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Jody

@jodycrobins.bsky.social
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I like to ride bicycles. Renewable project developer. Big fan of democracy. And dogs.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3h
Solar Energy Corporation of India just auctioned 1 GW of renewable power that has to match a coal plant's schedule — checked every 15 minutes, penalties for shortfalls. It cleared at ₹5.25/kWh (~$55/MWh), fixed for 25 years. New comparable coal PPAs opened at ₹5.38-6.30 plus fuel price inflation.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 7h
The Army announced last year that it had enough of a model of armored vehicle and that any more deliveries would be “excess.” But Congress found a way to keep funding alive for the vehicle, and executives at the company found a way to flood key members of Congress with donations. buff.ly/nbAEUVa
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The most important medium-term consequence of Texas turning blue will be the rapid dismantling of the Electoral College, precisely because Republicans know this.
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Rob Toftness @nosquish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last night I rode the new Colfax BRT a bunch while taking photos for @bikewalkbus.bsky.social. I waited on a well lit station, grabbed frequent buses, checked out a new restaurant, rode the bus back home, hopped off early, walked 16th Street, rode a scooter home. It felt like living in a real city.
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Tutul Rahman @tutul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My takeaways for US v MEX 1) US really didn't allow that many chances, even in the first 15. Only real chance was Santi's but Kochen did just enough. 2) US didn't really create their own chances. Only real one was Ellis's against 10-man. 3) Intensity was great. US won duels 55-43 4) Freeman was
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
There's only one Fickling "Nowadays, LNG is failing on all three. It’s never been clean,these days it’s not cheap, either: Just buying gas for an existing plant can cost more than building a brand-new solar-plus-storage system from scratch" Bloomberg's very best🌞🔋 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Switzerland, heavy trucks are now more electric than passenger cars. Over the last 12 months: 28.0% of new heavy trucks were BEV 26.5% of new cars A year ago trucks were at 19%, so that's a huge jump. And buses are even further ahead at 48%.
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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DBL joined coalition partners @bikewalkbus.bsky.social @greatdentransit.bsky.social @yimbydenver.bsky.social and Pedestrian Dignity to send a letter to Denver City Council today about the 2027 Budget. Call your Council Members and ask them to make these amendments.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.
Line chart titled "Nominal wage growth is slowing" showing year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings of private-sector workers. Wage growth has declined steadily from a peak of 5.9% in early 2022 to 3.0% in September 2026, the slowest rate in the series. This nearly 3 percentage point drop over four and a half years indicates significantly cooler labor market conditions, with the deceleration accelerating in recent months as growth fell from the 3.7-3.9% range in 2025 to the low 3% range currently.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 30/09/2026
🧵AI is already killing people by coaching children how to die by suicide, or how to best hide their suicidal ideations and self harm from their parents or other adults in their lives who could help them.
newsletter.mattdragon.com
AI won't kill us — At least not like that
Gen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesse Watters: You were never on Jeffrey Epstein's jet were you? RFK Jr: I was on it two times. My wife had some kind of relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
I think the entire right wing media ecosystem was primed to make this a huge deal, they all had their talking points ready to go and this was going to be THE big gotcha that brought down Jack Smith and they are just scrambling because it turns out the whole thing was an embarrassing mistake
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.
Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 28/09/2026
Western Colorado coal mine violates methane caps nearly 4 times over, state says coloradosun.com/2026/09/28/c...
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Western Colorado coal mine violates methane caps nearly 4 times over, state says
Colorado's West Elk coal mine is violating methane leak caps, the state says, and environmental groups want strict enforcement.
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Jody @jodycrobins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump offered to sell weapons to China bc he is a cowardly little bitch who rolls over and shows his stomach to any strongman autocrat, but especially Xi. Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Jody @jodycrobins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The corruption of the Trump administration is breathtaking. Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 28/09/2026
I really hate that Advance Colorado has made me write so many words about their very dumb right-wing ballot measures I'm glad they're mostly obvious trash but anyway.
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Who is Advance Colorado?
Explore how Advance Colorado influences state politics through dark money networks, ballot initiatives, and media campaigns, shaping policy and public opinion.
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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 1991, a trio of unheralded high schoolers - two of them younger than Cavan Sullivan is today - appeared for the USMNT. Two of them would never do so again. Their story has been lost to time. I spoke to all three of them, on @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘I’m pretty sure I didn’t imagine it’: the little-known trio of high schoolers who made USMNT history
The idea of 16-year-olds like Cavan Sullivan playing for the US senior team was once unfathomable – until three teenagers appeared in a 1991 friendly
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Jody @jodycrobins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s right
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Why is economic sentiment so low when GDP growth is positive? There’s no reasonable explanation, the only possible conclusion is that people are all just doing a mass hysteria (/s)
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
social media is, sometimes, a form of low grade telepathy, a look into the inner thoughts of the poster. sometimes those thoughts reveal that the poster has the cognitive capacity of a bowl of pudding. Airport!
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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you live in NW Denver? This is your chance to dream big for improvements for the neighborhood. Want a Protected Bike Lane? Feel like you need a better connection to Inspirational Point? This is your chance. Meeting Thursday night at North High.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Poor leopards with their faces getting eaten.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Statement from Troy Jackson responding to ProPublica’s report on the FBI’s probe into alleged corruption by Maine Senator Susan Collins
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El Niño is breaking every existing record already, and it's got weeks to go before it's likely to hit a peak. We're going to see a warmer world than any humans before us this year billmckibben.substack.com/p/hold-my-wa...
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Hold my (warm) beer
It’s Existential Crises Week!
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well this is very weird: Phil Anschutz's Gazette appears to have published a pro-Amendment 87 piece by sponsor Chris Kennedy earlier today, but the link now 404s and there's no trace of it on either the Denver or Colorado Springs Gazette websites.
Google results page showing cached version of "GUEST OPINION: Graduated tax pushes back on growing inequality" in the Colorado Springs Gazette404 page on Denvergazette.com
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Jody @jodycrobins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lol wow.
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Jody @jodycrobins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Laughs in Rapids. Dick’s can’t even get a functioning scoreboard or seats that aren’t broken. @rapids96podcast.bsky.social
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Aging Ball Arena to get $135M renovation to better connect to downtown Denver
It’s part of an ongoing plan to make the home of the Nugs and the Avs an extension of downtown.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Jody @jodycrobins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem. And it is getting worse. The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End (Gift Article)
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16/09/2026
i think the american people deserve to know who is making these trades on his behalf and what information they are given
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
however much you think the iran war is sapping u.s. military readiness, it's probably more than that. a free link for you, the people www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Iran Blockade’s Growing Price Tag Is Draining America’s Global Military Power
The cost of naval operations since the buildup began in January has topped $7.1 billion — not including all the US assets being used to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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