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George Sarantopoulos

@ManifestWithGeo

Serial Entrepreneur/Writer/Cancer Survivor/Brooklynite

Brooklyn, NY Katılım Nisan 2009
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George Sarantopoulos
George Sarantopoulos@ManifestWithGeo·
2026 is about protecting the businesses I’ve built, securing my family’s future, continuing to get healthier, and getting back into the fight to take back NYC from radical governance with clarity, courage, and conviction every single day. It’s time to give common sense a voice again. That’s the mission. Stay tuned. Happy New Year to all. 🥂🎉🎆
Breaking911@Breaking911

At midnight, Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

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Anyone wants to open a 24/7 coffee shop in NYC with me? 1. Must be majority of it automated 2. No big menu, just the basic coffees 3. Small membership fee to work long hours
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Today NYC officially honored one of the giants of imagination: Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby Way is now official. A fitting tribute to the man who helped create modern mythology through comics and movies.
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@PopBase The fact that this aired on a major cable network tells you just how dramatically things have shifted in the last couple of years(and I'm loving it!)
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Pop Base@PopBase·
Cassie revealed her political stance on tonight’s episode of ‘Euphoria.’ “[You sound like a Democrat]” “I’m not ret*rded”
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Kaboom.💥 There goes our state’s budget stability for the foreseeable future. The bill always comes due.
Joseph Hernandez@hernandezforny

My team and I did what the current Comptroller hasn’t, we analyzed @GovKathyHochul’s $268 billion budget so New Yorkers understand what’s actually coming. The verdict? The next four years are nothing short of scary. FY2027: Albany claims “balanced”, but only by burning through a one-time Wall Street windfall. Zero deposited to reserves. The moment that money’s gone, the floor drops. FY2028: A $6 billion deficit opens. The temporary tax surcharges that masked the structural problem expire. Federal aid is already down $10.3 billion this year alone. FY2029: The gap widens to $9 billion. Medicaid, now 46% of the entire state budget at $122.9B, keeps accelerating. Washington’s cuts compound. Albany has no plan. FY2030: A $12.5 billion deficit. Independent watchdogs put the real structural imbalance closer to $20 billion. State debt balloons from $55.9B to nearly $95B, approaching the statutory cap. In four years, New York is looking at $27.5 billion in cumulative deficits, debt service payments rising 40%, and a state that has saved nothing for the storm it sees coming. The Comptroller’s office exists to sound the alarm. Ours will.

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Banks love your money. They just don’t love you earning too much from it. The system is perfectly comfortable paying you 0.01% while inflation eats your savings alive but the second you look elsewhere for yield, suddenly it’s “risky.”💰
Bernie Moreno@berniemoreno

🚨 The banking cartel is in full panic mode. 🚨 While Americans were celebrating Mother’s Day with their families, the CEO of the American Bankers Association sent a frantic alert to every bank CEO in the country, demanding “immediate engagement” to lobby Senators and kill stablecoins that would finally let everyday Americans earn real yields on their own money. This line in the letter sticks out: “we believe committee members may not be fully aware of the risks to the economy by the stablecoin loophole.” That’s both intellectually dishonest and simultaneously demeaning. First, there is no “loophole.” This entire issue was litigated during the GENIUS Act debate. @BillHagertyTN worked tirelessly on this issue and this statement is an insult to his and others work. For decades, these banks have treated your deposits like their personal piggy bank, paying you next to nothing while lending YOUR money out for massive profits and executive bonuses. During the Biden era, these same banks worked hand-in-glove with @SenWarren and her allies to debank Americans, including President Trump’s own family. They shut down accounts of conservatives, patriots, and anyone who dared challenge the regime, all while regulators applied pressure under schemes like Operation Choke Point 2.0. It wasn’t about risk. It was about political control. Now that innovative stablecoins threaten to break their monopoly and give you actual financial freedom? They’re running to Congress again, screaming about “threats to economic growth and financial stability.” Translation: Protect the racket at all costs. The Senate Banking Committee votes on landmark crypto legislation this Thursday. As a member of that committee, my message is clear: Hands off the people’s money. Let Americans choose real competition and better returns. No more shielding Wall Street from the future. The banking elite’s days of rigging the system and debanking their political enemies are over. Innovation, freedom, and the American people will win. I’m voting to break the cartel.

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Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew·
The current ages of the 7 Justices on the Virginia Supreme Court are: 70 69 67 64 61 56 54 The idea that the legislature would lower the retirement age to 53 in order to remove them all is just beyond wild. Then they would install 7 new Justices who would have to commit in advance to reversing the prior Court's decision -- that tells you everything you would ever need to know about anyone who would pledge to do that. Three Justices voted in the minority, but you can't exempt them from the retirement because they might object to a corrupt process to remove their colleagues for no reason other than naked partisan politics. This would DESTROY the functional independence of the Virginia Supreme Court, and be a permanent stain on the votes of every Virginia Assembly Democrat who went along with it. It would bring condemnation from Courts and Legislatures all across the country. Virginians need to take a hard look at the people it is electing, and ask whether they have the foundational commitment to the Great American Experiment that has held this country together -- even through a Civil War. In Virginia, of all places.
Tyler Englander@TylerEnglander

