If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

#ELB: Platner Does the Main(e) Thing By Officially Withdrawing from U.S. Senate Race https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157240

Do this to someone. Lol

Florida taxpayers spent $1.2 billion to build and operate Alligator Alcatraz, with only 5% of the money reimbursed by the feds. The facility detained 21,000 people, average stay of 16 days, which is 336,000 stays, costing $3,571 per detainee, per day. www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/alli...

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

Whether Mitch McConnell is alive or not, the bigger issue is that numerous members of Congress have disappeared due to health issues, been rolled out to legislate while half-dead, ran for new terms while actively dying, and dropped dead in office. This is a necrocracy, from both parties.

Sure, extended time in bad corners of the internet can "radicalize" people. But too much of that discussion focuses on ordinary people, rather than the upper crust of American society -- leaders and upper management types, aka the people in this country who can actually afford to scroll all day.

Just off camera…

TRUMP OPENED THE ARK

It’s the world’s dumbest cult.

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

All the pundits in 2024 deserve egg on their faces.

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

USA!!

For those keeping track, this is 110 times the amount of money from foreign sources that House Republicans claimed went to the “Biden family” (most of that actually went to non family business partners, none to Joe Biden).

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

Trump bought up to $5M in Axon stock, a taser company, two weeks before ICE sought a contract for tasers. He’s also bought stock in Palantir, Dell, and Nvidia — all of whom have been awarded massive government contracts. Has a president ever profited so brazenly from the office?

To this day, one of the most unbelievable facts we’ve ever published in @boltsmag.org: Over a 40-year period, *80* percent of death row convictions in Louisiana have ended up getting reversed.

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

Per our new polling out today, the most popular politicians in America are… Barack Obama Bernie Sanders Zohran Mamdani Pete Buttigieg Jon Ossoff & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Trump is tied with Elon Musk and Hakeem Jeffries, Schumer and Carlson in last www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-29...

It will always be Marine World.

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People in other countries don't view Trump favourables Nor do they have confidence in him to do the right thing Internationally, the share of countries who think the US is a reliable partner, contributes to peace, and takes other countries interests into account drops

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

at some point it’s just adopting prime ministers and feeding them to the cat

Omg there’s gonna be a water treatment conference in DC next week hahaha the universe wrote this comedy so well

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they're baghdad bob'ing the reflecting pool btw

Just a reminder that the Trump abuse and degradation of the Justice Department relies not just on Trump and Blanche and the senior people, but on compliant local lower-level people, who should be identified and never sleep soundly again.

A new Brennan Center poll finds widespread voter support across parties for key anticorruption reforms, including new limits on money in elections and stronger protections against self-dealing by high-ranking government officials. bit.ly/4apvVns

A Norfolk man previously arrested in connection with the breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is accused of sexually assaulting a child. www.wavy.com/news/local-n...

Never has there been a more appropriate time to use this picture:

I feel a need for a Seinfeld-style wrap up of multiple narrative threads tonight, like the tumultuous thunderstorm knocks a UFC dude into the reflecting pool and lightning turns him into a Swamp Thing who loves the Knicks

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

"Their measurements are all publicly available, and the data have been a godsend to public researchers, hazard planners and private companies alike." The administration is defunding them.

People are cheering as they’re removing the mark of the beast from the Kennedy Center.

Update: Reuters now reporting that the Emiratis _have already delivered $3 billion_ to Iran as a first installment under the deal, which requires the payment of reparations to Iran. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

President Trump recently pardoned Stephen Buyer, a former member of Congress convicted of insider trading. For those keeping track at home, this makes *22* politicians convicted of corruption charges granted clemency by President Trump.

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

EVs = they’re going to crash the grid!! Data centers = “let’s build 3,000 of them!”

just wait til US energy secretary chris wright who has degrees in electrical engineering from MIT and UC Berkeley learns about batteries

WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE!

The struggle is real

1/ What if you put all the ways that Jared Kushner is selling out America while lining his pockets into one place? In our new cover story, @cjcmichel.bsky.social did just that www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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