Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning.
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Who is Ben Navarro, the Charleston businessman and philanthropist buying Union Pier?
Ben Navarro is buying Union Pier. He also owns Sorelle Sherman Financial Group Credit One Stadium on Daniel Island and The Charleston Place on King Street.
Post and Courier (www.postandcourier.com)
Beemok Capital's $260M Cincinnati Open Renovation is an Investment in Tennis' Future
How Beemok Capital's $260 million investment in the renovation of the Cincinnati Open facilities helps the future of the sport.
Serve On SI (www.si.com)
A 140-acre sand mine is planned on part of an old Lowcountry plantation. Locals are feeling deja vu.
Huger residents are voicing concerns about planned 140-acre sand mine and negative impacts it could have on traffic, community safety, and the environment.
Post and Courier (www.postandcourier.com)
Navarro made her feelings clear on US Open star who's also billionaire heiress
Emma Navarro remains close with fellow US tennis star and billionaire heiress Jessica Pegula.
Daily Express US (www.the-express.com)
54. Ben & Kelly Navarro $5,373,100
55. Alice Walton $10,248,000
56. Rob Granieri $5,587,8999/
Betsy DeVos
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/republicans-cowards-betsy-devos-ted-cruz-empowering-trump
GOP Bill Gives Rich Funders of Deeply Unpopular School Privatization 'A Lucrative Tax Shelter' | Common Dreams
"The House tax plan would create a system that treats people supporting private K-12 vouchers far more generously than donors to children's hospitals, veterans' groups, and every other cause imaginable."
Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
The Miseducation of Betsy DeVos - Dissent Magazine
For almost twenty-five years, Betsy DeVos has been one of the most dogged political operatives in the movement to privatize public education.
Dissent Magazine (dissentmagazine.org)
Erik Prince - Putin's buddy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/erik-prince-trump-immigration-enforcement
“I’m Tired of America Wasting Our Blood and Treasure”: The Strange Ascent of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince
Since the 1970s, the DeVos family has been quietly advancing a plan to make government act more like a private business. Now, they appear ready to take the next step.
Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)
The Prince of War | Ben Makuch
Erik Prince pitches himself as a solutions-oriented innovator. In reality, everything he touches turns to shit.
The Baffler (thebaffler.com)
A Mercenary Storm Is Gathering | Opinion
Renewed American interest in mercenaries and private military companies (PMCs) will only accelerate their use globally and may ultimately (re)normalize the medieval notion of killing for profit.
Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)
Erik Prince Offered Lethal Services to Sanctioned Russian Mercenary Firm
A business relationship between Prince and Wagner would, in effect, make the prominent Trump administration adviser a subcontractor to the Russian military.
The Intercept (theintercept.com)
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Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning. That man is full of shit, everything that comes out of his mouth it shit, and you don’t need to eat it.
I hope ICE and CBP actually leave soon. I’ll believe it when they do. They’re still out there right now. They’re still horrible. They’re still destroying lives •this morning•.
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@inthehands you know he's been managing the border since Obama's administration...
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@Npars01 I would add Eric Prince and his sister Betty de voss
Erik Prince's Private Wars
Blackwater founder Erik Prince wantsTrump's help to bring back his glory days. But he's facing questions about a mercenary fiasco in Libya.
Rolling Stone (www.rollingstone.com)
The White Power Mercenaries Fighting For The Lost Cause Around the World
From Ukraine to the U.S. to countries in Africa, white power mercenaries have adopted the Lost Cause as their rallying cry
TIME (time.com)
On how Mehdi Hasan caught Erik Prince in a lie
But left some important questions about the private security industry unasked and unanswered.
Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
The Tip of Russia’s Spear | John Lechner
How Yevgeny Prigozhin brought Wagner to Libya during a twenty-first century scramble for Africa.
The Baffler (thebaffler.com)
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept Over Russian Mercenary Report
Mercenary Erik Prince filed a defamation lawsuit against The Intercept in a New York federal court after an earlier suit in Wyoming was dismissed.
