i don’t think politicians should be able to become dramatically wealthier while holding public office without having to explain exactly where that money came from. public service shouldn’t be a mysterious path to personal wealth.

A senior designer at my firm moved to North Carolina 3 years ago with full HR approval during the remote work push. Built a home, enrolled his kids in school, and consistently hit top-tier performance reviews for 36 straight months. Last week, corporate dropped an unannounced email: "All employees must report to the Chicago HQ 4 days a week starting next month. No exceptions." When he asked HR about relocating or severance, they flat-out told him: "If you don't show up to the office on day one, it will be treated as a voluntary resignation." No layoff payout. No unemployment eligibility. No severance. It clicked immediately. They aren't bringing people back to "improve company culture." They're using mandatory Return-To-Office orders as a covert loophole to cut 20% of their workforce without paying out tens of millions in legally required severance packages or spiking their corporate unemployment tax rates. It's not about productivity. It's stealth downsizing disguised as corporate policy.

ABSOLUTELY!!👇💯💯💯

It took ProPublica reporters $45 and a flag to start a private school in Arkansas. No teaching experience. No background check. Nobody asked what they'd teach or how they'd measure whether kids were learning. Last month I showed you Alpha School getting rejected as a charter in Texas, then approved for the state's voucher program anyway. This is that same pipeline with even fewer guardrails. In Arkansas, the reporters registered an LLC online and got a certificate the same day. Then they applied to get public money as a microschool. It took about 10 minutes and two documents. No accreditation, no proof of financial solvency, and no cap on how many students they could enroll. They set their tuition at $7,208, the exact voucher amount per student. When they asked the state about it, an Education Department employee didn't reject them. He suggested ways they could still get the money. In West Virginia they filed on notebook paper. The state told them to take the "microschool route," where no one has any oversight. The department says it does not approve or deny microschools for any reason, including the qualifications of the owner. Unlimited students, by law. The reporters never took a dime and never enrolled a kid. But nothing stopped them from doing either. Arkansas has gone from under 100 private schools to more than 220 since its voucher program started, plus 143 microschools approved this year alone. Anyone can open one. The state can't stop you. And your tax dollars are paying for it all.

Two years ago the reflecting pool was reflecting, the East Wing existed & was welcoming visitor's to the People's House, The Kennedy Center was financially stable & thriving, gasoline was more affordable & the USAID was saving human lives. We don't have to live like this. VOTE

CIA and Israeli Mossad - This is a crazy story. @JohnKiriakou

Employer: "We offer top-tier health insurance! Your monthly premium is only $220." You: "Great. So if I break my wrist, insurance covers the medical bill?" Employer: "No. You have a $6,500 individual deductible." You: "So I pay $2,640 a year in premiums, plus $6,500 out of pocket before insurance pays $1?" Employer: "Correct. But once you hit $6,500, we cover 80% until you hit your $9,100 out-of-pocket maximum." You: "So I have to spend $11,740 of my own post-tax money in a single year before I get 100% coverage?" Employer: "Yes, but it’s pre-tax payroll deductions!" You: "My take-home pay is $4,200 a month. A single ER visit wipes out nearly 3 full months of my entire net income." Employer: "That’s why we offer a Health Savings Account so you can save for it!" You aren't receiving a healthcare benefit. You are paying monthly access fees for the privilege of self-insuring against medical debt while your corporate employer claims tax write-offs for "providing coverage."

Jared Kushner says he spent 10 years ignoring stories about himself, but when CNN posted this one, he was really quick to respond. CNN reported Thursday that Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is the largest shareholder in Phoenix Financial, a Tel Aviv company that invests in firms supplying Israel's military. Affinity invested in Phoenix in July 2024, then doubled its stake shortly before Trump's second term began. This past July it sold a quarter of that stake for more than $340 million, and it still holds 7.4% of the company, worth more than $1 billion. The next day, Kushner wrote a thread on X calling the story "deeply misleading." His main argument is that CNN's own reporting says it found no indication his actions as a diplomat directly affected the investments, which he noted was "buried behind a paywall." He also said Phoenix "is not a defense company," that Affinity doesn't own the defense firms named, and that "I have no role in deciding what Phoenix buys or sells." That no-direct-effect finding is real, and it's his best point. But it isn't the whole picture. Last year Kushner told Forbes he keeps "a very active dialogue" with Phoenix, called it "the JPMorgan of Israel," and called it Affinity's "best investment." In his X thread he said it's up more than five times since the initial investment. Asked about the contradiction, his lawyer told CNN the Forbes statement was accurate at the time, but that Kushner now interacts with Phoenix management "significantly less frequently" because he's more engaged in diplomacy. That's a roundabout way of confirming he was involved. The White House says his business has "nothing to do" with his diplomacy, which he does on a volunteer basis. Cynthia Brown of CREW, an ethics watchdog, says the problem is structural: people profit from war and government policy all the time, but "the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions." Kushner is Trump's special envoy on Gaza and has brokered a ceasefire, while Israel keeps launching daily strikes. He's also holding a more than $1 billion stake in an Israeli firm whose investments tie to its military.

