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Trump has pardoned the following people charged with fraud:
—George Santos, wire fraud
—Ross William Ulbricht, fraud with identification documents
—Rod R. Blagojevich, 8 counts of wire fraud under color of official right
—Brian Kelsey, conspiracy to defraud the United States
—Devon Archer, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Trevor Milton, securities fraud; 2 counts of wire fraud
—Jason Galanis, 2 counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud; investment adviser fraud
—Ozy Media, Inc., conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud
—Carlos Roy Watson, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; aggravated identity theft
—Michele Fiore, 6 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud; wire fraud
—Scott Howard Jenkins, conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving Federal funds, honest services mail fraud, and honest service wire fraud; honest services mail fraud; 3 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Julie Chrisley, 5 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws
—Todd Chrisley, conspiracy to commit bank fraud; 5 counts of bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws
—Lawrence S. Duran, conspiracy to commit health care fraud; 11 counts of health care fraud; conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks
— Michael Gerard Grimm, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns
—Marian I. Morgan, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 7 counts of wire fraud; 5 counts of transfer of funds taken by fraud
—John G. Rowland, conspiracy to defraud the United States
—Charles Overton Scott, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Glen Casada, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 4 counts of honest services wire fraud; use of a fictitious name to carry out a fraud
—Cade Cothren, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 6 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr., health care fraud
—Joseph Lewis, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; 2 counts of securities fraud
—David Gentile, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud; 2 counts of wire fraud
—Jacob Deutsch, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud
—Adriana Isabel Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; 7 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting
—Andres Enrique Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; 7 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting
—Julio M. Herrera Velutini, 2 counts of honest services wire fraud
—David Levy, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Hollie Ann Nadel, conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud
—Mark T. Rossini, honest services wire fraud
—Wanda Vazquez Garced, honest services wire fraud
—Terren Scott Peizer, securities fraud
—Timothy S. Smith, conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service
—Stephen E. Buyer, 4 counts of securities fraud
—John Dougherty, 24 counts of wire fraud; conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and federal program bribery; 7 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Joshua L. Davis, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act
—Matthew Sidney Geouge, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act
—Adam R. Kidan, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud; wire fraud
—Spade K. Bailly, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Clean Air Act
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.
Now it's our turn.
There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.
250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.
Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.
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Heads up, Ka$h, this chart ends before you and Trump took office in 2025.
Thank you, President Biden for the historic drop in homicide rates!
Leadership matters
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Here's a better version so you can clearly see when the drop happened.
"Homicide Rate and Year-Over-Year Percent Change in Homicide, 1900–2025"
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His entire presidency is about giving people permission to be their worst selves.
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As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, here are some wise words from a 1968 "Stan's Soapbox" column.
#mlkday #martinlutherkingjr #civilrights #stanlee #stanleeuniverse
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This week marks 15 years since I was shot. Watching the president and his administration target my husband for speaking out is beyond disappointing—it’s a disturbing abuse of power that should alarm every American.
@CaptMarkKelly is driven by principle and duty. No bully can diminish his unwavering commitment to our country.
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
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Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
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BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See, by @yashar open.substack.com/pub/yashar…
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Good news: if you want to know what happened in CECOT to the Venezuelans the United States paid to imprison there, you need not wait for the 60 Minutes story to be ready. You can simply read this:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1…
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Forty years since the release of Midnight Oil’s Species Deceases EP.
themusic.com.au/features/is-…
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Well, that was awfully quick.
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Here's a fact check of 13 of the false claims President Trump made at his Cabinet meeting today:
- He claimed he's secured more than $18 trillion in investment commitments since he returned to office. That fictional figure is nearly double the $9.6 trillion figure the White House uses on its website, and a detailed review shows even the smaller WH figure is wildly inflated
- He claimed grocery prices are down. They're up: 2.7% year-over-year as of September, 1.4% since January
- He claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by 500% to 900%. These numbers make no mathematical sense; they'd mean people would get paid to acquire their medications
- He claimed every military attack on a (purported) drug-smuggling boat saves an average of 25,000 lives. Experts say this number also makes no sense, even aside from the fact the administration hasn’t publicly proven what was on the boats; the US had a reported total of 82,000 overdose deaths last year
- He claimed he has "stopped inflation in its tracks" since January. The September year-over-year inflation rate, 3.0%, was the exact same as the rate in January (actually a tiny bit higher if you go to more decimal places) - and September was the fifth consecutive months the year-over-year rate had increased
- He claimed he inherited the worst inflation of all time. He didn't; he inherited 3% inflation, same as the most recent rate, and even the Biden-era peak, 9.1% in June 2022, wasn't close to an all-time high
- He claimed he ended eight wars. Among other issues, his list includes two supposed wars that did not actually exist during his presidency, Egypt-Ethiopia and Serbia-Kosovo, and a war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has not actually ended
- He claimed China “doesn’t have gasoline.” It’s true China doesn’t produce enough oil to meet domestic demand, but China has domestic oil and refines oil into gasoline
- He claimed that, under Biden, “By 2030, everybody had to own an electric car.” Biden’s push for EVs did not include a requirement for anybody to buy an electric car or abandon their gas-powered car; Biden tailpipe rules sought to have EVs make up 56% of new passenger vehicles sold in 2032
- He claimed the US gave $350 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine. Not even close. A US government inspector general says $187 billion was appropriated for the war response through June...including billions spent in the US and broader Europe
- He claimed Washington, DC now has "no murders," which wasn't true even before the deadly attack on National Guard troops last week
- He claimed the 2020 election was a fake election. It wasn’t, he lost, this is a lie
- He claimed his big domestic policy bill included “no tax on Social Security.” It didn’t eliminate tax on Social Security; it temporarily increased the standard deduction for people age 65+, which means some people 65+ (and beneficiaries under 65) continue to pay tax on their benefits
More details: cnn.com/2025/12/02/politics/…
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If Trump wants to stop drug traffickers, why did he just pardon the guy convicted in one of the biggest narco cases in U.S. history?
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This is what happens when you have the least qualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history.
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Mark Kelly: “In 1991, when Donald Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into backruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Donald Trump said the collapse of the Twin Towers meant he now owned the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, I was carrying flags honoring 9/11 victims into space on a rocketship. In 2003, when Donald Trump was writing birthday greetings to the monster Jeffrey Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts who died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded during re-entry. In 2011, when Trump was hosting a reality show and peddling conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed as she recovered from a gunshot wound to the head”
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are not serious people. I won't let them stop me from holding this Administration accountable.
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Every American needs to see this “When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq… When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts”
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Donald Trump is focused on pitting people against each other.
The center of his agenda is cruelty - not lowering prices or making life better for Americans.
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