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[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Wild how it never seems to occur to them that all these Trump construction projects are mainly about personal enrichment, embezzlement, steering money to his friends — even after we know that’s what happened with the pool. @michaelscherer

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa, with a famously racist father who was so enamored of the human rights violations of the Black citizens, he moved his family from Canada to join the cruelest cause on the planet at the time.

Musk’s father also had a child with his own, much younger step daughter, which goes a long way towards explaining Elon’s own proclivities and myriad children with many different women. He has fourteen children with four women, several of which he is estranged from, but who can forget the charm of his toddler son ‘Little X’ picking his nose in the Oval Office and telling POTUS to shut up.

Elon also seemingly used his favorite son as human shield in public places by carrying him on his shoulders to protect his hair-plug carpeted skull from potential snipers; even doing so in the halls of the U.S. Congress.
Not to mention his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who hosted Musk and his then wife, British model Tallulah Riley, at Epstein’s townhouse in 2012.

Maxwell was in the procurement business and Elon isn’t exactly smooth with the ladies; he once offered to buy a Space X masseuse on his private jet a horse if she would perform a sex act on him mid-flight.

She demurred but reports of sexual harassment and racial discrimination at his non-union Tesla factories abound - and are the least shocking thing ever.

I believe that Musk targeted much of Central and Sub-Saharan Africa intentionally by dismantling USAID with an eye towards colonizing much of the land for SpaceX operations and data centers - once he wipes out most of the population through famine and disease.

And it goes without saying how attractive and necessary the rare earth minerals and other elements are to his manufacturing. If you don’t think Tesla batteries would take precedent over the indigenous populations of those countries in the mind of Elon Musk, you haven’t been paying attention to how racist and crazy his rhetoric is online on a daily basis.” https://t.co/DK6M2n5VkI

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

The biggest mistake anyone ever made was fearing Donald Trump. Each day, it becomes clearer that as our collective fear fades, so does his ability to impose his will.
Fear was his greatest source of power.
And we handed it to him.
No more. Without it, he's a 5 lb sack...full of 10 lbs of bullshit...and nothing else.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Current level: Chef
Deserved level: Saint

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kamlager-Dove on Rubio Iran Briefing: I have to say, the highlight—or lowlight—for me was when Secretary Rubio was asked about the difference between this MOU and the JCPOA. And Marco Rubio essentially said the JCPOA, Obama’s nuclear deal, was a real agreement with criteria, benchmarks, and thresholds.

And this MOU is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking. So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, what are these people doing with our money and our national security?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Donald Trump told you the ballroom would not cost taxpayers a dime. He told you donors were covering it. He even claimed the builders offered to do it for free.

None of that was true.

New reporting shows the White House secretly handed out a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million.

They routed the deal through the Executive Residence office, the one that normally buys White House furniture and art, because it is exempt from the competitive bidding rules every other federal agency has to follow. They even claimed disclosing the project would compromise national security.

The cost estimate has already tripled, from $200 million to $600 million, with half of it landing on taxpayers. The contractor stands to clear tens of millions in profit.

A federal judge already ruled the president has no authority to demolish the East Wing and build this thing. He is doing it anyway.

This is your money, spent in secret, on a vanity project, with the rules deliberately dodged.

More corruption, plain and simple.

https://t.co/ESgm65Trde

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Nailed it.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Bayer donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration. Then Trump’s Justice Department went all the way to the Supreme Court to help Bayer fight a cancer patient who says Roundup made him sick.

This week, the Supreme Court sided with Bayer 7-2, and the more than 160,000 Americans who have sued Bayer, claiming that Roundup gave them cancer, just lost their ability to sue.

The people who wrote the check to Trump got everything they wanted, but the people who got sick got nothing.
https://t.co/jtvBL7AZak

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Another one of @MirandaDevine’s favorite sources is going to jail.

Miles Guo got 30 years yesterday for a billion-dollar fraud.

He was Steve Bannon’s business partner. Together they built GTV. GTV pushed the doctored photos and smears about me. They built the Laptop from Hell narrative. Devine made it famous. Guo even had a Mar-a-Lago membership.

He joins Alexander Smirnov. Six years for fabricating the Burisma bribery story that drove the impeachment inquiry against my father. Smirnov admitted he made it up.

And Gal Luft. Still a fugitive. Indicted for acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after paying a Trump adviser to push Beijing’s line in public.

All three came after me and my father. All three are liars and frauds. All three served the interests of Donald Trump. And they are just the tip of the iceberg.

Follow me on Substack where I’ll be sharing the whole story soon.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“The pursuit of extreme wealth should be seen as an abomination of the spirit. We are glorifying the wrong instincts. We have gone beyond the desire to provide for our own families into the realm of greed as the goal itself.

When I look at the mansions and megayachts that line the wealthy enclaves on the oceanfronts of the USA, I do not see something aspirational but something that is deeply broken.

