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Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.

Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.

See the problem here?

(list needs updating - leaves off Ukraine, 2022)

Seeing as we don't have a war, but a "special military operation" and trump has a "major combat operation", let's review the various times we didn't have a war either.

The enemy gets a vote?

Oh we’re weighing options *now*

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

You know. If we hadn’t cut off all those arms transfers to Ukraine it would have been so much more difficult for us to repeatedly shoot ourselves in the dick.

Given Trump’s tight grip on the Justice Dept., and given that the NY field office had a mole overseeing the Trump-Russia investigation, I’m not ready to take its conclusions as gospel.
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Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.

Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords.

More Epstein files consequences land.

Bonus: article contains the phrase "Lords behaving badly" which is surely a rule 34 exception (do not google that)

Nathaniel Rothschild and Peter Mandelson Deripaska is a friend of Nathaniel Rothschild, a major investor in both Glencore and United Company RUSAL. Together Deripaska and Rothschild hosted George Osborne and Peter Mandelson on Deripaska's yacht in Corfu in the summer of 2008. 123) Osborne was then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom and a friend of Rothschild from school and university. Peter Mandelson has reportedly maintained private contacts over several years with Deripaska. [124] News of the contacts sparked criticism because, as European Union Trade Commissioner, Mandelson had been responsible for decision to cut aluminium tariffs from 6 to 3%, a decision that had benefited Deripaska's Company RusAl. [125] Mandelson insisted that he had never discussed aluminium tariffs with Deripaska. (126] On 26 October 2008 the Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague claimed the "whole country" wanted "transparency" about Mandelson's previous meetings with Deripaska. In response, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Mandelson's dealings with Deripaska had been "found to be above board". [127) Mandelson said that meeting business figures from "across the range" in emerging economies was part of his brief as EU Trade Commissioner. 128) On 29 October 2008, while Mandelson was on a ministerial visit to Moscow, 129) it was alleged in the British press that Valery Pechenkin, the head of security at Deripaska's company Basic Element, organised a swift entry visa for Mandelson when he came to Moscow to visit Deripaska in 2005. 130]

Alleged child sex abuse ring involvement According to Verstka [ru] and Stories, Deripaska was involved in a child sexual abuse ring which was active from 2018 to 2019. The ring operated under the guise of regional beauty pageants for teenage girls across Russia. Journalists from these outlets alleged the sexual abuse took place in June 2019 in Krasnodar Krai. Following publication of the stories, Verstka and iStories experienced DDoS attacks on their Telegram channels. (153)[154] ^ Sanctions

Deripaska’s links to Peter Mandelson, high-placed UK politician recently arrested amid investigations into Jeffrey Epstein

…as well as allegations of sex trafficking by Deripaska

Was Epstein another avenue of Russian influence? So much smoke for a non-fire 🤔

From Wikipedia entry on Oleg Deripaska Paul Manafort On 22 March 2017, the Associated Press published a report alleging that Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former presidential campaign manager, negotiated a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska to promote Russian interests in politics, business, and media coverage in Europe and the United States, starting in 2005. (131) Both Deripaska and Manafort confirmed working together in the past, 132) but rejected the contents of the AP story. Manafort argued that his work had been inaccurately presented, and that there was nothing "inappropriate or nefarious" about it. [133)[134] Responding to the allegations, on 28 March 2017, Deripaska published open letters in the print editions of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in which he denied having signed a $10 million contract with Manafort in order to benefit the Putin government. 135) He also stated willingness to testify before the United States Congress about these allegations, 136) and argued that the accusations were part of "the negative context of current US-Russian relations." (137) Congressional sources cited by The New York Times said lawmakers declined Deripaska's request clarification needed) after he had asked for immunity from criminal prosecution. Unnamed officials argued that "immunity agreements create complications for federal criminal investigators" [138] On 15 May 2017, Deripaska filed a defamation and libel lawsuit against the Associated Press in U.S. District Court in D.C., arguing that(139][140) the report falsely claimed that Deripaska had signed a contract with Manafort to advance the goals of the Russian government.(141) The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2017 on the grounds that Deripaska had not disputed "any material facts" in the story by the Associated Press. 142) While Manafort served within the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, it is alleged that Manafort, via Kyiv-based operative Konstantin Kilimnik, offered to provide brief…

