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WHAT IS GOING TO BRING DOWN THE RETHUGLICAN PARTY? THEIR APPIETITE FOR GREED WHILE EVERYONE ELSE STARVES. AMERICA WILL ELECT ANYONE ELSE WHO CAN HELP THEM OUT NOW! THIS IS HOW FDR GOT ELECTED.
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Is This Why The Treasury Secretary is Blocking Epstein’s Financial Records?
Bessent, Kushner, and the $55 billion EA deal nobody is connecting.
Written By Kait Justice
https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/bessent-kushner-55-billion-ea-deal-epstein
ESSAY
“Trump and company are creating a mountain of wealth that it will be hard to get out from under for the rest of us mere financially average mortals. Their appetite for greed and consumption, while so many go without, would make Marie Antoinette blush.
The Trump clan’s greed extends to Jared Kushner (who is now asking Saudi Arabia for another five billion dollars for his Affinity Partners private equity fund – after promising not to raise capital while his father-in-law was back in office and he was serving as his Middle East Envoy), and his entrée into the world of abject corruption, Ivanka Trump. MORE
PRIVATE EQUITY AND HOUSING
Jeff Gundlach on Private Equity, Private Credit, offshore re-insurance, and other menaces to society:
“I’m getting that feeling that I had in 2005, 2006, where I feel like everybody’s lying about everything.”
Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevinm
Donald Trump just showed the country exactly where housing ranks on his priority list: nowhere.
A once-in-a-generation bipartisan housing bill was ready for his signature. It would help lower costs, build more homes, and take on big investors buying up neighborhoods.
Then Trump blew it up over a voter suppression bill that isn’t going anywhere.
I care about housing costs, Mr. President. So do the families in Southern California and across the country getting crushed by rent and mortgage payments.
We’re going to get this done with or without you.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE HOUSES GONE?
WHY IS EVERYONE BUYING OVER ASKING PRICE?
CAUSE PRIVATE EQUITY BOUGHT ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR ANYONE ELSE.
PRIVATE EQUITY ARE PROTECTED corporate landlords who enforce the oligopoly, aka the Epstein Class.
399 DOCUMENTS LINK HIS $7B FUND TO EPSTEIN TRUST · 2005
399 documents connect Glenn Dubin’s Highbridge Capital to Epstein’s offshore trust.
PRIVATE EQUITY A bipartisan housing bill to lower costs, build more homes, and stop Wall Street’s housing grab is on the brink of becoming law.
It takes direct aim at corporate landlords by capping institutional ownership at 350 homes — pushing back on hedge funds and private equity firms that have been buying up neighborhoods and driving up prices.
Who owns 350 homes? Only the Big Guys (Blackstone, Invitation Homes, Progress Residential). These are the firms who already bought up the neighborhood. So by setting the cap at 350, the government has effectively banned any new competitors from entering the market to challenge the giants. The “350 Club” has been sealed. Blackstone can keep the 50,000 homes they already own. They are safe. But if a new try-hard private equity firm wants to grow to 351 units to compete with them they can’t. This is not a restriction; it is a License to Exist as a Monopoly. It freezes the current power structure in place. It prevents new Wall Street giants from destroying the old Wall Street giants. The incumbents wrote this rule to kill their future rivals.
PRIVATE EQUITY CONTROLS YOUR DENTIST OFFICE, HOUSING, HOSPITALS, RESTAURANT CHAINS, TOY STORES, AND MUCH MORE ….
BUILD-TO-RENT” LOOPHOLE: THE 7-YEAR EXECUTION
The bill creates an exception for “build-to-rent” projects.⚠️
This ensures there are only new homes built specifically for rent.”
An earlier version of the bill required these “build-to-rent” homes to be sold to individual homeowners after seven years. This was designed to eventually turn rentals back into owned homes.🚨🚨🚨
Congress removed the seven-year sell-by provision in the final bill.
Reality? 🚨🚨🚨
Wall Street can now build massive subdivisions of starter homes and rent them out forever. They never have to sell. They just got permission to become “Feudal Lords” on newly built land, instead of just buying up old neighborhoods. The government just incentivized the creation of permanent renter-classes on brand-new land.
THE REGULATORY STRIP-MINE
The bill “streamlines environmental reviews” and expands the “Community Development Block Grant.”
The Hidden Intent?⚠️
This is the “Bribe to Big Business” hidden inside the populist packaging.
Developers have been blocked for years by water rights, zoning, and NEPA reviews.
This bill weakens those barriers.
The Exchange: The “Left” gets to say they punished Wall Street (the 350-cap). The “Right” gives the Developers what they really want: the ability to bypass environmental laws and penalties to build cheap, fast houses without oversight.
THE “CBDC” STEALTH BAN
Section 1001 prohibits the Federal Reserve from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) until 2030.🚨
The Logic ?
