Celebrations filled the streets of New York City as the Knicks won their first NBA title in more than 50 years, beating the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the Finals. https://t.co/YlmdQ9NeOy
IIIIIIIIIIIII [still] canโt stand it!
Beastie Boysโ fourth album, Ill Communication, came out 32 years ago today, and this just might be one of the greatest late-night performances of all time.
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BREAKING: HELL YES! Congressman Ted Lieu announces that a future Democratic administration will PROSECUTE the Trump family members and officials who are raking in money illegally.
The MAGA gravy train is headed straight off a cliff...
"The American people are suffering from a cost-of-living emergency. Inflation is up. Grocery prices are up. Gas prices are up," said Lieu. "The Consumer Sentiment Index hit the lowest ever in its 74-year history. But you know who's doing really well? Trump and his family."
"According to a report from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Trump and his family have made over $9 billion in his presidency," the congressman continued. "The corruption in this administration is out of control."
Trump and his children have treated his second presidency as an opportunity to steal everything that isn't literally nailed down. They're lining their pockets through crypto pump and dump schemes and pocketing jaw-dropping sweetheart deals. Just this week, Eric Trump was seen publicly boasting about a robotics company he works for receiving a $24 million Pentagon contract. Money is flowing out of our pockets as taxpayers and straight into the bloated bank accounts of Trump's crime family.
"And we saw again last week that there were suspiciously timed market trades right before Donald Trump made statements relating to the Iran war!" Lieu continued "And this is not the first time it has happened. Media reports have now analyzed this and said that these trades look awfully suspicious. And the only people who would know what Donald Trump is about to say before he says it are people close to Trump."
"So I call on the SEC to do an investigation into all these suspiciously timed market trades. And if they do not, I guarantee you a future administration will prosecute these criminals," Lieu concluded.
The reports of apparent insider trading inside the White House have exploded in recent months. Every time that Trump makes some dramatic geopolitical announcement on Truth Social, there appear to be sizable, suspicious bets placed in the immediate lead-up, accurately predicting his announcement. Only Trump insiders would have that information.
The BBC investigated trade volume data on numerous financial markets, comparing them to some of Trump's "most significant market-moving statements." They discovered a "consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public." In other words, Trump is manipulating the markets and exploiting the vast powers of the Oval Office to enrich himself and his cronies. He has turned the White House into a Trump casino โ and he's stacking the deck every hand.
Mass prosecutions are the only way out of this institutional crisis. As of right now, with Donald Trump as president, we are no longer a nation of laws. Our government is being run like a mafia racketeering operation and working class Americans are the ones being squeezed. It's not enough to simply vote these criminals out of office. We have to lock them up. Anything less than convictions and imprisonments will give a green light to future Republican administrations to run this exact same playbook.
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Too on point not to share, โAussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And youโve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author ๐ท unknownโ
"I heard Joni Mitchell say, 'Everybody's a songwriter, even people who shouldn't be.' It's true. It was as true in 1963 as it is today. People heard the Beatles and said, 'Oh, I could do that!' Actually, no, you couldn't. You couldn't write 'She Loves You,' let alone 'For No One' or 'Girl.' It's the same today. A lot of people who can sort of write songs screw up their ears and tell themselves it's something special. But it's not really.
"Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers. Imagine releasing a song like 'Ask Me Why' or 'Things We Said Today' as a B side. They made such fantastic records as 'Penny Lane' b/w 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and only put them out as singles! These records were events, and not just advance notice of an album release.
"You canโt really put onto the page what is great about 'And Your Bird Can Sing' or 'Paperback Writer' or even a great overlooked hard rock Beatles cut like 'Hey Bulldog.' Ok, you can break it down to this remarkable guitar part, those weirdly tracked, overlapping vocal harmonies or Lennonโs insanely intense delivery of an almost throwaway cut and even remark that the piano part is a relative of 'Lady Madonna.' But this doesnโt begin to explain how these records make me feel. That is beyond words."
--#ElvisCostello
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