The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, is the agency within the Treasury Department charged with combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. . What it does not do is force the banks to shut the money laundering down.”
“The networks through which dirty money traverse the world have become vital arteries of the global economy. They enable a shadow financial system so wide-ranging and so unchecked that it has become inextricable from the so-called legitimate economy.”
“Sen. Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which requested some of these SARs, said the FinCEN Files investigation ‘reinforces the fact that we now have two systems of law enforcement and justice in the country’ . .”
“Drug cartels move millions through US banks; poor people go to jail for possession. ‘If you're wealthy and well-connected, you can figure out how to do an enormous amount of harm to society at large and ensure that it accrues to enormous financial benefit for all of you.’”
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🚨 BREAKING! A jury found Donald Trump on 34 felony counts five weeks ago and neither the @nytimes nor the @washingtonpost editorial boards have called on him to drop out of the presidential race.
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🚨 BREAKING! It’s been 3 1/2 years since Donald incited a violent crowd to attack the Capitol to prevent the official declaration of Biden-Harris the winners of the 2020 election and NONE of the national news outlets have called on him to drop out
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🚨 BREAKING! It’s been over a year since a jury found Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carrol and NONE of the national news outlets have called on him to drop out of this presidential race
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Everything we do every day is helping reelect Donald Trump. Everything. All of us. We are all to blame. The numbers don’t care about our feelings, our “better”education, our moral superiority, our nuanced analysis. He is in line to win.
“Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice” — @EricCortellessa @TIME
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@EricCortellessa @TIME “What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.”
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Jerusalem March 1978. Shortly after the Coast Road massacre by the PLO. The purpose of the attack killing 38 civilians, including 13 children was to derail the peace talks between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.
Several months later, in October 1978 the Sadat and Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize. And in 1979 the two nations (Egypt and Israel) entered into a peace treaty.
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As a result, in 1979, the Arab League kicked out Egypt.
"Finally, I have heard concerns from some about how this important work relating to antisemitism will bear on Harvard’s vital commitment to free expression. Combating antisemitism and fostering free expression are mutually consistent goals."
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"We are at our strongest when we commit to open inquiry and freedom of expression as foundational values of our academic community."
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Counsel for MN voters, @ronfein: is a case of extraordinary importance." Trump engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution of the United States
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@ronfein 1. Section 3 of 14th Amendment is self-executing. Court has duty to interpret & enforce Constitution
2. MN law requires this Court to regulate ballot excess and exclude ineligible candidates
3. President is officer of US and took oath that is equiv. to "support"
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"Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. It holds that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve such critical benefits.
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"In so holding, the Court cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.
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"The Court subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society.
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