Ron Shaw

Cynical optimist, career nomad, seeker of the road less traveled and the occasional cold beer

[World Cup HQ @WorldCup26HQ]

🚨 Joseph Blatter (former FIFA president):

🗣 "No one is more official than the referee, and if a country refuses to allow a referee in, the World Cup should not be held in such a country."

[Variety @Variety]

Josh Hutcherson says the new #HungerGames movies won’t become “some odd spin-off that loses itself” because “it’s the whole same group of people” making them:

“And, unfortunately, it’s still a very timely issue with authoritarian governments and uprisings. Young people need to be educated.”

Elizabeth Banks adds: “I heard Maya Hawke say, ‘I’m down to be in some anti-fascist propaganda.’ And I was like, ‘Hell yeah!’”

Stream the full episode on the @CNN app: https://t.co/BHk9j8xDe5

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

On August 30, 2015, @MotherJones published an article about Trump Modeling Management, which was Trump's modeling agency for underage girls that was active from 1999-2017.

Trump Model Management built a systematic machine of exploitation: luring aspiring models from around the world with false promises of stardom, then trapping them in a web of abuse. Girls as young as 14 were placed on tourist visas and told to lie to customs, packed into overpriced bunk-bed apartments, buried under fees that stole up to 80% of their earnings, and left broke despite promised six-figure contracts. This wasn't a few bad deals — it was the business model. One model described it as modern-day slavery.

I would say this business is a blueprint for the Tate Brothers' business of owning and exploiting underage girls by trafficking them in the porn industry. Both Trump and the Tates are basically doing the same thing, luring women, trapping them in a foreign country, and sexually exploiting them mercilessly under false pretenses while robbing them for all they're worth.
https://t.co/WDCYit3o1s.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: McCaskill: “…who knew that the [White House] Situation Room was going to be the hallowed place where we talked about sex scandals that the president was afraid of coming out in public? And clearly there’s only ONE reason this stuff [#Epstein files] hasn’t been released. It’s not protecting the innocent, it’s not him worrying about the victims, it is just Donald Trump. There’s stuff in this file, and the article even references some of it…It’s weird to be talking about NIPPLES on the Deadline White House show, but they were talking about it in the Situation Room, over Donald Trump’s proclivity to have certain sexual activity with some of these girls…this isn’t going away…as always, the coverup is…worse than the crime…”😳

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Here's the NY Times article everyone is talking about. A gift from me to you. 👀 https://t.co/cS2ZbncmFh

[W Smith Ω 🧢 @WesSmith123]

The pedophile protectors who gathered secretly in the Situation Room to cover up Trump’s alleged sex crimes against minors.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

‼️ This is Trump’s Watergate Moment.

For months the Vice President, White House Chief of Staff, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel and other top officials colluded in the Situation Room to break the law and BURY the Epstein investigation.

This is what went down ⬇️

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

IT'S OVER

The New York Times just dropped the BOMBSHELL

Trump raped kids with Epstein, and his administration engaged in a cover up to protect him

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Per the FBI, Trump knew and funded underage sex parties in Palm Beach.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Defend this you fucking Maga Morons!

The whole fucking point of the stupid fucking tariffs you defended was to close or narrow the trade deficit.

Now your fucking Moron President is bragging about it being wider. 🤦

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

@LePapillonBlu2 Release The Files NOW!

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Stop using the Iran war to cover up the Epstein files.

[SassyBabyBoomer @SassyBabyBoomer]

Rape Van Winkle’s legacy will be of the petulant toddler sleeping!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

LoL "Sorry about your heart." HAHAH.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

ZETEO: “A Marine who served with Graham Platner in Iraq and got matching tattoos: ‘No, we did not purposely get hateful fucking shit because we’re racist people. We got matching tattoos because we were in our 20s, drunk in Croatia, and that’s it.’” https://t.co/CRtF3EC3KR

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Trump cant allow anyone in the Epstein files to be charged because his name would come up in their trial.

The ENTIRE Republican party is protecting Trump & the Epstein Elite.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Actor Michael Keaton talking about John McCain and the POWs that how Trump calls Suckers and Losers and how he won’t even visit their graves and how we’re losing our Democracy and we won’t get it back.