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[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

The largest ICE detention center made over $250 million last year. 

Billionaires have quite literally turned human suffering into a business.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump to farmers: You have a nice safe beautiful life. Your life is much better than my life. Your ear wasn’t pierced. You didn’t get pierced.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Trump goes on a weird tangent and explains that because he’s not running for office again he didn’t need to speak to farmers anymore, and he could instead be in the White House watching television.

“I got elected. Wha the hell am I here for?

Someone please take Grandpa’s keys.

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

🚨 'Hero' Cops Raid Cancer Patient's Hospital Room For Treating Cancer With THC Oil

For using THC oil, multiple cops "just doing their jobs" raided the hospital room of a terminally ill cancer patient after they claimed to smell marijuana.

[Andra @AndraMaguran]

💥💥💥 Are you kidding me?! Is this a joke?! The military woman pictured here is literally the exact same person as the DoorDash grandma from a few days ago.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump is about to lock 157 million Americans out of their own bank accounts.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed an executive order forcing every US bank to collect proof of citizenship is "in process."

And he just doubled down: "If Treasury and the banking regulators say it's their job, it's their job."

This sounds irrelevant but here's what this really means:

Per the Congressional Research Service, only 48% of Americans hold a US passport.

That leaves over 170 million Americans without one.

REAL IDs don't count. Driver's licenses don't count. Social Security cards don't count.

Per Wall Street Journal reporting, banks will need a passport or birth certificate.

The Brennan Center found 21.3 million voting-age US citizens don't have documents proving their citizenship easily available.

These are Americans who are about to lose access to their own bank accounts.

And here's the thing:

The order applies to new AND existing customers. Banks could be forced to close accounts of people who can't produce documents.

Your 78-year-old grandmother born at home in 1948. Your naturalized dad who lost his papers 30 years ago. Your cousin mid-passport renewal.

The official story is that this stops illegal immigrants from accessing banking.

But the actual reality:

Illegal immigrants can't open US bank accounts anyway. Know Your Customer rules already require SSNs or ITINs. The existing system ALREADY blocks what this order claims to block.

So who does this actually target?

The half of Americans without a passport. Rural Americans. Elderly Americans born before centralized record-keeping. Black Americans in Southern states where birth records were historically unreliable. Low-income Americans who can't afford $225 for an expedited passport.

The American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, estimates this adds 33 to 73 million paperwork hours and $2.6 to $5.6 billion in compliance costs.

Guess who pays those costs?

You do. Through fees. Through closed accounts. Through denied loans.

Bessent's defense quote: "I have a place in the UK, they want to know who lives in every apartment."

Bessent's net worth: $600 million.

He has a "place in the UK."

He will not be affected by this.

So this isn't really about immigration.

For the first time in American history, access to the banking system would be conditioned on proving citizenship to the federal government. That creates a permanent database linking every American's finances to their citizenship status.

Once that database exists, it gets used by ICE, voting enforcement, tax enforcement, Social Security, and future administrations for purposes nobody has announced yet.

Every future government gets the keys to decide who has a bank account based on paperwork.

And Wall Street's reaction tells you everything:

Bank execs privately called it "unworkable" and "a complete nightmare." One researcher called it "a way to weaponize the banking system to achieve political ends."

They're not pushing back because they love immigrants. They just KNOW the compliance costs are catastrophic and half their customers will walk.

Tom Cotton also introduced a companion bill in March making it a federal crime for any unauthorized person to "open or maintain a US bank account." Maintain. Meaning existing accounts.

These things are literally being drafted right now.

I'm surprised that all of this went under the radar.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mills: Here's the distinguishing difference: I'm not married, so I'm not committing an affair. I've never had any inappropriate actions with a staffer or intern of any type. I have absolutely no investigations that are criminal, that are open. I don't really find it to be warranted that I'm even tethered to the individuals that are on there.

[The Rational Purview @RationalPurview]

Speaking of corruption and also about how @ByronDonalds doesn't even have the temperament to lead here's this.

In a Naples grocery store, Donalds approached Kelly Mason over a lawsuit involving him and his wife over a Charter School they attempted to take over. Donalds confronted her in public, and when she disengaged he followed her and lurched over her screaming for her to “stop the lawsuits” and settle it “right now.”

When a man can't defer a personal dispute in a supermarket how he can be trusted to govern a state?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Pope Leo against Donald Trump!

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

As the USA spends trillions arming Israel and fighting illegal wars for it...

Here's Kentucky, where patients who could not pay their medical bills are abandoned and left out on the street in front of the hospital...

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department. https://t.co/HEIY1uLq9V

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: You previously said that nuking the filibuster would be taking a ‘wrecking ball to Senate rules.’ Is that no longer true?

GOP Sen. Cornyn: Go away! *puts hand over camera*

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Looks to me like the X algo, for some reason, doesn't like this story. So if you see it, share it widely.

[140 Main Street @140MainStreet]

@DecodingFoxNews

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE whistleblower says DHS is now graduating EVERY cadet… even when they fail practical exams and violate the law during testing.

According to Ryan Schwank, an attorney who served as an instructor for new ICE recruits, it doesn’t matter how badly a cadet performs, it doesn’t matter if they ignore constitutional limits, it doesn’t matter if they botch use-of-force scenarios…

DHS passes them anyway.

The people being handed guns to patrol our communities… to detain, arrest, raid homes, and separate families… are being pushed through training regardless of whether they can follow the law in a controlled training environment.

If someone can’t respect constitutional rights during an exam, what happens when they’re on the street with real power and no supervision?

We keep seeing videos of unlawful stops, illegal detentions, excessive force, and agents escalating encounters they created…

And now, a whistleblower is saying the standards were never enforced to begin with.

He goes on saying when cadets would use excessive force, and asked why they did it, they would respond… because I see what we are doing in Minneapolis.

He says, “It doesn’t matter what we teach them about the law if what they see… tells them that they can get away with things… But if they see the real rules are different than what we are teaching them, they follow the rules that they see.”

This further proves it isn’t a staffing issue, it’s a systemic failure.

When an agency graduates people who violate the law in training, when they don’t hold agents accountable, the public becomes the testing ground.

And until there are consequences for leadership, our constitutional rights will continue to be violated.

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

If you are seeing this, please RT 🙏🏽 MPD and Trump’s “SAFE” task force abducted me from my home, assaulted my 10 year old, and falsified charges against me. 4 months later they still refuse to dismiss my case, take it to trial, or release the body cam footage. I want the video.

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

Trump's Justice Department is in possession of thousands of videos of children being graped by wealthy and powerful men.

Those men WERE being blackmailed by Epstein. But by not releasing their names, these men must now be loyal to Trump to protect their identities.

Trump is now using Epstein's secret recordings to blackmail the most powerful people in the world so they remain loyal to him.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump supporters can't cope with Bad Bunny singing the Super Bowl halftime show.

Their solution? Replace him with Kid Rock, a guy literally known for flying the Confederate flag at his concerts.

So they don’t want a Latino American performing at the Super Bowl, but they enthusiastically embrace a guy known for waving the Confederate flag of those who literally tried to overthrow the United States.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Republicans: Spend 20 years passing laws allowing guns at protests, in airports, in schools, in churches, at polling places, in statehouses, in bars, on college campuses, in state parks, in parking lots, on trains and buses, in cars…

Donald Trump: You can’t have guns.