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New huge investigation from me & partners @OCCRP and @GuardianAus. This picture, which has never been seen before, shows Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff, the son of Trump's "peace envoy" meeting in Singapore last October with Jacky Sui (in glasses), one of the main people behind AB, a new blockchain network. AB and the Trump+Witkoff family's World Liberty Financial partnered last year to integrate WLFI's stablecoin, USD1, on AB's blockchain. The agreement came just months after AB announced another unrelated "flagship project": a crypto-themed resort in Southeast Asia. It turns out that that the resort, in the tiny, impoverished country of Timor-Leste, involved people sanctioned by the U.S. for alleged ties to the world's biggest cyber fraud and human trafficking syndicate, the Prince Group.

New statement by opposition leader Peter Magyar, who according to polls is expected to defeat Viktor Orban in Sunday’s election: “No foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections. This is our country. Hungarian history is not written in Washington, Moscow, or Brussels—it is written in Hungary’s streets and squares. Five days to go!”

We are watching a dangerous and unfit President drag this country toward catastrophe — and Republicans refuse to act. Invoke the 25th Amendment. Do your fucking job.

9 years ago. @HillaryClinton warned us: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

A reminder: if you are a US pilot and you are ordered to nuke a civilian target or bomb a nuclear power plant with the goal of producing a nuclear disaster affecting civilians, you have a legal duty to refuse to comply with such an order

JD Vance is in Hungary trying to relelect a Russian backed dictator. Don Jr is in Bosnia trying to help Russian backed leaders. Jared Kushner is Israel's biggest cheerleader, & our Iran negotiator. This is what Maga calls America First.

MASSIVE BREAKING: A witness swore under penalty of perjury that Donald Trump threatened a young girl, telling her she could “disappear like another 12-year-old female,” and then threatened to kill her entire family, according to Epstein-related court records. This allegation appears in Dataset 9 of Epstein File EFTA01250883.pdf. This is sworn testimony. If the witness fabricated this account, they would face multiple years in federal prison for perjury.

#EpsteinFiles: New FBI report indicates 13-year-old accuser was truthful in allegations against Trump, corroborating most of her testimony yahoo.com/news/articles/…

Iran is declaring victory after Trump agreed to ceasefire, saying the U.S. adopted its terms—and it's hard to see it any other way. Iran’s leadership is openly celebrating what it calls a “crushing defeat” for the United States after Donald Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire and acknowledged using Iran’s own 10-point framework as the basis for negotiations. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says the U.S. has effectively accepted its core demands—including continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of uranium enrichment, lifting sanctions, and even discussions of compensation and U.S. troop withdrawal. Essentially, Trump has, for now, given Iran everything they asked for. Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the same framework, stating safe passage through the Strait will now be coordinated under Iranian control during the ceasefire period. So looking at statements from the U.S. and Iran, it seems clear Trump didn’t bring Iran to the table on U.S. terms—he appears to have moved negotiations onto Iran’s terms. After days of escalating rhetoric, including Trump's threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight," Trump has now reversed course and is embracing the very proposal Iran put forward that a U.S. official called "maximalist" just yesterday. For now, the world should breathe a sigh of relief Trump has backed down, though it feels that this was less of a "TACO"—and more of a surrender.

ICE detained a dialysis patient the morning of her treatment. She died 36 hours later in a detention infirmary. They logged it as "natural causes." When policy kills, call it what it is.

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Pope Leo XIV just declared the Iran War unjust. Called it a war crime. Said it is “not solving anything.” And told Americans directly — call Congress. End this war.

The man on the far left of this US entourage today in Hungary raped a woman in 2023. He is unelected, yet traveling with the VP. He’s best known for being the person who brought Melania to the US. He recently pulled strings to have his ex deported by ICE. I have proof of crimes.

That’s not at all the job of the Attorney General. Not even close. The AG doesn’t work for the President. He works for the American people. His job isn’t to “execute the president’s agenda.” His job is to fairly execute justice in America. These people are fucking everything up.

@MeidasTouch @AJazzmom98 Trump’s melting down. 😂

@MeidasTouch I hope *everyone* has learned by now that the Tangerine Taco uses the same old gaslighting tactic when his stupid disasters are blowing up in his face. If you still believe trump you’re just willfully ignorant.⬇️⬇️⬇️

MAGA calls Europe freeloaders. Here’s what they’re not telling you. ​1. Ramstein Air Base, the most important US military hub outside America, is built on German land provided rent-free, with Germany contributing hundreds of millions to its upkeep. The US couldn’t replace it anywhere in the world. 2. Every US military operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia flows through Ramstein. Lose it and US power projection in the Eastern Hemisphere is crippled. 3. The UK provides and maintains RAF Lakenheath used almost entirely by the US Air Force. Italy provides Aviano. Greece provides Souda Bay. Turkey provides Incirlik. European land. European infrastructure. American operations. 4. The US Sixth Fleet depends entirely on European ports for fuel and supplies. Souda Bay, Naples, 11 Greek ports. Without them the Sixth Fleet cannot operate in the Mediterranean or project power into the Middle East. 5. The majority of NATO’s intelligence and surveillance capacity is hosted on European soil and fed directly to the CIA, NSA and Pentagon. 6. Early warning radar at Fylingdales, UK. Missile tracking in Greenland. Norwegian monitoring stations near Russia. All dependent on European goodwill. 7. It would cost America MORE to bring the troops home than keep them here. European hosts subsidise roughly a third of all basing costs. 8. Europe is America’s largest arms customer. Stop buying American and part of their defence industry goes bankrupt. 9. The bases aren’t charity. They’re America using European soil, European money and European goodwill to project power across the world. 10. We’re not the freeloaders.

@marci_shore I totally agree with you. It is shocking. I studied law. Many of my co-students said, if something like this ever happens again, I will speak up. NOW it happens in Iran, it happened in Gaza, it happens in Lebanon (and more places on this earth, but I cannot focus on all). And now? How many of them standing up with me? NONE. On the contrary; they find me bothering their free time. Then I tell them what my grand mummy told me: If you see someone doing injustice to someone else, never believe they would not do it to you. IT COULD BE ALL OF US! That is why we all have a responsibility to speak up and take action!

@marci_shore @RPJ_Hendriks The scariest historical lesson isn’t that evil looks like evil. It’s that it looks like normalcy, career advancement, party loyalty, not wanting to cause a scene, the same choice Americans face now.