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2/That's because if the Judge doesn't rule ahead of trial she can dismiss the prosecution during trial & in that posture the government can't appeal because of double jeopardy. So it was clear they would have to force her hand at this point.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 3, 2024
4/The Special Counsel cites law from the 11th Circuit's sister circuit, the Fifth, that lets them bring a writ of mandamus asking the appellate court to correct a district judge's decision to use a clearly erroneous jury instruction that could lead to acquittal. pic.twitter.com/IlzFSn3Vf4
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 3, 2024
Not sure if this was posted, just the recent confirmation of the traitor trump family selling off America.
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm filed a disclosure with minor updates and $50 million less in assets under management than the prior year
04.01.24 by Wendy Siegelman
https://newstracs.com/jared-kushners-affinity-partners-investment-firm-2023-filing-update/2024/04/01/
After leaving the White House Jared Kushner set up an investment advisory firm called Affinity Partners, which is officially registered as A Fin Management. In 2022 the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) invested over $2 billion and in 2023 the United Arab Emirates invested over $200 million and a Qatari entity invested a similar sum.
Kushner’s firm receives millions of dollars in management fees each year for investing these funds on behalf of its clients. Last summer the Wall Street Journal reported that per some officials Saudi Arabia had “agreed to pay Kushner tens of millions in management fees each year—even if he didn’t invest the money.”
Kushner’s A Fin Management LLC has just filed an updated Form ADV and firm brochure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated March 28, 2024, for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
Below are a few highlights:
$3,004,963,927 is the amount of regulatory assets under management in section (f) Pooled investment vehicles.
This amount was approximately $50 million less than the prior year 2022 which had $3,055,804,564.
Of the $3,004,963,927 of regulatory assets under management in 2023, the approximate amount attributable to clients who are non-United States persons was $2,973,976,414 or 99% of the total.*
Affinity Partners Parallel Fund I LP has $2,973,976,414 in regulatory assets under management and approximately 6 beneficial owners.
Affinity Partners Fund I LP has $30,987,513 in regulatory assets under management and approximately 1 beneficial owner.
John Rader who was listed as Chief Operating Officer in the prior form is no longer included in the list of direct owners and executive officers.
* The 99% was calculated based on section below showing that out of $3,004,963,927 that approximately $2,973,976,414 is attributable to clients who are non-U.S. persons............................
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Judge Cannon's only job is to assist in traitor trump's delays. In that, she can be quite proud. With the republican/trumplican congress defense team and paid for corrupt republican judges on the SC, the disinformation/lie (not misinformation) campaign, the 100's of attacks with voter suppression, republican backed third parties, and the hope that their plan and hope of control of votes and decision of who wins the vote falling to the republican cough "leadership", they can destroy any traces of a democratic system filled with organized crime and Putin allies. This is the second LinkedIn wipe of the Mar-a-Lago documents scandal, the other being Josh Lorence, husband of Judge Aileen Cannon (wiped betw. Sep. 9-16, 2022). He worked for Florida-based ex-New York mobster John Rosatti. 5/https://t.co/kMOPJ467CA pic.twitter.com/GdyENaFl6j
Now that Trump has flashed a NY Mafia pal (murderer Sammy Gravano of the Gambino family) to threaten Judge Engoron, is it finally time to mention that Trump's NY mob ties also touch his "friendly" Judge Aileen Cannon? Her husband worked for John Rosatti of the Colombo family. 1/
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Trump palled around with Colombo buddies John Rosatti & John Staluppi in the 1980s - Staluppi went into business with Trump in 1988. Cannon's husband worked for Rosatti later, 2011-14; could be legit. She's not required to recuse - but she should have. 2/
web.archive.org/web/2021072621…
Discretion Advised: Trump's mob and Russia ties could prove embarrassing for the Donald and the FBI as investigations heats up
The investigation into Russian influence on the last election reached an absurd apogee on June 16, as President Donald Trump tweeted that he was under
https://web.archive.org/web/20210726215844/https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcp-062817-mobs-trumprussia-20170627-story.html
Federal rules don't force a judge to recuse when a defendant is a former business partner of their spouse's ex-Mafia employer. But it looks unseemly. And when Cannon keeps granting Trump nonsensical delays on his case, we have to talk about it. 3/
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
In the Mar-a-Lago case, Judge Cannon has just refused to enforce a routine deadline & it's entirely clear she has no intention of letting this case go to trial before the election or possibly ever.
