Trump issues second pardon to Jan. 6 defendant for separate gun offense www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... DOJ initially argued that Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 rioters didn’t extend to Wilson’s gun crime. The department changed its position after “further clarity on the intent of the Presidential Pardon.”

talking with Paul Krugman about the Trump economy and zombie Republican policies open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Wow.

Trump Renames United States Institute of Peace for Himself nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u... Ronald Reagan signed USIP into law in 1984. Trump shut it down in March 2025. Campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize, Trump has re-named the United States Peace Institute, in a now dormant building, after himself.

open.substack.com/pub/deanbake... The Guardian piece indicates that mispricing occurs in over 20% of all Dollar Store sales. The errors are often large, as much as 50% above shelf price. Mispricing by major retailers would seem to be exactly the sort of reason for which God created government.

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... My guess is that few economists will be willing to say this openly, but basically everyone understands that Hassett is an ideological DEI hire. (Dumb, subservient, and willing to lie)

Electricity prices jump after Trump rejects disaster aid for Michigan utilities politi.co/4pFixkf via @politico Nov 30, 2025 ONAWAY, Michigan — Loss of disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan will cost residents tens of millions of dollars.

aje.io/hib5ms Testimony from witnesses, former traffickers and documents stated that Hernandez facilitated the importation into the US of 400 tonnes of cocaine — 4.5 billion doses — with coconspirators armed with machineguns, assault rifles, grenade launchers. Cartels paid him millions.

forbes.com/sites/palashghosh/2021/02/09/new-york-money-manager-pleads-not-guilty-in-18-billion-fraud-case/ 2021: Interpol, 8 states, SEC charge Gentile. Investors put $1.8B into GPB funds. Zero profit. Faked reports. $355K Ferrari. Private Jets. Putin Mob Boss Chernaya involved. Trump Pardon 2025.

Putin Mafia Boss Funded David Gentile's $1.8 Billion GPB Ponzi Scheme scientologymoneyproject.com/2022/03/09/t... @JeffreAugustine AG Merrick Garland's Task Force KleptoCapture, located and seized American-based assets of kleptocrats propping up Putin.

scientologymoneyproject.com/2022/03/09/the-russian-mobster-friend-of-vladimir-putin-whose-money-funded-the-start-up-of-scientologist-david-gentiles-1-8-billion-gpb-capital-ponzi-scheme/ David Gentile started GPB Capital. Putin Mafia Michael Chernaya's daughters were his partners. Garland got him.

State of the Stack, One Year In open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

newrepublic.com/post/203813/... Rise in prices, rise in shoppers using BNPL buy now pay later platforms. So, not such a hot Black Friday, as American consumers take on more debt under Trump.

Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work newrepublic.com/post/203784/... via @newrepublic.com Despite being vetted prior to his CIA service and by the first Trump DOS prior to his SIV, the refugee was under stress, suffering PTSD, dismissed by a gutted bureaucracy.

share.google/jXDJO1MrH31h1oiMf Sales at Trump Panama were intended to launder illicit money – Russian gangster money, drug cartel money, people and gun smuggling money. Panama was “perceived to be highly corrupt.” Developers paid for the Trump name. Ivanka's first big deal made them millions.

Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

globalwitness.org/en/campaigns... Ivanka's first international real estate deal involved handsome conmen brokering sales, Drug Cartels laundering dirty money - lucrative lifeline for a failing enterprise called Trump Organization. Add a dash of Russian Mafia and felons for spice #LightsOut

Today is the deadline! There is $688 left to raise to close this lifesaving Toonie Tuesday fundraiser. #NAFO #donatetoukraine #boostUA #UkrainianView

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When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

“Hallie Shoffner’s running for the Senate to fight for the Arkansans that Tom Cotton’s spent ten years shoving to the back of the line” Let’s vote Tom Cotten out and Hallie Shoffner in! #Pinks #HallieShoffner #TomCotton #Arkansas

Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008 open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... Commanders argued that the high visibility missions put National Guard in danger. Trump DOJ countered that the risk was merely “speculative.” It wasn’t. There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one is the risk of endangering them.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u... ICE Detains 33 yr old Mother of WH Press Secretary's 11 yr old nephew in Revere, MA - her brother's former girlfriend came to the U.S. in 1999 from Brazil as a child on a tourist visa and never left. Ms. Leavitt has not spoken to Bruna Caroline Ferreira in years.

California Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u... Their lawyers followed required steps, filed paperwork, paid fees. The spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records or came illegally. #TrumpsRevenge

wapo.st/3Xk3DE3 Fermi America has yet to produce an electron, split an atom or navigated the regulatory and manufacturing obstacles to build a nuclear reactor. But Rick Perry, his son in law and a pal made billions after filing to build the “Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus.”

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11... The Miami meeting included 3 men well known to each other: Steve Witkoff (protege of Russian-American multibillionaire Blavatnik), Jared Kushner, and sanctioned Putin ally, Kirill Dmitriev. Keith Kellogg and other top State and NSC officials were not briefed.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... A handful of companies on a $3T data center spree: “The providers of this debt are so eager to deploy capital into AI, that they may not be properly assessing the risks of investing in a new unproven category supported by very quickly depreciating assets.”

www.politico.com/story/2016/1... Trump’s accuser asserted that while she was exploring a modeling career in 1994, she attended parties at the Manhattan home of prominent investor Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges that during those parties the real estate mogul tied her to a bed and raped her. She was 14.

wapo.st/47Xtxnj Trump's Unforced Error: Caterpillar, John Deere, G.M., other US manufacturers flag billions in tariff-related costs in recent talks. U.S. automakers saw lower profit margins in the second quarter of 2025 than at any time since the coronavirus pandemic.

