JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
Alexis Wilkins says "she was invited" to perform at The Great American State Fair "on my own accord."
Wilkins averages 5,863 monthly Spotify listeners, which is 3,704,798 average monthly listeners less than fellow Great American State Fair performer Vanilla Ice, who hasn't had a hit in 36 years and still logs 3,710,661 average listeners a month, and some 35,000 average monthly listeners below Hatebeak, a Baltimore death metal band whose lead vocalist is a literal African Grey parrot named Waldo.
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NEW: A college student filmed the exciting moment he won $100,000 – except the bet wasn’t real.
A flood of videos showing fake trades and fake wins is fueling Polymarket’s hype machine, our @WSJ investigation found.
It's part of a secret campaign for Americans’ attention.
The fact that orbital compute is (soon) the most efficient way to build datacenters says a lot about how much excessive regulation has harmed progress on earth.
It’s more efficient to fly to outer space than to try and build on land.
Freedom is always on the frontier.
The U.S. constitution was a breakthrough in that it protected citizens from tyrannical government. What it missed, and what we should try to integrate into the next constitution (on Mars, special economic zones, etc), is restraint against unchecked growth of regulation and government spending.
I’ve been slowly collecting proposals for how that could work. Might do a post on it at some point.
Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it.
No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it.
The public was never told.
Here is why that matters.
Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant.
The department never disclosed the connection in court.
Justice Alito did not recuse.
The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
That is the test.
Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face.
And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too.
This is exactly why the honor system has failed.
The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review.
Congress holds the power of the purse.
We should use it.
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