Max Lederman

If you think the Earth is flat, please find the edge and jump off

In @nytopinion “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals,” the editorial board writes. nyti.ms/4dyC9Cj

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — He spent 37 days in a rural Tennessee county jail for posting a meme about President Donald Trump. Now, Lexington, Tenn., resident Larry Bushart — who was finally freed following a NewsChannel 5 investigation — will collect an $835,000 settlement from Perry County, his attorneys announced Wednesday. Details in link below. (Photo by: LadyJay Creations LLC/FIRE)

To their credit, the Founding Fathers always knew a king-like tyrant would one day try to rule as personal dictator and use the powers of the presidency to live above the law. They introduced checks and balances. But they never foresaw a second branch of government abdicating oath in favor of complicity and grift. And they certainly never foresaw algorithmic media or a citizenry so manipulated by obvious deceit.

AMERICA COULD HAVE HAD STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS BUT INSTEAD THEY HAVE INSURRECTIONIST FORGIVENESS

“Bringing in James Harden to win a championship is like electing Donald Trump to fix your country.” - @maxkellerman (Via Game Over / h/t @NBA__Courtside )

Barney Frank was one of a kind. For more than three decades in Congress, he fought tirelessly for the people of Massachusetts, helped make housing more affordable, stood up for the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, and helped pass one of the most sweeping financial reforms in history designed to protect consumers and prevent another financial crisis. Barney’s passion and wit were second to none, and our thoughts are with his family today.

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."

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Jonah says what others are afraid to. The ridiculous taxpayer-funded slush fund to reward his friends and supporters is what Hamilton had in mind when he talked about impeachable offenses.

Low info voters will destroy this country.

They are looting the country on an unprecedented scale and the lesson of losses by Massie and Cassidy is that no Republican in Congress will ever lift a finger to halt this.

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops. These are sick, corrupt people.

This is not true, the person who came up with these numbers later retracted them because they were based on bad data. Norway's wealth tax changes were expected to raise $228M and the year over year increase ended up being $743M

Sixers win a generational draft lottery and the dude is a professional fisherman before 30 years old. Most Sixers thing ever 😭

There you have it. Tina Peters was convicted of four felonies by a jury of her peers for undermining our elections. Now she's likely to get paid by taxpayer dollars. She’s not innocent. This isn’t right. And I'll fight like hell to make sure she doesn’t get a dime.

Honestly pure dictator shit. A real democracy would immediately imprison him for even trying this

Is it just me or did Stephon Castle pull the “game: blouses”?

Same exact miss by JDub and Westbrook. Same exact shot by Wemby and Curry. The resemblance is uncanny 🤯

normalize destroying ronald reagan's legacy.

I have not pulled the trigger on this since Jan 2021 and the pardons of all the Jan 6 defendants, but I think there's a strong argument that the settlement of Trump's bogus, unconstitutional case in return for a $1.8b fund for 'Biden weaponization' is an impeachable offense.