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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU8.9brt.szpSh-juYcxI&smid=nytcore-android-share

Undercover agents posing as businessmen seeking contracts met with Mr. Homan in September 2024, these people said.

On the audio tape of that meeting, Mr. Homan seemed to agree to help the undercover agents secure contracts from the next administration if Mr. Trump won re-election, the people said.

The investigation, which was originally run out of Texas, became more consequential once Mr. Trump won and the chances of Mr. Homan taking a government role increased.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F. B. I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump administration officials.

The cash payment, which was made inside a bag from the food chain Cava, grew out of a long-running counterintelligence investigation that had not been targeting Mr. Homan, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the case.

Mr. Homan’s encounter with the undercover agents, recorded on audiotape, led him to be investigated for potential bribery and other crimes, after he apparently took the money and agreed to help the agents — who were posing as businessmen — secure future government contracts related to border security, the people said.

After Mr. Trump took office this year, Justice Department officials shut down the case because of doubts about whether prosecutors could prove to a jury that Mr. Homan had agreed to do any specific acts in exchange for the money, and because he had not held an official government position at the time of the meeting with undercover agents, the people added.

I saw an article discussing the Great washout of the tech job market. Once an industry that presidents, billionaires, and other prominent people boasted as the pathway to success is no longer.

It speaks volumes when tech majors are struggling more than art history majors. I have come to wonder, has the software engineer the new aspiring "artist" or musician? You know those career paths that are highly unrealistic where people laugh when you tell them? Like "yeah, I want to be the next studio artist for Disney" or some shit like that.

Meanwhile, the middle class is being pulverized and destroyed. Once the beacon of prosperity of the "American Dream" is becoming less and less likely to obtain, especially for younger generations.

I grew up in a typical upper-middle-class family. The two-story family home in a mostly-white subdivision neighborhood with the community pool, attending top-notch schools, and riding in the family SUV. The baseball team, boy scouts, and my regular doctors visits became a common routine as a child. We were able to eat out at modest places after church. The pantry full of food. You know what I mean.

It seems this lifestyle will never be obtainable in my lifetime. My grandparents were wealthy, my parents were strong upper class, my generation is struggling to even afford an apartment or trailer. It is like kicking a can down a road, getting more and more beat up.

Trumps days are numbered. Whether they are 3 years or more, or less, they are numbered. He has internal arterial issues and term limitations. There will be a next.

Hear ye hear ye americans and internationals, would you like to see Tulsi Gabbard as your next President?

A strong chance she gets my vote... and I generally don't like women for high positions. I think she has the right stuff, maybe, possibly.

While the Insurrection Act doesn't inherently give the President the power to stop elections or overturn results, its invocation could create the potential for actions that disrupt or interfere with the election process ahead of time, especially if it's used to justify the deployment of troops in connection with civil unrest.

🚨 OKLAHOMA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO TEACH TRUMP’S LIES AS FACT IN CLASSROOMS 🚨

Oklahoma is leading the charge to rewrite history — literally. Starting this fall, high school students will be required to learn Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election as though they were proven facts. The new social studies curriculum, pushed through by far-right Superintendent Ryan Walters (R), isn’t just misinformation — it’s indoctrination, funded by taxpayers.

The curriculum teaches kids that there were “discrepancies” in the 2020 election — citing imaginary ballot dumps, mail-in ballot fraud, and the collapse of “bellwether” counties — all of which have been debunked. There was no widespread fraud. There was no halted counting. There is no evidence. But truth no longer matters in Oklahoma classrooms.

This is the first state to formally enshrine Trump’s election lies into official curriculum — and he’s cheering it on. Trump personally praised Walters, who already spent state education funds on Trump Bibles for public schools. Yes, taxpayer money went toward religious propaganda bearing the president’s name.

In a move that stunned even conservative educators, Walters rushed the 400-page changes through the State Board of Education the night before the vote. He packed the standards committee with right-wing media figures — including Dennis Prager & Kevin Roberts from the Project 2025 creating Heritage Foundation.

To make room for this revisionist Trump narrative, the new standards erase most accomplishments from President Biden’s term and instead focus heavily on the Bible. Christianity is now a major thread in Oklahoma public schools, with lessons on David and Goliath for 6-year-olds and entire courses on early Christianity for teens.

Far-right activists like Moms for Liberty are openly threatening Republicans who dare oppose the curriculum, warning them they’ll be “next” if they stand in the way of Trump’s rewritten America.