Karen Piper

Just another girl with a PhD. I follow academics in solidarity.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Trump is boxed in. Prepare accordingly.
I'm afraid to look at this point.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

He threatened to kill a judge.

[Andrew Mercado @AndrewMercado]

BREAKING: $1 MILLION BOND, JAKE LANG BOOKED INTO JAIL ON TERRORISTIC THREAT CHARGE

The Trump-pardoned January 6 terrorist Jake Lang has been booked into the Dallas County Jail and is being held on a $1 million bond, according to jail records.

The charge is listed as, you guessed it, Terroristic Threats. A pardoned convicted terrorist making terroristic threats all over the country. Weird. Nice mugshot ya weenie.

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[Kirsten Gillibrand @SenGillibrand]

🚨 Mike Johnson just revealed Republicans are waiting until after the midterms to move forward with plans to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

The only thing that can stand in the way of Trump's destruction is a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate.

November is coming. We can stop them.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Trump's "Meet the Press" interview brought him face-to-face with his worst nightmare: a woman who won't stop asking pertinent questions

[AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @AZAGMayes]

Completely illegal. Federal court after federal court has already rejected the Trump admin’s demands for private voter data and this will be blocked too.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DAGToddBlanche: You will be disbarred. You will be investigated next year. And if the facts warrant it, you will be prosecuted by the next Administration.

November is coming.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Republicans are salivating to implement this in America

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

What the hell? This includes "U.S. citizens."

[American Oversight @weareoversight]

A whistleblower says DOGE planned to use Social Security data to mark 2.7 million living people as dead—cutting them off from wages, banking, and other basic services—to force them out of the US.

We’re using FOIA to investigate DOGE’s access to the data.
https://t.co/pZfPgYPAtg

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Bill Gates told Congress that Jeffrey Epstein discovered that he had had affairs during his marriage and tried to leverage that information https://t.co/LH7JRwNAHE

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

On December 31, 2020, US Rep. Jamie Raskin announced that his 25-year-old son Tommy, a second-year student at Harvard Law School, had died.

Four days later, Raskin posted a tribute that revealed, after a prolonged battle with depression, Tommy had died by suicide.

In a farewell note, the 25-year-old said, "Please forgive me. My illness won today. Look after each other, the animals, and the global poor. All my love, Tommy."

Tommy was buried on January 5, 2021.

The next day, Raskin was in the Capitol with his daughter and son-in-law during the Capitol attack.

Hours later, he started drafting an article of impeachment against Trump, and six days later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Raskin the lead manager of Trump's second impeachment.

Today, Raskin is still one of the loudest critics of the current president, one of the most progressive leaders in Congress, and one of the strongest people — period.

Our current president bullies him on social media weekly.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

"Unfortunately, we cannot drone strike Andrew Tate," Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces tells the internet, to widespread disappointment.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Albanians protest over Kushner-linked luxury resort

📸 REUTERS/Florion Goga

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Screwworm, Ebola, measles and other problems are piling up as Trumps degrades the basic functions of the American government.

https://t.co/W1JgeQLKMR

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Okay, if Colin Jost isn't writing this one up right now, what's the point of the SNL cold open

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?

Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

😂😂😂

[TMZ @TMZ]

😅 Jimmy Kimmel trolls Spencer Pratt, rents him a U-Haul to leave L.A. after election loss.

Credit: ABC

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Hey @GOP, your plan is not to let me vote?

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive https://t.co/RxH85ZDfpN

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

My post on Sazan Island went viral yesterday because the verifiable facts are shocking.

Here's what I left out: Sazan is just one piece of a much bigger operation.

Jared Kushner started Affinity Partners in July 2021. One day after leaving the White House.

Within weeks, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund wired him $2 billion. Senior Saudi officials objected. Mohammed bin Salman overruled them.

By the end of 2024, Affinity was managing $4.8 billion, almost entirely from foreign governments. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE. Today that number is $6.16 billion. 99% from foreign nationals.

The fee structure, disclosed to the Senate Finance Committee under investigation: Kushner charges the Saudis 1.25% annually on $2 billion in committed capital. Other investors pay closer to 2%. The Senate's own investigators called this "unusually high" for a firm with Kushner's experience level, or more correctly, complete lack of experience. As of mid-2024, Affinity had generated zero return on investment and had not distributed a penny of earnings back to any client.

He's charging governments tens of millions a year to have their money sit in a bank account.

In late 2024, Senator Wyden referred Kushner to the Department of Justice for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The same law that put Paul Manafort in prison.

Now Kushner is back in government. Trump's "Special Envoy for Peace." Negotiating with Iran. Negotiating with Russia. Negotiating ceasefire terms in Gaza. On behalf of the United States. Not chosen by Americans. No experience running an investment firm. No training or experience in international relations. His sole credential is that he married the president's daughter. All while managing $6 billion from the governments he is negotiating with.

Before Trump's second term started, Kushner publicly promised he would not raise additional capital while serving. The New York Times then reported he was actively soliciting $5 billion more from foreign governments. His lawyers confirmed the conversations. They said he "does not intend" to take it.

He said the same thing before he took it the first time.

The Senate Finance Committee and the House Oversight Committee are both demanding answers. They've asked for every communication between Kushner and foreign governments. They've asked Affinity to preserve all documents. Any destruction of records, they said in writing, will be treated as obstruction.

Now look at the ownership chart below. It was produced as part of a corporate investigation published June 3rd titled "Exporting the Abraham Accords: The Hidden Network Converging on Albania's Shoreline." My follower @SlavicWoman777 flagged it in my replies.

Five unnamed Albanian shareholders. 24% combined stake. Structured deliberately just below the 25% threshold that would require public disclosure under Dutch law.

That is someone trying to hide who is behind the money.

This is what corruption looks like when it's wearing a suit and has a law firm on retainer.

What do you call it when your government's negotiator is on the payroll of the governments he's negotiating with?

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🤡 Andrew Tate has suddenly found himself in the Russian army

The controversial influencer is now learning how to shout “Yes, sir!”, march in formation, and do squats with a cigarette hanging from his mouth.

Of course, it’s all for show.

While he faces allegations in Europe involving rape, human trafficking, and the sexual exploitation of minors, Tate is spending his time in Russia filming content and playing soldier on military training grounds.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Edward Snowden isn't looking too good. I think he's missing some lower teeth. The life expectancy for Russian men is 67.

I wonder if he and @RealCandaceO got to chat.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Snowden is going for the Alexander Dugin look.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️Russia is using Edward Snowden in a new state media campaign to claim the US is using Apple and Google to spy on Russian officials.

https://t.co/3SpXn1KntM