I am @NewportJazzFest in beautiful fantastic absolutely stunning @Hyatt in @NewportBeach to see my girl @Syberspace 🥰❤️😍. This is the happiest I’ve been in a long time. Finally let go of real life for a few. Not long… but enough time.
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump has announced that if he can't have total control over an institution that by law he can't put his name on, he's happy to see the institution destroyed.
Understand that while today the institution at issue is the Kennedy Center, soon it'll be America.
NEW: Prison guard sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating an inmate to death in New York.
Former Mid-State Correctional Facility guard Jonah Levi was one of the guards who beat inmate Messiah Nantwi to death.
Nantwi was hit 69 times with batons, feet, and fists. Levi was accused of stomping on the 22-year-old's head, who later died at the hospital.
"I think the real you was shown to me in the body-worn camera," Judge Michael Nolan said during sentencing.
"You were fist-bumping other officers, laughing and joking while Mr. Nantwi lay on the floor, dying in the infirmary because of the things you and those other officers did."
All the other guards pleaded guilty in plea deals.
Levi was hit with the maximum sentence of 25 years in state prison with five years of post-release supervision.
He will be 65 years old when he is released from prison.
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.
Dear @RepRalphNorman: Please watch this video. You and I were Members of Congress when January 6 happened. Remember?
Happy to bring police officers who were assaulted on January 6 to your office so they can explain to you how they got their injuries.
This is an official government account in a democracy.
This is what Orbanism looks like. The president bragging, via AI video, that he forced a comedian who mocked him off the air and ‘into the trash’.
This is the question worth asking every time a story like this comes out: if there’s no money for your health care, your kids’ schools, or the programs your family depends on, where is it going?
The Trump Administration just paid $17.4 million to fix two decorative fountains outside the White House. Three years ago, the same job was estimated at $3.3 million.
And guess what? The construction company that got the contract is the same one building Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, and they got it without any competitive bidding whatsoever. The contract wasn’t even posted publicly, as required by federal law.
So how do you get from $3.3 million to $17.4 million? They added 27% for inflation. Then they added another 24% for inflation again. Then they tacked on additional charges that federal contracting experts said they had never seen before in their careers.
And the justification for bypassing the normal bidding process entirely? The fountains needed to be ready for America’s 250th anniversary. It’s worth noting that these fountains haven’t worked for nearly a decade. If the repairs were truly that urgent, why are they only fixing them now, and why are taxpayers footing a surcharge for the rush?
You are paying for this.
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JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.
The president is using the term “WOKE” to criticize the teaching of American slavery, within the context of his administration and justices he appointed repeatedly stripping the rights of Black people. It reveals the true meaning behind usage of the term in contemporary politics.
I know Scott Jennings tantrum got all the attention yesterday, but I want to talk a little bit about what I said that got him so mad.
The bottom line is: Trump’s war with Iran has failed. This has made it mentally strenuous for MAGA operators to defend it on TV.
For 8 weeks now, Scott has pointed to the U.S. destroying the 50 year old Navy and Air Force of Iran to try and prove we have won. This is dishonest for many reasons.
The point of war is not to kill your enemies and blow up their navy. That’s an infantile view of war that MAGA is pushing to trick Americans.
The point of war is to use force to extract political concessions from your enemy that benefit you on the world stage.
Trump has been unable to translate his military success into a SINGLE political concession from Iran. Not one. This is a failed war.
The Strait is closed. Iran won’t even negotiate. The enriched uranium is still in Iran with their blueprints stored in the Cloud.
So enter Scott Jennings. He has claimed weekly that victory is right around the corner with this war… but we have blown past the 4-6 week deadline set by this administration and have failed to get a single concession.
So I asked the simple question: “Can you name a single political concession we have gotten from Iran?”
He couldn’t answer. Never forget the weakness he showed when he had no answer for Trump’s mistakes.