Traci Ann

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[Traci Ann @traci520]

As they should

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: "If we were to lose the midterms heaven forbid these Democrats y'all impeachments not even the big concern They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body and they'll go after the president's family the cabinet his donors and friends."

This is exactly WHY Democrats need to win the midterms! Thanks for selling it @MikeJohnson.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

If you're in DC Jun 9 please try and see the @RedactedReading it will leave little doubt of the international sex trafficking ring Epstein and his enablers ran

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Trump literally trumped the law. No one is ever going to see Donald Trump get the justice he deserves for all of the crimes he's committed. Why? It's bad. It's REALLY fucking BAD. Listen:

[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.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Senator Chris Murphy exposes a massive bombshell. He confirms Donald Trump is using fake lawsuits to directly rob the federal treasury.

Trump literally sues his own agencies to settle out of court, bypassing judges to order the IRS to pay him billions in taxpayer money.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible.

Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Jeffrey Epstein survivor Miss Rosa, just eviscerated the Trump Administration for releasing her name to the public 500+ times.

"I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I Woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times,while the rich and powerful remain protected by redactions. My name was exposed to the world. Now reporters from across the globe contact me. I cannot live without looking over my shoulder. I can only imagine the long-term impact this mistake will have on my life."

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined.

“It’s bigger than Watergate.”

“It’s bigger than Iran-Contra.”

“It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”

“There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ”

“Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.”

“At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.”

“And some of them took that deal.”

“It’s one thing to be evil to a child.”

“It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.”

“The light sentence that was given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 that allowed him to victimize hundreds of more women, we want to know, why was he given that light sentence?”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @Local12

[katya schwenk @ktyschwnk]

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.”

Things only got more bizarre from there…

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Six of America's wealthiest billionaires spent more than $100 million apiece to help get Donald Trump elected president.

That's a broken campaign finance system. And it desperately needs reform. https://t.co/2jlmTtKCEa

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump has now put his face or name on all of the following in his second term:

— Passports
— National Parks Passes
— Trump Gold Cards
— Trump class battleships
— The Trump Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
— TrumpRx
— Trump’s signature on US paper currency
— Gold coins from the Commission of Fine Arts
— The Department of Justice
— The Donald J Trump Institute of Peace
— The Department of Labor
— Trump accounts
— The Department of Agriculture

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

My @Morning_Joe Chart.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This Wall Street insider just exposed the secret doomsday escape plans of AI billionaires.

1 in 3 billionaires has a fully funded plan to abandon civilization when things collapse.

They meet their pilots at Oakland airport, board a Gulfstream 650, fly to New Zealand, and disappear into a bunker that cost tens of millions to build.

And this isn't some conspiracy theory. There's literally PROOF:

Sam Altman told The New Yorker he stockpiles guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, and gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force. He owns a patch of land in Big Sur he can fly to when society breaks down. His backup plan is flying with Peter Thiel to Thiel's compound in New Zealand.

Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen in 2011 after spending only 12 days in the country. He bought a 477-acre estate for $13.5 million and submitted plans for a bunker-style compound embedded into a hillside with a 1,082-foot glass-lined guest lodge for 24 people.

Mark Zuckerberg is building a 5,000 square foot underground shelter beneath his $270 million compound in Hawaii. Blast-resistant doors made of metal and concrete, its own energy and food supplies, and an escape hatch accessible by ladder.

Every construction worker signed an NDA and different crews were forbidden from speaking to each other.

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, quietly disappeared to Fiji during the pandemic. He reportedly bought at least one private island in the Mamanuca archipelago. When local media reported his presence, Fijian authorities ordered the article taken down.

Scott Galloway sat with one of these billionaires who walked him through his entire exit strategy step by step.

His response: "You don't think your pilots are going to kill you and fuck your wife? You don't think the people in New Zealand are going to come take the rich guy's shit?"

But here's the thing that really matters...

These are the SAME people building AI.

