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ALPR Cameras Help Auburn Police Locate and Arrest Two Robbery Suspects
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The donor list for Trump's ballroom is finally public, and it blows the lid off a huge can of worms.
There’s a LOT here, so let’s break it down:
1) Surprise, surprise...a ton of the donors conveniently got things they wanted after donating, and several of them asked to remain anonymous. Makes you wonder why.
2) Roughly HALF of the money for the ballroom came from companies or executives whose firms have had federal contracts under Trump.
3) Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted on bribery charges, was pardoned after his daughter gave $3.5 million to Trump’s PAC and pledged another $2.5 million for the ballroom. Trump pardoned him after the first check for the ballroom hit.
4) Charles Ergen, a telecoms exec whose company was being investigated by the FCC, had a closed-door meeting with Trump and the Chair of the FCC. That meeting reportedly involved talks about his political donations. The Administration dropped the investigation, and Ergen donated a total of $25 million.
5) Rocket, a housing fintech company, needed federal approval of a major acquisition. The deal raised a ton of questions from lawmakers about potential anticompetitive business practices. The Trump Administration gave the company the green light, and three weeks later, a Rocket subsidiary donated $10 million to the ballroom.
6) Salesforce committed a total of $3 million in three installments. Between those payments, the Army awarded the company a $5.6 billion contract, the largest public government contract in the company's history.
7) ServiceNow committed $5 million just one month after the federal government announced a deal to make their AI software available across federal agencies.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Trump has created a system where the people who need something from his government know exactly how to get his attention.
These companies and executives are foaming at the mouth to shower him with money, because he’s made it clear that he’ll help them in exchange.
There is no honest word for that other than corruption.
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There are certain decisions that will go down as history-defining moments. This is one of them. It's a terrible misjudgment of Putin, who has made it clear he wants to destroy the West. We shouldn't help him do it.
Trump waives many Russian sanctions, tariffs under new law backed by Lindsey Graham foxbusiness.com/politics/tru…
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Our tax dollars hard at work! Not helping Americans just creating Fascist TV to spread propaganda!
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So in 2020, a pandemic swept across the world that was planned by Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates and was simultaneously both killing billions of people and "just the flu."
BLM was having violent protests and burning down entire cities because a cop was wrongly accused of killing a black man who just coincidentally died of a fentanyl overdose while the cop was kneeling on his neck.
Democrats who supported the protests but condemned the violence were actually responsible for the violence because they said the word "fight."
Joe Biden, who was too inept to win the 2020 election, was also plotting to successfully steal the election while Donald Trump was President by betting Republican-led states to use their emergency laws so that people could vote without dying of the aforementioned fake-but-real Fauci-led pandemic. He did this all from his basement.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump was bravely leading the charge for Operation Warp Speed, which sped up the approval process for the vaccine, which Fauci and his evil minions had designed to kill people, using the fake-but-real "plannedemic" as an excuse to inject people with the magnetic, 5G, mind-control virus.
Then, after the election, the Democrats cheated by counting votes where they were behind and also by counting votes where they were ahead, even though it wasn't even election day anymore, just because the ballots were cast on or before election day.
After losing over 70 court cases, the Democrats illegally tried to seize power by sending the legal Electoral College results, just because the courts said they could, thus having a total disregard for the rule of law.
Then Donald Trump had a rally to "Stop the Steal" where he told people to "fight like hell" dozens of times, but did say the word "peacefully" once, which totally proves he didn't want anything violent to happen.
Then, 2,000 peaceful protesters descended upon the Capitol building to "stop the steal," where they were totally innocent and peacefully protesting while Antifa and the FBI actually caused all the violence that didn't happen.
They were causing the violence because they wanted to make Donald Trump look bad.
Also, the violence that happened at the totally peaceful protest was Nancy Pelosi's fault because she blocked Donald Trump from summoning 10,000 DC National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol Building, even though there are only 2,000 DC National Guardsmen, the Speaker of the House has no authority over the National Guard, and the President of the United States is the Commander in Chief.
Then, when Joe Biden successfully stole the election, Donald Trump packed away thousands of national security documents and spirited them away to Mar-a-Lago, where they were safely held in a public bathroom.
Joe Biden sent out a bunch of stimulus checks with Donald Trump's signature on them, which caused the worldwide inflation two years later, right after Russia invaded Ukraine becuase Joe Biden was warning NATO that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, so Russia had to invade Ukraine to defend itself from NATO.
And all the jobs that were going to come back anyway had nothing to do with Joe Biden, even though the inflation that caused everyone going back to work was 100% Joe Biden's fault.
And Joe Biden's DOJ weaponized the Justice Department by prosecuting people who committed crimes while Donald Trump is doing things the right way and prosecuting people who tried to assassinate Trump by posting an Instagram picture of seashells.
Now, we're at war with Iran because they were two weeks away from being able to hit America with nuclear weapons using their obliterated nuclear capabilities.
And all of this is Barack Obama's fault becuase the treaty that he arranged was bad.
