How much of this $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds will @RepOgles grab, claiming he’s a victim when he’s a liar who allegedly faked a loan to his campaign? What about @MarshaBlackburn, bc her phone was looked at re: the insurrection? So corrupt and insane. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Wait, *another* one?

Big announcement on March 3. No part of this ever happened.

turns out it was a bit of a whoopsie to focus on low level j6 rioters rather than throwing the ring leaders in jail immediately and tossing the keys. oh well, better luck next time!

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

The totally illegal politicization of the federal civil service is under way, starting with people in the most senior roles. This is dangerous, and I truly believe people are going to die because of this politicization. When it reaches lower ranks, it will also be union busting.

They warned of the AI-LLM threat and it has happened. However it isn't malign AGI, it's just Dumb As Bricks scraper bots killing the open web. We've had to put all our NGO open data websites behind Are You Human walls to slow down being killed by the bots. We know it affects the human visitors :(

My 1999 self would weep at how totally broken the internet has become. AI slop, social media walled gardens that rot the brain, surveillance pricing and advertising, every single goddamn website has an endless cloudflare captcha loop before you get to read anything. Burn it all down.

and I thought the police just letting the J6 rioters saunter back to their hotels for happy hour would be the biggest miscarriage of justice around the event.

I just keep thinking about all the hours the sedition hunters spent tracking these criminals down.

What happened to . . . F*** it: 8647

5/18 Dozens of Flock cameras now have Mainers under surveillance, whether they’ve done anything wrong or not #maine #MEpolitics

GRAHAM PLATNER CAN’T BE STOPPED youtu.be/S2R41iB_JHw?...

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Of course he has already generated an equally large slush fund off his own insider tradin: characteristically, he still wants someone else to make the payoff.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche’s DOJ concealed the names of the rich and powerful in the Epstein files but left survivors’ information unredacted for the world to see. Their mishandling of the Epstein files is unacceptable and they must be held accountable.

According to @muellershewrote.com, this is not a settlement because Trump voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit against the IRS before the slush fund was announced. But where is the authority for creation of the slush fund? As Allison points out, there's no one to enforce the law, so all bets are off.

This really feels like a breaking point for the US constitutional system.

I keep hearing that wholesale financial restitution for harms by the state are impossible and yet here's Trump proving again that nothing is impossible in this country.

One of the two public universities in Oregon currently undergoing retrenchment published a report on which programs make the most $ for the university (which shouldn't be the primary factor in keeping or cutting them), and the answer by a LONG SHOT was History/Poli Sci

Remember TX AG Paxton did this to win TX vote for Trump in 2020. www.newsweek.com/texas-ag-say...

I’m sure it’s just coincidence that in 1987 mr trump went to Moscow to look into opening a hotel there. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

@judiciarydems.senate.gov Hey Folks, here’s your guy in Montana!

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

Oh dear.

Sooo dissonant - pushing their version of a non-woke, professional military and the Sec Def is sporting rich-guy "yachting apparel" at a Purple Heart ceremony. (And he leaves not just one button undone, but two. 🫣)

lol this is not going well for Hegseth

MAGA: “We love and support the police.” TRUMP: “I’ll give you $1.8B to beat them up.”

Does anyone know where this video is from? Like, the name of the school? I'd love to see a longer video that gives more context.

This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.

So much respect for this exceptional leader! Mamdani disputes Reagan claiming the 9 scariest words are “I’m from the government & I’m here to help,” saying: “9 more terrifying words are actually 'I worked all day, and can't feed my family.' Share everywhere! #uspoli substack.com/@rawstory/no...

this is among several fascist maneuvers that are, by my estimation, basically guaranteed they'll take a second bite at that apple; but they will also attempt to discredit the results of this fall's elections via lawfare, violence at selected polling places, etc. they're all in. it's now or never.

It's kind of ironic that Democrats think they're acting responsibly by tamping down this kind of justified anger instead of channeling it, but it's really the opposite. Leads to disaffection, radicalization

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

Oh wow, amazing, thanks for telling us what medieval people had for lunch Al....

My aunt was visiting California about 10 years ago and joking about the restaurant we met at having all gender restrooms. I said "yeah, they're only for one person at a time so it's just one line" and they were so let down that it made sense. They just wanted to be mad and/or mean.

A historiographical debate that bugs the shit out of me is Alger Hiss and other cold war espionage cases. So in the 90’s you get the Venona documents, and a bunch of dipshits fighting the last war are like “See! We were right!” As though the claims being made in the era of McCarthy were narrow ones-

From Montgomery to Massachusetts, our destinies are tied. That's why I'm in Alabama today organizing and mobilizing to defend our right to vote. The blueprint for our survival has already been written, and we just have to follow it.

there is the added bonus that they were invited by the head of INDOPACOM, a command so thoroughly neglected in favor of Middle Eastern adventures that is habitually the butt of jokes

really hard to beat this as a symbol of institutional decay. the SEALs — a unit that has become infamously loose in discipline — escorting a corrupt politician without any discipline (Patel) on a party inside a hallowed watery graveyard for the fallen

Wouldn't the WWII vets be proud. People really are too stupid to survive.

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

Interesting nuance in the Georgia early voting demographics -- the Dem electorate is much whiter than 2022, not because Black turnout is down (it's up solidly), but because so many more white voters are pulling Dem ballots than in 2022: h/t @ryana.bsky.social

Virginia Dems asked for permission instead of forgiveness. A mistake, IMHO.

Rather than fixed dollar fines, I think they should be calculated as a percentage of net worth.

Every time I hear some nonce go off on a tirade that assumes all of the Greeks and Romans were blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and spoke with RP English accents, I think about stuff like Emperor Septimus Severus visiting Britain in 208 AD, and getting heckled by an Ethiopian trooper stationed there.