Mastodawn

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"Government-approved support for a Trump golf course in Vietnam while its leaders were negotiating with the United States for relief from Trump tariffs.

Last week, Trump hosted more than 200 purchasers of his meme coin, many of them apparently foreign nationals, for a private dinner, with no disclosure of the names of those who had paid into his pocket for access to the president’s time and favor."

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BlueBeachSong™21h ago

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"...Trump apparently decided he had been thinking too small. In his first term, he made improper millions. In his second term, he is reaching for billions: a $2 billion investment by a United Arab Emirates state-owned enterprise in the Binance crypto exchange using the Trump family’s stablecoin asset. [Unknown] billions placed by Qatar in a Trump-family real-estate development in that emirate, topped by the gift of a 747 luxury jet for the president’s personal use in office and afterward."

BlueBeachSong™21h ago

The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-golden-age-corruption/682935/

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"During his first presidency, Donald Trump collected millions of dollars of other people’s money. He charged the taxpayer nearly $2 million to protect him during the hundreds of times he visited his own properties. He accepted millions of dollars of campaign-related funds from Republican candidates who sought his favor. His businesses collected at least $13 million from foreign governments over his first term in office."

The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist

He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.

The Atlantic

BlueBeachSong™21h ago

Sue Stone 23h ago

Trump has no plan for who will grow US food: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’ | US immigration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/farmworkers-h-2a-trump-agriculture

Trump has no plan for who will grow US food: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’

Farms rely on seasonal workers and undocumented immigrants, but the Republican’s plans to fill the gap would ‘legalize oppression’, advocates say

The Guardian

BlueBeachSong™21h ago

Sue Stone 23h ago

The world could break another annual temperature record in the next five years | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-deadly-record-heat-wildfires-hurricanes-535b4df63b476d0f36ec553a1a78669d

The world could break another annual temperature record in the next five years

Top weather agencies warn that the world should get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes the globe to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes. Wednesday's five-year forecast from the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office says there’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago. Scientists say that means more heat deaths, wildfires, nastier hurricanes, downpours and droughts.

AP News

BlueBeachSong™22h ago

Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦22h ago

Liberation for felons. Laws no longer matter if you steal enough.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-pardons-highlight-justice-departments-pullback-public-corruptio-rcna209202

Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases

WASHINGTON — The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling, including undercover video and other corroboration showing Jenkins, then the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, as well as two undercover FBI special agents.

NBC News

BlueBeachSong™1d ago

Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trumps-media-conglomerate-is-becoming-a-bitcoin-reserve/

Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve

Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company to Truth Social, has announced plans to buy up billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin.

WIRED

BlueBeachSong™1d ago

The Way Trump’s America Most Closely Resembles 1930s Germany
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-america-1930s-germany-dual-state.html

The Way Trump’s America Most Closely Resembles 1930s Germany

For the vast majority of Americans, the legal system hasn’t changed in any meaningful way unless they are watching the news.

Slate

BlueBeachSong™1d ago

Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Gut a ‘Medical Lifeline’ for Millions
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-republicans-medicaid-cuts-home-health-care-1235348787/

Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Gut a ‘Medical Lifeline’ for Millions

A health care provider and her patient warned lawmakers about how Donald Trump and Republicans’ Medicaid cuts will harm patients who need home care.

Rolling Stone

BlueBeachSong™1d ago

"...on the first day of Trump’s second term, he signed an anti-trans executive order decreeing that the federal government recognize only two sexes, male and female; since then, his Administration’s pursuit of groups that it deems enemies—immigrants, college protesters, white-shoe law firms—has progressed rapidly."
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Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trumps-war-on-gender-is-also-a-war-on-government

Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government

Paisley Currah on how the Trump Administration’s rigid definitions of sex across federal agencies is undermining the administrative state’s ability to protect the public.

The New Yorker

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