V.A. begins drive to put homeless veterans into guardianship
Oh, this certainly won’t be a clusterfuck of cruelty.
Anti-ICE protesters convicted on terrorism charges for wearing all black
Excerpt: In a statement posted online, a support group for the defendants said, “Everything about this trial from beginning to end has proven what we have said all along: this is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.”
Me again: This verdict is a huge kick in the First Amendment’s nuts.
Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.
Excerpt: Prior to Bill C-3, An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act (2025), citizenship by descent for those born abroad was limited to the first generation.
But now, Canadian citizenship is being retroactively granted to people born before the new law came into effect on Dec. 15, 2025, who would have been citizens if not for the first-generation limit. Different criteria, however, apply to those born on or after that date.
… “There’s no limit on how many generations you can go back, as long as you can prove it,” Fultz said.
Me again: My not-a-lawyer reading is that this could be a golden ticket, provided you have Canadian ancestry and can prove it. If your mother or great-great-granddad came from Alberta or New Brunswick or whatever, and you can find documentation, maybe you can get out of America. And patriotism be damned — if you have a way out, getting out is a good idea.
AND NOW THE NEWS
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The Wyden Siren goes off again: We’ll be “stunned” by what the NSA is doing under Section 702
Excerpt: Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you’ve followed Wyden’s career, you know this is not a man prone to hyperbole — and you know his track record on these warnings is perfect.
Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota
Excerpt: Erin had never seen a drone in her neighborhood before the surge. Since then, she has recorded footage of at least 16 possible drone sightings, which she shared with MPR News.
Other observers in the Twin Cities have documented dozens of other possible sightings, cross-referencing them with aircraft flight plans to be sure that they weren’t mistaking planes for drones.
Stanley said it’s difficult to speculate about the government’s intentions if it is flying drones around the Twin Cities, but that laws and policies grounded in the the Constitution are supposed to keep authorities in check.
“Anybody in government cannot fly a drone where somebody has a reasonable expectation of privacy,” Stanley said. “Flying next to somebody’s window and peering in their house almost certainly would violate somebody’s reasonable expectation of privacy — that is the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.”
But observers who already felt targeted by ICE agents employing license plate readers and facial scanners, suspect the sudden appearance of drones over their homes during the surge isn’t a coincidence.
After DOGE deposition videos go viral, judge orders them taken down
Excerpt: A Manhattan judge on Friday ordered that video depositions of two former employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency be removed from the internet, after they became fodder for viral social media posts mocking the two men.
The videos had been posted on YouTube by scholarly groups who are suing to restore sweeping grant cuts that DOGE helped carry out last spring at the National Endowment for the Humanities. On Friday, the government said in an emergency filing that the groups had improperly posted the depositions and that at least one witness, Justin Fox, a former DOGE employee, had been subjected to significant harassment, including death threats.
Mr. Fox and another former DOGE employee, Nate Cavanaugh, had each testified in their depositions that they used ChatGPT to identify grants that ran afoul of President Trump’s executive order banning “radical and wasteful government D.E.I. programs.” The two men, who had previously worked in technology and finance, acknowledged they had no background in the humanities, but believed in DOGE’s broader mission of shrinking “useless small agencies,” as Mr. Cavanaugh put it.
ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Excerpt: Details about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers’ surveillance tools and arrest goals in the state have come to light in a federal lawsuit that compelled officers to answer questions under oath, offering a rare window into opaque, internal strategies that are generally kept secret and have been driving mass detentions and chaotic raids.
The class-action suit, filed by Innovation Law Lab, an immigrants’ rights non-profit, challenged ICE’s practice of detaining people without warrants or probable cause. Advocates said the tactic resulted in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional arrests, and a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs, issuing a ruling broadly halting warrantless arrests in Oregon.
Testimony in a December hearing in the case provided a remarkable acknowledgment by an ICE officer of how daily target arrest numbers played out at the local level, and appeared to contradict the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials’ repeated claims that officers didn’t have quotas. Trump adviser Stephen Miller has publicly said the administration’s target was 3,000 daily arrests. The hearing also appeared to be the first time that ICE disclosed in court its use of an app called Elite for operations.
In the hearing, an ICE agent identified as JB testified that his team was given a verbal order to target eight arrests a day.
Alabama: ICE detains business owner, $21,000 cash vanishes with no body cam evidence
Excerpt: Pío Figueroa, who operates a Latin convenience store in downtown Russellville, Alabama, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on 30 January while transporting $21,000 (approximately £15,730) in cash to a local bank. The funds, collected through his shop’s money transfer service, have not been accounted for since his arrest.
