'As recently as December 2024, Mr. Kushner suggested that he would not seek more money for Affinity during Mr. Trump’s second term...he told the podcaster Patrick O’Shaughnessy that he would “pre-emptively try to avoid any conflicts.”,,,That appears to have changed.' www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
This would be grotesque corruption considering his relationship to Trump even if he wasn’t negotiating stuff with these countries for the US. That he’s doing it simultaneously is just a freight train of corruption
The Kushner brand is basically: I'm hear to offer peace deals and get money, and I'm all out of peace deals
NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.
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This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
When Christi Webb tried to cut off the flow of millions in welfare funds to ex-pro wrestler Teddy DiBiase, Mississippi welfare chief John Davis called her crying, she testified.
“‘The only way I can have friends is to give them money. He’s got to keep getting this money,’" she recalled him saying.
The only tax policy that Democrats should be talking about is that people making a whole lot more money should be paying a whole fucking lot more taxes. That's the argument. Stop this desperate tax-cutting bullshit.
Because parents who vaccinate their kids love their children more and actually give a shit about the people around them.
The corruption of the Trump Administration remains so massive while also being so obvious that people just don’t know what to do. If Kushner was merely shaking someone down for $5,000 using his govt role, there’d be an outcry. But do it for $5,000,000,000 and mostly there’s 🤷♂️
#TrumpCorruptionWatch
They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
It says a hell of a lot that first the Vice President and now top military brass are planting stories in the press in an effort to absolve themselves of responsibility for the calamity that is the Iran War two weeks into the damn mission. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Nobody could have predicted that an ex-Fox News host whose go-to move was advocating for accused war criminals would turn around and commit war crimes
CNN: Trump underestimated problem of Hormuz
Trump: FAKE NEWZ!!
WSJ: Trump's advisors didn't underestimate the problem, Trump kept the smart ones out of the room and ignored what contrary advice he got
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
A really good piece from @vermontgmg.bsky.social abt the normalcy bias with which the press is covering Trump's utter failure to understand what he has done with the Iran war.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...
Russia rakes in $150mn a day in extra revenue from surging oil prices
Also: Bessent announced today that we’re relaxing more sanctions on Russia. The US will allow countries to buy Russian oil stranded at sea
www.ft.com/content/dd97...
The school is open for kids. The only think preventing the kids from attending right now is the school shooting.
I remember when Barack Obama had to denounce Jeremiah Wright.
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes, according to three sources familiar with the closed-door session."
How is this real life? AYFKM
He just can't help himself.Anyone else in his position would STFU about women's looks. Actually anyone else in his position would just STFU about women in general. Every time he does this it just reminds you of the Access Hollywood tape. And that creepy birthday card.
I’m open to being wrong, it’s not like I’ve done a controlled study. But man. Just unbelievable how people talk to and behave around other people now without expecting to get punched in the nose.
We did not anticipate that they would do the singularly most obvious thing that everyone else knew they would do. This is almost as bad as when we went barefoot rattlesnake stomping, not expecting the bare feet would be the first part of the body the snakes would target.
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It's like the bank rush scene in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE but he's trying to explain that all our money is in ExxonMobil's house, and ConocoPhillips' house, and ...
I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."
if only america had a recent president who spent billions expanding our electric vehicle infrastructure and capacity to build electric cars right here in america. ah well that never happened.
They call people who don't like ai "denialists" and meanwhile the dude is just saying this out loud
