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These are bribes, and every individual and company who pays them should be held criminally liable.
Carl QuintanillaFour-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
shades of nixon's very aggressive pursuit of donations and support from corporate america and "rose mary's baby"
Carl QuintanillaFour-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.amidamidi.substack.com
Hundreds of Jordanian political, legal and other figures sign an open letter calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Jordan in a rare public challenge to the government www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
Some Jordanians Dare to Speak Out Against U.S. Troop PresenceHundreds of political, legal and other figures signed a public letter warning that Jordan’s close alliance with the United States poses a risk.www.nytimes.com
Completely serious question
#StupidSuezAnyone willing to guess the # of think pieces we'll get in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post et al if Haley Stevens loses by 10 or more next Tuesday that will argue that Democratic leadership should moderate on Palestine if they want to have their candidates win?
So this is not just wrong, but it's... bizarrely wrong? The lawsuit is not about TAKE IT DOWN Act at all, and actually *cites* the TAKE IT DOWN Act as to why Minnesota's state law is duplicative of that law. Does Klobuchar not know how any of this works? Or does she just assume you are stupid?
Amy KlobucharI made it a federal crime to share non-consensual nude images or deepfakes online with my bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act. Minnesota became the first state in the country to ban the technology used to create them. Elon Musk’s company is now suing to undo that. https://ow.ly/25KN50Zupi4
'Too crooked for Concacaf' is a really impressive bar to clear, congrats to Giovanni Infantino.
Pardeep CattryNEW: Concacaf joins UEFA in rejecting FFE, instead imploring FIFA to find ways to increase funding for FIFA Forward through its current means and asking that "any matter follows the proper governance processes" in future full statement: www.concacaf.com/competitions...
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.enlacelatinonc.org
My sincere religious beliefs demand that we send people who defraud and lie under oath to prison.
tomwellborn3rdKim Davis told the court under oath she'd made no transfers over two thousand dollars in five years. Deeds show she moved three parcels worth over four hundred thousand to family members eight months before that. She wants the martyrdom without the debt.