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Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined. That is an astonishing figure historically. The national debt just crossed $39 trillion. President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office. That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789. In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.” Instead: - First term: +$7.8 trillion - Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already And yes, COVID affected first-term spending. It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic. A political movement built on: “fiscal conservatism” “small government” “balanced budgets” has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

Donald Trump ran for office for three reasons: 1) stay out of jail 2) exact revenge on his enemies 3) line his pockets Everything else he says is bullshit.

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

Fukuyama: The key issue was Taiwan. A $14B arms package was held up, and Trump seemed to see Taiwan as a “very good negotiating chip” with Beijing — trading an ally’s security for economic advantage while repeating false claims about Taiwan stealing U.S. chip technology. 1/

UPDATE: @blankcheckben’s return will be Thursday. He will play on Thursday & Friday.

Congratulations on your wedding @DonaldJTrumpJr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.

So yesterday Donald Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it.

Kyle Busch was driving down the road when he noticed the woman in the passenger seat next to him was wearing his hat and her reaction is priceless when she realizes

Will Sasso and Dan Soder are Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Deniro reading Andy Rooney quotes. 😂😂😂😂 (🎥@ChrisVanVliet)

Christ. Here are the words in case you’re distracted by his bulging neck pussy. 🤦‍♂️ “Story, I read a story yesterday where the pharmacies. They're going out of business. They have glass all over the place. You want toothpaste. You have to open up. You have to get a clerk to open up the thing. And they opened and they handed a toothpaste. And in the meantime, other people waiting to steal it. They got for a guy. They were saying a guy right here, Mr. Lutnick, said Mr. Lutnick is a rich guy. But he was in a store. And he noticed when he was in a drugstore, the people with duffel bags. They're putting sh- crap in a duffel bag and walking. And the clerk says, you're not supposed to be doing that. And the kid said, dah, with your walks out. And if the clerk does anything at all, they arrest the clerk. How screwed up is our country? How the hell do you make your money if you got to open up glass, expensive glass, to give somebody a toothbrush, or to give somebody some toothpaste? That does not sound like a good business model. See, I've empty stores. The whole thing, we got to change it. Now, the way you stop that, you know how you stop that? You come down hard on those people. [APPLAUSE] In one day, you solve that problem all over the country. You just come down so hard that they never forget it, and they'll never do it again. They'll never do it again. It's horrible. What's happening is horrible. And it's all in the blue cities. It's all blue. The 25 worst cities of blue means Dumocrat. That's a new name I came up with. You've never heard. I was thinking about this character we have in the house. His name is Hakeem Jeffries. [APPLAUSE] And he's a low IQ person, very low IQ. And I watched what he was saying, and what the horrible things he was saying. And I said, he's a dumb guy. I said, wait a minute, he's a Dumocrat. That's how I got the name. You take the E out. You don't use the B. A lot of people don't know dumb has the B in it, actually. You don't need it. You discard the B. But you take the E out, and you place it with the U. They are Dumocrats. You know why? Because their policies are dumb. Their policies are very dumb.”

It was a Monday in early August 2023. The exhausted truck drivers of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour thought they were heading to a routine production meeting before the Los Angeles shows. They had no idea what was coming. Scott Swift walked in. Taylor's father didn't say much—he just began handing out envelopes. When the drivers finally peeked inside, some thought the check said $1,000. Others read $10,000. The third driver stared at his and said out loud: "This has to be a joke." It wasn't. $100,000. Each driver. Nearly 50 of them. The industry standard bonus from the biggest stars? $5,000 to $10,000. Taylor had given them more than ten times that. But here's what made it matter most: these drivers weren't wealthy. They lived in truck cabs. They hadn't seen their families in 24 weeks. They were people who would never own homes—until now. Until that envelope. That moment of shock and tears? It was just the beginning. Across the entire Eras Tour, Taylor quietly handed out $197 million in bonuses. The dancers. The band. The riggers. The lighting and sound technicians. The caterers. Every single person who built the show—they got bonuses, handwritten notes, and wax-sealed letters. When dancers opened theirs on camera in her docuseries, they broke down crying. Some couldn't believe she was real. "If the tour grosses more, they get more," she explained simply. These people work hard. They deserve it. But the crew bonuses weren't the only quiet revolution happening. Starting in March 2023, in every city where the tour touched down, a call came to local food banks. Taylor wanted to donate. No press conference. No announcement. No photo op. One donation fed 75,000 meals. Another provided hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh produce. Across the tour, the total reached millions of meals—possibly more—all delivered in silence. She never posted about a single one. And it wasn't new for her. In March 2020, when the pandemic locked down the world, Taylor scrolled through social media posts from fans who were breaking. A photographer about to lose everything. A person staring down eviction. She sent direct messages with rent money—$3,000 here, $13,000 there. Some fans got enough for months of bills. She read the Washington Post. She noticed the names. She helped. She never announced it. Years later, in October 2025, a two-year-old named Lilah—fighting a cancer so rare that only 58 families in America had ever known it—was filmed by her mother dancing to a Taylor Swift song. Lilah called Taylor her friend. A few days later, the GoFundMe received a $100,000 donation. The note said: "Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor." Mike Scherkenbach has worked with the wealthiest people in music. He's seen the bonuses. He's seen the behavior. He's watched billionaires guard their money jealously. What he saw with Taylor was different. The biggest tour in history grossed $2 billion. The artist behind it became a billionaire from her own songwriting. And then she signed her name onto hundreds of envelopes by hand and sent enough money back to the people who built her dream that they cried opening their letters. That isn't strategy. That isn't a publicity stunt. That's what happens when someone, somewhere along the way, remembered what matters.

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan. Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

Literal definition of Orwellian

“The top 1% pay 40% of the taxes” — the statement so misleading, it might as well be false. @raymadoff explains.

Nick Schulman is back on the call for the 2026 World Series of Poker! Last year’s Poker Hall of Fame inductee returns to the booth for poker’s biggest stage, the Main Event, this year on ESPN. One of the sharpest minds in the game. One of the best voices in poker. Happy to have you back, @NickSchulman.

i lied.

if I woke up to a pony playing a keyboard after surgery I would assume I passed away

@tjreidpoker @MikeHoltzPoker @ChadAHolloway @PokerNews @Bloodlow I just read the news. Glad to see it finally happening. Way overdue. Thanks TJ.

@TheRealStewman @MikeHoltzPoker @ChadAHolloway @PokerNews @Bloodlow Way ahead of you 👀 I hope so

Still coming for you and your bracelet squad @MikeHoltzPoker @ChadAHolloway. Great time with the @PokerNews squad. Thanks for having me. @Bloodlow

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