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If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently...
by iafflerbach
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM PDT
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Russian vice defense minister detained on corruption charges; Russia to attack (new) (western) stockpiles After the senate came also to grips with Ukraine funding Russia is eager to combat those (new) stacks of supplies to prevent the supplies from...
by ccoaler1
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM PDT
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A House Oversight Committee hearing �into China’s “political warfare” against the United States went off the rails Wednesday when Republican Rep. James Comer interrupted Democratic Rep. Jamie ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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First saw this from the BBC yesterday, with a follow-up on Rawstory today. It seems Truong My Lan, who founded the real estate development company Vạn Thịnh Phát Group, and then gained illegal control of the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) through a...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 06:20 PM PDT
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When I heard the report on the news today, it felt like Deja vu all over again April 10, 2024. "House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to Mar-a-Lago Friday for remarks on “election integrity” with former President Donald Trump, two sources directly...
by greenchiledem
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Republicans are desperate to get out the vote this November any way they can—and that includes voting by mail. “We’ve got to get every one of our voters to vote, no matter the method,” Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley told the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 02:23 PM PDT
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Like many kossacks, I’ve been watching the stock market gyrations around Trump’s (anti-)social media concern, Truth Social, and I think there’s an angle that everyone’s missed so far. Truth Social was, from the very beginning, intended as a conduit for...
by Horst deWurmer
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 03:31 PM PDT
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Many of you may have seen the 25% drop in Trump Media today (still over $6 Billion market cap) but the CNBC story here also covers something that comes as no surprise. TMTG also disclosed to regulators that the company had identified “material...
by tjlord
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:33 AM PDT
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If Donald Trump knows how to do anything, it’s destroy a business. And while the Republican National Committee might not be a “business” in the conventional sense, Trump and his family are ...
by Hunter
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 03:30 PM PDT
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It was just now my privilege to read: “Donald Trump is richer than he's ever been after social media merger: Forbes” by Travis Gettys (March 27, 2024 10:12AM ET). I’m gonna’ make this short and sweet. The merger between Media & Technology Group Corp....
by Obiwan711
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 07:35 AM PDT
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Well, she's out. Just a day after NBC and MSNBC hosts publicly blasted the company's hiring of Donald Trump-allied former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, the network's executives reversed course. NBCUniversal News Group Chairman...
by Hunter
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 03:57 PM PDT
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Last week we examined the most likely scenarios for what might happen when Donald Trump's Monday deadline for coming up with an appeal bond for his $454 million civil fraud judgment came and went. ...
by Hunter
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 12:03 PM PDT
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www.rawstory.com/… Hey, Mar-A-Lago revisited!?(landing zone for all the nasty thoughts about possible terrorism connections, Jewish space lasers — MTG — and so on)... The dumpster zone of top secret data. … …. Then again, it is not necessarily about...
by ca cokz
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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As the former president struggles to post a bond in his New York civil fraud trial, the potential sale of Truth Social for as much as 5.7 billion dollars bears a closer look. Who is buying Truth Social and how has the value been set? Digital World...
by Greg from Vermont
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 06:08 AM PDT
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The news cycle is awash with speculation about whether or not the coup-attempting, oft-indicted, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be able to pay a nearly half-billion-...
by Hunter
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM PDT
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For months now, Donald Trump's inner circle has been trying to sell us on the notion that they're running a much tighter campaign this time around. And the media has run with it: "Trump's 2024 ...
by Hunter
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Wednesday morning’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” was yet another chance for Democratic ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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And older cartoon but forever relevant...
by Hilmbrown
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 07:41 AM PDT
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In a court filing on Monday, Donald Trump's lawyers sprung the news we've all suspected: Trump doesn't have the money to pay the $454 million civil fraud judgment levied against him for lying to banks and insurers about his supposed wealth for decades....
by Hunter
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 09:45 AM PDT
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The battle between democratic freedoms and despotic oppression worldwide is intensifying. As we saw here last month, more people will vote for national governments in 2024 than in any year ever. Bizarrely, many American voters seem happy to vote for...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 04:44 AM PDT
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