Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

I will admit that I enjoy the gambling hellsite comment sections in moments like this because they tell you what people's positions are so you can see just how big the bag they're holding is

Every billionaire who has bribed this regime needs to be stripped of their fortunes. Take it ALL away. Consequences.

tbh i thought the way CA counted votes was dumb until I heard its "bad for betting markets" now I love it

This is still America

Feds keep losing bullshit "don't be mean to ICE" cases they bring and I hope it stains every single AUSA who participates like shit on Dockers www.aol.com/articles/spr...

Yeah he’d regularly say stuff like the woke mind virus will end civilization and people just didn’t want to interrogate what he meant by that.

Pretty darn difficult to assemble a team if Israel keeps targeting athletes. #athleticide

Have you gotten your ticket yet? kapow.works/concert

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The function of "A.i." in business, education, and the arts is to create a temporary sliver of advantage for devotees, cheaters, fraudsters, and scammers while empowering massive corporations to dehumanize, disempower, and fleece everyone else.

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

This isn’t freedom.

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

searching “how can u turn boos into cheers”

There are concentration camps in the United States in the year 2026. There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026. THERE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 2026.

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is Texas State Rep Hillary Hickland last night in response to my post yesterday about Lonesome Dove being removed from schools due to Senate Bill 13. Texans are sick of this anti-book nonsense. Today’s a great day to donate to her opponent: www.ameliafortexas.com

This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

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I’m not a football person but I am a taxpayer who is tired of being taken advantage of by sports teams. Fuck the Bears. Let them become the Hammond, Indiana Bears. The City of Chicago should sue them if they call themselves the Chicago Bears, and no Chicagoan should ever go to a game again.

A *LOT* of folks I otherwise respect showed pretty spectacularly bad judgement of character with Platner. Just something to remember. Not necessarily in a vicious way, but in a situational awareness and note-to-self kind of way.

There's no "right time" to raise salient issues in politics. You just have raise them and fight to win. There is no conductor to decide which order to bring up issues.

It's always the most obvious ones.

just keep at this do not let them off the hook

Tired of Platner. Maine voters will have to decide. But fwiw, I don't trust him and the claim that it was all in the remote past doesn't convince me. Here's a timeline thread of red flags from 2007-2026: 2007 - Nazi tattoo 2008 - Trolls people with Blackwater hat

“if my team had come to me and said, ‘Some of our NGO partners are seeing clusters of unexplained viral hemorrhagic fever in eastern Congo,’ that would be a hair-on-fire type of moment,”… “Now many of those programs are gone, and there’s no one on the other end of the line in the US government.”

One thing I've come to hate about all this is that doing nothing was a perfectly viable option. If he'd spent everyday since January 2025 golfing and posting, but doing nothing, it's very easy to imagine Trump at like a 55% approval rating.

He has officially given up on the $1.776 billion slush fund. UFC fighters are backing out. He already had to cancel the Freedom 250 concert. Everyone hates him. Get ready for unhinged Trash Social rants. I'm so happy. - The Politics Chicks

Seems like everything is the fault of people who don’t agree with me; that’s awfully convenient for me!

are you just going to do this for every generation

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.

The first reporter that says “WHAT the F*CK is WRONG with you?!” to this guy, should get an award 🏆 JFC - why they still show him any deference or respect is beyond me 🤬 🖕🏻

I’m probably only going to say this sentence once in my lifetime: I think Texas might need more ivermectin.

Trump’s NACHO: Not A Chance Hormuz Opens

It’s very important that the CEO of Exxon’s great-great-great-great grandchildren are billionaires when they are born.

Someone had to make that chart. Like, someone had to call or e-mail or text another person and say "hey we need a chart showing that the length of this body of water is longer than how tall some buildings are". And someone had to say "yes okay" to that. The fuck are we doing.

Oh. My. God. This is a nursing home conversation before his nurse comes in with his pill

sometimes it does hit me how incredible and surreal it is that he’s the literal president, clothed in immense power, and all he really wants to do is build gaudy tourist attractions.

Yeah as it turns out they did not, in fact, handle any of this with diligence, thoughtfulness, and intelligence.

We took it for granted, we let it be killed right in front of us, and now we're going to find out what it's like to live in a society where there's no way to reliably know what's going on. History suggests it's not going to go well.

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

Use AI responsibly by disabling it on all your devices and never accessing it online. #TheMoreYouKnow

We are not stuck in traffic. We are stuck in old decisions. And decisions can be remade. 📍Vienna, before and after

New Origin Story on the mad mad history of Evangelical Christianity. It's the story of a proud religious movement that allowed itself to be co-opted by the Republican party.