1FSTCAT

I'm just a dude, hanging out on the web, learnin' stuff and probably tellin' people like it is.

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@NASAAdmin "The crew selection does not involve any political appointees." -- Maybe best not to point that out to this admin. I'm sure they can find some "donors" to assign for you.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@MC_Punk95 Not loud enough!

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@BohuslavskaKate Is this AI video? Explosion appears on the bottom before the drone disappears. Fire from under the undercarriage even though the drone is 6 feet high.

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@WhamBaamX Someone grabbed the e-brake.

[🔨Robert The Builder 🇺🇸 @NobodymrRobert]

What's this called.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

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[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war.

The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started.

Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous.

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Covie @covie_93]

The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are still out here blaming Joe Biden on day 467.

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@Montebianco114 @michelletomkim @techreview A routine question asked to the jury is "can you put aside any of those considerations and make an independent decision" and both sides' lawyers get to decide who they keep and who they don't.

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Wonderful song, this. Short and Sweet. 18 seconds.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

LMFAOOOOO 😂🤣😂🤣

[The Artist known as Jess @ElofsonJess]

This comment from Mark Lynch should win him the primary hands down.

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@Cybertruck0001 @TeslaCharging Seems like you should be talking to Buccees about pull-through spots and their policies about accomodating large vehicles. You should be grateful they have vehicle charging at all. Last I heard, you were lucky to find working chargers. And yet you didn't tag Buccees?

[1FSTCAT @TheReal_1FSTCAT]

@GrecianFormula Do you think our administration give an F about Taiwan?

[Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 @broseph_stalin]

Hypothetically, if warehouses keep burning down, insurers could start treating low wages as a risk factor and refuse to cover sites that underpay staff, turning low pay into a direct liability.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

We're all living in a late stage capitalist hellscape. It's ok to have compassion and empathy for others. The other side said "fuck your feelings", but that's because they're misguided fools. Poor people don't deserve to starve. Children don't deserve to be bombed.