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Absolute disaster for American healthcare. Devastating nationwide moratorium on all new hospice & home healthcare facilities. Trump is literally blocking critical end of life care for millions of vulnerable citizens meanwhile Israel has free healthcare from American tax payers.

Good morning my muchachos, it'd be a darn shame if we tagged @bennyjohnson and @Timcast with the hashtag #PutinPaidYou all day today. Show them the money trail. #smokefleet

FBI agents say the bureau under Kash Patel has been gaming the vaunted Most Wanted Fugitives list to make the arrest stats look good. Patel has repeatedly boasted about recent success in capturing fugitives on the list. But insiders say the bureau is putting people on the list that officials know ate about to be captured.

Markwayne Mullin: “For some reason, ICE has been demonized.” Probably because an ICE agent shot a woman in the face, called her a “fucking bitch,” and killed her.

And freed them from having to pay a dime for the people they bilked

MacFarlane: Are you concerned about the president’s mental wellbeing? Balint: 100%. I don’t know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think he’s fit for office. I’m absolutely concerned about it, and I know my Republican colleagues are too—they just won’t say it out loud. There is no filter anymore. The fact that he will call a member of the press a bitch, the fact that he will call people piggy or stupid—this is not normal behavior. But we continue to normalize it by not calling it out for what it is.

Crazy that the Great AMERICAN Road Trip includes a Japanese car and Caribbean cruise.

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Insanity.

In August 2010, Jane Mayer published a long article in The New Yorker called "Covert Operations." It introduced most Americans, for the first time, to two brothers — Charles and David Koch — and the quiet network of foundations, think tanks, and political organizations they had spent decades building to reshape American politics from behind the scenes. The article was meticulously sourced. It named names. It followed the money. A few months later, Mayer started getting strange messages. A blogger asked her how she felt about the private investigator who was looking into her. She thought it was a joke. Then a former reporter told her, at a Christmas party, that he'd been approached and asked to help dig up damaging information on a journalist who had written something two billionaires didn't like. Then, in January 2011, her editor at The New Yorker, David Remnick, forwarded her a query from the New York Post. The Post had been handed material claiming Mayer was a serial plagiarist. The "evidence" was being shopped to multiple outlets at once. It wasn't true. The reporters she had supposedly stolen from confirmed she had cited them properly or asked permission. The Post dropped the story. But the campaign had been real — and Mayer eventually traced it to a firm called Vigilant Resources International, run by Howard Safir, the former NYPD commissioner. The firm had been hired, she would later document, by people connected to Koch business interests. The dirt didn't exist. So someone had tried to manufacture it. That moment told Mayer something about her own work that she has never forgotten. She wasn't being attacked because her reporting was sloppy. She was being attacked because it was accurate. Mayer has spent more than three decades doing this. Before Dark Money, she wrote The Dark Side, the definitive account of how the United States adopted torture as policy after September 11. After Dark Money, she investigated dark money behind Supreme Court confirmations, the network funding election-denial campaigns, and the secret political work of a Supreme Court justice's spouse. Each story has followed the same arc. Reporting comes out. Power responds — not by disputing the facts, but by going after the reporter. Lawyers get involved. Personal information gets leaked. Old colleagues get phone calls. The accusation is always the same in spirit, even when the words change: she went too far. But "too far" has never meant inaccurate. It has meant inconvenient. That's the quiet education buried in Jane Mayer's career: powerful institutions rarely correct the record. They reach for the messenger. They make the cost of telling the truth so high that the next person thinks twice. It only works if it works. Mayer is still reporting. The stories are still landing. The lines, it turns out, were never where we were told they were. Someone just had to be willing to walk past them, and write down what was on the other side.

Since I started retweeting all the funny memes I see I've lost about 400 followers, but I don't care because the followers who remain are the people I wanted anyway. If every tweet has to be an original banger then fuck you. Go away

Oof Burgum walked right into this. Burgum: Can you explain why the states that pursued the policies you’re describing have the highest power prices in the country? Magaziner: Does North Dakota have one of the highest power prices in the country? You have one of the highest percentage of renewables. Burgum: False! Magaziner: The data doesn’t lie. Burgum: The data is lying.

That is how.

He accidentally shot himself in the back of the head and then jumped off a balcony

"This Supreme Court has shown that it is nothing but an illegitimate arm of the Republican Party. You have Supreme Court justices who swore up and down they respected precedent as it relates to Roe-- the first thing they did is overturn Roe. Same exact thing with redistricting. Swore they supported it-- until they didn't."

In what world is it a “good outcome” for millions of Americans to have to sacrifice their health care so corporations can avoid paying the billions they owe in taxes? @SenWarren is asking the right questions.

#BREAKING: Hayes: “…it is hard dear viewer, to keep track of the very very long list of shady deals, and no bid contracts and outright corrupt crypto schemes that have been the hallmark of the presidency of Donald Trump…but I ask you tonight, to pay attention to the one he appears to be about to pull off, because it’s got to be the greatest HEIST in American history. A direct transfer of BILLIONS of YOUR taxpayer dollars directly into the bank account and the pockets of Donald Trump all dressed up as a settlement of a lawsuit in which Donald Trump is BOTH the plaintiff and also the defendant. It would be a maneuver that could nearly TRIPLE his net worth.”🤦‍♀️

DHS is investigating Kristi Noem's $1 billion purchases of vacant warehouses to become ICE detention centers. Noem overpaid on nearly every property and spent an average of 12% above market rate, wasting around $107 million.

Guess who's back? Back again? Nissan's back. Trump was #EpsteinsBestFriend

You bought Nikes last year. You paid more than you should have because Nike raised prices to cover Trump's tariffs. However the Supreme Court recently ruled that those tariffs were illegal. Nike is now getting a refund from the government. Roughly $1 billion. And Nike is keeping the higher prices. You paid the surcharge. Nike pockets the refund. That's not a market correction. That's a double-dip, and a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Oregon is calling it exactly that. The complaint says Nike "stands to recover the same tariff payments twice — once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds." This is the story of how a $46 billion company figured out how to charge you for a cost they're about to get reimbursed for — and why the only thing standing between you and your money is a federal judge. Watch: youtu.be/lJNRZrC6Edc