Wanda W Banks

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Kushner was denied top-secret clearance until Trump overruled intelligence officials.

“There was a risk the Saudis were playing him,” said a former White House official. https://t.co/IgFDFYO1PQ

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

What we know from financial disclosure records is that he owns a sizable investment in a kratom company called Botanical Tonics. It's not clear when he acquired this stake, but he hasn't filed paperwork to say he's divested from it.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 BREAKING: Inmates at the Texas federal prison housing convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell are reportedly being punished after complaining about the extraordinary treatment she’s receiving inside the facility.

According to whistleblower accounts, congressional inquiries, and multiple media reports, inmates who spoke to reporters about Maxwell’s privileges were allegedly:

• screamed at by prison officials
• threatened during “town hall” meetings
• reprimanded for speaking to media
• transferred to harsher facilities
• warned they would face retaliation if they discussed Maxwell publicly

And what were they complaining about?

REPORTED SPECIAL TREATMENT

🏨 Accommodation Privileges

• meals delivered directly to her dorm/cell
• customized meals and food prep
• bottled water unavailable to others
• a four-person room allegedly to herself
• unlimited toilet paper on demand
• private showers after lights out

🏋️ Recreation & Movement

• after-hours gym access
• private workout sessions
• special equipment accommodations
• time with service-dog training puppies
• escort privileges around the facility

📞 Visitor & Communication Privileges

• private meetings with unidentified visitors
• visitors allegedly allowed to bring computers inside
• private access to the chaplain’s office for meetings
• direct mail delivery while other inmates faced delays
• prison staff allegedly helping prepare commutation materials

🏛️ Administrative Irregularities

• transferred to a minimum-security federal prison camp despite being a convicted sex offender
• whistleblowers describing staff as treating her “like a hotel guest” rather than an inmate

That last part matters.

Convicted sex offenders, especially high-profile offenders tied to trafficking networks, are not normally placed in minimum-security prison camps like Bryan. These camps are generally reserved for inmates considered low-risk and nonviolent. Multiple reports and legal experts have described Maxwell’s placement there as highly unusual.

Now the inmates who complained about it are reportedly the ones facing punishment.

That’s the part that smells the worst. Not just the perks. The retaliation.

Because when prison officials start protecting a convicted trafficker from scrutiny inside the prison itself, people start asking what exactly they’re so afraid of her talking about.

Sources: CNN, NBC News, House Judiciary Democrats, Fox News, The Guardian, BBC, People Magazine.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Donald Trump has literally poisoned every inch of our country.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

How can we protect our democracy ahead of the midterms? 3️⃣ things, Marc Elias says.

1️⃣ Make a plan to vote

2️⃣ Stay educated and share information with others

3️⃣ Mobilize peacefully

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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump's investment accounts traded between $212 million and $695 million in stocks and other securities over the first three months of the year—an unprecedented sum for a sitting president that raises ethics concerns.
https://t.co/9o9bQNWdPQ

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Paint does not peel off in large sheets because of a political conspiracy. It peels off because the coating system failed.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says its negotiating delegation will not return to the Switzerland talks until Trump personally apologizes for his threats today and Israel fully withdraws from southern Lebanon, with Iran's delegation plane already repositioned to Zurich ready to fly back to Tehran, per Al-Mayadeen.

This comes after Trump told Fox shortly before his Truth Social post that if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz "you won't have a country" and "you won't even make it BACK to your f**king country," as a direct assassination threat against the Iranian delegation.

[vote in every election @southerngoth999]

@Acyn @Jerri_Lynn25

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: Albanians tore down barriers at Kakome Beach in southern Albania, declaring that the country's beaches belong to the people, not oligarchs

✊️🇦🇱As opposition to the controversial Kushner-Trump resort project intensifies, public anger is spreading over the privatization of public land and protected coastal areas

🇦🇱 Albania Is Not For Sale

#SaveAlbania #Albania #FlamingoRevolution

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Reminder that Trump has let 22 politicians convicted of corruption charges off the hook so far with pardons and sentence commutations.
https://t.co/xlpyqKV42d

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely. 

This is the Justice Department intervening on behalf of a polluter, against the people breathing the air it’s polluting. 

That’s not protecting national security. That’s protecting Elon Musk. 

Elon Musk just became a trillionaire. The community next to his data center is breathing smog-forming nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde. 
 https://t.co/WUnVaV6yfX

[Wanda W Banks @ww2me]

Bobby ‘Al Jolson’ Berger performed in blackface for years – and now he’s running for office https://t.co/lUcG5i8PuR

[Scion Connery ™ @ScionConnery]

@LqLana

[It's Michael, not Mike! @pureforms]

@LqLana Trump's Drunk War Gimp is completely out of control and out of his depth. Service men and women have lost their lives because of this narcissistic clown and his over inflated ego and his pathological need to please Trump .

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

@LqLana #DemsUnited

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

One dead soldier and over 160 sick with the flu after brilliant Hegseth decided to get rid of mandatory vaccines for the military.

I have never seen this level of stupidity in our government.

You didn't need to be a genius to know what the outcome would be.

#DemsUnited

[Jon “Bowzer” Bauman @JonBowzerBauman]

I repeat: “Donald Trump” is a mythological creation of “Apprentice” boss Mark Burnett: a “Successful Businessman who is Very Strong & says ‘You’re Fired.’”

The reflecting pool fiasco reveals perfectly who he really is: a corrupt, incompetent dolt who bankrupted 6 casinos.

[Sen. Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn]

Democrats are fine with requiring photo ID to enter the Obama Presidential Center, but not to vote in U.S. elections.

You can’t make this up.