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[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s crusade to purge women and people of color from our Armed Forces has never been subtle.

But today, a New York Times exposé revealed exactly how far he’s gone to dismantle the careers and achievements of our finest servicemen and women.

More than a dozen military insiders — both active duty and those already purged — spoke to the Times anonymously to unmask a horrific ongoing attack.

They detailed a process used by Hegseth and his team to halt senior officer advancements for reasons completely unrelated to merit, job performance, or fighting wars.

Hegseth’s efforts are part of a quest to advance his white-and-male centered worldview, facts, history, and actual service be damned.

In the absence of any such evidence, insiders confirmed that he has used his position to withhold promotions from qualified, decorated veterans. The Times cited several enraging examples:

• Last fall, Hegseth ordered Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll to remove two Black and two female officers from a 29-person promotion list. Driscoll repeatedly refused, citing their decades of exemplary service. In March, Hegseth bypassed him, removed their names, and sent the modified list to the White House.

• In total, Hegseth has removed 32 officers from Air Force and Navy one- and two-star promotion lists. He also pulled the only Black officer and the only female officer from a Marine Corps list, leaving their promotions in limbo.

• Vice Adm. Sara Joyner, a highly decorated three-star fighter pilot, saw her advancement stalled over a 2021 Navy recruiting ad where she said, "I’m not just a girl with a dream. I’m a sailor with one." Hegseth deemed the line a "big problem." Joyner has since retired.

• Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was recommended for a promotion after successfully managing the aftermath of a massive Navy fuel spill in Hawaii. Hegseth blocked his advancement after Barnett participated in a Navy-sponsored Pride event back in 2018.

It is an outrage to watch a media personality whose greatest battles have been with hangovers intentionally harm the careers of people who risked everything to keep America safe. Hegseth’s actions are insult to all who have served and a risk to national security.

[Image: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov]

[WIRED @WIRED]

Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them by wealth and fame, tracking their relationships, and using algorithms to help decide who they should meet and sit with, WIRED has learned.
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[Amanda Ungaro @AmandaUngaroA]

How did Paolo Zampolli obtain my phone while it was in the custody of the Aventura Police Department?

My phone was seized by law enforcement and should have remained secure as evidence. However, according to the location data from my Find My iPhone account, the device later appeared at Paolo Zampolli’s residence in New York.

I would like an explanation as to how a phone that was under police custody ended up in the possession of a private individual. Who authorized its release, who had access to it, and what chain-of-custody records exist to account for its movement?

This matter raises serious concerns regarding the handling of evidence and deserves a full investigation.@DHSgov @davidventutella

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@ChrisbWells @ianbremmer @atrupar @joshrogin Hahahahahahaha. World on notice of what? That Trump won’t follow through on what he says and will give up when things get rough? Oh, and that he’ll pay you off with other people’s money? Delusional.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
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[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump's Campaign Chairman Tim Nolan has been convicted of trafficking 19 girls, 7 of them underage.

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@timeforabreak6 @caringguy1957 @TheMaineWonk @shashatheitch22 Here, I’ll do it https://t.co/krBkz26wbw

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

A bombshell NYT article just dropped with shocking new information from inside the Oval Office over the past year.

According to the Times, in April of last year, Stephen Miller — a known proponent of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation's "unitary executive theory" — proposed that the White House simply pretend Trump had "the power to suspend habeas corpus." However, a loyalist attorney shut him down.

After ICE gunned two American citizens down in cold blood in Minneapolis earlier this year, JD Vance also floated invoking the Insurrection Act, per the Times.

Even legal counsel Will Scharf, described by the paper as an "arch-conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary," sought to quash the unconstitutional proposals, as detailed in several top-secret memos.

"But the documents reflected alarm among a small group of senior aides," the Times wrote.

"[White House insiders] felt that Mr. Miller’s eagerness to test the limits of executive power — and to accuse other branches of encroaching on it, echoing a president who bristled at any constraint — risked steering the administration, and the country, in a dangerous direction."

This administration is looking for any opportunity to unlawfully seize power as their coalition collapses and their support tanks in real time.

