‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

Amazing @wsj.com story detailing Trump grift with a secret 49% investment in World Liberty Financial www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There’s always bullshit bingo. But yeah, I’ll probably be occupied elsewhere.

This one hits hard.

Please stop saying free. That triggers the American martyrs trying to one-up each other, comparing scars. Ideally, a universal investment that would pay positive dividends and remove judgment on who’s deserving. That last part sounds like heaven to some, hell to others.

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

POPS Goes the City: Privately Owned Public Space and Its Discontents - JSTOR Daily Why is so much of the “public space” in cities actually private, and who benefits from it being that way?

POPS Goes the City: Privately Owned Public Space and Its Discontents
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Remember too, they were the champions of capitalism. Not sure when that was abandoned, and the newer crowd doesn’t seem to mind. Hopefully this new crowd, seemingly uninterested or unaware of the details of govt, will move on to something else and this will all end.

Newly introduced HB 657 in Ohio to change PUCO nomination process adds needed changes and public access.

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How is anything that they’re doing really beneficial to Americans? It’s just created crisis and chaos to shroud their reluctance/inability to actually do the hard work of day to day government.

Four million salmon died prematurely at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, government data reveals Death toll sparks calls for companies to be fined under animal welfare legislation over mass fish deaths

Four million salmon died prematurely at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, government data reveals

The lengths this administration will go to cause unease and confusion is staggering. Their followers, having never considered what government agencies actually do to maintain society, have accepted this as normal.

Here's the section from $GEO Group's 10-K filed last February where they talk about their unprecedented opportunities to justify co-founder George Zoley remaining as Exec Chair.

Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:

1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens

2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar

3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Carpenter Media's ominous takeover of local news. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.

In just a few years, Carpenter Media has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest. Read @loisparshley.bsky.social with support from @economichardship.bsky.social.
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Ha!

National Guard Deployment to Chicago Cost $21M, Congressional Budget Office Says In all, President Donald Trump’s decision to send federalized National Guard troops to six American cities cost approximately $496 million through the end of December, according to the report.

BREAKING: The decision by the Trump administration to send 375 members of the Texas and Illinois National Guard to Chicago cost taxpayers $21 million, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office. @wttw.bsky.social

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year.

*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

I’d love to see all the expense reports, purchase orders, and other expenses submitted by everyone involved. How many companies are sucking up this money? And I mean itemized receipts, not lump sums.

I’m really hoping someone with knowledge about FBI procedures can explain if this is normal. Really, really hoping.

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.

As mayor, Eric Adams embraced a secretive, abuse-ridden police unit called the Community Response Team.

One of the unit's leaders, Kaz Daughtry, once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.

He's now joining Trump's DHS, @nytimes.com reports.

Revisit our investigation:

I still remember when Emerson, headquartered in Missouri, praised former CEO Dave Farr for his leadership in the company’s support of Ferguson during a “troubled time.” Same old, same old.

Photo showing the Otay Mesa Detention Center. The large beige building appears like a warehouse and has barbed wire.

I’m at the Otay Mesa concentration camp in San Diego, where protesters and community organizers gather every Sunday.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020

That depends…

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

If we normalize anything from all this, it’s that Republicans expect you to BEHAVE. Or else.

Instead of investigating school vouchers, Ohio lawmakers (majority Republican) hustle to attack daycare centers.