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Simpler times.

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NO DUMBASS. NO ONE SERVES JESUS

JESUS IS OUR PATH TO GOD WHO WE SERVE

fuck outta here filter me IDGAF WHAT lowlevels do

>>24630967

>does any work anymore

>accomplishes nothing

Fake maga "influencer" grifters have been exposed and destroyed.

Does that not count for something?

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Maine’s Celebrity Democrat Oyster King Called Out For Epstein Connections Amid U.S. Senate Race

Ted CohenBy Ted CohenMarch 31, 2026Updated:April 9, 20263 Comments2 Mins Read6K Views

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Note: Subsequent to our publication of this story, the Daily Mail changed it’s story to note that although “Spyros Niarchos appeared in several files relating to Epstein, A representative for Spyros Niarchos has confirmed that he has never met or spoken with Jeffrey Epstein, and that any suggestion of an association or relationship is incorrect.” The Maine Wire’s initial story accurately cited and quoted the Daily Mail’s reporting at the time.

A British tabloid has latched onto a Maine candidate’s achilles heel stemming from his allegedly playing fast and loose with the “Epstein files.”

Seems Graham Platner has his own Epstein baggage even while he’s blasting the GOP senator he could well be facing come November for a cover-up.

The Daily Mail is citing a piece from the Maine Small Business Development Centers reporting thatPlatner received $20,000 from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation five years ago to fund his oyster business.

Spyros Niarchos, on the foundation board, “has beendescribed by Greek newspaper Documento as a member of the ‘inner circle of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,”the Daily Mail reports.

Niarchos appeared in several of the files relating to Epstein that have been released by the U.S. Department of Justice in recent months.

Word of the possible Platner/Epstein connection comes in the wake of golden boy Platner complaining that U.S. Sen. Susan Collins failed to vote to release the Epstein files.

Platner better be careful of what he wishes for.

If he wins the Democrat nomination over Gov. Janet Mills – as the polls suggest may indeed happen – he could well be facing Collins in the general election this fall.

https://www.themainewire.com/2026/03/maines-celebrity-democrat-oyster-king-called-out-for-epstein-connections-amid-u-s-senate-race/

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DOJ Charges 15 in $90 Million Minnesota Fraud Schemes

‘This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota,’ Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, says.

Criminal charges have been filed against 15 accused fraudsters in Minnesota, involving more than $90 million in taxpayers’ dollars, federal officials announced on May 21 at a news conference in Minneapolis.

“This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota,” Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, said.

McDonald took the helm of that newly formed Department of Justice (DOJ) division less than two months ago.

He alleged that the suspects “systematically pilfered” seven different government-benefit programs, treating them as “their personal piggy bank.”

Officials revealed the new charges shortly after a federal judge sentenced a convicted fraudster to nearly 42 years in prison. Prosecutors said Aimee Bock, now 45, was the “mastermind” behind $242 million illegally taken from the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The organization that Bock headed, Feeding Our Future, operated the nation’s largest COVID-19 pandemic fraud scheme, officials said.

Bock and dozens of other suspects were charged beginning in 2022. That was three years before Minnesota’s estimated $9 billion in government-program fraud rose to national prominence and inspired President Donald Trump to launch a nationwide fraud-enforcement effort.

The latest accusations involve programs such as autism services and Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services, which the state shut down because of fraud.

In 2020, the housing-assistance program was budgeted for $2.5 million annually. But by 2024, it “ended up costing almost 50 times that much, over $104 million,” because of fraud, McDonald said.

“The same trends exist for other Minnesota-run taxpayer-funded programs,” he said, noting that the autism program cost taxpayers $600,000 just six years ago but “skyrocketed to over $400 million.” McDonald attributed that exponential increase to fraud, not need for services.

Calling the new prosecutions “unprecedented,” McDonald said they include “the highest loss amount ever charged in a Medicaid case in Minnesota, and the largest autism-fraud scheme ever charged by the Department of Justice.”

The defendants’ names and further details about the charges were not immediately available.

“The common theme throughout these cases is fraudsters exploiting vulnerable people” and programs, McDonald said.

The defendants used disabled people “like lottery tickets … to generate millions of dollars,” McDonald said, adding that the ill-gotten gains were used to buy real estate, luxury vehicles, and expensive jewelry.

He said the suspects were determined to reap money no matter what the cost to others.