November is rapidly approaching, and they know it may be now or never — but that is not a given. Remember this when you vote.

[Matt Rourke/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo, REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein]

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@johannsen_tony Go away? You’re the one replying over and over again to a post I made. You can’t reply to me in good faith with arguments, you’re engaging in ad hominem attacks, and deflection. So you’re resorting to name calling, and accusing me of being a fraud. Bizarre and pathetic.

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

Hey, family owned farms? Eminent domain for data centers.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

This broke TODAY — June 10, 2026. From News5Cleveland and the Ohio Capital Journal. Confirmed by the Ohio Farm Bureau. Backed by documents obtained directly from the Ohio Statehouse.

And what is being proposed in Columbus right now — quietly, while every eye in America was on Nashville’s 26-1 vote — is the most frightening piece of legislation that Ohio farmers have ever faced.

Because if this proposal becomes law — a data center company could take your farmland. Before a court decides what it is worth. Before you receive a single dollar. While construction begins on what used to be your family’s fields.

🌾 WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEING PROPOSED — IN PLAIN ENGLISH

The Ohio Business Roundtable — a powerful trade group that lobbies at the Statehouse — recommended in a document obtained by News5Cleveland that lawmakers change eminent domain law, and “should extend possession authority to energy infrastructure projects once public use and necessity have been established.” 

Eminent domain. That is the legal power that allows governments to take private property for public use. Roads. Schools. Hospitals. Public utilities. Things that serve the public.

Now — according to documents obtained directly from the Ohio Statehouse — the Ohio Business Roundtable is pushing to extend that power. To energy infrastructure projects. The same infrastructure that AI data centers need to operate.

“We are aware of efforts to further erode the limited protections that landowners have, allowing for quick take of property without first paying for the property and determining a landowner’s rights and compensation through a court of law,” the Ohio Farm Bureau’s Evan Callicoat said. 

Quick take. Without first paying for the property. Those four words should terrify every farmer, every landowner, and every property owner in Ohio — and every state watching what Ohio does next.

😤 “FARMERS COULD LOSE THEIR LAND — AND NOT GET PAID FOR MONTHS OR YEARS”

Data center companies do not hold the power of eminent domain, but Callicoat says that this version could eventually allow for it. “Many of the services and utilities that they require do hold that authority,” he said. He fears that with this proposed idea, it’s broad enough that farmers could lose their land to data centers, not getting paid for it for months or years. 

Months or years. Without payment. While construction begins on your land.

Let that sink in. A farmer who has worked the same fields for decades — whose children grew up on that land, whose family cemetery might sit at the edge of those fields — could be forced to watch a data center go up on his property while a court slowly determines what compensation he deserves.

Right now, eminent domain law allows for federal, state and local governments to take property for public use. If a court sides with the utility company, deeming it necessary to take, the appraised value of the land is given to a court account. However, the owner can appeal this decision to fight for more money. While this court battle is going on, construction is not allowed to begin. 

That last sentence is the critical protection that Ohio farmers currently have. While your court battle is going on — construction cannot begin. Your land cannot be touched until the legal process plays out.

The proposal being pushed by the Ohio Business Roundtable would eliminate that protection. Construction could begin while you are still fighting in court. While your family’s land is still legally in dispute. While the compensation for what was taken has not been determined.

🏛️ AND THE OHIO STATEHOUSE IS FIGHTING BACK — BUT THE OUTCOME IS NOT GUARANTEED

The Ohio Farm Bureau is not the only voice opposing this. Ohio lawmakers — responding to months of community pressure — are pushing their own legislation in the opposite direction.

The measure explicitly bars the use of eminent domain to acquire property for a data center project. “At this point,” Workman said, “we’re just making sure that we preserve farmland and individual property.” 

Preserve farmland. Preserve individual property. Those are the exact words of the Ohio lawmaker introducing the protective legislation. The direct opposite of what the Ohio Business Roundtable is pushing for.

