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Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
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Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had told Adolph Hitler in 1941: “I’ll force the British and French to let you keep half of Poland in exchange for some kickbacks to my friends and family.”
The Dangerous, Thieving Crooks Selling Us Out
We are living through the most disgraceful episode in American history since slavery and it’s not even close.
saltypolitics.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had told Adolph Hitler in 1941: “I’ll force the British and French to let you keep half of Poland in exchange for some kickbacks to my friends and family.”
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Jennings: I think the president is saying to the American people, why are we counting illegal aliens apportioning our political leadership?
Kasparian: Because it's in the constitution, the United States constitution, the supreme court ruled on this in 2019, and they ruled against Trump
Kasparian: Because it's in the constitution, the United States constitution, the supreme court ruled on this in 2019, and they ruled against Trump
August 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Jennings: I think the president is saying to the American people, why are we counting illegal aliens apportioning our political leadership?
Kasparian: Because it's in the constitution, the United States constitution, the supreme court ruled on this in 2019, and they ruled against Trump
Kasparian: Because it's in the constitution, the United States constitution, the supreme court ruled on this in 2019, and they ruled against Trump
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Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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Reporter: There was a car bomb in Moscow this morning that killed a Russian general. Do you have any reaction to that?
Trump: Who killed what?
Reporter: A Russian general killed by a car bomb.
Trump: Well, you're just telling me that for the first time. Where did this take place?
Trump: Who killed what?
Reporter: A Russian general killed by a car bomb.
Trump: Well, you're just telling me that for the first time. Where did this take place?
April 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reporter: There was a car bomb in Moscow this morning that killed a Russian general. Do you have any reaction to that?
Trump: Who killed what?
Reporter: A Russian general killed by a car bomb.
Trump: Well, you're just telling me that for the first time. Where did this take place?
Trump: Who killed what?
Reporter: A Russian general killed by a car bomb.
Trump: Well, you're just telling me that for the first time. Where did this take place?
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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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April 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Feel "FREE" to Re-post.
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If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
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File this under there ought to be a law, because there really should be. If you can make laws at a national level, your portfolio should go into a blind trust until you're out of office. I don't understand why this isn't already a thing.
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.
He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
File this under there ought to be a law, because there really should be. If you can make laws at a national level, your portfolio should go into a blind trust until you're out of office. I don't understand why this isn't already a thing.
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This entire administration is just going to be making numbers up to fulfill their twisted wrong ideas from job numbers to GDP to vaccines & drug safety. It's all so stupid & dangerous.
“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
Dr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.
www.wsj.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This entire administration is just going to be making numbers up to fulfill their twisted wrong ideas from job numbers to GDP to vaccines & drug safety. It's all so stupid & dangerous.
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I kind of want to go
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I kind of want to go
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Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
April 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
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HEB is a Texas gem. Best grocery chain in the country.
Sadly, I just discovered I have a massive trade deficit with them. I buy their stuff, they never buy mine, no matter how dank or kind!
So, I’m slapping a 40% tariff on them. I’ll be charging myself 40% more from now on. That’ll show em.
Sadly, I just discovered I have a massive trade deficit with them. I buy their stuff, they never buy mine, no matter how dank or kind!
So, I’m slapping a 40% tariff on them. I’ll be charging myself 40% more from now on. That’ll show em.
them.buy
April 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
HEB is a Texas gem. Best grocery chain in the country.
Sadly, I just discovered I have a massive trade deficit with them. I buy their stuff, they never buy mine, no matter how dank or kind!
So, I’m slapping a 40% tariff on them. I’ll be charging myself 40% more from now on. That’ll show em.
Sadly, I just discovered I have a massive trade deficit with them. I buy their stuff, they never buy mine, no matter how dank or kind!
So, I’m slapping a 40% tariff on them. I’ll be charging myself 40% more from now on. That’ll show em.
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins next to a ticker showing the Dow down 1,200 points: "We are really, really excited, and very grateful for President Trump's leadership."
April 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins next to a ticker showing the Dow down 1,200 points: "We are really, really excited, and very grateful for President Trump's leadership."
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Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine regulator, has resigned.
In a sharply worded resignation letter, Marks said it was clear to him that RFK Jr. doesn't desire truth about vaccine safety, "but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
In a sharply worded resignation letter, Marks said it was clear to him that RFK Jr. doesn't desire truth about vaccine safety, "but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
March 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine regulator, has resigned.
In a sharply worded resignation letter, Marks said it was clear to him that RFK Jr. doesn't desire truth about vaccine safety, "but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
In a sharply worded resignation letter, Marks said it was clear to him that RFK Jr. doesn't desire truth about vaccine safety, "but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
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Sen. Michael Bennet: "Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this thread, were you aware of that? Are you? Are you aware of that today?"
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
March 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sen. Michael Bennet: "Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this thread, were you aware of that? Are you? Are you aware of that today?"
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
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Me in the national security team group chat
March 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Me in the national security team group chat
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Despite Elon Musk's claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary.
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Despite Elon Musk's claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary.
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...