Cannon's husband Josh Lorence seems to agree it looks unseemly, since he wiped his LinkedIn in 2022 when Cannon first got a high-profile Trump case. He was a senior exec at Rosatti's BurgerFi, a hamburger businesses oddly with branches in Saudi Arabia. 4/
Soon after the deal with Trump, Rosatti and Staluppi got mixed up in the bloody Colombo civil war that started in 1991 after boss Carmine Persico was jailed. John Rosatti, who supported rival Victor Orena, supposedly ordered a key hit on Persico's guy. 5/
caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-2nd-c…
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https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-2nd-circuit/1434224.html
Smartly, Staluppi and Rosatti switched sides halfway through - they picked the winners. Note how they provide cars & helicopters to other mobsters - that was their semi-legit business. Staluppi would fly Trump's friends out to his Atlantic City casinos. 6/
thesmokinggun.com/file/mafia-sol…
Mafia Soldiers Support Bush-Cheney
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/mafia-soldiers-support-bush-cheney?page=3
None of this has to mean Aileen Cannon is corrupt, but a reasonable judge would have recused. It's unseemly that the first criminal trial of a former US president has to mean thinking about Carmine "the Snake" Persico and Gregory "Grim Reaper" Scarpa. 7/
nypost.com/2011/01/30/the…
The brutal rise and bloody fall of the Colombos
The future of the Colombo crime family — an 83-year-old operation that once ruled New York’s waterfront and has been the most bloodthirsty of the city’s five Mafia families —…
https://nypost.com/2011/01/30/the-brutal-rise-and-bloody-fall-of-the-colombos/
These stories are old, but still relevant. Like Trump, wise guys Rosatti and Staluppi left New York for Palm Beach. Rosatti started BurgerFi; Staluppi bought a strip club; both sail luxury mega-yachts - and both are still part of Donald Trump's world. 8/
robertstolpe.net/Showboats-Rend…
2009 Rendezvous VIP - Robert Stolpe Photography
21st International Showboats International Boys and Girls Clubs Rendezvous 007 James Bond Gala with honorary chairpersons. Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Trump. Featured Musical Entertainment was Donna Summe…
https://www.robertstolpe.net/Showboats-Rendezvous/2009-Rendezvous/2009-Rendezvous-VIP/i-XF943Df/A
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And if that isn't enough entertainment, a couple more that connects in with all of it in some dirty way. Russian mafia, drug cartels, corrupt judges, and other organized crime. At least there is a few of trump's people convicted by honest judges and in prison.
NARCO-A-LAGO: MONEY LAUNDERING AT THE TRUMP OCEAN CLUB PANAMA
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/corruption-and-money-laundering/narco-a-lago-panama/#chapter-0/section-0
In the early 2000s, a series of bankruptcies meant Donald J. Trump was shunned by most lenders. Struggling for credit, he started selling his name to high-end real estate projects. This report examines in detail the criminal connections that propelled one such project – the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama – and how this case bears some of the same disturbing hallmarks as other Trump developments........
....What is clear is that proceeds from Colombian cartels’ narcotics trafficking were laundered through the Trump Ocean Club and that Donald Trump was one of the beneficiaries.
One key player in the laundering of drug money at the Trump Ocean Club was notorious fraudster David Eduardo Helmut Murcia Guzmán, whom a U.S. court subsequently sentenced to nine years for laundering millions of dollars' worth of illicit funds, including narcotics proceeds, through companies and real estate.
Another was Murcia Guzmán’s business associate, Alexandre Henrique Ventura Nogueira, who brokered nearly a third of the 666 pre-construction unit sales at the Trump Ocean Club and claims to have sold 350-400 units overall. Ventura Nogueira’s sales brokerage was critical to ensuring the project’s lift-off and Trump’s ability to earn tens of millions of dollars.....
Ivanka and the fugitive from Panama
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-panama/
Exclusive: How an alleged fraudster in Panama, working with Donald Trump's daughter, helped make Trump's first international hotel venture a success. The broker was in business with a money-launderer and two criminals from the former Soviet Union. Then he fled......
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The Florida Legislature just sent Gov. Ron DeSantis a bill to stop cities in Florida from requiring that:
— Jason Garcia (@Jason_Garcia) April 2, 2024
1) Businesses tell hourly workers their schedules in advance
2) Businesses provide outdoor workers with water & breaks
3) Government contractors pay workers a living wage
Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Misinformation is an international crisis. Fact-checking, and the IFCN, is a global solution.
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 2, 2024
Learn more about the International Fact-Checking Network (@factchecknet): https://t.co/OB4YBR4KMw pic.twitter.com/BsSosKMZdH
Climate change is really affecting the natural order of things.
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The weakness in US policy being exploited by Mike Flynn is that there is no function for counterinsurgency against domestic terrorists using psychological warfare for enemy nation-states.
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) April 1, 2024
PSA: We’re going to need to disrupt this terrorist cell. No one’s coming to the rescue. https://t.co/6h20JTXVKJ
That's not everything either. Part of the maga republicans/trumplicans is the science denial damage. Science hiding has been the norm for republicans for quite some time, with tfg eliminating any scientific reports/studies for the benefit of the fossil fuel industry and billionaires at the destruction of our environment and our health, along with our mental health. There already has been many studies showing the trillions of dollars lost every year and increase of birth defects, death, and disease from all the fossil fuel pollution in our air, soil, and water. It's only becoming worse. The people with the least amount of money and the least of cause are the ones who will pay the most.
‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains
Are growing rates of anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease related to rising temperatures and other extreme environmental changes?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/everybody-has-a-breaking-point-how-the-climate-crisis-affects-our-brains
Clayton Page Aldern
Wed 27 Mar 2024 01.00 EDT
In late October 2012, a category 3 hurricane howled into New York City with a force that would etch its name into the annals of history. Superstorm Sandy transformed the city, inflicting more than $60bn in damage, killing dozens, and forcing 6,500 patients to be evacuated from hospitals and nursing homes. Yet in the case of one cognitive neuroscientist, the storm presented, darkly, an opportunity.
