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Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.
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Will Kash Patel’s libel suit work? None of the Trump & Trump adjacent lawsuits are actually lawsuits. They are ways to extract cash payments with regulatory threats. The lawsuit is a vehicle to capture the money. If the co has no regulatory exposure the suit goes nowhere. NYT, Atlantic are examples.
Senate is voting now to proceed to the budget resolution. It takes a simple majority to proceed. After that, there would be 50 hours of debate, followed by vote-o-rama, followed by final passage. If the House agrees, then would be the process of a reconciliation bill to pump $70 bn into ICE & CBP.
New AP/NORC poll: "President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher...with even Republicans showing less faith in his leadership."
Overall approval: 33% (-5 from March)
Approval on the economy: 30% (-8% from March)
Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."
He did promise "maximum lethality."
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Jamie Raskin has filed briefs supporting his motions for the court to appoint an amici to contest vacating the convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Here's the Proud Boys version ...
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It's the work week again, and the ADL has yet to comment upon the US Secretary of Defense's attack on the "Pharisee press," which alludes to the older Lügenpresse.
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Trump tried real hard to change the news cycle by floating the idea of more imminent SCOTUS appointments. Too bad, so sad. 🎻
good news
The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.
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BREAKING: I just got President Trump on the phone. He said his farts smell like roses today, everybody at the Trump hotel is coming up to him w/ tears in their eyes crying "Sir!", & Iran just agreed to become the 51st state w/ Don Jr as governor. Then the call ended.
(Satire but you follow me ... )
This is the stuff that inspires revolutions.
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Ah, so they're not going to take the uranium, then. Rush to war, claim it's about nuclear weapons, kill a lot of people, destroy a lot of stuff, and now it's clear Trump's capitulated on this
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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For @talkingpointsmemo.com, I wrote about what is actually going on as Trump, Vance, Hegseth and others bludgeon us with their Christianities:
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put this in ads against every R senator who's running this year and voted for this monster
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“'To whom do your professional obligations and fiduciary duties belong?' Raskin asks in the letter, which was sent to Kushner, his firm, and the State Department on Thursday."
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Sarah Posner: "The Trump regime has a preferred religion — a bellicose, nationalist Christianity — but its expression, as we saw this week, can be very erratic and often theologically incomprehensible."
Hard to tell in which direction he is bullshitting
Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
JUST IN: Judge McElroy, a Trump appointee, continues DOJ’s unbroken losing streak in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. She calls it a “fishing expedition.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
