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The credit report Trump gave Deutsche had the golf resort with $12.6M of net operating income 2017. The income statement submitted to authorities in Miami lists net operating income at just 1/3 of that @ $4.3 million. Financials to House Oversight list his income below 0. Ergo, $720 tax total paid.
The credit report Trump gave Deutsche had the golf resort with $12.6M of net operating income 2017. The income statement submitted to authorities in Miami lists net operating income at just 1/3 of that @ $4.3 million. Financials to House Oversight list his income below 0. Ergo, $720 tax total paid.
www.forbes.com/sites/danale.... Trump had $270 million in debt forgiven by lenders owed for his Chicago skyscraper in 2010. Big banks and hedge funds wrote off the losses. Trump paid almost no income tax on the $270M by claiming big losses in other projects. Contractors big and small were stiffed.
Colorado among states that could be hardest hit by Trump tariffs on Canadian oil coloradonewsline.com/2025/01/31/c... Colorado’s only oil refinery, located in Commerce City, operated by Suncor Energy, based in Alberta, Canada, accounts for 40% of the state’s market for refined petroleum products.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... Interior Sec. Doug Burgum thanked Trump for giving a green light to Park Police to engage in high speed pursuits chasing broken lights and expired tags, causing crashes that endanger DC residents and drivers.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc... Russia’s failure to resist Putin’s mafia takeover and Ukraine’s success in fighting back against it contain many useful lessons for Americans and anyone else who risks taking their rights and freedoms for granted.
Iranian Australians have sounded alarms about “being surveilled, threatened, and harassed by agents of the Islamic Republic at protest rallies, community meetings, online, and even outside their own homes.” The loss of Iran’s embassy in Canberra will hurt hard-liners operating on western soils.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Immigrants account for 253,000 workers, or 36% of the workforce, in DC’s restaurants, hotels and related sectors, according to Migrant Insider. DC has 42,000 self-employed immigrant entrepreneurs running local food and service businesses. Occupation vs Everyone
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Australian security forces have “credible intelligence” linking Iran to attacks on Australian Jews last year. Iran is accused of organizing an act of arson on a kosher restaurant in Sydney and another on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne.
Washington, D.C., set new tourism records for visitors, revenue in 2023 washingtontimes.com/news/2024/ma... Washington, DC set new records with 25.95 million tourists and $10.2 billion in visitor revenue in 2023. This was a 17% increase from 2022 that surpassed the pre-pandemic record set in 2019.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Trump and RFKJr Two Entitled playboy sons of wealth “afforded the grace of failing forward.” Misbehaving, underachieving adolescents given “the affirmative action of generational wealth.” Reckless lifelong adolescents. Attention-craving, philandering liars.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Trump and RFKJr Two Entitled playboy sons of wealth “afforded the grace of failing forward.” Misbehaving, underachieving adolescents given “the affirmative action of generational wealth.” Reckless lifelong adolescents. Attention-craving, philandering liars.
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Immigrants account for 253,000 workers, or 36% of the workforce, in DC’s restaurants, hotels and related sectors, according to Migrant Insider. Included in that total are 42,000 self-employed immigrant entrepreneurs running local food and service businesses.
On the night that Amtrak debuted its sleek, futuristic Acela in Boston, an official from the Trump administration hinted that South Station may be facing a federal takeover similar to what is now happening at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
President Trump’s deployment of military troops and federal agents to DC is not about increasing public safety — it’s a blatant attempt to abuse his power to serve his own political agenda. To truly protect the people living in our nation’s capital, Congress must make DC a state immediately.
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
Trump tariffs hit Missouri farmers hard. ‘That’s going to come out of my pocket’ hanfordsentinel.com/business/agr... via @hanfordsentinel May 2025 Equipment and materials like potash, containers, and combines cost more. Farmers are unsure who will buy their crops, if they’ll make a profit.
Why Trump's second trade war could be worse for US farmers missouriindependent.com/2025/06/30/w... Higher tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners pile pressure on farmers already struggling with soaring agricultural supply costs and elevated rates
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/m... “It’s more political theater, more political power grabs from Donald Trump,” first-term Democrat Governor Maura Healey said. “We don’t need or want his interference here. We’re not going to let the guy who went bankrupt six times take over our train stations.”
