From a Washington Post story today: "Ballroom donors won $50 billion in contracts after giving to the Trump ballroom project, watchdog group finds."
Georgia State University political scientist Jeff Lazarus noted on BlueSky that $50 billion in contracts is 555,000% larger than Teapot Dome, "the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, [which] involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation."
I can't even comprehend 555,000%. Sometimes the level of depravity hits you all over again.
A separate Washington Post story reported that DOGE wanted to declare 2.7 million people dead, so that immigrants would be "so miserable that they self-deported or went to Social Security offices for help, where they could be arrested." This is according to a whistleblower. (Gift link https://wapo.st/4uOlIJt.)
That exact plan didn't happen as DOGE intended, but many other bad things have happened to our immigrant neighbors, as we know.
Currently mass "asylum" hearings are happening at Trump's deportation courts all over the country. The Star Tribune reported today that they have begun happening here in our local Fort Snelling courtrooms, with up to 73 cases being heard on the same docket. 80% of the people in one judge's list had no representation. That sure is the way to have your case heard fairly.
Meanwhile, in New Jersey's Delaney Hall, there are people who are begging to "self-deport" [terrible term] because the conditions are so bad, who are not being allowed to do so.
And reports of ICE smash-and-grabbing people out of vehicles on the streets here in the Twin Cities and in Chicago are ramping up once again.
How quaint is this idea, that there would be outrage over the equivalent of $9 million worth of corruption?
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