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Luca da Firenze<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miller</a> is a > psychopathIt is sufficient to look at him talk to realize that Miller is one asocial dangerous psychopath unable to control stress ticks who underline every tiime he lies... always You will also notice that there are NO 'stress tics' when Miller prpose way to hurt people.

Bytes EuropeJenna Ortega shares love for New Zealand on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/869564/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/869564/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/actress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actress</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/appearance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#appearance</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/colbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colbert</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/declared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#declared</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/during" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#during</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#for</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hollywood</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Jenna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jenna</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/jenni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jenni</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/late" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#late</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#love</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/new" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#new</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/on" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#on</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ortega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ortega</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/shares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shares</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/show" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#show</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stephen</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/the" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#the</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#with</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/zealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zealand</a>

Chuck DarwinWhat they are saying: On Sunday morning, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted a video on X hailing the arrival of the Venezuelans in his country. Bukele also mockingly featured an image of a New York Post story about the judge's order halting the flights.⚠️"Oopsie ... too late," Bukele wrote on X with a crying-laughing emojiU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio retweeted the post.Update: After publication, Leavitt issued a statement: "The Administration did not 'refuse to comply' with a court order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.""The written order and the Administration's actions do not conflict. Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President's conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove [[alledged]] foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a [[un-]]declared invasion," she wrote. <a href="https://c.im/tags/James" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#James</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boasberg</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miller</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kristy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kristy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noem</a>

Chuck DarwinHow the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flightsThe Trump administration says it 💥ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members -- because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling "didn't apply", two senior officials tell Axios.Why it matters: The administration's decision to defy a federal judge's order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial."Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis," national security attorney Mark S. Zaid, a Trump critic, wrote on X, -- adding that Trump could ultimately be impeached.The White House welcomes that fight. "This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we're going to win," a senior White House official told Axios.A second administration official said Trump was not defying the judge whose ruling came too late for the planes to change course: "Very important that people understand we are not actively defying court orders."State of play: Trump's advisers contend U.S. District Judge <a href="https://c.im/tags/James" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#James</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boasberg</a> overstepped his authority by issuing an order that blocked the president from deporting about 250 alleged Tren de Aragua gang members under the "Alien Enemies Act of 1789".The war-time law gives the executive extreme immense power to deport noncitizens without a judicial hearing. But it has been little-used, and never in peacetime."It's the showdown that was always going to happen between the two branches of government," a senior White House official said. "And it seemed that this was pretty clean. You have [[alleged]] Venezuelan gang members ... These are bad guys, as the president would say."How it happened: White House Deputy Chief of Staff <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miller</a> "orchestrated" the process in the West Wing in tandem with Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kristy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kristy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noem</a>. Few outside their teams knew what was happening.They didn't actually set out to defy a court order. "We wanted them on the ground first, before a judge could get the case, but this is how it worked out," said the official.The timeline: Trump signed the executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night, but 💥intentionally did not advertise it. On Saturday morning, word of the order leaked, officials said, prompting a mad scramble to get planes in the air.At 2:31 p.m. Saturday, an immigration activist who tracks deportation flights, posted on X that "TWO HIGHLY UNUSUAL ICE flights" were departing from Texas to El Salvador, which had agreed to accept Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S.Hours later, during a court hearing filed by the ACLU., Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations and said any flights should be turned around mid-air."This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately," he told the Justice Department, according to the Washington Post.At that point, about 6:51 p.m., both flights were off the Yucatan Peninsula, according to flight paths posted on X.Inside the White House, officials discussed whether to order the planes to turn around. On advice from a team of administration lawyers, the administration pressed ahead."There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said."They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.Yes, but: The Trump administration was already spoiling for a fight over the Alien Enemies Act — 🔥one of several fronts on which they believe legal challenges to the president's authority will only end up strengthening it when the Supreme Court rules in his favor.Between the lines: 👉Officially, the Trump White House is not denying it ignored the judge's order, and instead wants to shift the argument to whether it was right to expel alleged members of Tren de Aragua."If the Democrats want to argue in favor of turning a plane full of [[alleged]] rapists, murderers, and gangsters back to the United States, that's a fight we are more than happy to take," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios when asked about the case.It's unclear how many of the roughly 250 Venezuelans were deported under the Alien Enemies Act and how many were kicked out of the U.S. due to other immigration laws.It's also not clear whether all of them were actually gang members.<a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/trump-white-house-defy-judge-deport-venezuelans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/trump-white-house-defy-judge-deport-venezuelans</a>

RAWCHILIStephen Curry’s latest announcement will benefit Sabrina Ionescu, Angel Reese — and all of Unrivaled <a href="https://www.rawchili.com/4108979/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rawchili.com/4108979/</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/all" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#all</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AllWomensSports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllWomensSports</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/and" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#and</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/angel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#angel</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/announcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#announcement</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/benefit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#benefit</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/com" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#com</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/curry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curry</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FrontPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrontPage</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ionescu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ionescu</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/latest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#latest</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/of" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#of</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/reese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reese</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#s</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/sabrina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sabrina</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/sbnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sbnation</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stephen</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/unrivaled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unrivaled</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Will" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Will</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/WNBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WNBA</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/WNBANews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WNBANews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/WnbaContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WnbaContent</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a>'sSports

Chuck DarwinTrump’s pick for deputy Defense secretary declined to say Russia invaded Ukraine when pressed Tuesday by senators and defended massive Pentagon firings — a sign he’s unlikely to challenge the dramatic changes underway at the department.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Feinberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Feinberg</a>, a Trump donor and billionaire investor, told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing that he didn’t want to “speak out of turn” and undermine the president’s negotiations. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/pentagon-defense-russia-ukraine-00206008" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/pentagon-defense-russia-ukraine-00206008</a>

Chuck DarwinEven as he has vowed to eliminate “every dollar of waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal budget and operations,” the new acting administrator of the General Services Administration, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ehikian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ehikian</a>, has appointed a senior adviser whose firm used to specialize in tax transactions that a bipartisan Senate committee excoriated and that the IRS branded as “abusive” and among “the worst of the worst tax scams.” The adviser has been battling the tax agency in court over $4 billion in disallowed deductions for thousands of his clients.The GSA, the federal agency responsible for managing the government’s land and property, will now be taking advice from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frank</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schuler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schuler</a> IV, the 57-year-old co-founder and longtime president of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ornstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ornstein</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Schuler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schuler</a>, an Atlanta-based real estate investment company. Schuler’s firm was for years among the most prolific promoters of tax-shelter deals known as “syndicated conservation easements.”Schuler and his colleagues exploited a tax deduction that was created to reward landowners who give up development rights for their acreage, usually by donating those rights to a nonprofit land trust. When used as intended, conservation easements can preserve pristine land, sometimes as a park that the public can use, and reward the land donor with a charitable tax deduction.But middlemen like Schuler’s firm turned the tax provision into a highly profitable business, packaging easements into what were essentially outsized tax deductions for purchase. After snatching up a cheap piece of vacant land, Schuler and others typically hired a private appraiser willing to declare that the property had huge untapped development value — that it was suited to become anything from a gravel mine to a luxury resort — and was worth many times its purchase price. They then sold stakes in the easement donation to rich individuals, who claimed wildly inflated tax deductions based on the appraisal, cutting their taxes by twice as much as they’d invested. ProPublica first began investigating the syndicated easement business, which has cost the government tens of billions in tax revenue, back in 2017. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam</a>

INBELLACamilla joins Helena Bonham Carter and Stephen Fry to celebrate the work of 184-year-old literary institution The London Library <a href="https://www.inbella.com/891647/camilla-joins-helena-bonham-carter-and-stephen-fry-to-celebrate-the-work-of-184-year-old-literary-institution-the-london-library/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.inbella.com/891647/camilla-joins-helena-bonham-carter-and-stephen-fry-to-celebrate-the-work-of-184-year-old-literary-institution-the-london-library/</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/184yearold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#184yearold</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Bonham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bonham</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/camiLLa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#camiLLa</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Carter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carter</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Celebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celebrate</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Events</a>&Appearances <a href="https://channels.im/tags/fry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fry</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Gossip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gossip</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Helena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Helena</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/institution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#institution</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/joins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#joins</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#library</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Literary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Literary</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Royal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Royal</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalFamilies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoyalFamilies</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalGossip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoyalGossip</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Royals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Royals</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalsGossip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoyalsGossip</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#work</a>

