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@bespacific@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#billionaire and #Trump mega #donor Timothy #Mellon “contributed” $130 million to the #US #military to help pay #troops during the #GOP shutdown. Trump praised him as “a great #patriot,” but the math doesn’t lie: $130 million covers less than 7 hours of the #military payroll or around $100 per soldier. “That’s 6.7 hours of pay for our troops." Mellon also gave #trump $53 million for his #texas #borderwall https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html

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Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

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@bespacific@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#billionaire and #Trump mega #donor Timothy #Mellon “contributed” $130 million to the #US #military to help pay #troops during the #GOP shutdown. Trump praised him as “a great #patriot,” but the math doesn’t lie: $130 million covers less than 7 hours of the #military payroll or around $100 per soldier. “That’s 6.7 hours of pay for our troops." Mellon also gave #trump $53 million for his #texas #borderwall https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html

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Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas

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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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The tacticool " #patriot" folk who "had a gun collection to stop #tyrants " are the ones doing the kidnappings.
#2nda #gestapo

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