đ˛Sen. Susan Collinsâ household stake in UnitedHealth Group is up 850%, journalist Nathan Bernard noted, with the increase coming after Medicaid cuts in Trumpâs âOne Big Beautiful Billâ boosted the insurerâs outlook.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner called congressional stock ownership âlegalized corruption,â saying lawmakers and their spouses should be barred from owning and trading individual stocks because they can profit from legislation they help pass.
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âĄď¸Melat Kiros says House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries should not become speaker if Democrats retake the House, arguing the party must âroot out the corruption and get money out of our politicsâ by voting out incumbents âtaking that kind of corporate PAC money.â
Her comments to Politico came as Jeffries publicly congratulated Kiros on her primary victory, calling it a âhard-foughtâ win and saying House Democrats would âend the culture of corruption in Washington.â
We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.
We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.
Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz
Part of the left populist/DSA rise is the way the Epstein files laid bare class dynamics. How can you really believe trans people or immigrants are the biggest problem when you see billionaires conspiring to self deal, war profiteer, and manipulate national governments?
đ¨ Israeli Plan to Herd Palestinians Into Controlled âSheltersâ to Begin âWithin A Matter of Weeksâ
đ¸Israel is preparing to channel Palestinians into fenced âhumanitarian sheltersâ in areas outside Hamasâs control, policed by a foreign force, while its military deepens its occupation of the rest of Gaza, according to the pro-Netanyahu paper Israel Hayom, which reported the plan approvingly.
đ¸Under the plan, unarmed civilians would be directed to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan, near Rafah, an area Drop Site has documented Israel systematically razing.
đ¸A âmultinational forceâ - the ISF - operating under the Trump administrationâs âBoard of Peaceâ would deploy there from a newly built base, equipped to police the zones, while the Israeli military âcontinues to maintain and deepen its holdâ beyond the Yellow Line.
đ¸ The camp/base for the force âhas already been built,â and the Board of Peace has âbegun identifying sitesâ for logistics warehouses, with the groundwork underway now, and deployment in the coming weeks.
đ¸The paper described the effort as a âpincer movementâ: the military seizing more territory as the population is siphoned into the controlled zones, in the hope that Hamas is left âwithout a population, territory or resources.â
đ¸Officials said the areas would receive caravans and aid, but not the concrete needed to actually rebuild Gaza.
â˝ď¸The plan matches what Drop Site has previously exposed through leaked documents: a surveilled, checkpoint-controlled âplanned communityâ in Rafah designed to force Palestinians into what amounts to an Israeli panopticon, tracked and screened as a condition of receiving aid.
đ¸An Israeli political source told the paper the military would keep up âthe pace of targeted killings while remaining below the threshold of international criticism⌠as long as Hamas is unwilling to disarm.â
đ¸ The buildup is already visible: the âBoard of Peaceâ itself posted images of tactical vehicles arriving at a logistics base on June 30, matching the articleâs account of preparations underway.
I remember telling skeptical European diplomats in 2024 that the Gaza genocide will be a formative experience for an entire generation of Americans. That the politics around Israel will change in America faster than most have expected.
And I specifically told them that the kids at the Columbia, Harvard, MIT encampments are no ordinary kids. They are the future leaders of this country. At least one of them will run for president. Several will run for Senate. Even more for the House.
It's already happening.
What could go wrong? /s đłď¸
Read Vanishing Culture for more stories of cultural loss & what you can do to preserve digital history: https://t.co/M91NQlX7m2
Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. Thatâs in the charter. Do you support that?
Mamdani: Iâve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.
Karl: As jewish state?
Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I canât tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.
Yep. They get away with that âbullshitâ by buying off politicians like you through the $30,000 you've taken in campaign payouts from themâand the $28,500 you've taken from Consumerâs Energy.
(Pro-tip: direct to camera videos work better when you're not pretending to care about problems you're a part of creating.)
NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.
The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.
This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organizationâs resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.
đ¨NEW: @AbdulElSayed responds to Dem powerbrokers saying itâs too dangerous for him to be Demsâ Senate nominee:
âIf youâre Chuck Schumer, Iâm dangerous. If youâre AIPAC, Iâm dangerous. If youâre a corporate PAC, Iâm dangerous. If youâre Blue Cross Blue Shieldâs CEO, Iâm pretty damn dangerous.â
Think about what it means to order the killing of your own soldiers in order to prevent them from becoming part of a prisoner exchange.
It means that Israeli officials consider it a higher priority to keep detaining Palestinian men, women, and children without charge than to release some in exchange for those soldiers.
That logic is so obviously inhumane that Israel officially ended the Hannibal Directive policy on paper, yet obviously kept it in practice, because we now have many different reports of it being implemented on October 7. And we also know that the bombing campaign was organized through 2023 and 2024 in a way that many Israeli officials understood to be highly likely to kill captives Israelis in Gaza, as +972 has exposed.
It is powerful to see other arbitrarily sanctioned legal professionals acting against this outright persecution and full-on assault on int'l justice. I hope their ordeal will end sooner than mine.
I am proud my family pioneered all this, even if the cost is extremely high.
This man is Chris Butler (b. 1948), aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa. He's the founder of the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), a fringe yogic sect based in Hawaiâi.
He is the âguruâ of #Tulsi Gabbard, who was a child of the Science of Identity cult.
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