Yoko Nomura had found herself at the centre of a natural experiment. Prior to the hurricane’s unexpected visit, Nomura – who teaches in the psychology department at Queens College, CUNY, as well as in the psychiatry department of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – had meticulously assembled a research cohort of hundreds of expectant New York mothers. Her investigation, the Stress in Pregnancy study, had aimed since 2009 to explore the potential imprint of prenatal stress on the unborn. Drawing on the evolving field of epigenetics, Nomura had sought to understand the ways in which environmental stressors could spur changes in gene expression, the likes of which were already known to influence the risk of specific childhood neurobehavioural outcomes such as autism, schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The storm, however, lent her research a new, urgent question. A subset of Nomura’s cohort of expectant women had been pregnant during Sandy. She wanted to know if the prenatal stress of living through a hurricane – of experiencing something so uniquely catastrophic – acted differentially on the children these mothers were carrying, relative to those children who were born before or conceived after the storm.
More than a decade later, she has her answer. The conclusions reveal a startling disparity: children who were in utero during Sandy bear an inordinately high risk of psychiatric conditions today. For example, girls who were exposed to Sandy prenatally experienced a 20-fold increase in anxiety and a 30-fold increase in depression later in life compared with girls who were not exposed. Boys had 60-fold and 20-fold increased risks of ADHD and conduct disorder, respectively. Children expressed symptoms of the conditions as early as preschool.
“Our findings are extremely alarming,” the researchers wrote in a 2022 study summarising their initial results. It is not the type of sentence one usually finds in the otherwise measured discussion sections of academic papers.
Yet Nomura and her colleagues’ research also offers a representative page in a new story of the climate crisis: a story that says a changing climate doesn’t just shape the environment in which we live. Rather, the climate crisis spurs visceral and tangible transformations in our very brains. As the world undergoes dramatic environmental shifts, so too does our neurological landscape. Fossil-fuel-induced changes – from rising temperatures to extreme weather to heightened levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide – are altering our brain health, influencing everything from memory and executive function to language, the formation of identity, and even the structure of the brain. The weight of nature is heavy, and it presses inward.
Evidence comes from a variety of fields. Psychologists and behavioural economists have illustrated the ways in which temperature spikes drive surges in everything from domestic violence to online hate speech. Cognitive neuroscientists have charted the routes by which extreme heat and surging CO2 levels impair decision-making, diminish problem-solving abilities, and short-circuit our capacity to learn. Vectors of brain disease, such as ticks and mosquitoes, are seeing their habitable ranges expand as the world warms. And as researchers like Nomura have shown, you don’t need to go to war to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder: the violence of a hurricane or wildfire is enough. It appears that, due to epigenetic inheritance, you don’t even need to have been born yet.
When it comes to the health effects of the climate crisis, says Burcin Ikiz, a neuroscientist at the mental-health philanthropy organisation the Baszucki Group, “we know what happens in the cardiovascular system; we know what happens in the respiratory system; we know what happens in the immune system. But there’s almost nothing on neurology and brain health.” Ikiz, like Nomura, is one of a growing cadre of neuroscientists seeking to connect the dots between environmental and neurological wellness.
As a cohesive effort, the field – which we might call climatological neuroepidemiology – is in its infancy. But many of the effects catalogued by such researchers feel intuitive.
Perhaps you’ve noticed that when the weather gets a bit muggier, your thinking does the same. That’s no coincidence; it’s a nearly universal phenomenon. During a summer 2016 heatwave in Boston, Harvard epidemiologists showed that college students living in dorms without air conditioning performed standard cognitive tests more slowly than those living with it. In January of this year, Chinese economists noted that students who took mathematics tests on days above 32C looked as if they had lost the equivalent of a quarter of a year of education, relative to test days in the range 22–24C. Researchers estimate that the disparate effects of hot school days – disproportionately felt in poorer school districts without access to air conditioning and home to higher concentrations of non-white students – account for something on the order of 5% of the racial achievement gap in the US.
Cognitive performance is the tip of the melting iceberg. You may have also noticed, for example, your own feelings of aggression on hotter days. You and everyone else – and animals, too. Black widow spiders tend more quickly toward sibling cannibalism in the heat. Rhesus monkeys start more fights with one another. Baseball pitchers are more likely to intentionally hit batters with their pitches as temperatures rise. US Postal Service workers experience roughly 5% more incidents of harassment and discrimination on days above 32C, relative to temperate days.
Neuroscientists point to a variety of routes through which extreme heat can act on behaviour. In 2015, for example, Korean researchers found that heat stress triggers inflammation in the hippocampus of mice, a brain region essential for memory storage. Extreme heat also diminishes neuronal communication in zebrafish, a model organism regularly studied by scientists interested in brain function. In human beings, functional connections between brain areas appear more randomised at higher temperatures. In other words, heat limits the degree to which brain activity appears coordinated. On the aggression front, Finnish researchers noted in 2017 that high temperatures appear to suppress serotonin function, more so among people who had committed violent crimes. For these people, blood levels of a serotonin transporter protein, highly correlated with outside temperatures, could account for nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the country’s rate of violent crime.
