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Anonymous
5 months ago
Dear conservative evangelicals;
You gave him a pass on “grab them by the pussy.”
You don’t mind that he’s an Olympics-class liar.
A thirty-four count fraud conviction didn’t faze you.
Not even an adjudication of rape bothered you.
He’s mentioned in the Epstein documents literally 38,000 times.
You don’t find it odd that he’s personally blocking the release of three million of those files.
He’s the most corrupt politician in American history.
He’s broken all ten of the Ten Commandments.
Including taking the lives of 153 little girls whose only crime was being in school.
And then he lied about it.
He doesn’t go to your church.
He doesn’t go to ANY church.
He cheats at golf.
He cheats at business.
He cheats contractors.
He cheats on his wives.
He cheats in elections.
He’s profane.
Crooked.
Disrespectful.
Selfish.
Driven by greed.
By ego.
By revenge.
Yet here you are worshipping a golden idol in his likeness.
So what is it about YOU that makes you a Christian? Other than the fact that you actually believe by merely saying you are qualifies you for an everlasting life in paradise.
Bruce Lindner
Anonymous
5 months ago
Trump decides to withdraw 5,000+ troops from Germany in retaliation for their chancellor’s remarks on trump’s war in Iran. “And upon hearing the news, two Republicans in Congress broke from the White House on the Germany troop cuts. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker of Mississippi and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers of Alabama issued a joint statement saying that they are “very concerned” by the decision. They said Germany has stepped up, increased its defense spending, and provided support for Operation Epic Fury. And then they said this: pulling troops from Germany prematurely “risks undermining deterrence and sending the wrong signal to Vladimir Putin.”
That is two Republicans, the chairmen of both Armed Services Committees, saying that the president is sending the wrong signal to Putin. They also said that any significant change to U.S. force posture in Europe must be reviewed and coordinated with Congress, and that they expect the Pentagon to engage with its oversight committees in the days and weeks ahead. That is friction. That is the machinery resisting, even from the inside. It is not nearly enough. But it is real, and it counts. And friction is how we slow this down while we work toward November.” Heather Delaney Reese
Hopefully, Wicker and tand Rogers will stand up to him.
Anonymous
5 months ago
More bait and switch by the President. Remember the ballroom that was going to be paid by donors? Guess that was a lot like Mexico will pay for the wall.
“Republicans are advancing a measure that will appropriate $1 billion in taxpayer money for Trump’s ballroom. They are doing so through budget reconciliation, which cannot be filibustered and so can pass the Senate with no Democratic votes.”
Anonymous
5 months ago
Hey Brandy, you do know that your excuses for trump’s behavior and his actions is wearing thin on everyone, don’t you?
“According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe President Donald J. Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country. Fifty-five percent think he does not have the physical health to serve as president. Fifty-four percent say they don’t think Trump is a strong leader. Sixty-seven percent think Trump doesn’t carefully consider important decisions.”
Things aren’t looking good for the midterms for the Republicans and the closer we get to November, more of them will be stepping back from him if they want to get elected. The Epstein files, the war in Iran, gas prices, his lies, and the insane posting he is doing are all spelling doom for him. I am thinking you will be someone who will do a Judas on him, and deny you ever considered him a competent leader.
Anonymous
5 months ago
Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein files.
Anonymous
5 months ago
Nice try dimwit. Defending Education is such a wonderful group. They brought a lawsuit against an Ohio school district that would overturn their harassment and bullying rules, throw out a ban on cell phones in the schools in that district and toss their rule against “verbal or written comments, jokes, and slurs that are derogatory towards an individual or group based on . . . race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and transgender identity), disability, age, religion, ancestry, or genetic information.”
They say they are for parents rights so basically they believe that bullying, harassment and intimidation are ok if it is their kid doing those things. I wonder how they would feel if those were directed at their kids.
Brandon
5 months ago
Defending Education released two reports today tracking NEA and AFT spending since 2015.
The national unions alone directed $669 million toward left-wing groups, campaigns, and advocacy organizations.
Add in state and local affiliates and the total clears $1 billion – documented through federal filings and campaign finance records.
