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Clearly a lot of big unnamed players involved in mobilizing effort this scale & a lot more to come. Maybe one of our local reporters will be able to force out some info, otherwise voters will submit their ballots w/o knowing who spent millions in dark $ to influence their votes.

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally. Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

This is infuriating.

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale has contributed to Spencer Pratt's campaign for Mayor of LA.

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money. We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price. It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.

Bolivian worker on strike: My own son is standing over there to repress me.

Real estate mergers have been categorically exempt from basic anti-trust scrutiny applied in any other sector through the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. This was based on the idea real estate markets are perfectly competitive, and consolidation is harmless. This is incredibly dumb🧵