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@proos2

Verified Account. I'll try to make you laugh. Chicago sports & West Ham football mixed with progressive politics. Views are my own

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Just Phil
Just Phil@proos2·
And we need congressional debates and bills passed to allow parents on SNAP benefits buy hit chickens and soda.
Jeremy@Jeremybtc

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

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jezz
jezz@JezziiB·
I can’t wrap my head around American lower and middle class people thinking free healthcare, universities, and public services would HURT them financially? Literally allowing the billionaire class to flourish with YOUR tax dollars. It’s delusional.
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not to alarm anyone but is anyone else worried about how fucking stupid everyone is ?
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Sara McGee for Texas HD 132
Sara McGee for Texas HD 132@SaraForTexLege·
If there is ever a social phenomenon that needs to be studied, it is how the GOP has been able to hoodwink people for decades into thinking that they the party of “fiscal responsibility” when there is absolutely ZERO evidence to support that claim. And I mean ZERO.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman

CBO says the Senate Republicans' new reconciliation bill will increase deficits by $71.7B over the next 10 years. That's what the bill costs, so that makes sense. cbo.gov/system/files/2…

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unusual_whales@unusual_whales·
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene said the eight-week government shutdown was orchestrated by Donald Trump to prevent the release of Epstein files.
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youth code orange
youth code orange@thamosdeaf·
I like that building high speed rail in California requires nine thousand years of environmental impact studies but throwing up a data center the size of Texas takes fourteen seconds with zero material public support.
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Invis🧜‍♀️@invis4yo·
The wildest thing about gas prices going from $2.84 to $4.47 in just two months is that Donald Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein Files.
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@atrupar With grown adults in the room with him just going along with the show
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
the optics of this Oval Office event are absolutely insane. get a load of this. crazytown.
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Will Sommers@WillSommers2·
Wanted to bless everyone’s ears on this fine Tuesday
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₿en Wehrman@benwehrman·
₿en Wehrman tweet media
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