Trump tariffs creates a bumpy ride for Ohio families in the automobile industry ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/29/t... Tariffs for U.S. automakers are pegged at $4-5 billion in 2025, @ $5,000 per vehicle in parts. Steeper prices and job losses are here. Trump gave Japan an edge over US auto makers.
cvmbs.source.colostate.edu/wildland-fir... Impacts to the lungs and heart are associated with wildfire smoke exposure. Montrose focused on additional impact on the brain and reproductive organs in an occupational health context. Trump rewards our bravest with detention, arrest and deportation.
Border Patrol agents arrest firefighters battling Bear Gulch fire in Washington state
Decline and Fall of the American Empire open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Phillips O'Brien: The United States' strength, economically and strategically, is tied to maintaining the most successful alliance system in history since 1945: Europe, NATO, Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, other countries in Asia
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... In Wilcox, the Roberts Court embraced an expansive theory of presidential power and accommodated Trump’s removals when it should have enforced binding precedent. If officials cannot serve while litigating, Trump has an incentive to remove them even if he'll lose.
Russian Surveillance Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u.... Russia is collecting intel. Russian sabotage has led to fires at warehouses in Britain, attacks on a dam in Norway, attempts to cut cables under the Baltic Sea - to undermine support for Kyiv.
Trump tariffs creates a bumpy ride for Ohio families in the automobile industry ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/29/t... Tariffs for U.S. automakers are pegged at $4-5 billion in 2025, @ $5,000 per vehicle in parts. Steeper prices and job losses are here. Trump gave Japan an edge over US auto makers.
Michael Phelps, Jay Glazer bonded over mental health. It ... nytimes.com/athletic/656... With Glazer and Whitworth, and people like Phelps, McVay has reframed his view of mental toughness and vulnerability, embracing empathy...
Russian Surveillance Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u.... Russia is collecting intel. Russian sabotage has led to fires at warehouses in Britain, attacks on a dam in Norway, attempts to cut cables under the Baltic Sea - to undermine support for Kyiv.
Russian Surveillance Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u.... Russia is collecting intel. Russian sabotage has led to fires at warehouses in Britain, attacks on a dam in Norway, attempts to cut cables under the Baltic Sea - to undermine support for Kyiv.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... Immigration and Customs Enforcement — just one component of Homeland Security — is getting more money than any other law-enforcement agency in America. Deferential to Trump, they lack the institutional independence of other agencies. They'll go rogue for Trump.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Spain's 16-day heatwave this month was “the most intense on record." Provisional readings for the 3-18 August heatwave showed a maximum temperature anomaly 4.6C higher than the temperature threshold for a heatwave. This surpassed a previous record in 2022 by 0.1C
The Russian sabotage campaign has led to fires at warehouses in Britain, an attack against a dam in Norway, attempts to cut cables under the Baltic Sea and an array of operations intended to bring the war in Ukraine closer to the heart of Europe and to undermine support for Kyiv.
Millennium Park Summer Music Series | June 26 – Aug. 7, 2025 choosechicago.com/articles/fes... Chicago saw over $20 billion in economic impact when 55 million tourists visited in 2024. Summer concerts and family festivals in Chicago are family friendly.
Millennium Park Summer Music Series | June 26 – Aug. 7, 2025 choosechicago.com/articles/fes... Chicago saw over $20 billion in economic impact when 55 million tourists visited in 2024. Summer concerts and family festivals in Chicago are family friendly.
www.wsj.com/articles/can.... Commerce Sec Howard Lutnick's CG Technology paid $22.5 Million for aiding and abetting illegal gambling and money laundering. Cantor Gaming partnered with an illegal network called the "Jersey Boys" to facilitate illicit betting and launder money.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u... Russia and its proxies are flying surveillance drones over German routes where the U.S. and its allies ferry military supplies, collecting intelligence to bolster the Kremlin's sabotage campaign. Oligarchs own Trump's Republican Cabinet members and GOP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u... Russia and its proxies are flying surveillance drones over routes in Germany where the U.S. and its allies ferry military supplies, collecting intelligence to bolster the Kremlin's sabotage campaign. GOP is a Russian asset.
