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[spetrosk @spetrosk]

@underthestars88 @studentactivism The media is responding with the exact level of hesitation to call out these things that Trump & GOP have cultivated with their anti-media rhetoric. They have programmed them into submissive both-sides-ism that enables GOP to get away with so much shit.

We need a fearless press.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

Venture capitalist politics.

[Frankly Speaking @TheFrankLauria]

@GovAndyBeshear

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The British police arrested Uncle Said for protesting the production of killer drones in Elbit's unwanted israeli weapons factory in Shenstone

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

JUST SO I UNDERSTAND THIS, BLOCKING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS UNFAIR, BUT BLOCKING OIL SHIPMENTS TO CUBA IN ORDER TO COLLAPSE THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY, IS FAIR 🤔 DID I GET THAT RIGHT 🙄

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

No, this cannot be allowed to happen - She. Can. Go. Time for this position to end, it’s not needed and every request she wants is an overreach.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

in 1992 the Vice President of the United States misspelled the word "potato" and it effectively ended his political career

[SheepDog Society LLC @SDSLLC_USA]

If a widow collects even 1 social security check after her husband dies and she doesn't notify the government of his passing, then she can be criminally prosecuted.

If a Senator dies and their staff still happens to vote and sign Bills in their name that could affect the entire country, then what happens?

[The National @ScotNational]

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is illegally occupying Palestine.

It means the UK is obliged to take concrete steps. But two years on, Labour have remained silent and have not banned trade with illegal Israeli settlements

[Christopher Miller @chrizmillr]

The easiest way for journalists to get to the bottom of the “is Mitch McConnell dead” question, is to just ask Trump directly: “so they don’t want you to know and are keeping you out of the loop about it?” And that narcissistic gossip will immediately say “no I know he’s been brain dead for three weeks and they’re keeping him on a ventilator so they can avoid a special election and he looks like a mummy I was the first to know” he can’t help himself

[Covie @covie_93]

BREAKING: FIFA Peace Prize recipient bombs Iran during the FIFA World Cup.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Love the idea that murder victims’ loved ones are simply not calling the police because they love Mamdani too much

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

This is quite an egregious insult to the complainants in both of these investigations into NACC Commissioner Brereton

This is the same mindset that helped create the Robodebt furore - oh well, they've resigned now so there's no point in pursuing justice

This does nothing at all to strengthen public trust in the NACC

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Meanwhile, this is what American cities look like under capitalism.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

The Wikipedia entry for Rafah, a city bigger than Limerick, is now in the past tense.

It is gone. Not a single building left intact.

An entire city erased by Israel.

They are the Nazis of today.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir, called Pope Leo “a Chinese communist agent” for writing that AI must be used to “truly benefit the common good, and is not just used to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few.”

Who do you trust? Pope Leo or Mr. Thiel?

[Doktor Ross Sewage MD @sewage666]

friendly reminder: they never paid the lady who snitched on luigi and she was fired from her job

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

The courts once again protecting men from consequences of their own actions, if quoting the words of men in the public eye hurt their chances to be an ‘advocate’, then they shouldn’t be one

This is fucking disgusting

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

I CALLED IT, ANIMALS, AND YOU LAUGHED!!! Months ago I told you ICE would buy facilities DIRECTLY from the prison companies at north of $150,000 per bed — and I was WRONG, folks, it was BETTER!!! ICE just bought TWO facilities from CoreCivic — $CXW — for $1.47 BILLION!!! That's $286,000 per bed in California City, $371,000 PER BED at Otay Mesa, $323,000 a bed COMBINED — DOUBLE what these things cost to build!!! Even I underestimated the beauty, and I NEVER underestimate!!!

AND WHO OWNS $CXW??? DONALD TRUMP!!! It's RIGHT THERE in the disclosure, folks — the man holds CoreCivic AND GEO Group, the two companies running America's ICE detention centers!!! Follow the bouncing ball: HE runs the immigration crackdown!!! HIS DHS just wired $1.47 billion to a company HE OWNS SHARES IN, at DOUBLE replacement cost!!! The buyer is his government, the seller is his portfolio, and the taxpayer is the ATM!!! That's not a conflict of interest, that's a CLOSED LOOP!!!

And the STRUCTURE is a masterpiece: DHS buys the buildings, but CoreCivic KEEPS OPERATING them under the same contracts!!! Sold the real estate, KEPT the revenue — like selling your house and the buyer pays YOU rent!!! Gain north of $1 BILLION on assets carried at PENNIES!!!

THE DE-LEVERING — exactly like I told you: $716 MILLION of debt GONE overnight!!! Credit facility, GONE!!! The 2027 notes, GONE!!! And that puts them under the covenant thresholds that unlock UNLIMITED BUYBACKS with the $400 million left over!!! Fewer shares, folks — and whose shares get more valuable??? DONALD'S!!!

AND THE SEQUEL IS COMING: CoreCivic says it's in talks with ICE to sell MORE facilities!!! The machine runs forever: sign the orders, fill the beds, sell the buildings to yourself at double price, buy back the stock, watch the disclosure GLOW!!! One catch the animals should know — ICE can cancel those operating contracts anytime, so read the covenants before you chase!!! Do your own research, NOT advice!!! Is ANYBODY looking into this??? The SEC??? He APPOINTS the SEC!!! I called the trade, the price, AND the de-levering — GREATEST prison analyst in American history, maybe ever!!!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Scandalous.
18 months in arbitrary detention. No charge. No evidence. Torture attested by his lawyer, marks visible on his body.
And instead of covering this, @BBC amplifies Israel's unproven claims casting doubt on a hostage doctor.

>BBC's journalism in the time of genocide.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.