Two bills. Moving simultaneously through the Ohio Statehouse. One that would protect Ohio farmers from losing their land to data centers. One that could — according to the Ohio Farm Bureau — eventually allow data center infrastructure to take property before compensation is determined.

The Ohio Farm Bureau’s 2026 Action Plan specifically calls for leading efforts for additional landowner protections, including eminent domain reform, streamlined judicial procedures, and agricultural easement program enforcement. The bureau also calls for engaging with the Ohio General Assembly on tax incentives that encourage the development of farmland such as data centers, warehouses, and business facilities. 

The Ohio Farm Bureau — the organization that represents hundreds of thousands of Ohio farm families — named data centers specifically in its 2026 action plan as a threat to farmland. Not as an abstract concern. As a documented, named, active threat that requires legislative action to address.

📜 AND THE SWEEPING NEW DATA CENTER LEGISLATION INTRODUCED TODAY ADDS ANOTHER LAYER

Ohio lawmakers introduced sweeping new data center legislation on June 10, 2026 — the same day that Ohio farmers expressed fears about the eminent domain proposal. 

Same day. Two simultaneous legislative battles. Ohio farmers waking up on June 10, 2026 — the same morning Nashville’s council voted 26-1 for a moratorium — to discover that their Statehouse is considering legislation that could give data center infrastructure companies the power to take their land before paying them.

This is not a coincidence. This is the pattern that communities from Ohio to Louisiana to Utah to Virginia have been documenting for two years. While communities fight visible battles — petitions, council votes, celebrity Instagram posts — the less visible battles happen inside Statehouse committee rooms. With trade group lobbyists. With documents obtained only because a journalist filed a public records request.

🌍 WHY OHIO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLEGROUND IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW

Ohio is not just any state. It is the state where two Ohio moms told the Washington Post that data centers will be the first thing on their minds when they vote in November. The state where Amazon Web Services broke ground on a campus stretching from a residential playground to a neighborhood elementary school. The state that has been called the Midwest’s fastest-growing data center market.

Data centers are Ohio’s newest land use controversy. With concerns ranging from water use to electricity prices to loss of farmland, the rapid onset of data center development has generated many questions and conflicts across the state. In response, members of the Ohio legislature have introduced several bills on data center development. 

Several bills. Moving through committee simultaneously. Some protecting farmers. Some potentially threatening them. And a powerful trade group lobby — the Ohio Business Roundtable — pushing for changes that the Ohio Farm Bureau says could amount to allowing quick take of property without first paying the owner.

Data center opponents gave Ohio lawmakers an earful at the Statehouse on June 3, 2026. And on June 10 — the same day Nashville voted 26-1 — Ohio farmers found out about the eminent domain proposal. Their reaction was immediate. 

🗣️ “THE FARM BUREAU ISN’T OPPOSED TO DATA CENTERS — BUT THEY ARE OPPOSED TO A VIOLATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS”

This is the most important nuance in the entire Ohio story. And it is the nuance that makes it reach across every political divide.

The Farm Bureau isn’t opposed to data centers, but they are opposed to a violation of property rights, Callicoat said. 

This is not an anti-technology fight. This is not a fight against economic development or job creation or the AI industry.

This is a fight about one of the most fundamental rights in American law. The right to own property. The right to not have that property taken before you are paid for it. The right that the Founders wrote into the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution — “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation” — specifically to protect ordinary Americans from exactly this kind of power being exercised against them.

Ohio farmers are not fighting data centers. They are fighting the idea that a company — backed by a powerful trade group lobby — can use the legal infrastructure of the state to take their land without compensation while construction begins.

That fight — the fight for property rights against corporate power — is not a left fight or a right fight. It is an American fight.

Here is what every Ohio landowner, every Ohio farmer, every Ohio property owner needs to understand right now:

The Ohio Business Roundtable has filed a document with Ohio Statehouse recommending changes to eminent domain law that — according to the Ohio Farm Bureau — are broad enough that farmers could lose their land to data center infrastructure before being paid for it.

That proposal is being considered in Columbus today. While the entire country is watching Nashville. While Erin Brockovich is mapping data center reports from 49 states. While 360,000 people are celebrating a 26-1 council vote in Tennessee.

