Casey

BSCC HoF. @kimhennigan @Cate_Hennigan

[Andrew Cooperrider @KYCooperrider]

Kentucky school districts keep raising property taxes and still can’t keep track of the money. It doesn’t matter if the district is big or small—there is a complete lack of financial controls.

In Greenup County, at Raceland-Worthington, cheer parents were paying hundreds of dollars a month in addition to fundraisers. The district posted a job for a new coach, then two days later said it had discovered a financial problem in the program. Former coach Misty Pack was indicted on charges of forgery and theft involving between $10,000 and $1 million. Now, Greenup County volleyball might be missing money too. A complete lack of financial controls in these small programs points to bigger questions about the district’s overall budget.

Lexington is having the same issues on a bigger scale. Fayette County Public Schools overstated tax revenue by more than $8 million in one year. They budgeted $375 million for salaries and spent $396 million. People were buying things without purchase orders. Officials later admitted revenues and expenses had been wrong for years. Yet they still talk as if the problem is that there isn’t enough tax money.

Louisville is also in trouble. JCPS is facing about a $188 million hole and has talked about selling assets to make payroll. Board members said they didn’t get the full picture. Budget reports were cleaned up before the board saw them. A state audit said there had been no real financial plan for years. Reviewers said the district didn’t even have a clear system for who controlled spending at schools versus the central office. Yet they still took the maximum tax increase year after year.

Stop acting like another tax hike is the answer. Superintendents, CFOs, and school boards need to be held responsible for sloppy books. If they can’t tell you where the money went, they don’t get more of it.

[Kentucky Football @UKFootball]

Watch out for @w_rodriguez10 👀

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Trump should propose the same law that Argentina president Javier Milei just introduced: If politicians run a deficit, they STOP GETTING PAID.

YES! DO IT NOW!

No salaries for public officials, from the president down to members of Congress, until the budget is balanced. Public office was never supposed to be a lucrative career for narcissists and psychopaths. It was meant to be a civic duty and an obligation.

Javier Milei’s "Fiscal Shackle" law finally forces accountability. If politicians don't do their job, THEY pay the price, not the taxpayers. Why can’t we have common sense like this in America?

[Kentucky Football @UKFootball]

Succeeding in the community and the classroom. Willie’s on the 2026 Wuerffel Trophy Watch List 👀

🗞️: https://t.co/VGeAr86BZm

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Being angry at Fauci or being angry at Israel isn’t productive anymore. The anger is justified, but without real accountability it’s just wasted energy—unless it’s directed effectively into a pursuit for positive change.

Trump won in 2024 because most Americans understood that wars in the Middle East are bad for the U.S. & that COVID was a crime against humanity. He built a historic coalition that promised, with conviction, that voting for Trump meant we’d get accountability, no more foolish wars, & an administration that would actually put America first.

Instead, we have a new war in the Middle East and Trump announcing he’ll honor Fauci’s pardon.

This is all infuriating, but don’t let it demoralize you—because it’s also clarifying.

We can declassify documents, stage hearings, and post talking points on the internet all day. But none of it matters when we have a justice system that refuses to deliver genuine, bipartisan accountability, impartial to political influence from any direction.

Right now, Trump has the ultimate power to pursue that accountability, and he’s choosing not to. That tells you everything you need to know.

We know who will hide behind performative outrage about Fauci, Iran, or the Deep State while taking no real action in efforts to shield their political careers—and we know who will actually stand up, fight, & tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable the consequences may be.

The problem isn’t the War Machine, foreign interests trying to push us into war, or the Deep State & their pathetic apparatchiks like Fauci seeking to control us.

The problem is putting our faith in leaders, again and again, who lack the courage to fight them.

[Andrew Cooperrider @KYCooperrider]

Kentucky issues a $96,000 lobbying contract to lobby itself for more money.

Kentucky Career and Technical College hired Commonwealth Alliances “to assist KCTCS in advancing priorities with the General Assembly and Executive Branch, including the state budget.”

The university is part of the executive branch, and the Legislature’s Government Contract Review Committee reviewed the contract.

In other words, the Executive Branch issued a contract that the Legislature approved, using taxpayer funds from the budget so that the Executive Branch could lobby the Legislature for more money from the budget.

[Alyssa Lang @AlyssaLang]

Crazy not a single SEC title banner here

@3YearLetterman

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

If you’re over 40 years old and don’t know this one, I frankly cannot trust you …

👉 https://t.co/7RMe8cX3TW

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

A Colorado teacher REFUSED to allow a 13-year-old student to present her Pro-Life poem for the class because it’s "offensive."

MILLIONS have now listened to her poem and her story.

If you haven't heard it yet, @StudentsforLife made an amazing video of her reading it!

