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Four distinct generations of alternative rock genius under one roof. Billy Corgan, David Bowie, Lou Reed, and Robert Smith hanging out backstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on January 9, 1997. The occasion was Bowie’s 50th birthday benefit concert, where the Starman invited his greatest peers and disciples to join him on stage. Captured by renowned rock photographer Kevin Mazur,
🎸 David Bowie invited each of these artists to duet with him during this 50th birthday show, from Lou Reed on White Light/White Heat to Billy Corgan on All the Young Dudes and Robert Smith on Quicksand. Which of those on-stage collaborations would you have wanted to witness live most?🎸 👇️
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Notable Trump clemency cases matching the criteria (pardons/commutations; amounts from DOJ/court records):
Medicare/Medicaid: Philip Esformes ($1.3B scheme), Salomon Melgen ($42-73M), Lawrence Duran ($87-205M), Judith Negron (same scheme), 5 WellCare execs ($35M).
Tax: Todd/Julie Chrisley (~$30M+ bank/tax), Paul Walczak (~$4-10M), Joseph Schwartz ($38M).
Crypto-related (mostly AML, not investor fraud): Changpeng Zhao ($50M fine), BitMEX founders/co. ($100M+).
Full exhaustive lists span both terms and exceed space; sources include DOJ clemency records.
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LOL you guys are ridiculous. Hey @grok, please make a list of every person convicted of tax fraud, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and cryptocurrency fraud that Donald Trump has pardoned so far. Include how much money was involved
If you steal from American taxpayers, you WILL be held accountable. House Republicans will NEVER stop fighting against fraud.
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Donald Trump has granted clemency to dozens of individuals convicted of financial crimes that directly target American taxpayers or the federal government. Across his two terms, over half of his individual (non-blanket) clemency grants have benefited white-collar offenders
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This should not be a real thing I see on my TV.
“Religious transformation of military” is the most anti-American idea imaginable.
I don’t care what you believe, but if you think this is right, you are brainwashed about America. The founders tried to prevent precisely this.
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Jesse Watters to Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff: “We don’t like our wives working. We don’t like the idea of another man, her boss, telling her what to do.”
Yes, he actually said that. 🤦♀️
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Tough mandatory sentences are only for everyday folks. Trump personally freed executives who looted $1.6B from Medicare, Rick Scott cashed in on a $1.7B healthcare fraud fine, and DeSantis, Moody, and Uthmeier used $10M from a Medicaid settlement to fund political ads.
They don't want to stop healthcare fraud; they just want to control who profits from it.
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Does this mean Rick Scott will be dragged from the Capitol in shackles?
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Right?
MAGA thinks Trump is going after fraudsters when right in front of their faces he's actually pardoning them.
It's so f**king ridiculous that these MAGA folks simply have no path forward to redemption.
100% irredeemable.
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Philip Esformes: $1.3B Medicare/Medicaid scheme (commuted 2020)
Salomon Melgen: $42M Medicare fraud (commuted 2021)
Lawrence Duran: $87M Medicare fraud (commuted 2025)
Judith Negron: related $87M scheme (commuted 2020)
WellCare execs (Farha et al.): ~$35M Medicaid fraud (pardoned 2021)
Daniela Gozes-Wagner: $50M Medicare/Medicaid (commuted)
At least 13 cases totaling over $1.6B per reports.
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Luis Ochoa is 17.
He is a U.S. citizen.
He was driving with another U.S. citizen to enlist in the Marines when he was pulled over and ripped from his car by ICE.
Someone started recording.
This is the horrific video.
While the boys were being beaten, they repeatedly tell the agents they are CITIZENS — and are ignored.
One agent told said, "I don't give a damn. Your parents can't help you now."
Both teenagers were detained for hours before being released.
They were preparing to serve this country - yet their citizenship did not protect them from being beaten, pepper-sprayed, and detained by their own government.
This is what the Nazis did then, and ICE does now.
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1. Elon Musk is blanketing the internet with digital ads falsely accusing Democratic Senate candidates of supporting “taxpayer-funded sex changes for kids.”
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The new White House app saves your exact location to a remote server every 4.5 minutes. Although this breaks strict platform rules, there's no way to disable it. The billionaires are rallying around Trump and his regime.
