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Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.
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You guys bullied him so hard about those shorts you’ve got him jumping into pools fully suited. 😂
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This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.
Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. substack.com/home/post/p-203…
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"No, on Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."
More cold, hard evidence of the Israeli government's stated intention to commit genocide in Gaza while killing hundreds of its own citizens under the Hannibal Directive on Oct 7
October 7, 2023, early morning, Israel's police command center: "(Strike) Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."
In the first hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, while conversing with Israel's Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, another senior officer calls to implement the Hannibal Directive, and destroy Gaza along with the Israeli captives. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir later arrives and orders to stop filming the meeting.
Aired on Channel 12 on February 12, 2026
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Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter and co-host of Pod Save America said he has “a problem” with Democratic congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier because she “has not apologized for attending an anti-Israel rally on October 8th.”
By the time Avila Chevalier attended the October 8 rally, over 413 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza. The Israeli military had struck 426 sites across the Strip, according to official Israeli figures, and more than 2,200 Palestinians had already been wounded.
Favreau went on to characterize Avila Chevalier’s views as ranging from “moronic to abhorrent.”
🎥 "This Is Gaza" by Channel 4 News followed Palestinian journalist & filmmaker Yousef Hammash during and immediately after October 7.
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𝗣𝗮𝘆-𝘁𝗼-𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆. 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀-𝗴𝗼-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱.
For the past several weeks I tracked one chain of dealings, from a 2021 yacht introduction in the Adriatic to a US sanctions repeal signed into law in December 2025 to a $4 billion resort that broke ground six months later on a former Soviet military island. EVERY fact is on the public record. Every actor is named. The dates line up in ways that are difficult to call coincidence and expensive to defend. Bookmark this as this could collapse governments...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵
Three Syrian-born Qatari billionaires with a $12 billion Syrian reconstruction portfolio sat behind a US sanctions wall called the Caesar Act for six years waiting patiently for the right moment. This Act served as a wall that blocked access to their financing and sanctioned nearly ALL their wealth. They lobbied and partnered with president Trump's son-in-law (Jared Kushner) on a $4 billion Albanian resort. Kushner through convinced his father-in-law POTUS Donald Trump to sign the law that brought the wall down by removing all the sanctions on Syria. Six months later, the resort broke ground. The brothers' Syrian reconstruction portfolio became financeable. The Trump family took a position. The Albanian government rolled out the carpet. No registered lobbyist appears in any filing. Read that again. This could collapse governments...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹𝘀
Jared Kushner. Sole owner of Affinity Partners per SEC filing. Son-in-law of the sitting US president, Donald Trump.
Ivanka Trump. Public-facing partner on the Albanian project. Daughter of the sitting US president.
The Khayyat brothers. Moutaz, Ramez, and Mohamad al-Khayyat. Doha-based but Syrian-born nationals, Qatari-naturalised billionaires. Their conglomerate Power International Holding holds a reported $12 billion in Syrian reconstruction contracts that were unbankable under the Caesar Act.
Edi Rama. Prime Minister of Albania. Personally chaired the committee that granted strategic investor status for their island project.
Nathaniel Rothschild. British financier. Introduced Kushner to Rama on his yacht in the summer of 2021. Kushner has stated this on the public record.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Kushner, three months out of the White House, vacations in the Adriatic on Nat Rothschild's yacht. Rothschild introduces him to PM Rama. Rama is called aboard the boat. The Albanian project begins as a private conversation between private individuals with ties to the president of the USA.
𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund commits $2 billion to seed Affinity Partners. The PIF's own screening committee had recommended REJECTING the proposal over Kushner's inexperience and excessive fees. MBS, who chairs the board, overruled them and sent the money.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Qatar Investment Authority and Abu Dhabi-based Lunate inject an additional $1.5 billion into Affinity. Total assets under management reach $4.8 billion. Kushner publicly states the round closed BEFORE the election so he would not have to raise capital during a second Trump term.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Bashar al-Assad's regime falls. Ahmed al-Sharaa's (Ex-Al Qaeda and ISIS leader in Syria is magically rebranded as a changed man) transitional government takes power. The Caesar Act, which existed to punish Assad, becomes a wall blocking "reconstruction" money and investment in Ivanka Trumps favourite Island. The Khayyats sit directly behind that wall with their money sanctioned.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Albania grants strategic investor status to Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC, a Kushner-linked Delaware entity. Three weeks BEFORE Trump's second inauguration.
𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟯-𝟭𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Trump announces from Riyadh that he WILL lift US sanctions on Syria as a complete surprise to the entire world only months after Syrian regime falls and while the world is still trying to understand how an ISIS leader "got his legitimacy" so quickly from the USA government. The very next day he meets Syrian interim president al-Sharaa alongside MBS. First US-Syria leader meeting in 25 years.
𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Mohamad Al-Khayyat meets Republican Congressman Joe Wilson. Pitches a Syrian coastal megaproject. Wilson likes the idea but suggests re-branding the golf course as "Trump" to attract Trump's attention in the White House. Khayyat replies a Trump-branded resort is already planned. Weeks later Khayyat returns to Washington with a "foundation stone" engraved with the Trump family crest reading "Trump International Golf Club, Syria." He presents it to Wilson for delivery to the White House which is eventually delivered to Donald Trump in the White House.
𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congressman Joe Wilson travel to Syria and meet the new President of Syria who by now has a new suit, trimmed beard and is now called al-Sharaa (from his previous named which was Golani) in Damascus, accompanied by US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack. Same day, OFAC removes the Syria sanctions regulations from the federal code taking Syria on the road to recovery post-sanctions.
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. UCC Holding (Khayyat-controlled company) signs a $4 billion concession to redevelop Damascus International Airport. The first major reconstruction deal financeable in the new environment.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Trump signs the FY2026 NDAA into law and interestingly, section 8369 repeals the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019. The Senate vote was 77-20. Most interestingly and unlike Trump, he signs this law away from media attention with no ceremony, and just like that, the wall is gone.
𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟭-𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Ivanka and Kushner tour Albania. Ivanka dines with Rama in Vlora. Approximately 60 architects and businesspeople attend the working dinner. Ivanka meets Rama in both Tirana and Vlora.
𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Trump hosts the Board of Peace charter signing at Davos. Kushner presents a Gaza Timeline on stage. Albania is among the founding signatories and Rama is also in attendance and this is excellent brand building for Rama in Albania.
𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Rama attends the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington. Photographed presenting funding documents beside Trump, Vance, Azerbaijan's Aliyev, and Saudi and Jordanian officials. Trump pledges a $10 billion US contribution. Kushner speaks.
𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. The implementing company Sazan Operations is registered in Albania, controlled through six foreign companies ultimately linked to the Khayyat brothers per filings reviewed numerous sources.
𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Eric Lipton's @nytimes investigation publishes. Ramez Al-Khayyat confirms the partnership on the record: "We are investing in the holding company to make sure it has sufficient capital. So it is a joint venture between the two companies, and we are actually managing it together." Meaning the sanctions were removed by Trump, at the request of Kushner, whose wife, Ivanka wanted to buy an island in Albania so that it can be developed. The Khayyats, promised to invest at least $4 billion of their $12 billion that was seized and that was now freed by Trump.
𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Heavy machinery clears the protected coastline. BirdLife International and EuroNatur report no permits, no environmental assessment, no public consultation. Barbed-wire fencing seals off beaches families have used for generations.
𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Video shows private security guards beating protesters. Local police chief is dismissed. Two private security companies have licences revoked.
𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Thousands protest in Tirana. Albania's Special Prosecution Against Corruption (SPAK) freezes the bank accounts of Albania Land Development, the Khayyat-owned landholding company. Approximately €200 million frozen pending fraud investigation.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺
Four moving parts ran in parallel inside a single 18-month window.
1. A Trump family business venture (Affinity Partners, Atlantic Incubation Partners, Sazan Operations).
2. Foreign sovereign capital from Saudi PIF, Qatar QIA, Abu Dhabi Lunate and Al Khayyat brothers.
3. A US sanctions policy change (Caesar Act repeal December 2025) that directly benefitted the foreign capital partners' $12 billion Syrian reconstruction portfolio and who ultimately agree to directly enabled Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps dream island project.
4. A soft-power vehicle (Trump's Board of Peace) providing diplomatic cover and bringing the Albanian PM to Washington at the exact window of the deals.
