Rob Ward

It certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough to be considered a safe private pilot. Check ride complete!

Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...

I said on @MSNOW just now: What *is* the Trump slush fund? It's not an appropriation: Congress did not vote. It's not a settlement: There was no valid litigation because (as the judge said) Trump was suing himself. On what basis is this money leaving the Treasury?

This is ridiculous. Mike Johnson canceled the vote because the War Powers Resolution was obviously going to pass in the House. It already advanced in the Senate. Mind you, we're already 20 days past the 60-day deadline mandated by law. Under the War Powers Resolution, the President "shall terminate" U.S. military involvement after 60 days UNLESS Congress declares war or passes specific authorization. No such authorization has passed. So what does Johnson do? He postpones the vote and sends the House on recess. Pathetic.

Why is the visiting team wearing white

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump. There is no close second in our history. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

More than 140 officers were injured defending the Capitol on January 6th. They waited six years for the plaque in their honor to be hung in the Capitol. They watched as Donald Trump pardoned every single one of their assailants. Some of them can no longer work and cannot even get disability benefits. But Donald Trump has set aside nearly $2 BILLION of your taxpayer money to pay the criminals who assaulted them. It’s a punch in the face to every police officer in this country who puts his or her life on the line to protect us. I support Officers Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn in their lawsuit to stop this outrageous scheme.

Starbucks ran an AI inventory system for nine months before shutting it down because it couldn't actually count or label items. Letting a hallucinating model dictate physical supply chain orders for three fiscal quarters? This seems production grade.

Beyond terrible look on GCP. They suspended a bunch of prod accounts... automated. No warning. Including that of Railway: an infra company spending $20M+ per year on the platform. Two years ago they deleted the prod account of a $100B+ fund. How can a serious company do this?

Here's to Stephen Colbert, a man of great integrity and wit. Onward, friend, to bigger and better things.

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

They said that technology would mean we'd all work less, and by god———they were right!

🚨BREAKING: Republicans just voted AGAINST my amendment to stop Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund from bailing out the convicted felons who assaulted cops on January 6th. You read that right. They blocked us from even debating the issue on the House floor. Beyond shameful.

This wild. Two years ago, Google deleted a large customer’s account: Unisuper, an Australian retirement savings fund. It seems they now blocked an even larger customer, cloud provider Railway. This kind of story you never hear with AWS, Azure, or even Oracle. GCP 👎

I never hear these stories about AWS. And I promise you, I’ve been listening.

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

This is so corrupt that the lawyers who crafted this should be disbarred & removed, the acting AG who signed it should be disbarred & removed, and the president who orchestrated it all should be impeached & removed & finally at long last made irrelevant. Staggering corruption

I asked former IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel for comment. He writes: “I am unaware of a single precedent where the IRS has agreed in advance to permanently forgo examination of previously filed tax returns for a specific person or business. Whether you are the President or Joe the Plumber, people expect the same tax rules and enforcement framework to apply to everybody.”

Literally arguing for insider trading to offset his concern that Congressional salaries are too low.

This is outright theft. Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family.

@truthache68 Probably quite a few younger millennials that never did either.

💾😂 It’s actually wild that Gen Z has never experienced the pure serotonin of watching MS-DOS DEFRAG do its little block dance. Your 4GB 386 is choking on life? Just run DEFRAG and stare at it like it’s 1993 Netflix. Don’t fight the hypnosis… become one with the pixels.😵‍💫