is evolving, even as our country is devolving. Yogi w/ a buddha nature; always 2' firmly planted on Earth & starry eyes toward the heavens. New England girl.
New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:
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.
https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC
Ken Paxton (not with his wife) realizing the camera is pointed at him. Texas you have a binary choice. Thoroughly decent Talarico or this degenerate criminal scumbag.
Just one day after Jeff Bezos criticized New York school spending
Zohran Mamdani announced that the city had recovered $9 million in unpaid fines from Amazon delivery trucks
One way to push back against an authoritarian is to mock him.
trump is so weak and insecure he is now demanding our respect.
So I’m sending him my favorite picture below.
Feel free to retweet and send your favorite picture or video to @realDonaldTrump.
When President Trump illegally demolished the White House’s East Wing, he dumped the resulting 35,000 cubic yards of toxic debris on the East Potomac National Park. The administration knew it was dangerous to our people and our environment, but did it anyway. Now, we’re demanding they clean up their mess. https://t.co/7ERKtHueXr
🚨 BREAKING:
China confronts Trump:
Trump: "We need $2 billion daily to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."
Chinese FM: "The Strait was open before the war. The root cause is your illegal operations against Iran; you created a global crisis from nothing."
Finding out cold plunges aren’t actually that good for women because they spike our cortisol… and all those ‘benefits’ were based on studies done on men. Love that for us..
Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019. I was at the SDNY press conference the DA said the sting was so secretive not even other FBI agents knew about it. 1700 photographs of underage models were taken from the walls of his mansion and terabytes of video! WHERE IS IT?
The investigation was shut down ONE WEEK LATER.
Let's clear something up.
The societal decay you're watching unfold before your eyes—via mass migration, two-tiered justice, Net Zero policies, extortionate costs of living, etc—is not "failure" or "incompetence".
It's the deliberate controlled demolition of Western civilisation.
Did you really think it was one massive "coincidence" that every single Western nation is being destroyed in the exact same way, at the exact same time, by the exact same policies?
WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:
"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
Source: @tomaskenn
A new book says Trump aide Natalie Harp leaves notes for Trump reading "You are all that matters to me." Her other messages:
"I will lick your makeup off"
"You smell like my soul"
"I've had surgery to look like Ivanka"
"I'm waiting in the trunk of your limo"