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NPR/PBS/Marist poll | 4/27-4/30 Generic congressional ballot 2026 (crosstabs) 🟦Registered voters: D+10 🟦Men: D+3 🟦Women: D+18 🟦White: D+6 🟦Latino: D+13 🟦Black: D+51 🟦College graduate: D+22 🟦Not college graduate: D+2 🟦Democrat: D+97 🟥Republican: R+83 🟦Independent: D+12 🟦Big city: D+44 🟦Suburban: D+7 🟥Rural: R+14 🟦Northeast: D+17 🟦Midwest: D+16 🟦South: D+5 🟦West: D+9 🟦Under 45: D+21 🟦45 or older: D+2

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

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Just like trump said, the ballroom will cost $100 million and all $200 million of it will be privately funded. Taxpayers won't pay a cent of the $300 million because all $400 million of it will come from donations. Only $1 billion will have to come from the taxpayers.

Maye Musk’s account turning out to be another Elon alt raises so many hilarious questions

So every time I go to Starbucks and they ask for my name I always tell them 'Tony Stark. (I'm cool I know.) Anyway today when they called out my 'name' and I went to collect it I noticed this guy blatantly staring at me as he ordered his drink. I thought nothing of it and went over to get some sugar when I noticed that the guy was walking over to me, still staring right into my eyes. So by this point I was getting quite nervous and was about to ask him if I knew him when he leaned in right next to my ear and whispered; Peasant I stood there, mouth open, about to ask him what the actual fuck, when the barista called out 'Latte for Loki' and the guy walked over, picked up his drink, winked at me and walked out the door. I swear to god I have never laughed more in a public place than I did today.

Has anyone else noticed how, since the demise of the NRA began a few years back, that you’ve heard little to nothing from any of the hyper partisan 2nd Amendment members of congress? That’s because the money’s dried up. And a perfect example of how money distorted majority rule.

New - Generic Ballot poll 🔵 Democrats 52% (+10) 🔴 Republicans 42% 🟤 Trump approval: -23 (New low) Marist #B - RV - 4/30

The world’s richest man pretending to be his mom who loves him is the funniest and saddest thing I’ve ever seen.

@mayemusk The ketamine got Elon feeling like Norman Bates.

I already thought Elon’s mom constantly defending him on twitter was embarrassing. I didn’t even consider that Elon was the one tweeting as his own mom and defending himself, which is maybe the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen

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The wildest thing about gas prices going from $2.84 to $4.47 in just two months is that Donald Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein Files.

NEW ALL-TIME HIGH: Democrat James Talarico has a 48% chance of winning the Texas Senate race. No Texas Democrat has won a statewide election since 1994.

BREAKING: Stunning new polling in Texas shows Democrat James Talarico skyrocketing out ahead of both of his potential Republican opponents. This is amazing.

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Every now and then I remember Tim Walz’s “they’re weird” campaign and how close the dems were to actually shifting the way people perceive the right in a very real way and then they just…stopped

Politicians are not celebrities. They are public servants and they’ve forgotten their place.

IT BLOWS MY MIND HOW ONE PERSON CAN FUCK UP THE ENTIRE WORLD

The most based ending to a video game I've ever seen has to be The Lost World: Jurassic Park on PS1 in 1997. They put in freaking Jeff Goldblum. And he roasted you. Here's the message in full: "Hello, hello. If you can hear me, congratulations. You made it through. You spent all that time and now you're done. My gosh, you looked a 20-foot carnivore right in the eye, and you've lived to tell about it. Now you know what you should do. Turn the thing off, for heaven's sake, and go outside. Breathe the air, take a walk, call a member of the opposite sex. You have a whole life out there. Get the stink blown off you. Just go. Really turn it off. I mean, really." The "get the stink blown off you" line was improvised. Goldblum just made it up on the beach. What makes this insane is when it happened. May 1997. The Lost World movie had just opened to $72 million, the biggest opening weekend in history at that point. Goldblum was peak Goldblum, fresh off Independence Day the year before. The most in-demand movie star on the planet flew to Hawaii to film a 60-second clip for a PS1 tie-in game, hidden behind a 100% completion gate that almost no kid would ever unlock. He showed up, told you to log off, and left.