The battle for Ohio farmland is happening right now. In a committee room. With lobbyists. With documents that had to be obtained through public records requests.

And the only thing standing between Ohio’s farm families and this proposal becoming law is the Ohio Farm Bureau, a handful of protective bills, and the attention of Ohio voters who are paying attention to what their Statehouse is doing in their name.

Are you paying attention?

Are you an Ohio farmer or landowner? Did you know this proposal existed before reading this post? Tell us your county. Tell us your reaction. The Ohio Farm Bureau needs to know how many people are watching this fight.

The Fifth Amendment was written for exactly this moment.

SHARE THIS with every Ohio farmer, every rural landowner, every property rights advocate, every Republican and Democrat who believes that what a man owns cannot be taken from him without fair and immediate compensation. This fight is happening TODAY in Columbus. They need to know.

we are covering the Ohio Statehouse data center fight in real time, alongside Nashville, New York, Utah, and every other community and state where the fight for America’s land, water, and property rights is happening simultaneously. Do not let this one get buried while everyone watches Nashville.

📌 SOURCES:
News5Cleveland — Ohio Farmers Fear New Proposal Would Allow Data Centers to Take Property (June 10, 2026)
Ohio Capital Journal — Ohio Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping New Data Center Legislation (June 10, 2026)
Ohio Capital Journal — Data Center Opponents Give Ohio Lawmakers an Earful (June 3, 2026)
Ohio Capital Journal — Ohio Lawmakers Begin Hearings on Data Centers (May 29, 2026)
Ohio Capital Journal — Ohioans Are Getting Fed Up With Data Centers, State Lawmakers Are Starting to Notice (March 12, 2026)
Ohio Farm Bureau — The Ohio Agriculture and Rural Communities 2026 Action Plan (February 19, 2026)
Ohio State University Farm Office — What to Do About Data Centers? New Bills Offer Some Solutions (February 20, 2026)
Ohio State University Farm Office — Ohio Eminent Domain Bill Meets Resistance (2023 — referenced for legal background)

🎩 The Stoic Way

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@johannsen_tony Because what happens in some states has a potential to be copied in other states. Because my family has a family farm in a nearby state to Ohio. And why the f are you continuing to reply on my post? Do you have nothing better to do? And name calling. Pathetic

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@johannsen_tony Sharing a post & responding to you is losing my mind? Eminent domain laws are used for more than driveways & roads. Maybe do some research so you actual know what you’re trying to argue. Invaded by Somalis? Dude, they are less than 1% of the population in Ohio. I live in Alaska

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@johannsen_tony You’re commenting on my post about stuff that has nothing to do with the article and the proposal in question. Going on about propaganda and bullshit. Why are you here?

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@johannsen_tony This post is not about water use issues. This is about an actual proposal by a real Ohio business trade group that would change Ohio eminent domain law that has the potential to affect Ohio farmers. Not a psyop, nothing to do with China, not propaganda.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Friends— If you haven’t read the @nytimes 🚨‼️Bombshell Report🚨‼️on the Epstein Cover Up in the White House, it’s a MUST READ for your weekend reading list!

Article Below—https://t.co/ptmQQCzwqP

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@johannsen_tony An actual proposal to change the eminent domain law in Ohio is Chinese propaganda and a psyop? https://t.co/JljNhs0iFp

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:

I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.

While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.

You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.

And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.

So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.

The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.

Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.

Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.

Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New reporting reveals that Trump administration officials demanded the New Mexico AG close his investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in 2019.

[ink&rage @inkrage1]

@DanSullivan_AK You are not a “real winner.” You’re a pedophile protector https://t.co/9A6ONCa3LI

[Karen Salitis 🇺🇸♥️🤍💙🇺🇸 @KarenSalitis]

@Rep_Stansbury @nytimes Paywall removed. Gift article from New York Times magazine about the VP, Chief of Staff, DOJ and FBI colluding to cover up Epstein by the White House. A long, but good read for those who would be interested.

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