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A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
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A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

The amendment runs a single sentence: “A recipient of assistance under Title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling.”

https://www.deflock.org

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u/South-Cow-1030 — 16 hours ago
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Revealed: The Facebook accounts using AI to promote fake ‘good news’ stories about politicians - Posts which ‘weaponise empathy’ are garnering hundreds of thousands of reactions online – as fact checkers warn false narratives are being ‘churned out at an industrial scale’

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u/EchoOfOppenheimer — 19 hours ago

Trump has launched 622 products since start of second term — and made $8.8 million in one year

Sleaze, just plain sleaze!

He hasn’t appeared on late-night TV hawking his cheap crap yet, maybe when he finally stops his delusional texting he’ll stand before us holding a box of ‘Trump’s all-day diapers’, and because he has the mouth of a back alley wino he’ll say something like, “When you are as full of shit as I am, you need these. No need to constantly change them, they expand as you use them, so one pair will hold out ‘til JD Vance changes them.

Or “Try Trump’s ‘Silly Pills’. When your fantasies fill your head and you start drooling like a basset hound, these happy buggers will make you feel like you’re back on Epstein Island with a golf cart full of third graders”

A disgrace, but the bigger disgrace is there are Americans who think this man-child’s childish antics are a fit representation of American values and traditions.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Trump has launched 622 products since start of second term — and made $8.8 million in one year

Story by Averee Nelson

It’s no secret that President Donald Trump has an affinity for entrepreneurial personal branding, as seen in the Trum Store.

In 2017, the Trump Organization launched an official retail website, TrumpStore. com, which sells Trump-branded merchandise, from the president’s famous “Make America Great Again” hats to T-shirts, glassware, and more.

While Trump's two older sons, Eric and Donald Jr., are listed as the leaders at the helm of the Trump Organization, it is still owned by the president. A new report found that the Trump Store continues to release hundreds of products as Trump is in his second term in the White House — and he’s making an impressive profit from the merch. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — a nonpartisan nonprofit government watchdog organization — released a new analysis last month, finding that the Trump Store has launched at least 622 products since the start of Trump’s second term in office, totaling $43,000.

“This is an unprecedented level of monetization of the presidency, even by the standards of Trump’s own first term,” the analysis detailed.

The site sells a range of products at various price points, with a men’s “Mar-a-Lago Mock Neck Pullover” listed for $265, a classic red “45-47 MAGA Hat” listed for $55, and a “MAGA Flag Pickleball Paddle” priced at $180.

CREW, citing Trump’s last released financial records, found that the Trump Store brought in approximately $8.8 million in 2024. This is more than double what the store made in 2023 and more than 17 times more than the amount made in its full year of operation, proving how lucrative Trump-branded merch has been.

According to the CREW analysis, if a supporter wanted to purchase every in-stock item from the Trump Store right now, it would cost $91,145.12 for the 1,492 items. At least 99 of those items directly reference the presidency, costing $7,511.28.

 

The Trump Store has drawn criticism since its launch in 2017, as CREW has pointed out that Trump is profiting from his presidency regarding the products referencing his political position. Trump ranks #673 on Forbes' list of today's top 3,400 billionaires, with a net worth of $6.1 billion.

The store even sells products that reference an unconstitutional third presidential term for Trump, such as a “Four More Years!” hat,Trump 2028” merch, and a “Trump 2028 (Rewrite the Rules)” T-shirt.

Trump has brought personal branding to the White House

As reported by the New York Times, Trump used the Oval Office study to display Trump-branded merchandise, from hats, signed water bottles, and more. The merch room includes some of the hats referencing Trump running for a third term.

This room sparked conversation on social media after footage of Trump showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron the merch room went viral in August 2025.

Some of the hats in the room, emblazoned with various slogans, are available for purchase on Trump’s merchandise website.

When the Trump Store was launched, Larry Noble, general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, told NPR in 2017, "It fits again into the larger problem of him basically promoting his businesses from the White House.”

He continued, "We haven't had another situation where a president has had a website where his business is selling things that are branded with his name."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-launched-622-products-since-start-of-second-term-and-made-8-8-million-in-one-year/ar-AA23FqHG?

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u/PrincipleTemporary65 — 17 hours ago
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Texas Police Chief arrests resident for posting vid of her dirty brown tap water

Texas Police chief Charles Gregory believes free speech stops at your faucet.

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u/theatrenearyou — 21 hours ago
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Police officers who defended US Capitol on January 6 sue to stop Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

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u/SiriusGD — 1 day ago
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Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St. Clair reveals that he used "space technology" in the 2024 election and implies that he STOLE it for Donald Trump

Elon Musk's baby mama reveals that he used "space technology" in the 2024 election and implies that he STOLE it for Donald Trump.

This deserves a full federal investigation by Democrats...

"In October, Elon tells me that he is ready to release his, in his words 'anomaly in the matrix' And I am like, oh, like, who's that? And he says that he has 10,000 lasers in space, referring to his satellites," said Ashley St. Clair, one of the many women whom Musk has impregnated and then promptly began treating like dirt.

