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[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

In a two-way race in 2024, Donald Trump got 26.5% of the vote in City of Los Angeles. In a three-way race in 2026, Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. I'm not sure what the mystery is that demands a conspiratorial explanation.

[Covie @covie_93]

Hunter Biden is out of f*cks and I'm here for it.

[Drew Comments @sjs856]

Black People voting Dem got us:

1. The Civil Rights Act
2. 40% increase in high school grads
3. Twice as likely to have college degree
4. 6x greater wealth
5. 23% decrease in infant mortality
6. 11.5 year life expectancy increase
7. The Community Reinvestment Act

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This week alone:

DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.

The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.

The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.

Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.

It’s just Thursday.

The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.

[Wisconsin Family @Wisconsin_fam]

I think we all know the real reason why Josh Jacobs was released from jail yesterday.

[Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers]

Donald Trump Jr. is who yall thought Hunter Biden was

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

I’d forgotten about the time that Ken Paxton stole a $1000 Mont Blanc pen, a lawyer had accidentally left at a security checkpoint, in a courthouse.

Paxton denied it until he realized he was caught on a security camera, then claimed it was an accident. lol

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr is a paid strategic advisor for Kalshi, and a major investor and advisor for Polymarket.

The Trump administration is using taxpayer money to sue to protect their family’s investments.

This is what corruption looks like.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

MAHA!

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Top journalist Ana Kasparian exposes absolute insanity.

The Trump administration gave a $17.4M no bid contract to renovate fountains.

The exact same job under a competitive contract would cost only $3.3M.

Washington is intentionally looting taxpayers to enrich their cronies.

[Night Owl @Night_Owls247]

@atrupar Trump posted Obama’s address in 2023 and 1 of his sick J6’ers showed up outside O’s home with a machete, 2 firearms, & 400 rounds of ammo. Then Trump cont’d leaving O’s address up for another week.

But Comey used a restaurant term, & Kimmel made a (statistically accurate) joke.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Casey Means is an Instagram influencer turned functional tech med grifter. She is a resident dropout, is not board-certified, her license is inactive, & she does not practice medicine. Means is unqualified for the job even without considering her root cause metabolic bullshit.

[Brendan Keefe - Atlanta News First @BrendanKeefe]

Son & I went to a national park in January & asked to buy the $80 annual pass. Rangers said they were ordered to throw out all the hard passes b/c they didn't have Trump's photo on them (yet). Had to buy online & rangers printed a temp pass. This came in the mail a month later.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of State were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

No drugs on the boat and no crimes committed by anyone except the United States government.

Horrific.