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What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes? 1-Science fiction / fantasy 2-Software design 3-Politics (social progressive & fiscal conservative), especially economics ("saltwater") 4-Medicine (thyroid cancer survivor) 5-Life, the Universe, Everything (polymath)

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Greetings and Salutations - It’s not often that I get sticker shock but $125,000,000 for Salutation Island in G... ow.ly/F3x950eNfUr

US hospitals, 457,950 COVID patients. AI found long COVID in 16.28%, about 1 in 6, with 89.31% developing chronic conditions. Coding misses over half of cases. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

A lot of what Miller says in this clip is true. Including the part where he says this entire military beat down has resulted in a situation where the only thing Iran seems to be actually putting on the table in short term is re-opening a key waterway that was open before bombs started falling.

BREAKING: HOLY SH*T! Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son secretly received a top job inside the Trump administration while Alito was ruling on massive cases involving the White House. This is corruption, nepotism, and in-kind bribery all wrapped up in one... Philip Alito, the son of far-right Justice Samuel Alito, was given an appointment as a lawyer at the Treasury Department early on in Trump's second term. His father was aware of the appointment and did nothing to block it, unsurprising since Alito has zero interest in avoiding conflicts of interest or maintaining the legitimacy of the court. This is the same Samuel Alito who was caught accepting bribes from billionaire Paul Singer in the form of luxury jet travel and an expensive fishing vacation. And that's just what we know about. According to NOTUS, four government officials confirmed that Alito's son is working inside the office of the general counsel, which supports Treasury Secretary Bessent. Notus described the arrangement as a "closely guarded secret." Philip Alito, in an apparent effort to maintain a low profile, does not have a public resume, LinkedIn profile, or a presence on the Treasury Department. Most of the images available of him online are older, from when his father was first appointed to the court. He's a ghost in the system, getting paid by our tax dollars, and presumably whispering in his father's ear to tilt rulings in Trump's favor. “Everybody knew who he was. I think it’s fair to say he kept a pretty low profile. I kind of had the impression that he was kind of a little bit sheepish about his celebrity affiliation. You’d go into a meeting and if people were introducing themselves by first and last name, he’d just say ‘Phil,’ not Phil Alito. He’s a pretty soft-spoken guy,” one official stated. The efforts to keep his identity shielded from not only the public, but his co-workers, proves that he knows what he's doing is deeply improper. If there was nothing to hide, he wouldn't need to keep his head down. But Alito, and presumably his father, know that this appointment further damages what little credibility the Supreme Court has left. “There’s no doubt he got that position because of who he is,” another official told NOTUS. “[Advisers] are in all the meetings, so they knew all the issues across the board.” Damningly, the younger Alito was working his Treasury job when the court ruled on Trump's tariffs. While the administration was ultimately defeated, Justice Alito joined with Brett Kavanaugh to rule in favor of Trump. At no point in the process did he disclose in court documents that his son was working for one side, nor did he recuse himself. The administration is insisting that the younger Alito had no role in the case, but this White House lies through its teeth at every turn. And the problem hasn't diminished in the slightest. Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund for January 6th insurrectionists, MAGA loyalist, and Republican child molesters is getting hammered by lawsuits right now. When one of these cases inevitably ends up in front of the Supreme Court, Justice Alito will once again be ruling on a case in which his son has a vested interest in a particular outcome. These crooks are laughing in our faces as they line their pockets, rig the system, and set their children up to do the same for the next generation. Phillip Alito must be fired and Samuel Alito must be impeached! Please ❤️ and share to demand that the proverbial heads start rolling!

Ben Meiselas on the Trump regime flooding the zone: "They want to overwhelm you ... they want to distract from all of this while they go and engage in the biggest grift and the biggest looting of your taxpayer money. They're taking your money to enrich themselves while they stock trade from inside the White House."

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For fuck sake - I wish y'all would learn real history.

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The American people have made themselves clear: They can't afford Trump's endless war with Iran. But Trump doesn't care about working families. He's too busy trading stocks, building his ballroom, and setting up a taxpayer-funded slush fund for criminals.

NYT Exclusive: The contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit margin. The typical margin of federal construction contracts is 6-12%. But the firm fixing the pool submitted a bid that charged 20% — adding at least $850,000 to what a more typical contract would have cost. nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/…

President Trump was convicted of fraud, and has pardoned over 70 people convicted of fraud.

MAGA HEADS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE 🤯 🚨 A new Cato study found immigrants reduced US deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994. Not increased. Reduced. Even undocumented immigrants were estimated to have reduced deficits by at least $1.7 trillion. The very people Republicans keep villainizing are working, paying taxes, and helping keep the economy afloat while billionaires and corporations dodge taxes with loopholes their lobbyists wrote themselves.

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work

NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss: "Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes. Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over. In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom. Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it. The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters. To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less." Backstory: - January: puck.news/inside-bari-we… - April: puck.news/bari-weiss-pla… - May: puck.news/sharyn-alfonsi…

Trump is bringing the UFC to DC for his birthday. We're bringing the Epstein Files. That's right: the Trump-Epstein Reading Room is heading to DC, just in time for his birthday.

The pallets are real. The description of what they represented is not. The $1.7 billion was money owed for military equipment Iran purchased before the revolution and never received. The US-Iran Claims Tribunal had been adjudicating the case for decades. Cash was used because sanctions blocked wire transfers. The US Treasury had been holding $400 million in principal since the 1970s. This is not disputed by anyone who has read the tribunal record. "Strength" has since produced: $4.56 gas, nearly half the Pentagon's long-range cruise missile stockpile depleted, Taiwan's arms sale paused, and a deal whose terms Iranian state media disputes, Republican senators call a defeat, and Trump himself described Sunday as something "nobody has seen" and not "even fully negotiated" - one day after calling it "largely negotiated." The "Hussein" framing is doing separate work from the policy argument. Both deserve to be named.

The Muppets Brought Out the Best in Tim Curry youtu.be/XzU8f4HaQw0?si… via @YouTube

The disease surveillance work we used to do around the world was really important. Without it, it takes months longer to learn of outbreaks. nytimes.com/2026/05/20/hea…

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…