almostnrml

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[almostnrml @almostnrml]

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It works like this: FIre all workers from Department ABC. As a consequence, Department ABC becomes completely unworkable... Defunders say "See I told you it was inefficient". Next they privatize Department ABC/ Sell it off for pennies on the dollar . ---->

[almostnrml @almostnrml]

@LarrytheCoach Larry the pedo coach: Derivative Naturalization: In 2000, her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Under U.S. immigration laws at the time, minor children (under 18 years old) could automatically derive citizenship when their parent naturalized.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly really didn't want a $100,000 AMEX bill to show up on her financial disclosure.

Here's the document, if you want to see what she DID disclose: https://t.co/4BycCKBf1G

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The guy who wrote Trump’s crypto law was on the payroll of the company it regulates. When the law passed, they made him CEO.

Bo Hines is 29. He ran for Congress twice and lost both times. He’d never worked in government or crypto. In January 2025, Trump made him executive director of the White House crypto council.

His first priority was writing the GENIUS Act, the first real crypto law in American history. Billions of dollars depended on the details.

The Wall Street Journal just revealed that Hines owned a third of a consulting company while at the White House. His dad owned another third.

Weeks after Hines started, the company signed a deal with Tether, the biggest crypto company in the world. Tether paid them $415,000 a month while Hines was writing the bill that would regulate it.

Trump signed the bill in July 2025. At the ceremony, he asked, “Where’s Bo Hines?” Hines stood up and took a bow.

A month after Hines left the White House, Tether made him CEO of its U.S. division. He bought a bigger house. His dad bought a private jet.

This is how the place runs now. Trump set the example and everyone underneath him is keeping up. I break it all down and much more in today’s show (link in reply).

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy accidentally featured himself shaking hands with a sex offender in a social video and put that same offender in a campaign ad.

https://t.co/1tf292Uhht

[Sam Stein @samstein]

🚨🚨NEW: New court documents reveal that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski directly fed intel to Laura Loomer to falsely accuse a DHS civil servant of green lighting payments to house undocumented immigrants.

scoop from @willsommer

https://t.co/TxR95xanEr

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Solid scoop by WaPo here. This entire thing reeks. Pardon recipient's family members, major GOP lobbyists, wanna-be ambassadors, businesses with interests b4 the govt., companies settling suits with Trump, contractors. all donating to this fund.

https://t.co/GCqBzDagFQ

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

CAUGHT STEALING BORDER MONEY FOR HIS OWN ADS, AND TRUMP'S "APOLOGY" IS KEEPING THE CASH

Ten point one million dollars and climbing. That's what's already been spent glorifying Donald Trump on your TV using Customs and Border Protection funds. Real taxpayer dollars that were supposed to secure an actual border

Bipartisan backlash hits. Reporters start asking questions. Suddenly Trump announces he and his PAC will pay for the ads "going forward"

Going forward. Read that again. Not a word about the ten million already blown. Not a word about reimbursing Treasury. Not a word about what happens to the twenty million dollar contract his own people rushed through in two days flat

This is the move. Get caught with your hand in the till, make a big show of pulling it out, never actually put the money back

Trump didn't apologize for stealing border security funds to run a vanity campaign featuring his own face and his own tax cuts. He apologized for getting caught doing it on camera

White House lawyers already blessed it as "legal." Of course they did. They work for him

So here's where it sits. CBP agents still underfunded. The actual wall still unfinished. But Donald Trump's self-tribute ads ran on Fox News within four days of the money moving

Ten million dollars of public funds, gone, unreturned, while Trump dangles a vague future promise that costs him nothing and fixes nothing

This is what accountability looks like under Trump. Get exposed, shrug, half-smile for the cameras, walk away richer in image and lighter in consequences

They are never going to pay it back. And they are counting on you forgetting by next week

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🚨 Secret donor list for Trump’s $333M White House ballroom just leaked and it’s Pay To Play Scheme

- Trump claimed it was “100% me and some friends.” He’s not on the list.

- Costs already hit $600M.

-Taxpayers get stuck with the rest.

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[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

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Gift link. 👇
https://t.co/YL74RYDOZV

[Liam Vaughan @liamvaughanBBG]

@crampell I was the editor on this one. Here's a gift link: https://t.co/DinoFJDTTz

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. https://t.co/cpIBv4aSo5

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.

[almostnrml @almostnrml]

@Smirkley Why is your chart labeled as sensitive content?

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

US has not spent $350B on Ukraine. It has spent $132B, $33B of that is money. The rest is $21B in loans, repaid from frozen Russian assets, $4B in humanitarian aid, and the vast majority, $74B is military equipment.

Half that equipment is new, made in the US. The other half is old stockpile equipment, which soon would have had to be demilitarized at great cost. The replacement equipment is made in the US, so the money stays in the US.

Meanwhile, the EU and European countries have spent a combined $271B, more than twice as much as the US.

[almostnrml @almostnrml]

@doris6230 @meiselasb

[FactPost @factpostnews]

James Talarico's closing statement:

You may have noticed that I haven't talked about my opponent at all tonight, because I don't want people to vote just against Ken Paxton. I want them to vote for me. I want them to know my values and my vision.

But we are running against the most corrupt politician in Texas. Since taking office, Paxton has increased his net worth by $27 million. He now owns 15 homes. We have an opportunity to defeat him and this entire corrupt system.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

"Jared Kushner is required to follow the Constitution and federal law, and if he has nothing to hide, he should welcome the opportunity to go through the Senate confirmation process and show the public everything is above board.”

We just sued. https://t.co/tYtwh8pXz3

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell report, WSJ reveals White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia failed the California bar exam in 2011.

She called herself a lawyer on Fox News. Trump introduced her as "an attorney."

No state has any record of her. Asked where she passed the bar: "when I moved to China."

Foreigners cannot take China’s bar exam and must already be attorneys to be considered a lawyer in China. This is a major scandal.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

Despicable.

One shudders to think of the additional shame our president will pile on our country in the remaining two+ years of his presidency.