Zach Everson
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Reporter at Forbes • Investigating how Donald Trump turns political power into personal profit, as well as other stories at the intersection of money and politics Tip? Media booking? [email protected] Signal/mobile: 202.804.2744 zacheverson.com
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📉Trump's WLFI crypto token—which is not backed by any underlying assets and does not convey ownership in anything other than the token itself—hit an all-time low today of $0.146156 amidst an overall market downturn.
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forbesunion.bsky.social
Wondering why @forbes.com, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, has seen an exodus of talented journalists recently? This right here.
#journalismjobs #journalists
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numb.comfortab.ly
I knew this looked familiar.
NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.
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kathleenclark.bsky.social
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source: 
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
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America First means setting up a foreign military base in the U.S.
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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juddlegum.bsky.social
Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL
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Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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Good morning from Greenbelt, Md.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys will argue in federal court for his release from immigration detention. Now feds want to send Abrego to Ghana.

Reporting live.
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Not as prestigious as an actual Nobel, but still in the vaunted tradition of awards Republicans make up to give Trump.
Senator Rick Scott giving Donald Trump a trophy at Mar-a-Lago.
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pheasant.bsky.social
Except that's not what he said. This post tries to bring the Nobel committee into disrepute, just for clicks and giggles.
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Thinking a lot recently about the time Jack Posobiec was reportedly behind a “Rape Melania” sign
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And it’s not like the Trumps can dispute the source.
Eric Trump @EricTrump
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A huge congratulations to our incredible @TrumpHotels properties around the world for winning "Condé Nast Traveler" 2025 Readers'
Choice Award! Our properties are nothing short of iconic and I am so proud of this distinction!
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Trump 47 makes Trump 45 seem quaint
atrupar.com
Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax
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numb.comfortab.ly
This is why mandatory online age verification is bullshit.
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"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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outtamylaine.bsky.social
If you haven't read the book, or don't really want to read the book, at least read this thread. Every single post.
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"After the Kapp putsch in 1920 the [German] government charged 705 persons with high treason; only one, the police president of Berlin, received a sentence—five years of 'honorary confinement.'"

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).
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And it’s not like the Trumps can dispute the source.
Eric Trump @EricTrump
X.com
A huge congratulations to our incredible @TrumpHotels properties around the world for winning "Condé Nast Traveler" 2025 Readers'
Choice Award! Our properties are nothing short of iconic and I am so proud of this distinction!
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I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes
davidho.bsky.social
Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats
An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.
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The Senate has defeated a plan from Democrats to block money to refurbish the 747 plane given by Qatar to President Trump for use as Air Force One.