Jake Barnes Human Capital Stock

Feckless, but with dragon energy. Very legal, very cool.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

if Trump hadn't been born into money this is who he would be

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

This bubblehead has no chance of playing in the NBA or WNBA again but it would be great if they let him play one WNBA exhibition and the refs didn't blow one whistle while he got repeatedly chopped in the nuts

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

Just going to keep posting this to counter the ridiculous bullshit until someone makes me stop.

The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity
•The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.
•Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.
•A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.

Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016
•Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1]
•Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3]
•Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]

The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton” 
•In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5]Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent.
•Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6]
•Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8]
•The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
•The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election.
•The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"In 2025, world exports boomed, the US share of world exports and imports fell, the US trade deficit hit an all time high, and other nations signed liberalising, rules-based trade deals at neck-break speed" 👀

[Elham👑 @EllaDghn]

19 years old. A university student. Tortured, forced to confess, and now facing execution.

Say his name now, before it becomes another name we mourn.

Save #OmidrezaHeidari. End the regime that keeps creating these death sentences.

#IslamicRepublicHangs #EndTheIslamicRepublic #KingRezaPahlaviForIran

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

From the department of “even the most trivial of Trump numbers is often wrong”: Trump has now twice told a story about how he worked so hard at the end of the 2024 campaign that he didn’t play any golf for the last “120 days.” He was golfing when a man tried to assassinate him 51 days before Election Day.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

31% of those arrested by ICE have criminal convictions, down from 50% under Biden.

ICE arrests of migrants with violent criminal convictions are up only 20 per day under Trump.

Arrests of those with no criminal charges are up 332 per day.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The 100 wealthiest Americans own more than the bottom half of the country.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is actual psychosis.

He learned several months ago that dumb has a B when he told someone his brilliant idea for “dumocrats.” This left him a severe narcissistic injury. So he has constructed, through sheer repetition, an alternate reality where “most people don’t know.”

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Fire him and charge him with manslaughter

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Tom Tillis was the tie-breaking vote putting a drunk weekend talk show co-host in charge of the biggest military in the world and now he’s mad it’s going badly? You did this brother! Nobody made you put a clown atop the pentagon.

[Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi]

NEW: Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll reportedly met with Trump to inform him that the Iran war was making it impossible to achieve foreign-policy goals, Trump talked exclusively about his ballroom in response, causing Driscoll to resign believing the admin was “doomed.”

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

The tariffs were supposed to reduce America’s trade deficit.⁣
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The U.S. goods deficit was $1.212 trillion in 2024.⁣
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After the first full year of tariffs?⁣
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About $1.24 trillion.⁣
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We imposed tariffs to eliminate a trillion-dollar deficit and ended up with… a slightly bigger trillion-dollar deficit.⁣
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https://t.co/0DY2vFiGvC

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Literally blaming by the victim! I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that oil prices spiked after the Trump administration launched its war of choice against Iran.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES

Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone.

Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino and Asian American voters.

TARRANT COUNTY: SHOW UP AND MAKE SOME NOISE. THEY’RE VOTING TODAY.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

I went to Springfield after Vance spread the lie that Haitians were eating dogs and cats. There I met Christian activists involved in caring for the vulnerable, regardless of immigration status, who told me that these lies unleashed a deluge of hate aimed at them. That was Vance’s work. But what struck me most was how it didn’t deter them at all from their mission of looking out for other people. And when Vance got called out later for spreading those lies, he smugly said that he likes to make up stories to get attention. This is a guy who was willing to boost the most racist propaganda when he thought it served his political career and still does. Nobody should take Vance seriously when he briefly switches it up and tries to sound like he is against exactly the kind of poison he opportunistically spreads.

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

The same Court that concocted a triple-bankshot theory to give the state of Missouri standing to sue to stop student debt relief finds no standing in this straightforward case.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

She came to the land of opportunity through a legal process like so many before her. Followed the rules. Showed up to an immigration appointment after the most devastating health event a woman can experience. Gets shackled like an animal. That’s our country now.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey @MikeRogersForMI i served with you when Osama was killed. I don’t remember you leaving to go see his body.

Am i wrong?