How recently women got rights you probably assumed we’ve always had: 1910 - Women could wear pants 1920 - White women could vote 1963 - Women gained equal pay rights (sort of) 1965 - Black women could vote 1969 - Women could initiate divorce 1972 - Women could get birth control without a man's permission 1973 - Women could get an abortion, legally 1974 - Women were allowed to open up a bank account, loan or credit card without a man’s name attached to it 1988 - Women could own their own business 1994 - Women gained legal protection against domestic abuse 2022 - Women lost the constitutional right to abortion We’re going backwards. Anyone who doesn’t see it that way is a fucking idiot.

Truer words have never been spoken!

Just a reminder that the Kennedy Center was built with 3,700 tons of gifted white Carrara marble donated by the Italian government. Mined from the same area of the Tuscan Alps that supplied marble for Michelangelo’s David. And one narcissistic man wants to destroy it

DJT: "Everyone thinks that the prices are high because of me, but they're not.” Yes, they are.

why aren’t the robots working in the mines and oil fields and handling toxic chemicals or picking plastic out of the ocean? why are they writing emails and making powerpoint presentations? what the hell are we doing

My sister's local family-owned daycare center got acquired by a private equity group six months ago. Same building. Same teachers. Same 7 AM opening time. Zero upgrades to the playground or facilities. This morning, they sent out their new tuition schedule for the upcoming quarter. Monthly cost per child jumped from $1,250 to $2,400. When parents asked the new management why prices nearly doubled overnight, the director gave a polished corporate response about "market-rate alignment." Wall Street figured out a cheat code. They are quietly gobbling up non-discretionary life infrastructure, daycares, veterinary clinics, emergency medicine, and senior care….. because they know you can't just "cut back" on your kids or elderly parents. Young families aren't being priced out by inflation. They are being squeezed by leveraged buyouts on basic human survival.

🧵 How to search. It’s Saturday morning. Sitting in my living room, thinking. How many of you know how to do a Boolean search? It works on any search engine, Facebook, X, Google, FireFox, Duck Duck Go… It’s a page and a half of connectors. scribbr.com/working-with-sou…

Bribing seniors with socialism? Well, isn't that spehshal?

Hey y’all. WE NEED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ALEXANDER BROTHERS CASE. Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander are three Israeli-American brothers from a wealthy Miami family. Oren and Tal became powerhouse luxury real-estate brokers selling multimillion-dollar homes to celebrities and billionaires, and represented Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in their $24 million Florida home purchase. While Alon worked in his family’s private-security business. For over decades all 3 brothers used their status to recruit women through clubs, parties, dating apps and promoters, and lure them with luxury trips and exclusive events, THEN DRUG, ISOLATE and RAPE them, sometimes TOGETHER and with other men. More than 60 WOMEN have come forward saying they were raped by one or more of the brothers. ELEVEN women testified in court! The evidence was fucking horrific: women drugged, incapacitated, restrained and raped. Multiple men and MINORS were involved. Jurors saw texts, emails, photographs and videos. On March 9, 2026, a federal jury UNANIMOUSLY convicted ALL THREE on EVERY COUNT. Seven months later, they still haven’t been sentenced. Now their wealthy Jewish family has hired Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein’s and Trump’s former lawyer. Dershowitz’s correspondence says his work includes exploring “executive clemency and judicial reversal.” These men aren’t accused. THEY’RE CONVICTED. Yet this story has received nowhere near the sustained national attention its scale deserves. October 27 is Sentencing day. Keep your eyes wide fucking open. #cornell7 #israel #antisemitism