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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Ac Hampton @HamptonAc_]

@TheChiefNerd "okay, they're smart, give them AI"
"Now make them rely on the AI till they're dumb"
"Okay, now charge them for intelligence"

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

“We stole all your knowledge and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

*taps the sign*

“Billionaires will leave if you tax them,” is a myth created by billionaires so you won’t tax them.

[Rebecca Jones Fettig @RSJoneseeAuthor]

@mtgreenee Not my post but this makes sense on why you’re leaving on the 5th. #TruthMatters

[Pudgy Penguins @pudgypenguins]

Pudgy Penguins X Kung Fu Panda

Pudgy Penguins is bringing Pengu into the world of Po, Master Shifu, and Grand Master Oogway from @Dreamworks Animation's Kung Fu Panda.

More information to come soon.

[A @aisforannaa]

@joeymoose @ActuallyAgents incredible

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this is an absolutely shocking statement from POTUS. Four US troops died in Lithuania, news of it was reported hours ago, and Trump is completely clueless

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

an important thing about Elon's project is that it tries to get you to resent people (government workers, immigrants, educators, etc) who have a minute fraction of what he has, on the grounds that somehow they have too much and their wealth is obscene

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I am all for cutting gov costs, then and now. I'm even more for efficiency

I would have a plan. Ready Fire Aim is not a plan.

Cutting programs without knowing if they would have saved taxpayers more than they cost, or saved lives, is a mistake

Tariffs, cutting programs, agencies and employees ALL AT ONCE, without doing an analysis of the impact on city, towns and states they impact, is going to backfire big time

Some cities have 9 pct or more of their employment as federal workers. Colleges losing millions in funding. Gov contractors and grant recipients having to close their businesses and lay off everyone.

Repeated in city after city. Town after town

What do you think the economic impact on their tax base is ? What do you think happens to home values ? What services will they have to end ?
What about the local businesses ? How many people will lose their jobs and homes because this was done ALL AT ONCE

Cut federal government bloat in an organized fashion and it's great.

Ready Fire Aim and the uncertainty it creates is a huge mistake

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

I listened yesterday to the Joe Rogan episode with that Cooper guy, and right away, I knew what I had to do.

I got in my car and drove straight to my 98-year-old grandmother’s house. You know, my grandmother—the one who lost her first husband, her little children, her parents, and every single one of her siblings in the Holocaust. The one who somehow crawled out of hell, rebuilt a life from nothing, and still wakes up at night with memories she can’t bring herself to talk about.

I had to go to her because, for nearly a century, she’s been living a lie. She’s been telling us these horrific, gruesome, gut-wrenching stories—about the Germans, painting them as if they were monsters, as if they were actually villains. But I just listened to someone who really knows his shit, and he made it crystal clear: we’ve all misunderstood them.

So, I sat her down. I took a deep breath, looked her in the eyes—those same eyes that have seen things I can’t even begin to comprehend—and I told her the truth.

“Grandma, enough. Enough with the fake grieving. Enough with the lies. For almost a hundred years, you’ve been poisoning people’s minds with your one-sided, manipulative sob story. But I just listened to an expert—a guy on a podcast, which, as we all know, is the highest form of truth and reality—and he set the record straight.

“Hitler and his people weren’t what you think they were. They weren’t cold-blooded murderers, genocidal maniacs, or ruthless butchers. No, Grandma, they were complicated. They had reasons. They had perspectives that, shockingly, you and your family never bothered to consider. Did you ever stop, in between watching your children being ripped from your arms, to ask yourself what they were going through? Did you ever think, while you were starving in Auschwitz, that maybe, just maybe, they felt misunderstood?

“I mean, sure, they rounded you up, packed you into trains like cattle, and sent you to a place designed to erase you from existence—but did you ever take a moment to see things from their point of view? Maybe they were under a lot of stress. Maybe they had economic struggles. Maybe they just needed you to pause for a second and acknowledge their pain. That’s all they asked for, Grandma. A little empathy. A little open-mindedness. And really, was that so much to give?”

After I finished, my grandmother—like a typical Jew, and like every Holocaust survivor who just won’t let things go—reacted with horror and anger. But I stopped her right there. I reminded her that, these days, canceling and shutting down uncomfortable ideas only makes it seem like there is some kind of Jewish supremacy. And I wasn’t about to let her cancel me, so I left...

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

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Meet project "Good Old USA" the now unsealed DoJ file on the Russian influence in the US to sway opinion on the war in Ukraine.

Something Trump has bought into hook-line and sinker.

It was held under seal, because we got the literal playbook revealing their methods

[Neutrino @n_eutrin_o]

@financialjuice He said they dropped today. They did not.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

"This is essentially Russian propaganda coming from the mouth of the American president." - said Nesty and Gas, American volunteers from the 13th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, "Khartia," who came to Ukraine last year to fight against the occupiers.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Joy Villa at the #GRAMMYs..

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

You now have a civilian billionaire who no one voted for running the government.
No we’re not talking about Trump, we’re talking about Elon. And yes we had to clarify that because there are a lot of idiots who wouldn’t understand the. context. Yes it’s that bad

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

If meme coins are the way, maybe I’ll issue one. With a twist. Same terms as $TRUMP . 20% float. Same release schedule. One difference.

All the revenue from the sale of the coins go to the US Treasury. The wallet address will be published so everyone can track it.

If you want to gamble, gamble. But at least use it to make a dent in the US Debt

You in ?

[A @aisforannaa]

@SharrellAnne2 @mcuban the felon is DEF working for you!

[WebTrend @WebTrendCo]

Dear @coinbase…

Please?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MUST-WATCH — HIGHLIGHTS: “Your policies will mean $7.5 TRILLION in debt… your tariffs —> trade war… could mean the dollar is no longer the reserve currency…”

Trump has no answers, lashes out at the interviewer at the Economic Club of Chicago.

Required vieiwing👇🏽