Chuck DarwinOn Friday, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case, Braidwood Mgmt., Inc. v. Becerra, that will decide the constitutionality of the preventable care requirements of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Under the ACA, health insurers are obligated to cover preventative health services at no cost to the patient. This includes everything from vaccines against deadly viruses to breast and cervical cancer screenings, to statins for heart disease. It also notably includes HIV prevention under that umbrella—and for good reason. Not only is it the humane thing to do, it also saves health insurers a lot of money. Just as it’s far cheaper to conduct a pap smear and catch cervical cancer in its early stages than it is to provide end-of-life care for those about to succumb to the disease, so too does preventative care lessen the burden of HIV on patients, doctors, and insurers.This particular lawsuit originated in Texas, where a handful of Christian businessowners objected to providing the HIV prevention drug regimen known as PrEP to their employees. One of the employers is represented by the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miller</a>–led legal group "America First Lega"l, which argued that the requirement “promotes homosexual behavior” and therefore violates its client’s “religious beliefs by making him complicit in encouraging those behaviors.” In his ruling, a Trump-appointed federal judge specifically carved out HIV prevention as a violation of the employers’ constitutional rights, writing that the PrEP mandate “substantially burdens [their] religious exercise.” The case then went to the conservative-leaning Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled the requirement is unconstitutional because the "U.S. Preventative Services Task Force", or USPSTF, which decides what preventative care services should be covered under the ACA, is not appointed by the president and approved by Congress. Put differently, 👉the Fifth Circuit is upset that basic medical decisions are decided by an independent volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine, and not by a group of appointees with a political agenda.For now, the Fifth Circuit’s ruling only applies to the Texas businessowners who have won the right to deny HIV care to their employees. 💥But if SCOTUS rules in the Christian employers’ favor, Trump will appoint members to the USPSTF, and the Republican-majority Congress will then be allowed to confirm his choices.The fallout of this decision would not only impact those at high risk of contracting HIV. With public health potentially falling under the auspices of noted vaccine-cynic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bobby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kennedy</a> Jr., parents with immune-compromised children will have another reason to worry -- that their child’s classmates aren’t up to date with their vaccines. A woo-woo “wellness”-obsessed Department of Health and Human Services secretary could also decide that mental illnesses, such as anxiety and depression, are best treated with meditation and the like, and cut mental and behavioral health services from the preventative care requirement. But the fallout from this change in command may fall most cruelly on those who live with HIV, who have benefited from considerable medical advancement since the bad old days of Jesse Helms.<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/190167/supreme-court-hiv-prep-obamacare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/190167/supreme-court-hiv-prep-obamacare</a>

INBELLAAllison Holker defends herself, addresses Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ family after book backlash <a href="https://www.inbella.com/846999/allison-holker-defends-herself-addresses-stephen-twitch-boss-family-after-book-backlash/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.inbella.com/846999/allison-holker-defends-herself-addresses-stephen-twitch-boss-family-after-book-backlash/</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebritiesTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebritiesTopics</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebrityDeaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebrityDeaths</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CELEBRITYMARRIAGES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CELEBRITYMARRIAGES</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebrityMemoirs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebrityMemoirs</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebrityNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebrityNews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drugs</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a>“tWitch”Boss <a href="https://channels.im/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tv</a>

INBELLAAllison Holker’s Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Interview Criticized <a href="https://www.inbella.com/846081/allison-holkers-stephen-twitch-boss-interview-criticized/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.inbella.com/846081/allison-holkers-stephen-twitch-boss-interview-criticized/</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AllisonHolker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllisonHolker</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebritiesTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebritiesTopics</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Celebrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celebrity</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/memoirs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoirs</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/PeopleMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeopleMagazine</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a>“tWitch”Boss <a href="https://channels.im/tags/StephenBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StephenBoss</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TellAlls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TellAlls</a>

