Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

According to his niece, Mary Trump:

🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

I Wasn't Aware Of This,So I Googled It,And Golly Gee, It's True. But President Obama, nor Biden, Sniveled About It,And CRYBABY Chump, Can't Help Himself......

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

Reminder: tRump has 34 felony CONVICTIONS. In addition, Judge Kaplan said: “The jury’s finding of sexual abuse therefore necessarily implies that it found that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her vagina... in other words, that he raped her."

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared emptywheel.net/iran-things-...

Getting tired of the dog & pony show between Trump, Witkoff, Kushner & Putin. The only objective for Team Trump is to string Ukraine along so Russia can murder civilians. South Florida is a hotbed of Russian mob activity & Witkoff launders their cash thru commercial properties.

This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.

🚨 Special counsel Jack Smith: “President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol…does not happen without him”

Hey Vikings, I'm glad you played well, but 7-10/8-9 is the worst record to have in the nfl.

Donald Trump says airspace above and around Venezuela is closed

A woman using the pseudonym Katie Johnson has alleged that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and raped by Donald Trump when she was thirteen. Despite the extremely detailed and credible nature of her account, the corporate media have largely ignored it.

Contest every race. Have a candidate in every race on every ballot in every county in every state. Run even if you know you can’t win. Run because you know you can’t win. No seat uncontested. Bring the fight to every ballot.

Jasmine passed the bar, and AOC was an Intel Science finalist. Let's orange turd do either of that.

We need to communicate that SNAP, USAid, school mealss, and food bank funding are ALL FARM SUBSIDY PROGRAMS. They were created by Dems so farmers would have price stability for their excess production and planning while supplying Americans with cheap food and poverty support. It is a system!

Inside sources reportedly say Donald Trump has been heard privately joking about just how easily he believes he’s able to puppeteer House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Surprise

Yet, not a single judge has the balls to do what is required: hold people in contempt and throw them in prison.

Perhaps since Soros isn't sending me a check, he could release the Bessent files.

@atrupar.com I can't imagine why this regime would want US farms to fail. Oh.. wait...

One of my many, many questions about America in 2025 is how long it will take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history

Democrats need to start voting for massive federal tax cuts in Congress. The message needs to be "We will not send money to federal govt to be squandered or grifted. We will create state and multi-state plans to cover services blue states believe in. We cannot save the red states from themselves."

Some thought Bessent had morals because of who he worked for. Turns out he was an unqualified grifter who was good at moving others' money around and taking a cut.

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

Many Americans will miss comedy, now that it has been canceled along with free speech. Hopefully we can vote these freedoms back before too long! In the meantime, here's a goodbye laugh from ⁦‪@colbertlateshow‬⁩

Those who stand behind trump have no intention to relinquish power when he is gone. The trump supporters are done saying the quiet part out loud. Now, they are blatantly destroying those who speak against them.

Libertarians are just totalitarians who hate paying taxes.

Donald Trump successfully groped women at two prior U.S. Opens (1997 and 1998). Will he claim another title today? Tune in at 2 pm EDT on ABC and ESPN! abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

🚨BREAKING EXPLOSIVE! In a hidden video, Trump's DOJ Deputy Chief brags the FBI is redacting Republican names and only leaving Democrats in the Epstein files; he also ADMITS Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to "keep her mouth shut." THIS IS CRIMINAL.

Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."

Case study: Erdogan replaced technocrats with loyalists and kept rates low when they needed to rise. Inflation soared to 86%, and is still painfully high. That’s the playbook Trump's floating. Keep the Fed independent if you want low inflation without the drama.

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

They constantly scream the quiet part out loud.

Here is one of ~50 cases we documented of federal agents--usually masked and unidentified--smashing car windows to grab the person inside. “She is pregnant!” a man screamed, as his citizen wife sat, terrified The agents break three windows and grab the man projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Release the Epstein files!

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

P.S. Credit where it's due -- @emptywheel.bsky.social has compiled a detailed timeline of the relevant events, which can be found here: www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/t...

Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.

"I know how to code. Therefore, I know everything." Tech Bro (In allegiance with finance bros)

UPDATE: DOJ Ethic director Tirrell posts his termination letter on LinkedIn. Says his oath “did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient.”

"The nation has faced, many times, a conservative Court aligned with bigotry and big business. But the nation has not previously faced a conservative Court aligned with helping the president become a king." — @snipy.bsky.social

This is wild, my friend sent me this cease and desist memo from Snickers to Universal about Jurassic Park