I started with Part 2 of the video because I felt it was a powerful snapshot of what's happening in these facilities & that you might viscerally react to the #ICELawlessness & cruelty where women aren't getting menstrual hygiene products or showers & are in cells with blood & rats! Link below⬇️

TRUMP KILLS JOB GROWTH Donald reverses the Biden job boom. Funded infrastructure is reversed due to ineptitude. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

share.google/zPHIobe18RaV... UMass mechanical engineering prof Matthew Lackner studies aerodynamics and floating wind turbines. His 6-year, $3 million National Science Foundation research grant was cancelled. Public Universities across the nation will lose half their federal research support.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.

Finally and Blessedly, The Larry Summers Era Ends newrepublic.com/article/2034... via @newrepublic.com Summers was instrumental in nixing an effort to regulate credit default swaps, helping inflate the housing bubble and leading to the 2008 collapse and worldwide recession.

wapo.st/47Zieep The Corn Belt - Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Kansas - see a significantly higher than nationwide cancer rate among people ages 15 to 49 since 2015 and 5% higher for all adults. Trump would peddle cheap insurance with no prohibition on policy cancellation to farmers

Pesticides used near farm communities tied to rare but deadly childhood cancer investigatemidwest.org/2025/10/17/p... Areas where Trump and Farm Bureaus are promoting cheap insurance that can cancel insured people who get sick have higher risk for pediatric cancers and cancer in young adults.

wapo.st/4ojif1z States are offering medical insurance to farmers. With a catch. The plans can exclude coverage related to preexisting conditions. Coverage can be dropped when you get seriously ill. In that sense, they resemble the cheap three year plans that Trump pushes as an alternative to ACA.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... Tatiana Schlossberg's essay on falling in love with George Moran, watching her parents and siblings care for her children during months of treatment for an aggressive and fatal cancer, while an uncle guts medical research and support that offered hope to many.

www.sportspro.com/news/wwe-wre... WrestleMania has earned more than $1.5 billion in cumulative economic impact for cities that have hosted the event over the past decade. A Saudi billion dollar contract with WWE has drawn sell-out crowds in several years of WWE events in Saudi Arabia.

If you trust these PROFESSIONALS with YOUR life and children’s safety, you should trust them enough to recognize their profession. Period.

Lee Abbamonte's Saudi Arabia Paradox leeabbamonte.com/middle-east/... 9/11 terrorists were Saudi or Saudi-funded. One million Jedda residents were displaced for luxury resorts built and owned by PIF Dar Global. 120F heat. No tourists on the artificial beaches. No Saudis. (Trump has 2 PR gigs here)

Dar Global plans $1 billion resort in Saudi coastal desert - Trump Org hired for PR & "Branding" pbs.org/newshour/pol... #2 Trump gig joins a string of empty Red Sea Resorts where Saudi Royals have pumped billions, displaced millions. Will 2034 bring a FIFA Soccer tourism boom to the coastal desert?

There's a new and very dangerous development in Trumpland. They're now so devoted to coal, oil, and gas that they want to punish any country that tries to “inhibit, prohibit, strangle, divest from” U.S. fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... Hugo Chávez died March 5, 2013, at 58, in Caracas, Venezuela, after battling cancer. Trump Atty Powell said Georgia's software was created at Chavez behest, switching votes to Biden in 2020. Georgia removed the prosecutor who got a guilty plea from Powell. #Fraud

This is interesting: ICE is hiding cameras in traffic barrels to monitor your driving patterns. #Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #ICE #TrafficBarrels

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Trump said his 2020 'win' was stolen by dead voters, forged ballots, zombi computer servers that never existed in Germany – secret power of Venezuelan leaders, one living, one dead (Maduro/Chavez) over voting machines from their impoverished nation. #PeopleDied

nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/pif-saudi-arabia-fund-problems.html?smid=tw-share.. MBS spent a vast chunk of Saudi wealth on projects now in financial distress. EV start-up stalled. Luxury Red Sea resorts empty. Few liquid assets. Wants $142B worth of planes, missiles, tanks. Who is paying? U.S.?

forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2023/10/31/joe-biden-signs-an-ai-executive-order-to-advance-legislation-guardrails/ After funding long-term transit projects and creating foreign investment partnerships to advance new technology, President Biden set early AI guardrails for future global agreements.

jw.com/news/podcast-biden-infrastructure-plan-texas/ Dec 2021: President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill directs $35.4 billion to improve infrastructure in Texas. Texas roads, highways, bridges, broadband, ports, and more are addressed in the law, in addition to a winterized energy grid.

share.google/Owx4Ge00BpT99gcqa 2022 President Biden's bill created highway designation for portions of Interstate 27 in Texas and New Mexico as part of the crucial Ports-to-Plains Corridor project. It was the first step to begin tapping new funding for construction of the extension of I-27.