Toy Box ComixRandom Old Comic: Surrounded <a href="https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2017/07/18/surrounded/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2017/07/18/surrounded/</a> Surrounded <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/DeathTrooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeathTrooper</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Karl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karl</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Rob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rob</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarWars</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steve</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Stormtrooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stormtrooper</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/815217756713386/posts/1242882337280257?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/815217756713386/posts/1242882337280257?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</a>

RoundSparrow 🐦From "The Apocryphal New Testament" M.R. James-Translation and Notes Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeY1924" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FWakeY1924</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeYear1924" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FWakeYear1924</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christmas2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christmas2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWoke</a> John 1:1The 'Revelation called of Stephen' is condemned, like that of Thomas, in the Gelasian Decree. Sixtus Senensis, Bibliotheca Sancta (1593), p. 115, says: 'The Apocalypse of Stephen the first martyr"<a href="https://www.gnosis.org/library/revstev.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gnosis.org/library/revstev.htm</a>

:rss: Hacker NewsKevin Langdon's 'Omni Magazine' unsupervised IQ test (1979) <a href="http://www.lumifont.co.uk/omnitest.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.lumifont.co.uk/omnitest.php</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ycombinator</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steve</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Hopkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hopkins</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physicist</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musician</a>

Chuck DarwinOnly days after emerging from a private meeting with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pete</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> sounding unconvinced about his fitness to lead the Pentagon, Senator <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Joni</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ernst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ernst</a>, the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate and a survivor of sexual assault, indicated that a second sit-down had allayed her concerns.And she suggested that a torrent of allegations against Mr. Hegseth that had put his candidacy in jeopardy — including sexual assault, sexual impropriety in the workplace, public drunkenness and fiscal mismanagement — might not be disqualifying unless his accusers came forward publicly.Her shift suggested that Trump’s MAGA base was ready, willing and able to bully Republicans into submitting to his desires.Trump’s hard-line backers paid for ads in Ms. Ernst’s home state, questioned her Republican bona fides on social media and even threatened to launch primary challenges against her in 2026 to push her toward supporting Mr. Hegseth as the nominee.Some prominent Trump activists, including <a href="https://c.im/tags/Charlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Charlie</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kirk</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> K. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bannon</a>, the right-wing strategist, pushed to recruit <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kari</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lake</a>, the former Republican candidate for governor of Arizona who grew up in Iowa, as a potential challenger to Ms. Ernst. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/us/politics/ernst-hegseth-defense-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/us/politics/ernst-hegseth-defense-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Chuck Darwin🆘 Your government is in the hands of super-rich people who never had to show anything to anybody! And you can bet they plan to run the country the same way they have run their companies: using shell games and pyramid schemes, fraud and shakedown, answerable to virtually no one.These are people who have thrived in a culture of unaccountability and self-dealing. They are also people who have convinced themselves that the accrual of wealth to themselves is a boon to the nation at large. They like to think of themselves as job creators, dynamic players in shaping the global economy. Because their magnificence exists to benefit us all, the reasoning goes, they need not show us the methods by which they perform their magic. And indeed we do all stand, mouths agape, at the show, dazzled by the 22,000-square-foot mansion (with a 6,200-square-foot guest house) that serves as the home address of secretary of education <a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betsy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a>, or the 203-foot yacht (with an elevator inside) owned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercer</a>, the Trump donor and patron of chief White House strategist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> K. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bannon</a>. (Mercer’s daughter, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rebekah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rebekah</a>, is said to have great influence in the West Wing.)The source of Mercer’s wealth is ♦️Renaissance Technologies LLC, a privately owned firm known as a hedge-fund sponsor, which was built by scientists who learned how to run algorithms that identify signals emanating from great masses of data in order to generate profitable financial trades. After Renaissance founder and math wizard James Simons, a big donor to Democratic candidates and political action committees, retired and kicked himself upstairs to serve as the company’s chairman, Mercer became co-CEO with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brown</a>, his longtime research partner.At the Renaissance office in East Setauket on New York’s Long Island, no sign is visible from the road to tell you you’ve arrived at the headquarters of a rare kind of casino —one that moves billions of dollars around the world. Thick plantings of trees obscure any view of the low-slung Renaissance building from the public side of the security gate.Renaissance is spectacularly successful —Investopedia named Renaissance Institutional Equities, the LLC’s largest entity, the top-performing hedge fund of 2016, after it yielded investors a return of 20 percent for the year. Mercer’s genius as a data and systems geek is part of the super-secret sauce of this “quant fund” that turned other people’s assets-minus-liabilities into riches for his investors. It’s like a very complicated version of counting cards at the blackjack table. But the best-performing fund at Renaissance is one that only its employees can join —and indeed they must in order to actualize their full compensation package. Bloomberg’s Katherine Burton described the employee-only Medallion fund as “finance’s blackest box.” <a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan</a>