Each part is legally distinct. Each is documented openly. I've just connected the dots, and the only question is whether they were INTENDED to operate as a single integrated mechanism, or whether they happened to align in the same window by coincidence.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆
The exact equity split has NOT been disclosed publicly. Industry standard for development partnerships of this size and structure is 50-50 or 60-40 between the lead developer (Affinity) and the local capital partner (Khayyat entities). Applied to a $4 billion project at conventional luxury resort developer margins of 15 to 25 percent, the developer profit pool is $600 million to $1 billion. Kushner family share at a 50 percent position would be $300 million to $500 million over the development cycle.
That is the direct number. The indirect numbers are larger and harder to estimate publicly. However, based on the comments made by the Khayyat brothers, it is likely that the brothers may have put up either the entire money or a significant share themselves as a thank you for Trump releasing the sanctioned assets.
Affinity AUM revaluation. Performance fees. Follow-on Balkan deals. Syrian reconstruction contract flows that may run back through the joint venture structure. The Khayyat family's $12 billion Syrian portfolio is the silent multiplier sitting on top or perhaps beneath the Albanian deal.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
The Khayyat brothers were NEVER personally on a sanctions list. They are Syrian-Qatari nationals, free to enter the United States on Qatari passports. What the Caesar Act blocked was the FINANCING of their Syrian reconstruction work, not the brothers themselves. International lenders would not touch deals that could trigger US secondary sanctions. So the $12 billion portfolio was stranded NOT because the brothers were designated, but because the financing environment around post-Assad Syria was radioactive.
The repeal cleared the radiation. The portfolio became viable. The brothers were already partners with the Trump family on a $4 billion resort on the day the radiation cleared. You could say they paid $4 billion dollars to free $12 billion or 33% pay to play fee.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲
The Iran-Israel war is generating identical structural conditions across multiple countries simultaneously. Sanctions regimes that can be lifted. Reconstruction zones that need capital. Gulf sovereign wealth funds with policy-sensitive interests. Allied governments willing to fast-track approvals.
Watch which Iranian assets are unfrozen in any settlement. Watch the Gaza reconstruction tenders. Watch the Lebanon post-war allocations. Watch which Iraqi infrastructure projects suddenly attract US-aligned private equity. The Sazan Circuit is the template. The applications are multiplying.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸
Three questions deserve formal answers under oath.
1. What is the exact equity structure of the Affinity-Khayyat joint venture, and what percentage of returns flow to entities controlled by Trump family members?
2. What was the timeline of communications between the Khayyat brothers, members of Congress, the White House, and the Trump family regarding the Caesar Act repeal between summer 2025 and December 2025?
3. What additional reconstruction projects in Syria, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, and Gulf states are currently being negotiated by Affinity Partners or entities directly affiliated with the Trump family, and what US policy decisions are pending that would materially affect the financial returns of those projects?
4. These are NOT speculative questions. They are the standard transparency questions that would be asked of any other administration whose family was running an active private equity firm taking foreign sovereign capital while making policy decisions that affected the value of that capital.
Without answers, the precedent stands. Foreign sovereign money flows into Trump family businesses. Trump family businesses partner with foreign actors whose financial interests depend on US policy. US policy moves to benefit those actors. The Trump family takes a share of the upside. Repeat for the next war, the next reconstruction zone, the next sanctions regime.
A 540-hectare former Soviet military island designed to shelter 3,000 troops in a nuclear war is the latest asset in the chain. There will be more. The clock is running.
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𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!
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NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
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This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.
The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
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And I feel bad about that. I meant to say he is a sadistic, infantile ugly fuck.
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It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.
Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.
In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.
The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."
In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.
That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.
Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”
Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.
Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:
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I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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LEGO just dropped its largest set ever: La Sagrada Familia.
It has 12,060 pieces and costs $800. The set comes 100 years after Antoni Gaudi’s death (June 10, 1926).
The details are insane including spires, carvings and interior with light shining through stain-glass windows.
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GEO Group locks 300 people in a 1,000 bed facility without proper food & medical care. Hunger strike for two weeks. State police beat protesters. And we can’t even get health inspectors inside. @SecMullinDHS’s DHS is running the most uncontrollable operation since Sherman’s March
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On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.
Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.
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