What does banning digital currency have to do with housing?
Nothing. It is a completely unrelated subject.
But The Hidden Driver?⚠️
The “Anti-CBDC” lobbyists used this massive housing bill as a “Must Pass” vehicle to kill digital currency surveillance.
Because If a digital dollar existed, the government could track every rent payment.
Hedge funds and landlords want privacy. They attached their pet project to the “Housing Relief” bill so no politician would dare vote against it.⚠️🚨
So By passing the “Housing Bill,” Trump also signed the death warrant for Fed-issued cryptocurrency. The “Housing” title was a disguise for a financial coup against the Treasury.🚨
WHO WINS?
The Loser:
• New Startups: Private equity firms trying to enter the market are killed by the 350 cap.
• The Renters: They face a permanent future where “build-to-rent” is the norm because the law incentivizes corporations to build rental empires rather than sell to families.
@RepThomasMassie
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/whats-in-the-21st-century-road-to-housing-act/
https://forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/06/22/senate-passes-housing-bill-restricting-institutional-investors-from-purchasing-homes/
https://cnbc.com/2026/06/22/affordable-housing-bill-private-equity-single-family-homes.html
BREAKING: The House has just passed a landmark housing bill.
The bill has already passed the Senate, and now heads to Trump’s desk. He’s expected to sign it.
This bill would limit would limit the institutional ownership of housing, meaning corporate landlords or hedge funds or other large for-profit entities would be able to own no more than 350 homes.
The legislation also has dozens of other provisions, which include:
– Removing some regulatory barriers and streamline environmental reviews to increase development of affordable housing.
– Updating requirements to expand manufactured housing production.
– Creating an innovation fund for communities to build more housing supply.
– Establishing better community banking and loan options.
– Supporting housing opportunities for veterans.
– Permanently authorizing a major disaster recovery program.
Earlier this week, Lauren Boebert voted NO on the bipartisan housing bill that encourages more homebuilding, while placing limits on corporate investors — legislation that could provide much needed relief for Colorado home buyers and renters. She was the ONLY member of the Colorado Congressional delegation to vote no. Why is she refusing to lower costs for Coloradans?
https://time.com/article/2026/06/24/housing-bill-congress-house-members-voted-against/
PRIVATE EQUITY
“Strip the real estate, force the operating business to pay insane rent to lease back their own buildings, and walk away with the cash…” Private equity strikes again! The Steward Health Care bankruptcy.
Its record of destroying public services is no accident: private equity is essentially an elite project to profit from asset-stripping.
Defenders of the private equity industry cast it as a bold force driving economic dynamism.
But its record of destroying public services is no accident: private equity is essentially an elite project to profit from asset-stripping.
SOUTH CAROLINA BANS THIRD PARTY LITIGATION
“This means that outside entities, like Hedge Funds or private equity firms, can no longer bankroll civil lawsuits in North Carolina in exchange for a percentage of the cash payout.”
These Hedge Funds and private equity have their dirty paws in everything.
PARASITES
HOW BILL ACKMAN DESTROYED CHIPOTLE
Billionaire Hedge Funds don’t care about the business they care about extracting as much wealth out of it and leaving it to collapse.
THEY ARE PARASITES‼️
The engineer growth that is not sustainable then they take their money from the scheme and leave the company broken and the shareholders devastated and move on to their next victim.
Youth sports is now costing parents as much as $25,000 a year.
Private equity and corporations are turning a childhood pastime into something only the wealthy can afford.
Youth sports has become a $40 billion industry, and the steep costs are crushing American families.
“Strip the real estate, force the operating business to pay insane rent to lease back their own buildings, and walk away with the cash…” Private equity strikes again! The Steward Health Care bankruptcy.
Leon Black is an American private equity investor and the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the largest private equity firms in the world.
Leon David Black is an American private equity investor. He is the former CEO of Apollo Global Management, which he co-founded in 1990 with Marc Rowanand Josh Harris.
Black was the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021.
Black resigned from both Apollo Global Management and the Museum of Modern Art in the wake of revelations about his business ties to the New York financier, Jeffrey Epstein.
After Black had a long-term affair with a Russian model, she threatened to make public allegations of sexual abuse unless he paid her $100 million. Epstein negotiated a 2015 NDA under which Black agreed to pay her $100,000 per month over 15 years, totalling $18 million. In 2024, Black said that he “deeply regrets” his relationship with Epstein. Between 2012 and 2017, Black paid Epstein a total of $170 million for “tax and financial services”. VIDEO Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) @RepSuhas
Leon Black was one of the biggest funders of Epstein’s operations. Jun 26, 2026
Leon Black via Apollo also funded Constellis, Blackwater, Triple Canopy & Michael Taylor and ran Trump-Epstein kidnap/trafficking, LEO victim intimidation, obstruction, LE bribes and cover-ups.