“We’re not thinking about any of this,” says Ikiz. “We’re not getting our healthcare systems ready. We’re not doing anything in terms of prevention or protections.”
Ikiz is particularly concerned with the neurodegenerative effects of the climate crisis. In part, that’s because prolonged exposure to heat in its own right – including an increase of a single degree centigrade – can activate a multitude of biochemical pathways associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Air pollution does the same thing. (In rats, such effects are seen after exposure to extreme heat for a mere 15 minutes a day for one week.) Thus, with continued burning of fossil fuels, whether through direct or indirect effects, comes more dementia. Researchers have already illustrated the manners in which dementia-related hospitalisations rise with temperature. Warmer weather worsens the symptoms of neurodegeneration as well.
Prior to her move to philanthropy, Ikiz’s neuroscience research largely focused on the mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neurone disease). Today, she points to research suggesting that blue-green algae, blooming with ever-increasing frequency under a changing global climate, releases a potent neurotoxin that offers one of the most compelling causal explanations for the incidence of non-genetic ALS. Epidemiologists have, for example, identified clusters of ALS cases downwind of freshwater lakes prone to blue-green algae blooms.
It’s this flavour of research that worries her the most. Children constitute one of the populations most vulnerable to these risk factors, since such exposures appear to compound cumulatively over one’s life, and neurodegenerative diseases tend to manifest in the later years. “It doesn’t happen acutely,” says Ikiz. “Years pass, and then people get these diseases. That’s actually what really scares me about this whole thing. We are seeing air pollution exposure from wildfires. We’re seeing extreme heat. We’re seeing neurotoxin exposure. We’re in an experiment ourselves, with the brain chronically exposed to multiple toxins.”
Other scientists who have taken note of these chronic exposures resort to similarly dramatic language as that of Nomura and Ikiz. “Hallmarks of Alzheimer disease are evolving relentlessly in metropolitan Mexico City infants, children and young adults,” is part of the title of a recent paper spearheaded by Dr Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, a toxicologist who directs the University of Montana’s environmental neuroprevention laboratory. The researchers investigated the contributions of urban air pollution and ozone to biomarkers of neurodegeneration and found physical hallmarks of Alzheimer’s in 202 of the 203 brains they examined, from residents aged 11 months to 40 years old. “Alzheimer’s disease starting in the brainstem of young children and affecting 99.5% of young urbanites is a serious health crisis,” Calderón-Garcidueñas and her colleagues wrote. Indeed.
Such neurodevelopmental challenges – the effects of environmental degradation on the developing and infant brain – are particularly large, given the climate prognosis. Rat pups exposed in utero to 40C heat miss brain developmental milestones. Heat exposure during neurodevelopment in zebrafish magnifies the toxic effects of lead exposure. In people, early pregnancy exposure to extreme heat is associated with a higher risk of children developing neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and anorexia. It is also probable that the ALS-causing neurotoxin can travel in the air.
Of course, these exposures only matter if you make it to an age in which neural rot has a chance to manifest. Neurodegenerative disease mostly makes itself known in middle-aged and elderly people. But, on the other hand, the brain-eating amoeba likely to spread as a result of the climate crisis – which is 97% fatal and will kill someone in a week – mostly infects children who swim in lakes. As children do.
A coordinated effort to fully understand and appreciate the neurological costs of the climate crisis does not yet exist. Ikiz is seeking to rectify this. In spring 2024, she will convene the first meeting of a team of neurologists, neuroscientists and planetary scientists, under the banner of the International Neuro Climate Working Group.
The goal of the working group (which, full disclosure, I have been invited to join) is to wrap a collective head around the problem and seek to recommend treatment practices and policy recommendations accordingly, before society finds itself in the midst of overlapping epidemics. The number of people living with Alzheimer’s is expected to triple by 2050, says Ikiz – and that’s without taking the climate crisis into account. “That scares me,” she says. “Because in 2050, we’ll be like: ‘Ah, this is awful. Let’s try to do something.’ But it will be too late for a lot of people.
“I think that’s why it’s really important right now, as evidence is building, as we’re understanding more, to be speaking and raising awareness on these issues,” she says. “Because we don’t want to come to that point of irreversible damage.”
For neuroscientists considering the climate problem, avoiding that point of no return implies investing in resilience research today. But this is not a story of climate anxiety and mental fortitude. “I’m not talking about psychological resilience,” says Nomura. “I’m talking about biological resilience.”
A research agenda for climatological neuroepidemiology would probably bridge multiple fields and scales of analysis. It would merge insights from neurology, neurochemistry, environmental science, cognitive neuroscience and behavioural economics – from molecular dynamics to the individual brain to whole ecosystems. Nomura, for example, wants to understand how external environmental pressures influence brain health and cognitive development; who is most vulnerable to these pressures and when; and which preventive strategies might bolster neurological resilience against climate-induced stressors. Others want to price these stressors, so policymakers can readily integrate them into climate-action cost-benefit analyses.
For Nomura, it all comes back to stress. Under the right conditions, prenatal exposure to stress can be protective, she says. “It’s like an inoculation, right? You’re artificially exposed to something in utero and you become better at handling it – as long as it is not overwhelmingly toxic.” Stress in pregnancy, in moderation, can perhaps help immunise the foetus against the most deleterious effects of stress later in life. “But everybody has a breaking point,” she says.