The Senate Majority PAC got tens of millions.
The House Majority PAC got tens of millions.
More than $85 million went straight to Democratic Party entities at the federal, state, and local level – not counting individual candidate contributions.
Brandon
5 months ago
Eric Holder helped gerrymander Virginia.
He did it so badly that Democrats would control 10 of 11 congressional seats in a state Trump lost by just six points.
Now he’s telling Floridians that Ron DeSantis drawing new congressional maps is “not acceptable.
Brandon
5 months ago
Thanks Timmy, our beloved northern neighbor.
Federal prosecutors have called what followed the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in American history.
Fraudsters claimed they were feeding children.
They weren’t.
One site under FBI surveillance claimed to be serving 6,000 meals a day and averaged around 40 visitors.
At another location, investigators found a fake attendance roster listing 2,040 children – but when they cross-checked against school enrollment records, only 20 names were real.
NIT Publisher
Author
5 months ago
MacNider: Off the Clock on May 1
On Friday, May 1 from 5-7 pm the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum will be hosting another session of MacNider: Off the Clock. Visitors can mingle with friends and coworkers as they explore the galleries and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the MacNider.
The event is free and open to the public. Complimentary wine and appetizers will be available throughout the event, in addition to live music by Abigail Rae. Abigail Rae is a composer, guitarist and music novelist from Iowa. For the majority of 2023 and spring of 2024, she resided in Leipzig, Germany where she furthered her music, from being a guest listener at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ to playing in an orchestra at the GewandHaus (Mendelssohn Saal). She likes music history along with a spot of tea. Abigail continues to compose for guitar as well as orchestral works. She gigs professionally at retirement homes, dinner events and much more.
The MacNider Art Museum is located at 303 Second Street SE in Mason City. It is open 9 am to 8 pm Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 5 pm Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, and closed Sundays and Mondays.
Anonymous
5 months ago
I see where trump’s lawyers are negotiating a deal with the IRS to settle the trump’s lawsuit against them for $10 billion which is more than twice his actual wealth. I guess we will all be paying him more money because we know the IRS will be very generous in their settlement. Who in the hell would think this is ok?
Anonymous
5 months ago
So, NIT isn’t going to post a story about Trump going at the Pope? Or him not knowing the difference between Jesus and Doctor?
Anonymous
5 months ago
Rachel Hurley
And for my next trick…
I STILL see people all over the internet who think the Trump-Russia story was a hoax.
They believe that this was proven when the Mueller Report came out, and he wasn’t charged – even though the Mueller report says – if he were not president – he would definitely be charged.
They could not prove that Trump was a Russian agent – but he was definitely a Russian asset. If you’re unclear on the difference, please look it up.
But Trump’s relationship with Russia isn’t even just a 2016 story. It’s a 40-year recruitment operation that followed the KGB’s own documented playbook, and I can prove it.
I’ve spent months going through this. Books, declassified intelligence files, FinCEN records, federal indictments, congressional testimony, court filings, and investigative reporting going back decades. And the thing that kept hitting me wasn’t any single piece of evidence. It was the pattern. The same names showing up across different decades. The same money flowing through different buildings. The same playbook being run by different people in different eras, but always pointing in the same direction.
It’s the exact same pattern happening in the Trump administration of today.
Everyone argues about whether Trump “colluded” with Russia in 2016. That’s the wrong question.
By 2016, Trump didn’t need to collude with anyone. He was already so financially dependent on Russian money, so personally compromised, and so psychologically easy to manipulate that he did what they needed him to do because it’s what he was always going to do anyway.
The KGB had a literal checklist for picking recruitment targets. It’s in their handbooks. The criteria included “pride, arrogance, egoism, ambition, or vanity.”
They looked for people with a history of financial corruption. They even assessed whether the target might “occupy the post of president or prime minister.”
That checklist is Donald Trump. Not metaphorically. Literally.
And the receipts go back to 1977.
Czech intelligence – which reported directly to the KGB – opened a classified surveillance file on Trump the year he married Ivana. They wiretapped her father. They monitored their mail. They tracked Trump’s business deals. This went on for over a decade.
