When you are a teenager, you have to compete against Jerry Seinfeld during your comedy audition and then you go back to school and have to compete against Jerry Seinfeld to date the girl in your class.
America's 250th birthday party is starting to look like one big money-laundering scheme, with your tax dollars funding PragerU propaganda trucks and our favorite foreign agent, Brad Parscale.
A decade ago, Congress set aside $150 million for America's 250th and created a bipartisan commission to run it.
That commission has received just $25 million and is now begging for more. The rest was steered to "Freedom 250," a shell LLC Trump stood up in 2025 and hid inside a National Park Service charity. It has pulled in around $80 million.
It gets worse.
Follow the money highlights below:
1️⃣ A $10 MILLION grant, library and museum money, was moved into Trump's birthday LLC to build "Freedom Trucks," mobile propaganda exhibits made with PragerU, the nonprofit whose CEO served in the IDF's Unit 8200. Only 8% has been spent. It reports ZERO sub-awards. No public record of who got the money.
Someone in Congress should look into this.
2️⃣ Around $50 million more is obligated and simply gone dark. Not itemized anywhere the public can find it. This looks intentional.
3️⃣ The White House is paying Campaign Nucleus, the company of Brad Parscale, a REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT OF ISRAEL, to run the birthday events and harvest the data of everyone who signs up compliments of our tax dollars. (More on this one soon.)
Every dollar runs through a charity. Why? A charity is a wrapper. It lets you take in tax money, corporate cash, and foreign money and spend it on your own projects with the books closed.
If you wanted to design a machine to hide where money goes, it would look exactly like this.
Birthright Citizenship is poised to become the next Roe v. Wade: A rallying cry for the GOP bent on revoking human rights. People claiming victory today should know that the Supreme Court gave Trump a roadmap to destroy it.
My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/pUfm7gBHyS
A first-of-its-kind analysis by The Intercept found that in the Army, women are more likely to be killed by their fellow service members than by enemy combatants, in a reversal of the threat soldiers are trained to face.
The Trump administration just killed a federal program that hundreds of small farmers relied on to survive, and the damage is already landing.
The program paid farmers full market price for their crops, then routed that fresh food to food banks and the families who needed it.
In California alone, it supported roughly 870 farms across more than 50 counties, moved 23 million pounds of food, and put over $60 million directly into local economies. For many, it was the most reliable buyer they had.
Then the White House pulled the plug, right as farmers were buying seeds for spring. Contracts already in motion were canceled mid-delivery. Three years of funding these growers had planned around vanished overnight.
Without those federal dollars, the future is more uncertain than ever for these farms and the millions of hungry families they feed.
That is the pattern. Slash a program that feeds seniors and supports farmers, save almost nothing, and call it winning.
https://t.co/vz4VR896Mm
I would like to remind everyone that all the digital ID bills are SUPPORTED by tech giants like meta and google because their data selling scheme is rapidly becoming worthless thanks to AI and bots (a problem they created).
@Acyn They always say these random large numbers but can never provide any actual evidence. I can see why the whole MAGA thing is dying a slow and entertaining death.
We're going to start seeing a lot more players decline at 26-27 rather than 30+ because the football calendar uses them like a bar of soap - until there is nothing left.
I'm always for being open about mental health, but important context is that Kean, as a state rep, voted against the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act, which established 40 hours of sick leave for employees a year.
Kean just took *4 months* of paid sick leave.
"After we get rid of MLK (the "most dangerous negro in america") , the negroes will be left without a national leader to steer them ....unless WE develop and promote a more FBI approved leader for the negroes"
- Bill Sullivan of COINTELPRO (FBI)
@Ericrse37986 Watching her chase that girl around and grab her was just gross. Not as gross as knowing she gave my taxpayer dollars to blow up brown children, but still gross.
The "problem" is that electricity has become too cheap—"too cheap to meter" as they used to say of nuclear power. This may be a problem for investors, but a socialist should welcome this, no?