In my judgement, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases. Iran now poised to control access the Gulf States. US will have to negotiate new access in western Saudi Arabia, Israel, southern Europe.
By antivaxxer logic, there is an even likelier cause of autism: cheese! Annual cheese consumption tracks with the % of IDEA students with autism. The correlation for 2000–2022 is about r = .965!
Just a random Friday morning thinking about how the 2026 New York Knicks played the most dominant 10-game stretch in NBA history, all against playoff opponents
Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.
Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.
Three congressional Democrats say that as much as $21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by Trump is now missing or has been spent without explanation and requested a full accounting from the foundation building his presidential library.
https://t.co/7KS9p5F4ym
The lead investor in a South Korean aluminum company paid Trump's holding firm $2 million last year. The Korean company has business before Trump's administration, challenging Commerce Department penalties on certain exports. @EricLiptonNYT@johnjyoon https://t.co/wAy8LOtV3y
Exclusive: US military commanders bypassed warnings that intel on potential targets in Iran was severely out of date & approved some strikes — including one that hit a school, killing nearly 200 hundred children & adults -- based on years-old info that was not updated before war started, per multiple sources.
New from @zachdespart: Ken Paxton appears to have not lived at the address where he's been registered to vote for the past two years, despite voting in six elections during that time and warning voters that it's illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.
A mom who said vaccines killed her 18 month old twins on RFK Jr’s Children's Health Defense podcast has been charged with murder. https://t.co/CkzKrtQB6O
Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.
His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.
📸: @MSNOWNews@Morning_Joe
The White House looks like shit.. The East Wing has been bulldozed. The lawns looks like they were used for a Demolition Derby. The Kennedy Center is under a tarp. The Reflection Pond is disgusting and fenced off. Trump has turned the Capitol into a shithole.
So @jonswaine@washingtonpost has seen hundreds of documents containing evidence that Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, was directed throughout her career by the leader of the cult she grew up in
https://t.co/xbXRTIX1tl
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.
The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.
Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.
The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz