Sue Rochman

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[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.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Stairs at the University of Balamand, Lebanon

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Dear Scott Pelley: pull the entire 60 Minutes team together and go to MSNow and offer a package deal to recreate the show for Sunday night and call it The Hour

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

They should livestream the removal of his name from the building - it would set records

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

They could change college football forever

[The Recount @therecount]

What would it look like if you printed out every page of the Epstein Files?

The Trump-Epstein Reading Room has put all 3.5 million pages, bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit that is set to open Friday in Tribeca.

[Sarah Fitzpatrick @S_Fitzpatrick]

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/6Cp8XKVaqp

[Katrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation]

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth - ProPublica https://t.co/JnBQNLUEvb

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“Shame on you Jeff Bezos”

Activists in NYC project a message on the side of Jeff Bezos’ $120M penthouse from a 72-year-old Amazon worker in North Carolina ahead of the MET Gala tonight

[Harry Robinson @HarryLotusEater]

How does some guerilla artivist manage to put up a statue in London in the middle of the night?

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

New LEGO video eviscerates incompetent drunk and pedophile protector Kash Patel. 😂🤣👇

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

I’d like to live in a country where a grandma doesn’t have to work as a Door Dash driver to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Pete Buttigieg is so fucking good at this shit. He’s just so fucking good.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Rats, ships, etc

[Senator Jack Reed @SenJackReed]

Denying promotions of individual officers based on their race or gender would betray every principle of merit-based service that military officers uphold. It would also violate federal law. I am demanding answers from SecDef Hegseth & the Pentagon.
https://t.co/S5BWzhWUIT

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

So let me get this straight: We can’t find the budget to pay our actual TSA agents, but we’ve got plenty of cash to bus in ICE agents with zero experience to do their jobs?

Efficiency at its finest. What a slap in the face to the people who actually know what they’re doing.