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Anna Massoglia retweeted
27 Aug 2025
Exxon Mobil has held secret talks with Rosneft, the Russian oil giant run by a close Putin ally, about returning to the Sakhalin project if given the green light as part of a Ukraine peace deal. @josephttwallace @CostasParis @learyreports @CollinEatonHC wsj.com/business/energy-oil/…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
27 Aug 2025
NEW —
The AI industry prepares for 2026 combat.
Andreessen Horowitz: $50 million
Greg and Anna Brockman: $50 million
Meta: "Tens of millions"
Huge sums of corporate cash are flowing into pro-AI super PACs.
nytimes.com/2025/08/26/techn…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
27 Aug 2025
Exclusive: A company circumvented a ban on corporate donations to give legislative Republicans $220,000. Those lawmakers then passed legislation that could make the company millions. By Jeffrey Billman for @TheAssemblyNC. #ncpol theassemblync.com/politics/l…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
26 Aug 2025
NEWS:
Bill Gates is quietly cutting ties with Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm closely linked to Democrats.
The $77 billion Gates Foundation has decided to stop making grants to nonprofit funds administered by Arabella.
$450 million.
NYT scoop:
nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/po…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
25 Aug 2025
NEW: How China influences elections in America's largest city, often using tax-exempt U.S. nonprofits.
nytimes.com/2025/08/25/nyreg…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
9 Aug 2025
Scoop: Robert Smith rented Donald Trump’s mansion, directly next door to Mar-a-Lago, while facing possible indictment in a massive tax-evasion case. forbes.com/sites/danalexande…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
9 Aug 2025
Here is a gift link to the story with @yaffebellany.
It details how CZ & Binance’s team has deployed the tactics that others have used to win clemency from Trump — flattering him, hiring lobbyists close to him & courting his business.
nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/po…
9 Aug 2025
NEW: Trump’s team appears to be considering pardoning @cz_binance.
He pleaded guilty in 2023 to money laundering violations that allowed terrorist groups to move $.
Since then, @binance has done a $2B deal that benefited Trump’s crypto firm.
A pardon could allow more US deals.
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
9 Aug 2025
Trump is being pushed by well-funded marijuana companies, who are attending his fundraisers, giving millions, presenting political arguments and hiring his former advisers, to reclassify marijuana. And he’s considering it. My latest: wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
7 Aug 2025
Rep. Cory Mills, already under investigation by House Ethics for financial disclosure and conflict of interest issues, allegedly received "SACKS OF CASH" from the defense contractor that he founded—while also sitting on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees.
5 Aug 2025
NEW: Florida GOP committeewoman Lindsey Langston has filed for a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills, her ex, after filing a police report alleging harassment & threats to release sexual videos of her and harm future boyfriends. Me @DropSiteNews dropsitenews.com/p/miss-unit…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
5 Aug 2025
‘Successful Businessman’ Trump Mobilizes Business Economists Against Him talkingpointsmemo.com/mornin… via @TPM
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
5 Aug 2025
This morning, ICE sent out a memo offering cash bonuses for quick deportations.
The New York Times reached out to DHS about the memo.
It then got cancelled.
Story: nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/po…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
1 Aug 2025
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
5 Aug 2025
Weight-loss drugmakers shook up their lobbying operations when Trump took office.
Their strategy appears to be working: the administration is reportedly considering covering weight-loss medication under Medicaid & Medicare.
NEW in @NOTUSreports: notus.org/money/weight-loss-…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
Pharmaceutical companies behind the biggest weight-loss drugs shook up their lobbying operations during the first six months of Trump’s second term, and @NOTUSreports' @taylorgiorno_ has the skinny on what happened — with huge amounts of money at stake:
notus.org/money/weight-loss-…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
Billionaires. Shell companies. Quiet corrections.
We dug through filings to follow how Musk’s money is still flowing into politics, and uncovered who actually funded Trump’s second inauguration.
The full story: influencebrief.com/p/reveale…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
TRANSPARENCY: @FCC FOIA @CBSNews @60Minutes Kamala Harris Interview Complaints
Never Before Seen Documents
“My training, as a journalist, is that it always makes sense to file a FOIA…”
“I felt it was important, for full context, to understand the viewing public's response to the interview and the edit....”
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
Scoop: Elon Musk’s X Corp. made a $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration.
But it wasn’t disclosed until six months later.
Here’s how it finally surfaced—and what the filings reveal 🧵
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
NEW: A former adviser to Kamala Harris, @MikeNellis, and a conservative talk radio host, @EWErickson, agree on at least one thing: political texting 'spam' has gotten out of control.
Now, Apple is rolling out a new feature that could crush those endless messages. And Senate Republicans/others in GOP operative world warn it could do more than just that.
@TheFP The iPhone Update That Could Wreck Political Fundraising
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
In 2023, Kash Patel’s charity told the IRS it gave a $20,000 cash grant to Rep. Cory Mills’ charity: projects.propublica.org/nonp…
But Cory Mills’ charity — which didn’t have IRS approval at the time — told the IRS it didn’t get any grants at all in 2023: projects.propublica.org/nonp…
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Anna Massoglia retweeted
4 Aug 2025
New: A @SpotlightPA analysis has revealed 15% of the donors to Gov. Josh Shapiro's $5.4 million inaugural committee, which the admin has refused to divulge. The committee also gave $750k of it to Team PA, which has paid for Shapiro's sports tickets.
spotlightpa.org/news/2025/08…
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