Raskin Exposes Patel’s Alleged FBI Slush Fund, Obama Calls Trump’s Iran Deal A Rerun, and Arizona Just Ended Big T…
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In a week with this much chaos, the fact that you showed up and opened this matters more than you know. Thanks for being here. Seriously. Before we jump in, hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition—there’s a report below about Kash Patel allegedly paying FBI agents hush money in cash, and it needs to be seen. A restack puts that story in front of everyone who follows you. And if you’re not yet a paid subscriber—we’re 19 short of our goal for the day—join us and help us take back Congress: Let’s get into it. OBAMA CALLS TRUMP’S IRAN “DEAL” A RERUN
For years, Trump told anyone who’d listen that former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Iran agreement was the worst deal ever made. He ripped up the United States’ end of it in 2018. Then he launched an illegal war in February that has killed thousands and disrupted the world’s oil supply. Now he’s struck a new “deal”—and the man who built the first one says it’s one and the same. “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different, or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place,” Obama told ABC’s Robin Roberts. A deal, Obama added, that had worked for years before Trump pulled out of it. Behind closed doors, it’s worse. The CIA warned Trump that Iran’s private talks didn’t match what it was promising America. Trump destroyed the deal, started a war, and landed in a worse spot than where Obama left him. PATEL’S ALLEGED FBI SLUSH FUND EXPOSED
Rep. Jamie Raskin alleges that FBI Director Kash Patel may be running a personal slush fund out of the bureau’s budget. In a blistering letter, Raskin lays out the details of how Patel could be handing tens of thousands in cash to the agents who guard him and the loyalists who carry out his orders. Patel’s office, he says, has pushed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments—nearly $8,000 a head every two weeks—to agents who’d already maxed out their legal salary. The accounts drained so fast that some payments bounced. Raskin lays out two possibilities in his letter: either it’s “a corrupt attempt to slide cash to friends,” or payments made “to ensure silence” from agents who witness Patel’s alleged misconduct on the job. “By issuing these side payments, your office may be knowingly breaking federal law,” Raskin wrote. November is coming. And with it, subpoenas. ARIZONA JUST TOLD BIG TECH: PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE
For more than a decade, tech giants have built over 150 data centers across Arizona—and paid next to nothing in sales taxes to do it. A $38 million tax exemption for data centers, signed into law in 2013, made Arizona one of the most attractive states in the country for an industry that drains local water supplies, strains power grids, and drives up utility bills for families. On June 13, Gov. Katie Hobbs ended it, signing a new bipartisan budget that puts a three-year moratorium on new sales tax breaks for data centers. The Arizona Senate Democratic Caucus called it “the largest pause on tech-industry incentives anywhere in the nation.” Republicans voted for it too. Hobbs had been direct about her goal: she wanted to make sure “data centers are working for Arizonans rather than the other way around.” The people pushed. The governor listened. That’s how this is supposed to work. TRUMP CAN’T PARDON HIS WAY OUT OF WISCONSIN
In 2020, three of Trump’s operatives tried to help him steal Wisconsin—his campaign attorney, his Election Day director, and a legal adviser who allegedly tricked ten Republicans into signing papers that falsely declared Trump the winner of a state he’d lost. Everywhere else, the cases have been collapsing. Georgia’s and Michigan’s fake electors cases were dismissed. The federal case against Trump was dropped. Nevada’s and Arizona’s are both stumbling in court. The pattern is unmistakable: the powerful protecting the powerful. Then there’s Wisconsin. Democratic AG Josh Kaul filed his charges—and has refused to back down. On Tuesday, all three pleaded not guilty to eleven felony counts each, carrying up to six years apiece. Trump pardoned them federally—but he can’t pardon them for the state charges. One prosecutor refused to walk away, and now three of Trump’s operatives are headed to trial. This case isn’t done. Neither are we. We’re not a mailing list. We’re the resistance—a movement of millions, in every state, who decided a long time ago that we’d rather fight back than fold to Trump. Since November 2024, readers of this newsletter have flooded Congress with 761,000 calls and emails, turned out in person where it counted, and pushed this reporting across social media to millions who’d never otherwise see it. This newsletter exists only because readers pay for it. No network. No billionaire. No donor with deep pockets. It survives because readers like you decided it had to. Join us as a paid subscriber today—we’d love to have you: Hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition before you go. Onward! Scott Thoughts on Kash Patel allegedly running a cash slush fund for his loyalists and bodyguards? Should we end massive corporate tax breaks for data centers? Thanks for your support! Another way to help us out is by gifting subscriptions to friends and family! You can get yours by clicking the link. 