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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

BREAKING: Minnesota’s DOC just called bullshit on DHS’s ICE “arrest” numbers.

At least 68 so-called arrests were nothing more than routine handoffs at prison doors — spun into dramatic federal busts to juice stats and scare the public.

This wasn’t a mistake. It was a narrative.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

“We have whistles. They have guns.”
https://t.co/q4eXSjapCk

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

As someone who covered Tiananmen in 1989, it pains me to feel the need to retweet this about the US.

[Cameron Winklevoss @cameron]

This is the last time you'll ever be able to buy bitcoin below $90k!

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

This you?

[Marie @413Dino]

@RepNancyMace You are an embarrassment!

[Marie @413Dino]

@DonaldPutine @RepNancyMace Wrong, he was an alt right extremist follower of the group groypers. Look it up.

[Marie @413Dino]

@glennbeck https://t.co/uPjI7j8VHv

[Marie @413Dino]

@MaresEatGoats @marioisright @kellyshaneb @LadyLaurk @chipgaines Can you give the verse where he says it’s not normal. This is an interesting interview for you to listen to.
https://t.co/leeiaSYE5Q

[Marie @413Dino]

@AmericaMamabear @kbnjq @AvionLukas @Katiemix87 @chipgaines Funny, you say what you want to say, even engaging with me on the topic and the minute it’s uncomfortable for you, you throw a tantrum and say”I’m muting you”.

[Marie @413Dino]

@AmericaMamabear @kbnjq @AvionLukas @Katiemix87 @chipgaines I don’t know the full story of their life, and the decisions they made for their family were their decisions to make. Divorce happens in every community. In the Christian community the rate is 25%.

[Marie @413Dino]

@AmericaMamabear @kbnjq @AvionLukas @Katiemix87 @chipgaines Maybe his family is proud of him for being brave enough to live his true life.

[Marie @413Dino]

@Bridget07041969 @chipgaines Deuteronomy 22:28-29
He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

[Marie @413Dino]

@Bridget07041969 @chipgaines And rapist get to marry their victims if we go by the book. Deuteronomy 22:28-29“If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fiftyshekelsof silver.

[Marie @413Dino]

@BassEqualizer @Bridget07041969 @chipgaines Of hell I studied Jesus’ Jewish heritage where my faith began to fall apart. Learning about the writers, all the gods that came before etc..and the condition of our world which performs as a world without a god ultimately ended my faith in Jesus and then god a few months later.

[Marie @413Dino]

@BassEqualizer @Bridget07041969 @chipgaines When I got married we joined a Baptist church of which I was a member up until the time I deconstructed. In the time before that I attended a in depth Bible study(BSF) for over 10 years. When I decided I wanted to know God more deeply, despite the reward of heaven or the penalty

[Marie @413Dino]

@AmericaMamabear @kbnjq @AvionLukas @Katiemix87 @chipgaines If this is true, it is more than likely that he was in the closet trying to avoid scrutiny like what is being shared in most of these ignorant comments, a bigoted world makes it hard for someone to live their real truth.