Identifying these breaking points is a core challenge of Nomura’s work. And it’s a particularly thorny challenge, in that as a matter of both research ethics and atmospheric physics, she and her colleagues can’t just gin up a hurricane and selectively expose expecting mothers to it. “Human research in this field is limited in a way. We cannot run the gold standard of randomised clinical trials,” she says. “We cannot do it. So we have to take advantage of this horrible natural disaster.”
Recently, Nomura and her colleagues have begun to turn their attention to the developmental effects of heat. They will apply similar methods to those they applied to understanding the effects of Hurricane Sandy – establishing natural cohorts and charting the developmental trajectories in which they’re interested.
The work necessarily proceeds slowly, in part because human research is further complicated by the fact that it takes people longer than animals to develop. Rats zoom through infancy and are sexually mature by about six weeks, whereas for humans it takes more than a decade. “That’s a reason this longitudinal study is really important – and a reason why we cannot just get started on the question right now,” says Nomura. “You cannot buy 10 years’ time. You cannot buy 12 years’ time.” You must wait. And so she waits, and she measures, as the waves continue to crash.
Clayton Page Aldern’s book The Weight of Nature, on the effects of climate change on brain health, is published by Allen Lane on 4 April.
This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting
Record heat every day for over a year now, a literal crisis with no help from republicans to stop it, but only to encourage the suffering.
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DNC releases song panning RNC to counter Lara Trump’s single
by Lauren Irwin - 03/29/24 6:33 PM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4564492-dnc-releases-song-panning-rnc-counter-lara-trump/
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) unveiled a new song Friday to counter the single released by Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump.
“Lara Trump’s ‘music career’ is just like a waste of money. But we can appreciate the effort — and wanted to help Lara tell her own story about how she and her fellow MAGA extremists at the RNC are broke and losing election after election,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, referencing former President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan, said in a statement.
“That’s why we’re excited to release our very first single, ‘Party’s Fallin’ Down,’ a summer party anthem about how the RNC is falling apart under Lara Trump and the rest of the new ultra-MAGA team,” Harrison added.
Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the former president, released a new song Friday and teased more releases, especially for her “fans in the liberal media.” The song, titled “Anything Is Possible,” is centered around faith. Last year she released a cover of Tom Petty’s 1989 song “I won’t back down.”
She became the new co-chair of the RNC earlier this month, after former Chair Ronna McDaniel stepped down following Super Tuesday. Since then, the RNC has undergone transformations, laying off staff and gearing up for the general election this fall.
The DNC’s single features song lyrics that mock Lara Trump, asking “What’s going on?”
“You’re running the RNC, but it’s a sad song (sad song),” the lyrics read. “Fundraising’s low, can’t meet the mark. Republicans losing, it’s getting dark.”
“Empty pockets, no money in sight,” it continues. “Candidates struggling, it’s a losing fight.”
Harrison said the DNC didn’t put as much money and time into making their song because they are “busy with our record-breaking fundraising and supporting Democrats up and down the ballot.”
“But Lara is by all means welcome to keep making music instead of trying to win elections,” he added in his statement.
New Quinnipiac poll shows RFK getting 9 percent of Dems and 21 percent of young voters. Very consistent with what I reported yesterday on what internal Dem research is finding about RFK:https://t.co/VJBGKJSkaV pic.twitter.com/nyPy6u9Zgi
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 27, 2024
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Republicans:
Car crash near Canadian border: Migrant terrorist!
(Guy coming back from casino)
Buffalo mass shooting: False flag!
Bridge Disaster: Terrorist attack!
Super Bowl Parade Shooting: Migrant Terrorist! (American).
Gonzaga Hoops Team Buses: Migrant invasion!
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Governor’s office offered lucrative parole board seat in exchange for political favor, state senator says If this all turns out to be true, everyone who lives in District 88 should know that corrupt politicians would rather choose their next representative instead of letting the voters decide. Props to the Republicans calling out dirty deals and corruption within their own party. https://t.co/9HH1upN1o9
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/03/26/governors-office-offered-lucrative-parole-board-seat-in-exchange-for-political-favor-state-senator-says
BY Austin Gelder ONMarch 26, 20243:32 pm
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Arkansas state Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-Texarkana) came forward Monday to allege that the governor’s office offered outgoing Republican state Rep. Danny Watson of Hope a lucrative seat on the state parole board if he secured a replacement for himself who would be friendly to Gov. Sarah Sanders’ administration and who could be elected without great expense.
Hickey took to Facebook Monday to make the accusation, and confirmed the veracity of the post Tuesday.
“I was very careful that everything I’ve got in there is the absolute truth,” Hickey said Tuesday.
“BACKROOM 6 FIGURE ARRANGEMENT, LIES, ARROGANT INEXPERIENCE, OUT OF STATE DARK MONEY, POLITICAL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, SMOKE AND MIRRORS, PUPPETS AND RUBBER STAMPS,” begins Hickey’s Facebook missive, posted at 12:46 p.m. Monday.
https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.hickey.10/posts/8661645913956670?ref=embed_post
Hickey goes on to claim that dirty politics are poisoning the race for the next representative for state House District 88, a position Watson currently fills.
