A note to my friends who still back Trump:
I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.
Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.
And the green water?
A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.
That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.
The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.
Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.
Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.
Prove them wrong.
2026 R14 BY THE NUMBERS II
Jobe Shanahan recorded a career best 5 contested marks vs North Melb - at 19yo, he is the 2nd youngest @WestCoastEagles to take 5+ contested marks in a game after Jack Darling (2011 R6 v MEL, 18yo)
🚨 This Was The Most Revealing Exchange In Hegseth’s 60 Minutes Interview.
Pete Hegseth defended the new Iran agreement by saying the document guarantees Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, never seek one, and never obtain one.
Then came Brennan’s response:
The Obama-era JCPOA said that too.
Notice what happened next.
Hegseth didn’t argue that Brennan was wrong.
He didn’t say the provision was new.
Instead, he argued the difference was that this agreement was negotiated “from a position of strength.”
Not whether Iran promised not to build a nuclear weapon.
Both sides appear to agree similar language existed before.
The disagreement is whether military pressure and leverage make this agreement more durable than the one Trump withdrew from.
@AJG_87 Think the baker experiment forward has been done and didn’t work… maybe Lindsay up on a wing - but I don’t mind the idea of Duggan forward either
@_birch14_ Fan of Davis and Champion but think they could both benefit with a spell back in wafl… would be keen to see some others get a crack whether that be gross macrae Herbert or even T Williams or Dewar - but with one game before the bye they may not make too many changes
Today was the end of the @StarsBBL and the @RenegadesBBL as we know them.
Staff were informed the Stars & the Renegades are merging into one brand new Victorian franchise to play at the MCG & likely wear navy blue.
The club will be called the Melbourne (insert nickname), but it won't be the Stars.
Cricket Victoria has committed to selling its second license entirely.
@1116sen@SEN_Cricket@7Cricket
EAGLE FACT
The last time @WestCoastEagles won consecutive matches against the same opposition was R9 & R18 2021… when the Eagles were on a five game winning streak against the Crows
The Eagles have a chance over the next fortnight to end that drought with matches against Port Adelaide and North Melbourne.
This week alone:
DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.
The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.
The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.
Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.
It’s just Thursday.
The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.
Spurs players celebrating like they’ve won the World Cup, kissing the badge and singing “we are staying up.”
On the same day we lift the PL trophy.
Do not ever compare these clubs again.
The first two courtside seats have sold for the first Knicks Finals home game at Madison Square Garden in 27 years.
Someone purchased TWO seats on StubHub for....
$279,804!
I have confirmed the sale.
🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.
I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.
Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.
Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.
That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.