WHILE EUROPE IS ROASTING HOT
Bhutan did something almost no country on Earth has done: they put trees in the constitution. Not a vague “we care about nature” type promise but an actual number. At least 60% of the country must remain under forest cover for all time. They met the goal and blew past it.
Ossoff: While hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their healthcare, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom. They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill.
@MikeHudema
“Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It’s so simple.
This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we’re flunking it.” George Monbiot. No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
BILLIONAIRE MICHAEL SAYLOR GIVING THE GREATEST #BITCOIN ADVICE IN HISTORY :
“IF YOU’RE GOING TO ARRIVE EARLY TO A REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY, YOU’RE GOING TO BE IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE”
BTC “IS THE FIRST DIGITAL COMMODITY IN HISTORY”
“ONCE YOU FIND A GOOD THING, YOU JUST WANT TO CONSISTENTLY ACQUIRE MORE”
“THE ONLY MISTAKE YOU CAN MAKE IS ACQUIRE IT WITH SO MUCH LEVERAGE THAT YOU GET LIQUIDATED”
THE GOAL IS TO “NEVER STOP ACQUIRING IT”
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, making her one of the biggest individual donors in history. She wants to spend the majority of her Bezos fortune on helping others and making the world a better place.
Nobody alive is a better firsthand expert on the topic.
John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social • 1d
Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon – The Washington Post.
Vance seems remarkably ignorant of history.
Republicans ended Nixon’s presidency and they have never before been called the “deep state.”
Senator Jon Ossoff just called for a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. This is amazing AND
Ossoff: There is this beautiful little island off of the Albanian coast. And Jared Kushner wants it. So, he took his Saudi billions and he decided he and Ivanka would buy the island and build a luxury resort, and like clockwork, just a few weeks after Trump wins a second term, Albania’s PM grants Jared’s company strategic investor status, permitting his expedited to help the American prince develop his new island.
And it turns out that ordinary Albanians are not fans of this arrangement. There are massive protests. Tens of thousands of people in the streets. They are calling at the flamingo revolution. All sparked by opposition to Jared Kushner’s land deal. Now Albania’s anti-corruption police are getting ball. They froze a bank account controlled by two of Jared’s investors, both Syrian billionaires
Do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if you were not the president’s son-in-law?
There are three branches of government and your church isn’t one of them.
The top priority of the Trump-led Republican Party is to keep Democrats from voting. That’s their most important policy position right now.
Les Wexner was deposed under oath about Alicia Arden, who says Epstein tried to assault her.
“Mr. Epstein grabbed her, tried to undress her, and said he wanted to manhandle her.”
Arden says when she reported it, sheriffs told her they work for Wexner.
Dillon Roof the white man who murdered all those Black people in South Carolina church. Well, the judge that showed sympathy to him and his family happens to be a pedophile. and he got arrested.
Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin
We hold the power of the purse and a Congressional appropriation is a federal law. Thus the president must take care to faithfully execute all budget appropriations. Trump has violated the Constitution by shutting down USAID and now withholding $19 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. His refusal to write the checks for USAID’s lifesaving global programs against malaria, HIV/AIDS and hunger is a deadly form of law-breaking.
BREAKING: Some Republicans are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment, which would end the direct election of U.S. senators and return the power to choose them to state legislatures. The 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, shifted Senate elections from state legislatures to voters as part of a broader effort to increase public accountability. If enacted, it would represent one of the biggest changes to the U.S. electoral system in more than a century.
ESSAY Hedgie @HedgieMarkets
🦔Ford admitted it had to rehire engineers after replacing them with AI systems that couldn’t do the job. The company’s VP of hardware engineering said they mistakenly believed AI and adjusted design requirements would produce a high-quality product. Ford has cut over 5,000 workers since 2020 and recalled more cars than any other US automaker this year. The company rehired, newly hired, or promoted 350 experienced engineers to fix the damage. CEO Jim Farley has said AI will replace half of all white-collar workers in the US.
My Take
Ford fired the engineers, the quality collapsed, and then Ford called the engineers back to fix what broke and train the AI that was supposed to replace them. The VP framed this as a lesson learned. I’d call it something else. Ford planned to use its own employees to build the system that would make them obsolete. The employees left before that could happen.
Ford now has the top spot in JD Power’s quality ranking for the first time in nearly 20 years, but only after it brought the humans back. The company’s response to the whole episode is to add 100,000 more AI-powered tests. Farley still says AI will replace half of white-collar workers. Ford just proved it can’t replace 350 engineers without the product falling apart, and the CEO’s position hasn’t changed. That’s the part I can’t get past.
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Trump‘s and Lutnick‘s sons have been involved in 14 rare mineral deals that were collectively financed or will be financed by $8.9 billion US taxpayer money, as Trump seeks to find partnerships to get at these minerals. It’s one of the most disgusting displays of kleptocracy so far!
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