Everyone is talking about this like it's a corrupt Federal employee story and not a CIA maintains a gold stash likely far in excess of $40M story.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

Louisiana has decided to cede the entire parole decision-making process to an algorithm that will decide if you die in prison or not. There will be no human input or nuance allowed. Even our parole board is sickened by this. LINK: veritenews.org/2025/04/10/t...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund for Jan 6 criminals is intended to generously reward the MAGA cultists most likely to commit violence on command for Donald Trump. This can’t lead anywhere good.

Wemby vs. the MVP, the defending champs, and the refs...I'll take Wemby.

My 9-month-old puppy, who is a very good boy and getting better every week, needs to hurry up and chill out enough to just lay on the couch with me for an hour instead of trying to make everything a sparring session or tug-o-war death match. Nevertheless, best boy ever.

The “centrist” establishment should apply their voteshaming tactic across all brand advertising, not just politics: “Congratulations YOU MORONS, 7-Up has now dropped out of the top ten beverages. *You* Sierra Mist drinkers are to blame, the rise of Sprite rests squarely on *your* shoulders.”

Dear Van Halen members: I get it, you despise David Lee Roth for the right reasons. Now get over it. Get your gear together and get out on the road to open in support of his shitty solo album. And if audiences boo the gigolo song they won't just be booing DLR, they'll be booing all hair bands.

Why would the Kings trade for Ja Morant when they're probably going to be able to draft one of Wagler, Flemings or Acuff?

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

i do not want a strong republican party!! i want a weak republican party that concedes to an agenda that puts the working class first!!

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

I love that this is essentially Zork

I'm less concerned about my mortality than I am about my dying thought being something stupid from the 2010s internet era. Like, you're on your death bed trying to recount your life when the Wilford Brimley "diabetes intensifies" meme takes over your mind just before everything goes dark. Shit.

No doubt a pretty finger roll, but this is the era people refer to when they talk about real defense, and all I see is two guys who could've stopped ball at the top of the key instead parting like the Red Sea, and a would-be rim protector hunching away flat footed. Many such cases.

I don't recall such a huge deal being made over Dewanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas being a teammate couple as is being made over Bueckers and Fudd. What's the deal?

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

if he's not dead, then put the basketball game back on

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

Watching Fox, Barnes, and Huerter play for contenders and seeing Davion Mitchell ball out for Toronto & Miami is a gut punch for a Sacramento Kings fan. Oh, and Mike Brown is back coaching in the playoffs.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Setting aside, I'm getting broken NBA strike vibes from Obama lurking around Mamdani. Stay strong, Mayor.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war] President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay Media: they are feuding😳

I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.

Drew Timme's tenure as Gonzaga's starting Center

The filming of Hoop Dreams (1987-1992)

Jim Morrison's recording career (1966-1971)

Vance has chihuahua energy. He’s got no rizz, weird eyes, and everyone who meets him treats him with a mixture of pity and disgust. And so his response is to try and fight everyone, shitty little attacks that are impotent and mostly just kinda funny. Chihuahua energy.

This is so emblematic of the stupidity of MAGA. They're always so vain about the size of the venue that they fail to consider how many people are needed for it not to look empty. If you were just as vain and even a little bit smarter, you'd book 500 seat auditorium and have standing room-only.

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Is Bibi more of a suicide in a bunker by cyanide or by self-inflicted gunshot kind of guy? Same question regarding Trump. In both scenarios the equivalent of a merciless Red Army is bearing down, such that even these sociopaths are aware they won't talk their way out.

Watching The Quiller Memorandum. George Segal is a horrible spy. Never actually uncovers any intel himself, rather it's just repeatedly given benevolently by others for no established reason. All he is good at is getting caught by the nazis and spilling the beans under duress.

Get that shit outta here!!

Exhibit 10,000,000 of New York Times is garbage. Right off the bat they ask the very unserious John Yoo for his analysis, which is that serious people are taking the question* seriously. *The question being: whether freed slaves should have been granted citizenship.

I’m at ICE HQ

Alvaro Folgueiras hits a three!

2 points on Trump's media capture: 1. Fascists don’t need to turn all news outlets to their side. They win if major outlets are simply too weak to tell the truth about them. 2. Fascists don’t need to make you believe them. They win if they pollute the news so much that you don’t believe anything.

Combination of expired EV credits and a dearth of affordable choices. We should be taxing the F outta gas and issuing mondo credits for EV purchases.

On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night in Louisville, Kentucky.

The dumbest people, the dumbest war, the dumbest weapons ... so far. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Not the most immediate concern, but on top of the violence, death, destabilization, and economic uncertainty, these wars are catastrophic carbon emission events.

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.