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Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU 🚨 SIX OTHER URGENT ACTIONS TODAY Pass Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7 Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9 Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j COMMENTS: Honestly, we don't have time for the 25th amendment - we need him removed under emergency legislation NOW he is a clear & imminent danger to us & the world Trump and his dereliction-of-duty moron platoon are a liability with no redeeming actions or qualities Trump will bring war to our shores if not stopped - he is hated by his country and the world and is casting about for anything that will elevate his polls - it is why he went to war with Iran, but his polls got worse, not elevated BOLD & BRAVE NOW FOR DEMOCRACY TOMORROW Our founders were bold & brave - we need that today Home of the free & the brave or home o the cowardly & the weak TELL YOUR LAWMAKERS GOP & DEM TO HIM WITH EMERGENCY LEGISLATION; CALL A NEW ELECTION; DEFUND ICE TERROTISTS & TAKE OVER THEIR DEATH PRISONS inmates go to decent low security facilities awaiting due process hearings LAWMAKERS Come out from hiding under your desks & STEP UP Agreed! The ONLY discussion that should be going on about Chump is how to remove him as quickly as possible. Not, 'oh, whatever did he mean by that' and 'oh, maybe his mind is slipping' and 'whatever could his motive be'. Jeez......... Everything seems to take forever, doesn't it? Two steps forward, one step back. I find it helps me to think of this as the 2nd American Revolution. That took around 15 years ... Boston Tea Party was 1773; the war began 1775 (the shot heard around the world); Declaration of Independence 1776; the end of Revolutionary War was 1783 - 10 years later! Rule 9. Look on instagram or facebook "removal coalition" has a video about it. Pass it on Rep. Jamie Raskin just accused FBI Director Kash Patel of running what looks like a personal slush fund — over $1 million in cash bonuses to loyalist agents and his own security detail. That’s not how federal law enforcement is supposed to work. These miserable clowns will need to start lawyering up. Raskin is always on the job! We need to take back the House so that Raskin can chair the House Oversight committee! While JD takes the couch. lol good one It's all so corrupt. Patel needs to be ousted and jailed, full stop. What a loser and waste of space. Maybe Trump will throw him under the bus soon. Hegseth too. Trump does that to his loyal followers alot to save his own ass. The Iran fiasco is shameful; Hegseth, Vance and Patel are ineffective, money wasting fools. But I can't help think, the bill for these low lifes will becoming due soon. Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and cracked. Big time kudos to WI, AZ, Senator Raskin. Thank God for them. NONE OF THIS is how federal government is supposed to work Thank heavens for Jamie! And all the other fighters for democracy. And there’s a probability that Trump won’t live to see the devastating effects from surrender to Iran or any of the other disastrous policies he’s enacted. Unconcerned about everything except money and staying out of prison which his cronies protect at all costs. Aside, only two things reside in his demented, addled head. Obama and his marble ballroom. A despotic regime run by an increasingly addled malignant narcissist with advancing dementia is a serious national threat to our existence as they everyone down with the ship. C'mon republicans. The problem with the rest of America who did not vote for Trump is that 30 something percent will agree with him regardless of whatever he does and the republicans in congress have ceded their authority and will do his bidding, completely giving up on their oath, the constitution and the law. Why would anybody want or invest in the United States after this clown has taken a wrecking ball to the world, and he was reelected by the American people after his insurrection, felonies, sexual deviancies being exposed. We need to move quickly to the remaining Epstein files. Is absolutely so true. All of these millionaire and billionaire and now trillionaire types never got their fortunes without the minimal paid employees. I have been disgusted for years by the millions paid to CEOs. It's always on the backs of the employees. 100% & STOP THEM FROM OWNING OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES Just wow! So Trump figured out the fastest way to get Obama’s Iran deal was to destroy Obama’s Iran deal, start a war, and then remake Obama’s Iran deal. Efficiency at its finest. America... A special kind of place. 🇺🇸 And what we are hearing about the possible deal is that Iran will be much richer yes & no - they will have millions but they have to re-build their entire country thanks to Trump the moron who killed schoolgirls & thousands of other civilians & destroyed their infrastructure & country FOR NO REASON TO NO WIN OR GAIN FOR US WHATSOEVER - America & the world end up worse than before we started this war - the Strait is now a toll passage and we have to rebuild what we tore down & Iran loses none of its' nuclear capability & we alienated our allies & ..... Trump started a war & we have a HUGE financial loss - ALL PAID FOR W/ OUR TAX $$$ Iran has to completely rebuild their destroyed country and bury their thousands of dead - Iran is not 'winning' in any sense of the word No one won and this "war" impacted the whole world. All due to one man's whim (well two including Netanyahu). I have often thought about all the deaths and misery caused by Putin attacking Ukraine. All that due to one man. Data centers