Bill Eben

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

How the fuck did we get to this point? How the fuck could we have allowed this to happen?

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The last 3 Democratic presidents have created 24 times more jobs than the last 3 Republicans.

Nearly 50 million on the Democratic side of the ledger vs. just 2 million for the GOP.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

In case facts still matter

[The Romano Report @TheRomanoReport]

Donald Trump is just a symptom of our real problem. The biggest problem we face is that we are surrounded by IDIOTS in this country. Many of them are also horrible bigots of various sorts. But the biggest problem is that tens of millions of Americans are hopelessly stupid.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Canada turning red is the geopolitical version of your golden retriever biting you.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

A college student just killed the biggest advantage politicians have ever had. The gap between the lie and the fact-check.

He built a Chrome extension called InTruth. It listens to any live speech, debate, or interview.

Transcribes every word. And checks every claim against real sources in real time. Before the speaker even finishes the sentence.

It works on debates. Press conferences. Town halls. Interviews. Anything with someone talking on video. The fact-check shows up on your screen while they're still talking.

Until now, fact-checking happened hours or days later. By then the clip has been shared, the headline has been written, and the damage is done. Nobody reads the correction.

InTruth closes that gap to seconds. The claim and the fact-check exist in the same moment.

A college student, a Chrome extension, and an AI model just did what entire newsrooms couldn't figure out for decades.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump The Peacemaker.
https://t.co/CHb4VKcq2E

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump just posted this:

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

When Democrats tried in 2020 to get Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to count early votes early—like Florida—Republicans killed the bills so Trump could win day-of-voting tallies and try to throw out mail in ballots. It’s a scam for people Trump thinks are stupid.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The slush fund.

The ballroom.

The IRS get-out-of-jail-free card.

Donald Trump isn’t serving the American people — he’s serving himself. And he thinks you’re dumb enough to fall for it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

McGovern: It took us forever to compensate the victims of 9/11, and here you have this $1.8 billion slush fund that doesn’t go through any committees or hearings. All of a sudden, they have the money to compensate convicted felons—people who attacked our democracy and tried to overthrow a free and fair election.

This is the most corrupt administration in our history.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If you honestly believe that any of the violent 1,600 rioters that stormed the Capitol and beat cops with flagpoles and fire extinguishers on January 6th deserves ONE CENT of our hard-earned tax dollars, you are a DISGRACE and an asshole.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just revealed that Pete Hegseth is going to Kentucky to personally campaign against him.

“This shows how serious it is to the global elites that I lose.”

“The Secretary of War may be coming to my district to campaign against me.”

“During a war.”

“And that’s why it’s so serious that I do win.”

“If there’s gonna be any hope in Washington, DC.”

“If there’s gonna be anybody that ever challenges the narrative, whether it’s on war or immunity for companies, whether they’re data centers or pesticide manufacturers.”

Clayton Morris: “It’s one big uniparty.”

“And when you call out the corruption machine, they don’t like that.”

“Because they’ve been duping the American people for so long.”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @ClaytonMorris

[Democrats Abroad @DemsAbroad]

You’ve heard it said that Republicans are fiscally conservative and Democrats just want to spend. Is it true? Check out this chart on US debt. Surprised? We’re not.
#DemsAbroad #VoteBlue #TrumpEconomy

Details:
Federal debt as a share of GDP, split by presidential party.

Method: yearly change in debt/GDP is compounded only during the years each party held the presidency. When one party is in office, the other line stays flat. Data: FRED (GFDEGDQ188S), annualized from quarterly.

Result: over this sample, Republicans accumulate more of the increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio.🧵

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is a fair question to all evangelical Christians, including myself:

“Dear conservative evangelicals;

You gave him a pass on “grab them by the pussy.”

You don’t mind that he’s an Olympics-class liar.

A thirty-four count fraud conviction didn’t faze you.

Not even an adjudication of rape bothered you.

He’s mentioned in the Epstein documents literally 38,000 times. You don’t find it odd that he’s personally blocking the release of three million of those files.

He’s the most corrupt politician in American history.

He’s broken all ten of the Ten Commandments. Including taking the lives of 153 little girls whose only crime was being in school. And then he lied about it.

He doesn’t go to your church. He doesn’t go to ANY church.

He cheats at golf.

He cheats at business.

He cheats contractors.

He cheats on his wives.

He cheats in elections.

He’s profane.

Crooked.

Disrespectful.

Selfish.

Driven by greed.

By ego.

By revenge.

Yet here you are worshipping a golden idol in his likeness.

So what is it about YOU that makes you a Christian?

Bruce Lindner”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

President Obama on Iran: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz”