Giving to others, when we can, gives our lives meaning. https://linkedin.com/pulse/panda-notes-happiness-meaning-adam-rifkin In the end, only kindness matters.
“Powerus is flush with cash and…says there is no problem with it bidding for government money that could make [Trumps] richer.” @starsandstripes.bsky.social “It’s corruption. Government decision makers will feel pressure to use contract awards to enrich [Trump’s] family.” @kathleenclark.bsky.social
New drone maker partly owned by Trump sons hopes to win Pentagon contractswww.stripes.comdarren32359“The US is attacking Iran. Russia is helping Iran target US forces. For all we know Russia is co-responsible for the deaths of US soldiers. And yet Trump [is] lifting oil sanctions [on Russia].” @timothysnyder.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/timo... bsky.app/profile/dvsm... Archive: archive.is/SU0RS
Exclusive | Russia Is Sharing Satellite Imagery and Drone Technology With IranMoscow has expanded intelligence sharing and military cooperation to help keep Tehran in the fight against U.S. and Israeli military might.www.wsj.comKate from KharkivSTUBB: Russia is now giving Shahed drones back to Iran, which they can use to strike American bases. And Russia is providing Iran with intelligence on the locations of American bases. Basically, Russia is giving the executive order to kill American soldiers. I'd be very worried.
“Sen. @whitehouse.senate.gov’s March 5 Senate floor speech [about Putin Epstein Trump connections] laid out a series of relationships, overlaps, evasions, and recurring associations that look very different once viewed together rather than apart.” Michael Corthell epsteinwiki.com/knowledge-ba...
The Speech That Should Break the Trump-Epstein-Russia DamWhat happens when the fragments of evidence finally become a pattern too dangerous to ignoreessayx.substack.comAdam Rifkin 🐼“Epstein tried to get dirt on Trump to [Putin via] Lavrov, Lavrov held private meeting with Trump 110 days into his first presidency* with Russian media ONLY, next day FBI Director Comey is fired…” @merket.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ifin... www.threads.com/@merket/post... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
“What is it about Trump and [Putin]? And could it have any connection with Trump’s close friendship with deceased pedophile Epstein? … Over and over [Epstein’s ring] touches Russia… The most telling part is that Trump’s mind, asked about Epstein, immediately went to Russia.” @whitehouse.senate.gov
Everywhere You Look in the Epstein Files, Two Names Keep Coming Up: Trump and PutinThe fact speak for themselves: In 3 million pages of documents released by the DOJ, there are at least 5,400 Trump mentions, and 1,056 mention of Vladimir Putin.www.narativ.orgSenator Sheldon WhitehouseTrump. Russia. Epstein.
“[It’s not a] brilliant attack on Western democracy. The story, it appears, is that the Russian Mafia state is cultivating profit-yielding relationships with the aspiring Mafia boss of the U.S. and his band of crooks, subverting democratic institutions in the process.” @mashagessen.bsky.social 2019:
The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Mafia StateThe indictments in the Mueller investigation have revealed an attempt at state capture by an international crime syndicate.www.newyorker.comAcynRaskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
“Péter Magyar … revealed that Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC. Orbán has clearly been working for the benefit of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin… So it appears that CPAC was funded by a foreign government that was working closely with Vladimir Putin.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 13, 2026On April 12, the day of Hungary’s parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind ...heathercoxrichardson.substack.comAdam Rifkin 🐼“[It’s not a] brilliant attack on Western democracy. The story, it appears, is that the Russian Mafia state is cultivating profit-yielding relationships with the aspiring Mafia boss of the U.S. and his band of crooks, subverting democratic institutions in the process.” @mashagessen.bsky.social 2019:
“Expose ALL of Trump’s war profiteering…to restore accountable democracy to America… Why did [Trump] launch [his Iran] war? What factors weighed on his mind? The allegiance of his fellow kleptocrats in the Middle East? The fortunes of his children? Naked, impulsive greed?” @brianbeutler.bsky.social
Timothy SnyderHard to win a war when your business model is selling your own war plans. www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...
Stonekettle: “Trump started a war, bombed a girl’s school, killed a bunch of Americans… drove energy costs to record highs, increased inflation, and threatened to end civilization to [try to] reopen a strait that was open before he started.” www.threads.com/@stonekettle... bsky.app/profile/wome...
Mark HamillIMPEACH. CONVICT. IMPRISON.
“If the heads of our military don’t trust Trump to be in the Situation Room because he’s erratic, unfit, or dangerous… HE SHOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT! Simple as that.” @jerasikehorn.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/cweb... bsky.app/profile/atru... bsky.app/profile/thel... bsky.app/profile/stra...
Donald Trump is losing his mindTrump’s superpower is to make the people around him debase themselves while offering them no loyalty in return.www.washingtonexaminer.comRachel MaddowVery normal stuff. "Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful... "At one point Trump mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor... www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
“Trump thankfully didn’t follow through this time; these words are a stark reminder of how reckless, immoral, and completely outside the bounds of international law [he] is… He is no leader of the free world. He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him.” Sir Ed Davey
Ed DaveyDonald Trump is no leader of the free world. He’s a dangerous and corrupt gangster. The Prime Minister needs to call off the King’s state visit to Washington before it’s too late.
“When [Trump threatened] war crimes and global nuclear war, not a single member of the Republican Party who currently controls every possible guardrail did a single thing to stop it. They could have. But didn’t. It was a choice to support a madman over the American people.” @neileisen.bsky.social
Timothy Snyder“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...
“What could we do with the billions that the US is squandering on the Iran War at a rate of $1.3 million a minute? I did the math: restoration of health care subsidies, free college, and an end to malnutrition that costs 1.5 million lives a year…” @nickkristof.bsky.social Archive: archive.is/VzDi5
Opinion | The $1.3-Million-a-Minute Warwww.nytimes.commaura quint$200 billion could entirely repeal the SNAP cuts with money leftover $200 billion could fund the ACA Premium Tax Credits and help lower health care costs for 6 years with money leftover $200 billion could permanently expand Medicaid coverage to people in states that have refused to expand coverage
“Trump is fighting a war in Iran… to distract the public from [Trump-Epstein] files, and from allegations that surfaced just before the war began that Trump himself had raped a 13-year-old girl. It does not appear that those allegations were ever fully investigated.” @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Virginia Giuffre Set Something In Motion That Can't Be StoppedA Sad Anniversarysubstack.comMeidasTouchThe Epstein crisis is escalating. Reports say Ghislaine Maxwell may be seeking a pardon as lawmakers demand answers from the DOJ over missing files and unanswered subpoenas. This isn't going away.
“‘The most powerful crime syndicate in history… The Trump [regime] is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts, and murders’… Nothing separated voters from Trump more than #EpsteinCoverup…” Lawrence 2.18.26 @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social
Lawrence: Nothing has separated voters from Trump more than the Epstein ‘cover-up’YouTube video by MS NOWwww.youtube.comAdam Rifkin 🐼“Who said that Epstein was a lot of fun to be with, who bragged that he was friends with Epstein for 15 years… and who now says that everybody needs to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein right now? Answers there are Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump…” @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com
“Crime victims deserve better from the nation’s highest level of law enforcement officials. We deserve to be heard directly, not dismissed and ignored… There are NUMEROUS investigative leads that must be followed, despite Mr. Blanche’s claim that there are none.” Dani Bensky #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
WATCH: Epstein survivor Dani Bensky says Blanche has never responded to them in opening statementShe implored senators on the Judiciary Committee to “think about the girls in these photos” when casting their confirmation votes for attorney general nominee Todd Blanche.www.pbs.orgAaron RuparHIRONO: Would you say that Mr Blanche exhibits a dismissive attitude toward all of you and the Epstein crimes? BENSKY: 1,000 percent. Yes.
Release ALL Trump-Epstein files. WSJ earned WHCD Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability for its reporting on Trump’s birthday book letter to Epstein: “Trump quickly filed a $20 BILLION lawsuit against WSJ, revealing reporter Khadeeja Safdar’s home address…” Archive: archive.is/zvWgY
Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’www.wsj.comDan DiamondRemarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
“The Trump company has been awarded a $63 BILLION development opportunity in Saudi Arabia [while] negotiating with the Saudis in a deal that allows them to enrich nuclear energy… Trump gets to keep 80% ownership in the development deal himself, while his family gets 20%.” @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social
'It's stunning!' CNN's Erin Burnett floored as Trump 'raking it in' with Saudi dealThe details of President Donald Trump's nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia caused alarm bells to ring out on CNN on Thursday. CNN's Erin Burnett and Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) discussed a new report dur...www.rawstory.comAdam Rifkin 🐼“Saudi Arabia and UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner… 80% of the money will flow directly to Trump…” @juddlegum.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/judd...
”What sets apart the latest moves by Donald Trump Jr is how he [and] 1789 Capital are cashing in on [Trump regime policies] openly and without apology… ‘People are paying for proximity to power.’” Maureen Farrell NYT archive: archive.is/pKngZ @stephruhle.bsky.social @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social
'Astonishingly corrupt!' Reaction to report Don Jr.'s firm is 'cashing in' on Trump's policyYouTube video by MS NOWyoutube.comDiedrich BaderDonald Trump Jr.’s Investment Firm Posts Staggering Returns of 200% www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b... If you’re like me and were wondering why you haven’t heard a lot from Jr who loves to shoot his mouth off Read this I’ve gifted it
“Trump [regime] declassified a bunch of documents to prove US presidential elections are rigged against Trump but ended up confirming that RussiaGate was real, not a hoax.” @carnage4life.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/carn... bsky.app/profile/muel... bsky.app/profile/angr... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
Document Declassified by Trump Reveals Russia Tried To Help Him Win the 2020 ElectionAccording to an intelligence assessment Trump released on Thursday, the Russian government tried to help him.www.mediaite.comMark HamillJust be grateful for Donarrhea's astonishing incompetence.
“We’re still not talking enough about how Elon Musk’s Super PAC committed election fraud in Georgia and how the only consequence that they received was a harsh letter.” @karlykingsley.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon MuskThe state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.newrepublic.comMueller, She WroteKinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.