🇫🇷🇬🇧 Volunteer clowns are performing for migrants in a camp near Calais, a primary launch point for small-boat crossings into the UK. They juggle, mime, and give out high-fives in red noses while about 2,500 people wait for free meals and a chance to cross. The migrants mostly just stare in confusion... SURREAL 🤡 Writers: Sol, Michael

tukaram mundhe doing his job should 100% be celebrated don’t all of us want to be celebrated, given high fives, bonuses, for doing our jobs? yes, right? then it should also apply to govt authorities they must know good deeds don’t go unnoticed and doing their job is worth it

FIVE POINT ONE BILLION DOLLARS RICHER AND DONALD TRUMP WANTS YOU TO THANK HIM FOR IT Not a typo. Five point one billion. That's the House Oversight tally on what the Trump family has vacuumed up since he retook the Oval Office Forbes says his personal net worth went from 2.3 billion to 6.2 billion in barely two years. The whole family — Melania, the kids, Kushner — sitting on roughly 10 billion now. Nearly doubled since election night How does a family double its money while running a country. Follow the paper A billion-dollar tungsten mining deal cut with Kazakhstan. Trump's sons holding a stake. Tungsten. The stuff that goes into weapons and armor plating, and somehow the sons are positioned to cash in Defense-tech startups the sons invested in have pulled in 3.2 billion dollars in direct government contracts since. Another 3.1 billion sitting in future contract options. That's not luck. That's a pipeline Over a billion parked in World Liberty Financial, the family crypto fund, bankrolled in part by the United Arab Emirates. A foreign government has a financial stake in a business tied to the sitting president's family ProPublica says the White House leaned on getting a 620 million dollar deal done for an obscure rare earth magnet company connected to Donald Trump Jr. Trade adviser Peter Navarro allegedly worked the phones for them. Don Jr. says he had nothing to do with it. Sure And here's the part that should make you scream into a pillow — there's reportedly a settlement in place between Trump and his own government that keeps the IRS from auditing the Trump family So while your refund gets audited over a 400 dollar discrepancy, the family raking in billions from foreign governments and Pentagon contracts gets a permission slip This isn't governing. This is a toll booth with Trump's name on it, and every branch of government that's supposed to stop it is busy handing him the keys They are not going to stop, and they are laughing while they count it

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