🚨 Oklahoma prisoners were paid $2 AN HOUR to make political calls for a conservative super PAC, an investigation found.
The PAC says it did not know its vendor was using prison labor.
A CEO gets caught stealing $40 million from employee pensions and settles for a $2 million fine with no jail time. A single mom steals baby formula and gets three years. The justice system doesn't punish crime, it punishes poverty. Theft is legal if you wear a suit.
THIS IS TRUMP’S AMERICA. THIS IS THE MAGA MOVEMENT. THIS IS THE MAHA MOVEMENT. THIS IS WHAT THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WANTS. DISTRACT THE POOR WITH FASCISM WHILE YOU ROB THEM BLIND. RACIST XENOPHOBIC MISOGYNISTIC NEO NAZIS. THIS IS AMERICA
How many companies Trump incorporated during his first term: 4
How many companies Trump has already incorporated during his second term: 34
How many companies a sitting president *should* incorporate: 0 https://t.co/kOeUzuVJvg
For those of you that haven't read it, Chapter 10 of Project 2025 was literally about creating food insecurity by cutting safety nets and slashing regulations and restrictions on food production.
No, we weren't overreacting to Project 2025.
🚨BREAKING: An Oklahoma City church that preaches against “sexual immorality” now has a volunteer facing child s*xual abuse material charges.
Timothy John Michael Keene was just arrested in Arcadia and posted a $250,000 bond within moments.
He volunteered with Quail Springs Baptist Church’s children’s choir and refereed the church’s basketball program.
Investigators allege he discussed possessing child s*xual abuse material and requested more from another user. Kik reportedly flagged files uploaded from an account tied to him, and search warrants linked both an internet account and email account to Keene.
Investigators say artwork spotted during a search matched artwork visible in a previously uploaded image.
He is also reportedly going to also be charged with prostitution. According to a newly released affidavit, Keene allegedly used the messaging app Kik to offer sexual favors and massages for money, and told users he traveled across Oklahoma — including to Tulsa — to meet them.
Quail Springs Baptist Church removed Keene from all activities once his arrest became known and notified the congregation, stating Keene had “completed the screening and training the church required of him multiple times over several years.”
The church’s own “Christian and Social Order” statement lists “homosexuality” alongside “sexual immorality” as things Christians should actively oppose. Maybe they should focus less on demonizing consensual adult behavior and focus on predators.
He was a music minister. She was 12. Now he's a registered sex offender AND he's the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of St Louis AND he's got a leadership role in the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International.
But oh gee whiz... they say he's been redeemed.
Tommy Tuberville just backed himself into a corner with his own paperwork. He’s spent months insisting he’s a true Alabama resident who’s lived there long enough to run for governor — but the records his own campaign released to prove it show the opposite: a 2023 Florida driver’s license, a Florida voter registration from May 2017, and a mail-in vote cast in Florida in Nov. 2018.
That leaves him with two options, and neither one is good. If he was actually an Alabama resident back in 2018 like he’s now claiming, then voting in Florida that year was fraud. If he was really living in Florida then, he doesn’t meet Alabama’s 7-year residency requirement to be on the ballot at all. He can’t have it both ways — and he’s the one who put both stories in the court record.
My monthly electricity bill came out to $210 even though my actual power usage was down 15% from last year.
I checked the detailed breakdown on the back of the statement.
The cost of the electricity I consumed was only $72.
The remaining $138 was split across "Grid Infrastructure Modernization," "Peak Capacity Allocation," and "Delivery Service Charges."
When a customer uses less of a product in any normal market, their total bill goes down.
Utility cartels solved that problem by decoupling their revenue from usage entirely, turning your power bill into a fixed corporate revenue guarantee.
You aren't paying for electricity anymore.
You're paying a mandatory tax to guarantee utility profit margins regardless of how much power you conserve.
virginia Giuffre did not describe Jeffrey Epstein as merely sexually abusive; she wrote about whips, restraints, gagging, hog-tying and what she explicitly called “instruments of torture”, describing pain so severe that she sometimes prayed to lose consciousness.
That is far more powerful than viral internet mythology because it comes from a survivor describing what she says was actually done to her.
Q: President Trump called you Talafreako. He's called you weird. Paxton has called you too radical for Texas.
Talarico: A lot of people voted for President Trump because they thought he was gonna lower prices, end forever wars, release the Epstein files, drain the swamp. A year into this admin, prices are up, there's a new forever in Iran, the Epstein files have not fully been released, and the swamp is bigger than ever before.
These nicknames don't lower the price of groceries, gas, utilities or healthcare, or improve our lives. I'm not gonna engage in the silly nicknames back and forth. I'm gonna focus on the people of Texas.
Mechanic: "Your transmission flush and brake replacement comes out to $1,850."
You: "Great. Go ahead and put $1,000 on my debit card and I'll pay the remaining $850 in cash."
Mechanic: "We can’t accept cash or debit without a $45 'credit processing and technology administration fee' per transaction."
You: "Wait, you're charging me a $90 fee just to pay you money?"
Mechanic: "It's standard in our service agreement. Our payment portal charges us a fee, so we pass it along to maintain operational overhead."
You: "You charge $140 an hour for labor, mark up the auto parts by 200%, and now you're treating the cost of accepting legal tender as an unbundled surcharge?"
Mechanic: "You can pay via our online financing portal to avoid the counter fee."
You: "Where the online financing portal charges a 12% origination fee."
Businesses aren't just raising prices anymore.
They're stripping out basic operational costs, payment processing, point-of-sale hardware, invoice generation and reclassifying them as forced junk fees so they can advertise lower fake baseline rates.
My 15yr old granddaughter still hasn't emptied the dishwasher.
I asked her to do it four hours ago.
Now she's freaking out because she can't find her phone...
Which is on silent in the dishwasher.
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