Dave Mason, co-founder of the band Traffic and a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, has died at his home in Nevada.

United Airlines says fares may need to rise up to 20% to offset fuel surge United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said on Wednesday ticket prices may need ​to rise by as much as 15% to 20% to offset a surge ‌in jet fuel costs, signaling a significant test of consumers' willingness ...

United Airlines CEO said ticket prices may need to rise by as much as 15% to 20% to offset a surge in jet fuel costs, signaling a significant test of consumers' willingness to absorb higher fares as the industry grapples with volatile oil prices. www.reuters.com/business/uni...

Here comes the food price inflation Input costs are already on the rise

Spot food inflation for America in the last month is now on 8% y/o/y. When it comes to food, all the signs are already pointing to higher prices. BoA's Commodity Inflation Trendspotter for food and beverage companies shows Mar input costs up a whopping 373 basis points to 7.9% year-on-year.

The entire administration is a bunch of clowns.

Here are the questions Raskin wants Patel to answer: tinyurl.com/528pdfs3

Well, it's not as if anyone was listening to them.

Democrats want FBI Director Kash Patel to fill out alcohol use screening test Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel fill out a screening test used to assess “harmful patterns of alcohol consumption and routinely used by individual...

This is lame b/c he'll lie. Demand he take a piss test. There are ones that will detect it up to 80hrs after drinking. Also test for drugs b/c that dude is on something besides alcohol. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
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Just tax the living crap out of him and his ilk...

George Washington’s Woke Vaccines What the Founders would have thought about Pete Hegseth lifting the requirement that service members get the flu vaccine.

The general ordered “without delay” the immediate inoculation of “All the Continental Troops that are in Philadelphia and those that shall come in as fast as they arrive.”

Guess which general that was.

The WH is now making up stories of Trump saving women in Iran, from execution, with AI photos. Talk about desperation!

And he'll be entering Week 9 of his "little 2-4 week excursion" tomorrow night

With no end in sight to his quagmire

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They cut SNAP, Medicaid, ACA subsidies and cancer research so we could bail out Argentina, the UAE, farmers and Spirit Airlines.

Christopher Weyant, Boston Globe

The US Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, a businessman and art collector who has never served in the military, flew at least twice on Epstein's plane with Jean-Luc Brunel, and got his job by donating millions to Trump's campaign is apparently stepping down. No word on why yet.

There seems to be a dispute on this.

Patel loses defamation case against ex-MSNBC analyst that he cited in his new Atlantic suit The case involved a statement that Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building.”

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A federal judge in Texas has just tossed a defamation suit brought by Kash Patel against former FBI assistant director and former MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi.

Just about everyone, M and F, should be lifting weights

Bodybuilding/strength training was one of the most empowering journeys of my life, honestly.

I've slimmed down a little bit now, thanks to grief (ugh), and have increased Muay Thai training.

But being strong and jacked for its own sake is fun AF.

The icing on the cake in Trump/Abbott’s gerrymandering scheme will be when a couple of Republicans lose their elections in Texas in the midterms specifically because their districts were weakened by the dummymander.

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

Well, I suppose it’s worth noting that Russia is killing Ukrainians with that money. But if the poorest countries asked nicely, then I guess a few more Ukrainians can die for the cause, right? After all, it’s only 30 more days...🤦‍♀️

“Republicans aren’t mad that gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.”

- Brian Tyler Cohen

Well, Xi is happy...

The U.S. Military Is Running Out of Missiles The United States has expended approximately 45 percent of its Precision Strike Missile stockpile, 50 percent of its Lockheed Martin Patriot and THAAD interceptors, 30 percent of its Raytheon Tomahawk...

7 wks of fighting Iran just cost the US 45% of its Precision Strike Missile stockpile. 50% of Patriot and THAAD interceptors. 30% of Tomahawks. CSIS says it will take 1 to 4 years to replenish. All while failing to achieve a single strategic objective and turning the US into a global laughing stock.

Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on the idea of USPS workers conducting the census:

"Letter carriers are not trained to do this...have different standards for confidentiality, and also letter carriers get paid reasonably well compared to census workers...

Wait two weeks, and he'll be able to give them all a Healthcare Plan

The guy who bankrupted Trump Shuttle airlines is going to take over Spirit with our tax dollars. What could go wrong?