if you’re poor, you’re dead. Former republican, turned Democrat. he/him if you’re interested studying Social Work: Child Protective Serv #seditionhunter
Trump's White House ballroom is no longer projected to be $400 m. It is now $600 m. and taxpayers are projected to pick up half the tab. WaPo with a big report
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Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀
The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.
Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.
Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.
Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.
Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.
Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.
Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.
BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.
More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.
Holger Neumann, chief of the German air force: We are ready to fight Russia tonight if Moscow attacks any NATO ally.
We will go in with everything we have, in the air force and across NATO, to defend our country, our population, and our alliance — The Telegraph. 1/
Monitoring Telegram channels report signs indicating a possible combat sortie of strategic aviation tonight
It looks like russian terrorists may be preparing to attack us again
.@J_Fishback calling @ByronDonalds a "slave" is one of the ugliest moments I can remember in Florida politics.
Save your whataboutism; I know there have been uglier, violent moments, but every decent Republican should condemn this behavior.
I have a special favor to ask; I recently saw someone who was hospitalized for weakness. This individual faces multi organ diseases and, unfortunately, is not aware of this. Please send good vibes, prayers, or whatever you believe in to help this person through this. They have a long road ahead and may not come out alive on the other side. 💔💔🙏🏽🙏🏽
Troops are collapsing from heat exhaustion. Military bases are flooding. Planes can’t lift off in hotter air.
But the Pentagon’s message under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “We don’t do climate change crap.” https://t.co/IzBOti0uQM