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Today we’re releasing our tally of corruption in Trump’s Washington.
$377 billion. And that’s just what you can see.
The documentary & data are now LIVE at CORRUPTIONLAND.org
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Kushner financed Erik Prince’s international terrorism with MBZ’s money. It’s everything we thought but even worse.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2026/10/26/books…
Merits a thorough investigation to say the least.
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If I had a nickel for every new-to-X-In-2026 account that has slid into my comments today to tell me I don’t understand the law I’d be a rich woman. You can always tell when you’ve struck a nerve.
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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.
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Sur la rive en fleurs,
Riant au matin
Viens, descendons ensemble.
Doucement glissons de son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant
Dans l'onde frémissante
D'une main nonchalante
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort et
L'oiseau, l'oiseau chante.
Le Duo des fleurs.
Eclecticity retweeted
No one should doubt that violent crime is declining in the United States. According to the latest Department of Justice victimization survey, violent crime, excluding simple assaults, fell by 25% in 2025. That is the good news.
However, we cannot ignore an equally important reality and something law enforcement leaders have always known: Community trust directly impacts the willingness of victims and witnesses to come forward. A DOJ study found that approximately 62% of violent victimizations in urban communities went unreported to police.
Given these facts, Americans must ask ourselves what impact today’s widespread, aggressive, and often mean-spirited immigration enforcement operations are having on millions of people who may now fear coming forward when they are victims of or witnesses to violent crime.
When people fear that contacting the police could lead to detention, deportation, or the separation of their families, public safety suffers. Victims remain silent, witnesses disappear, and violent offenders are emboldened.
We cannot claim to be making America safer while pursuing enforcement strategies that risk driving victims and witnesses into the shadows.
Effective policing requires more than enforcement. It requires trust, relationships, and the confidence of every community that the police are there to protect and serve them.
Public safety and community trust are not competing priorities. They are inseparable.
#RelationalPolicing #PublicSafety #CommunityTrust
CBS News (October 26, 2026):
cbsnews.com/news/violent-cri…
DOJ/Bureau of Justice Statistics — Reporting to Police by Type of Crime and Location of Residence, 2020–2023:
bjs.ojp.gov/library/publicat…
(Ca. 2021) "The metabolic network of the last bacterial common ancestor" by Joana C. Xavier, Rebecca E. Gerhards, et al: nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
"From 1089 reference genomes of bacterial anaerobes, we identified 146 protein families that trace to the last bacterial common ancestor, LBCA, and form the conserved predicted core of its metabolic network..."
Eclecticity retweeted
NEW: The 9th Circuit blocked Trump's attempt to bypass a lower court to disenfranchise 20k Californians it alleges are noncitizens.
But in its ruling, two of the panel judges suggested paths for the court to shut down the administration's bid to meddle in the midterms. demdock.com/4zOpRzk
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Also, Russia is now a failed state that requires economic and military assistance from China and other countries. Its only "product" of success beyond fossil fuels is propaganda.
Polish FM Radosław Sikorski:
"There is a myth that has been successfully planted in the West that Russia always wins.
But things don't always go their way.
They lost the Crimean War. They lost the war against Japan. They emerged from World War I with their tails between their legs.
They lost the invasion of Poland. They lost Afghanistan. And they lost the Cold War.
So things can turn out very differently." - @sikorskiradek
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FACTS. Vote like your democracy depends on it. Because it does.
Deservedly scathing op-ed by the NYT:
“If Democrats retake both houses of Congress, and more state governments than they now control, it will tell the world that Mr. Trump does not represent most Americans. It will demonstrate that a country that starts to slide toward autocracy can move back to normalcy, as happened in Hungary this spring. Most important, it will create a desperately needed check on Mr. Trump during his final two years in office.
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In a 21-month span, he has done more harm to democracy and the rule of law than any other president in the modern era and perhaps longer than that. He has broken his oath to defend the Constitution by trying to rewrite it on his own. He has refused to honor Congress’s power of the purse and misused national security laws for political ends. He has defied federal court orders on Medicaid funding, deportation orders and more. He has dismantled the Justice Department’s legacy as an impartial enforcer of federal law, turning it into an instrument of retribution against his adversaries while canceling investigations into his allies. He has appointed inept sycophants to oversee crucial government functions, including law enforcement, national defense and public health. He has sought to disenfranchise large numbers of voters, claiming fraud that cannot be found, and championed an extreme new approach to partisan gerrymandering. He has physically besmirched the White House by demolishing the East Wing and financing a garish renovation with donations from wealthy allies.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/27/opini…
