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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto [FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

It honestly blows my mind how this is all in plain sight

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Hope Jr hasn’t bought a gun recently. That would be bad, apparently.

Thank you, Senator. Stay safe.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.

“A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.”

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Philly #HandsOff

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The right take 👇

No foreign adversary has done as much to harm America as President Musk and Donald Trump have done in 3 weeks.

So, they are
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

More chaos, corruption and incompetence. Welcome to Trump 2.0. | Editorial The one constant over the next four years will be Donald Trump’s continued abuse of power for his own aggrandizement while doing nothing to help average Americans.

From the Phila Inquirer Editorial Board.
More chaos, corruption, and incompetence. Welcome to Trump 2.0. | Editorial www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

BREAKING: Elon Musk and a network of his associates are exerting sweeping control over the inner workings of the U.S. government.

This takeover of multiple government agencies includes the Treasury Department.

There appears to be an attempt to use the federal payments system to enact…

Remember when the Nazis destroyed all the sexuality and gender studies in Berlin in the 1930s? Yeah, we’re there.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

We’re live tweeting the end of America.

Comms Advice for Democratic Lawmakers You didn't ask, but I'm offering it anyway.

"We know you’re out of power. We understand you’re in the minority. We hear that, loud and clear. What we’re not hearing is your anger. We’re not hearing your outrage. We’re wondering whether or not you actually hear us."

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The purge.

January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:

Where is B613 when we need them?

Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.

Hey, Carrie Underwood, what is it we’re supposed to do when he cheats?

Capitol Police during a previous protection mission ... 4+ years ago

HE DID IT Y'ALL!

Joe Biden has declared The #ERA ratified and the law of the land!

#28thAmendment
#EqualRightsAmendment

What's happening today isn't a philosophical debate over whether democracy or autocracy is preferable.
It's a smash-and-grab by the super-rich, who are bankrolling a torrent of lies to pave the way for widespread financial exploitation.
It's organized crime, not politics.

Starting TODAY, a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act goes into effect: Limiting annual out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs to $2,000 for Medicare beneficiaries.

19 million people are expected to save an average of $400 each.

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

Forget Greenland. Trump and Musk’s real WWIII is an all-out war on the truth. | Will Bunch Amid a fog of MAGA lies, the Trump-Musk tag team escalates its war on facts, from Wikipedia to the State Department.

The looming, fantastical grift of the Musk/Trump presidency depends on a destruction of objective truth, from Wikipedia entries to anti-disinformation research to the Des Moines Register and ABC News. Forget Greenland. This is the real WWIII, for truth

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