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Kash Patel and the Lessons of FBI Leadership How does the current director stand up to his predecessors?

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Unless it comes from the Briberie region of France, it’s just a sparkling Gratuity. You know, the sort Harlan Crow dispenses.

Trump won’t be happy until our only friends are the Russians and the Saudis.

💯 pct what Garrett says👇🏾

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

how ridiculous for Tampa Bay Lightning fans to chant "USA, USA" last night against Montreal Canadians? Montreal has more USA born players than Tampa, and Tampa has more than half its team from Canada.

When I worked on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Trump would gather his family & they would all humbly bow their heads in prayer before finale tapings. Often, Donald would recite a favorite Bible verse….Naw, I’m just f^cking w/you, he would ask if there were any MILFs in the audience.

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.

Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

I read somewhere that a person can drive a car 13miles faster than he can run it, too.

A second firm hired by Trump campaign found no evidence of election fraud The founder of the company has been interviewed by federal prosecutors investigating the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 results

If DOJ charges you with rigging 2020 election against Trump the first thing your lawyer must do is subpoena the TWO auditors Trump paid $2.5m to investigate fraud and depose them—and Trump, too, who curiously never mentioned those audits.

I wonder why…

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"U.S. and Iran are said to near a framework for future negotiations" New York Times headline April 17, 2026. Story by Michael Crowley and Farmaz Fassihi https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/strait-of-hormuz-open-iran-talks-negotiations.html

US and Iran are said (passive voice) to near (aren't at) a framework (not a deal) for future negotiations (to talk later)

In other words, they can't even agree on what to hold a meeting about.

Peace reigns! All rejoice!

Poll: Trump's approval rating hits second-term low as Americans sour on the economy and Iran war Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll, with some cracks emerging in his GOP support.

The new NBC poll came out after the piece I wrote below published, but his numbers continue to tank:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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New @nbcnews.com poll:

33% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Iran war.

67% disapprove.

A majority “strongly disapprove.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

If Dems admakers were smart they’d use the same tag line from that 2024 anti-trans ad Elon spent $200m on, and run anti-corruption ads that show pix of Saudi sheiks and corporate AI goons overlayed with this closer:

“Donald Trump and his allies are for ‘they/them.’ [Candidate X] is for you.

Are the Russian people sick yet of losing money and lives in a losing war effort in Ukraine?

This is a really important point. It’s become clear that many of the conservative justices are as terminally Fox-brained as any garden variety red-hatted rube.

And why stop at universities? Let's have viewpoint diversity in law enforcement! Let's have it in the officer corps of the military! Let's have it in corporate boardrooms!

In defense of Marco Rubio, I suggest that, compared to a drunk SecDef, drunk FBI director, philandering-plus-creeper-hubby SecHHS (former), corrupt AG (former), Rubio is *merely* a compliant, gutless, lying, self-serving power hungry wannabe next president.

Sadly, he’s the *best* of them.

Sorry, but this is wrong. If I can rattle off 15 stone cold bangers from artist without even looking at a Wikipedia page, they’re a GOAT.

Structural things are structural, declining trust in universities edition

Lot of truth here but I think many have reconsidered who their friends and family members are. Bonds have been broken or at least permanently frayed.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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'The Shawshank Redemption’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Bill’s Dad Podcast Episode · The Rewatchables · September 25, 2019 · 1h 51m

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It is IMDB’s highest rated film for a reason…