Figueroa’s shop operates Telmax, a service enabling local residents to send remittances to families across Latin America. His family and legal representatives say they have no explanation for why he was stopped, and the community’s money remains unaccounted for nearly two months.
The cash Figueroa was carrying was not personal wealth but funds entrusted to his business by community members who rely on Telmax to send money to their families in Latin America. On 30 January, police stopped him while he was en route to deposit the cash at a local bank. His family and legal representatives have no explanation for why the stop was made.
Following his arrest, the entire $21,000 (approximately £15,730) went unaccounted for. No explanation has been provided to his family or attorneys as to what became of the funds.
Illinois: 6 legal residents abducted at O’Hare Airport, held at ICE jail
YOU’VE BEEN PUNKED, SORRY
Excerpt: “We were being lied to our faces,” Afzal said. “We saw her location smack dab in the middle of the [Broadview] facility. We saw her location in Wisconsin in the middle of that facility … We were in contact with her, and they kept being like, ‘I don’t know what to tell you.’”
Maine: ICE must ‘immediately’ release immigrant who was detained after calling 9-1-1 to help save someone else’s life, judge says
Excerpt: Then, late last month, Wu was with a group of friends in Maine and “called emergency services to assist a person attempting suicide.” That phone call landed Wu in immigration detention.
“Upon arrival, local police requested Mr. Wu’s identification,” the order goes on. “Despite the life-saving nature of the call, once Mr. Wu’s non-citizen status was disclosed, police chose to contact U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). USBP subsequently took Mr. Wu into custody, characterizing him as a ‘flight risk’ based on an alleged failure to update his address…Later that day, ICE issued a warrant of removal/deportation.”
ICE abduction of teen musicians roils Texas mariachi community
This family of immigrants attended a required hearing, where they were abducted by Secret Police. Now they’re in ICE jail, soon to be deported, because despite coming to America the correct & legal way, following instructions, and breaking no laws, they continued not being white.
Vermont: Demonstrators arrested during chaotic ICE protest in South Burlington
Excerpt: Late in the afternoon, a federal agent announced to the crowd that agents had a warrant signed by a federal judge and asked people to leave the area. Around 5:30 p.m., federal immigration agents broke down the front door of the home and arrested a man inside. Two other people were taken into federal custody. Protesters crowded the house as agents forcibly removed him, with many blocking federal vehicles as they attempted to leave with the detainee.
Over the next hour and a half, several protesters were arrested as federal, state and local agencies began leaving the scene. The confrontation ended after federal agents deployed flash bangs and pepper-sprayed protesters before departing.
This administration will lie and lie and lie about its officers’ actions
Man who rammed into Michigan synagogue had just lost family in an Israeli strike in Lebanon
Excerpt: A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building where dozens of children were inside.
Authorities said Friday that Ayman Mohammad Ghazali, 41, crashed his car into Temple Israel outside Detroit on Thursday afternoon, then started firing his gun through the windshield, exchanging fire with an armed security guard.
Me again: Probably, though, this will be the only instance of terrorism inspired by the ongoing war in Iran. He said sarcastically.
You are there
∙ Iraq ∙ Israel ∙ Oman ∙ USA
US at fault in strike that killed 175 children at Iranian school, preliminary inquiry says
Excerpt: The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.
The US built a blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties. Trump officials scrapped it.
Pentagon tells Congress first week of Iran war cost more than $11.3 billion
Helping the homeless, educating the ignorant, health care for the sick, etc, is always impossible because how would we fund it. Killing people, though, is a MasterCard with no limits.
The war in Iran could plunge the world into hunger
Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data
Excerpt: Department of Peace explained their motives in a document alongside the hack, citing the recent killings of two peaceful protesters, U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renée Good, earlier this year in Minneapolis by federal agents.
“Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons! I’m releasing this because the DHS is killing us and people deserve to know which companies support them and what they’re working on,” the hackers wrote.
Since the beginning of the Trump administration, DHS and federal immigration agents with ICE have undertaken a campaign of mass deportations, arresting people with largely no criminal records, and detaining them in overcrowded facilities where critics say they are held in inhumane conditions. The mass deportation campaign has been aided by several tech companies, with Palantir at the forefront.
‘Rescuers were flying blind’: Inside the crucial $200,000 contract Kristi Noem’s team let lapse
Excerpt: As deadly tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Plains last weekend, state and local search-and-rescue crews rushed to the devastated areas to look for survivors. It wasn’t until the teams deployed that they realized they were operating without a critical tornado-tracking tool typically provided by FEMA.
