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Winthrop Rodgers @wrodgers2.bsky.social · 4h

A massive scoop by @occrp.org about personal luxury spending of the Barzani family in the US. Reporting shows them using a combined $28m from Golden Eagle Global and Ster Group, which are connected with senior KDP leaders, to finance lavish purchases.
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Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish conglomerates...

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 10h

NEW: Four brothers from Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Barzani family bought over $100 million in U.S. properties, leaked documents show.

At least some of the money came from major Kurdish companies two of the brothers secretly controlled, leaked records suggest.

www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish…

www.occrp.org

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 10h

Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish conglomerates...

www.occrp.org

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 10h

Friday was my last day with the @govacctproj.bsky.social before joining @occrp.org. I was really hoping to get this one last story out that we had partnered on before I officially left, but anyway, I'm really proud of it and all the work I did in almost 9 years at GAP

www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish conglomerates that two of the brothers appear to have secretly controlled, according to leaked documents.

www.occrp.org

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 11h

I know I live in this economy but I’d prefer them to just salt the earth

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 11h

so for no reason at all I was thinking about what Democrats should do if the AI bubble pops in the near term and Trump needs a stimulus bill

they should take a page from constitutional monarchies and demand a new set of ministers

Miller, Vought, Bondi, Hegseth, Kennedy, Lutnick out at minimum

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 22h

Seen a lot of people reference Kent State but honestly Nisour Square seems more apt of a potential future. Some trigger happy nutcases get scared of civilians and go crazy on a public street

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 22h

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 1d

My condolences

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Douglas Reyes-Ceroñ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 2d

It’s never lost on me that NWSL pays for PRO2 level referees because they can’t/won’t pay for the PRO level and at some point, all the owners in the league are going to need to talk about that if they want to be serious

Ella Brockway @ellabrockway.bsky.social · 2d

Trinity Rodman speaks out on the refereeing in yesterday’s Spirit-Wave game. (You probably know this, but poor officiating has been a theme across the league this NWSL season.)

“This is one of many examples…. Refs need to be better at managing these games. No words”

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 2d

Once again it is just shameful that the top pro league in the U.S. uses semi professional refs

👻TheReal Risso 👻🎃 @risswillett.bsky.social · 2d

Fine incoming in 5….4…..3…2…1

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta arrest Gregg Abbott too when these fucks lose power

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 2d

That this is not only considered implausible, but that nobody in the top echelons of Congress (in either party!) will even consider being gauche enough to say the i-word, is the surest sign that the entire federal legislative branch has declared bankruptcy as a going concern.

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Persephone Meadowfeather @lurkermcgoo.bsky.social · 2d

*Between bouts of being waterboarded*

Schumer: (Gasp) How is this bringing down the price of beef (glurgle glurgle)

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 3d

We simply do not have to to settle for a country where it is okay to masked thugs who refuse to identify themselves are allowed to kidnap our neighbors off streets

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 3d

Players this good deserve better than rec league shit

Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 3d

There was one relatively small throw in error that was so hilariously incompetent in how it was adjudicated that it was pretty emblematic for everything else wrong:

Ball gets deflected off the wave pleyer, Kouassi goes chasing, doesn't catch it, but because she chased it, the wave get a throw

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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from everything else, it's shameful the league forces these players to play with semi professional refs

Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 3d

Sheridan saved 3 1v1s in this game, & San Diego has an equalizer from basically their only chance in the 90 minutes.

Gonna be a lot of ref talk, but I'd be remiss if I didn't say the Spirit should have buried this game long ago.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5d

Here's what we know about the latest airstrike in the Caribbean. According to figures from the White House, the 4 killed today bring the total dead since Sept. 2 to 21. Will be updated as more info comes out.

Read @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/us-four...

US forces strike a fourth boat in the Caribbean

The latest strike in the Caribbean comes after the Trump administration said that the U.S. is in an "armed conflict" with cartels.

taskandpurpose.com

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