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currently cryogenically frozen

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel’s defenders: It’s not a genocide

Israeli officials: Keep killing them, they’re not even people

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A private citizen with no security clearance and a massive financial stake in the region tells an American news outlet that he "can't go into the details" of our negotiations with Iran. Banana Republic stuff.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture, says its trust company has received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a bank. https://t.co/NV8yJizZuX

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, leaving nearby farms barren https://t.co/yzqIHVNnla

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to.

This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated the largest biotech IPO ever at $1.4B, where he then cashed out before the stock price tanked.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.

That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

[Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi]

NEW: Former Mossad Director David Barnea appointed to lead US defense tech company specializing in autonomous systems & drones.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

Hi @SecRubio! Do you still consider it "my Corporate Transparency Act" on the day President Trump illegally gutted it? You were indeed one of its biggest champions, because you understood it prevented our biggest adversaries from hiding their wealth under our noses.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The US is run by an organised crime syndicate that is destroying the evidence of their crimes

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations.
This is an extraordinary scandal.

[William Murphy @420GHz]

A trillion-dollar military running short of missiles after six months tells you what the system actually produces: not strategic endurance, but corporate profit. The Pentagon is less a war economy than a machine for transferring public wealth to private capital.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

greater percentage of children killed in Gaza than in Europe's holocaust. that's a hell of a statistic.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The fact that drone operators can make out the hairstyles of their victims before firing is an extremely haunting thought, given how many children have been hit with drone strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.

Some person saw the child and pressed fire anyway.

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

“An indictment filed Wednesday alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including well-known personalities Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were “often consistent” with the Kremlin’s “interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition” to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.”

The kindest analysis is that these guys were Useful Idiots. Also very possible they knew they were being paid to spread Russian propaganda. Either way, a total disgrace. They should give the money back.

@RubinReport @Timcast @bennyjohnson

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issues order terminating U.S. President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' to compensate supporters after weeks of negotiations with two GOP senators who were blocking his nomination. https://t.co/iVS2aYIj4L

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Shell made nearly $9.8 billion in profit between April and June – doubling its profits from the same time last year.

French oil giant TotalEnergies profited $6 billion – a 68% increase from the same time last year.

While millions feel the strain of paying $4/gallon at the pump, oil and gas companies are raking in enormous sums of money.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Won’t even side with his daughter over her abuser. Unreal

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

The craziest thing about this chart is that the price hike all goes back to when food producers realized they could use COVID to artificially inflate prices and people would just keep paying it because they have to eat and then nobody ever stopped them or held them accountable.

[max @percepting]

@jconjason @4TaxFairness He isn’t the richest man in the world that created an illegal gov organization with zero congressional oversight, go back to dick sucking billionaires, bum

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

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.