That left responders with a less precise picture of where to search first, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN.
The mapping tool pinpoints a tornado’s path of destruction within minutes of touchdown, helping responders focus on the hardest-hit neighborhoods as quickly as possible. Even in storms where FEMA itself doesn’t respond, state and local rescuers rely on the mapping tool, which is provided to them through the agency.
But it wasn’t available this time, because FEMA’s roughly $200,000 contract with the company that provides the data expired in February, and the agency’s request to renew it is still moving through Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s strict spending-approval process, according to the two sources and internal documents reviewed by CNN.
Trump says he won’t sign any other bills until Congress passes anti-voting legislation
West Virginia can ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, US court rules
Excerpt: A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia’s ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, the latest victory for Republican-led states seeking to curb the procedures amid an ongoing national battle over transgender rights.
In a unanimous ruling, opens new tab, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, overturned a judge’s decision that the 2004 statute violated anti-discrimination protections under two federal laws as well as the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law.
The 4th Circuit panel wrote that the law applies to specific procedures and not to specific individuals, and so it does not unlawfully discriminate against transgender people.
Me again: Refusing to cover surgeries that only transgender people need is not discriminatory against transgender people. Riiight.
Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war
Excerpt: Hegseth’s rise would have been unthinkable under any other commander-in-chief. Born in Minneapolis, he studied politics at Princeton University and became publisher and editor of the Princeton Tory, a conservative student journal, where he frequently waded into culture-war issues such as feminism and homosexuality.
After leaving Princeton, Hegseth joined the US army national guard as an infantry officer. His service included deployments to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. He later revealed in a book that he told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement.
Hegseth became chief executive of Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative advocacy group, but departed in 2016 amid allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety and personal misconduct.
In 2018 Hegseth’s mother, Penelope, sent him an email that said: “You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”
Hegseth subsequently became a familiar face on TV as a contributor and co-host of Fox & Friends on Fox News, frequently interviewing Trump and defending his policies. He once wrote that, in the event of a Democratic election win, “the military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war”.
But Trump prevailed in 2024 and nominated Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense.
Hawley introduces legislation to strip FDA approval of abortion pills
Excerpt: Mifepristone, which has been permitted for use in certain abortions for more than two decades, has become the primary vehicle for the procedure in the years since the high court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to have an abortion. More than 60% of abortions took place in 2023 using abortion pills.
Hawley told reporters his proposed legislation would strip FDA approval from mifepristone if made law. “Only Congress can address this situation,” he said. “Only Congress can withdraw the FDA approval rendered way back in the Clinton administration for this drug that has proved to be inherently dangerous and inherently prone to abuse.”
Physicians and health care experts say abortion medication is safe and effective. Studies show that 99.6% of pregnancies are successfully terminated with abortion pills if taken nine weeks into gestation, and that the risk of major complications sits at less than 1%.
Trump’s immigration comments may incite hate crimes, UN watchdog says
Excerpt: The White House dismissed the report, calling it “useless” and “biased”.
“Their extreme bias continues to prove why no one takes them seriously,” said White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales, who noted Trump’s efforts to secure the US border. “No-one cares what the biased United Nations’ so-called ‘experts’ think, because Americans are living in a safer, stronger country than ever before.”
Excerpt: Just weeks after joining the U.S Men’s Olympic hockey team in the locker room to celebrate their Gold Medal victory in Italy, FBI director Kash Patel is celebrating what he sees as another athletic milestone.
“I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC at Quantico,” said Patel in a statement released today by the UFC. “This is a tremendous opportunity for our FBI agents to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on earth — helping the world’s premier law enforcement agency be even better prepared to protect the American people.”
… Among the fighters involved are current interim UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethe, the first UFC BMF champion Jorge Masvidal, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, former UFC strawweight title challenger Claudia Gadelha, former UFC lightweight title challenger Michael Chandler, top UFC flyweight contender Manel Kape and mixed martial arts legend Renzo Gracie.
“I have tremendous respect for the FBI and the work they do every day to protect this country,” said White. “It’s an incredible opportunity for our athletes…and we’re proud to support the FBI in strengthening their defense techniques.”