Russian Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u... Russia and its proxies are flying surveillance drones over routes where the U.S. and its allies ferry military supplies, collecting intelligence to bolster the Kremlin's sabotage campaign.
Trump’s DOJ settled with Rare Breed Triggers, reversing Biden’s ban on forced-reset triggers The devices make semi-autos fire rapidly, mimicking machine guns. Gun groups cheered, but gun-control advocates and 16 states sued, warning of catastrophic public safety risks www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Russian Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u... Russia and its proxies are flying surveillance drones over routes where the U.S. and its allies ferry military supplies, collecting intelligence to bolster the Kremlin's sabotage campaign.
No. He was a depressed and vilified male who identified as female. Born Robert, identified as Robin. A member of a group who experience 4x more violence against them than any other group, in a time when the chosen POTUS has ramped up hate and limitations on freedom for non-cisgender persons.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... Not Obama, Seth Meyers, Beyonce, Michael Crawford, Itzhak Perlman...only Melania on the Cover can give Donald the win he needs - Who bought the hottest wife? We are in peril. Please capitulate. Pretend she married for love.
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0... Unauthorized immigrants paid over $66 billion in federal income & payroll taxes in 2023, about 2/3 of which was payroll taxes. IRS agreed to give ICE data to confirm the names and addresses of illegal residents who paid $66 billion to help ICE deport them.
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0... Unauthorized immigrants paid over $66 billion in federal income & payroll taxes in 2023, about 2/3 of which was payroll taxes. IRS agreed to give ICE data to confirm the names and addresses of illegal residents who paid $66 billion to help ICE deport them.
singforhope.org/news/sing-fo.... A beautiful venue, Union Station - Sing for Hope - DC natives join performers affiliated with renowned arts and cultural institutions across Metropolitan Washington, including Washington Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center, and The Duke Ellington School of the Art.
March 2024 The Stage at Union Station unveils its latest addition: students from the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts. These young talents will grace the stage with two-hour performances scheduled throughout the year.
National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Having made drastic cuts to the National Park Service, Trump is now employing National Guard Members who've left homes and jobs in other states for his fabricated crisis in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... After having made drastic cuts to the National Park Service, Trump is now employing National Guard Members, people who've left their homes and jobs in other states to address a fabricated crisis in DC, for landscape work and trash removal.
Katrina taught that in a humanitarian crisis, in the United States, with the National Guard, you shouldn’t be armed if the mission is to lend a helping hand. Gen. Russel Honore reframed the Katrina response for the country and reoriented the guard — not its mission, but its posture and priorities.
wapo.st/45UKmwM In September 1957 Arkansas’ governor directed the Guard, armed with bayoneted-rifles, to defy the federal government and bar 9 students from integrating Little Rock Central High School. An armed National Guard on U.S. soil reveals the politics of elected officials.
reasonstobecheerful.world/norway-provi... Norway leads the world in reducing homelessness. Three decades of effort to prioritize permanent housing slashed Norway's homeless rate from 1.5 to 0.62 people per 1,000 residents (U.S. rate is 2.3 per 1,000 residents). UN Estimates 150M Homeless Worldwide
youtu.be/Kj1UQuJjrXI?...
wapo.st/47arSL6 A massive dust storm swept through Phoenix and other parts of Arizona on Monday, casting an apocalyptic pall over the region as the towering wall sank the city into darkness and caused heavy rain and lightning.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ross Ulbricht was pardoned by Trump. He ran an underground website facilitating $214M worth of trade in bitcoin over 2 years, facilitating the anonymous buying and selling of contract hits, sex, drugs, people, any licit or illicit commodity.
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht - BBC bbc.com/news/article... Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drugs, sex trafficking, contract hits, various illicit acts and goods were traded with $200M in bitcoin.
Howard Lutnick's Cantor Gaming Paid $22.5M to Settle Illegal ... casino.org/news/howard-... Howard Lutnick's company, Cantor Gaming aka CG Technology, paid @ $30 million in fines to federal and Nevada authorities for illegal sports betting and money laundering, partnering with "The Jersey Boys."
www.wsj.com/articles/can... Howard Lutnick's CG Technology is said to have admitted aiding and abetting illegal gambling and money laundering. Cantor Gaming partnered with an illegal network called the "Jersey Boys" to facilitate illicit betting and launder money.
