Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says
Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy
www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of.
1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.
X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account.
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Trump *himself* filed a financial disclosure form this year that asserted he made over a billion dollars last year.
That's not a claim from the fake news, or the crazy liberals.
That is Trump's own filing.
JD Vance: "I've not seen a single shred of evidence that Donald Trump participates or sanctions in that corruption ... I've not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself"
El-Sayed is going to forced to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at least a dozen times more before the midterms. The point is clearly not the answer. The point is the question. It's basically push-polling.
One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.
Ted Cruz is getting absolutely destroyed in the comments, but I'd like reporters to ask Ted Cruz if he's ever disavowed Christian terrorists like Eric Robert Rudolph, Robert Dear, Tim McVeigh.
Side note: cheung looks like someone clipped off one of Lyndsey Graham’s anus “lady bugs” and then dropped it in the teen age mutant ninja turtle mutagen.
The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next.
I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
Natural-born citizens have birthrights, which include not being treated like this. And their parents’ identity or status does not matter, despite what many lawyers, politicians, and law professors tried to tell you.
This is what people voted for. Then they complain endlessly . . . and vote for it again.
Geez people, look at what is actually happening, not what you're being told, and recalibrate.
It’s crazy how many people cannot manage simple humanity. Be kind. Be curious. Be diligent. If you strive to demonstrate all 3 every day you’re already 70% a better person than most.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
MS NOW: "The Talarico campaign is filing a legal motion to unseal two depositions Ken Paxton gave in 2019 and 2022. A source tells MS NOW the Talarico campaign has reason to believe Paxton admitted to crimes in those depositions."
Dolly Parton...
-Gifted millions of free books to kids
-Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits
-Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine
-Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters
-Quietly funded high school band programs
We lost an incredible person.
As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires
The Texas grid failed in 2021, with devastating results.
Solar power + batteries were key to making sure that didn’t happen again when the heat index reached 116ºF last month.
Clean power made the grid more reliable and likely kept Texans alive.
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that American culture is inherently and primarily undergirded by selfishness. The colonial, settler, pioneer mentality was based on a scarcity mindset, where you had to gobble up resources before they were gone. Sharing and charity ideas infused from subcultures
Every aspect of American culture that is NOT selfish and is focused on a more communal or charitable mindset, seems to come from subcultures of hat influenced the main colonial culture. Native American Culture concepts, Black American Culture, Irish Culture, Latino Culture, etc etc.
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits.
There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
You are foreclosed from certain jobs and certain kinds of lives if you have a face tattoo. You are NOT foreclosed from certain types of lives by NOT having a face tattoo. Choose wisely.