Report: President Donald Trump is giving “all the boys” dress shoes that don’t fit right
Excerpt: The Journal story describes Trump interrupting a lunch meeting with Tucker Carlson to start talking about “his ‘incredible’ new shoes” and pausing a December meeting with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to point out their “shitty shoes” before “retrieving a catalog” and getting to work on crafting a presidential solution to that issue. If this habit had in any way distracted the president from dropping bombs on foreign schools or his ongoing domestic terror campaigns, it would be much easier to laugh about it. As it stands, it’s just one of those stupid things everyone gets to walk around knowing about while all the bombing and terror stuff continues. There’s very little surprise left in that, either.
Trump’s beloved Florsheim shoe company sues for refund of tariffs
Excerpt: President Donald Trump is obsessed with Florsheim, owned by Glendale-based Weyco Group Inc., according to the Wall Street Journal. In recent weeks, the shoes have become Trump’s favorite gift for cabinet members, lawmakers and advisers. The president’s inner circle has dropped Louis Vuitton for the loafers – which cost around $145 a pair. “Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a White House official told the Wall Street Journal. But even as Florsheim is becoming a status symbol in the Oval Office, Weyco is suing Trump over his tariff policy.
Weyco’s tariffs lawsuit, filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade, differs from similar suits filed by other Wisconsin companies by featuring passages targeting Trump. That includes referring to Trump’s “unprecedented power grab” by using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs – which the Supreme Court barred in a Feb. 20 decision. Weyco, which makes shoes overseas and ships them to the U.S., was hit hard by Trump’s tariffs, CEO Thomas Florsheim said. The company spent millions of dollars on tariffs in 2025, raising shoe prices by 10% in response.
Trump-endorsed Congressional candidate is an accused rapist, of course
Rubio poses with Proud Boys leader at White House event
Excerpt: Enrique Tarrio, a far-right activist and former Proud Boys national chair, posted a photo of himself with Secretary of State Marco Rubio taken at the inaugural “Shield of the Americas” summit in Florida on Saturday.
… Tarrio, who led the white nationalist organization from 2018-2021, was sentenced in 2023 to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy following his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump pardoned him and other Jan. 6 rioters last year.
Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos
Excerpt: The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
DOJ’s Defense of Trump’s Biglaw executive orders: Look how many firms we scared into compliance!
Excerpt: The DOJ is arguing that the orders are legitimate, in part, because other firms folded. … The capitulating firms have taken a lot of criticism for cutting those deals — because yielding to unconstitutional government pressure is exactly how you normalize unconstitutional government pressure. The rule of law doesn’t survive if powerful institutions decide it’s cheaper to just write a check. And now the DOJ is using that compliance as evidence the system works.
Latest Trump swindle offers paid access to national security briefings
Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs in attempt to evade accountability
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse
What a surprise — Republican bigwig in Nevada is a crook
Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI
Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
Excerpt: The person familiar with the breach said the intrusion was carried out by a foreign hacker who did not appear to realize they had penetrated a law enforcement server. The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.
The source said bureau officials defused the situation by convincing the hacker that they actually were the FBI, in part by having the hacker join a video chat where they flashed their law enforcement credentials in front of a web camera.
Reuters could not determine — and the source said they did not know — who the hacker was, what country they were operating from, what they did with the material accessed, or whether any effort was made to identify or punish them for breaking into the FBI’s server.
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
Excerpt: Scientists are pretty sure that Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years, but the news media is moving on, trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news — from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran. The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and, despite a temporary rebound, has gathered pace in recent years: Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent, according to data from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory.
NIH director launches “Scientific Freedom” lectures with anti-scientist
Excerpt: The speaker at the first lecture will be a former journalist best known for his fringe ideas on COVID and the climate. The topic will be the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a lab, an idea for which there is no scientific evidence.
Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
Excerpt: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country,” Marc Abrahams, master of ceremonies and editor of the magazine, told the Associated Press in an email interview. “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year.”
Real consequences: Trump’s bullshit claim about Tylenol is seeing real world results
Excerpt: The research suggested something like a 10% drop in measurable use of acetaminophen or paracetamol in the wake of Trump’s announcement. That doesn’t tell the whole story, of course, since so much of the use of Tylenol occurs through over the counter purchases at drug stores and the like. Based on market research, however, Tylenol specifically saw a nearly identical 11% or so drop in OTC sales as well back in November.
International Energy Agency will launch largest-ever oil release from global strategic reserves
Excerpt: The International Energy Agency said its member countries would release 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency stocks, the largest reserves distribution in history, in a bid to bring down crude prices that have soared during the war with Iran.
Me again: About 20-million barrels of oil are shipped along the Strait of Hormuz daily, so 400-million barrels is about three weeks’ worth. I’m kinda skeptical that things will be all peachy along the Strait in three weeks.
