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Lens-based interpreter, artists’ rights advocate.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

For everyone who says countries don't need to act because a court hasn't found Israel guilty of genocide, here's Francesca Albanese explaining the requirements of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in under 20 seconds.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

With today's passing of Alan Greenspan, the one thing you are obligated to do is watch this C-Span clip of Greenspan being utterly destroyed by Bernie Sanders, at a time when every other lawmaker was praising Greenspan as a hero as he created conditions for the financial crisis.

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974.

It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.

When Greenspan was still working in the corporate sector, Rand’s ideas about the “utopia of greed” infused him with a powerful sense of mission: apparently, making money wasn’t just good for him - it was good for society as a whole.

As for those who got trampled? Rand helped with that too: “Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should,” Greenspan wrote.

This mindset served him well as Fed Chair, where he supported shock therapy in Russia (72 million impoverished) and in East Asia after the 1997 economic crisis (24 million pushed into unemployment). Not to mention attacks on welfare and trade unions in the U.S....

JD Vance, with his tight concentric circles of "love," is just the latest manifestation of this worldview.

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Neuroscientist Diagnoses Trump’s Brain Damage

In his patterns of speech, inability to state the truth on just about any subject, and the apparent joy he gets out of watching people suffer ― something strange is going on ― a “dementing malignant narcissist.”

Credit: Scott Carney

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Unelected Epstein Class Billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, saying that they're "Entitlements." The most entitled man in the world is calling Social Security, and Medicare "Entitlements."

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐
This is beyond outrageous.
Openly, shamelessly, without fear of anyone, he is robbing America right in front of the entire country — robbing all of us.
Kaitlan Collins, host of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, described the situation this way:
“Imagine suing the government for $10 billion while also being the person who controls that very government. That’s exactly what is happening right now. Donald Trump, sitting in the White House, has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the IRS — the very Treasury he controls, the very IRS he oversees, the very government he leads.
He is effectively both the plaintiff and the defendant, and he wants taxpayers — you, me, every working family in America — to hand him $10 billion. Just think about that.”
Trump even appeared on television boasting that he had already “won,” essentially bragging that he was negotiating a settlement with himself.
Then his lawyers walked into federal court asking for a 90-day delay — not to fight the lawsuit, but to “reach an agreement.” An agreement between Donald Trump and Donald Trump, paid for with your money.
But then something unexpected happened.
Judge Kathleen Williams looked at this circus and basically said: “Wait a second. You are telling me you are suing yourself and expect me to approve a $10 billion payment from the U.S. Treasury directly into your personal pocket? Absolutely not.”
She rejected the 90-day delay. She demanded separate reports from both sides — despite both sides effectively being controlled by the same person. Then she took the extraordinary step of appointing three of the nation’s most respected law firms as independent advisers to the court.
Why?
Because $10 billion of taxpayer money is at stake.
What is really happening here is terrifying: a sitting president allegedly using the power of his office, and a Justice Department under his influence, to settle a personal lawsuit with himself and funnel public money into his own bank account.
Constitutional law already has a name for this: a collusive lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruled on this principle more than 200 years ago. If both sides are effectively the same party, the courts have no authority to proceed. The Constitution requires a real conflict, real opposing sides — not a friendly deal between a man and his reflection in the mirror.
And this is not some isolated stunt. Critics argue it is part of a broader strategy: stage a fake legal battle, force a surrender, cash the check, and walk away.
But this time the number is staggering: $10 billion.
Money that could repair roads, fund schools, support veterans, or feed hungry children.
Instead, critics say it is being redirected through one of the most transparent legal scams America has ever witnessed.
And the people supposed to defend the public interest? The Justice Department. Government officials whose job is to protect taxpayers.
They are not fighting. They are not even pretending to fight.
The judge sees it. Top legal scholars see it. The Constitution itself sees it.
The only remaining question is whether the system still has enough courage to say “No.”
Because if a president can sue himself and pay himself with public money, then the word “government” no longer means anything.
It simply means: the person holding the pen writes the check — and everyone else pays the bill.

[Favalli @masterganjaok]

Anoche, el documental "Gaza, doctors under attack" fue premiado con el BAFTA. A pesar de haber sido producido por la BBC, fue censurado por el canal oficial y nunca transmitido. En él se muestran los crímenes atroces e inhumanos perpetrados por Israel contra civiles en Gaza.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar.

Why? This chart has the answer.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Soy judío y estuve en Gaza como médico humanitario, lo que hacía antes Israel era un genocidio lento, ahora es total. Los israelíes son excelentes torturando, lo hacen a todas horas y han matado a médicos violándolos hasta la muerte".

Médicos humanitarios judíos denuncian el genocidio sionista en Gaza y las brutales torturas a las que someten a los médicos palestinos, como al doctor Adnan al-Bursh, jefe del departamento de ortopedia del Hospital Al Shifa, que fue violado hasta la muerte.

Sin embargo, esto no es ningún escándalo en Occidente... ningún crimen, por horrendo que sea, importa si quién lo hace es EEUU e "Israel2.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

People convicted of fraud who received pardons from Trump this year:

• Jason Galanis — $200M+ fraud
• Joseph Schwartz — $38M scheme
• Lawrence Duran — $205M Medicare fraud billing
• Carlos Watson — $60M investor scam
• Trevor Milton — $20M+ investor losses
• Todd & Julie Chrisley — $30M bank fraud
• Devon Archer — $60M bond fraud scheme
• George Santos — multiple fraud cases ($44K–$1M+)
• Michele Fiore — charity fraud
• Brian Kelsey — campaign finance fraud
• Scott Jenkins — bribery and fraud scheme
• Paul Walczak — $10M+ tax fraud
• Adriana Camberos — counterfeit/fraud operation

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Steve Rattner drops a massive bombshell. The Trump administration has secretly eviscerated half of the Affordable Care Act without ever admitting it.

By slashing Medicaid, Washington is intentionally forcing millions to drop their life saving coverage.

Absolute betrayal!

[Schaefer @frogmoor]

@cherish517 @smartyd8 @DemocraticWins You need to use your IQ to study up on what US intelligence agencies have done for many decades in the region to create said blowback. Somehow we think we’re allowed to interfere in their sovereignty b/c we think the oil on their land belongs to us.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

A holistic, coordinated, and multi level effort to wreck US science. Ask why and who benefits from it.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on.

Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it.

https://t.co/L0GlaYtsp6

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

Yesterday, JetBlue’s X account suggested a customer try clearing their “cache and cookies or booking with an incognito window” after the customer complained about a price increase.

@RepCasar and I are demanding answers from JetBlue about whether personal data is used in any way to set prices.

If two people are on the same flight in an identical seat, they should pay the same fare, not whatever a data profile says they can afford.
https://t.co/Iu6VDZW7pU

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

View of the rally happening right now at the Colorado State Capitol in advance of the vote on HB26-1210, a bill to ban surveillance pricing and wage discrimination.

Gig workers are holding signs that read “Same Work, Same Pay.”

Is that too much to ask!?

[Sarah Miller @sarahmillerdc]

When Lina Khan ran the FTC, she spotted this *exact* scenario and launched an investigation

The very first thing Trump’s FTC Chair did when he took over was kill it