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While #TheOrangeClown plays golf & attends sporting events, he has handed all of his policy goals over to the #Muskrat.

I remind everyone, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS PROMISING TO DO IN 2016 when he was telling everyone he was going to hand every difficult job ("Peace in the Middle East", "Balance the Budget", etc) over to his Son-In-Law #JAREDKUSHNER.

But instead of #Jared, he is handing everything over to #Musk while he plays Figurehead. #TheScorpionAndTheFrog #DisasterPresidency

An investigation led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has discovered what he sees as new ♦️red flags surrounding the #equity #fund of Donald Trump’s son-in-law #Jared #Kushner.
In three years of work, Kushner’s fund, #Affinity #Partners, has taken billions from foreign investors
and made over $100 million in investment fees.
Yet in that time, Wyden points out in a letter to Affinity, the firm has
NOT “distributed a penny of earnings back to clients.”
Wyden now warns that Kushner’s fund’s behavior is lending weight to suspicions that have existed since Affinity’s founding:
that it was a potential 💥tool for foreign governments to curry favor with a possible future Trump administration.
“Affinity’s investors may not be motivated by commercial considerations
-- but rather the opportunity to funnel foreign government money to members of President Trump’s family,
namely Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump,”
Wyden wrote in the letter to Affinity. “Affinity’s failure to deploy capital in a timely fashion -- while charging excessive fees -- has reinforced my view that ⚠️Affinity is likely part of a compensation scheme involving U.S. political figures designed to circumvent the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

MSNBC · Jared Kushner’s private equity firm raises even more red flags than beforeBy Zeeshan Aleem

It seems as though Donald Trump’s son-in-law has mastered the art of the scam.

According to an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee, #Jared #Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, has yet to return even a cent of profit to its foreign investors.

The shady firm has received billions from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and other foreign governments.
In fact, 99 percent of the firm’s approximately $3 billion in funding came from overseas sources, according to a New York Times report that spurred the Senate investigation.
Yet Trump’s son-in-law has returned ➡️ no profit to the governments.
All the while, it’s estimated his firm has pocketed an additional $112 million in fees from the governments since 2021, according to the findings.

“Affinity’s investors may not be motivated by commercial considerations but rather the
💥opportunity to funnel foreign government money to members of President Trump’s family,
💥namely Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump,” wrote Senator Ron Wyden, head of the Finance Committee, in a letter to the company this week.
newrepublic.com/post/186380/ja

The New Republic · Jared Kushner’s Shady Firm Exposed for the Saudi Scam It IsJared Kushner’s Saudi-backed Affinity Partners is somehow still reporting zero profits, a new report reveals.

@argv_minus_one @realTuckFrumper
I asked myself the same question. Two reasons:

1) Power.
2) Ego.

If you remember, he promised to turn every big project over to his SIL #Kushner. "Peace in the M.E.? Give it to #Jared. Infrastructure? Jared. Healthcare reform? Jared.

He didn't want to do any of the work, but he enjoyed the power & all the trappings that go with it.

But now that the job is no longer "fun" and has created legal problems for him, he's only running to stay out of prison.

Polaris Dawn mission blasts off with plans for first commercial spacewalk

Four astronauts have blasted out of the atmosphere as part of a privately funded five-day mission that aims to carry out the first commercial spacewalk.

#Jared #Isaacman, the American billionaire founder of the electronic payment company #Shift4, is bankrolling the #Polaris #Dawn mission and acting as commander of the crew.

It is the second trip Isaacman has charted. In 2021, he flew on the #Inspiration4 mission, the first orbital spaceflight by an #all-#civilian crew, which included a cancer survivor as well as a data engineer who won his seat in a raffle draw.

Isaacman, who has thousands of hours in various aircraft, is joined this time by a retired military fighter pilot and two employees of SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned company that is operating the mission.

