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Nom de Plume
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Joan Rivers Republican. Joseph McCarthy stan. From despaired NeverTrumper (2016-17) to Trump Optimist (2018-Present). “This is the best of all possible Trumps.”



I didn’t like USAID. But watching people gleefully mock a woman for having to start over at ~60 is bleak. You can disagree with someone’s politics without losing basic empathy. The internet has broken a lot of brains.



🚨PICTURED: An illegal migrant is seen laughing after being found guilty of repeatedly raping a drunk girl on a beach



Nothing cuter than a house goat 😍😍😍


Her name was Martha Odom. Seventeen years old. A senior at Ascension Episcopal down here in Lafayette. A writer. A dancer. Her school called her a joyful presence whose kindness brought light to everyone who knew her. She and two classmates were grabbing food at the mall yesterday. Minding their business. Just innocent kids in an innocent place until a group of thugs decided to settle their business with bullets in a public food court. Her parents shouldn't be making plans to bury their daughter this weekend. They should be making graduation plans, summer plans.. Pray for the Odom family. Pray for Ascension. Pray for the two kids still fighting to heal. And pray those thugs face every ounce of what they earned yesterday. Say her name tonight. Martha Odom.

You will be replaced by a barely English speaking Indian whose greatest asset is being more desperate than you, before you are replaced by AI


The EU signs agreement with Bangladesh promoting migration and "people-to-people" exchanges


"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va." nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…



Grateful the DOJ officially acknowledged Polymarket's cooperation on this case. Noise aside, the reality is we work proactively with all relevant authorities on any suspicious activity on our marketplace. We flagged this, referred it, and cooperated throughout the process. This happens constantly behind the scenes, despite what many are led to believe. The transparency afforded by onchain markets makes global compliance more effective than ever. Every trade is public, permanent, and auditable. Bad actors leave a trail. As with any fast growing new space, we're adapting and improving as we go. We appreciate the government's willingness to collaborate, learn, and engage with us to bring justice. More to come.




There’s almost nobody in the United States who is a true “heritage American.” Your grandparents or great-grandparents were probably Polish or Italian or Irish immigrants. Mine were Slovenian, Greek, and German. The promise of America was just as much theirs as it is ours. That’s the same promise that an immigrant receives today. The point shouldn’t be to eliminate immigration but rather to ensure that all immigrants to the United States come here legally, work hard, share our values, and are completely committed to our Constitution.


Woke author who boasted about shoplifting from Whole Foods flies into foul-mouthed RAGE when confronted outside her $2.2m Brooklyn brownstone trib.al/nWrPRRh


Deferring pension contributions is the Pandora's box of municipal finance, where a seemingly harmless action unleashes a legacy of complications. Once that seal is broken, NYC will start the descent into the same liability-fueled spiral that has hollowed out so many other cities.


JUST IN: More than half of former USAID workers reportedly still lack full-time jobs a year after DOGE dismantled the agency.









