“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.”
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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets
YEAH FUCK YOU BITCH THIS IS AMERICA LOL YOU DONT HAVE TO LIKE IT BUT ITS MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
[sniffling] the…the mean college kids….they said i…i…I TAKE MY SHIRT OFFFFF TOOO MUUUUUUUCCCHHHH 😭😭😢😿
“The federal government went on tv and lied about Alex. They tried to slander his memory to cover up their crime. Not only was it wrong. It was shameful, unfair, and unacceptable. We want our sons killers brought to justice once and for all.”
Alex Pretti’s family holding their first news conference addressing the media this morning. It’s been 9 months since their son was disarmed before being shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis.
No one has been held responsible.
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
Guys I was watching The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror II” segment where Bart is a monster that forces the town to follow his every whim for fear of upsetting him and THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT TRUMP IS DOING
NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery.
Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units.
The investigation died.
We unearthed it:
www.propublica.org/article/nava...
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni.
Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
Markwayne Mullin on ICE shooting a man while his 5-year-old child was in the backseat:
"I'll say this about the 5-year-old child. As a father of six, I would never endanger my kids."
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission opened this "affordability investigation" days before it authorized Xcel Energy to charge customers more for profits over the objections of every major ratepayer advocate in the state
On the heels of major pushback on increasing energy rates, the agency behind that hike is launching an effort to better understand the financial challenges facing ratepayers.
I wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
An analysis of voting equipment in Puerto Rico grew into a US federal effort spanning multiple agencies to find proof voting machines were manipulated to flip votes in the 2020 election, Reuters found. The probe ultimately found found no evidence votes were manipulated reut.rs/4hHBkcA
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will allow Xcel Energy to charge customers $34 million more per year for profits and said efforts to stop them were "cynical," "outrageous," and "ridiculous."
Xcel raked in $2.2B in profits last year while disconnecting more people than ever. Appalling.
This is a crazy story, and definitely changed my thinking on how I (boring office job haver) had to think about modern slavery. I recommend reading about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion.
They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally.
This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.
damn that's crazy. so was he totally free of emotions when he missed back-to-back-to-back game winning field goals against the Seahawks in 2005, just pure Being Bad At Kicking with no mental factors at all
3. Jay Feely: “Girls are so emotional that to go out and play their best, they have to be right emotionally. You know, whereas guys, like, we can fight in the locker room… it doesn’t matter.”
Trump officially rolled back fuel efficiency standards today. The new target for 2031 is about 34.5 miles per gallon, down from 50.4. That means more gas burned, more pollution, and more money out of drivers’ pockets. So much for making things affordable.
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are
- meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace
- stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work
this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
if you don't spend your time arguing about athletes and fantasy rankings and haven't internalized how slim the difference between a player having a 7 WAR season and a 9 WAR season is you're not immune to the brain prions these lists can cause. it's fine. something being at 92 instead of 47 is fine
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline.
Comic book villainy.
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable.
Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
TRUMP’S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
“Was the bravest boy at the doctor and only cried twice”
“Remembered to flush two hours later”
“Didn’t throw dinner vegetables at Natalie”
“Voted ‘Best Napper’ unanimously by every administration member”
His points around needing public commitments on police oversight/reform are valid.
Part of why the parks were facing cuts at all was because the city is facing police led cost overruns.
Next week we need to fully fund parks (which the BET showed support for) and keep police accountable.
BET deadlock on the property tax levy tonight. They will come back at a later date before the end of September deadline to satisfy the demands of hostage taker Eric Harris Bernstein.
"MPD spending and overspending is the predominant pressure on our property tax growth... The question is are we doing to do things differently, are we going to turn a corner here... and do more to hold department accountable on the budget issue."
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NEW: Michele Tafoya, GOP Senate nominee in MN recently issued a rather categorical set of denials she ever said she was embarrassed to live in MN — but she did say literally that in a deleted tweet. One of a whole bunch of tweets, we found saying she wanted to leave.
www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
Since it’s no longer just “the lefties” taking issue with Frey’s approach to governance, but the *entire* City Council… maybe, just maybe, Frey is the one with the problem?
www.startribune.com/mpd-budget-o...