Darin King

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BREAKING: Rep. Joe Neguse DESTROYS Trump's Interior Secretary over his wasteful $13.1 million "renovations" to the Reflecting Pool — and reveals a stunning legal crack in MAGA's plans. This vanity project might not get finished after all... "Are you familiar with Atlantic Industrial Coatings?" the congressman asked during a hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources. "I— I'm not— N— Familiar with that uh," said Burgum. "So Atlantic Industrial Coatings is a company. Are you familiar with that company?" asked Neguse. "You're saying— You're saying Atlantic?" managed Burgum. "Atlantic Industrial Coatings, correct," said the congressman. "Are you familiar with it or?" "I'm not familiar with Atlantic." "Okay, Atlantic Industrial Coatings is the company that received a no-bid federal contract for the project at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool," explained Neguse. "Are you familiar with that now?" "I'm familiar with that project, yes," said Burgum. "But not the company?" "Uh— Nuh— I wasn't familiar that— With that specific name of the company," said Burgum. "Okay. You're familiar with the fact that a company received a no-bid contract to do the work on that project, correct?" asked Neguse. "I'm— I'm familiar that we uh— That we're working on a project to, uh, restore, uh, the Reflecting Pool before the, uh, summer season with record attendance, yes," stammered Burgum. "Yes, and that was through a no-bid $13 million contract, right?" pressed the congressman. "That's not up for debate. That's a fact." "But I— I— I'm positive that we followed all of the required bidding rules, so you're— You're emphasizing the word no-bid like something nefarious has happened," said Burgum. "And I— I reject that thesis." "Okay, then explain it to me," said Neguse. "Here, I'll ask you the question. My understanding of the federal procurement rules is that a no-bid contract is reserved for situations where 'any delay would cause serious injury to the government.' Your proposition is what? That there'd be serious injury to the government if this company didn't get the $13 million contract to do this particular project right now?" "Well, I think we do have a sense of urgency, I mean, we got handed a record amount of deferred maintenance," said Burgum. "We had 19 fountains across the city that didn't work." "That's a serious injury to the government!?" said an incredulous Neguse, biting back a laugh. "A serious injury to the government?" "Well, I'm not— I'm not— I'm not a... I suppose a lawyer could decide that, but I think that maybe all of us could agree that we would want to have our nation's capital looking great for the 250th," Burgum said. "I mean, this is a common sense decision." "I would say, just last question, who picked this company? Because President Trump, a few months ago, in a New York Times article, said, 'I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. He looked at it. He called me up. He said, sir, we can do something on it.' Last night, he posted on Truth Social, also, 'I did not give out the contract, Interior did, to a contractor I did not know and have never used before.' So, Interior, he's talking about you. Did you give this $13 million no-bid contract to this company that's never done business with the federal government before?" "The— The— The gentleman that you're talking about that has done, uh, construction work regarding pools and fountains for President Trump is not part of this contract," claimed Burgum. "He— He's just a citizen that cared about it and offered some free advice. There's nothing there there in terms of any dollars flowing to anybody that worked for President Trump." Tellingly, Burgum offered no clarity on the actual bidding process. The reason is self-evident. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. Trump regularly hands out sweetheart deals and blatantly funnels our tax dollars into the pockets of his family members and cronies. We'd bet good money that a look under the hood of this project would reveal rampant criminality. When Democrats get back into power, we must use our subpoena power to launch a full forensic audit. In the meantime, Congressman Neguse has just pumped jet fuel into the lawsuits that are attempting to stop these hideous Reflecting Pool renovations. Clearly, the contract process was handled improperly because there was no actual threat of "serious injury" to the government. The courts must step in and stop this project dead in its tracks! Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecuting every act of corruption by this administration!

The worst part of the Trump Presidency, Isn’t how dangerously fucking stupid he is…. It’s how dangerously fucking stupid his supporters are.

McFeely: Republicans, including Cramer and Hoeven, sell out Boundary Waters inforum.com/opinion/column…

"When good people are driven out of public service by hostility and slander, the entire community loses," Oliver County Commissioner Dave Berger said in a statement before resigning. inforum.com/opinion/column…

@CoachShiffman I do not disagree that having the HC in the building is the optimal deal. When developing a job search and position description, there are required and preferred requirements. It is completely dependent on leadership ability(willingness) to make the preference the requirement.

High School Head Football coaches should work in the building. #EndOfStory

@CoachShiffman It is easy to have an absolute. You’re in the building or your not. Quantitative is easy for decision makers to defend. These decisions have to be more nuanced and thoughtful. Qualitative data must be part of the evaluation IMHO. Experienced administrators figure out the balance

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I just finished an offensive line manual I wish I had early in my career. Not more plays. Not more scheme. Just a simple system: – Indy – Technique – Combos – Fixes – Friday adjustments No fluff. Comment “OL” and I’ll send it.

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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@GroundStrikeO 77 wins, 49 losses, 61.1% winning percentage. *Note: I only spot checked these AI generated results.

.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%. Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians.

Walz: "I don't care if you are conservative are flying a Donald Trump flag, a libertarian 'Don't Treat on Me,' a Democratic Socialist -- this an inflection point, America. If we cannot all agree that the smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw -- someone has to be accountable."

BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger's first act as Governor of Virginia was to repeal Glenn Youngkin's executive order that mandated state and local law enforcement cooperate with ICE. Let’s go.

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Hitler’s SS had immunity. Until he was gone. Then they were hanged.

Wake the fuck up, America. 😳👇