BREAKING: Donald Trump has pardoned Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana convicted of insider trading.
Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison after being convicted on four counts of securities fraud. Prosecutors said he traded stocks using nonpublic information about two corporate mergers—NYT
Since he returned to the White House last year, Mr. Trump has issued a wave of pardons and commutations. Dozens of pardons have been granted to people accused of white-collar crimes
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris just announced she is going to New Orleans to slam the Supreme Court's decision allowing Republicans to attack Black representation in Congress.
Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”
Jake Lang a far-right political activist who gained national prominence after participating in the January 6 Capitol riot was arrested by the @FriscoPD today. Originally facing 11 federal charges for assaulting law enforcement with a bat, he was given a Presidential pardon. @CNN
🚨 Beyond The Narrative
Only in America are politicians more concerned with staging ballroom victories than fixing a collapsing, overpriced healthcare system that is crushing everyday families. It is a masterclass in empty political theater while the real-world crisis of unaffordable care continues to escalate on the ground.
California is not cheating in this election.
Trump supporters are just too ignorant to understand how vote counting works.
I explain it for all of you ignoramuses:
It never, ever, despite what billionaires and politicians tell you, trickles down.
Tax breaks for the wealthy will create jobs was always a scam to transfer wealth away from the working class, upwards to the super-wealthy.
They lied to you.
GEO Group reported roughly $254 million in profit after major ICE-related contract growth.
Now a former GEO Group executive is slated to lead ICE.
The company profits from detention.
The agency buys detention.
The executive moves from one to the other.
Washington calls this a "personnel announcement."
Everyone else calls it a revolving door.