Penthor-Mul

@penthor.bsky.social

Ignorance is bliss, until it's not. ~Derek Cheung

When you don't know anything about anything, everything is a conspiracy.

[Penthor-Mul @Penthor]

@TrendSpider PL

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[Penthor-Mul @Penthor]

@paulg Hopefully they have developed a *silent* MRI machine.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The residents of Froid, Montana, never expected the nationwide crackdown on immigration to make its way to their tiny town. But when it did they were determined to stand up for one of their own. https://t.co/982burqFbB

[TheAlphaLetters @TheAlphaLetters]

Trouble is, a handful of giant accounts yank the average way up. Put the median next to it (the actual middle worker) and the picture changes. At every age the typical 401(k) is about a third of the average, and the gap only widens toward retirement. By 65 the average is ~$299K. The median is ~$95K.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wow, Republicans try to end Rep. Dean’s time 3 minutes early while she is asking Blanche about Epstein.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "Now on Iran. Trump administration issued general license to Russia, providing billions in oil profits every month — several billion every month — fueling Putin's war machine.

You didn't mention that in your opening remarks. Russia is waging war of aggression against Ukraine, and we gave them our license agreement.

And we do this to Ukraine, a country that's assisting us in Iran, while we are helping Russia fund its war machine — a country that is aiding Iran against us and putting our service members in jeopardy."

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Penthor-Mul @Penthor]

@MarketWatch Squeezing fish butts.

[Penthor-Mul @Penthor]

@SchwartzFinance @StockSavvyShay Nobel physicist Feynman said if you think you understand quantum mechanics you don't understand quantum mechanics.

[Penthor-Mul @Penthor]

@GautamDe7 @StockSavvyShay I made good money on $QBTS last year. Good luck.

[Penthor-Mul @Penthor]

@DKThomp Isn't that the Peter Principle?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Duckworth to Rubio: "That's an astonishing figure. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much if not more money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is the crowd to see James Talarico tonight in Ken Paxton’s home county.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Iran war cost: Average U.S. household paying $450 more on gas and energy," per CNBC

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The DOJ is literally investigating a sexual assault survivor, E Jean Carroll, instead of a single perpetrator in the Epstein files.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WOW.

Trump’s financial disclosure forms reportedly show he bought between $1 MILLION and $5 MILLION in Dell stock earlier this year.

Then THIS WEEK…

the Pentagon awarded Dell a contract worth MORE THAN $9 BILLION.

Read that again slowly.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Congress issued a legally binding subpoena, and Pam Bondi chose not to comply. Instead of appearing for her sworn deposition she sat for a voluntary interview where DOJ attorneys repeatedly stepped in to block answers. That is not accountability.

The American people deserve the truth, survivors deserve justice, and Congress deserves answers.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Nate Paul.

He was under FBI investigation for fraud. His real estate empire was collapsing after 18 properties filed for bankruptcy in a single year.

He wrote Ken Paxton a $25,000 check.

Then Paxton directed his AG’s office to hand Paul confidential investigative files.

They blocked foreclosure sales on his properties.

And they sided with Paul against the charity he was accused of defrauding.

Nate Paul even employed Paxton's mistress at Paxton’s recommendation.

Paxton's own senior staff reported his corruption to the FBI. They were fired.

This is what Ken Paxton does when he’s in a position of power — and it’s why he should be nowhere near the U.S. Senate.