In one case, a client died after failing to receive care for which an alleged fraudster billed Medicaid, McDonald said.

“We will not … tolerate this greed and deceit,” he said.

In recent months, President Donald Trump’s administration has focused on fraud, producing “450 fraud-enforcement actions” nationwide, he said.

The efforts are expanding, McDonald said, announcing that 15 additional prosecutors have been hired.

“If you see something that seems too good to be true, tell us,” he said, referring to anyone in Minnesota or the rest of the United States.

McDonald noted that parents were being paid kickbacks to enroll their children in some of the programs.

He urged citizens: “Speak out. Help us win the fight against fraud.”

And he warned fraudsters: “Eat, drink, and be merry today. Because your days of frolicking and freedom are numbered.”

McDonald said he would “claw back every dollar you have stolen from the American people.”

Also speaking at the news conference, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the indirect costs of fraud are high, too.

“Fraud drives up health care costs for all Americans. It weakens public trust. It drains taxpayer resources, and threatens the long-term stability of both Medicaid and Medicare,” Kennedy said. “If we fail to confront the fraud aggressively, these programs will not survive for future generations in the form Americans rely upon them today.”

He commended Trump and Vice President JD Vance for “carrying out the most aggressive anti-fraud effort in American history.”

Kennedy said fraud cases often take years, or even decades, to assemble, but in these cases, prosecutors and investigators worked with “a precision and speed that is unprecedented in the history of law enforcement.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-charges-15-in-90-million-minnesota-fraud-schemes-6034048

>>24631079

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has arrived at Mexico's National Palace for a meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Watch OAN on Spectrum and YouTube TV today for more updates.

https://x.com/OANN/status/2057561433630732599

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https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2057545985732055546

US Invests $2 Billion in IBM, Other Firms to Boost Quantum Computing

IBM, GlobalFoundries, and several emerging firms are set to benefit from one of the government’s largest quantum-related investments to date.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion to IBM and eight other American quantum computing companies in an effort to secure the nation’s lead in the race to build the world’s most powerful computers.

IBM is set to receive half of that amount to launch a new subsidiary called Anderon, which the company described in a statement Thursday as “America’s first pure-play quantum foundry.”

“This initiative represents one of the most significant commitments by the U.S. Government to date in quantum R&D to position the United States to manufacture most of the world’s quantum wafers,” IBM said, referring to the specialized wafers used to produce quantum computing chips.

Quantum computers process information using qubits, which rely on the laws of quantum mechanics. Because qubits are highly vulnerable to decoherence—the loss of their quantum state due to interference from their surroundings—quantum-grade wafers must meet extraordinarily high standards of purity and structural precision to support stable, reliable performance.

IBM said it would match the award by investing an additional $1 billion into Anderon, “with additional investors expected” as the company grows.

Thursday’s awards also included $375 million for contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries to build a domestic factory capable of producing components for several different types of quantum machines, according to the Commerce Department.

Other firms, including D-Wave, Rigetti Computing, and Infleqtion, will receive about $100 million each, while Diraq is set to receive up to $38 million to tackle key technical hurdles that have slowed the development of more powerful quantum computers.

The funding comes from the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a $280 billion package aimed at boosting domestic high-end semiconductor manufacturing, reducing reliance on overseas supply chains, and countering China’s technological influence and competition.

In exchange, the Commerce Department said it will take a “minority, non-controlling” equity stake in each company to “enhance the return for the U.S. taxpayer.”

“These strategic quantum technology investments will build on our domestic industry, creating thousands of high-paying American jobs while advancing American quantum capabilities,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.

Investors have been pouring money into quantum computing firms because the technology is expected to solve problems beyond the reach of even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. That could lead to major advances in fields such as medicine, finance, and transportation, from designing new drugs to testing advanced car materials to simulating complex market behaviors.

According to a study by McKinsey & Company, quantum computing could generate as much as $1.3 trillion in value across these industries by 2035.

The expectations stem from the fact that quantum systems operate fundamentally differently from classical computers, which process information using bits that can exist in only one of two states at a time, either 0 or 1. A qubit, by contrast, can exist in a combination of both at the same time, allowing quantum systems to process information far more efficiently.

