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This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

Ding Ding!!

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Trump: "As far as data centers, we don't want to get controversial. The community that they're been built -- they're great, they give you a lot of money -- ask for a lot of money. Tell them to pay you $10,000, $15,000, $20k for everybody who lives in the community. They'll do it! You just gotta ask"

Trump said he had to takeover Greenland to keep China and Russia out. And then he snuck Russia onto the North Slope. Literally just ... inviting them in. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Clutch the pearls…gasp…😒

What’s it called again when the government controls the major industries like oil, steel, utilities? I think it ends in ‘-ism’. 🤔

🚨 Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations — Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers

Our investigation into allegations of data fabrication at the firm SoCal Strategies, and an alleged association with the admittedly fraudulent firm Wedgewood Polls, has resulted in the pollster wiping itself from the face of the earth. Full story at 50+1: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/more-polls...

GIBNEY: “Elon Musk’s genius is stock pumping. He’s not a genius inventor. He never invented anything.” (H/T @marco.foster)

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

If Starlink can be weaponized against Ukraine, it could be weaponized against our other allies or the US itself. That’s a huge security risk.

We are being robbed. Of our homes, our healthcare, our retirements, our recreation, our very futures. They lay off 1,000s and use the saving to buy back stocks. Aren't you tired of these thieves taking money out of your pockets?

Suddenly, Trump's corruption feels like a salient political issue. I don't know why it took this long, but it's happening. Even Republicans are telling pollsters they're souring on Trump's grift.

Ossoff: "Maybe you saw Trump so desperate that he's begging Putin for diesel. But listen to this -- at the very same time, the White House is brokering the sale of billions in Russian energy assets to people who fund the Trump family and the Trump campaign. Y'all remember Jared Kushner?"

Taylor: He has turned the presidency into a side hustle. He has turned the White House into a deposit box for bribes, and he has turned your government into, forgive my words, a fucking ATM machine. So no, we don't want his name on the buildings.

All the grift…all the time…

There is only one reason to fight THIS hard to keep people from seeing this.

Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

12. Long: "This is a very different picture from President Trump's first term when wages were up over 15 percent, well above about 8 percent inflation. It helps explain the frustration many households feel right now."

James Talarico: False claims got millions of views — and this is an example of what I call the ‘rage economy.’ Billionaires who own these platforms get rich, we get angry, and nobody’s life gets better. Conspiracy theories don’t put food on the table, put gas in the tank, or improve our communities.

The Big Ugly Bill cut taxes for the richest people in America. It is the biggest wealth transfer from poor folk to rich folk that we've seen.

Birds of a feather, flocking together…

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she is a lawyer. She has claimed to be a lawyer repeatedly on national TV, on podcasts, and on social media. But there is no evidence that Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law.

Every single Republican except Massie, Fitzpatrick, Tillis, Collins, and Paul paid for these illegal ads.

Ok my awesome followers, I need some Bluesky follow recs. Politics clearly is something I enjoy following, but any accounts gardening, horse, home improvement, or book/writing related you really love & want to share?

As Trump comes to CLARKSVILLE with @MarshaBlackburn — who helped vote to keep the pointless war going…

the cryptocurrency company co-founded in 2024 by Mr. Witkoff, as well as his and Mr. Trump’s sons. The White House has said that Mr. Witkoff has divested his position in the company. In Qatar, the deal’s investors are the billionaire Syrian-born brothers Ramez and Moutaz Al-Khayyat, who are partners

This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.

Andrew Egger: “We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: It’s genuinely amazing how little Trump tries to hide his own mob-boss style.” The best part of the story is how Guilfoyle, conscious of the fact that what she's doing is a crime, obsesses over not leaving a "paper trail" for prosecutors.

Trump in 2016 “We will pass a truly great healthcare plan” Trump in 2021 “We will pass a truly great healthcare plan” Trump in 2024 “We will pass a truly great healthcare plan” Trump today…😒

WTAF?

Short read but absolutely should be required reading.

Better open up the Swiss bank accounts, boys. Accountability is coming.

We all knew this was going to be a scam packed with a billion conditions and hoops to jump through and that no child was going to benefit from this. This is a money laundering operation.

I asked Chat GPT why the buildout of AI requires facism, and it gets it…

Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the left

More self-dealing. Trump’s son-in-law (not a gov employee) pushing foreign policy & deals to enrich himself. Oh, but Hunter sold a few paintings, so…

NYC Mayor Mamdani joined comedian Theo Von on his podcast and repeated his belief that the US should join the ICC in arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, after the Israeli prime minister singled out the mayor during his recent UN speech. The mayor also discussed antisemitism and affordability in New York.

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Nothing to see here…move along 👀

In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.