Everything is a grift to steal money and we pay for it.
The Trump administration handed out a no-bid contract to cover four statues near the National Mall in 23.75-karat gold leaf, and decided that this job needed to be done before the country’s 250th birthday. Originally estimated to cost $2.4 million, the government will now spend $5 million to restore the bronzes. Read more: https://t.co/4KVMLtvp7n
Chip Franklin: “Ten years ago one person had $100B. Today 18 Americans have more than $100B. You shouldn’t have that much money. You should have a tax system. A trillion dollars, you could spend a million dollars a day for a thousand years”
BREAKING: HELL YES! Albania strikes a crushing blow against Jared Kushner's corrupt private island development by FREEZING the bank accounts of a major company tied to the project.
And it gets even better...
According to Albanian reporter Lindita Cela, the nation's anti-corruption prosecutors have frozen the accounts of a landholding company involved in Kushner's $4 billion luxury resort plans.
The move comes as massive protests sweep the country, with local residents incensed at the idea of Ivanka and Jared gobbling up coveted real estate to create a vacation spot for the Epstein Class. The slogan “Albania Is Not for Sale" has been spreading like wildfire and clashes between police and protestors are increasing in intensity.
The asset seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime and is part of a broader investigation into possibly fraudulent property titles.
Suspiciously, the company in question is owned by Qatari oligarchs Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat. Kushner's ties to dirty Gulf money are well-established. They blossomed during his time in the first Trump administration, where he twisted American foreign policy to benefit specific actors in the region in return for massive investments and business advantages. This deal is rotten all the way to the core.
The Al-Khayyats have snatched up property along a protected stretch of coastline of the Adriatic Sea and it's here and on a nearby island that Kushner intends on erecting his resort for the top 1% of the top 1%. Given what we know about the Trump family, it's safe to presume that the development will serve as a paradise for pedophiles, war criminals, and human traffickers.
But this time, Jared bit off more than he can chew. Albanians are a proud, defiant people. They've survived centuries of larger regional powers seeking to divide their land, rewrite their history, and erase their culture. They're not going to let one greedy businessman defeat them now.
We stand with Albania!
Kushner out! Ivanka out!
Do you stand with the Albanian people?
Please ❤️ and share to demand more investigations into Kushner!
IS MARCO RUBIO F*CKING SERIOUS?
Cory Booker just ripped him apart for claiming "the war is over."
If the war is over, THEN WE LOST.
Iran still has enriched uranium.
The Strait of Hormuz crisis isn't resolved.
Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent.
Sounds less like victory and more like a very expensive failure.
🚨TRUMP CAN’T LIFT HIS ARM?
HOLY SHIT: Trump’s voice sounds unusually weak, he appears to be slurring some of his words, and he barely raises his right arm throughout the clip.
He does not look well at all. Something is seriously wrong with him and we deserve to know the truth.
Trump: We have 22 waterfalls and most haven't worked for over 50 years. Here’s another picture. You can tell this is a proud American because he has a flag. The bad protesters never have a flag.
BREAKING: DOGE DISASTER! Huge outbreak of deadly flesh-eating parasites erupts in Texas cattle thanks to Trump and Elon’s DOGE cuts!
Eradicated from the U.S. for a half-century, a dangerous flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm is back, thanks in part to the Trump administration’s tariff squabbles with Mexico and foreign aid cuts.
Detected in a Texas calf near the Mexican border, the discovery is triggering serious fears for the American cattle industry and already sky-high beef prices.
The parasite’s larvae burrow into living tissue of livestock (and occasionally pets or humans), causing severe damage and potential death if untreated. This marks the first confirmed case in Texas since 1966.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says they’ve deployed teams, started quarantines, and are releasing sterile flies, but the Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller ripped the federal response as too slow and ineffective.
He’s now calling on Trump to “throw every available federal resource” at the problem before it becomes a full-blown disaster.
The outbreak comes at the worst possible time.
The U.S. cattle herd is already at its lowest level in 75 years, and beef prices are through the roof. A wider infestation could cost the industry billions and hammer American families at the grocery store.
Critics point directly at Trump administration policies that likely worsened the situation. First, ongoing trade disputes and tariff threats with Mexico have slowed joint eradication efforts.
Elon Musk's DOGE dismantling of USAID has seriously hampered regional efforts to stop the parasite’s northward march through Central America and Mexico.
And finally, the administration’s dismissive approach to climate change, even as warming temperatures expand the areas where this pest can thrive.
Once again, Trump’s incoherent “America First” agenda of trade wars, aid slashing, and science denial is coming back to bite American agriculture and consumers in the wallet.
MAGA gets its jollies by “owning the libs” by cutting funding for policies that protect the country against the outbreak of disease, but right now a literal flesh-eating parasite is showing up on our southern border and now we are much less prepared to handle it.
If this latest Trump-era disaster has you furious about rising costs and incompetent governance, like and share!
Brightening up my timeline with these colourful paintings by l
Sharon Nullmeyer ( Nullsie)
Illustrator , painter and pattern designer based in Southern California
Instagram have more on her site
Sarah V Battie
‘Best in Show’
I was so pleased to find her work
Her studio is nestled high up in the attic of an 18C weavers cottage in the West Yorkshire hills
My spiritual home
Hello again
Ann M Ward artist
American painter ( California)
Self taught artist after a a career writing for the ‘big screen’. in Hollywood
She likes to paint En Plein Air ( outside)
Her husband is also a writer /artist
Hello again everyone
Robert Duckworth Greenham (1906-76)
Painter Printmaker Mural Artist and Draughtsman
British painter
Landscapes of the Suffolk Coast
‘On the Beach’
Kevin Hughes
He usually paints in Watercolours , sometimes Pastels. Landscapes are his main subjects
Ethereal work . This is beautiful with such depth
English artist Bath area
Octave Denis Victor Guillonet (1872-1967)
French
Talented artist who married a lady gardener.
Émile Jeanne- Marie. Her gardens provide him with inspiration every season and in the end he added her signature to his own work.
Linda Jacobus Oils
Our final painting today.
It’s very hot.
This piece is making me feel even hotter although I do love it!
Thanks my XTwitterarty.
Max and I will be back tomorrow with more
He’s asleep. He was out walking at 7,30am we didn’t go far
He’s only little 🙂🐶