Per The New York Times, there are discussions among congressional Democrats about still trying to implement a new congressional map in Virginia despite the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling. That process could include lowering the retirement age of Supreme Court justices and trying to invalidate the constitutional amendment that created Virginia’s bipartisan redistricting commission. nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/…

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Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
Always remember: it’s not officially Mother’s Day until Mr. T has blessed us with song.
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Happy Mother’s Day to the women who hold our families together through strength, sacrifice, and of course, love. Mothers shape the future at home long before the world ever sees it.
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.
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Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital·
Ken Griffin says he's scaling down in NYC: "What the mayor of New York has made clear to us, is that we need to double down on Miami."
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@GeeksGamersCom This would be the smartest thing that the Star Wars people could do to bring back life to the franchise.
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Geeks + Gamers@GeeksGamersCom·
RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy From Timeline to Resume Focus on Original Characters "If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history."
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So, this is getting interesting...
Sam E. Antar@SamAntar

NEW INVESTIGATION: Mamdani campaign coordination questions exposed in public filings. This isn't speculation. It's all in the records. I've already reported to the IRS how almost $80 million in charitable funds flowed to organizations that endorsed Mamdani and provided ground operations for his campaign — while concealing their coordination on federal tax forms. Now I'm examining potential election law violations — the shared treasurers, the same-day penny-perfect transactions, the "independence" certifications filed under penalty of perjury. Same network. New questions. Let me show you what I found. 🔗 Full investigation with all sources and documents: whitecollarfraud.com/2026/05/04/did… $950,000 moved from Working Families Party PAC to WFP National PAC – NYS IE Committee. Thirteen days before Election Day. Same treasurer on both sides: Mike Boland. Same address: 77 Sands Street, Brooklyn. Same management company. The IE committee spent $1.8 million on "independent" expenditures for Mamdani. ⚖️ Under NY Election Law § 14-107-a, PACs cannot contribute to IE committees under "common operational control." Same treasurer. Same address. Same company. It gets better. A second shared treasurer: Amin Mitha. He's treasurer of Emgage Federal PAC. He's also treasurer of Defend and Advance – NY I.E. The PAC gave $60,000 to IE committees. $35,000 went to the committee where Mitha is also treasurer. Two networks. Two shared treasurers. Same pattern. Now the penny-perfect red flag. June 11, 2025: Make the Road Action → WFP National PAC: $45,697.14 WFP National PAC → Make the Road Action: $45,697.14 Same day. Same amount. To the penny. Explain that without seeing the books. The "partners" problem. Movement Voter Project's own report called Make the Road Action and Working Families Party "MVP partners" working "in partnership." WFP's 2022 memo bragged they "coordinated a significant grassroots IE table." Coordinated. Their word. Then they certified under penalty of perjury that their IE spending was independent. Follow the money. Almost $80 million moved from 501(c)(3) charities to 501(c)(4) advocacy groups. Tax-deductible donations → political expenditures. Tides Foundation alone sent $57M to Tides Advocacy. Tides Advocacy distributed $2.2M to Mamdani-endorsing organizations. Upstream? George Soros. Foundation to Promote Open Society and Open Society Institute — his 501(c)(3) vehicles — sent $11.77 million to the Tides network. Open Society Policy Center gave $4.1 million directly to Tides Advocacy. One grant for $3 million explicitly referenced the "Electoral Justice Project." On the Schedule I. In writing. 147,500 doors knocked. Jewish Voice for Peace Action: 80,000 Make the Road Action: 60,000 NY Communities for Change: 7,500 + 30,000 calls Working Families Party: 1,000+ volunteers All funded through the same network. All endorsed Mamdani. All documented as "partners." The personnel connection. Renita Francois — Chief Program Officer at Tides Advocacy, $155,036 compensation. She "oversaw millions of dollars in grants and managed relationships with political leaders." On March 19, 2026, Mayor Mamdani appointed her Deputy Mayor. The person who managed the grants is now in the administration of the candidate who benefited. Six questions regulators should answer: 1. Does same treasurer + same address + same management company = "common operational control"? 2. What did "partnership" actually mean? 3. Were 147,500 doors knocked independently or as a coordinated operation? 4. What do the books show for the $45,697.14 same-day transactions? 5. Were charitable funds converted into political expenditures? 6. Does the Francois appointment warrant examination? I'm a forensic accountant. I follow money, not politics. The public filings create a clear investigative trail. NYC Campaign Finance Board, NY State Board of Elections, NY Attorney General, IRS, and FEC should all be looking at this. The facts are strong enough that regulators should examine whether Mamdani campaign coordination occurred. 🔗 Full investigation with all sources and documents: whitecollarfraud.com/2026/05/04/did…

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Harrison Ford@HarrisonFordLA·
May the fourth be with you
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Reads with Ravi@readswithravi·
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
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Bestia
Bestia@StuMinga44·
@ManifestWithGeo That’s beautiful. Είσαι πολεμιστής και γαμώ τον καρκίνο
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George Sarantopoulos@ManifestWithGeo·
When I wasn’t building businesses or running for office, I was rebuilding myself back from cancer. I wrote to help in that recovery. To make sense of what didn’t to me at the time. One of the first pieces is a poem called "Inheritance," please feel free to take a look: youtu.be/x_Bjk02GIx4?si…
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Taking a week off from here for some routine maintenance.🤣
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