Thaddeus Howze is ‘The Answer-Man’

Everyone is leaving Twitter. It is a sad thing to see. Me? I am going to watch until they close the door. It will be a final testament to a truth I have always known: Elon Musk is not a genius and doesn't have the good sense to stay in his lane. linktr.ee/ebonstorm

UPDATE: THEY STOLE EVERYTHING?? FORTUNE: “The U.S. government is insolvent.” — The Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for FY25, released last week to near-total media silence, say we’re BANKRUPT: $47T in total liabilities but only $6T in total assets! 🤯

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

Skeptics of waterfront street redesigns will say "we aren't Paris." You can remind them that Paris wasn't always Paris.

1 in 4 voters potentially affected by this.

🚨 This is unprecedented. Google and OpenAI employees just went public with a major warning. In a joint letter hundreds of employees are rejecting: → AI-powered surveillance → Autonomous weapons → Pentagon pressure They’re standing in solidarity with Anthropic.

BREAKING: One of Trump's pardoned J6 rioters just got sentenced to LIFE IN PRISON for some truly monstrous crimes. After Donald Trump pardoned a violent January 6th rioter, that rioter went straight home and sexually abused two 12-year-old children. Now he's going to prison for life — and every single Republican who cheered those pardons owns a piece of this. Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, was convicted last month on five felony counts — molestation, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor. On Thursday, a judge threw the book at him: life in prison. But here's what makes this story even more enraging: Johnson didn't just abuse these children. He bribed them into silence by promising to share the millions in restitution money he expected Trump's administration to hand him. He told two terrified 12-year-olds that the President of the United States essentially owed him a payday — and used that lie as a weapon against his victims. "He said not to tell anybody," one child testified. "We were scared," said the other. "We didn't realize that this stuff was not okay because we were 12 years old." Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) didn't mince words: Trump's pardons "definitely have made Americans less safe." He's right. Trump didn't just pardon a rioter. He handed a predator a get-out-of-jail-free card, a sense of invincibility, and — in Johnson's twisted mind — a promise of future reward. Johnson apparently believed he was beyond the law. "They think they're untouchable," Raskin said. That's the MAGA doctrine in four words. Trump told these pardoned insurrectionists they were patriots, heroes, hostages. He told them the system was corrupt and that he — their protector — would make it right. Johnson took that message and ran with it, straight into the lives of two innocent children. Justice was served on Thursday. But the man who set Johnson free, who made him feel invincible, who gave him the arrogance to believe he'd never face consequences again? He's still in the White House. Please like and share this everywhere. Americans deserve to know what Trump's pardons actually unleashed.

Minnesota isn't backing down. County Attorney Mary Moriarty is moving to charge federal agents for crimes against the community. The "just following orders" defense won't work in Hennepin County. dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-regime…

BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards, and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy. His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide. But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold. When another man recently died at that exact same #ICE facility, the Department of Homeland Security didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base. And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy. This was revealed today by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration. Eight people have already died in ICE custody in just the first two months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses. 911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights. But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up. They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence. We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report. Share this. Do not let them sweep these deaths under the rug.

The US Department of Energy has approved its largest loan in history: $26.5 billion to Southern Company's subsidiaries in Georgia and Alabama to cover the massive surge in electricity demand for data centers. So... we're underwriting a private utility, offering lower-than-market interest rates, locking in fossil fuel infrastructure, shifting risk onto taxpayers, subsidizing Big Tech's AI expansion, and polluting rural communities in the South. Tell me again how this is "MAGA," or "fiscal conservativism," or "free market capitalism," or anything other than a huge corporate handout.

“Just because you invite someone into a space but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe, that’s not inclusivity. That’s exploitation.” relevant to how studios hire diverse actors but don’t defend them against bigotry.

@allenanalysis One day these Black Magas are going to learn that no matter how much support you express for a racist party, in the end you're still going to be Black. It's like the Black off duty cop who gets pulled over and beaten by his fellow White cops. To a racist, we all look alike.

🚨 A leaked internal email from Turning Point USA instructs staff to label Candace Owens “evil” and “demonic” — and to flood social media with that framing. And then Dan Bongino repeats the exact language on air. Call it what it is: coordinated messaging.

A truly AWFUL situation; last week Border Patrol dropped a “nearly blind” Burmese refugee off in front of a random donut shop in Buffalo, five miles from his house. He was just found dead, having never made it home.

Before CGl, they hand-painted on glass to create these illusions. [🎞️ fruitlessdesire]

This is Linda Davis, a special education teacher who was killed in a car crash involving ICE agents The agents didn’t render aid. She was minutes from her school and bled to death in her car. They didn’t offer aid to Renee Good or Alex Pretti either. Say her name too.

They found some voter fraud. According to the Georgia State Election Board, Elon Musk's America PAC broke the law by sending pre-filled absentee ballot applications in November 2024 and by failing to make it clear that they were not official government documents. Looking forward to the FBI raid.