Mateo Martinez
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Mateo Martinez
@mateomuhammad
Shoulder to Shoulder, YNWA

The morality of it aside, it seems like Zelensky’s approach to Trump was so counterproductive there almost has to be 12-dimensional chess? Maybe he thinks the USA is lost cause sooner or later so by fighting Trump he can rally Europe to offset USA payments? Weird.

At 11:30 this morning, the Harris County District Attorney’s Fugitive Apprehension Section, in close coordination with multiple law enforcement agencies, took Andrew Taake into custody. Taake was wanted in Harris County for online solicitation of a minor, charged in May 2016.

Federal law enforcement yesterday arrested one person with known gang ties after deploying nearly 400 agents to conduct large-scale immigration raids in Aurora and Denver. axios.com/local/denver/2…

SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary. Story --> washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

JUST IN: Roughly 40 prosecutors in the US Attorney's office in Washington have been dismissed, @alex_mallin reports. Each had previously worked on Jan 6 cases.

What is the case for giving the CEO of TikTok a prominent seat at the inauguration? Even if you don't want to ban the app, why should the guy be honored? The only explanation I can think of is that this is an announcement that the administration is open to being corrupted.
