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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🚨 Student activist locked in Trump donor’s facility. A Palestinian student activist arrested for his alleged “pro-terrorist” protests against Israel’s war on Gaza is currently locked in a detention facility privately run by a major Trump donor, the GEO Group. Mahmoud Khalil — who officials admit did not break the law — was arrested in New York and moved to a GEO Group facility in Louisiana, a friendlier forum for the government.
🎯 Elon Musk’s anti-fraud campaign is fraudulent. Fraud costs the government up to a half trillion dollars every year, and Medicare records the largest amount of improper payments of any agency, according to new government data. But rather than targeting the health care industry’s billing schemes, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is instead laying off federal workers and eyeing Social Security for cuts.
I love Sarah Wynn-Williams' writing style. And her content is what you would likely guess Mark Zuckerberg would want hidden.
I'm guessing this is the book I'll most like reading this year. Good of The Lever to make promotion a front page cause.