Give it a watch and a share! 👇

[Andrew Cooperrider @KYCooperrider]

Kentucky taxpayers got hit in the major national healthcare fraud case, and Beshear was repeatedly warned about this and did literally nothing.

Almost like the opportunity for fraud was a feature and not a bug.

Federal charges in the big national takedown involving millions in improper Medicaid billing hit right here in our own state. This includes a Louisville case with over $11 million in fraudulent claims paid out.

What’s really frustrating is that Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball and her office warned about this for years.

She flagged improper controls, weak oversight, dead people still on rolls, duplicate SSNs, ineligible payments, and hundreds of millions wasted in Medicaid — culminating in a special examination showing over $800 million in questionable claims.

Instead of fixing the broken controls and protecting our money, the Beshear administration attacked the auditor, called the findings “wildly inflated” and political, and reportedly gave her office poor cooperation at the top levels. If Beshear was actually trying to rise above partisanship, he would have taken steps to address it well before the feds stepped in.

When auditors sound the alarm on waste and fraud in massive programs like Medicaid, leaders should fix it, not fight the messenger. Unless, of course, they already knew the message and just hate that someone is bringing it up.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, I raised alarms about dangerous gain-of-function research being farmed out to foreign countries, and I was told it was a conspiracy theory. Now, declassified documents show that the U.S. funded over 120 biolabs across more than 30 countries. Some of this research was conducted overseas precisely because scientists knew it would face scrutiny on American soil.

I'm calling for a presidential commission of scientists to review all gain-of-function research going forward. We're going lab by lab and pathogen by pathogen until the American people know the full truth.

https://t.co/gtv6sZ7viR

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Cedric Maxwell on Pistol Pete Maravich and a rookie named Larry Bird:

“We come to a timeout and Pete says ‘Larry, they’re double-teaming you. You can’t force up those kind of shots.’

Larry looks up and goes ‘If you were any damn good, they wouldn’t be double-teaming me.'”

[James Weber @JWeberSports]

He pitched the 9th in a 7-1 win at Colorado, allowing one hit and striking out two

[Nashville Sounds @nashvillesounds]

Drew joins the Brew Crew ⚾️

Congrats to Drew Rom on his call up to the Brewers!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

We are nearly $40 trillion in debt. Working families are stretched thin. And Washington is still sending federal benefits to people who entered this country illegally. 

My End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act supports American citizens instead of rewarding those who came to the U.S. illegally. This is basic fiscal responsibility, and it is long overdue.

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

Who is the real conservative? This is an interesting and informative read.

[Alexandra Voetberg @Realalexclark]

The commentary online I’m seeing insinuating that “Thomas Massie is a Democrat” because he spars with Trump is literal retard boomer propaganda for the lowest of IQ individuals. Massie is probably the most conservative member of Congress what are you even talking about? Massie sticks to conservative principles even when politically inconvenient which is WHY Trump doesn’t like him. Trump doesn’t want you to vote for Massie over vanity reasons not because he is a “Democrat”.

•He votes against “emergency” power grabs and bipartisan consensus bills that most Republicans eventually cave on.

•He’s one of the few members who regularly reads and publicly critiques the actual text of legislation instead of just voting with leadership.

•He opposed COVID lockdown policies, vaccine mandates, and massive pandemic spending earlier and more consistently than many Republicans who later rebranded as anti-lockdown.

•He’s unusually hostile to corporate welfare, subsidies, and government-backed market manipulation, not just Democratic programs.

•He frequently takes positions that hurt him politically or socially in DC because he prioritizes constitutional consistency over party optics.

•He’s skeptical of the intelligence/security apparatus in a way that aligns with old-school civil-libertarian conservatism.

•He has a long track record of voting against omnibus packages that many “conservative” Republicans publicly complain about but ultimately support because they are WEAK.

He’s the most ideologically consistent. People may dislike his positions, but it’s hard to argue he’s transactional or opportunistic.
He’s one of the rare Republicans whose voting record often aligns almost perfectly with a STRICT interpretation of limited federal power.

He’s the most conservative member of Congress do not lose him!!!

[Chris Welsh @thinkpitch]

On the wall of the media level at Citizen’s Bank Park. Sill can’t believe these guys were Phillies.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Tomorrow, KY-4 votes in Thomas Massie's primary. Trump endorsed his challenger — a useful tell.

The loudest voices on here will tell you we're in some unstoppable, existentialist realignment. The day-to-day says something simpler & less flattering: a president changing his mind hour to hour, a family profiting off the whiplash, & a Republican conference too cowed to say so.

@RepThomasMassie has said so. Repeatedly. He kept the promises the rest of them broke, which is the actual reason he has to go.

Keep him in Congress.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

There’s nobody in Congress more faithful to the Constitution than @MassieforKY. He stands against wasteful spending, runaway debt, and government overreach no matter which party is pushing it. Kentucky would be making a mistake by letting him go. @realDailyWire