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@memomoment Home of Los Oranges and San Di-Eggo

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀 The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund. Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each. Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced. Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking. Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats. Reward the loyal. Purge the rest. Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

@vintagemapstore Is this based on county population? Census tracts? Other?

Every state split in half by population – the densest half and least dense half

@PetiteRainCity Southern Cauliflower.

Ok now i need to know. How do you pronounce Los Angeles?

@WhiteHouse @mboyle1 Corrupt, whiny Donald Trump has conclusively proven to anyone in the world with half a brain that Iran, not the U.S., dictates what goes on in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump started a war that has weakened America and strengthened Iran. #MAGA #Felon47

When she says she doesn't Trust in Trump

Trump then got on Air Force One and went straight to Paris, where he has been confused and nearly narcoleptic. Why do they think he can do this?

The mini movies have always been one of my favorite parts of the NBA Finals. The 2010 Finals mini movies were always my favorite. It has been rebranded as Chasing History. Not exactly the same. Here is part of the magical Game 4. A perfect story all captured in depth. 👏

Jimmy Kimmel wasn't about to let this Freudian slip from Sunday’s UFC broadcast booth go unnoticed

The people who wanted Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over a melania joke are suddenly ok with a UFC fighter's disgusting 'joke' about Michelle Obama on White House grounds.

Israel hasn’t seen it yet. That’s all anyone needs to know about the success of this deal.

We already had that agreement with Obama’s nuclear deal. Now Iran is getting paid $324B to say what they’ve always said. The Great Deal Maker strikes again.

@JustJoshinNH Root beer ice cream bar seems more like a punishment, to be honest.

When I was young we went from the burbs to eight acres in the sticks and I missed the burbs every day. Very rarely the Schwan’s truck would trundle down our dirt road. And usually we were too poor for anything. But once in a while we’d get a root beer ice cream bar or something.

America First.

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I will keep covering everything happening in the West Bank, but over the next two weeks, I will focus more on one of the most important events in Gaza — the mass anti-Hamas protests. We are calling on every human rights organization, every media outlet, and every activist who claims to stand for Palestinian rights to stand with the people of Gaza. Not with the militia that oppresses them. Mark your calendar: June 26, 2026. The mass anti-Hamas protests. A demand for freedom and dignity.

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@NewJerseyDOT Around 205.

Pull out your calculators for some quick math in this edition of #TriviaTuesday.

"I happily went to the bigot conference but then they were bigoted towards ME!"