How can one live in luxury when so many others live without? This is of course, an age old question, but one that has never before been so pressing as it is in this perilous moment. We have approached the precipice as a people, and if we do not learn to pull back, we will all suffer.

There is a better way, and that that does not mean living in austerity. It means reaching for equanimity before opulence - and realizing that true luxury is living in a world where no child goes hungry and not one person goes without.

It means sharing the abundance that isn’t necessarily man-made, but universally given. We must move from hoarding to harmony to protect our very existence.

This truth applies to all of us in the United States and the world beyond.”https://t.co/DK6M2n5VkI

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "You've got the American government controlled by Donald Trump backing a Trump family tungsten mine in Kazakhstan with a billion plus dollars of federal commitments at the very same time that they are cutting healthcare, defunding hospitals, and nursing homes, and doubling health insurance premiums."

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Wow.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views

He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation

https://t.co/0GEyvQd51z

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Elon Musk has now become the world’s first trillionaire, a year and a half after sentencing many of the globe’s poorest to certain death or abject suffering by his ketamine-fueled dismantling of USAID.

I write about this often because it is so devastating to me personally. I know many good hearted folks who dedicated their lives to serving the Global South through our country’s aid organizations and their partnerships abroad, who rather selflessly served (when compared with what equivalent skillsets would earn in the private sector) the mission of soft diplomacy by implementing our nation’s institutional wealth and scientific advancement for the betterment of humanity.

The folks I know who lost their jobs believed in the mission and believed in America, they were forced out for no other reason than human rights and the dignity of the world’s poorest fell out of favor with the current administration.

What they had dedicated their lives to over many decades was essentially destroyed in a weekend by an overgrown adolescent who is now wealthier than anyone in human history.

The fact that Elon Musk would be seen to be out of his mind by any true measure of sanity is almost beside the point; after his destructive reign playing politician and riding shotgun with Donald Trump at the beginning of his second term, Elon has now set his sights on fomenting discord in Great Britain and much of Western Europe.

We saw the results of his racism and xenophobic flame throwing at the anti-immigration riots in Belfast a couple of weeks ago, which were stoked by well-funded online agitprop.

We must increase our awareness of the growing emergency that democracy faces around the globe. Wall Street, and the loosening of rules to allow SpaceX an IPO on NASDAQ, essentially handed Musk an economic nuclear bomb. And he will use it to punish us all, not to mention defraud investors (such as the index funds that are now basically forced to buy into his company).” https://t.co/DK6M2n5VkI

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Trump‘s and Lutnick‘s sons have been involved in 14 rare mineral deals that were collectively financed or will be financed by $8.9 billion US taxpayer money, as Trump seeks to find partnerships to get at these minerals. It’s one of the most disgusting displays of kleptocracy so far!
I gifted this article so you can read it.

https://t.co/uo4WXepQzj

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump is a TRAITOR who wouldn't think twice about selling out America. In every other modern democratic country, Trump would've been prosecuted and put in prison. In the era of our Founding Fathers, Trump would've been hanged.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028.

You can believe me now or believe me in 2028.

Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Wealth should not be used to court celebrity and false perch on some sort of social stratum. I want to live in a country that celebrates teachers, not tech titans; where those that have been given the most strive to care for those with the least.

We are approaching a tipping point on this planet - one which is cooking and buckling under the strain of global warming, and the endless carnage of conflict caused by dictators and despots.

One must only look at the heat wave in Europe this week, and the continued chaos around the globe, to see we are in deep trouble and in desperate need of solutions that value human rights and ecological sanity.

The war against democracy is becoming a war of attrition, and it is ironically being fueled by the very forces that are attempting to stop it. The opposition is becoming increasingly centered around the same technological infrastructure that is accelerating our demise.

Social media-driven algorithms, AI, and the data center boom all have the same consortia of scoundrels at the top of their pyramid scheme: conspiracy theories, alternative facts and cringe.

A cabal of influencers and online grifters have all contributed to the acrid smokescreen that has allowed bad actors to climb our castle walls and reach our battlements with impunity. Now they are turning our own weapons against us and in the confusion and chaos many are succumbing to the threat of inertia and malaise; it is enervation by design.

The United States is now a country fully geared towards greed. This is not a good thing.” https://t.co/DK6M2n5VkI

[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.

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[Dee Wolff 🗽 @DeniWolff]

@jimstewartson OUR 💰💰💰 pocketed by the regime

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Here’s an in-depth New York Times article on how Trump, his family, and his cronies are abusing their government power to line their pockets and using billions of your tax dollars to facilitate their grifting. Note that the $8.9 billion in federal money going to the 14 Trump and Lutnick companies is equal to the entire amount of federal assistance Western North Carolina has received for Hurricane Helene recovery.

Rampant corruption in plain sight . . . and Republicans see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.

Here’s an excerpt from the article and a free link to the entire piece:

“Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.

It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.

Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.”

. . . . .

“One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.

All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.”

https://t.co/HvoK9qva0H