In 1984, a Russian mob operative bought five condos in Trump Tower for $6 million cash through shell companies, and Trump personally closed the deal. A former KGB counterintelligence chief later called that transaction “typical” – standard procedure for testing whether someone would collaborate. In 1987, Trump visited Moscow on a trip arranged by Intourist, a KGB front organization, came home, and immediately took out $95,000 in newspaper ads criticizing NATO – echoing Soviet talking points word for word.
From there, it’s a straight line.
Russian organized crime money flooded Trump’s properties through the ’80s and ’90s. His Atlantic City casinos racked up the largest money laundering fine in Bank Secrecy Act history.
Deutsche Bank – the only institution willing to lend to him after every other bank cut him off – simultaneously running a $10 billion Russian money laundering operation. A company called Bayrock Group, operating out of Trump Tower, followed the KGB’s own guidelines for setting up front companies. An international pipeline pushing dirty money through Trump-branded properties in Toronto, Panama, and Manhattan. And finally, in 2016, the explicit quid pro quo – Moscow Tower negotiations running parallel to a presidential campaign, sanctions being dangled, a Republican platform getting rewritten on Ukraine, and an information warfare operation that a Russian general literally published the blueprint for in 2013.
None of this is speculation. It’s all documented. And I’m gonna lay out every single piece of it.
Starting Monday, I’m publishing one essay every morning at 8 AM Central. Ten essays. Ten acts. Each one covers a different phase of how this happened, with names, dates, dollar amounts, and source documents.
Here’s the series:
Essay 1 – “The Mark” – How the KGB identified Trump as a target through his wife’s Czech intelligence connections, his mob lawyer Roy Cohn, and a personality profile that matched their recruitment handbook line by line. (1977-1984)
Essay 2 – “The Test” – The first Russian money touches Trump properties, and Trump never asks where it came from. $1.5 billion in suspicious all-cash condo sales through shell companies. (1984-1987)
Essay 3 – “The Invitation” – Trump’s 1987 Moscow trip, arranged by a KGB front organization. He comes home and starts criticizing NATO. A Czech intelligence file notes he’s been “pressured to run for president.” (1987-1988)
Essay 4 – “Brighton Beach” – How 600,000 Soviet emigrants created cover for the Russian mob’s American beachhead, and how that pipeline led directly to Trump’s front door. (1985-1999)
Essay 5 – “The Laundromat” – Trump’s Atlantic City casinos as purpose-built money laundering machines. The largest Bank Secrecy Act fine in history. The 8-step laundering process laid out in detail. (1990-2004)
Essay 6 – “The Lifeline” – Deutsche Bank lends Trump over $3 billion when no one else will, while simultaneously laundering $10 billion in Russian money through mirror trades. One analyst finds suspicious Kushner transactions going to Russian recipients. She gets fired. (2000-2016)
Essay 7 – “The Front Company” – Bayrock Group and the insane backstory of Felix Sater, who stabbed a guy in the face, ran a $40 million fraud, became a CIA informant who tracked bin Laden, and then became Trump’s business partner. You can’t make this up. (2002-2014)
Essay 8 – “The International Pipeline” – Trump Toronto funded by a Russian state bank that Putin personally chaired. Trump Panama with half the buyers identified as Russian. The Kushner-Chabad connection tying it all together. (2006-2016)
Essay 9 – “The Deal” – Felix Sater emails Michael Cohen: “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected president.” Moscow Tower negotiations running alongside the presidential campaign. The quid pro quo made explicit. (2013-2017)
Essay 10 – “The Playbook” – Russia’s information warfare machine, from 1920s Soviet propaganda clubs to your Instagram feed. The Gerasimov Doctrine. The troll factories. The election hacking. And the 40-year through-line that connects all of it. (2014-present)
This isn’t a conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theories don’t come with FinCEN fines and federal indictments and declassified intelligence files and congressional testimony and the KGB’s own recruitment handbooks.
This is the story of how a foreign intelligence service identified a useful idiot in 1977, tested him in 1984, cultivated him in 1987, funded him for three decades, and then helped put him in the White House. All using methods they literally wrote down in training manuals.