should be put on hold period. A national moratorium effective immediately should start now. An independent study of the effect of both data centers and AI is necessary now, to determine the long term effects they have on our country environmentally, economically, and in dependable information. Local pressure by sustained demonstrations seems to work well. I agree. My township has a moratorium in place. A neighboring township is trying to go ahead with one. 2 board members are selling the property to the data center. Corrupt. Still protesting loudly. I’m so frustrated that these big corporations expect big tax breaks to bring their business into a community! Small businesses don’t get that extra break and these large corporations can afford to pay the full amount! No more tax breaks for corporations! I guess MAGA is surprised now that the face eating leopard is eating their face. Maybe making Iran great again will sink in. I love Jamie Raskin. We need more Raskin, Ossoff, and the Democrats bringing the fire. Thanks Scott for keeping the good news flowing. We are in a serious fight for our democracy. Never thought this would happen, but here we are. Accountability -it matters! We need to end tax breaks and subsidies to all large businesses, including Big Oil especially big oil All that I see is the Obama picture of them in Chicago at the Museum.....sigh...the class. Happy soft opening of the museum day to those who celebrate As far as kkkkkash, I'd like to throw him behind bars and his sycophant followers too. I'd like that money back. Then it would be distributed to actual causes. Data centers-tax 'em a few million per day. Make them offset their carbon footprint. Something has to stick to these teflon goons. Maybe Raskin will be the one to start the trend in holding them accountable for their mob like crimes. I am here for it. I think data centers are inevitable but they put the cart before the horse! These data centers need to build the infrastructure FIRST! Meaning generate their own power and provide the necessary water. Kash Patel is not very smart so he has learned how to grift under a world class grifter. I am so sick of the corruption! Agree. My electric bill skyrocketed this month. The whole stinking regime is corruption at its worst. AND..... let's not forget the EPSTEIN FILES! Patel is doing just like the rest of Trump‘s cronies and followers cheat lie pick on others For everything else, the more things change the more they stay the same Trump just has a hard on for Obama and anything he did. It’s criticized and hopefully Trump‘s followers can see that what we’ve ended up with is worse than what Obama did. Get out and vote. I hope others to vote vote not cast as a vote for I won’t say the enemy, but certainly the opposition. Kash Patel straight up lied to Congress to get confirmed. Just exactly as most every other cabinet official did in this corrupt administration. We have the spineless Republicans to thank for the mess that we find ourselves in. Democrats are outnumbered in Congress and that’s how it works but November is coming. Don’t tell me that Democrats aren’t fighting for America. They are and they will have the receipts to show it. The people of this country, Republicans, Democrats and Independents are fed up with the cheating, lying and blatant corruption of the Trump regime and the spineless Republicans who refuse to stand up to it and honor their oaths to the constitution. The spineless, former GOP, now authoritarian party, is what breaks my heart the most. Their SILENCE and fawning over #47 is literally destroying what democracy is left in this country. BE A VOTER! SILENCE is complicity. All off the mobsters currently occupying our White House are lining their pockets with taxpayer dollars. No surprise whatsoever. Should we end massive corporate tax breaks for data centers? Is this a trick question? Because my answer is we should end the data centers themselves! Until they can be built in the naturally frigid environment of outer space, they have no place on earth, taxed or not. They will deplete the earth of what little is left. Proliferation of data centers is SO STUPIDLY SHORT-SIGHTED AND WRONG, it’s like we’re on a global mission of mass suicide. let's stay focused like Dworkin on all the ways the Resistance, "We the People" are fighting back. 1) Patel is a POS, as are all the rest in the regime. Of course there should never be a slush fund for his loyalists. I hope someone ends up being accountable for something. 2) Go Arizona! All businesses should pay their fair share of taxes AND remain accountable for undue hardship or burden on nearby citizens. And Kudos to AG Josh Kaul!!!!!!!! All states should be doing all they can to prosecute from the bottom up. Those at the bottom are more likely to give up their leaders with the offer of reduced time in jail. Thoughts on Kash Patel allegedly running a cash slush fund for his loyalists and bodyguards? Of course he's doing that and much more! Get him Jamie! Should we end massive corporate tax breaks for data centers? That yes, and much more - in fact I'd like to see them banned at this point! There are WAY too many of them now! Do we want the gift of life - WATER, CLEAN AIR and LESS POLLUTION, or do want AI data centers that take away jobs, that waste water, electricity, pollute and make a lot of noise. Plus as you say get tax breaks. I say NO MORE! Erin Brockovich is now on board with banning (or at least regulating heavily) them (I believe). https://brockovichdatacenter.com/ |
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