“Rep. Danny Watson told Rep Carol Dalby that a senior staffer at the Governor’s office had told him that he would get an appointment on the Parole Board ‘if’ he (Watson) found a replacement that the Governor’s office would approve of and if they did not have to fund a lot of money into this SW Arkansas race,” Hickey wrote on Facebook.
All parole board members save one are paid more than $100,000 per year, according to the state transparency website.
Newcomers Dolly Henley and Arnetta Bradford are competing for the Republican nomination for the seat in an April 2 runoff. The district spans parts of Hempstead, Miller and Howard counties in the southwest part of the state.
Bradford, of Hope, is the governor’s friend and her favored candidate. In January 2023, Sanders appointed Bradford to the Black History Commission of Arkansas. And in April, she hand-delivered a certificate for Arkansas Business of the Month to Bradford’s faith-focused cafe in Hope, Hebrews 11:1.
Watson kept his plans to not seek reelection a secret as part of his plan to dissuade other candidates from entering the race to make it easier to get Bradford elected, Hickey suggests in his Facebook post.
“Rep Watson told Rep Dalby and other State Representatives that he was not going to publicly tell that he wasn’t running for re-election. His plan was to bring Arnetta Bradford, Dolly Henley’s opponent, to the Capitol on the very last day to sign up for this seat with only a few minutes remaining,” Hickey wrote in the Facebook post.
Rep. Carol Dalby of Texarkana, another long-serving state Republican lawmaker, said by phone Tuesday that Hickey’s statement was true.
“I stand by what Senator Hickey wrote. What he wrote is accurate,” Dalby said.
When asked if she was concerned about the politics of calling out wrong-doing by fellow Republicans, Dalby said no.
“I’m never worried when you’re telling the truth,” she said.
The political tricks Hickey alleges could be criminal, former lawmaker Nate Bell said on Twitter:
Arkansas state Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-Texarkana) came forward Monday to allege that the governor’s office offered outgoing Republican state Rep. Danny Watson of Hope a lucrative seat on the state parole board if he secured a replacement for himself who would be friendly to Gov. Sarah Sanders’ administration and who could be elected without great expense.
Hickey took to Facebook Monday to make the accusation, and confirmed the veracity of the post Tuesday.
“I was very careful that everything I’ve got in there is the absolute truth,” Hickey said Tuesday.
“BACKROOM 6 FIGURE ARRANGEMENT, LIES, ARROGANT INEXPERIENCE, OUT OF STATE DARK MONEY, POLITICAL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, SMOKE AND MIRRORS, PUPPETS AND RUBBER STAMPS,” begins Hickey’s Facebook missive, posted at 12:46 p.m. Monday.
Hickey goes on to claim that dirty politics are poisoning the race for the next representative for state House District 88, a position Watson currently fills.
“Rep. Danny Watson told Rep Carol Dalby that a senior staffer at the Governor’s office had told him that he would get an appointment on the Parole Board ‘if’ he (Watson) found a replacement that the Governor’s office would approve of and if they did not have to fund a lot of money into this SW Arkansas race,” Hickey wrote on Facebook.
All parole board members save one are paid more than $100,000 per year, according to the state transparency website.
Newcomers Dolly Henley and Arnetta Bradford are competing for the Republican nomination for the seat in an April 2 runoff. The district spans parts of Hempstead, Miller and Howard counties in the southwest part of the state.
Bradford, of Hope, is the governor’s friend and her favored candidate. In January 2023, Sanders appointed Bradford to the Black History Commission of Arkansas. And in April, she hand-delivered a certificate for Arkansas Business of the Month to Bradford’s faith-focused cafe in Hope, Hebrews 11:1.
Watson kept his plans to not seek reelection a secret as part of his plan to dissuade other candidates from entering the race to make it easier to get Bradford elected, Hickey suggests in his Facebook post.
“Rep Watson told Rep Dalby and other State Representatives that he was not going to publicly tell that he wasn’t running for re-election. His plan was to bring Arnetta Bradford, Dolly Henley’s opponent, to the Capitol on the very last day to sign up for this seat with only a few minutes remaining,” Hickey wrote in the Facebook post.
Rep. Carol Dalby of Texarkana, another long-serving state Republican lawmaker, said by phone Tuesday that Hickey’s statement was true.
“I stand by what Senator Hickey wrote. What he wrote is accurate,” Dalby said.
When asked if she was concerned about the politics of calling out wrong-doing by fellow Republicans, Dalby said no.
“I’m never worried when you’re telling the truth,” she said.
The political tricks Hickey alleges could be criminal, former lawmaker Nate Bell said on Twitter:
Henley’s campaign has been kept busy recently fending off accusations that she’s a secret Democrat. Those accusations are coming from out-of-state groups, she told Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter Mike Wickline. Wickline also reported that former governor and current first dad Mike Huckabee contributed $1,000 to Henley’s campaign, saying he’s friends with the family.
Bradford told Wickline she had nothing to do with the mailers and texts accusing Henley of being a secret Democrat.
In his Facebook post, though, Hickey muses about the possibility of Bradford working with Watson in a secret mutually beneficial arrangement.