I’ve got the receipts. All of them. See you Monday morning.
#ratcclips
Anonymous
6 months ago
TACO trump strikes again…or not.
Anonymous
6 months ago
AI reduced employment in occupations that are easily substituted by AI. But it increased employment in jobs that are “augmented” by AI — roles that rely on things that machines cannot replace, like human judgment.
By the numbers: Overall, AI raised the unemployment rate by just 0.1 percentage point, per Goldman.
Morgan Stanley came to a similar conclusion.
Anonymous
6 months ago
Truth Social this morning.
DonaldTrump:
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards or you’ll be living in Hell. JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP 164 ReTruths 675 Likes Apr 05, 2026, 8:03′
Such an uplifting Easter message from the crazy man in the White House. Yeah, sure he is a Christian. Yeah, sure he is a nice guy.
Anonymous
6 months ago
As we get closer to the midterm elections, one has to wonder (and hope) who is next in line to be fired in the present administration. So far, it is just women who are getting fired, so will it be Linda McMahon (the “I love A1” lady) or Karoline Lyin’ Leavitt? I am sure he’d like to fire Amy Coney Barrett but he can’t. Maybe Scott Bessent?
Anonymous
6 months ago
California collects $322 billion in revenue annually and carries some of the highest tax rates in the country.
It spent $24 billion specifically on homelessness over five years.
Today, 187,000 Californians are still living on the streets – with Oakland alone posting a 9% increase in its homeless population during that same spending period.
Heritage Foundation’s Richard Stern put it plainly: California isn’t failing to solve homelessness despite its spending.
Its policies are producing exactly the result you’d expect when government agencies answer to no one.
Anonymous
6 months ago
One County. One-Fifth of Every Hospice Dollar in America.
Los Angeles County has more hospice providers than 36 states combined.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that LA County alone represents $3.5 billion in suspected hospice fraud – and that 18 percent of all hospice billing in the entire United States flows out of that single county.
The average LA County hospice bills Medicare roughly $29,000 per patient.
The national average is $13,200.
Anonymous
6 months ago
“The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign,” the declassified summary of the intercepts stated.
“They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” the report added.
The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of the money that would eventually be moved to Democratic coffers, officials said. The names are included in still classified raw spy data but were redacted from the declassified report
Dear conservative evangelicals;
You gave him a pass on “grab them by the pussy.”
You don’t mind that he’s an Olympics-class liar.
A thirty-four count fraud conviction didn’t faze you.
Not even an adjudication of rape bothered you.
He’s mentioned in the Epstein documents literally 38,000 times.
You don’t find it odd that he’s personally blocking the release of three million of those files.
He’s the most corrupt politician in American history.
He’s broken all ten of the Ten Commandments.
Including taking the lives of 153 little girls whose only crime was being in school.
And then he lied about it.
He doesn’t go to your church.
He doesn’t go to ANY church.
He cheats at golf.
He cheats at business.
He cheats contractors.
He cheats on his wives.
He cheats in elections.
He’s profane.
Crooked.
Disrespectful.
Selfish.
Driven by greed.
By ego.
By revenge.
Yet here you are worshipping a golden idol in his likeness.
So what is it about YOU that makes you a Christian? Other than the fact that you actually believe by merely saying you are qualifies you for an everlasting life in paradise.
Bruce Lindner
Trump decides to withdraw 5,000+ troops from Germany in retaliation for their chancellor’s remarks on trump’s war in Iran. “And upon hearing the news, two Republicans in Congress broke from the White House on the Germany troop cuts. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker of Mississippi and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers of Alabama issued a joint statement saying that they are “very concerned” by the decision. They said Germany has stepped up, increased its defense spending, and provided support for Operation Epic Fury. And then they said this: pulling troops from Germany prematurely “risks undermining deterrence and sending the wrong signal to Vladimir Putin.”
