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michael Z retweeted
Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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michael Z retweeted
I keep seeing people question what Hakeem Jeffries has actually accomplished. Let’s talk about his RECORD.
📌 Jeffries co-authored the bipartisan First Step Act, one of the most significant criminal justice reforms in decades, reducing excessive sentences and expanding rehabilitation opportunities.
📌 He was UNANIMOUSLY elected House Democratic Leader, becoming the first Black lawmaker in American history to lead a party in Congress. He was reelected to that leadership position in 2024.
📌 He’s kept House Democrats largely united, fought to protect ACA subsidies, and helped push critical legislation through a Republican-controlled House.
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michael Z retweeted
This is the fist bump everyone needs to be talking about.
Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans celebrating after blocking a bill to help toxin-exposed veterans survive.
michael Z retweeted
Ending Russia’s war against Ukraine should be the priority of American diplomacy, not pursuing business opportunities with the Kremlin.
michael Z retweeted
🚨 BRAZIL SHUTS DOWN THE WORLD'S BREADBASKET!;
🇧🇷 Brazilian President: "Effective today, Brazil is halting all soybean, beef, and coffee exports to the United States and terminating every foreign carbon-credit agreement in the Amazon."
🇺🇸 US President: "This is deliberate supply-chain extortion! Food prices will skyrocket overnight and millions of families will pay the price!"
🇧🇷 Brazilian President: "You demand we freeze our own economic development to absorb your carbon emissions while subsidizing your own farmers to undercut ours. Why should we feed you while you dictate how we use our own forests?" 🔥
🇺🇸 US President: "We will slap 200% tariffs on every Brazilian product and cut off all agricultural technology transfers!"
🇧🇷 Brazilian President: "Slap your tariffs all you want. You still can't print steaks and coffee beans out of Wall Street."
michael Z retweeted
JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.
michael Z retweeted
The bogus and pathetic letter from the WH to Rep. Garcia is transparent: they are trying to falsely and prematurely attack the legal basis of forthcoming Dem subpoenas to provide an excuse for refusing to comply.
Do not fall for their political ploys: there hasn’t been a single subpoena issued yet!
Congress has a constitutional duty to conduct oversight in connection with potential legislation, which includes issuing subpoenas. If Congress does that — which they will — then the administration has a constitutional duty to comply with those subpoenas.
What are they so afraid of anyway?
michael Z retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive.
A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging, insurrectionist, running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth."
This was published by Annalise B Winterborne on TikTok.
#DemsUnited
ALT The orange idiot aka Trump
michael Z retweeted
I will ALWAYS cherish the memory that trump BEGGED his followers to act like he was on the ballot, and voters delivered a political beatdown the likes of which have never been seen before.
We flipped TEXAS. We won in Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, and kicked Susan Collins to the curb.
We even elected a Black man, Scott Colom, in the city where the Ku Klux Klan was first formed.
All because America acted like trump was on the ballot. That's priceless.
michael Z retweeted
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson announces he is releasing evidence tomorrow proving the FBI is lying about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania by Thomas Crooks
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk pointed out the INSANE inconsistencies
- The assassins house was PROFESSIONALLY scrubbed
- His home was scrubbed so well there wasn’t even silverware left in the home
- No footprint on the internet
- No social media footprint (completely wiped)
- He was in a BlackRock commercial
- Joe Rogan says some individuals inside BlackRock may have “recognized that it's beneficial to them if he gets assassinated”
- There was never a formal report
- There was never press conferences where they detailed all the information they know currently and where the investigation stands at the moment
- He was a very young g kid there with a rangefinder (used to measure distances, very suspicious)
- CNN streamed it live, which Joe Rogan does not believe they did for any other rally. And certainly not for a rally that's in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania
- They wouldn't let people be on that roof because the Secret service lady said it was sloped and it was dangerous
- The snipers that were on the other roof was a, a steeper pitch (It made no f*cking sense)
- Random people saw him and pointed him out on the roof with a gun for a long time before it happened
- The kid had 5 phones
- His body was immediately cremated
- There was some indications that there was a phone that had been traveling from outside the FBI offices in D.C to where this kid lived multiple times
We need answers.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Tucker Carlson has not announced releasing new evidence tomorrow. The video is from the Feb. 2025 Joe Rogan Experience with Elon Musk discussing Butler questions, containing no Carlson statement. A similar teaser by Carlson was in Nov. 2025.
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michael Z retweeted
OK…. let’s get the facts fucking straight and stop the FAKE NEWS.
Jeffries voted to keep Hegseth’s impeachment resolution alive. So did every Democrat who voted.
Yes, 11 Democrats were absent. But so were 7 Republicans. Had everyone voted along party lines, Republicans still win 218–215.
This was NOT a vote to impeach Hegseth.
Stop blaming Jeffries for a Republican-controlled House.
michael Z retweeted
We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.
So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.
What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.
From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)
michael Z retweeted
WATCH: Elizabeth Warren wants Democrats to dare Trump to use the veto:
“Democrats must deliver popular, meaningful legislation to Trump's desk, and then dare him to veto it. Dare him to veto an increase to the minimum wage for hard-working Americans. You can't win what you don't fight for.”
michael Z retweeted
Leader Jeffries raised a record amount of money for Dems, recruited new fresh faces who could speak compellingly to their voters even in Trump districts, campaigned nonstop across the country, and showed Americans that Dems would be the fighters they wanted and deserved against a corrupt, traitorous Trump admin & GOP Congress. He will be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. And he deserves to be.
michael Z retweeted
Let’s clear something up about Hakeem Jeffries.
Ro Khanna, AOC, Robert Garcia, Pramila Jayapal, Greg Casar, Brad Lander, Sam Liccardo, Jim Himes, Luke Bronin, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, Ted Lieu, Joe Neguse, and other members of the Democratic caucus have expressed support for Jeffries as Speaker.
Some of y’all keep throwing out names for Speaker who have already said they’re backing Hakeem!
And there’s a reason for that. Members supporting Jeffries say he understands the job, knows how to lead the caucus, and is prepared to take the gavel.
You elected these people to do a job. Maybe it’s worth listening when they tell you who they believe is best suited to lead them.
michael Z retweeted
"Will Democrats insist on accountability or affordability?"
We'll do both obviously, especially because we will have large numbers of new Members ready to work! But anyone who has studied the history of tyranny knows that corruption and unaffordability are two sides of the same coin.
When the tyrants say “let them eat cake (or crypto),” this is a problem reflecting a failure of both political accountability and economic affordability. Authoritarianism is always prohibitively expensive for the people as we know from Trump’s illegal wars and tariffs, ruinous gas prices and nonstop corruption and self-enrichment.
michael Z retweeted
“Democrats should act as though they own Congress today. The future doesn’t start in 2027. Voters gave Democrats the biggest mandate any party has had in 50 years. Start driving legislation and dare Republican dead-enders to get in the way.”
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