Travis Gaylord

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The magnitude of Trump's personal corruption and the monetizing of the presidency by him and his family have no precedent in US history.

It takes a total peasant mentality, or some weird cultish devotion, to defend or excuse this, especially if you objected to corrupt Biden transactions (as I did). It's on a completely different scale.

Trump set up a crypto company (World Liberty Financial) 4 days before his inauguration, then had the UAE pour hundreds of millions into his pockets for 49% of it, then gave rewards to the UAE. Jared getting $2 billion from the Saudis. On and on and on.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The quote that should anchor every headline today: two million dollars, you can have a pardon. General knowledge. Multiple attorneys saying the same thing. Clients told to hire a specific unnamed person, then they get the outcome. The middleman collects. The formal DOJ process for evaluating pardons has been replaced by this.

Among those being considered under the "250 for 250" plan are Jho Low, a Malaysian fugitive wanted for his alleged role in diverting billions through the 1MDB fraud, and Pras Michel of the Fugees, convicted of conspiring with Jho Low and a Chinese government official to lobby against the U.S. investigation into that theft. The White House said after publication those names are not on the pardon team's radar.

The Atlantic spoke to 14 people familiar with the discussions. One criminal defense attorney called it a three-ring circus. A former administration official called it something unprintable. The White House called the process rigorous. All of those things were said about the same system, running simultaneously, in the same building.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Trump earning over $1 billion last year from crypto ventures: “We are seeing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Criminal. But we don’t have a Congress and not enough Americans care.👇

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

Jesus fucking Christ hahah

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Public corruption, utterly obscene, at a scale we’ve never seen. Why do they do it? Bcuz they don’t believe their supporters give a damn about it, and they know the Republican-led Congress won’t do a damn thing about it.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

It is simply a FACT that a jury found trump had sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Food trucks need to go back to being cheaper than dine in restaurants. Paying restaurant prices to eat on a sidewalk was never part of the deal.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

We are PRIVATE citizens, the government should know very little if anything about us at all.

They are PUBLIC officials, we should know damn near everything about what they are doing.

The cameras are pointed the wrong way.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Epstein files. Release 'em.

[The_Coach @ToughUpFront77]

Aiyuk: I value my sanity over millions. Take the money and let me walk.
Them: Then walk. File your reinstatement. Actually fire your agent on paper. Go clear your warrant. You got your money now do your own homework. We're not walking you down the aisle to D.C.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This is pretty hard to square with everything he’s said about pretty much all the previous presidents — including when many of them were presidents. And the vast majority of people who applaud this are surely hypocrites too. It’s fine not to respect presidents. They work for us.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

It should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.”

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is correct. I attended the Supreme Court arguments. Trump DOJ argued alongside Bayer/Monsanto that because the EPA had already blessed glyphosate, no state government could require labels disclosing cancer risk. The EPA & DOJ in this instance was only there to protect Bayer.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Musk should sit this one out. He spent $44 billion to buy Twitter and donated almost $300 million to Trump to influence the 2024 elections. Soros is a small player next to him

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Edward Norton: “Trump is worse than Nixon and McNamara by far, Trump and Hegseth. We’re in a level of incompetency and grift and corruption that is unprecedented in the history of this country”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

You really have to admire Antifa’s artistic skill.

With nothing but box cutters, they somehow managed to perfectly recreate the intricate look of poorly applied paint peeling off concrete that had concentrated peroxide dumped all over it.

Incredible craftsmanship.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

At 4PM the $SPY and $ES had one of the largest 1 minute sell offs we’ve seen all year.

BILLIONS of dollars dumped in seconds.

Later we learn the US performed another strike on Iran.

But it’s pretty clear the insiders knew at least an hour beforehand.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It'd be nice to have a Speaker who'd say: "And let them, we have nothing to hide, and they'll look like fools for doing it."

But what he's saying here is: They're gonna uncover a lot of stuff, and you don't want that.