José Abilio Ferreira

New Trading Post June 12, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/michaeljbu…

Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp is currently facing calls for an investigation into taxpayer money he gave to his childhood best friend. His childhood best friend is Daniel Dooley, whose brother, Derek Dooley is now a Republican running for Senate in Georgia.

Fantastic cartoon.

The amount of joy it gives me that he gets to see his stupid name chiseled off a real president’s memorial… 😈

Keep Donald Trump away from this game at all costs. 😂

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN DO NOT BE DISTRACTED.

Today has been a very bad day for Donald Trump. And bad days for Trump are good days for America.

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick says James Talarico is “going to Hell”: “I’ve never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office… He’s going to Hell, for sure.”

For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.

Are you fucking kidding me?

The Maine Senate Race In One Post: - @SenatorCollins raised $9.8M from 100 billionaires and their spouses. - @grahamformaine raised $9.6M from small-dollar Mainers averaging $26. Do you get it yet?

Russian Z-bloggers post footage of Ukrainian drones freely flying over Russian-occupied Crimea, attacking fuel trucks and military targets. They predict that soon this will lead to "panic and total collapse of all main roads."

A course of action has been approved – to increase the financial sustainability of our defense and ensure the continued transformation of the Ukrainian Army. First – pay. We have the resources to increase pay in the military. The minimum will be 30,000 hryvnias in rear areas. The more combat missions, the higher the level of pay. There will be new, significantly stronger contracts for infantry personnel. On average, 300,000 hryvnias on the front line. Everything depends on our Ukrainian infantryman. The contracts will be structured to ensure clarity: contract terms of 10, 14, and 24 months with clear conditions – meaning clear temporary discharge. Guaranteed terms – and real temporary discharge. In addition, payments for Ukrainian combat commanders will be increased, and this should create a positive incentive to preserve command experience within the Army. Second, I am grateful to all the volunteers from other countries who are fighting for freedom in Ukraine. I have instructed that significantly more opportunities be opened for foreign volunteers to join the Ukrainian Army. There will be additional recruitment mechanisms to support this. Third, further simplification of transfers for warriors, more opportunities to advance within the Army, and more positive incentives to join the defense. I expect every element of the changes now being implemented to show its effectiveness this summer. The Ministry of Defense will present the details of the decisions.

Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.

Trump wants Congress to "expunge" his impeachments from the historical record. There's just one problem: history doesn't work that way. A vote can't erase what happened. It can't erase January 6th. And it can't erase the record future generations will read. (link in reply)

Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity. It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty.

First-time voters say they’re voting for @JamesTalarico: “The fact that Talarico doesn't plan on taking any PAC money… He's free to actually be a servant of the people rather than the billionaire.” “He's not about like the big corporations, and he really cares about people.” “My school district got sued last year by Paxton. So to know that his first bill is going to be an anti-corruption bill is very important to me.”

The gold. The pageantry. Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a spectacle, and he's betting you’ll stay distracted. New episode of the podcast out today with @HunterBiden.

A rainbow formed outside of the Kennedy Center as Trump’s name is being removed from the building. If that’s not a sign, I don’t know what is!