Jason Rashaad

OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

ilookbetterthanyourdad.com/log/day-19/ CSS is dark secret magic. This and pivot tables blow me away every time.

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

The oligarchs are great at pitting us all against each other while they get their taxes reduced, no-bid government contracts, less rules for: hostile takeovers, worker safety, environmental protection, living wages & benefits. They get freedom. You get poverty. They're building lots of prisons.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

Oh look, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is exactly as corrupt as we all know he is. “More than $700 MILLION in transfers” — Saudi Arabia & UAE set up a multi-billion dollar slush fund for him. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

🚨 AIPAC EXPOSED IN NEW DOCUMENTARY 🚨 Zeteo's shocking new investigative documentary about AIPAC, 'Night Flower', is out TODAY. This film features AIPAC insiders and whistleblowers, unveiling the workings of one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the US. Watch now at insideaipac.com

Also hat tip to Jess Lawrence and a few others on Threads who saw the ad and posted about it www.threads.com/@jess_lawren...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Senator who made millions from his family’s coal business while using his power to kill climate policies that threatened the coal industry flies in to support a Senator who allegedly gave millions in contracts to a defense contractor in exchange for illegal campaign donations

so this is a separate critical issue from the certificate critical issue i mean what the

In case anybody needs social proof/thinks I'm exaggerating.

running any php on a website right now is basically the equivalent of double clicking big_titty_mpreg_charlie_kirk.exe after downloading it from napster and turning off your antivirus

🔥 MEMPHIS to the city council: “YOU WORK FOR US NOT ELON MUSK” What a pic. (H/T councilman @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social — who voted for the moratorium, which failed 6-6)

Make no mistake — they want to deport congresswoman @repilhan.bsky.social We are very far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 😳 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.

For posterity, etc. etc. getting grim out there good luck everyone dontnobodygiveashitjason.org/there-wont-b...

Trump on the AI meeting yesterday: "They're going to police each other. And they're going to self police. They're going to police themselves. It's going to work out very well."

Dr Oz: "CMS is announcing a temporary national moratorium. There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next months."

Trump & Vought are politicizing critical medical research and make no mistake: in the long run, this will cost lives. Their continued attacks will put future cures and treatments at risk in service of their own political agenda.   Shameful.

@sarahposner.bsky.social has a new piece out on TPM today about border czar Tom Homan's speech before an evangelical crowd in Georgia last week that was heavy on profanity & an overall celebration of Trump's anti-immigrant brutality:

Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"

“That was one of the best experiences of my life.” 🚽 A New Yorker uses one of the 17 public bathrooms @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social had put in around NYC👇🏽 — this must be that “SoCiALiSm” we’re supposed to be afraid of! Again: The big problem the fearmongerers have is @ZohranKMamdani exists

ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on the Federal Reserve after it hiked its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, but the Fed matters less than broader economic trends when it comes to longer-term borrowing costs, economists say. https://to.pbs.org/4y6Ogzu

Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.

“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV

I feel, irrationally, like everything is suddenly much worse.

please stop I can't breathe

My man looks like a rageaholic who coincidentally happens to be an alcoholic

My man looks like he's worn a friar's cloak in a candlelit basement

My man looks like one of Biff Tannen's sidekicks

My man looks like he's insisting the pledge died *with* alcohol poisoning, not *from* alcohol poisoning

This is where I lost consciousness

😕

Oh.

Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly

After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too

Oh. Makes sense! (Friends of the IDF is also the org the CBS-owning Ellisons give millions to)