This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.
The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
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GOLDMAN SAYS BUY DIPS AS EQUITY GAINS COOL
Goldman Sachs expects equity returns to moderate after a strong rally but maintains an overweight stance over 12 months. Strategist Christian Mueller-Glissmann says markets have rebounded to near record highs, driven by tech earnings and AI spending, though elevated yields, energy prices, and stretched sentiment raise correction risks. Despite higher volatility risk, Goldman still sees a supportive macro backdrop and recommends buying pullbacks, citing continued earnings growth and AI-driven capital expenditure.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump disclosed that his trust is actively trading individual stocks — an unprecedented practice for a sitting U.S. president in the modern era.
The arrangement is raising new questions about whether the president’s actions, policies or public statements could directly benefit his personal financial holdings.
@elizlanders reports.
President Trump is undefeated in the stock market.
On May 8th, President Trump told everyone to "go out and buy a Dell."
19 days later, on May 27th, Dell was awarded a $9.7B contract with the US Pentagon.
Today, Dell, $DELL, reported stronger than expected earnings and the stock surged +30%.
Dell's stock is now up +80% since May 8th, adding +$120 BILLION in market cap.
Truly unprecedented.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Yes, @RepThomasMassie voted with Democrats to oppose Trump's Iran war. But had Biden started the same war, Massie would've voted with Republicans to oppose it. The difference is Massie votes his conscience and honors his oath to support the Constitution. The rest are party hacks.
Tech folks forecasting the end of white-collar jobs while at the same time clinging to foreign visa programs that utilize cheap labor.
Not hard to see why people view Big Tech unfavorably.
Doesn’t matter, no one has the will to prosecute this anymore bc guess what, every politician is some form is doing this whether through stocks or “prediction markets”. World is a casino
“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps.
“And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” https://t.co/T79aYM48ZI