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Daily Beast: The Cato Institute accused Trump, Marco Rubio & Kristi Noem of charging migrants $1.3 billion in fees for visa processing & other services they had zero intention of providing. Critics are calling it “the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system.”

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BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Bombshell report accuses Trump and Rubio of "the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system" amounting to over $1.3 billion stolen from migrants. And the details will absolutely enrage you... According to the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem extracted at least $1.3 billion from migrants in fees for visa processing and other immigration services that they never intended to provide. They took the money, then took no steps to hold up their end of the agreement. The administration is taking money from immigrant hopefuls from over 90 countries despite the fact that Trump's own xenophobic travel bans have made it so that those same people are "banned from receiving immigrant visas and immigrating permanently to the United States." Trump is having it both ways: taking the money he would get for allowing immigration while simultaneously blocking that immigration. "During testimony before the US Senate, I called it the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system. In fact, it is likely the first $1 billion fraud—a theft of processing fees for services never rendered," wrote David J. Bier for Cato. But the corruption goes so much deeper... Rubio's State Department has issued internal rules that prohibit his staff from informing the migrants in question that they have no chance of success and their money is essentially being stolen. It's a systemic graft operation. “Cubans represent the largest group of affected applicants with nearly a million affected applications at a combined cost of $543 million. The second most common was Venezuelans, with 239,000 applications at a cost of $138 million,” Cato reports. Cato estimates that over 2 million immigrant applicants were affected by the travel bans and had their money taken when there no intention on the part of the administration of rendering the services in question. "The fees came primarily from applications for work permits and filings to adjust status to permanent residence or immigrant visas—the two ways in which people receive green cards to stay permanently in the United States," writes Bier. Congress must immediately investigate this blatant, rampant fraud and begin the long, difficult process of ensuring that every single victim is paid back with interest. These people came looking for a better life in the United States and were instead fleeced for what little money they had. This is a kind of cruelty and greed that could only exist with Donald Trump as president. Please ❤️ and share to demand full refunds!

This is disgusting. A journalist reported a missile strike. Polymarket bettors threatened to kill him and his family unless he changed his story so they could cash out. This is what happens when you let people bet on war. Human life becomes a transaction. I introduced the DEATH BETS Act because some markets should never exist. This one never should have. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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@Microinteracti1 At least in the Gilded Age, the robber barons engaged in philanthropy with their spare change instead of ultra-creepy, money-wasting, time-wasting projects like Metaverse.

Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality. He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.

We could argue that Trump 1 was a one-off, a freak occurrence. But electing him *twice*? Raises reasonable questions about what kind of electorate would do that.

JUST IN: Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts approved a general design for a 24k gold commemorative coin for the U.S. 250th anniversary featuring Trump’s image. “I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said. Separately, the Treasury has said it plans to issue a $1 Trump coin that the Commission of Fine Arts approved in January. Straight-up banana republic stuff.

@RpsAgainstTrump @DeanBaker13 Rated: Ugliest. Coin. Ever.

Very well said!👏👏👏

Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job nbcnews.com/politics/donal… via @nbcnews

The U.S. was the ONLY country to vote against a UN women’s rights measure. Only country.
Against women.
 That’s the post.

@PhillipsPOBrien 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 Agree 💯%

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

EVERY SINGLE HOUSE REPUBLICAN present voted to make MASSIVE CUTS to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other critical benefits.

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US Postmaster General David Steiner says the USPS could be out of money to pay employees by October 2026. Yes, you read that correctly- One month before the midterm elections when mail-in ballots are sent and returned. Steiner was backed by Trump and replaced DeJoy in May 2025.

Mainstream media is framing this like an aging man who wandered off. That’s not neutral—it’s a choice. MG Neil McCasland oversaw the most classified aerospace programs in U.S. history. He had visibility into Special Access Programs across the DoD. He walked out of his home and vanished weeks ago. That is not normal. Everyone should be alarmed. Full story in the comments.

Kenneth Windley, who spent 19 years in prison for a $550 robbery he didn't commit, was exonerated and freed abcnews.com/US/wireStory/n…