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GOLFING (MAR-A-LAGO MEMBERSHIPS $1 MILLION OR MORE
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MALARIA TRYING TO SELL SPONSORSHIPS FOR $10 MILLION
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$500,000 MEMBERSHIP FEE
INVITE ONLY
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5. QATAR GOLF RESORT 4. 2 TRUMP TOWERS SAUDI ARABIA
REMEMBER JARED KUSHNER'S 'INVESTMENT FUND' RECEIVED $2 BILLION
3. ELON MUSK SHADY STARLINK DEALS
NATION OF LASOTHO IN AFRICA
STARLINK DEALS WITH INDIA, SOMALIA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO,
BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN, VIETNAM
THIS IS JUST WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT SO FAR!
2. QATAR $400 MILLION BOEING 747-8 JUMBO JET
TAXPAYERS WILL FUND COSTS TO DEBUG & UPDATE
PALACE IN THE SKY
1. CRYPTO SCHEME
ABU DHABI $2 BILLION CRYPTO
$2 BILLION JARED KUSHNER FROM SAUDI ARABIA
$5.5 BILLION FROM GULF NATIONS
TRUMP DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU!
HE DOES NOT CARE THAT PRICES ARE SOARING OR THAT HOME OWNERSHIP SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE!
HE DOESN'T CARE IF YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN RENT & GROCERIES...OR WHETHER YOU'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE THAT FAMILY
ON A VACATION THAT YOU DREAMED OF. HE DOESN'T CARE IF THE HEALTH CARE YOU RELIED ON GETS
CUT OR THAT YOUR LOAL SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE GETS CLOSED.
IF IT HELPS PAY FOR THE BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS, IT'S ALL THE
SAME TO HIM. HE DOES NOT CARE.
TRUMP CARES ABOUT ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY.
THE SAME THING HE CARED ABOUT WHEN HE WROTE THIS BOOK.
AND THE SAME THING HE'S FOCUSED ON EVERY DAYA OF HIS
PRESIDENCY.
DEALS TO MAKE HIMSELF RICHER.
DEALS TO MAKE HIS FAMILY RICHER, TO MAKE HIS BILLIONARE
FRIENDS RICHER. AND MY COLLEAGUES, HE IS SUCCEEDING BEYOND
HIS WILDEST IMAGINATION.
HE WILL LIKELY MAKE MORE MONEY IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS
THAN HE DID IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE UP TO THAT POINT.
IN FACT, HE PROBABLY ALREADY HAS.
WITH GOLD PLATED SKYSCRAPERS AROUND THE WORLD AND A
SUITE OFNEW GOLF COURSES TO MATCH A FANCY PLANE, A SPEEDY
NEW TESLA WITH THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD IN THE
PASSENGER SEAT A CRYPTOEMPIRE AND PROJECTS AROUND THE
WORLD THAT WILL KEEP THE GRAVY TRAIN GOING FOR GENERATIONS.
AND NO MATTER WHAT WREAKAGE HE LEAVES BEHIND HERE,
HE KNOWS HE CAN HEAD OFF TO ONE OF THOSE GOLD PLATED
SKYSCRAPERS LOOK DOWN ON THE REST OF US AND CHUCKLE
AT HIS GOOD FORTUNE.
THE ART OF THE DEAL FOR DONALD TRUMP.
NOT FOR YOU.
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Last week, thanks to you we had a major victory – for the first time in recent memory the crypto industry suffered a legislative defeat. Most thought that last Thursday the crypto industry had a lock on a procedural vote in the Senate to pass the deeply flawed GENIUS Act – a bill that would legitimize risky crypto assets known as stablecoins and bless Trump's own shady crypto deals involving his very own stablecoin. But, thanks to your activism and outcry from consumer groups, good government groups and many more, the GENIUS Act's many flaws, including it's failure to address Trump's crypto corruption, became impossible to ignore: Senate Democrats took a stand, using the filibuster to defeat the vote and block movement on GENIUS – for now. This week, Republicans and the crypto industry are trying again. They’ve ratcheted up pressure on Senate Democrats to make another attempt at moving the bill forward with an anticipated vote as soon as Thursday morning. That’s right, they plan to try again and we need to stop them – again. Please sign and send a direct message to your members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, demanding they stop this dangerous bill now.
