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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Since last year, I and Al Shaw & @bxroberts.org have investigated the linkages between Trump appointees and the industries they oversee. Today we published a searchable database containing approximately 3,200 financial disclosure forms of roughly 1500 officials.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

05.03.2026 21:47 👍 221 🔁 116 💬 8 📌 8
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Trump's talent pool

05.03.2026 19:10 👍 2671 🔁 585 💬 94 📌 34
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🤣🤣🤣

05.03.2026 20:47 👍 14117 🔁 3990 💬 438 📌 252
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 2424 🔁 1388 💬 91 📌 337

And per this report yesterday, it was deliberate:
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

04.03.2026 23:03 👍 440 🔁 211 💬 4 📌 8

Wait -- the answer isn't no?

04.03.2026 20:32 👍 598 🔁 111 💬 8 📌 3
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Idaho is latest red state to reject DOJ voter roll grab The refusal places Idaho alongside a growing number of red states pushing back against the department’s campaign.

Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

04.03.2026 23:42 👍 2670 🔁 708 💬 61 📌 31
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But we can’t afford health care?

#MedicareForAllNOW 🇺🇸

04.03.2026 20:14 👍 1001 🔁 398 💬 53 📌 20
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Rep. Moskowitz can be seen wearing a "JUSTICE FOR CRICKET" pin as he questions Kristi Noem

04.03.2026 20:35 👍 14294 🔁 2892 💬 542 📌 247
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Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining eight other states with similar prohibitions.

A recent bill in New Mexico that bans local and state agencies from partnering with ICE also effectively shuts down three counties’ detention programs and prevents any future ones.

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Breaking: The House Oversight Committee is requesting transcribed interviews with 7 new individuals as part of the panel's Epstein investigation:

Bill Gates: May 19
Kathryn Ruemmler: April 21
Ted Waitt: April 16
Doug Band: May 5
Leon Black: May 13
Lesley Groff: June 9
Sarah Kellen: June 3

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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

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Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

02.03.2026 19:38 👍 15261 🔁 3528 💬 345 📌 202
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🔥 @grahamformaine.bsky.social : “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”

03.03.2026 03:59 👍 2371 🔁 822 💬 127 📌 71
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After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

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In other words, they knew who they needed to protect and, like Kash Patel did, insisted that there was simply no sex trafficking evidence. A cover-up of massive proportions.

02.03.2026 18:45 👍 1571 🔁 441 💬 31 📌 8

+ in historically Palestinian ("mixed") cities, Arabs are shunned from, and harassed at bomb shelters.

This picture was taken by my dad this morning, outside a bomb shelter in Ramleh. The sign reads "Gaza is ours, forever!".

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ICE Moves Minneapolis Fleet to Williamsport Detention Warehouse As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland.

New reports that ICE is moving around 100 vehicles from Minneapolis to Washington Co, MD are alarming.

I’m pressing for answers & will continue to fight back against Trump’s lawless ICE & mass deportation operation in our communities. This is not what Marylanders want.

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Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

Former New Mexico Attorney General Balderas details how the FBI forcefully shut down New Mexico's criminal probe into what was up at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe Co. The feds insisted that they were running their own criminal probe and that NM's involvement would not be tolerated. It was a lie.

01.03.2026 19:56 👍 1337 🔁 719 💬 35 📌 45
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www.draftbarrontrump.com

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Evening recap <article data-history-node-id="434512" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/evening-recap-600" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/evening-recap-600" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Evening recap</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.</p> <p>Events are still unfolding rapidly across the Middle East, so here's a quick recap:</p> <ul> <li> <p data-end="65" data-start="0">The death toll from the US-Israeli strike on a girls’ school in Minab has climbed to 165, according to the city’s prosecutor.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="278" data-start="81">At least 20 people have been killed in a US-Israeli attack on the Iranian capital, according to Iranian state-linked media, marking another deadly attack in the widening assault on the country.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="78" data-start="0">Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s warning against retaliation, vowing that Tehran will place “no limit” on its right to defend itself after what he described as massive US-Israeli bombardment.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="201" data-start="92">The US military says it has hit more than 1,000 targets across Iran since launching its war on Saturday.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="215" data-start="92">The US military says it has destroyed the headquarters of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a large-scale strike.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="69" data-start="0">President Donald Trump has suggested that Israeli-US war on Iran could continue for up to a month.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="568" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="357">Haaretz reported that roughly 200 buildings have sustained damage in the latest wave of attacks.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="272" data-start="101">The United Kingdom has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for what Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed are “defensive” strikes on Iranian missile sites.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="70" data-start="0">All crossings into the Gaza Strip have been closed until further notice, Israel’s military agency overseeing the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Cogat, said on Sunday, following start of the Israeli-US war on Iran.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="78" data-start="0">Petrol prices across the United States are set to rise above $3 per gallon on Monday for the first time in more than three months, as the US-Israeli war on Iran disrupts global oil flows and shocks&nbsp;energy markets.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>

Evening recap - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/evening-recap-600

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Hard to argue

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😕

01.03.2026 05:39 👍 11033 🔁 2472 💬 256 📌 102

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

28.02.2026 12:48 👍 8076 🔁 2835 💬 56 📌 99
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The Epstein Files Are the Horror That Keeps on Giving The Epstein files show that while private equity giant Apollo Global Management allegedly stripped companies, wiped out small investors, and misled customers about fees, founder and Jeffrey Epstein co...

The Epstein files show that while private equity giant Apollo Global Management allegedly stripped companies, wiped out small investors, and misled customers about fees, founder and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Leon Black spent millions on art and parties.

27.02.2026 19:38 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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Trump calls for federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology” after the company said they would not allow their AI to be used for autonomous killing or domestic surveillance.

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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump's DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents' anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said Michelle Brané, a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”

(Published Oct. 2025)

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Harrowing 911 calls capture children’s medical emergencies at Texas ICE facility Texas emergency crews dispatched nearly a dozen times in six months, according to call logs

How can this administration claim these aren’t concentration camps when we have calls with reports of children unable to breathe, suffering seizures and broken bones from these places.

27.02.2026 18:45 👍 437 🔁 217 💬 23 📌 7
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The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already.

Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.

27.02.2026 18:16 👍 1867 🔁 857 💬 53 📌 43
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Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

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