Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.
Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.
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Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.
Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.
Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”
Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
The corruption is so blatant.
10.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 409 🔁 105 💬 45 📌 3Instead of ending the govt shutdown (and releasing the Epstein Files) or preventing 15 million American citizens from losing their healthcare, the House GOP is focused on who can suck up hardest to Donald Trump.
Open the House back up and let’s get back to work.
The tendency of the media is to look to Congress to find potential presidential candidates. But it may be that the states harbor the most formidable candidates. Trump is giving them a chance to show their stuff. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-pushing-these-three
10.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 885 🔁 196 💬 32 📌 6On average, governors tend to be better communicators than members of Congress because their election races are more visible to the voters.
Most people in this country can easily name their governor, but they can't name one of their senators.
now do jan 6th
10.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 6988 🔁 1673 💬 318 📌 83Trump will arrest Anniken Huitfeldt, the Norwegian Ambassador to the United States.
09.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am surprised Trump has not threatened to launch his own series of Trump Prizes to compete with the Nobel Prizes.
09.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🗞️Today's NYT reporting:
"Trump said this, then Trump said that. Trump did this, and then Trump did that. Trump did that, and now Trump's doing this. Trump wants this, now Trump wants that."
NO JOURNALISM
NO CONTEXT
NO FACT-CHECKING
They basically just takes notes for the MF'er, and print it.
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
09.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 2586 🔁 1560 💬 143 📌 159ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.
The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
08.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 32247 🔁 10708 💬 896 📌 405ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.
The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).
"The party of small government,” folks.
Trump is using the Justice Department as his personal law firm to protect himself and friends and as a weapon to punish people, organizations and states he doesn't like.
07.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 71 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 3Hey Kristi Noem, since you’re sending ICE to the Super Bowl to crack down on the hoards of undocumented immigrants snapping up those $15,000/seat Bowl tickets…are they the same ones who are stealing free health care?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjkT...
Dear Air Traffic Controllers, we probably don't need to tell you this, but you should not eat that pizza.
06.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WaPo finally reported this story... about an hour later.
06.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It took 2 days before the WSJ finally reported on the story.
NYT and WaPo are still are not touching it..
www.wsj.com/us-news/sout...
Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government
One of the most brazen conflicts in history.
Example number 876 in the category of “I didn’t change, you did Republicans”:
The whole “states rights” was all BS
They don’t care about Epstein and his list anymore.
So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?
03.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 299 🔁 94 💬 22 📌 3With a plan to extend the East Wing of the White House, President Trump “is showing the world that his presidency is a royal court where a select few are invited to pledge their allegiance,” Debbie Millman writes.
03.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.
“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”
How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be?
A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR.
TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in