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[Billy Binion @billybinion]

It should insult every taxpayer that the people leading the “Department of War” appear more interested in soaking up culture war battles while we’re involved in an actual war abroad. It is so painfully unserious.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

8 billion people watching 100 people rule and destroy the world is wild.

[ProPublica @propublica]

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the far north.

Trump appointed a venture capitalist and MAGA influencer with no formal science background as its chair.
https://t.co/5EbXXD5SuV

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

The Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans.
https://t.co/HR0cE3GjJm

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

The people that never shut up about Sharia Law just put the Middle East in control of what we watch.

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

"Kremlev is the 'wallet' of [Putin's chief bodyguard] Alexei Rubezhnoy, the closest person to Putin," @zygaro told me. "Rubezhnoy is the first person who sees Putin in the morning and the last person to wish him good night before bed."

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump’s FCC just approved Trump pal David Ellison’s deal to allow Saudi Arabia, Qatar & the UAE to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros, including:

CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Fandango
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
& more

Outrageous: We don’t need Middle East dictators to control American media.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Last July, after AI companies spent millions to elect Trump, the Trump administration made executives at Palantir, OpenAI, Meta and Thinking Machines Lab Lieutenant Colonels in the U.S. Army Reserves.

This is where that corruption led us:

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin, saying things that are not only false and cruel but which only Russians could have instructed him to say, since there is no way he could have thought of them himself, and since they depend on knowledge that he does not have.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Unbelievable. It’s fully transparent what’s going on here. Trump wanted to end the war to do business. He couldn’t end the war so he announced he’ll do business anyway. It was always the intention.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

The U.N. confirms what we all already knew: the Trump admin targeted a girls school and killed 178 civilians, most of whom were girls — and it was an action catalyzed by preventable negligence.

God help us.

https://t.co/JppKdkLvYg

[James Li @5149jamesli]

His vote stripped the ability of states to hold pesticide companies accountable for causing cancer AND extended the time being granted for glyphosate to not have to recertify as safe through the EPA.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Hillary called Trump "Putin's Puppet" at one of their debates ten fucking years ago but no one in the press cared b/c they were too busy obsessing over her email habits. Oh well ... 🙃

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Ron DeSantis has signed a law banning Florida cities from requiring water or shade for workers.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

This is why they’ve kept his corpse alive for the past three months. To wheel it out and use it to cast a handful of votes for Republicans. It’s grotesque, undignified, and abusive.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SADISTIC: Trump just said he’d deny FEMA funding for storm-ravaged North Carolina if the Republican lost.

“If Michael loses, I’m not sending it, okay?”

Threatening disaster aid is fucking sick.

[Lauren Underwood @LaurenUnderwood]

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations.

Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors.

We paid, and his friends cashed in.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

President Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, who led GPB Capital, less than two weeks after he began serving a seven-year sentence in a $1.6 billion fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than 10,000 investors.
https://t.co/0JGqpVj7JW

[🇬🇹⚜️ @saraodette]

But fuck yeah highest in the nation for corporate tax breaks and then highest bullshit barometer from the governor.