Damien Cox

Licensed Attorney and Realtor. Focused on family, friends and business.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

The U.S. National Debt is $40T

Donald Trump accumulated $16T of that $40T

In just 6 years, Donald Trump has been responsible for 40% of the debt our country has ever accumulated in 250 years.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

Pete Hegseth out here doing Olympic-level gymnastics to bring back Confederate general names on U.S. military bases.
"This is about restoring history and Army morale!"
Hegseth says, while twisting himself into knots to pretend it's not about Robert E. Lee & Co. who literally took up arms against America for slavery.

Pete defending renaming military bases after Confederate traitors: “We’re not erasing history!” Yeah, you’re just doing backflips to rebrand Robert E. Lee as “some other guy with the same name.”
Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg 2.0 :
Now with extra copium for morale.
Treason cosplay in the Pentagon.
Very Embarrassing.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I have been called an alarmist and worse by well meaning people who want to think it will just all be ok. But it doesn't always end up ok and we can't pretend it will.

Trump is targeting Black voters and women to rig this election. We need to stand up, call it out and act.

[Rep. James Walkinshaw @Rep_Walkinshaw]

The Trump administration erased Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the Navajo Code Talkers from government websites.

Now Trump and Republicans want to erase Black history from the Smithsonian.

[DončićWrld @WrldDoncic]

OG cooked Barkley here

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

The Odyssey cost $250 million to make.

Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year?

Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

Congratulations to President Biden

He finished chemo yesterday and rang the bell.

Does this make you smile?

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Trump just erased $80 million owed to one of the poorest Native American tribes in the country. Here’s the story nobody’s telling.

Jason Galanis was a financier, the son of a man who’d already done federal time for fraud. In 2014 he ran one of the most cynical schemes imaginable. He targeted the Wakpamni Lake Community Corporation, the economic development arm of a community within the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, one of the poorest places in the United States. The bonds he engineered were supposed to fund what a place like that desperately needs: jobs, development, a future.

Instead, prosecutors said, Galanis and his co-conspirators issued more than $60 million in worthless tribal bonds through lies, sold them to investors, and pocketed the proceeds, spending the money on personal luxuries including jewelry instead of reinvesting it as promised. They looted a development fund meant for a tribe that could least afford to lose it. Galanis himself testified his companies were “entrusted with $11 billion of union members’ pension fund money whose trust I betrayed.”

Galanis pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison, and ordered to pay more than $80 million in forfeiture and restitution to his victims, including the tribe

Now the twist.

One of his co-conspirators was Devon Archer. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Archer was Hunter Biden’s former business partner, who became a star witness for House Republicans investigating the Biden family.

In March 2025, Trump fully pardoned Archer, wiping out his conviction. His own staff secretary admitted the “tone and tenor” of the case “changed dramatically” after Archer began cooperating against the Bidens.

Days later, quietly, with no announcement, Trump commuted Galanis’s sentence too, to time served, with “no further fines, restitution, probation, or other conditions.”

Read that last part again.

Trump didn’t just let Galanis out early. He erased the roughly $80 million in restitution owed to the Oglala Sioux and the other victims he defrauded. The tribe was supposed to be made whole for the rest of his life. That debt simply vanished.

And it fits a pattern. A commutation used to just end a sentence. Trump uses clemency to wipe out debts owed to victims and taxpayers. California’s governor’s office tallied that his clemency grants have erased close to $2 billion in victim and taxpayer recovery across Medicare fraud, tax fraud, and cases like this.

A man stole $60 million meant for one of the poorest Native communities in America, spent it on jewelry, got 16 years and $80 million in restitution. His co-conspirator became a witness against the Bidens. Both walked free within days of each other.

The Oglala Sioux don’t get their money back. Galanis keeps what’s left of it.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Resign.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Modern day lynching is real. And it’s not a joke.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased.

Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas

Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York

Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Rep. @AOC: Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg, if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. I was just in Memphis. All within one block, an xAI greywater treatment plant, methane turbines, coal ash, wastewater facilities. Everyone in that area is getting poisoned. This conversation is not just about technology, it's about people's ability to live without getting cancer.

[Damien Cox @DamienCox3]

@td_nash Love Shaq, but Dream made him look silly head to head

[Damien Cox @DamienCox3]

@Super70sSports If he had Emmit Smith's offensive line he legitimately could have run for 3000 yards in a season

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

This being the wrong color is WILD.

[J’ae VESper 🩸 @TheJaeVESper]

Chadwick Boseman's widow reveals they believed he had beaten cancer.

Five years after his passing, Simone Ledward Boseman shares the hope they held during his private battle with colon cancer.

She says:

> "When he was initially diagnosed, we both felt very sure that he would make it through."

> In 2018, Chadwick went into remission, and while the world celebrated the success of "Black Panther," they were quietly celebrating his clear scan.

> But by the end of that same year, the cancer returned more aggressively.

Asked what she hopes people remember most about him, Simone says:

> "What's more important about Chad is the way that he lived. The fact that he wouldn't let cancer get in the way of what he was here to do. Let that be the lesson."

What do you remember most about Chadwick Boseman's legacy?

[Damien Cox @DamienCox3]

@KevOnStage Facts! Context gets lost in text. That lol gives the tone.

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

The Odyssey spoiler free review

[Damien Cox @DamienCox3]

@RossKneeDeep Barry Sanders