Jim Harris

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Mother Jones: Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), the son-in-law of Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH), is accused in court documents of pouring hot water on his wife, put a gun to her head, and might have broken his two year old daughter's collarbone.

https://t.co/KAqrhpsX32

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Paul Walczak took $10.9M out of his nursing home employees' paychecks: their Social Security, their Medicare, their taxes, and bought a $2 million yacht.

Sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution.

His mother attended a $1M-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner.

Twelve days later: full pardon. He never spent a night in prison.

[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.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Mehdi Hasan: “They want us to believe that when Barack Obama was president, Donald Trump won fair and square. When Joe Biden was president, Donald Trump won fair and square. But when Donald Trump was president, he was robbed by the Deep State. That’s what they want us to believe. The dumbest people in the world”

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

This mass partisan retribution is appalling, outrageous, dangerous, lawless, unconstitutional, unpatriotic and a massive offense against the Republic. Trump knew how important these Biden-era grants were to the American people, which is why he did not cut them off to the red states, but did cut them off to the blue states. This is rank partisan discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and Equal Protection, conflicting with the president’s duty to “take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Every elected official must denounce this imbecilic deep betrayal of America. And the illegally impounded funds must be restored and released immediately to the blue states. https://t.co/Frn8meDT67

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Deeply disturbing story. Survivors of US boat strikes allege they were kidnapped and tortured for days by the US military. The prosecutor investigating the claims was just assassinated.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

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[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship.

She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump," mainly Kushner and Witkoff, and formally requested $4.5 billion of that sum be allocated to Iran through intermediaries, adding that "the exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record," a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site.

Iran sent a private message to Vance during the Switzerland talks warning that Kushner and Witkoff were "abusing" the negotiations, "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

Iran also expressed concern about repeated leaks from Kushner to Netanyahu, since Witkoff and Kushner “talk almost every day to Netanyahu” and the head of Mossad.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is a big deal.

A research scientist at Google DeepMind has broken cover & is calling out Google’s leadership on a deal it’s signed with the US govt that could see its AI used for military & surveillance purposes.

Kudos. So rare to see this. 👊

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

The NY Fed just dropped new consumer data and the math explains why everyone is broke.

Inflation expectations just jumped to 3.7%, but the actual breakdown is wild. They expect rent to go up 8.3% this year and healthcare to jump 9.4%.

Meanwhile, average salary growth is stuck at 3%.

You can't even budget your way out of that. Your bills are literally growing three times faster than your paycheck.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Big story here. What an admission by the FBI re: Epstein! More details live on today’s episode 👇

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

This tweet from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.

When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.

They made a huge mistake.

You will be hearing more soon. https://t.co/rZw8bRAn64

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

@ScottJenningsKY 🖕🏻

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

2:00 PM: 🇺🇸 U.S. judge ordered the DOJ to unredact Jeffrey Epstein files which name alleged co-conspirators.

5:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump REJECTED Court order to hand over redacted Epstein files.

8:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump began bombing Iran. The war restarted.

You connect the dots.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If we want to clean up Trump’s mess and prevent future Trumps from taking power, we must make major changes to our broken political system.

Here are the 10 reforms necessary to get anything done.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is why people built guillotines.
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls, when asked about 60% of Americans struggling with affordability: "Affordability? What are you talking about?... I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes... Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do."

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Elon challenged everyone to name someone who was killed by his DOGE cuts to USAID. Nicholas Kristof, who did the study, accepted the challenge.

Instead of explaining why Kristof was incorrect, he responded with personal abuse.

He is clearly rattled.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe