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Beanie Feldstein pregnant, expecting first baby with wife Bonnie-Chance Roberts trib.al/KRsoLBu

@adamcarolla Nice Mom jeans

It’s not a Skill saw it’s a Makita hypoid or worm drive saw. Just saying because no homo x.com/CJGRISHAM/stat…

@ChefGruel C’mon Chef, it’s #porkroll!

Grew up going to Summit diner. Best Taylor Ham.

@OneJerseySchorr I don’t understand… I was told this does not happen…

Four New Jersey residents were charged today in connection with illegally voting in federal elections and making false statements while applying for United States citizenship, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Robert Frazer announced. According to the complaints, each of the defendants cast ballots in at least one federal election, including the 2020 and 2024 general elections for president and the 2022 midterm elections.

@RedWavePress This entitled kid is insufferable. He clearly has never gotten punched in the face.

WOW: CNN’s Abby Phillip DOES her job for once and HOLDS MeidasTouch’s soy boy Adam Mockler’s FEET to the FIRE for backing Nazi-tattooed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Maine, Graham Platner. Abby Phillip: “Now, if this were a Republican candidate who had had a Nazi tattoo, covered it up when he was running for something, and had said all the things that he had said about black people, about women, about rape, et cetera, do you really think there's a world in which Democrats would be like, let's just let bygones be bygones. That's the past, today's the present.” Adam Mockler: “I think we're entering a new era and we'll see what the base wants. We'll see who wins when the actual election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump. And now, Graham Platner has a forward-looking message. So, if Donald Trump or if another Republican had a Nazi tattoo, I don't know. Donald Trump has dinner with Nazis. It's not that far from, you know, it's happening. But there's also plausible deniability regarding Graham Platner's tattoo. We don't know if he knew, we don't know what he knew.”

@MrAndyNgo Nice to see a journalist practice journalism – bravo!

KOMO reporter Chris Daniels asked the Seattle socialist mayor if she had changed her views on banning security cameras around the city, a demand of leftists, after experiencing a shooting near an event she was at. Her staff then shut down the interview.

@ebennett74 @jsolomonReports Same. Happy to send my sons to other State Us where out of state tuition is still less than in-state. No preference to residents like you see in other states (TX, GA, FL, NC, SC to name a few)

@jsolomonReports My New Jersey college student was accepted into Skidmore—but not Rutgers. NJ state schools are a joke. They also horribly discriminate against white kids. This is not my personal opinion but an open secret in NJ that parents are aware of.

Justice Department sues New Jersey for granting tuition support for illegals but not citizens justthenews.com/government/cou…

@Zaggs @TheJusticeDept Not all in-state students get a seat at the table. I personally know NJ kids not admitted to Rutgers despite strong transcripts, seemingly bypassed for lesser credentialed non-residents.

@TheJusticeDept Who is being denied an oppurtunity? If a student lives in state, they get in state tuition.

TODAY: the United States announced that it is challenging New Jersey laws providing in-state tuition and financial assistance for illegal aliens. “Imagine being denied the opportunity of education in your own country,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. “By granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, the state of New Jersey is doing just that.” 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

@TheJusticeDept In-State tuition at Rutgers is $30K. NJ Taxpayers pay $1 billion a year to Rutgers. I know plenty of white kids -NJ residents- with great transcripts denied admission from Rutgers. Guess I know why now.

@JonathanTurley @ScottAdams65 Temper tantrums from theater kids

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just called the Supreme Court "illegitimate." That follows Democratic politicians and pundits calling for the packing of the Supreme Court. Nothing says Happy 250th Anniversary like tearing down the core institutions of the Republic.

@GuntherEagleman @Rep_Stansbury @grok So we’re pivoting back to Epstein now that their congressional maps are shot?

@Rep_Stansbury Hey @Grok, how many times did hypocrite Melanie Stansbury demand justice for the Epstein victims under Joe Biden? Answer with number only.

No one is above the law.  Not Pam Bondi.  Not Todd Blanche.  Not Donald Trump. And certainly not the Epstein predators they’ve been shielding.

@ZiaErica Baylor always up for a simultaneous slobber

QUICK!!! Timeline Cleanse.... Show me your pet photos!!! I need a cuteness overload, STAT! George CATstanza agrees.

I have given the Southern Poverty Law Center $340 a year since 2014. That is $3,400. Ten years. Automatic withdrawal. I set it and forgot it, the way you forget a subscription to a meditation app you stopped using in February. I did not donate to fight hate. I donated to stop thinking about hate. Those are different products. The SPLC sold the second one. I found out last Monday. Eleven federal counts. Wire fraud. Bank fraud. Money laundering. The indictment is 47 pages. I read every one. I read them the way you read a biopsy result when the doctor's voice changes mid-sentence. Here is what my $340 a year bought: The SPLC paid informants inside the Ku Klux Klan. They paid informants inside the neo-Nazi National Alliance. They did this for forty years. They called them "the Fs." Field sources. Internal codename. It sounds like a file folder designation because it was a file folder designation. One informant received over one million dollars between 2014 and 2023. Let me say that differently. In the same calendar years I was setting up my automatic donation to fight white supremacy, the Southern Poverty Law Center was cutting checks to a man inside the National Alliance. He was being paid more per year than I make. He was inside a neo-Nazi organization. My money and his money came from the same account. I paid them to fight the people they were paying. Somewhere in Montgomery, a line item balanced perfectly. They sent me a thank-you card. It is still on my refrigerator. It has a stock photo of diverse children holding hands and it says "Because of you, hate has no safe harbor." It is next to my daughter's finger painting of a horse and a Thai takeout menu from a place that closed during COVID. The card cost eleven cents to print. The informant inside the National Alliance cost a hundred and eleven thousand dollars a year. Same fund. The shell accounts were named "Fox Photography" and "Rare Books Warehouse." I need you to sit with "Rare Books Warehouse." Someone at the SPLC — someone with a title and a parking space and a benefits package funded by people like me — sat in a conference room and said "What should we name the shell company we use to pay neo-Nazis?" and someone else said "Rare Books Warehouse" and everyone in the room nodded. There were blueberry muffins. There is always blueberry muffins. Somewhere in that conference room there was a whiteboard that said "Q3 FIELD SOURCE DISBURSEMENT" in blue dry-erase marker, and under it "Fox Photography" with a checkmark next to it. I know this because I know how conference rooms work. The muffins are always blueberry. Another informant was paid $270,000. He was in the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" planning chat. He was in the chat where they planned the rally where Heather Heyer was murdered. The SPLC knew he was in the chat. The SPLC was paying him to be in the chat. After Charlottesville, the SPLC sent me a fundraising email. The subject line said "This Is Why We Fight." I screenshotted it and posted it to Instagram with a black square. Seven people liked it. One of them was my therapist. I opened the email. It said the events in Charlottesville proved why the SPLC's work was more important than ever. It had a red donate button. I clicked the red donate button. I felt like I was doing something. I was doing something. I was replenishing the fund that paid the man who sat in the chat where they planned Charlottesville. The fundraising email did not mention the informant. The fundraising email did not mention "Fox Photography." The fundraising email did not mention that the SPLC had a man inside the planning and chose to use him as an intelligence asset rather than, say, calling the police. The fundraising email said "fighting hate requires resources." I provided resources. The resources fought hate by funding it. My donation subsidized both sides of the same transaction. I was the float. I put the bumper sticker on my car. The one that said HATE HAS NO HOME HERE. I put it on a 2016 Subaru Outback, Wilderness Green Metallic, which is the most SPLC-donor car in the history of motor vehicles. Hate had no home in my car. Hate had a condo in Montgomery, Alabama, a shell account called Fox Photography, and a direct deposit schedule. My partner asked me once — this was 2018 — "Do you actually know what they do with the money?" I said "They fight hate." She said "How?" I said "They track hate groups and take them to court." She said "Have they taken anyone to court recently?" I changed the subject. I changed the subject the way you change the subject when you realize the answer is no but the bumper sticker is already on the car and you used it as your profile picture on two platforms. My tax preparer asked about it. April 2019. She said "Oh, the SPLC, good for you." I got thirty-seven dollars back on my taxes. The informant inside the National Alliance got a hundred and eleven thousand. We both filed in April. Mine went to H&R Block. His went through Fox Photography. The IRS treated both of us like philanthropists. The SPLC's endowment is $732 million. I need you to hold that number. Seven hundred and thirty-two million dollars. In an endowment. For a nonprofit that fights hate. That is more money than the GDP of ten sovereign nations. Hate is, apparently, a growth industry. The SPLC found the arbitrage: you can monetize both the existence of hate and the appearance of fighting it simultaneously if your donors never check the ledger. I never checked the ledger. Morris Dees — the founder — was fired in 2019. Sexual harassment. Internal complaints going back decades. Two dozen employees signed a letter. The letter said the SPLC had a "systemic culture of racism and sexism." Inside the organization that defines racism and sexism for the rest of America. They hired a new president. She released a statement about "transformative accountability." The informant payments continued. They settled a defamation lawsuit with Maajid Nawaz for $3.375 million. They had labeled him an "anti-Muslim extremist." He is a Muslim. He is a Muslim who runs a counter-extremism think tank. The SPLC put him on the same list as the Klan. Then they sent me a fundraising email about the dangers of the Klan. The hate map. I should talk about the hate map. The SPLC publishes a hate map. It is the most cited source on extremism in America. It labeled the Ku Klux Klan a hate group. Correct. It labeled the National Alliance a hate group. Correct. It also labeled Moms for Liberty a hate group. It labeled Turning Point USA a hate group. It put parents who yell at school board meetings in the same taxonomic category as organizations that advocate for racial genocide. When you label everything hate, hate means nothing. When hate means nothing, the actual Nazis become noise. When the actual Nazis become noise, you need informants to find them. When you need informants, you pay them. When you pay them, you fund the thing you said you were fighting. When you fund the thing you said you were fighting, you send a fundraising email about it. Forty years of this. The org chart had a department for it. The FBI severed its relationship with the SPLC. Kash Patel called them a "partisan smear machine." I am not in the habit of agreeing with Kash Patel. But when the FBI says your informant program is too compromised for the FBI — the FBI, whose own informant programs are legendarily compromised — you have achieved a kind of operational distinction. I told my friends to donate. I told my mother to donate. For Christmas 2017, I gave my college roommate Mark a gift membership. Forty dollars. I told him it was the gift that fights back. Mark put it in his holiday letter. "Peter got me an SPLC gift membership!" Exclamation point. He was proud. I was proud. The neo-Nazi was solvent. It was the gift that fights back by sending forty dollars to an organization that was simultaneously paying a man inside a neo-Nazi cell and labeling PTA parents as equivalent threats. The donation was a personality. The personality you purchase when you want credit for caring without the inconvenience of doing anything. I put it in my Instagram bio for two years. "SPLC donor." Next to a sunflower emoji and a link to my Goodreads. I said it at dinner parties. I said it the way people say they drive a Prius. At Thanksgiving, my uncle — the one who watches Fox News and forwards emails about immigrants — saw my t-shirt. The one that said TEACHING TOLERANCE. He said "What's that about?" I gave him the full pitch. He laughed for forty-five seconds. He said "You're paying them to do WHAT?" He was closer to the truth than I was and he'd never read a single page of anything. The tolerance was a shell company called Fox Photography. The teaching was a filing cabinet in Montgomery with a folder labeled "F" containing pay stubs for a man who attended cross burnings on company time. I looked at my bank statement after I read the indictment. I have fourteen recurring donations. The SPLC is one. The ACLU gets $25 a month. I do not know the ACLU's endowment. I have never looked. I assume they fight for civil liberties the way I assumed the SPLC fought hate. I assume this the way you assume the pilot has a license. The Sierra Club gets $15 a month. I don't know what the Sierra Club does with $15 a month. I have a Sierra Club tote bag. I use it to carry groceries from a store that sells water in single-use plastic bottles. The tote bag has a tree on it. Doctors Without Borders. $20 a month. I set it up in 2016 after seeing a photograph of a child in Aleppo. I cried. I clicked a button. I have not thought about Aleppo since 2017. The $20 continued. That is the product. Not the doctoring. Not the borders. The not-thinking-about-it-after-2017. I have seven tote bags from organizations whose executive directors I cannot name. I have a closet that functions as a moral resume. Every bag is a receipt for a feeling I had once and never verified. The SPLC is the one that got caught. Fourteen recurring donations and the SPLC is the only one where I know what happened to the money, and what happened to the money is neo-Nazis. I don't know what happened to the other thirteen. I subscribe to being a good person the way I subscribe to streaming services. Monthly. Automatically. I audit neither. The difference is that when Netflix cancels a show, no one ends up in a planning chat for a rally where someone dies. I want to walk you through the accounting one more time. My automatic donation: $340 per year. Their informant payments: $3 million over the same period. Their endowment: $732 million. Their settlement to the man they falsely labeled an extremist: $3.375 million. Morris Dees's severance: undisclosed. The number of active hate groups they tracked in 2024: 595. The number of those groups that contained SPLC informants: classified, but the indictment says at least two. The number of hate groups that would have existed without SPLC funding: also classified, and I think about that every day. One thank-you card on the refrigerator. Thirteen other recurring donations I will not look into because looking into one was enough. The hat trick is that I can't stop donating. Not because I believe. I stopped believing when I read page 23 of the indictment, the paragraph about the shell accounts, the one that said "Rare Books Warehouse." I stopped believing in the middle of a sentence. But the automatic withdrawal is a metaphor and the metaphor is my entire political identity. If I cancel, I have to explain to myself what I was doing for ten years. If I keep paying, I don't. If I cancel all fourteen, I have to become a person who does things instead of a person who pays for things. I have never been that person. The SPLC knew I would never be that person. That is why the product worked. I tried to cancel. The website has a page called "Manage Your Giving." It has an "Increase Your Gift" button. It does not have a cancel button. There is a phone number. The phone number goes to a voicemail that says "We are experiencing higher than normal call volume due to recent media coverage." Eleven federal counts. "Recent media coverage." You understand. You understand because you have fourteen recurring donations too. Or seven. Or three. You understand because you have a tote bag from an organization you believe in the same way I believed in the SPLC — which is to say automatically, monthly, without verification, and with a bumper sticker. The right side is a product. The SPLC sold it for $732 million. I bought it for $340 a year. The spread between those two numbers is where the informants live. But the informants are not the point. The point is that I would have paid the $340 even if I'd known. Especially if I'd known. Because the $340 was never about the informants or the hate or the map or the court cases. The $340 was about the feeling. The feeling was the product. The SPLC just got caught selling it with neo-Nazis in the supply chain. I am the donor. I am the fundraising deck. I am the red button that says DONATE NOW. I am the Charlottesville email. I am the bumper sticker. I am the black square on Instagram. I am the tote bag. I am the closet full of moral resumes. I am every person who ever said "I gave to the SPLC" and felt the warm feeling and never once asked what the money actually did. I am every person who gives to anything and feels the warm feeling and never once asks. Here is what the money actually did. $340 a year. Ten years. One neo-Nazi. One million dollars. One shell company named after a camera store that does not exist. One thank-you card on the refrigerator next to a horse that my daughter painted in 2019. Thirteen other donations I will never audit. I am still on automatic withdrawal. The next charge is June 1st.

@newyorkgrooovee It’s almost like they want to see how bad it can get before there is any desire to fix it.

With Charlie Baker pushing for the NCAA 5 year eligibility window to go into effect next month, imagine the transfer portal chaos that’d ensue. Most teams already spent most of their NIL budgets. Tons of talented players become available overnight w/ teams having little money available due to already having financial commitments in place with recently signed players.

@NJHoopsHaven @ryansalfino @AsburyParkPress The KC Ndefo Keystone is a critical role. Glad Trey is #HallIn

Trey Parker is sticking around, and he's pumped. “This is going to be my breakout year.” Seton Hall’s lone holdover on his return, development under Sha, offseason focus, relationship with Del Jones, and more: app.com/story/sports/c… via @asburyparkpress

@merissahansen17 Dude looks like a thumb

BREAKING: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately.

@wakeupnj Short answer- no

Does the NJ GOP have a pulse in New Jersey? Asking this because I haven't seen an effective change to win here, the online presence is terrible, where is the support for grassroots? it's absolutely non existent, the only spark I see is from local clubs & Legislators making noise Changes need to happen, expensive paid parties aren't going to win elections here, need to resonate with the people more if things are to get better

@EricLDaugh Wait til they get Congress.

🚨 INDIANA RINOS BETRAYED US HARD Because "principled" Republicans in the Indiana Senate OPPOSED flipping 2 seats red — in a Trump+19 STATE Virginia Democrats went for GOLD and PASSED a map that turns the Harris+5 state into 90% Democrats in Congress. WE TOLD THEM SO. Their decisions to "stay out" of the redistricting fight was just a surrender to people who want to destroy the republic. I am SO GLAD President Trump is primarying out every Indiana Republican who opposed redistricting. Now we need Florida to step it up!

@PaulMaddison121 @barstoolsports 🚨🚨expert opinion

@barstoolsports This is EXACTLY what the USA should do with guns The age at which you can buy them goes up every year so in essence we phase them out over 40 years Its a brilliant idea There are 22 gun deaths in the UK vs 48,000 in the USA I repeat 22 vs 48,000 - EVERY YEAR.

The UK Is Banning Cigarettes. Permanently. People Born 2009 Or Later Will Never Be Allowed To Legally Purchase Tobacco s.barstool.link/c/article-3568…

@JesseKellyDC Jim Croce 2.0

Jim Croce is underrated.