Konstantın Kilimnik. Russian Main Intelligence Directorate Tad Devine. Bernie Sanders’ Chief Campaign Strategist Paul Manatort, Trump Campaign Chair

Did I call Trump the swampiest most sociopathic swamp creature? Sorry, that would be Paul Manafort, as far as I know of the swamp which, admittedly, is little.
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How a Kremlin-Linked Firm Gave An Economic Lifeline To Appalachia "They use our laws, our rules, our banks, our lawyers, our lobbyists—it's a strategy from within."

“The US has its hands tied when it comes to this brand of Russian influence. Fighting back would cost jobs.”

Thomas Massie & Rand Paul were among Putin’s best friends until Trump took top honors. Both are from Kentucky.

Sanctions against Rusal were lifted by Trump in 2019
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The Putin-Trump Kleptocracy comes to Alaska It won't stop there

“Much more sinister than just corrupt…not just a well-connected Trumpy ‘investor’ partnering with a co. from a corrupt kleptocracy…Novatek is a major Russian gas firm that defies gravity, & one should beware of Russian firms that defy gravity.”
@dekleptocracy.bsky.social
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Whitehouse Speech on Trump-Epstein-Russia Triangle Goes Viral - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Forty-eight-minute speech tops 2.2 million views on Whitehouse’s YouTube channel Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on Thursday delivered a 48-minute speech on the Senate floor la...

How often does a Senate speech get millions of views?

Haven’t watched yet, but will.
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Thune’s an an evangelical, and what used to be considered hard Right in America.

MAGA’s peaked and will own every blunder, every corrupt money grab, every anti-Constitutional overreach as well as the pedophile coverups by the Trump White House and its Congressional minions
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Imagine a Democrat using power with even a fraction of the GOP's will to change the rules of the game. For decades the GOP's gutted the structure of democracy, periodically handing it over to Dems to update the curtains.

Imagine if Democrats got serious about making voters more powerful than money.

Poll: Confidence in the Supreme Court drops to a record low The latest NBC News poll shows that the percentage of voters with a "great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence in the court is at the lowest ebb since the question was first asked in 2000.

#StackTheCourt
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Do we know how many of Don's people are living on military bases now? Seems like a lot; should be public information.

There’s no bottom these people won’t crash through on their way to hell. Playing with pedophilia is playing with nonpartisan fire.

Q: A new report says that a military investigation has found that the US struck the school in Iran. As commander in chief, do you take responsibility?

TRUMP: For what?

Q: A strike on the school in Iran

TRUMP: I don't know about it

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY BECOME GULLIBLE ONE HAS TO ACTIVELY ACCEPT CRAP AS VALID

Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to Putin’s ‘Money Man’ Now Leading Kremlin Peace Talks Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations

The same voters who worship businessmen insisted a NYC real estate developer would “drain the swamp” in D.C.

Many are classic American idiots, but there’s a special class of voter who’s convinced that if you give the rich more power, they’ll spread the wealth.
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Why does an unelected property developer and real estate lawyer, with no military background have this much responsibility and exposure in matters of war?

Brit 🇬🇧 looking in from the outside.

Direct, targeted attacks on residential buildings, murdering civilians in their own homes while they sleep has become one of the most repetitive war crimes committed by russia & is exactly why war crimes must never go unpunished, because that’s how they continue to grow, become “normalized”

In a further sign of the Putinisation of America under Donald, it seems the US military also dismissed the capabilities of the Ukrainian military.

With over 4 years of evidence in front of them, this seems more stupid than us doing it.

OTD in 1941 the US lend lease act was signed.

It merely prolonged the war by allowing UK to continue fight Nazis instead of seeking peace

MAGA’s divided into those who don’t care about Russian expansion and those who think it’s good, actually.

The difference, they’d probably argue, is the money America sends to Israel. By contrast, money flows from Putin and his oligarchs to buy the Trump Administration, for the benefit of all Americans.

It’s insane what’s happened to this nation.