Richard Elliott

Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment where everything became both: a) worse b) and more expensive When did this happen?

The ballroom went from $200 million & privately funded, to $300 million, to $400 million and taxpayers cover some of it, to MAGA trying to silently jam through $1 BILLION, 100% of which is our tax money, for this ballroom. WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

Here’s Mayor Pete announcing the Biden administration’s decision to fight the Jet Blue and Spirit merger so they could protect consumers and ensure low fares. Now the airline doesn’t exist and passengers are stranded across the country.

Trump just announced that he will be going after all Smithsonian museums that teach “how bad Slavery was,” calling it “WOKE.”

Farm bankruptcies are rising again. 📈 Peaked in 2019–2020 under Trump 📉 Fell to a 20-year low under Biden 📈 Now rising again up 46% in 2025 under Trump Where it’s hitting hardest: • Midwest (+70%) • Southeast (+69%) States like Arkansas, Georgia, and Iowa are spiking.

BREAKING: The average price of a gallon of gas in the US surges to $4.43/gallon, now up +61% since December. Americans will spend ~$90 billion more at the pump in a year than they would with gasoline at $3.00.

BREAKING: MAGA influencer Craig Long has just been arrested after being caught in a human sex trafficking sting operation. The accused Sex Trafficker was just pictured with Donald Trump and Trump Jr. at a UFC fight in Miami on April 11, 2026.

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that since people will never give up democracy and the right to vote, they must be taken away by force: "Virtuous, ambitious, masculine men have to climb the ladder of power and forcefully take away from the people that which is their detriment."

Get this: at the Cadillac Championship there’s a new “TRUMPfusion” near the first hole. You can get it at the Trump Vodka Bar presented by Trump Vodka

Holy shit they really are painting the granite of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool smh…..won’t this paint now make it not reflecting?

Sarah Huckabee and her fellow Republicans have absolutely destroyed the once great state of Arkansas. Look how worse off they are now compared to in 2014 when they had a Democrat Governor. Crime Rate (Violent Crime per 100,000) 🔵2014: 480 🔴2025: 579 Murder rate (Per 100,000) 🔵 2014: 5.6 🔴 2025: 7.3 Life Expectancy (at birth, in years) 🔵 2014: 76.1 🔴 2025 (latest final 2022): 73.9 Healthcare Ranking (1 best, lower number = better) 🔵 2014: 34th 🔴 2025: 49th Education Ranking (varies by source; overall composite) 🔵 2014: 37th 🔴 2025: 47th Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) 🔵 2014 baseline: 7.1 🔴 2023: 8.22 Obesity Rate (adults) 🔵 2014: 38% 🔴 Recent (2024 data): 49.3% Federal Funding as % of State General Revenue 🔵 2014: 31% 🔴 2024: 38%

BREAKING: Trump has reportedly said the Iran war is over, per Maria Bartiromo of FOX

Dr. Oz: Trump argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass, if poured on grass, and therefore it kills cancer cells inside the body

This is CRAZY! It now costs more than 300,000 dollars to raise a child in the United States and that number has gone up 27.8 percent since 2023 alone. According to a new LendingTree analysis based on 2024 data, the total cost of raising a child from birth to age 18 has reached 303,418 dollars, the first time in history the figure has crossed 300,000 dollars. That is 16,857 dollars per year, every year, for eighteen straight years, before a single dollar goes toward college. But the national average is almost meaningless, because where you live determines whether that number doubles or gets cut in half. Hawaii is the most expensive state in the country, costing parents an average of 40,342 dollars per year just for the first five years of a child's life and a projected 412,661 dollars over the full 18-year span. Maryland and Massachusetts follow at 36,419 and 34,247 dollars per year respectively. On the other end of the map, Mississippi comes in at 17,148 dollars per year less than half the cost of Hawaii, for the same child, the same 18 years. The gap between raising a child in Massachusetts versus Mississippi over 18 years is more than 439,000 dollars. The biggest driver of that gap is not food or housing. It is childcare, which costs over 24,000 dollars per year in Hawaii and over 26,000 dollars per year in Massachusetts nearly the cost of in-state tuition at many public universities, paid annually, starting at birth. The cost of raising a child has now risen faster than inflation in most states, with some states like Alaska and Kansas seeing jumps of more than 20 percent in a single year. In 14 states, costs rose by as much as 10 percent in just the past year. The United States has the lowest birth rate in its recorded history, and the country is actively debating how to reverse it.

Panic in Birmingham this weekend! Here is a certified HEATER from Night 2 back in 2000. This was released on DVD as Live from Oak Mountain. Big Wooly Mammoth > Chilly Water August 12, 2000 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre - Pelham, AL