And the real tragedy in America right now is that Democrats are a bunch of libtard, fascist, communist, Marxist, Socialists who are logically inconsistent.
Do I have this right?
Mark C. Thomas retweeted
We’ve been trying to get Trump to stop but he just keeps messing with it and making it worse. Here you go:
I urge Trump to stop vandalizing govt property by employing people with our tax dollars who don’t know what they are doing.
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I’m so glad you’re ready to speak out against Trump’s seizure of private companies & piling up the biggest debt in the history of our great Republic.
Join our fight, Mike🇺🇸
Privatize Intel, Balance the Budget, and stop killing people in the streets of America.
#DontTreadOnMe
The stakes couldn't be higher.
The question before Congress is whether we will preserve our constitutional republic OR chart a fundamentally different course that leads us down the ROAD TO COMMUNISM.
This is the question, and for Republicans, the FIGHT IS ON to preserve the greatest nation in history from Mini Mamdanis.
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There's a very common playbook that leaders use when they fear that they or their party are going to lose an election. So, here are some of the steps in that authoritarian playbook that you should look out for:
1⃣ Install loyalists to key positions around the elections. The president, unlike his first term, has really put in deep loyalists across the government; in the attorney general’s office, in charge of elections and election security. Putting in people who are more loyal to him than they are to the Constitution and who will do whatever he says.
2⃣ Sow doubt in our election system. The president has been doing this since 2020. He’s talking falsely about how our elections were rigged in 2020. He’s been talking about how the elections we just had in Los Angeles were rigged. He said in the State of the Union this year that if he and his party don't win in November, then the 2026 are rigged. The president has come out against mail-in voting and absentee voting. The president is already starting to do this by suing states across the country, including Michigan, for their voter rolls. He has particularly taken a sharp look at the city of Detroit and in Wayne County. This is all part of a bigger play to sow doubt into the efficacy of our elections.
3⃣ Suggest that there is a crisis threatening our elections. This is all about amping up the stories and the coverage and the tweets about how we are actually in an emergency. That our elections are so unsafe, so problematic, that the president has to declare some sort of emergency.
4⃣ Respond to the perceived threat. Once you've created an emergency and you’ve said our elections are under threat, now the head of state has to respond to that emergency. Maybe they send the uniform military; maybe they send the federal law enforcement; maybe they feel the need to be on location at polling places. Maybe now they are seizing ballots and voting machines.
5⃣ If none of that works and the elections don't go the way of the leader, completely question the results. Sue to try and have them overturned. We lived through this in 2020, and as someone who, on January 6, barricaded herself in her own office, we’ve seen that President Trump does not accept the results of elections that he loses.
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Democrats need to stop panicking and pointing fingers at each other and start attacking the GOP for allowing Trump to use America like one big ATM for his corrupt family and billionaire buddies. This is simple.
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I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.
250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.
A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.
An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.
The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.
A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.
A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.
Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.
$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.
And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.
And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?
Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.
For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?
Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?
They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.
Mark C. Thomas retweeted
Somewhere there's a farmer's kid with a real sense of humour. This is genius.
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What exactly are you referring to when you say Tulsi "exposed Fauci and the deep state"?
I've actually read the documents she declassified. If you've followed the congressional hearings, intelligence reviews, and Fauci testimony over the last several years, there is very little that's new in Tulsi's supposed "bombshell" release.
What's interesting is that many people are now using these document releases to dismiss the recent WaPo reporting about Tulsi as a "hit piece" because she supposedly exposed some massive scandal.
But what exactly did she expose?
The COVID documents basically show:
• Researchers believed all the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a lab-modified coronavirus existed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• Because of that, a lab-related origin was being seriously considered alongside the natural spillover theory.
• U.S.-funded EcoHealth Alliance research involved collaboration with Wuhan researchers studying bat coronaviruses.
THAT'S IT.
Now, the government was definitely too quick to publicly dismiss the lab-leak hypothesis in 2020. The government also should NOT have been pressuring social media companies to suppress certain COVID-related content. That is exactly why so many people became convinced there was a massive conspiracy & that their government was lying to them.
Never again.
Importantly, though, these documents do NOT show that officials secretly knew COVID came from a lab. They do NOT show that scientists had proof of a lab leak and buried it. They do NOT show a coordinated coverup, despite the way the accompanying press release was written.
The documents show scientists & intelligence analysts debating competing hypotheses in real time while dealing with incomplete information. Pretty normal stuff, actually.
There is no smoking gun. No proof of engineering. No proof of a cover-up. No proof that COVID originated from a lab leak.
The conclusion remains exactly where it's been for years:
• A lab leak remains plausible.
• Natural spillover remains plausible.
• We still don't know.
And six years later, we may never know.
So if you think Tulsi revealed some earth-shattering new fact, tell me specifically what it was.
What new information did you learn from these documents that wasn't already public? Because I've read them, and I'm not seeing it.
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When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.
The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.
Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.
Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.
In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
A gaudy performance.
A caricature masquerading as leadership.
A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.
And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....