“Arnetta Bradford did wait until the last day to sign up and Rep Danny Watson told Rep Dalby that he was helping with the sign up and was also going to carry Arnetta Bradford to visit with a political campaign consultant. Did Arnetta Bradford know about or have an involvement in this Parole Board six figure ‘discussion or arrangement’?,” Hickey wrote.
Bradford’s filing records with the secretary of state’s office show her paperwork was completed on Nov. 14, which was the last day to file.
An email to Gov. Sanders’ office seeking a comment was not immediately returned.
What would one expect, Sanders is too busy polishing her taxpayers lectern collection.
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Trump donor money being put to good use in St. Barth’s at Alina’s birthday party. pic.twitter.com/HmXwdtGcsx
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 28, 2024
Sorry about that, misspoke (or miswrote). Price to sales is what I meant, thanks for the catch. Didn't mean to misinform. Hate to make people think if they "invest" they aren't going to get raped and only be financially molested. lol
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Moved it up over the day, the 150% was yesterday's number, wonder where it will go tomorrow. lol $DJT has got about 2000 P/E (last I checked), a scam to beat all scams.
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Nobel Prize winners call for “drastic increase” in aid to Ukraine
In an open letter, Nobel Prize winners warn against "appeasing the aggressor" in the Ukraine war. Ukraine must win the war.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-03/ukraine-krieg-nobelpreistraeger-offener-brief-elfriede-jelinek-herta-mueller
Updated March 27, 2024, 11:41 a.m
Source: ZEIT ONLINE, jsp
Numerous Nobel Prize winners have written an open letter calling on heads of state and government around the world to significantly expand their support for Ukraine. “History teaches us that appeasing an aggressor encourages further crimes against humanity,” the letter said. No “temporary benefit” could justify this. Politicians must give up “any illusions about Mr. Putin and his regime .”
The Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviitchouk © Adrien Vautier/?Le Pictorium/?imago images
Among the signatories are the Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matwijtschuk and the writers Herta Müller and Elfriede Jelinek.
In their letter, the scientists and intellectuals formulate five concrete demands:
--A “drastic increase” in aid to Ukraine : Ukraine must “win, not just ‘not lose’”. Timely assistance will "reduce the loss of life and help drive the aggressor from Ukrainian soil."
--Support for the democratic opposition in Russia. The global community must come together to protect political prisoners who are currently being tortured in Russia.
--Increased support for Russians who are at risk of repression and need asylum.
--Support for democratic “anti-Putin organizations” – including support for independent Russian media “whose role in promoting regime change is crucial.”
--The “delegitimization of Putin’s illegal exercise of power in Russia”: Refusing to recognize Putin’s re-election by world leaders would “send a clear message” that the world can no longer consider him a “partner.”
The letter also pays tribute to opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who died in Russian custody . “The comprehensive aggression against Ukraine and the murder of Alexei Navalny illustrate the escalation of the threat to a new level,” it said. Putin's regime no longer has any restrictions on violating human rights and international norms.
Election in Russia:
"I see a regime that believes it is in great danger"
Russia:
You can threaten Vladimir Putin, he understands the language
In addition, the signatories, as members of the international academic community, are deeply concerned that "scientific progress is threatened when dictators undermine intellectual freedom, especially at a time when global cooperation is under threat in the face of global pandemics, climate change and the existential threat of "Weapons of mass destruction are more important than ever."
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Sigh 🫤 https://t.co/HLpSZctWAn
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) March 27, 2024
That's the conundrum that they are in. But since this is just a money laundering meme stock, and fundamentally as a public company is probably worth less than 5 bucks a share if that, I'm sure they will find some way to deviously suck the money in without a care what happens to the actual stock price.
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Of course that's a given. His family and his own people from his previous administration are "they" and will be instructed by trump to change or not any rules (like he really pays any attention to rules) for his benefit.
What if Trump violates the gag order? Why you asking me, I only know about how the law works for EVERYBODY ELSE. https://t.co/CNAgmzn4uw
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 27, 2024
I doubt anything is going to happen to him. I believe trump doubts it also. Trump's on the two tier justice, with republicans backing and defending his criminal ways that if anybody else was violating laws at will, would have been jailed years ago and still in there. But it would be nice if he really was treated like any other criminal.
This is worth paying attention to. https://t.co/pVaP6dUzsD
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 27, 2024
If you wouldn't mind, run over and pick this house up for me after l send you a $15K cashier's check. You can keep the change for your troubles.
Can you imagine paying this price for a home? pic.twitter.com/iOSMCQnHYW
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 16, 2024
Why are you printing disinformation peddler and long time Flynn stenographer Mike Rothschild when I am the one who has been covering Mike Flynn’s “Black Swan” rhetoric every single day?
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) March 27, 2024
You’re getting played and it’s pathetic. https://t.co/bZnQUGRUbk
Republicans/Putin's hero not getting such a warm reception back home.
🇭🇺 Big demonstrations have just started in Budapest, Hungary demanding the removal of Viktor Orban from power in this European country pic.twitter.com/ajTbI2qKpL
— Intermarium 24 (@intermarium24) March 26, 2024
btw this is not my comment - but one of the slogans of the protesters. another huge protest has been planned for april 6. 🫡💪👏 pic.twitter.com/X6m0N2ikxJ
— Intermarium 24 (@intermarium24) March 26, 2024
Maybe they will stop their bs, probably not. I believe their thought is that they will make more selling their disinformation and lies than the fine will be. Hopefully the republicans will be mistaken. Trump was, but doesn't stop the grifting or the billionaires buying our judges and corrupting the system.
