There’s so much going on right now, and life can feel overwhelming even without looking at any of it. What follows is a smattering of easily confirmed things that made the actual (not mainstream) news cycle today…
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “We believe that the shutdown may start costing the U.S. economy up to $15 billion a day, and this is a decision the Democrats are making… I am calling for the moderate Democrats to be heroes and reopen the government for the American people.”
- Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger purchased Salesforce in 2022, which entity just this Week was Outed for Indirectly Funding Antifa.
- DOJ brings first Antifa-related terrorism charges in Texas ICE attack.
- John Bolton Indicted on 18 Counts Under Espionage Act: Shared More Than 1,000 Pages of Highly Classified Information.
- ICE just arrested an illegal immigrant who was working as an officer with the Hanover Park Police Department in the sanctuary state Illinois. Radule Bojovic, an illegal alien from Montenegro, overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to leave the U.S. on March 31, 2015, per @DHSgov.
- Federal prosecutors have charged voting technology firm Smartmatic with money laundering and other crimes arising from more than $1 million in bribes that several executives allegedly paid to election officials in the Philippines.
- JB Pritzker and wife reported nearly $10.7M in taxable income last year, triple their 2023 earnings.