Chuck DarwinA dollar is a dollar is a dollar But some dollars are different, because of how their owners obtain them and move them about. These are the dark dollars of private companies, dollars slithery in their expert avoidance of taxes, their paths rendered invisible by the absence of footprints.Critics of the Trump White House point to the obscene levels of wealth that you find among the inner circle of President Trump’s appointees and associates. Just as striking, though, is the provenance of all this loose cash: Trump’s trusted advisers have come into much of this wealth through private companies, whose financial balance sheets and so much more are shielded from public view. At least ten of Trump’s close political associates, including some of his cabinet picks, hail from the carefully shrouded world of private capital.💥Private companies play by a different set of rules than those governing firms that trade their shares on stock exchanges. Unlike their publicly traded counterparts, private companies don’t have to worry about facing irate shareholders. That’s because a private company’s principals have chosen those shareholders, who are often drawn from a founder’s family. No proxy fights or hostile takeovers to worry about; no bending to the will of big institutional investors.This is not to say that there are no big donors to Democrats who don’t also get their dough from private companies. For example, Democrats have long enjoyed the largesse of the Pritzker family, who took their Hyatt Corporation public only in 2009. Until then, it was a closely held private company. But no Democratic administration was ever dominated by the owners of privately held entities, and no administration of either party has ever represented so much wealth derived from such secretive entities.👉Little in the way of financial disclosure is required of privately held companies. When it comes to financial regulation, these companies reap the benefit of the government’s failure to call them to account. The same is true of private companies as large as the Koch Industries conglomerate or as adorably tiny as a startup founded by a lone millennial in a stocking cap.Sanctums of PrivilegeThis is not a screed against private companies. As a red-blooded American, I revel in tales of heroic entrepreneurship —of hatched-in-the-garage ideas that yield their underdog executors an unlikely pot of gold. This is, rather, a scream, the wail of a blues tune sung to my fellow red-blooded Americans: 🆘 Your government is in the hands of super-rich people who never had to show anything to anybody! And you can bet they plan to run the country the same way they have run their companies: using shell games and pyramid schemes, fraud and shakedown, answerable to virtually no one.These are people who have thrived in a culture of unaccountability and self-dealing. They are also people who have convinced themselves that the accrual of wealth to themselves is a boon to the nation at large. They like to think of themselves as job creators, dynamic players in shaping the global economy. Because their magnificence exists to benefit us all, the reasoning goes, they need not show us the methods by which they perform their magic. And indeed we do all stand, mouths agape, at the show, dazzled by the 22,000-square-foot mansion (with a 6,200-square-foot guest house) that serves as the home address of secretary of education <a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betsy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a>, or the 203-foot yacht (with an elevator inside) owned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercer</a>, the Trump donor and patron of chief White House strategist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> K. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bannon</a>. (Mercer’s daughter, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rebekah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rebekah</a>, is said to have great influence in the West Wing.)The source of Mercer’s wealth is ♦️Renaissance Technologies LLC, a privately owned firm known as a hedge-fund sponsor, which was built by scientists who learned how to run algorithms that identify signals emanating from great masses of data in order to generate profitable financial trades. After Renaissance founder and math wizard James Simons, a big donor to Democratic candidates and political action committees, retired and kicked himself upstairs to serve as the company’s chairman, Mercer became co-CEO with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brown</a>, his longtime research partner.At the Renaissance office in East Setauket on New York’s Long Island, no sign is visible from the road to tell you you’ve arrived at the headquarters of a rare kind of casino —one that moves billions of dollars around the world. Thick plantings of trees obscure any view of the low-slung Renaissance building from the public side of the security gate.<a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan</a>

