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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

ITALY: Haha, we drink espresso in the dugout!

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Haha, we’re having so much fun hyping each other up!

TEAM USA: We’re listening to a man describe in detail the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden to prepare us to play Canada in baseball.

[Saint Zoe 🇺🇸🇭🇹 @Jupinapapi3]

Fernando Mendoza looks like he makes his animal crackers fight each other before he eats them

[ALong @Along13088]

@nickyp11 Anti-dentite

[Dissproportionately @dissproportion]

That is clean.

[greg @greg16676935420]

Shoutout to this guy with 17 followers for saving space exploration

[Mike Ryan (Ruiz) @MichaelRyanRuiz]

Working conservatives into panic buying electric vehicles might be the most effective thing dems have ever done to combat climate change

[Jon Marks @JonMarksMedia]

It's snowing in New Orleans and local news found a resident from Pennsylvania to talk about the snow and of course he ended with a #GoBirds

[ALong @Along13088]

@nickyp11 Don’t do this to yourself

[ALong @Along13088]

@nickyp11 I apologize, but this made me laugh

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

On this MLK Day, I want you all to see this & know this as well as the “I Have A Dream” speech. Speechless at his wisdom and truth. "No other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil. And then color became a stigma." Transcribed remainder below.

[Megs @YankeeMegs]

Raise a glass to The Times correspondent who contributed on this Kissinger obit so long ago that he passed 13 years before Kissinger finally did.

[ALong @Along13088]

@Palladin0 @JoeBiden It’s ok to admit you missed on this one.

[ALong @Along13088]

@Palladin0 @JoeBiden

[ALong @Along13088]

@BallouxFrancois @NateSilver538 @Palladin0

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids?

A THREAD

[Jesse McLaren @McJesse]

Country musicians are like “Y’all, there’s two things I can’t stand. Socialism, and the exploitation of my labor by the bourgeoisie.”

[ALong @Along13088]

@MaltzDavid @nickyp11 No fines, but mandatory jail

[ALong @Along13088]

@Palladin0 Didn’t your parents pay for your college?