This is oligarchy:
If you paid $1 in income taxes in 2019, 2020 or 2023, you paid more than Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founders, who became $400 billion richer since 2019.
Now, Brin is spending $138 million to oppose a 5% billionaire wealth tax in CA.
Disgusting.
Well, there you have it. The New York Times just reported that Trump's own handpicked contractor called bullshit on the serial lying conman's claim that "vandals," "thugs," and "sick people" were the cause of the Reflecting Pool fiasco.
In government documents dated August 14 and September 2, Atlantic Industrial Coatings admitted the blue liner peeled because the job itself was botched. The incompetent workers Trump hired didn't put down enough primer — the company called that "human oversight." Worse, the repair plan mixed two incompatible chemicals. The top layer got hotter than the layer underneath could take, blistered, and came apart.
It wasn't knives in the dark, radical left lunatics, or a conspiracy of tourists. It was a rushed, Trump-pressured, no-bid job that failed on the contractor's own paperwork. Trump knew it and lied anyway. Then to save face, the heartless piece of shit tried to jail innocent people for a screw-up his own contractor had already admitted.
My name is Maryam Tahmasebi, and I am a professor of psychology and statistics at Los Angeles Pierce College—or, I was, until April 9, when my life, and my family’s lives, changed forever. On that day, I was teaching a class when my son texted me, saying that my husband hadn’t picked him up from school and wasn’t answering his phone, which is very unlike him. I picked my son up from school, came frantically back home, and called the police, thinking that something horrible must have happened to him. Even so, it never occurred to me that he could have been detained by ICE. We are legal permanent residents with valid green cards. My husband, Eissa Hashemi, is also a professor, and has dedicated his life to mentoring PhD students in the Business Psychology department of The Chicago School. The government had decided to punish my husband for being the son of a woman who was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before Eissa was even born.
My son and I have spent over 120 days in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, away from my husband, who was taken to the South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall, Texas. We have been put through hell for the past four months, and our physical and mental health have deteriorated in ways that might not be reversible for years. We are only allowed to speak with my husband for 10 minutes every two weeks, under supervision.
We are in tremendous pain and have been trapped in an unendurable, unending nightmare. I want my son to have a normal life, not spend his days in this awful detention center in Dilley. No child deserves this. No human deserves this. We are asking anyone with a conscience to help us end this nightmare. There are more things I want to say, but this is the shackled version of what I feel safe saying right now. I will end on this: If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone.
#BREAKING: Talarico: “The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus. You wanna know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent school children in #Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war. You know what insults Jesus? Covering up the #Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them.”😳
1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
@usmntonly These comments are very low IQ. USMNT isn't saying they lost because of Trump's involvement. They are saying it had a negative effect on the sport, WC and integrity of the team. Trump should keep his nose out of what's good and stick to his usual topics of terror, evil and war
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶-𝗬𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁:
Many people have wondered how five-month-old Lamine Yamal, born into an ordinary, working-class family with no influential football connections, ended up in a photoshoot with Lionel Messi.
The answer is beautifully simple: PURE CHANCE
In late 2007, the Spanish newspaper Sport and UNICEF were producing a charity calendar featuring Barcelona players with babies. Yamal’s parents entered him into a public raffle, and he was among the children randomly selected. Messi, then a shy 20-year-old rising star, happened to be the Barcelona player assigned to their session.
The shoot took place at Camp Nou, where photographer Joan Monfort captured Messi holding and gently bathing baby Lamine as his mother watched nearby. Nobody involved knew that the child would later join Barcelona, wear the iconic No. 10 and become one of football’s biggest stars.
The photos remained largely forgotten until Yamal’s rise brought them back into the spotlight. Now, nearly two decades later, that anonymous baby and the young footballer holding him will lead Spain and Argentina against each other in the 2026 World Cup Final.
No influence. No special connections. Just a raffle, a charity photoshoot and a coincidence that now feels like destiny.
#Fıfaworldcup #lionelmessi #lamineyamal #ARGvsESP
Oyer: "I had great hope Blanche would be an effective leader and responsible steward of the DOJ, but he quickly proved me wrong. Two days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser ... I was shocked to hear Blanche's testimony about this yesterday. What he said about my firing is provably false."