"I say, because I am like, rather uncomfortable, and I know the gravity of what he's trying to tell me right now. I say, 'Wow, finally, a focus on the Jewish vote. He keeps going," she continued. "And he says, you know, this is not something on, this is not a piece that they'll see on the chessboard."

"And I straight up tell him, I say, I would ask more, but I really don't want to be deposed, to which he says, very wise," she added.

The implication here is clearly that Musk was doing something illegal and that St. Clair wanted plausible deniability.

"Shortly after that, you know, he's involved with AmericaPAC and all of this other stuff, and he's sending me some internal data from AmericaPAC, real time delta vote metrics," recounted St. Clair. "And I am just like, how the f*ck do you have this sort of data? You don't get this from door knocking, because one of my first jobs in politics was in campaigns and cleaning up this bad data from door knocking, because the vendors that AmericaPAC is using at this point is a vendor that hires Craigslist crackheads for door knocking. And I wish I was exaggerating there, but I'm not."

St. Clair said that she now recognizes that she "caused harm" with her "rhetoric" when she was leaning into being a far-right persona, but claimed that she only ever wanted what's "best" for America. Clearly, she feels that she can no longer in good conscience remain silent on 2024.

"And one thing is I have always, always hated big tech," she said. "So then to have arguably the most powerful man in the world, who is sending me things about, you know, using his space technology in the election. I should also say that I have all of this backed up with many people with explicit instructions, should anything happen to me, okay."

"But this was something that I was internally wrestling with, while publicly not really showing that I was having any of these internal ethical conflicts with myself regarding this information," she went on.

"And then on election night itself, Elon, you know, left Mar-a-Lago early. I was at Mar-a-Lago and he told me, he told me over text, he's like, 'Yeah, I knew hours ago that Trump won. My team has the best real-time data anywhere,'" said St. Clair.

"First of all, how the f*ck do you have real-time data on elections?" she continued. "How do you have real-time data? I could not understand that. I don't know that I ever will. I just, I saw some shit, guys. Like, I saw some shit and I'm fighting really hard to keep my voice because I saw shit that impacts everyone. And if I was self-interested, I have been offered the self-interested deal to shut up and not talk about anything. But what I can tell you is I've not been offered certain deals just because I know that he's weird."

"Okay. I saw some shit," she concluded.

This woman must be immediately subpoenaed to testify before Congress under oath about the "shit" that she saw. If Elon Musk — who spent $291 million to help Republicans win during the 2024 cycle — really used his technology to illegally interfere in our elections, he must be prosecuted and imprisoned. And if any votes were tampered with, the election must be overturned!

Please like and share to demand a full investigation!

u/SimonGloom2 — 2 days ago
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"They are not excluded." Trump's Acting AG admits campaign donors could receive compensation from the president's $10 billion lawsuit against the US government.

u/DumbMoneyMedia — 3 days ago

Bobby assures us the world’s worst diseases are “Under control.” What could go wrong?

Robert F Kennedy Jr, who never heard of a disease he couldn’t deny existed or a vaccine he didn’t think caused autism, gave the same reply about Ebola and Hantavirus as Trump did when asked (for the hundredth time) about Covid, ‘Don’t worry, we’re working on it.’

And then a million Americans died.

Bobby also said, ‘We have it under control.

Ebola, the most dangerous virus on earth, with a mortality rate of almost 100% and is again threatening the world has finally met its match; Bobby, has it under control.

He made no mention if the government was working on a vaccine, or is developing a wonder drug, or he has a sure-fire method of containment. True, he made no mention of Ivermectin, Alka Seltzer, or Ben Gay either, but you can bet they are all in the mix.

He said Hantavirus is under control, too. Again, he made no comment about treatment, or containment – no mention of incantations in a thatched hut, burying black cats at midnight, naked dances around a campfire or other quaint household remedies – but he has it ‘under control’, or is ‘working on it’, or…?

I’m sure he’ll do the right thing. After all, Trump picked him. But ‘til then, I’ll hold my breath.

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'We’re working on it': Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. on Ebola, hantavirus response

Story by Arthur Jones II •

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News on Monday that his agency is working to address the recent hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks, marking the first time he’s commented publicly on the Ebola outbreak since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed than an American had been infected with the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

“Yeah, we’re working on it,” Kennedy told ABC News when asked if he was worried about the outbreaks. The secretary’s comments come after the CDC said a “small number of Americans" are directly affected by the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC.

Kennedy did not respond when asked what his message might be to Americans who are concerned about the diseases potentially spreading in America. He told reporters in the Oval Office last week that the U.S. had the hantavirus outbreak “under control.”

“We have this under control and we're not worried about it,” he said at the White House’s maternal healthcare event on May 11th. Kennedy also noted that the CDC has been working on the outbreak since day one.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/we-re-working-on-it-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-ebola-hantavirus-response/ar-AA23yWPT?

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u/PrincipleTemporary65 — 2 days ago