baso

Always up for good trouble.

[Katie @KazooKatherine]

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀

The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.

Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.

Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.

Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.

Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.

Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.

Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

Who are buying 7-month baby for sex? White men. Morgan Stapp, a 32-year-old white mother from Indianapolis, offering her 7-month-old daughter for s*xual assault on Snapchat in exchange for $400

[NKY Lefty @NKY_Leftist]

The 4th largest company in the world. It doesn't produce anything. It doesn't make money. It has no plans to make money. It wouldn't even have stayed afloat if not for taxpayer dollars. I mean y'all cannot be serious rn

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Billionaires, tech oligarchs, Trump officials, and foreign government officials attending a secretive summit to learn cult building, prepping for World War 3, and sex tips, should be getting attention — especially since no one from the Epstein files has faced justice.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

You should.

[Des Moines Register @DMRegister]

Reynolds' staffer will make $205K leading new department for Regents https://t.co/Ot5ttxzFuF

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

A $205K/yr taxpayer funded job for your former staffer that didn’t even get posted to the public, just days after firing 200 state employees, is the corruption you get when you have ten years of one party control.

My opponent spent 10 years as a paid political operative for them, count on more of the same.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Corporate America has turned its back on democracy and bowed down to Trump. When, in the future, it once agains becomes convenient for them to say they celebrate democracy we should not believe them.

In the meantime, we are on our own.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Gutfeld: It's scummy to change your positions to get elected.

Tarlov: Uh...VP right here has done that.

Vance: We have to go to commercial

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The leaked Iran deal that is floating around suggests that this is a pretty simple transaction: we are paying Iran billions to reopen the Strait. Period. Stop.

That's probably why they are refusing to release it.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Neil DeSanti voted illegally in 16 elections over the last 13 years.

He is now under criminal investigation.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Trump was able to quickly put together $300 billion in recovery money for Iran after he decided to bomb it.

He stood in Swannanoa NC not far from my house in October 2024 and said he’d build back bigger, better, more beautiful, and faster than Biden after Hurricane Helene inflicted $60 billion in damage in the Blue Ridge . . . and then he went MIA.

Imagine if @realDonaldTrump cared as much about rebuilding Western North Carolina for Americans as he does about rebuilding Iran for Iranians.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Markwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations.

Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Serial child molestor Adam Hoffman has officially been added to the Nebraska sex offender registry based on his charges in Texas.

This comes after Ken Paxton’s plea deal failed to register him as a sex offender in Texas and let him back on our streets.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Conservative pastor Aaron Gleason was arrested for m*lesting a little girl during Bible class.

He previously accused drag queens of "grooming" children.

[bob kovach @bkovoDC]

This morning at the reflecting pool

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

[Praise @tufpraise]

It's always the people you most expect