Incredible work from @carlquintanilla.bsky.social here.

Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.

Memphis Press-Scimitar, 21 December 1945. "[Gerald Smith] wants to preserve 'Christian Nationalism' without domination by the Jews or any other minority group. And he wants America First--with Mr. Smith leading the 'crusade.'"

The most corrupt president in history:

FT: “.. The number of transactions disclosed on Thursday .. marks his first major sale of assets since returning to office ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f921...

James Talarico: “Theocracy is the most dangerous form of government — the only thing worse than a tyrant - is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God. Our faith in Jesus should lead us away from theocracy, tyranny, Christian nationalism & toward a multi-racial, multi-cultural democracy”

The president made between $220 million and $750 million worth of securities trades in the first quarter of this year, according to a Reuters analysis.

18 hrs. ago, Credit @huffpost.com "A LA man gave an impassioned speech calling out state Republicans for their racist gerrymander. “I believe the country as a whole is rebuking your party. Y’all are in a death spiral,” he said. “That’s why y’all have to redistrict. That’s why y’all have to cheat.”

"[Trump] sucks people into this permission structure or this world that he occupies, and people deceive themselves into thinking that it's good and true, and then he does the next thing that's bad. And people go and they look aside. ...

AOC seems to personify the subtle art of not giving a fuck. Meaning she gives a fuck about what matters. And that seems to make The Club nervous. markmanson.net/not-giving-a...

The GOP has a big problem with answering one simple question

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I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

Khanna: "[Lutnick] refused to say there was any blackmailing, even though he thought that happened in the past. He refused to say that there was any video recording, even though he said in the past that Epstein was recording these young girls…Someone obviously got to him."

This is pretty much the way US friends and allies view the Rubio announcement, but none of them are "shocked," because this is exactly what they have come to expect from Team Trump. They also won't be shocked when he appoints a horse to the Senate...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump told her that people at Mar-a-Lago would be hurt by the release of the Epstein files. Greene: Trump said his friends would get hurt if we release the Epstein files. He said, “Marjorie, these are good people. These are people you know at Mar-a-Lago”

JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”

Sen. Coons: “Anybody brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President #Trump from seeking a third term? Anybody willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language in the 22nd Amendment? Nobody..”

American sailors risking their lives in the Hormuz Strait and his answer is a cartoon.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - British military says a cargo ship is ablaze off the coast of the UAE as it warns of Iranian attacks. @apnews.com

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she reported the threats to her family to a number of people in the Trump Administration: I did hear from Kash Patel. He said, ‘on it,’ but I haven’t heard from him since. I don’t know what he’s on *laughter from crowd*

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Epstein Class solidarity at work: Epstein pal and Texas MAGA leader Ken Paxton fought to lower the sentence for a multiple-time pedophile (and friend of his) from a felony and life in prison to thirty days in county and two misdemeanors. For "years of molestation." www.fox44news.com/news/local-n...

News from the gerontocracy...

CHEVRON CFO: “.. Our strategy is to grow free cash flow, not grow production. .. You wouldn’t expect us to be changing our plans significantly on the back of eight weeks of disruption.” @financialtimes.com #$CVX #$XOM www.ft.com/content/2a02...

“The name of [an ICE] officer accused of strangling a man in Fitchburg during an immigration arrest has been revealed in court, despite the federal government’s attempts to keep his identity a secret. The officer’s name is David Jackson, an acting supervisory detention and deportation officer.”

Net profit margins for S&P 500 companies are on track to hit a 17-year high this year. Thanks to Trump's corporate tax cuts, 88 of the largest companies in America paid ZERO in federal income last year despite $105 billion in profits. Tell me the system isn't rigged.

Here's your cautionary tale for what happens when Repugnicans take over a state.

HEGSETH: Their nuclear facilities have been obliterated SMITH: Whoa whoa. We had to start this war, you said, bc the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying it was obliterated? HEGSETH: They had not given up their *ambitions* S: So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing

MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT. Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth. This is even WORSE than Benghazi.

Justice Kagan: "The Callais requirements have thus laid the groundwork for the largest reduction in minority representation since the era following Reconstruction." "[T]he majority makes a nullity of Section 2 and threatens a half-century's worth of gains in voting equality."

The most corrupt president in history:

Yeah, they say that now, but give it a few hours.

BREAKING: The Senate narrowly advanced a plan to add up to an extra $140 billion to ICE and CBP's record high budget. This is the first step by Congress to give another blank check to these out-of-control agencies without any strings attached, all while cutting benefits for our communities.

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

Bonkers.

Insane corruption. And if Lutnick is profiting from the end of tariffs you can bet Trump is getting a taste.

This is a war based on lies

Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Absolutely. "These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that." That's a pretty simple and effective message.

It not his or congresses money… it’s ours and they’re simply stewards of it. The government is not a fkn business…. it never was.