USA is MOB owned. Puppet installed. Lemmings in place. No 👩🏾🦱👱🏼♂️👱🏿👩🏻🦳👩🏻👦🏻🧑🏽🦱👳🏾♀️won’t obey! “I Chicago City Council decisively rejected an effort to allow city police to cooperate with immigration enforcement. “We intend to stand by & protect Chicago’s immigrant communities against threats from ICE,” Johnson
Millennium Park Summer Music Series | June 26 – Aug. 7, 2025 choosechicago.com/articles/fes... Trump is too late for the summer concerts and family festivals in Chicago. Maybe next year. He should leave his toy soldiers and tanks at home. Chicago leaders have real solutions for real people.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/c... ... In 2024, Chicago saw 55 million visitors, up 6.5% from 2023 when tourism generated $20 billion in economic impact. Chicago's cultural scene, including its filmmaking hub, draw millions.
Millennium Park Summer Music Series | June 26 – Aug. 7, 2025 choosechicago.com/articles/fes... Trump is too late for the summer concerts and family festivals in Chicago. Maybe next year. He should leave his toy soldiers and tanks at home. Chicago leaders have real solutions for real people.
Coal miners' health care hit hard in job cuts to CDC - NPR npr.org/sections/sho... Coal Workers' Health Surveillance gives every miner in the country – 50,000 – free care and screenings for black lung disease. The 25 people running the nationwide unit were fired by Trump on April 1st.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... David Frum succinctly captures the first felon in the White House, assisted by a cadre of equally corrupt appointees, in their blatant attempt to malign and/or imprison critics for clerical errors and non-criminal behavior while Trump dismantles the rule of law...
From @Mike_Pence John Deere lays off 238 workers at 3 Iowa factories ...Tariffs & lower commodity prices are to blame. Quarterly tariffs were @ $200 million, bringing Deere to $300 million in tariff expense year to date. American Companies and American Consumers Pay the Cost of American Tariffs...🇺🇸
How to Keep Washington, DC Safe: Trump’s militarized approach undercuts what’s been working justsecurity.org/119047/trump... The drivers of crime and homelessness are poverty, trauma, and lack of services. Flooding streets with tanks is as effective as treating a fever by blasting the AC.
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
Five Journalists Among Those Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza Hospital www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w... Twenty were killed, including medical staff, rescue workers, patients, and dozens more were injured. The journalists worked for Reuters, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets.
nhc.no/to-trump-the... In 2015, Mother Jones revealed that Donald Trump received $2.5M “for his work on the Baku hotel, which will be operated as part of Trump’s chain of luxury hotels”. Ivanka directed decor, posed on balconies, pitched sales. The Mammadov's venture failed. Trump Org. was paid.
nhc.no/to-trump-the... In 2015, Mother Jones revealed that Donald Trump received $2.5M “for his work on the Baku hotel, which will be operated as part of Trump’s chain of luxury hotels”. Ivanka directed decor, posed on balconies, pitched sales. The Mammadov's venture failed. Trump Org. was paid.
apnews.com/article/euro... Six months before his first presidential race, Trump announced a project in Baku, Azerbaijan. The owner and builder was the son of an official suspected of laundering money for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in similar ventures: Corleone's of the Caspian, notoriously corrupt.
apnews.com/article/euro... Six months before his first presidential race, Trump announced a project in Baku, Azerbaijan. The owner and builder was the son of an official suspected of laundering money for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in similar ventures: Corleone's of the Caspian, notoriously corrupt.
These guys are a whole new kind of badass ace. “In the past year, these two unlikely air warriors have flown around 300 combat missions as part of the 11th Army Aviation Brigade and downed almost half the unit’s total of 120 drones eliminated.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c... Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act imposed eligibility criteria for FEMA directors, requiring “demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management.” Prohibited homeland security from interfering with FEMA. Trump is slashing FEMA, ignoring the law.
www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne... Governments led by Netanyahu worked to divide power between the Gaza Strip and West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees and propping up Hamas terrorists. Stealing Palestinian land in the West Bank, water in both areas.
The Economics of Stagflation, Part II open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Trump II has been a completely different story. Average tariffs have shot up from around 2 to around 18 percent, reversing 90 years of U.S. trade policy. ICE is now arresting 1500 or more people a day. Tariffs look like 1929.
