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Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson denied a Justice Department request for Utah’s voter registration list, which includes voters’ confidential personal information. She says she had never seen a request like it before. cbsn.ws/4sbNtLq
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Wow.
Albanians just set fire to the Supreme Court after it allowed Jared Kushner to buy land in the country against the their will.
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I served 24 years in the United States Army. Including three combat tours. I never dreamed I would see the day that the President of the United States would salivate over a damn dictator.
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BREAKING: Companies whose federal cases were dropped under Trump have given or pledged $210.5 million to his super PACs, per a new Public Citizen report.
Crypto,com: $37 million, after the SEC dropped an investigation
Gemini: $20 million, plus $10 million each from founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, after the SEC closed a similar probe
Andreessen Horowitz founders: $12 million, with nine portfolio companies tied to canceled federal actions
Public Citizen says more than 200 companies have benefited from canceled, frozen or weakened federal enforcement.
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Betrayal of Ukraine and Europe generally, Lindsey Graham specifically.
Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. nyti.ms/4zDoByS
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Would love to understand what his advisors really think this will do, other than continue to reinforce how unreliable the US has become
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Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. nyti.ms/4zDoByS
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Unbelievable. At 9 PM on a Friday night, Trump just waived nearly every sanction the Lindsey Graham bill imposed on Russia. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
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Dear @katiezacharia — speaking as the world's leading expert on short White House tenures: turn off the news and go enjoy your family. In time you’ll realize that the Universe did you a major favor.
St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
Next questions:
1. Who did the vetting on Zacharia?
2. Did *anyone* do the vetting on Zacharia?
3. If anyone did the vetting, why was she still appointed?
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Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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And we have a fourth strike!!
Ukraine has struck a fourth Russian data center, despite new Starlink restrictions 🇺🇦
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NEW: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
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NEW —
Here are two of the largest political donations ever, courtesy of Elon Musk.
Musk donated $75 million to the Senate Leadership Fund on September 9, and then another $83 million on September 23.
$158 million to SLF in Q3 — part of a $273 million fundraising quarter.
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New: After bragging last year about Trump endorsements in exchange for school voucher votes, some Texas House GOP lawmakers in tight races appear to have scrubbed the endorsement from their websites. @jamesfortexas looked into it via @quorumreport bit.ly/4i0uGOu
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Wow. The Daily Beast obtained court records showing multiple campaign leaders for Mike Collins have criminal histories.
Two campaign leaders were charged with cruelty toward children. Another for child abuse and sexual battery. Another for fraud.
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
Ahahaha
Even Hollywood can't make up this stuff.
Katie Zacharia hit with a new blow.
Chinese firm clarifies her role:
Gary Gao, a partner at the firm, said the firm often hires foreigners for language help and to explain foreign culture to its staff.
rawstory.com/katie-zacharia-…