That is two Republicans, the chairmen of both Armed Services Committees, saying that the president is sending the wrong signal to Putin. They also said that any significant change to U.S. force posture in Europe must be reviewed and coordinated with Congress, and that they expect the Pentagon to engage with its oversight committees in the days and weeks ahead. That is friction. That is the machinery resisting, even from the inside. It is not nearly enough. But it is real, and it counts. And friction is how we slow this down while we work toward November.” Heather Delaney Reese
Hopefully, Wicker and tand Rogers will stand up to him.
More bait and switch by the President. Remember the ballroom that was going to be paid by donors? Guess that was a lot like Mexico will pay for the wall.
“Republicans are advancing a measure that will appropriate $1 billion in taxpayer money for Trump’s ballroom. They are doing so through budget reconciliation, which cannot be filibustered and so can pass the Senate with no Democratic votes.”
Hey Brandy, you do know that your excuses for trump’s behavior and his actions is wearing thin on everyone, don’t you?
“According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe President Donald J. Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country. Fifty-five percent think he does not have the physical health to serve as president. Fifty-four percent say they don’t think Trump is a strong leader. Sixty-seven percent think Trump doesn’t carefully consider important decisions.”
Things aren’t looking good for the midterms for the Republicans and the closer we get to November, more of them will be stepping back from him if they want to get elected. The Epstein files, the war in Iran, gas prices, his lies, and the insane posting he is doing are all spelling doom for him. I am thinking you will be someone who will do a Judas on him, and deny you ever considered him a competent leader.
Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein files.
Nice try dimwit. Defending Education is such a wonderful group. They brought a lawsuit against an Ohio school district that would overturn their harassment and bullying rules, throw out a ban on cell phones in the schools in that district and toss their rule against “verbal or written comments, jokes, and slurs that are derogatory towards an individual or group based on . . . race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and transgender identity), disability, age, religion, ancestry, or genetic information.”
They say they are for parents rights so basically they believe that bullying, harassment and intimidation are ok if it is their kid doing those things. I wonder how they would feel if those were directed at their kids.
Defending Education released two reports today tracking NEA and AFT spending since 2015.
The national unions alone directed $669 million toward left-wing groups, campaigns, and advocacy organizations.
Add in state and local affiliates and the total clears $1 billion – documented through federal filings and campaign finance records.
The Senate Majority PAC got tens of millions.
The House Majority PAC got tens of millions.
More than $85 million went straight to Democratic Party entities at the federal, state, and local level – not counting individual candidate contributions.
Eric Holder helped gerrymander Virginia.
He did it so badly that Democrats would control 10 of 11 congressional seats in a state Trump lost by just six points.
Now he’s telling Floridians that Ron DeSantis drawing new congressional maps is “not acceptable.
Thanks Timmy, our beloved northern neighbor.
Federal prosecutors have called what followed the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in American history.
Fraudsters claimed they were feeding children.
They weren’t.
One site under FBI surveillance claimed to be serving 6,000 meals a day and averaged around 40 visitors.
At another location, investigators found a fake attendance roster listing 2,040 children – but when they cross-checked against school enrollment records, only 20 names were real.
MacNider: Off the Clock on May 1
On Friday, May 1 from 5-7 pm the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum will be hosting another session of MacNider: Off the Clock. Visitors can mingle with friends and coworkers as they explore the galleries and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the MacNider.
The event is free and open to the public. Complimentary wine and appetizers will be available throughout the event, in addition to live music by Abigail Rae. Abigail Rae is a composer, guitarist and music novelist from Iowa. For the majority of 2023 and spring of 2024, she resided in Leipzig, Germany where she furthered her music, from being a guest listener at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ to playing in an orchestra at the GewandHaus (Mendelssohn Saal). She likes music history along with a spot of tea. Abigail continues to compose for guitar as well as orchestral works. She gigs professionally at retirement homes, dinner events and much more.
The MacNider Art Museum is located at 303 Second Street SE in Mason City. It is open 9 am to 8 pm Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 5 pm Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, and closed Sundays and Mondays.
I see where trump’s lawyers are negotiating a deal with the IRS to settle the trump’s lawsuit against them for $10 billion which is more than twice his actual wealth. I guess we will all be paying him more money because we know the IRS will be very generous in their settlement. Who in the hell would think this is ok?