SpaceX’s #Falcon9 rocket launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday morning after several delays.
A previous attempt to launch last month was postponed hours before liftoff after a small helium leak on the launchpad.
It was later pushed back further when the same make of rocket was temporarily grounded by US regulators for checks.

The trip will last about five days and take an oval-shaped orbit that travels as far as 870 miles (1,400km) from Earth’s surface

theguardian.com/science/articl

The Guardian · Polaris Dawn mission blasts off with plans for first commercial spacewalkBy Oliver Holmes

4 years ago #JaredKushner was making life-or-death supply decisions for states. Congress didn't know where critical pandemic supplies were going, what the criteria were for sending them or what got sent to which states.
John Nichols wrote about it in his book Pandemic Profiteers.

I wrote about the failures of Congressional oversight of Jared & his hedge fund cronies on April 28, 2020.

crooksandliars.com/2020/04/who

Crooks and LiarsWho Makes Life-Or-Death Supply Decisions For Your State? Jared Kushner?By Michal Spocko

💔We’ve had thousands of people die of gun violence and we’ve basically done nothing at the federal level to substantially address it💔
-- David Hogg

As members of the youth-led gun control movement born out of the country’s deadliest high school mass shooting – the 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed in #Parkland, Florida – #Hogg and #Bosley represent thousands of young Americans demanding change.
“What’s happened is obviously heartbreaking, but at the same time, extremely frustrating,” 23-year-old Hogg said.
In 2018, Hogg survived the Parkland shooting and went on to co-lead the pro-gun control 🙏🏻March for Our Lives 🙏🏻rally, one of the largest youth-led demonstrations since the Vietnam war.

“We had one person, a couple decades ago, try to bomb a plane with a shoe bomb and ever since, we’ve had to take our shoes off,” said Hogg, referring to Richard Reid, the 2001 “shoe bomber”. “We’ve had thousands of people die of gun violence and we’ve basically done nothing at the federal level to substantially address it,” he said.

Responding to Maine’s Democratic congressman #Jared #Golden, who reversed his opposition to assault rifle bans after the shooting, Hogg said: “Far too often, we see politicians after these shootings on the left and right only come around to actually caring or saying ‘I should have done more’ after members of their own community have been killed.”
“What happened in Maine is horrible, but what happened in Maine in the form of individual shootings happens 🔸every day 🔸in this country and even more with the total number of people that were killed,” said Hogg.
“There are other Democrats out there who are in a similar position right now. 👉I would urge that representative to go and push those other Democrats to be better on the issue before this happens in their community,” he added.

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/o

The Guardian‘Stick with the fight’: gun control youth activists respond to Maine shootingsBy Maya Yang

Psychedelic Science 2023: The largest psychedelic conference in history

During the ’60s era, psychedelia and government stood at odds. At Wednesday’s opening ceremony, Doblin was followed by former Texas Gov. #Rick #Perry, as well as current Colorado Gov. #Jared #Polis, who voiced his support for pardoning all criminal convictions related to psychedelic drugs.

Next was #Joshua #Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Promising results from clinical trials are recruiting governmental allies across the aisle, something the hippies lacked.

Psychedelics are still illegal at the federal level, but that’s not stopping states from passing legislation that ranges from decriminalizing the cultivation, possession, and sharing of psychedelic substances, to regulated access at certified clinics for anyone over the age of 21.
vox.com/future-perfect/2023/6/

VoxPsychedelic Science 2023: The largest psychedelic conference in history is surprisingly saneBy Oshan Jarow

@flexghost

I love ❤️ this guy from #tennessee:

He goes on record saying that "...#espionage means that he [#Trump] took those documents and gave them to a foreign nation."

Apart from that he obviously got his criminal-law know-how from old #JamesBond movies, this is going to backfire so badly for the #GOP.

/s: Who still thinks that, e.g. the 2 billion #Jared got from the #SaudiArabia was because he is such an accomplished financial manager and such a nice guy? /s