The Intercept (theintercept.com)
Here you go:
Erik Prince: the warmonger is someone aching for WW3
Nicole Parsons (@Npars01@mstdn.social)
9/ Betsy DeVos https://www.teenvogue.com/story/republicans-cowards-betsy-devos-ted-cruz-empowering-trump https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-school-privatization https://dissentmagazine.org/article/miseducation-betsy-devos-public-schools/ https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/19/devos-family-developing-new-strategy-for-michigan-republicans-ahead-of-2026-governor-election/83725991007/ https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/30/dan-doug-devos-john-james-michigan-governor-candidates-gop-house-budget-earmarks-trump-fake-electors/85885317007/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/betsy-dick-devos-family-amway-michigan-politics-religion-214631/ Erik Prince - Putin's buddy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/erik-prince-trump-immigration-enforcement https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/putin-ally-seychelles-meeting-erik-prince-chance-encounter/story?id=55408942 https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/betsy-devos-education-trump-religion-232150 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/the-strange-ascent-of-betsy-devos-and-erik-prince https://yaledailynews.com/articles/campus-republicans-host-talk-on-privatization-of-government-services https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-prince-of-war-makuch https://www.newsweek.com/mercenary-storm-gathering-opinion-2127134 https://theintercept.com/2020/04/13/erik-prince-russia-mercenary-wagner-libya-mozambique/ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-ally-prince-sent-men-drones-help-congos-army-secure-strategic-town-2026-02-10/ https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/11/01/the-return-of-erik-prince https://www.economist.com/international/2025/11/21/erik-prince-americas-most-notorious-mercenary-spies-opportunity-in-chaos https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/03/opinion/international-world/russia-prigozhin-wagner-mercenaries.html
Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)
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Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning. That man is full of shit, everything that comes out of his mouth it shit, and you don’t need to eat it.
I hope ICE and CBP actually leave soon. I’ll believe it when they do. They’re still out there right now. They’re still horrible. They’re still destroying lives •this morning•.
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@inthehands Nazis really can't do much more than be despicable and untrustworthy. Send them back to the 1940's.
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@Npars01 They should be given a choice. Hand over your money or into the wood chipper. If you don't cause trouble you can go in head first.
The Moneyed don't fear death.
They fear losing power, status, wealth, & control.
They fear the loss of being able impose misery, suffering, famine, desperation & poverty in others.
For the Epstein Class, it's entertainment for them.
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From where I sit, I don’t think it’s a trap. It’s been clear for a while that they’re digging themselves deeper in a hole the longer they keep doing what they’ve been doing, and that they’re going to need to declare “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” so they can switch to some different awful thing.
However, this is very much a “don’t let your guard down” moment. They’re gearing up for some different horrible thing. They’re not disappearing.
elala@nrw.social (@elala@nrw.social)
@inthehands@hachyderm.io When I read the report about Homan's statements, my immediate thought was that he wants to divide the resistance and the solidarity community, because many people are naturally tired and want to believe that the paramilitary troops will withdraw when the demonstrations subside, while others assume that he is a liar. I think it's a trap, but I'm far away.
NRW.social (nrw.social)
@inthehands I admire your optimism and take here. I agree that they're in the consolidation phase. I think they also used this exercise to evaluate response and how the courts, etc. would react to future power-grabs. I look for a big ICE build-up and strikes in the ~six weeks before the midterms to try to destabilize the election and consolidate power.
I think y'all have set a great example for the rest of the country. I wish I could buy you all a beer and hug all the people who have done the needful and displayed the kind of bravery that the U.S. used to be famous for.
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@firefly @inthehands Fortunately they are completely unable to do anything in a stealthy way ...
@acsawdey @firefly @inthehands It'd be a lot harder if we had a fully functioning free press, but Trump's billionaire buddies have been shutting that down too. (To be fair, this started even before Trump, but has accelerated...)
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The Moneyed don't fear death.
They fear losing power, status, wealth, & control.
They fear the loss of being able impose misery, suffering, famine, desperation & poverty in others.
For the Epstein Class, it's entertainment for them.
@Ulrich_the_elder @Npars01 So, send them out to work as farm labor? As janitors?
(I am not in any way demeaning farm labor or janitors. I have profound respect for the people who pick our food and those who keep things clean.
But having the wealthy and powerful serving time while wearing overalls and harvesting lettuce, or mopping floors seems like appropriate punishment. Imagine the Epstein Class, Bondi, JD and Miller out in a field, in dirt... being overseen by members of the UFW.
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This is not a retreat, it is a regrouping.
So glad to see that you know this.
We can not let our guard down. Not now, not for the next 80 years.
What hurt them, was the fascist spectacle that they made of themselves for all the world to see.
At the same time they are still rushing to build mega concentration camps. And they talk nice because they preferably need the signature of some Democrats under the DHS appropriations, to make the medicine go down a little smoother.
But noone in the USA should relax. Yes, hopefully the people in MN can relax a little, but the job of getting the MAGAts out is not done.
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Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning. That man is full of shit, everything that comes out of his mouth it shit, and you don’t need to eat it.
I hope ICE and CBP actually leave soon. I’ll believe it when they do. They’re still out there right now. They’re still horrible. They’re still destroying lives •this morning•.
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Brilliant thread again. Thank you.
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@retech @inthehands
With respect, if "standing in the streets did nothing to hurt them;" they wouldn't be killing people for doing that.@retech @Gorfram @inthehands standing in the streets is the most effective civil disobedience people can do tbh, combined with striking, woof sheesh.
unless you want to have a hot civil war, being the streets and fucking up government function and commerce is, historically, the number one thing for a civilian population to do to succeed without war. but hey, who knows, maybe ignoring history and "quitting facebook" will actually be the ticket somehow.
