Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
What do all these corporations have in common? Nvidia Apple Google Lockheed Martin Microsoft Palantir They all donated at least $10 million to Trump’s vanity ballroom — and they all stand to benefit from his policies. Is this Trump’s most corrupt grift yet?
Dear Trump voters, You wanted mass deportations. Well, hundreds of thousands of people have been deported. NOW WHAT? • Did you get that job they supposedly took from you? • Did grocery prices drop? • Is rent cheaper? • Did your health insurance premiums drop? #TrumpsAbuseOfPower 🧵
A lot of misinformation, miscommunication is around the fact that I labeled myself a pharmacist. I asked many random people: “Is it cool for me to call myself a pharmacist?” And they said, “Absolutely! You dispense drugs—multivitamins—to yourself every day!”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoZacharia: "A lot of the misinformation, miscommunication is around the fact that I labeled myself a lawyer. I consulted for a long time many people in the field -- 'Is it ok if I label myself a lawyer?' -- and they said, 'Absolutely. You can call yourself a lawyer. You have a JD'"
Did he write a book about growing up in Appalachia when he really grew up in suburban Ohio? No, that was you, JD! Did he keep changing his first and last names? And lied that he changed his last name when he got married? No, that was you, JD!
Career staff at the CFTC were investigating suspiciously timed trades surrounding Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would not bomb Iranian power plants. Then a senior adviser to Trump’s CFTC commissioner told them to back off. Could this administration get any more corrupt?
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
bloomberg.com
"[Aide David] Milstein, who has been in his role since April 2025 ... 'has blocked reporting [on Israeli activities] from being sent, rewritten cables to deliver a different — sometimes opposite — message from the original, and delayed approving drafts until the topic was no longer relevant.'"
Truthout@truthout.org · last wk.Van Hollen: “The American people deserve answers about what’s happening in the West Bank, especially when it comes to the killing of American citizens. It’s unacceptable that Ambassador Huckabee’s point person is participating in a cover-up about these killings.”
UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign. #Blues
Democrats should immediately label Musk a national security threat and declare their intention to nationalize SpaceX and Starlink if functionally is not immediately restored
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 3d ago⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Voting rights groups are suing Texas after the state failed to process more than 500,000 voter registration applications submitted through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s web portal.
Texas sued for failing to process 500,000+ voter registrations
Voting rights groups are asking a judge to enforce a 2021 settlement aimed at providing reliable online registration through DPS.
texastribune.org
AP: "Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church’s pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S. military…stipulated that any Catholic soldier assigned to the U.S. Army firing squad should ask to be excused from that duty, which he described as contrary to the teachings of the church."
Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad
The archbishop described the planned execution of a gunman who killed 13 people on a military base as contrary to the teachings of the church.
politico.com
I'd add that there are lots of Republicans actually taking money from Elon Musk, and they are rarely or never asked about his more radical/racist statements.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is sending a message to Trump by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, judge of the International Criminal Court, and the Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.#BREAKING South African Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize
A new report reveals how the DOJ’s civil rights division has replaced long-time staffers with the worst of the worst. trib.al/941AyTv
Justice Department Hired Criminals as Veteran Employees Fled
A new report reveals how the DOJ’s civil rights division has replaced longtime staffers with the worst of the worst.
trib.al
THREE 2020 ELECTION DENIERS ARE ON THE BALLOT IN ARIZONA: All are running for offices that would carry authority in Arizona government heading into the 2028 presidential election. • Andy Biggs, Governor: Voted against certifying Biden’s 2020 election win. He faces Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
Breaking News: 18 yr old arrested trying to buy an assault rifle for alleged mass shooting planned for the Mall of America. Be on alert through Election day! #ProudBlue #GTS #DemVoice1
CBS News@cbsnews.com · last wk.A man accused of telling an FBI informant he wanted to attack the Mall of America during the Hmong Arts Celebration on Oct. 24 was arrested at gunpoint Tuesday during an arranged meeting to buy an AK-47-style rifle for $600, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday in St. Paul.
Yeah what the fuck do they have to do with our marriage at all?! Besides the fact that is the contract between the couple and the state, has nothing to do with religion at all anyway
Jeff Roush@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · last wk.It’s one thing to say a baker or web designer can choose not to create something to which they are opposed. It’s another entirely to say a Christian can prevent two people from getting married when said Christian has no involvement required.
Plenty of people use artificial sweeteners you dumbass. And it is not super intelligence when it makes mistakes, lies, basically doesn't give you the right answers half the time. It is also NOT true artificial intelligence
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
Trump’s sons have recently invested in dozens of defense companies. Those companies have now raked in a staggering $6 BILLION in current or future government contracts. Corruption? Or coincidence? You be the judge.
Spare me Sen. Thom Tillis’s self-interested redemption book tour. When he had the opportunity to do what was right, he failed nearly every time. For example, he drew a line on Jan. 6 apologia, and then confirmed multiple people who crossed it, including Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro.
Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
apnews.com
He means their Liberty to kill us and or oppress us
Jeff Roush@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · last wk.I am hopeful that years from now the jurisprudence of Samuel Alito is pushed to the same corners as Plessy and Korematsu. His notion that “religious freedom” requires elevating a brand of Christianity above criticism turns the First Amendment on its head. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
Why is he screaming? Lol
Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · last wk.How do you charge a man when your own evidence shows the reflecting pool unchanged before & after he touched it? Ask the Davey Hearn prosecutors @democracydefendersfund.org, WLG, Steptoe & I said so the day after his arraignment. Then 6 more times More on @cnn.com👇 -TN
None of those people broke any laws but you did. You are going to prison
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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You cannot convince me that frat brothers organically walked into separate police interviews using the same word, “consensual,” and that it wasn’t coordinated. Especially after a witness told police there was allegedly a fraternity meeting to get everyone “on the same page”.
Jeanine Pirro ensnared by grand jury misconduct questions amid Reflecting Pool fallout www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...
Jeanine Pirro ensnared by grand jury misconduct questions amid Reflecting Pool fallout
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro faces calls for a watchdog probe into whether her office recalled a grand jury witness to "manufacture" a felony charge against an Olympian later cleared.Lawyers for three-...
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