Colin from Edinburgh, Oklahoma<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is reportedly very disappointed that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/King" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#King</a> refused to write a new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> loosely based on his novel, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Salem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Salem</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lot</a>In <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a>, you win some, and you lose some. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchy</a>

Chuck DarwinWhen he was in office, Trump went out of his way to find ways to hurt Amazon to get back at Bezos for unfavorable coverage in the Post. Los Angeles Times editorial page editor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mariel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mariel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Garza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Garza</a>, along with journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein, resigned from the paper after its decision not to endorse Harris, 💥and nearly 2,000 readers canceled their subscriptions. The Washington Post, too, has seen 💥about 2,000 subscribers bow out, and fourteen of the newspaper’s columnists called the decision not to condemn Trump’s threats to the “freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution” “a terrible mistake.” Cartoonist Ann Telnaes published a blacked-out square, playing on the Post’s motto that democracy dies in darkness. Readers are speaking out against the Washington Post for demonstrating what scholar of authoritarianism <a href="https://c.im/tags/Timothy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Timothy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Snyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snyder</a> calls “obeying in advance” the demands of an authoritarian leader (although Washington Post legal journalist Ruth Marcus, who signed the letter calling the decision a terrible mistake, pointed out that the Postitself was publishing the many letters of condemnation). “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given,” Snyder’s “On Tyranny” reads. “In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”The aftermath of the Post’s decision demonstrated what scholars say will happen after such obeying. Rather than winning favors, such a demonstration of weakness invites further abuse, as anyone who has watched Trump in action ought to know by now. Trump’s people pounced, with advisor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miller</a> posting: “You know the Kamala campaign is sinking when even the Washington Post refuses to endorse.”Trump then promptly went a step further, claiming that Democrats had taken part in “rampant Cheating and Skullduggery…in the 2020 presidential election” and warning that in 2024, “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again…. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”Trump’s threats are designed to convince people he is a strongman who will inevitably win the 2024 presidential election. But to do that, he will have to go through the voters, who are demonstrating their enthusiasm for Democratic candidate Harris and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz.

Chuck DarwinThe ex-President arrived with his son Eric, stopping to shake hands and exchange pleasantries with each of the approximately two dozen guests, a “AAA list” of the G.O.P.’s top funders, as <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catsimatidis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catsimatidis</a>, the billionaire supermarket owner, put it. Such events, another attendee told me, often feel like a birthday dinner for the host, except that “there’s a lot of money being given to someone who isn’t the host —making Donald Trump the birthday boy, so to speak.”Trump was seated at the head table, between <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fanjul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fanjul</a> —a major Republican donor going back to the early nineties —and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schwarzman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schwarzman</a>, the C.E.O. of Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity fund, who had endorsed Trump the previous Friday. Securing the support of Schwarzman was a coup for the Trump campaign. In 2022, he had said that he would not back the former President again, because it was time for “a new generation of leaders,” and, during the primaries, he had given $2 million in support of Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, who had repeatedly called Trump “unfit to be President.” In a statement explaining the reversal, Schwarzman said that Biden’s “economic, immigration and foreign policies” were “taking the country in the wrong direction.”At the dinner, Trump reprised his public rant about the “biased” legal proceedings brought against him, but an attendee who spoke with me was struck by how “calm and confident” Trump seemed for someone facing prison time. “He has this very strong internal capability to push those things aside and still feel good about things,” the attendee said. At the end of the evening, Trump went around the room and solicited opinions on whom he should pick for his running mate. Haley, Scott, and Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota and a wealthy businessman, were mentioned; -- a couple of the attendees expressed a preference for J. D. Vance, the young populist senator from Ohio, whom Trump would ultimately choose. The donors appeared to relish the chance to help select a Vice-Presidential candidate. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” the attendee marvelled. 🔸Trump raised about $50 million at the event.

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