Trey Tweets Into the Void

Empathetic loudmouth relearning on the fly while running marketing at a not small financial services co. Getting older, something something wiser.

[Trey Tweets Into the Void @martecx_]

Hey, congrats on your protest vote! You are now every political insider's lowest priority for the next 12 years. I wish it wasn't so, honestly, but here we are.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the entire bottom 90% of Americans combined — about 32% each.

This is what runaway inequality looks like, according to the Fed's most recent data released this month.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

crazy that JD Vance and the entire Trump administration (and Biden administration) encouraged and approved completely ruining the lives of college students for saying the same thing. ah well, nevertheless

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

Picture Perfect 🏆

[KnicksMuse @KnicksMuse]

THE BIGGEST KNICKS SHOT IN 50 YEARS.

[Beelzebubb Rubb @mtskullcrusher]

You got what you wanted.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Nate Duncan @NateDuncanNBA]

Jalen Brunson is CLUTCH.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Trey Tweets Into the Void @martecx_]

Slow and glitchy during the nba finals @YouTubeTV wtf! Checked the network, this is on you. You keep raising bills and can’t get your shit together.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Louisiana erased a majority-Black congressional district, becoming the second state to do so after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act​ last month.
https://t.co/17eC8trJ9o

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Bessent: "Look, for many families, it's not nothing, but it's been less than $200 in extra gasoline costs"

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

200 people killed by the American military without a trial and $4.7 BILLION in taxpayer money spent on the killings, and yet "cocaine ... is as easy to get in much of the United States as it was before the strikes began."

A disastrous operation nearly every way you measure it.

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Nice essay from my friend Paul London, former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce. "The old idea is simple: Government debt is inherently dangerous, while private investment and spending are the virtuous engines of growth.

The historical record, however, tells us something different. The worst economic crises in American history have been driven by private-sector speculation, collapsing private debts, falling prices and the unwillingness of government to act boldly to avoid disaster."

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

The US Justice Department is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, ratcheting up efforts to identify social media critics of government deportation efforts. https://t.co/7juwC4RkJo

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Another day, another impeachable offense. Another grotesque abuse of power. When you commit a Watergate a day, you create a strange immunity. This is Trump's strength. The American people are too numb or propaganda-sodden to care.

[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r