Trump sends message to tankers as oil prices spike: ‘Show some guts!’
Excerpt: President Donald Trump demanded tanker crews sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, south of Iran, “show some guts” as oil prices spike, claiming in an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that there was “nothing to be afraid of” after the U.S.-Israeli joint operation against the regime.
Global oil prices reached over $100 per barrel early Monday amid fears of a longer-term disruption to energy supplies through the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route. Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil typically passes through the narrow waterway, but shipping has largely ground to a halt since the conflict began more than a week ago.
Me again: You know what would really show some guts? If President Trump sailed on a few ships through the Strait of Hormuz, to show the world how safe it is.
Wall Street bankers offered lucrative access to join the Pentagon
Excerpt: A headhunting presentation aimed at recruiting Wall Street investment bankers to the Pentagon dangled access to government officials and foreign royal families that could be used to raise capital in the future, according to a slide deck viewed by The New York Times.
The presentation says that the Pentagon is seeking to build a 30-person investment team to deploy up to $200 billion in government investment over the next three years. Joining the team offers “unmatched access to top-level government officials and privileged information flow — whatever you need, you can get.”
“If you ever want to raise your own fund, you will gain access to fund-raising channels that include royal families and foreign sovereign contacts,” the slide deck says.
Events company that helped plan January 6 riot now does a booming business with government contracts
Excerpt: An events company whose associates helped stage the January 6, 2021 rally has signed contracts worth over $26 million with the United States government, according to documents reviewed by WIRED. Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Event Strategies, a Virginia-based firm with deep ties to Trumpworld, has negotiated a contract with the General Services Administration that could be worth up to $100 million over the next 15 years.
It’s a remarkable rise for the 26-year-old firm, which until the recent windfall had received what appeared to be around $50,000 dollars in government contracts over the past decade. It also appears that Event Strategies won these new contracts with very little competition. According to HigherGov, a tool used by contractors to track federal and state contracts, Event Strategies was the only company to bid on eight of the 11 contracts tracked by the site.
Many of the recent contracts are related to America 250, an 18-month-long commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
TikTok investors set to pay $10 billion fee to Trump regime
Excerpt: Investors in a deal to create a U.S.-controlled TikTok are set to pay $10 billion to the U.S. Treasury, the latest example of the Trump administration’s inserting the federal government into corporate deal making in unusual ways.
The fee, which the U.S. government is considering a transaction fee for its role in helping bring about the deal, will be paid by new investors in the U.S. TikTok, according to two people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about the transaction.
… Aaron Bartnick, a former White House assistant director for technology security and governance under the Biden administration, said the $10 billion might be unprecedented and was “outrageously large.”
During his second term, Mr. Trump has aggressively involved himself in private-sector deal making. The government has taken equity stakes in several companies, including a 10 percent stake in Intel. As part of a deal to clear national security concerns surrounding the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel last year, the administration demanded what it called a “Golden Share.”
Mr. Vance has said the deal will value TikTok at $14 billion. That would mean the transaction fee is about 70 percent of the company’s worth.
Me again: A ten-billion-dollar fee, for a company valued at 14-billion? And you’re supposed to believe the funds are going to the US Treasury?
Jared Kushner solicits funds for his firm while working as Mideast envoy
Change in data sources led to lower inflation reading
Any stats from anywhere in this government have to be considered suspect, if the numbers make the Trump regime look good.
National Target boycott ends a year after DEI pullback started it
Excerpt: The more than year-long national boycott of Minneapolis-based retailer Target ended Wednesday, March 11, after executives reached an agreement with the organizers.
Pastor Jamal Bryant, one of the faith leaders who led the movement, made the announcement at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“We’re pleased to be moving forward, and we will continue showing up as trusted neighbors while delivering results for our team members, guests and the more than 2,000 communities in which we serve. Because when those communities thrive, so do we,” Target said in a statement.
Me again: This is laughably bullshit coverage. Pastor Jamal Bryant was not the organizer of the Target boycott, and doesn’t to my knowledge speak for anyone but himself and his church. I’ll presume he got a nice kickback from Target, and hope he spends it well. Me, I don’t spend anything at Target, and that’s not changing unless Target changes.
Trump removes sanctions on Russia to help oil flow amid Iran attacks
Well, of course. There’s nothing Trump has done as president that isn’t what Russia would want.
UK to eject “hereditary nobles” from House Of Lords
AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL
IGNORING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
Nothing will meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
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