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@TheOnion How is it that The Fucking Onion is doing better journalistic work than 90% of the media. We truly live in the dumbest of times.

The nonstop grift the Trump family is running on taxpayers is just extraordinary.

Compare this to how much money the top 5% are spending on elections and I’ll guarantee there’s a correlation. Kinda odd this spiked in 2010 and has been on a downtrend since. What happened in 2010? Citizens United. “Always the dollars. Always the fuckin dollars”.

The Trump administration is very soft on white-collar crime—the softest, in fact.

Insane to even consider this. They will torch the state budget so the top 1% of rich will get $40K less to pay the state. This is suicide and the Republicans are driving off a cliff.

Whoever suggested the auto translate feature deserves an unbelievable raise

this is literally a part of ethnic cleansing btw

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered new evidence to be turned over in a lawsuit seeking details on a secret "voter data agreement" between DOGE and election deniers. This marks the first ruling forcing the faux-agency to disclose what happened behind the scenes. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/co…

Not only did Disney pay nothing in income taxes this year, it received a $1.428 billion tax refund after making $12 billion in profits. "Corporations will create jobs if you give them more tax breaks" is a total scam.

Pam Bondi was subpoenaed to appear before the Oversight Committee today. This was not a “pretty please.” This was a LEGALLY BINDING congressional subpoena. If she does not make arrangements to appear immediately, we will move to hold her in contempt.

Real talk. Shout out to Antony Starr for taking a character like Homelander, and making him not only evil as fuck, but also hilarious as fuck. The show wouldn’t even be half as popular without him in the role. One of the most generational performances in television history.

WOWOWOW! @JamesComer!!! Eric Trump is doing precisely what you tried to build impeachment around!!! When will you schedule impeachment? reuters.com/world/china/tr…

@adamscochran Secrets like the ones trump illegally kept and we have no idea why he kept them or, more importantly, who he shared them with… It’s plausible that he gave away top secret information and we are now seeing the real world consequences of his treason. Hope I’m wrong.

Over the past year, 10 different US specialists, ranging from scientists working on aerospace, nuclear and UAP research have all gone missing. Most of the cases have been labelled as old person wandering off, or disappearing when hiking… But it’s way too many to be a coincidence especially when many of them worked together, and all happened to work on top US secrets…

LEAK: MULTIPLE CONGRESSMEN & WOMEN WILL RESIGN THIS WEEK DUE TO INCOMING TMZ REPORTS ON THEIR AFFAIRS AND MONEY LAUNDERING

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

A reminder that this is how politics - and shame - is supposed to work. A politician is accused of major scandals, crimes!, and their party disowns them and they are forced out not just from a race from but from public life. You’re not supposed to re-elect them to the presidency.

Trump: I’m going to destroy an entire civilization. The Pope: Blessed are the peace makers. War is bad and should stop. Trump: I’m Jesus. The NYTimes:

The entire argument in this release rests on the whistleblower's secondhand knowledge - and falls apart the moment you remember that firsthand witnesses testified under oath. Gordon Sondland: Trump's own ambassador, his own million-dollar donor. Testified that there was a quid pro quo. That is not a "deep state actor." That is the man Trump put in the job. Alexander Vindman was on the call. Firsthand. Testified to what he heard. Trump released the transcript. The transcript exists. It shows "do us a favor though" followed by a request to investigate Biden while the aid was frozen. None of these people appear in the ODNI document. A release about the absence of firsthand evidence... that omits every firsthand witness. That is not an oversight. That is a brief. The DNI's statutory job is intelligence oversight, not political opposition research. Gabbard just used the office's official news release infrastructure - ODNI News Release No. 06-26 - to produce a seven-year-old grievance document. The classification system exists to protect national security. Using declassification as a political weapon is its own form of institutional abuse - and a preview of how this office now operates.

Epstein and Thiel had Bannon working closely with Orban to build their network. Crypto was important for moving money around the network and Orban and other political allies sought to undermine efforts to regulate crypto And Farage has gone all in on crypto, what a coincidence

@ochocinco She’s good. I’m a bit concerned about you tho lol