
Billy Ray
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Billy Ray
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"I'm not talented enough to be unprepared. Are you?" -- Monroe Stahr


There’s no nasty movement like nasty Wiffle Ball movement. Some absolute filth here …



Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups": "They've never been associated with the right, they've always been associated with the left." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…

Maryland homeowners will pay an extra $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next decade to subsidize grid costs to feed data centers, according to a state agency bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🚨 WOW! Vivek Ramaswamy wins 100% PERCENT of Ohio counties in the governor GOP primary — and with nearly all of the vote counted, he has 82.5% of the vote His opponent didn’t stand a CHANCE! 👏🏻 Time to keep Ohio red 🔥

Bob Fosse in Little Prince movie, 1974 had a massive influence on Michael Jackson.

The US auto loan crisis is accelerating: The average amount owed by underwater car borrowers rose to ~$7,200 in Q1 2026, the highest on record and the 4th consecutive annual increase. Over the last 4 years, the average amount owed by negative equity car borrowers has risen +71%. Overall, ~30% of car buyers who traded in a vehicle in Q1 had negative equity. This comes as pandemic-era vehicles, bought at peak prices, have lost value faster than borrowers can pay down the loans. This compounds existing pressure on auto buyers amid elevated vehicle prices and interest rates. Auto credit stress is spreading.

tremendous jumps in average gas prices, these are the top 10 states seeing average prices surge the most, all of them over 30c/gal higher from a week ago



The wave reaches Kansas (Trump +16% in 2024). New from GQR: Trump is at 46% favorable-51% unfavorable. Incumbent GOP senator Roger Marshall also underwater, 35% fav-42% unfav. Likely Dem nominee, young state rep and vet Patrick Schmidt, is within 4% of Marshall--45%-49%.


Trump: "Ukraine, militarily, they're defeated. You wouldn't know that by reading the fake news."

Good News: After 20 years of declining numbers, indie booksellers have come "roaring back." There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were in 2020. The American Booksellers Association membership has grown from 1,900 to 3,200.

We’ve now 86’d: McCarthy McDaniel McConnell Better days are ahead for the Republican Party.

The main paragraph in the new Comey indictment from Ellis Boyle and Matthew Petracca is one of the most embarrassing and humiliating passages of legal text I've ever read

🌋 ‘Volcano’ starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche and Don Cheadle premiered in theaters 29 years ago, April 25, 1997