Starvation and bombs aren't working?
#🚫Coverup #WhoisJohnDoe174 #Nakba48 #SlavaUkraini #trumpEpsteinFiles #BLM #FuckAligatorAuschwitz #LandBack #FreePalestine #FuckIce #EndCitizensUnited #Medicare4All #BoycottWalmart #BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottTarget #BoycottCBS #FuckOrangeTurd #LetsGoTaco
"Hong Kong-based Allchips, a semiconductor dealer added to the U.S. sanctions list, sells components used in cruise missiles that Russia fires at Ukrainian cities. Allchips the accepts payment in dollars and Chinese renminbi through Alipay, or bank transfer to Allchips VTB account." We can't win.
"Russian customers can move rubles 1M rubles ($10,000) daily from Russian Bank VTB to Chinese platform Alipay and, once in Alipay, those funds can flow anywhere internationally, effectively washing the rubles into the broader economy and neutralizing a major Western sanction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... Pirro was an ambitious NY politician whose career stalled after she was recorded plotting, with Rudy's pal Bernie Kerik in 2005, to bug her then-husband’s boat and catch him in an affair. Kerik's employees were reluctant. Pirro lost AG race to Cuomo in a landslide.
wapo.st/4oDH7Ct “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President and party.” Pirro bonded with election deniers, like former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, whose source was astral brain waves. Pirro got a pardon for her ex. Hannity used the Oval Office loo.
Pulitzer Prizes: Trump Tax Cheating Story Honored variety.com/2019/legit/n... via @variety The New York Times earned a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for an 18-month investigation into the elaborate steps that Trump and his family went to in an effort to avoid paying taxes.
news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights... He cheated on every wife, bragged about it, and has avoided paying income tax using many other questionable tactics. He's a deadbeat. Cruel. Dishonest. A convicted sexual offender. Convicted felon. Admitted money launderer. Unpatriotic. A bum and a conman.
A billionaire, an AI supercomputer, toxic emissions and a Memphis community tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/07/a... Elon's Colossus draws enough electricity to power 100,000 homes. The behemoth methane gas turbines increase Memphis’s smog by 30-60%. AI centers drive up electricity demand + cost.
Iowa gets 80 % of its utility-scale power from renewables, mostly wind. New Jersey gets just 4.6 % from renewables. Iowa’s electricity prices fell from May 2024 to May 2025. NJ prices rose 10 %. Trump blames renewables for rising electricity prices. Prof Krugman & the data disagree with Trump.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
You ought to listen to the hearings in the Senate and in Congress. Democrats debate and defend. In the end, it is a matter of votes. American voters are ignorant. They voted for a man convicted of sexual assault and 34 financial fraud felonies. They watch Fox News. They are a cult.
BBC article was a reminder that, no matter what the 10 hours of chatting with Trump's lawyer contains, Maxwell's guilt is documented by the testimony of over 100 victims. Jim Jordan can do the talk circuit proclaiming Trump's innocence because Maxwell says he is, but she said she was too. She lies.
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... Buy, Borrow, Die is “the most important tax-avoidance strategy today.” A two-tiered tax system: one for the many, who earn their income through wages and pay taxes, and another for the few, who accumulate wealth through paper assets and largely do not pay taxes.
Illinois leaders speak out on report Trump preparing to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago flip.it/B6eXLX
Millennium Park Summer Music Series | June 26 – Aug. 7, 2025 choosechicago.com/articles/fes... Trump is too late for the summer concerts and family festivals in Chicago. Maybe next year. He should leave his tanks home.
Top Summer Music Festivals in Chicago www.choosechicago.com/articles/chi... In 2023, Chicago saw 52 million visitors, generating nearly $19.2 billion in economic impact. This website showcases Chicago's cultural scene, including its filmmaking hub. Come by car. No tank parking available.
www.chicagoparent.com/things-to-do... Towns all over Chicagoland host free movies in the park every summer. Grab your chairs, blankets and picnic snacks and catch an outdoor flick. Farmers' markets, bike trails, boat rides, zoos, and outdoor festivals make Chicago a family friendly outdoor place.
