According to the Washington Post, startups affiliated with the Trump sons have won an estimated $3.2 billion in defense contracts. Let that sink in. $3.2 billion. Yes, we need to fight corruption, but the problem is in the White House.
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American freelance journalist based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Burma and Vietnam for more than 30 years. Vietnam Army Veteran, USMCR
www.ms.now/news/conditi... If Hegsetj can't provide simple things like clean food and showers, how could he possibly wage a war? He's incompetent.
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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Now That the Trump Administration Has Made Minority Lives Miserable, It’s Coming to Ruin the Lives of Disabled Americans Next - Remember when Republicans used to care about their fellow human beings? www.esquire.com/news-politic...
Now That the Trump Administration Has Made Minority Lives Miserable, It’s Coming to Ruin the Lives of Disabled Americans Next
Remember when Republicans used to care about their fellow human beings?
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The Daily: Over the past decade, the Tate brothers built a global empire around pornography and overt misogyny. They have been accused of assaulting and trafficking women. But they found allies in the Trump admin and family, Eric and Don Jr., but also Barron. Seems depravity runs through the family.
www.ms.now/news/democra... Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., is packaging together a number of existing bills with some new ideas to curb what he calls authoritarian abuses of presidential power.
Democrats unveil sweeping proposal to combat Trump authoritarianism
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., is packaging together a number of existing bills with some new ideas to curb what he calls authoritarian abuses of presidential power.
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If you can’t impeach a President for laundering money, War crimes, corruption, Market Manipulations, illegal Wars nowadays, what can you impeach them for?
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Americans are suffering all over the country and the orange felon is playing golf and congratulating himself on winning a tournament even though it’s well known that he always cheats at golf. I hate him.
The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
Is Todd Blanche’s nomination back on track after he allegedly “rescinded” the $1.8 billion slush fund & limited the tax immunity provision in the “settlement agreement” in Trump’s collusion w/the IRS & Treasury Dept.? There's no enforceability to what Blanche has done: youtu.be/Em09xu3UGxQ?...
🚨AG Blanche SCRAMBLES and Pulls LAST MINUTE STUNT To SAVE His NOMINATION!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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www.ms.now/opinion/trum... Running on corruption may be more difficult than many Democrats suspect, but that makes their doing so all the more necessary.
Opinion | A brutal new poll for Trump shows why Democrats must run against his corruption
Running on corruption may be more difficult than many Democrats suspect, but that makes their doing so all the more necessary.
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Todd Blanche announced that he had reached a deal with the GOP senators blocking his nomination for attorney general, issuing an order “officially” rescinding the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on his nomination Tuesday.
It’s not a recession, at least for now. But the president has delivered the Meh Economy. www.ms.now/opinion/trum... He does have one big achievement. He added $2.2 billion to his own personal wealth during his first year back. So what if i can't afford a box of cereal, gas or health care?
Opinion | Trump’s promise of an economic ‘golden age’ collides with reality
It’s not a recession, at least for now. But the president has delivered the Meh Economy.
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www.ms.now/opinion/trum... Because of Republicans who passed Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, an entire generation that was told that borrowing to get a college degree was the way to get ahead may be repaying that debt for most of their working lives.
Opinion | America’s student loan system is a mess. Along comes Trump to make it worse.
Randi Weingarten and Mike Pierce: Ballooning student loan payments are Trump's latest contribution to the affordability crisis
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Anyone who can find the video of Josh Holly running away from the January Sixers just put it on the Web. Remind people of what a little whiny baby he is.
It should, but we all know the press won't actually, you know, PRESS him on this.
This is what happens when the government is run by a felon reality TV personality, Fox News hosts and right-wing podcasters.
According to new court filings, Capital One closed the orange felon’s accounts in 2021 due to extensive patterns of money laundering. Once a fraud, always a fraud and that criminal piece of shit has been using the US govt as a tool for his latest money laundering operation.
Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro over decision to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism case - The president maintained his claim that the pool had been vandalized after Pirro’s office said new evidence showed the damage resulted from a “botched installation.”
He took other steps to win too. He was impeached twice, in 2021 he was impeached for incitement of insurrection.
A reminder that the orange felon had his disgusting motorcade drive directly over the entirety of the Reflecting Pool after he began destroying it, he’s the one who needs to be charged with vandalism and destruction of govt property. He should be in jail, not in the White House.
We’re now in the 153rd day of the war with Iran, which Trump repeatedly claimed was over in 1 hour. And it's widening. Four young American service members were killed last week, bringing the total number of US KIA to 18, and the number of wounded in the hundreds.
More and more uninsured patients are showing up in emergency rooms and have been unable to pay their bills after Republican lawmakers cut Obamacare subsidies. (And the Trump administration said it would end Biden-era subsidies that helped lower the cost of Medicare drug coverage.)
EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche, he has now submitted to a federal judge unredacted emails & documents for the court’s review. I walk through the documents & explain how Blanche continues to violate the court order and the Epstein Files Transparency Act. youtu.be/oAEHQXlYWK0?...
🚨 AG Blanche HANDS Judge UNREDACTED Epstein Files In MY LAWSUIT!!!
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A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... Well-worth reading.
A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama
Or: On the political necessity of denouncing one’s friends.
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tech tycoon has a lot of money — but he also comes with baggage. www.ms.now/opinion/elon... It doesn't matter how much Elmo invests as long as he's supporting an insane and horribly corriupt man who is destroying America. Few people can still pretend that Trump and Musk are men with integrity.
Opinion | Elon Musk is re-entering politics. It might not go as he hopes.
The tech tycoon has a lot of money — but he also comes with baggage.
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Considering how badly Covid was mishandled, they're probably going to regret the decision to make Fauci's personal diary and journal public. We're going to see how it was handled from the insider, from Fauci's point of view... based on you know...science.