Quantum computing’s power can grow even further when multiple qubits are linked through a phenomenon known as “entanglement.” Under the laws of quantum mechanics, entangled qubits can become correlated in ways that dramatically expand what these systems can do at exponential scales.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-invests-2-billion-in-ibm-other-firms-to-boost-quantum-computing-6034204

>>24631080

>$90M

That’s cute kek

>>24631093

J'attendrais avec impatience les publicités de qualité du week-end, mais ça fait des années qu'on n'en voit plus

AHAH…

>>24631072

>Maine’s Celebrity Democrat Oyster King Called Out For Epstein Connections Amid U.S. Senate Race

he's 'working class', just like you

'Working Class' Graham Platner Attended Elite $75K a Year Prep School Known for Famous Government Alumni

Platner portrays himself as a 'working class Mainer' and is backed by Bernie Sanders, who says he'll 'fight for the working class'

Graham Platner (@grahamformaine X)

Collin Anderson and Chuck Ross

October 23, 2025

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, the self-described "working class Mainer,"attended an elite boarding school in Connecticut that costs upwards of $75,000 a year. Its alumni include Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, former CIA director Porter Goss, Clinton family crony Strobe Talbott, MacKenzie Scott Bezos, and the veteran news anchor Chris Wallace.

"Graham Platner is enrolled as a first-year student at the Hotchkiss School, located in Lakeville, Conn.," a Maine newspaper, the Ellsworth American, reported in November 1999. "Platner is familiar to many through his role as the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver' and as a 20th Maine Civil War Re-Enactor." The Hotchkiss School is located roughly 60 miles from Yale University in northwestern Connecticut.

Platner has discussed his days as a Civil War reenactor: The New Yorker reported his mother "hired a local seamstress to sew a Union uniform for him to wear to Civil War reenactments."

The revelation undercuts the working-class image Platner has attempted to present on the campaign trail. The left-wing candidate, who oncedescribed himself as a communist, described himself in his campaign launch video as a "working class Mainer who's seen this state become unlivable for working people."

Platner does not appear to have lasted long at the Hotchkiss School. A subsequent Ellsworth American piece published in 2002 lists Platner as one of four students in Sullivan, Maine, who made the hour-long commute to John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, a more cost-friendly private school. Platner is identified as a junior who is accustomed to the commute "after three years."

"What I like best is just the education," Platner told the paper. "Being a private school, you get much more attention."

John Bapst, the Ellsworth American wrote at the time, cost nothing for students who lived in towns without high schools and $6,500 a year—roughly $12,000 in today's dollars—for those who lived in towns with high schools but chose to attend the private school. Sullivan, where Platner lived with his mother, has a public high school, so Platner likely would have paid tuition.

It's unclear what prompted Platner's seemingly sudden departure from Hotchkiss to John Bapst. Neither the schools nor the Platner campaign responded to requests for comment.

Platner made a mark at John Bapst, winning an award for "Most Likely to Start a Revolution." A yearbook photo of the award shows a young Platner holding a piece of paper calling to "Free" Chechnya, Kosovo, and "Palestine." Platner also penned an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News that equated post-9/11 terrorist groups with "freedom fighters" and lamented that "every terrorist is portrayed as evil" in the media.

Hotchkiss, meanwhile, offers the kinds of world-class amenities expected of a school that earlier this month won the distinction of America's number one boarding school.

It operates a 287-acre farm a mile from campus and a 220,000 square foot "state-of-the-art" athletic facility featuring indoor batting cages, elevated indoor running tracks, squash courts, tennis courts, and two ice skating rinks—one Olympic-sized, while the other fits the dimensions of a National Hockey League rink.

The "Hotchkiss in the World" program provides study abroad opportunities in France, Italy, Spain, and the Bahamas. Hotchkiss hosts renowned international musicians, such as Siqing Lu, a celebrated Chinese violinist who performed at Hotchkiss earlier this month.

Platner's enrollment there stands in stark contrast to the mainstream media's "working class" portrayal of Platner, who before becoming an oyster farmer worked as a State Department contractor in Afghanistan for Constellis, formerly known as Blackwater.

BREAKING: Minnesota fraudster Mohammad Omar jumps from 4th-floor balcony to escape police custody, manhunt underway: FBI

Officials advised anyone with information to contact 1-800-CALL-FBI.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-minnesota-fraudster-mohammad-omar-jumps-from-4th-floor-balcony-to-escape-police-custody-manhunt-underway-fbi

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FRESH

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GHOSTED