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[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning the olive groves of Yaroun in South Lebanon.

One of the oldest villages on Earth.

A 3,000-year-old village.

This is an act of ecocide.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN side by side video of Trump saying today he didn’t know the reflecting pool contractor and… 

Trump in April saying: I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. I'm going to send my contractor over.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

UPDATE—Women who leaked video of abuses in ICE detention were immediately locked in solitary confinement as retaliation.

"They're threatening us... They're hitting us," women said.

"We fear for her safety... They're killing us, but we have our voice."

"Please help us!"

[lawson @lawson_domi]

One sentence was all it took to set everything off... 😳🏍️

[Aisar @aisarcore]

A homeless teen grew up to be a single mom. One day she put 40 cents into a slot machine in New York and it flashed $43 MILLION. The casino handed her $2.25 and a steak dinner instead. Nobody agrees on how the fight over it ended.

– Katrina Bookman grew up in foster care and was homeless as a teenager. She later raised four kids alone in New York.

– On August 5, 2016, she put 40 cents into a machine called Sphinx Wild at Resorts World Casino in Queens.

– The screen lit up: $42,949,672.76. The biggest slot machine win ever recorded in the US.

– She took a photo of the screen and was already thinking about giving her son money to open a barbershop.

– A worker even told her Congrats, come back tomorrow once it's official.

– The next day, everything changed. They said the machine broke and that her real win was $2.25.

– Their apology was $2.25, plus a free steak dinner.

– Meanwhile, New York's own Attorney General just sued a prediction market platform, calling it an "illegal gambling operation" for not answering to the state's gaming regulators the way casinos do.

– A prediction market doesn't work like a casino at all. There's no house. You're matched peer-to-peer, and your payout comes from the person who took the other side, not a company deciding after the fact whether to honor what its own machine already told you that you'd won.

– She said no to both and got a lawyer. He argued that even if it was a glitch, the machine's real top prize was $6,500, and she should get that much at least.

– New York's gaming regulator backed up the casino's malfunction claim.

– Every machine on the floor had a small sign that said the same thing: malfunctions cancel all wins.

– The case dragged on for years, slowed down even more by COVID.

– But here's the strange part, nobody can agree on how it ended.

– Some reports say a judge sided with the casino. Others say it was quietly settled behind closed doors.

– No court ruling has ever actually surfaced.

– One thing everyone agrees on: she never got the $43 MILLION, never got the $6,500, and not even the dinner, by her account.

A machine can flash $43 MILLION at you, and the law still lets a company shrink that down to $2.25 overnight. Whether a judge had to say that out loud, or the casino just decided it on its own, is still up for debate.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Hey @SenSchumer

How come MITCH McCONNELL was so effective when he was in the MINORITY and why are you so INEFFECTIVE?

How did he block so much when he didn't control the Senate?

How come you can't rally the votes and block jack shit?

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Walmart forces tracking for "surveillance advertising" with all new Vizio TV purchases
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Walmart acquired Vizio in December 2024 and mandated that select new Vizio OS TVs require a Walmart account to access smart features, a policy implemented in March 2026. This requirement locks streaming apps, voice search, and content recommendations behind a login wall, effectively merging viewer data with Walmart’s retail purchase history to fuel its advertising business.

The system uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to track what is displayed on the screen, regardless of the source (cable, game console, or streaming apps), creating a detailed profile of consumer habits. While the TV functions as a standard display for HDMI inputs and over-the-air antenna signals without an account, the integrated SmartCast operating system remains inaccessible until a user signs in or creates a Walmart account.

[Hey Jo🤍 @joe_jo9]

‘We’re just getting started’ might be the funniest thing Greg Abbott has ever posted. After 11 years as governor and 30 years of Republican control, that’s not a slogan. It’s a confession. Thirty years in charge, and he’s acting like they just inherited the job. 🤣🤣🤣

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines.

I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan.

The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all.

My latest False Flag @BulwarkOnline:

https://t.co/yhbkJmRQpL

[Hey Jo🤍 @joe_jo9]

Trump’s signing an executive order today creating a “Military Spouse Commission” advisory board that doesn’t change a single law, fund a single program, or put one new benefit in the hands of military families.

And Pete Hegseth’s wife is the chair.

It’s a workaround from our corrupt government to “legitimize” her tagging along on her husband’s official trips while having her travel, lodging, meals, and other expenses reimbursed through the Defense Department’s budget.

Just another fucking scam.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods"

https://t.co/dYNAfT6Zk8

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

NEW: 2 people in Michigan have just died from Cyclosporiasis—the first deaths reported from the outbreak sweeping the nation.

This after Taylor Farms gave *$2M* to Trump & Republicans as they postponed a rule that could've limited the spread of outbreaks.https://t.co/uedKsQtFJz

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Exxon, Chevron, and Shell made $404 million *every day* over the last 3 months and haven't paid a penny for fueling the climate crisis.

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

I heard about rehab centers essentially abducting Native Americans in Arizona, holding them hostage, and billing medicaid $8000 a day. I went there to look into it - and it was so much worse than I expected.
My full story is tonight on @NewsNation at 11pm.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

If you can’t impeach a President for laundering money, War crimes, corruption, Market Manipulations, illegal Wars nowadays, what can you impeach them for?

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

🚨 Blink and a “routine stop” becomes a window‑smashing dog deployment. Arkansas deputies chased a driver, pinned his car, then sent a K‑9 through the window, all justified afterwards by a “pocket knife clipped to his pants.”

Another textbook case of force first, story later.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

At least seven states have now been targeted in a growing wave of cyber attacks on critical water infrastructure across the country, according to the FBI.

Federal officials are reportedly investigating Iran as the likely culprit.

@ElizLanders has more.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump is pushing for the AI data center takeover of America while he stands to personally profit from it.

We dug through Trump's financial disclosures, and discovered that he secretly bought up to $25 million in the handful of construction firms building out the AI data center boom Americans are actively opposing. Some of those same companies saw their stocks nearly double in value since Trump took office.

It’s not just Big Tech donors getting rich off pro-AI policies – we followed the money back to Trump himself.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Artificial intelligence is fueling stock market highs, economic growth and a construction boom across the country.

But it is also igniting fierce local debates about the benefits and the costs — and whether the data centers that power AI should be built at all. https://t.co/EcidYEkvs7