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[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Never forget the GOP lawmakers & right-wing media who babbled endlessly about Hunter Biden yet remain silent at the grotesque levels of Trump and family self-enrichment. And if you think the family's days in politics will be over when Trump Sr. is gone, you still don't get it.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@MarioNawfal He's on tape bragging about grabbing women by the pussy. He's been found liable in court for sexual abuse. He publicly paid off a stripper. Epstein called him his closest friend and currently Trump protects the Epstein files.

By no accounts is he a man of faith.

[Joe Nakamoto ⚡️ @JoeNakamoto]

a great day to share this graph

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Not everybody who supported Trump and MAGA was a bad person at the start. But MAGA is a jealous god. It demands its supporters descend a path of degeneration to utter moral ruin. Police death squads today; who knows what tomorrow.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The FBI agent who tried to investigate the ICE officer who shot Renee Good to death has resigned after the bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the killing. @alanfeuer @GlennThrush https://t.co/voTajIbAEa

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Politicians are like “we’re going to fix this”

[Jordi Amela 💙 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @jordiamelabcn]

Reflexió setmanal.

La pujada de la CUP no es va produir per una adhesió massiva al pensament revolucionari ni perquè el país de sobte s’enamorés de les assemblees eternes o de la retòrica insurreccional. No. La seva ascensió va ser molt més pragmàtica i desesperada. Molts catalans van veure en la @cupnacional la possibilitat de blindar el seu vot en un partit que, davant l’embat imperialista, no claudicaria. Un mur de contenció contra el pactisme processista, una mena de caixa forta ideològica on dipositar la confiança nacional sense por de filtracions autonomistes.

Aquest factor va fer que la CUP es convertís en un partit de necessitat més que de convicció. Primer van entrar per la porta de les municipals, guanyant espais i credibilitat a força de no vendre’s, de no callar i, sobretot, de no pactar. Tot i les sortides de to, les assemblees inacabables i la litúrgia adolescent, molts els van perdonar els pecats de forma a canvi de la promesa de fons que no trairien mai la causa catalana.

Però el temps és el millor desinfectant. El que semblava radicalitat era, en molts casos, immaduresa mal digerida. El que semblava coherència era, sovint, sectarisme estèril. I el que semblava resistència, resultava ser postureig encertadament empaquetat per a un electorat cansat de la mentida institucional.

Avui la CUP és un poti-poti d’intencions inconnexes. D’una banda, serveix d’esplai per a joves guerrillers que, passat el fervor universitari, pengen el passamuntanyes, es treuen la samarreta de la PAH i es refugien en els pisos de l’avi, mentre recorden amb tendresa aquelles nits de pintades i el primer cop de puny a un vidre de Zara.

D’altres, menys romàntics, han descobert els encants del poder i no tenen cap problema a aliar-se amb el mateix estat espanyol que abans denunciaven com a invasor, traint la promesa fundacional d’una esquerra nacional catalana independentista que mai no s’ha acabat de concretar. No queda cap lideratge, cap timó, cap projecte. Només una nau a la deriva on cadascú fa el que pot per salvar la cadira o perpetuar l’agitació sense horitzó.

Els voltors ja planen. Regidories i despatxos són vistos com un camp de batalla per repartir engrunes, no pas per transformar res. I mentrestant, la CUP ha esdevingut part de l’engranatge institucional que tant criticava. El seu radicalisme ja no incomoda, ara només fa nosa i mandra.

Avui, el nom CUP s’associa a pintades al patrimoni i banderes que no són mai les catalanes, excepte quan arriba el Rei franquista, que aleshores sí que toca lluir l’estelada per la foto. Escenificacions d’una rebel·lia que ja no convenç ningú. Ni tan sols a ells mateixos pel que es va veient.

Mengen de la mà de Madrid amb una desimboltura que faria envermellir el mateix Durruti. I ho fan mentre miren de reüll com el vot independentista autèntic s’ha desplaçat cap a @CatalunyaAC , que si bé encara no ha tingut temps de demostrar grans èxits, com a mínim no ha traït la confiança de la gent que només volia algú que no s’ajupi.

La CUP s’apaga, desapareix. Ja no representa la revolta. Ja no és alternativa. Ja no fa por. És una caricatura esgotada, una colla de marrecs empastifats d’eslògans i brutícia que no sabrien aixecar-se abans de les dotze ni que hi hagués referèndum vinculant. Cremar contenidors ha estat la seva gran conquesta i el país, per fi, es comença a despertar.

Crispetes a la mà per veure com serà el repartiment d'aquest pastís i de com Gabriel Rufián es postula com a recollidor d'engrunes de revolucionaris de butxaca i vividors amb Fred Perry.

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Ever wondered why dinner in Spain starts so late? 🇪🇸

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

Good morning.

If you are waking today and wondering how a self-proclaimed Socialist was just elected to govern the largest city in America, this is your answer.

Have a great day.

[La Pous @LaPous_]

M ha semblat sublim.
Especialment dedicat a qui va més perdut que un pop dins d un amrari 🫶🏻

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Host: Colonel Douglas Krugman resigned his post after serving 24 years in the Marine Corps under 4 different presidents. He said he could no longer take an oath to serve under a Commander in Chief who treats the Constitution like a suggestion, writing, 'this president acts as though one election makes 236 years of constitutional order irrelevant'

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Gargotaire @Gargotejant]

El PP exigint que el valencià sigui oficial a Europa al mateix nivell que el català mentre vota d'eliminar l'oficialitat del valencià a Alacant. 👌

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Allies of close associate of America’s most notorious child sex trafficker gather to get their story straight

[Caragirat 🙃 @caragirat]

Imagineu com ha de ser la catalanofobia a Madrid perquè hagin de fer aquests aclariments

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Republicans would never cover up Trump’s mental decline the way Dems covered up Biden’s, would they?

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

And yet, here we are...

[Pilar Carracelas @pilarcarracelas]

Onze comunitats ens estan robant.