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32-slide Power Point deck, not a single one of them about where the Palestinians will live.
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is described as an "investor" and "developer" in this project into which more than $91 bn in US taxpayer funds are to be channeled. This is a straightforward violation of US anti-corruption legislation, as the NYC bar has noted in a report.
Trump reps draft $169 billion plan to develop Gaza into a 'smart city' with luxury resorts
Trump administration reps have just revealed a grandiose $112 billion (AUD $169 billion) plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza into a futuristic international destination dubbed “Project Sunrise.”
www.skynews.com.au
December 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A #Georgia judge just decided that private profits outweigh Black landownership, clearing the way for a railroad company to snatch up hundreds of acres in one of the state’s poorest counties.

atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/13/g...

atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/13/g...
'So A Few Companies Can Increase Profits': Landowners Vow to Fight Judge's Ruling to Allow Railroad Company to Seize Hundreds of Acres of Land In Majority Black County In Georgia
A Georgia judge ruled last week that a short line railroad company can use eminent domain to seize land to build a spur line to serve private businesses
atlantablackstar.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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“Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. The president is now worth a record $7.3 billion, up from $4.3 billion in 2024, when he was still running for office. The $3 billion gain vaulted him 118 spots on The Forbes 400, where he lands at No. 201 this year.“
September 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This is what happens when the trump White House takes over the social media account for the DoJ. (Axios is reporting they have.) I hope this lands them in legal trouble.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The Supreme Court has announced that it’s going to hear arguments on President Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship. The text and history ought to make this an open-and-shut case. bit.ly/40oplbc
Presidents Can’t End Birthright Citizenship
President Trump's executive order is almost certain to be struck down.
www.brennancenter.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020

'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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NEW: While the Supreme Court is slated to hear a high-stakes case that could eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods, Ohio is already five steps ahead. Last week, the state enacted a new law eliminating its four-day grace period, citing the upcoming SCOTUS case.
The SCOTUS Mail Ballot Case Just Led One State to Scrap Its Grace Period
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. Forbes just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen (who advises DOGE & is involved w/ Network States) & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Looks like they're right.

Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Every single person in this picture should be in prison by 2030, just as Bolsonaro is.

We cannot avoid imposing consequences and still have a democracy. We should dedicate ourselds to that effort and demand our representatives call for it too.
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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VOTE VETS: “OUTRAGEOUS… It is abundantly clear Republicans and Trump want to strangle the VA til it all gets privatized”

Trump plans to eliminate 35,000 healthcare jobs at the chronically understaffed VA that already lost tens of thousands of employees. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens.

And they say you cannot refuse.

This week on Reveal, @404media.co shows us how the US deploys its tech against its people.
Lessons From Trump’s “War” on Chicago - Reveal
ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorized the city, and locals fought back.
revealnews.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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They are trying to kill us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea.
How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sank Without a Trace
With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea.
wrd.cm
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, per NBC
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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NEW: This week, Democracy Docket exposed another Trump loyalist burrowed into DOJ working to seize state voter data. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court handed Trump a green light to rig the 2026 midterms in Texas. But pro-democracy advocates aren’t backing down
This Week at Democracy Docket: DOJ’s Latest Anti-Voting Lawyer — and SCOTUS Saves Trump Again
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Next week the Supreme Court will hear another engineered case with fake plaintiffs, which presents another opportunity for the GOP justices to blow a hole through what remains of our campaign finance laws—this time, by turning political parties into a conduit for bribes. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Revive a Key Feature of Nixon-Era Corruption
The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, a case cooked up by the GOP itself.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🚨The Oversight Committee has received files related to Jeffrey Epstein from JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank & the U.S. Virgin Islands. Oversight Dems intend to release files to the public in the days ahead.

Mr. President, release the files, NOW.
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM