Source says the cliff notes of the 5,000-page investigation is that Carter “pushed boundaries” but broke no policy.

Another self-investigation masterclass from Wexner fixer John Zeiger.

Obligatory Anduril mention.

Slapshot had his wife use Southwest loyalty points on a ticket to Disney to visit his mistress. Nasty work!

The Ohio Republican Party Has Built a Laboratory of Autocracy In the heavily gerrymandered Buckeye State, the GOP-controlled legislature rules without fear of voters, and it’s hard at work dismantling democracy.

As @rooster.info would say, “Yes. Well.”

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With main campus enrollment >60K students.

Amid controversy, Columbus council OKs funding for women’s soccer training facility COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Columbus City Council passed a funding plan to bring professional women’s soccer to Columbus. The Haslam Sports Group, owners of the Columbus Crew, is behind the push to use…

However the NWSL expansion to Columbus gets framed, it should include the fact that the city council approved giving $25M to Jimmy Haslam along with a public park in order to build a new training facility

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The Haslams and Columbus officials will use feminism as a cudgel to drown out people who suggest this is a bad deal for the city

Oh yeah, the baseball crank crying tears is delicious.

Let me know when Virginia’s Dem SoS coordinates with a Supreme Court Justice to rig the ballot language to make an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment seem like it would enshrine gerrymandering into the constitution.

I hope this sort of thing follows him throughout his accursed campaign.

Hegseth takes another step backward, scraps Pentagon policy on flu vaccines For nearly 250 years, U.S. military leaders have prioritized inoculating the troops. It’s a lesson the current defense secretary hasn’t learned.

During the Revolutionary War, smallpox took such a brutal toll that George Washington decided to inoculate the troops in 1777, ensuring the survival of the United States.

This came to mind watching Hegseth scrap the Pentagon’s policy on flu vaccines for no reason.
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Yet another resignation brings fresh shame to one of the worst Congresses ever When the number of resignations easily surpasses the number of major bills passed, it’s a reminder of just how embarrassing this Congress has become.

As Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick exits, remember:

When the number of resignations easily surpasses the number of major bills passed, it’s a reminder of just how embarrassing this Congress has become.
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Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward, the second highest ranking official at the Department, defended the pace of the weaponization group work to CNN. “It is incumbent upon us not to simply label those travesties as weaponization, but to prove it and go find the evidence of weaponization,” he said. “And that takes time.”

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Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Something something stay in his lane…

Republicans also stole two SCOTUS seats

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

I swear to god if we do anything even resembling a bailout for the UAE, one of the richest countries on earth and a major corrupt crypto donor to Donald Trump and the key backer of Sudan genocide

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A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Ohio voters put independent citizen redistricting on the ballot in 2024.
Republicans deliberately lied on the ballot to confuse voters. It didn’t pass.
Then in 2025, OH Republicans gave themselves another seat by gerrymandering more WITHOUT voter’s consent bc the felon president asked them to.

The 2016 retribution campaign isn’t going “swimmingly”

Subpoenas were issued in probe of Russia ‘conspiracy,’ then DOJ clawed them back, sources say The Justice Department sent subpoenas to witnesses, and then withdrew them, in its investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan for his role in the Russia investigation.

Breaking MS NOW:

The Justice Department has begun withdrawing several subpoenas that had just been issued in the criminal probe of former CIA Director John Brennan — revealing the confusion and disorder within the controversial investigation.

Oversight Republicans are canceling hearings and hosting “round tables” where there are no rules; no motions or subpoenas allowed; and Democrats can’t call witnesses.

They’re scared that we’ll get to the truth in our Epstein investigation. Well, we won’t stop until we do.

OpenAI Gets Florida Criminal Probe Over ChatGPT Role in Shooting Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally liable for use in a mass shooting.

“Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally liable for use in a mass shooting.”

In Ohio, our Republican regime legislature flat out lied when voters petitioned to put ending 14 yrs of Republican gerrymandering on the ballot. Then the Republican regime helped themselves to another seat last year when DJT called. They did it w/o the voters’ consent!

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

It’s not Groundhog Day. It’s a total takeover of Egypt Valley Didn’t we just do this? Seriously. Last week, the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved fracking across thousands of acres in Egypt Valley and Salt Fork. Now they’re back. Already. Egypt …

ODNR has nominated ANOTHER 8,367 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area for natural gas fracking.

It would industrialize 18,000 acres of habitat reclaimed from strip mining over last 30 years.

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Trump prison camp federal court ruling excoriates Trump Admin for "clear failure" to follow the law "in purchasing a large warehouse in Williamsport MD built to hold cargo and seeking to quickly convert it into a detention facility to house human beings..."

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‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

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A flyer for the high dollar fundraiser for OH Governor maga candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (magaswamy) . Flyer lists many big Corp CEOS in central Ohio incl. bankers, insurance & healthcare hypocrites.

In Ohio thousands of 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️ & volunteers have raised $100Ms for cancer research through #Pelontonia. While our BIG Corp. sponsors incl healthcare corps are chairing a mega donor fundraiser for maga Vivek Ramaswamy for OH Gov. who promises more funding cuts everywhere!
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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:

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So much for ‘swimmingly’: Trump’s Iran policy stumbles after premature victory lap If you believed Trump’s boasts on Friday about resolving the crisis in Iran, I have some very bad news for you.

Late last week, Trump claimed:
- Iran had “agreed to everything”
- the Strait of Hormuz would remain open
- the war was going “swimmingly”
- he expected to wrap up a deal with Tehran “in the next day or two”

I have some bad news for those who believed his absurd boasts.
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