Four days before Trump’s inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar.
The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family entities and $31M to Witkoff entities.
The investment was backed by the UAE national security adviser, Tahnoon bin Zayed. The deal put two executives at his company, G42, on the board of WLF, alongside Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff.
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Thomas Massie:
"Kash Patel's FBI is threatening Thomas Massie’s staff with criminal investigations if they continue speaking up about Israel and the Epstein files."
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene." https://t.co/O6UB4REvJf
A U.S. citizen was forcibly removed from her car by federal agents in Key Largo, Florida on Wednesday after she refused to present her driver's license and roll down her window when stopped, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
She was placed in a patrol vehicle while agents searched her car, located her driver's license and confirmed she was a U.S. citizen. She was then released.
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
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JD “I don’t give a shit” Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the “highest and best use of the military.”
Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird?
Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??
What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.
Those of you who don't know what authoritarianism looks like...this is it. All the gaslighting about previous presidents "what about...!!! Is bullshit. I've been talking about the slide towards NOW for 30+ years. Those earlier concerns were nothing. Now we are HERE.
[FULL ADDRESS] Governor Newsom addresses Californians in response to President Trump’s assault on democracy and the President’s illegal militarization of Los Angeles.
President Jimmy Carter’s legacy lives on among the stars.
In 1977, the then-president penned this three-paragraph letter that was included with my Golden Records, a message cast into the cosmos.
Here’s last Sunday’s story on the wave of conservatives claiming there is a wave of “migrant crime,” where the term came from, and where the pair from “American Gothic” is now. https://t.co/ZgHKHjJnQd
When will the last human be born?
How many people will there ever be?
What does all of this have to do with you?
In our latest video, we are looking at the temporal window of humanity to answer those questions: https://t.co/CChpCZEvwq
Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. For many, the future looks grim and hopeless. In an age of doom and hopelessness, giving up seems the only sensible thing to do.
But that’s not true. You are not doomed.
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