So, NIT isn’t going to post a story about Trump going at the Pope? Or him not knowing the difference between Jesus and Doctor?
Rachel Hurley
And for my next trick…
I STILL see people all over the internet who think the Trump-Russia story was a hoax.
They believe that this was proven when the Mueller Report came out, and he wasn’t charged – even though the Mueller report says – if he were not president – he would definitely be charged.
They could not prove that Trump was a Russian agent – but he was definitely a Russian asset. If you’re unclear on the difference, please look it up.
But Trump’s relationship with Russia isn’t even just a 2016 story. It’s a 40-year recruitment operation that followed the KGB’s own documented playbook, and I can prove it.
I’ve spent months going through this. Books, declassified intelligence files, FinCEN records, federal indictments, congressional testimony, court filings, and investigative reporting going back decades. And the thing that kept hitting me wasn’t any single piece of evidence. It was the pattern. The same names showing up across different decades. The same money flowing through different buildings. The same playbook being run by different people in different eras, but always pointing in the same direction.
It’s the exact same pattern happening in the Trump administration of today.
Everyone argues about whether Trump “colluded” with Russia in 2016. That’s the wrong question.
By 2016, Trump didn’t need to collude with anyone. He was already so financially dependent on Russian money, so personally compromised, and so psychologically easy to manipulate that he did what they needed him to do because it’s what he was always going to do anyway.
The KGB had a literal checklist for picking recruitment targets. It’s in their handbooks. The criteria included “pride, arrogance, egoism, ambition, or vanity.”
They looked for people with a history of financial corruption. They even assessed whether the target might “occupy the post of president or prime minister.”
That checklist is Donald Trump. Not metaphorically. Literally.
And the receipts go back to 1977.
Czech intelligence – which reported directly to the KGB – opened a classified surveillance file on Trump the year he married Ivana. They wiretapped her father. They monitored their mail. They tracked Trump’s business deals. This went on for over a decade.
In 1984, a Russian mob operative bought five condos in Trump Tower for $6 million cash through shell companies, and Trump personally closed the deal. A former KGB counterintelligence chief later called that transaction “typical” – standard procedure for testing whether someone would collaborate. In 1987, Trump visited Moscow on a trip arranged by Intourist, a KGB front organization, came home, and immediately took out $95,000 in newspaper ads criticizing NATO – echoing Soviet talking points word for word.
From there, it’s a straight line.
Russian organized crime money flooded Trump’s properties through the ’80s and ’90s. His Atlantic City casinos racked up the largest money laundering fine in Bank Secrecy Act history.
Deutsche Bank – the only institution willing to lend to him after every other bank cut him off – simultaneously running a $10 billion Russian money laundering operation. A company called Bayrock Group, operating out of Trump Tower, followed the KGB’s own guidelines for setting up front companies. An international pipeline pushing dirty money through Trump-branded properties in Toronto, Panama, and Manhattan. And finally, in 2016, the explicit quid pro quo – Moscow Tower negotiations running parallel to a presidential campaign, sanctions being dangled, a Republican platform getting rewritten on Ukraine, and an information warfare operation that a Russian general literally published the blueprint for in 2013.
None of this is speculation. It’s all documented. And I’m gonna lay out every single piece of it.
Starting Monday, I’m publishing one essay every morning at 8 AM Central. Ten essays. Ten acts. Each one covers a different phase of how this happened, with names, dates, dollar amounts, and source documents.