While negotiations on new bill text are ongoing, it's likely that any bill changes will be mere window dressing, and will fail to address Trump's unconstitutional crypto dealings. Nothing good can come from crypto legislation that fails to address these profound conflicts of interests and instead enables Trump's shady deals and his allies in the crypto industry. Every Senator needs to understand that the public doesn’t support the crypto industry’s corrupt scheme and Senate Democrats specifically must stand strong to reject movement on the GENIUS Act once again. The vote may be as soon as tomorrow. Please send your message now. We can beat the billionaires backing this crypto fraud. Thanks for taking action today. -Mark Mark Hays (he/his) P.S. If you’d like more information, I’ve copied and pasted my message from last week below. --- Original Message From Last Week --- Tony, Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to print their own money. Now, they have a bill in the Senate, the GENIUS Act, that would let them do exactly that. No guardrails on their corruption. The GENIUS Act is a Trojan horse. It would allow corporations like X/Twitter, Meta, and even Trump’s own family firm to create stablecoins, a digital token that is like a private currency. The bill has no meaningful consumer safeguards, will help enable more money-laundering, and pave the way for a major crypto crash. Last week we learned that the Trump family is making a $2 billion deal with a Middle Eastern fund using his family’s own stablecoin. If that alone wasn’t bad enough, one of the firms involved, Binance, has already admitted to federal money laundering charges. This is exactly the kind of international corruption and legal evasion that the GENIUS Act would legitimize . Senate Republicans want to fast-track this bill but some Democrats are drawing a line in the sand, demanding real guardrails against corruption, money laundering, and consumer abuse. If they don’t succeed, this dangerous crypto scheme could become law very quickly.
This bill isn’t about innovation, it’s about letting billionaires launder money and political corruption. It opens the door to market manipulation, untraceable bribes, and endless scams. And it will allow Trump and his family to enrich themselves without any meaningful limits. Trump and Musk want to get rich using stablecoins so they can cash in before the next crash. They’re not afraid of the next crash because, if it happens, they know working people will be left holding the bag. Just like in 2008. Just like with all sorts of crypto scams. Just like with every financial crisis caused by deregulation and greed. We’ve seen what happens when crypto collapses: people lose their savings, markets seize up, and fraudsters walk away rich. This may be our last real chance to stop the GENIUS Act. And there will be no way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Thanks for standing up to billionaire crypto fraud. -Mark Mark Hays (he/his)
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Become a paid subscriber to gain access to our private Discord server, subscriber-only AMAs, chats, and invites to events. Israeli Forces Bombed Two Gaza Hospitals in One DayBy targeting European Hospital and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the Israeli military is further decimating Gaza’s already devastated medical system.We have a commitment to ensuring that our journalism is not locked behind a paywall. But the only way we can sustain this is through the voluntary support of our community of readers. If you are a free subscriber and you support our work, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription or gifting one to a friend or family member. You can also make a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible donation to support our work. If you do not have the means to support our work financially, you can do your part by sharing our work on social media and by forwarding this email to your network of contacts.  A view of the inner courtyard of the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza after a series of Israeli airstrikes. May 13, 2025. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)Dr. Refaat Alathamna, an anesthesiologist at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, stepped outside for a short break during his 24-hour shift on May 13 when the hospital was bombed. “I had to throw myself on the ground,” he told Drop Site a few hours later, speaking from inside the hospital. “I hid behind a tree, because I couldn't reach the door of the intensive care unit to hide. I didn't know what it was.” A hospital security camera captured the moment multiple Israeli airstrikes hit the hospital complex at 6:19pm. Dozens of hospital staff and civilians, including children, can be seen walking in and out of the emergency entrance before a series of missiles slam into the hospital’s inner courtyard, sending bodies flying through the air. In another video taken on the nearby Salah al-Din road and posted by Mohammed Abu Rijeh, a local aid organizer in Khan Younis, large towers of dark smoke can be seen rising into the air as the initial strikes hit. After a few seconds, another series of strikes sends civilians running for cover. At least 20 people were killed in the attack on the European Hospital, according to Zaher Al-Wahidi, the head of information for the Ministry of Health. Alaa Al-Ghoul, an ICU charge nurse at the hospital, said that she was treating a one-year-old girl when the attack happened. "I have never heard of anything like that in all my life. Shrapnel flew. The ceiling fell on my patient. At that time, I was waiting for the time of my death from the intensity of the bombings." This was the second hospital the Israeli military attacked that day. In the early hours of Tuesday, the military bombed nearby Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. That attack killed two people, including prominent journalist Hassan Eslayeh, who was being treated for wounds from a previous Israeli assasination attempt in April. As with the Nasser hospital attack, the Israeli military openly admitted to bombing the European