Defamation certainly seems to be one of the few charges in our justice system that HAS produced tangible and consequential results in less than an eon.
— The Shallow State (@OurShallowState) March 26, 2024
Cocoa just topped out the price of copper at $9000 a ton due to climate change. To bad we all have to worry about more than just our chocolate candy.
Some republican was spouting off about the hail storm recently in Texas nailing about a 1000 acres of solar panels and who was going to pay for all this green energy and that the consumer was with higher insurance rates. Blaming the Biden and green energy for the fault of the fossil fuel hell were going to be in. Of course failed to mention that Texas borrowed 6.3 billion in bonds bailing out the gas and utility companies for the 2021 storms and charging the citizens for the next 30 years on their utility bills, the time it will take to pay it off. And this fossil fuel nightmare that's coming in at us has only just begun.
At the time, Texas had a surplus and money stashed, but chose to burden it's citizens more instead.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texans-winter-freeze-bill-17575398.php
Just the extreme republican base. If the republicans didn't have white supremist or the extreme christian nationalists, they wouldn't have a pot to piss in and be losing by a landslide everywhere.
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Doesn't matter what they get caught on, they just lie some more. Their sheep will believe anything.
Kari Lake says the reason she surrendered on the defamation lawsuit against her today was because she felt if she participated in the trial it would give the the people who brought the case credibility. pic.twitter.com/hxvE6xJ40V
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 27, 2024
Utah’s women’s basketball team, which was participating in the NCAA tournament, left Idaho for Washington state after being terrorized by racists in pickup trucks outside their Couer d’Alene hotel. https://t.co/HuEAYkR5Ua
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 26, 2024
Switching to just recovery now.
“At this point, we do not believe that we're gonna find any of these individuals still alive. ... We're going to suspend the active search and rescue efforts.”
— The Recount (@therecount) March 27, 2024
— U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath on the Baltimore bridge collapse pic.twitter.com/H8sT60dYBN
Neo-Nazi presidential larper RFK Jr.’s new VP banged Elmo when she was married to Sergey Brin. I don’t really care, other than the fact that it means Elmo has his stubby little fingers in yet another propaganda operation aimed at overthrowing the government.#DeportElonMusk https://t.co/MTHo8iN0IE
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) March 26, 2024
Biden plays up his money edge in taking feistier shots at Trump
The president’s campaign has sought to flip the narrative with stepped-up campaigning, fundraising and rhetoric since the State of the Union
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/26/biden-trump-money-campaign/
By Toluse Olorunnipa
March 26, 2024 at 2:50 p.m. EDT
Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax
Before and after the investment, senior newsroom leaders urged Newsmax staff to soften coverage of Qatar, current and former employees said
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/qatar-newsmax-investment/
By David Kenner, Sarah Ellison and Jonathan O'Connell
March 26, 2024 at 11:02 a.m. EDT
The ugly truth behind baseless brainworm-addled conspiracy-mongering like this is that people like MTG are rooting for the bridge collapse to be "an intentional act" bc they think they can score political points off of it. They want maximum misery this year bc that helps Trump. https://t.co/iskGJMqvXH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2024
First @elonmusk dont allow Ukraine to use Starlink on its own territory like crimea (which Russia has annexed in violation of international law) to defend itself, now Russia starts to use Starlink on large scale to push forward its genocide in Ukraine.https://t.co/MyrAGEoarB pic.twitter.com/VeMlvVXdjr
— Simsala 🪄 (@SimsalaMaya) March 26, 2024
It's Biden's border policies says the lying fox.
The Insanely Racist Conspiracy Theory on Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse
Fox News is amplifying a racist conspiracy on the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Because of course it has.
https://newrepublic.com/post/180134/fox-news-racist-conspiracy-theory-baltimore-key-bridge-collapse?
I guess the two people pulled out were two of the 8 workers on the bridge. Six still missing. No word on people in cars, I saw multiple cars going down with the bridge in the video. Guessing those people are not coming up alive.
‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’: How Sandy Hook lies got peddled for profit
A new HBO documentary about the right-wing conspiracy theorist behind Infowars explores the mainstreaming of ‘grift’ in a post-truth era
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/03/26/the-truth-vs-alex-jones/
By Jada Yuan
March 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
The International News Media Association has selected The Economist’s “Inside a Month of America’s School Shootings” as a global award finalist from 700 entries submitted by 245 news brands in 43 countries. pic.twitter.com/F0IFooVs67
— K-12 School Shooting Database (@K12ssdb) March 26, 2024
We've had boat captains drunk before causing accidents. I guess this one was loss of engine. At least seven cars into the water, already have pulled a couple of people out, one ok, one serious condition so far. Divers in fighting darkness and tide.
At 01:24:30 the lights went out.
— Leon Simons (@LeonSimons8) March 26, 2024
Right after that, the ship's course changed direction, heading towards the bridge.
It looks like the captain tried to change course when the lights and the engine regained power.
But 100,000 tons of mass has a lot of momentum. pic.twitter.com/Yyk2lEyEGJ