Here’s the series:
Essay 1 – “The Mark” – How the KGB identified Trump as a target through his wife’s Czech intelligence connections, his mob lawyer Roy Cohn, and a personality profile that matched their recruitment handbook line by line. (1977-1984)
Essay 2 – “The Test” – The first Russian money touches Trump properties, and Trump never asks where it came from. $1.5 billion in suspicious all-cash condo sales through shell companies. (1984-1987)
Essay 3 – “The Invitation” – Trump’s 1987 Moscow trip, arranged by a KGB front organization. He comes home and starts criticizing NATO. A Czech intelligence file notes he’s been “pressured to run for president.” (1987-1988)
Essay 4 – “Brighton Beach” – How 600,000 Soviet emigrants created cover for the Russian mob’s American beachhead, and how that pipeline led directly to Trump’s front door. (1985-1999)
Essay 5 – “The Laundromat” – Trump’s Atlantic City casinos as purpose-built money laundering machines. The largest Bank Secrecy Act fine in history. The 8-step laundering process laid out in detail. (1990-2004)
Essay 6 – “The Lifeline” – Deutsche Bank lends Trump over $3 billion when no one else will, while simultaneously laundering $10 billion in Russian money through mirror trades. One analyst finds suspicious Kushner transactions going to Russian recipients. She gets fired. (2000-2016)
Essay 7 – “The Front Company” – Bayrock Group and the insane backstory of Felix Sater, who stabbed a guy in the face, ran a $40 million fraud, became a CIA informant who tracked bin Laden, and then became Trump’s business partner. You can’t make this up. (2002-2014)
Essay 8 – “The International Pipeline” – Trump Toronto funded by a Russian state bank that Putin personally chaired. Trump Panama with half the buyers identified as Russian. The Kushner-Chabad connection tying it all together. (2006-2016)
Essay 9 – “The Deal” – Felix Sater emails Michael Cohen: “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected president.” Moscow Tower negotiations running alongside the presidential campaign. The quid pro quo made explicit. (2013-2017)
Essay 10 – “The Playbook” – Russia’s information warfare machine, from 1920s Soviet propaganda clubs to your Instagram feed. The Gerasimov Doctrine. The troll factories. The election hacking. And the 40-year through-line that connects all of it. (2014-present)
This isn’t a conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theories don’t come with FinCEN fines and federal indictments and declassified intelligence files and congressional testimony and the KGB’s own recruitment handbooks.
This is the story of how a foreign intelligence service identified a useful idiot in 1977, tested him in 1984, cultivated him in 1987, funded him for three decades, and then helped put him in the White House. All using methods they literally wrote down in training manuals.
I’ve got the receipts. All of them. See you Monday morning.
#ratcclips
TACO trump strikes again…or not.
AI reduced employment in occupations that are easily substituted by AI. But it increased employment in jobs that are “augmented” by AI — roles that rely on things that machines cannot replace, like human judgment.
By the numbers: Overall, AI raised the unemployment rate by just 0.1 percentage point, per Goldman.
Morgan Stanley came to a similar conclusion.
Truth Social this morning.
DonaldTrump:
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards or you’ll be living in Hell. JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP 164 ReTruths 675 Likes Apr 05, 2026, 8:03′
Such an uplifting Easter message from the crazy man in the White House. Yeah, sure he is a Christian. Yeah, sure he is a nice guy.
As we get closer to the midterm elections, one has to wonder (and hope) who is next in line to be fired in the present administration. So far, it is just women who are getting fired, so will it be Linda McMahon (the “I love A1” lady) or Karoline Lyin’ Leavitt? I am sure he’d like to fire Amy Coney Barrett but he can’t. Maybe Scott Bessent?
California collects $322 billion in revenue annually and carries some of the highest tax rates in the country.
It spent $24 billion specifically on homelessness over five years.
Today, 187,000 Californians are still living on the streets – with Oakland alone posting a 9% increase in its homeless population during that same spending period.
Heritage Foundation’s Richard Stern put it plainly: California isn’t failing to solve homelessness despite its spending.
Its policies are producing exactly the result you’d expect when government agencies answer to no one.
One County. One-Fifth of Every Hospice Dollar in America.
Los Angeles County has more hospice providers than 36 states combined.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that LA County alone represents $3.5 billion in suspected hospice fraud – and that 18 percent of all hospice billing in the entire United States flows out of that single county.
The average LA County hospice bills Medicare roughly $29,000 per patient.
The national average is $13,200.
“The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign,” the declassified summary of the intercepts stated.
“They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” the report added.
The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of the money that would eventually be moved to Democratic coffers, officials said. The names are included in still classified raw spy data but were redacted from the declassified report