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Hahahaha yeah, it IS reserved for the elites. Who was at the UFC fight? ELITES. Let a normal person like me or anyone else walk up to the White House, and we would get shot down. I’ve never been invited to a party at the White House. If it belongs to the people then the people should be invited for events. NOT THE ELITES.
What about Trumps “Front Row Joe’s”? They have supported him at every single rally. They don’t miss one. They should have been invited to the front seats for this event, but no, THE ELITES had those spots.
Don’t try to play like you’re all some normal people. None of you have ANY IDEA what it’s like to live life as a regular person. A middle class American. The BACKBONE of this once great country. We get poorer and poorer, taxed to death, never get time off work, never time to spend with the family. We can’t afford groceries or gas. We are treated like slaves.
You all are so out of touch you don’t know what it’s like. You call your pilot and tell them to pick you up and drop you off whenever and wherever you want at around $75,000 one way and don’t even think about losing that amount of money. Most people don’t even earn one of your one way flights dollar amount per YEAR.
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As former MAGA I can say that once you stop making excuses for Trump's behavior everything becomes very clear.
Give yourself permission to do that.
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Donald Trump cheated on his first wife, who said he raped her, with his second wife, who he cheated on with his third wife, who he cheated on with a playmate and a porn star.
So MAGA can take their performative pearl clutching act about fidelity and fuck all the way off.
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Timeline of the Iran War:
🔸2015: JCPOA agreed to. Iran gives up most of its enriched uranium, leaving it with a limited amount enriched to under 4%.
🔸2016-2018: Iran is complying with the agreement.
🔸2015-2025 US intelligence says Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon.
🔸May 2018: Trump withdraws from the JCPOA and begins imposing harsh sanctions on Iran. Iran continues to comply with the agreement for another year.
🔸May 2019: Iran ends its compliance with the agreement, which is no longer recognized by the US and is no longer providing sanctions relief. Although Iran is producing more uranium, it is still at low levels of around 4% for the next couple of years.
🔸Jul 2020: Iran's Natanz facility is sabotaged.
🔸Nov 2020: The father of Iran's nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated.
🔸Jan 2021: Iran begins enriching uranium up to 20%.
🔸Apr 2021: While talks were underway to restore the JCPOA, the Natanz facility was attacked again. Iran announces 60% enrichment in response. The 60% enrichment volume is low. Iran says it is a demonstration of capability and is reversible.
🔸Nov 2024: IAEA enacts a censure resolution against Iran
🔸Dec 2024: In response, Iran activates idle centrifuges and dramatically increases enrichment production.
🔸2025: US intelligence threat assessment says Iran is still not working on a nuclear weapon and warns that conflict with Iran would lead to a closure of the Strait, attacks on US bases, and attacks in the region.
🔸Jun 2025: US bombs Iran's nuclear facilities. Trump declares Iran's nuclear program obliterated.
🔸Feb 2026: Iran and the US are involved in negotiations about Iran's nuclear program. Iran reportedly is flexible on its highly enriched uranium, including possible transfer, exchange, or downblending.
🔸Feb 28: During negotiations, the US and Israel launch attacks on Iran. Iranian leadership is killed, military facilities are struck, and an elementary school full of children is bombed.
Iran retaliates by closing the Strait, attacking US bases, and targeting other Gulf nations.
Throughout the war, the US has had 15 bases heavily damaged, 42 aircraft lost or damaged, 13 service members killed, and hundreds more wounded.
🔸Mar 1: After telling journalists several different timelines, Trump settles on 4-5 weeks for the conflict. The administration admits there was no imminent threat of attack from Iran.
🔸Mar 3: AAA shows the national average for a gallon of gas is above $3.00
🔸Mar 7, 11, 15, 20, 24, 26, 27 Apr 7, 8: The administration says the war is won.
🔸Mar 9, 11, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 29 Apr 1, 6, 16, 17, 20, the administration says the war will be over soon.
🔸Mar 21: Trump gives Iran a 48-hour ultimatum
🔸Mar 23: Trump extends the time limit for the ultimatum by 5 days
🔸Mar 26: Trump extends the ultimatum deadline to Apr 6
🔸Mar 30: AAA shows gas above $4.00 a gallon
🔸Apr 5: Trump pushes back the time limit to Apr 7
🔸Apr 7: Trump threatens to destroy Iran’s entire civilization if they don't comply, then announces a two-week ceasefire instead of attacking
🔸Apr 21: As the two-week ceasefire is about to expire with no deal, Trump says it is now an indefinite ceasefire
🔸May 1: War reaches 60 days and is now in violation of the War Powers Resolution.
🔸May 7: Despite a ceasefire in effect, Iran and US forces exchange fire. Trump says the ceasefire is still in effect
🔸May 12: CPI report shows inflation reaches 3.8%. Inflation is now outpacing wage gains. Trump says he is not thinking about Americans' financial situation
🔸May 23-24: Administration suggests a deal will be reached this weekend. No deal happens.
🔸Today: No deal has been reached. Gas is $4.34, inflation is still rising, the Strait is still closed, and Iran is still not working on a nuclear weapon