
I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.
This is exactly the way. Find some awful Jan6 story from your state, your CD, and start talking relentlessly about it, asking people if they want to pay that criminal.
Joce@jocejocejoe.bsky.social · 3mo agoAndrew Quentin Taak, of Texas. Ask Cornyn and Cruz how they feel about paying off this man. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...
An 18-year-old high school student just built a water filter that removes 96% of microplastics from drinking water. Not in a billion-dollar lab. In her garage. Meet Mia Heller from Virginia. Her secret? A magnetic liquid called ferrofluid that grabs microplastic 1/3
This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water
Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water
smithsonianmag.com
Donnie Dania took this brilliant photo in 2025. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Goodnight
It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.