Hospital, claiming without evidence both that they were targeting Hamas in a tunnel underneath the hospital complex and that they had taken steps to “mitigate the risk” to civilians. Dr. Alathamna told Drop Site that the hospital received no warning of the attack. When he went back inside after the strikes, he said it was “total chaos” and that there was damage all around, including to the hospital’s oxygen system and to a section of the ICU. The attack has rendered the hospital largely inoperable, Dr. Alathamna told Drop Site, and that only a part of the ICU unit was still functioning. He added that the Israeli military’s continuing attacks have made it impossible for any necessary repairs to be made. “It was very difficult for the entire medical team, because that medical team are parents: they have families,” Alathamna recounted. “To tell you the truth, my brothers called me. My wife was left crying on the phone. My children wanted to talk to me, but I couldn't see anyone. I simply told her we were fine.” Photos and videos from the hospital courtyard show several large craters in the ground; a bus had collapsed into one of them. In a video taken by photojournalist Bara Lafi just outside the hospital, dust billows around as civilians scream. “I saw injured people who were scared, and they didn’t know what to do,” she told Drop Site. Lafi, who was mourning the loss of her friend and colleague Hassan Eslayeh, managed to keep filming even as another loud attack was launched. “I'm just working without thinking. I don't want to cry anymore.” According to Gaza’s Civil Defense, they recovered some of the injured and wounded but were initially prevented from returning to the hospital. In a statement on Tuesday, they said “the crews are still unable to return to the area to recover the remaining martyrs, whose bodies are scattered around the hospital, due to the intensity of the shelling and the occupation forces' deliberate targeting of anyone trying to reach them.” Dr. Alathamna confirmed that the hospital’s staff could not reach many of the victims outside in the hours after the attack. “No one dares to go out,” he said. Gaza’s Devastated Healthcare SystemThe devastating dual attacks on Tuesday are the latest in Israel’s systematic assault on Gaza’s medical system since October 7, 2023. In a report released in December, the United Nations said the pattern of attacks on Gaza’s hospitals has decimated the healthcare system, and that the Israeli military had blatantly disregarded international law in targeting hospitals. “As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap,” Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said as part of the report’s release. “The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times.” The attacks have left Gaza’s hospitals barely functioning in combination with the weight of Israel’s ongoing full spectrum blockade, now in its third month. Zahed Rahman, an American nurse from New Jersey who worked at the European Hospital last spring, returned from another medical trip to Gaza two weeks ago. Rahman told Drop Site that the impact of the blockade has been completely crippling for doctors and patients. “Here you have the luxury of having everything available at your fingertips,” he said. “Over there, you are strapped for everything. Simple things like gloves, hand sanitizer, topical anesthetics or injectable anesthetics. So you couldn't use them for things like chest tube insertions. These patients would be awake in agonizing pain, and you would have to insert a chest tube into their body while they're awake.” Rahman worked at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah during his most recent trip to Gaza and said that the lack of food is also worsening an already catastrophic situation for patients in hospitals. “Nutrition is a fundamental necessity for healing, for survival. You have children as young as five, six years old that I saw that were so weak due to the lack of nutrition that sometimes you could count their ribs. You can count their spine and, and their survival is solely dependent on nutrition,” he said. “Food should not be weaponized. Medication should not be weaponized.” On Monday, a panel of international food security experts said that the Israeli blockade has put Gaza at “critical risk of famine,” deepening an already horrific humanitarian situation, with one million people barely able to get enough food and hundreds of thousands facing possible starvation. Soon after the attack on Tuesday, Rahman received calls from nurses with whom he had worked during his time at the European Hospital last year, and they were distraught and in shock, he said. In a video call with them later, one of the nurses, Ahmed Aqel, said that despite the attacks and extreme challenges, they had to keep working. “The situation is too hard," he said in the recording shared with Drop Site. "But we made the decision that we will stay and keep on to care for our patients. We refuse to leave the hospital." The attacks on both hospitals came a week after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the military would launch a more intensive and expansive assault on Gaza, with the Israeli cabinet approving plans to seize the entire enclave. Even amid widening criticism of the humanitarian blockade, the Israeli government has given no signals that there will be a shift to allow food and aid into Gaza. Like so many Palestinians in Gaza, he and his family have been displaced numerous times, losing their home and everything they knew. For now, he said he is trying to just keep his family and his patients alive, despite how impossible that has become in Gaza. “As a doctor and a father, I have two rules: I have to take care of my family. I also have to do my duty to my patients and work,” Aqel said. “We hope they'll stay away from the hospitals because hospitals only provide medical services, treating patients. But, unfortunately, they haven't left the hospitals alone.”
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The Big Beautiful Disaster While Trump and Musk hurl insults, democracy dies in the background; this is your wake-up call to stop watching t...