The same founders telling Congress that AI will cure cancer have already decided they're leaving when it goes sideways.

Galloway confirmed a secondhand account from someone close to one of these AI CEOs. The CEO admitted he believes there's a 7 to 10% chance AI results in a catastrophic event for humanity. And he doesn't care because being the person who summoned this intelligence is "more consequential than whatever happens."

These billionaires don't use public healthcare. They have concierge medicine delivered to their living room. Their kids attend $75,000 per year academies while public schools spend $10,000.

They fly private. They have private security instead of police.

Galloway's words: "The 0.1% are no longer invested in the well-being of America. They've totally dissociated because they're sequestered from it."

And the incentives to reach that level are so extreme that founders will make ANY decision necessary to get there.

Galloway called it the Darth Vader pipeline. Every tech CEO follows the same arc:

Sam Altman was "the gay son we all wanted." Soft spoken, testifying before Congress about safety.

Now he's subpoenaing nonprofits that criticize OpenAI and telling people to stop complaining about energy costs.

Galloway on all of them: "These guys would sleep with their cousin for a nickel."

The next chosen hero is Dario Amodei at Anthropic. Galloway says he'll follow the exact same path because the system makes it inevitable.

Then he dropped his most dangerous prediction:

He thinks there's a 1 in 3 chance AI ends up like jet transportation, vaccines, or PCs. Technologies that changed civilization but where NO group of companies ever captured serious shareholder value.

The entire airline industry across all of history is at break even. Moderna is down 90%. AI models are converging.

Open weight Chinese models are free and a third of corporations are already using them.

His prediction: Go short the AI ecosystem. The winner of AI might be us, the users. Not the companies.

And if he's right, the domino effect is terrifying...

40% of the S&P is tied to AI. Most GDP growth over the last two years came from AI capex. So if corporations start dropping OpenAI and Anthropic for free Chinese models, the entire market could crash.

This is just like the Chinese steel dumping in the 80s:

Flood America with cheap AI, kneecap the companies propping up the stock market, then trigger a recession without firing a single shot.

The billionaires building AI have escape plans ready. They've detached from society entirely.

They know there's a real chance this ends badly and they're building it anyway.

Every tech hero turns villain on a shorter timeline.

And the financial system is so dependent on AI valuations that one move from China could bring it all down.

And we're still trusting these people to self-regulate.

What do you think?

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This is the question worth asking every time a story like this comes out: if there’s no money for your health care, your kids’ schools, or the programs your family depends on, where is it going?  

The Trump Administration just paid $17.4 million to fix two decorative fountains outside the White House. Three years ago, the same job was estimated at $3.3 million.   

And guess what? The construction company that got the contract is the same one building Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, and they got it without any competitive bidding whatsoever. The contract wasn’t even posted publicly, as required by federal law.  

So how do you get from $3.3 million to $17.4 million? They added 27% for inflation. Then they added another 24% for inflation again. Then they tacked on additional charges that federal contracting experts said they had never seen before in their careers.  

And the justification for bypassing the normal bidding process entirely? The fountains needed to be ready for America’s 250th anniversary. It’s worth noting that these fountains haven’t worked for nearly a decade. If the repairs were truly that urgent, why are they only fixing them now, and why are taxpayers footing a surcharge for the rush?  

You are paying for this.  
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[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

Shame on us. I think of the brave Afghans that stood alongside us against the Taliban, especially those I worked with personally during my four years in command of the NATO mission there. It is incomprehensible to me that we would not bring them here to the United States, fulfilling the most fundamental obligations of trust and honor. https://t.co/An3nK0aadT

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Trump fell asleep again during a live televised meeting. If Joe Biden had done that, the media would have treated it like a national emergency and run wall-to-wall panic coverage for a week.

But when Trump does it, they look the other way because the clown show keeps their ratings up and their pockets full.

The hypocrisy is disgraceful. The media failed the country, and they know it.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
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