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@michaeldweiss Peter Thiel's groomed crackbaby is easy to manipulate?

You can see why it's been so easy to manipulate Vance. He is told by his Iran-adjacent advisers to say aspirational things as if to will them into reality, only for reality to slam a pie in his face.archive.ph/wVEeK

@MikeLevin Uday & Qusay But Uglier

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out. The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing. Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees. The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in. Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal. The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals. The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion. This is your tax money. It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close. We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us. google.com/url?q=https://…

@vseviov Well, not for these guys, nor for the thousands of guys Putin feeds into the meatgrinder every day, but pretty sure the siloviki and every fucker down the supply chain are trying to steal anything not nailed to the floor.

How it started. How it’s going. Aggression does not pay.

@bigseb31213 @darkacademician Pillar II of the OECD's Inclusive Framework is a DSA policy? Janet Yellen, secret lefty, I knew it!

@darkacademician I think he has a point

my position is the opposite.

@delfoo He should probably stay away from windows and maybe not drink tea...

We have the governor of Buryatia being honest with his constituents saying the reason for the shortage is not panic buying or logistics but Ukrainian strikes on refineries which have reduced refining capacity and that this is the new normal.

@BadassIntensity @CentristMadness You couldn't pay me to store knowledge in my brain about who tf this is, but assadists are trash. No exceptions. Not a single one of them has any redeeming qualities and I'm glad they're not allowed to hide their garbage takes.

Will Menaker deleted all his tweets about Assad from 2017 to 2024

@GovPressOffice Sir, this is uncanny, I can feel my patriotism rising...

@ClarkKent_DCU @Rani_Rant_Fest @Acyn Indeed they are, have a look at any AOC thread on here (not that the history of the bros being toxic is new, it long preceeds her). If she's one day ready to ditch them, starting with the one who so embarrassed her by tanking her prep for the MSC in Munich, she's got a future.

@SoffPerdue @Rani_Rant_Fest @Acyn Oh totally. That’s why Bernie asked Warren to run in 2015. Those toxic bros

AOC: For me, I have made very clear that one of my priorities in a leader determination is securing public housing financing for New York City. And Leader Jeffries has made his prioritization for the residents of public housing very clear. And for that reason, I will be supporting Hakeem Jeffries for leader.

@FredLambert Well, yes, this is the same cringey sociopath who begged Epstein to go to his pedo parties and got turned down, so...

Elon puts a few teenagers between him and the decisions that killed those people and he thinks it absolved him. He sees a few sycophants on Twitter crying “all that money went to fraud, you libtards” and he is like: “those guys get it.”

@Rani_Rant_Fest @ClarkKent_DCU @Acyn I've always liked her & hoped she'd free herself of the toxic berniebro entourage. Only fair that libs get her in the divorce, berners are way too sexist to accept a woman as the Guru's replacement (that's why they're so in love with the Maine chud), half of them call her AOCIA.

@ClarkKent_DCU @Acyn Shes pragmatic. I hated her and the squad back then. AOC has surprised me greatly. She's reasonable and still holds her values. She was trained by Pelosi and AOC will definitely have a space in leadership sooner than later. She understands...the capital runs different

@QalaatAlMudiq شكرًا لك

The White Helmets are heading to Venezuela. A Syrian Civil Defense team left #Damascus for Caracas to assist in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes. The team consists of 15 search & rescue specialists equipped with their own gear, while Qatar is providing the heavy machinery needed for the operation.

@LewLasher @nick_field90 He hates Thiel's crackbaby gimp enough as it is. (Correction: one can NEVER hate Thiel's crackbaby gimp enough, I take it back.)

@nick_field90 Can't wait for Trump to misconstrue "transpartisan" as "trans".

"Word has spread around town that Vance has been regularly talking to Trita Parsi, the Swedish-Iranian co-founder of the Quincy Institute. The anti-interventionist think tank, which is funded by Charles Koch, bills itself as “transpartisan” puck.news/how-jd-vance-p…

@Renee05208714 @realsaadasad Can't expect the likes of Silver or Matty Y or Adam Carlson to understand any of it and even if they did, they wouldn't let that get in the way of their grift. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_mi…

@SoffPerdue @realsaadasad Excellent take by Mr. Asad.

A wealth tax at the federal and international level, NOT STATE LEVEL, is the right move. Wealth concentration is power concentration, over media, politicians, and markets. Historically, a progressive tax system has been the main check on that. And for most of the income scale, it's true, rich people pay proportionally more in taxes At the very top, it breaks down. A teacher pays about 25% of his income in taxes. Meanwhile, a billionaire's wealth can grow 7% a year, and she pays taxes on almost none of it. Not because she's cheating, evil, or "greedy"! The system was never designed to reach her. Her wealth isn't a salary. It's a stake (or stakes) in a growing company. You only owe tax when you sell. And it may not make sense to sell. But she can borrow against her shares instead, which isn't taxable. Yet wealth compounds, and the tax system never triggers. So that's why we need a MINIMUM floor for them. If they are already paying their fair share through income, property, capital gains, etc, then no correction needed. But it must happen at the federal and international levels; otherwise, billionaires will simply move capital. If enough big countries participate, the escape valve closes. Countries that opt out should face trade and finance penalties from participating ones.

@paulmitche11 @WillSwaim I would never stop laughing if Ireland's bullshit bucaneering-based swindle is finally put to the sword by a guy whose family comes from Cork.

@paulmitche11 @WillSwaim "I would bet an EU billionaires tax, or having the EU and US impose similar billionaire taxation, would reduce that" Most US pundits are too parochial to understand what he was talking about with the "finally close the offshore loophole" stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_mi…

Gavin forgets the past, Paul: About 14 European countries imposed annual wealth taxes over the past half-century. All but three (Spain, Norway, Switzerland) repealed them after finding they raised relatively little revenue while encouraging capital flight, tax avoidance, and investment distortions.

@_forbisexuals me af

fox news is being biphobic af but the headline "SUPER-BISEXUAL" is actually pretty cool #reclaimed

@Osinttechnical Delicious.

Footage of destroyed Russian transports littering the side of the E58 highway in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian mid-range strike drones continue to chew through Russian rear-area supply lines.

@laurenhtexas I know that yearning, Ken, it really is the best coast.

Spiritually Californian, that’s why he thinks everyone is a vegan

@TeamTalaricoHQ Stop making this lazy-eyed pedo-protecting swindler relatable, please.

Unearthed footage: Ken Paxton talks about how much he loved growing up in California and says he hated leaving: Paxton: “The hardest for me was leaving California.” Host: “No one does that willingly.”