"Axios: 'The NYT reported in Aug that Bessent owns as much as $25 million worth of North Dakota corn and soybean farmland, which he rents out for more than $1 million a year in income. Bessent has delayed divesting his farm holdings, required under an ethics agreement in place since he took office, though he has said he will do so by the end of the year.'”

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Back when they invented the DHS after 9/11, many of us in the US said "Dept of Homeland Security? That sounds like some dystopian Nazi-ass shit"

And all the Voices of Reason were like "stop catastrophizing, we need to come together in these trying times"

Flash forward two decades and

gizmodo.com/dhs-little-dark-ag

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