I asked X, Paramount, ABC, and Meta where their donations to Trump's Presidential Library went. None of them could give a clear answer.
Tens of MILLIONS of dollars are missing.
Why should Americans trust that this money isn’t going straight into Donald Trump’s pockets?
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. For much of American history, evading excise taxes on liquor has been nearly a national pastime. At the time of the Revolution, one historian has written, “nearly every farmer distilled his own whiskey and deemed it his inalienable right to evade the tax, and resist the collector whenever a favorable opportunity presented itself for doing so.” Gallus Thomann, Liquor Laws of the United States 58 (1885). Soon after the Constitution’s ratification, in western Pennsylvania, this evasion came by force of arms—in the Whiskey Rebellion, which President Washington put down only after assembling “an army larger than any he had commanded during the Revolution.” Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, at 138 (2009). Just after the Civil War, in 1867, a select committee of the House of Representatives heard more than a month of testimony, and concluded: “in the manufacture and sale of tobacco, cigars, and spirits, and especially the latter, the most stupendous frauds are practiced against the government in the collection of its revenue.” H.R. Rep. No. 39-24, at 1 (1867). The following year Congress enacted comprehensive legislation to end those frauds, which among many other provisions included a ban on distilling spirits in one’s home. Now, almost 160 years later, John Ream argues that the home-distilling ban has been beyond Congress’s enumerated powers all along. We disagree with the district court’s conclusion that Ream lacks standing to bring his claims; but we hold that the ban is a necessary and proper means of collecting the federal excise tax on distilled spirits.
6th Cir., 2-1, holds that the ban on home distilling is constitutional as a "necessary and proper means of collecting the federal excise tax on distilled spirits.
Folks, we have our circuit split.
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
It won't last
What is the German word for when all three of these women cabinet secretaries absolutely deserved to get fired and yet pretty much all the men cabinet secretaries and FBI director drunks do too. And yet .... 🤔
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
We’ve got Michigan State Marching Band ON THE BOARD
Ahhh.
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This seems like a weird time for the Tigers to be playing.
Qualified immunity is probably the worst legal doctrine in the country. It is a blank check for cops to abuse, even kill, citizens, and unless their actions are *exactly* like a previous abuse found to be illegal, they'll receive immunity.
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
Alert issued for a potential mega-quake in northern Japan following a M7.5 tremor that has triggered tsunami. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne...
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
This article is inaccurate. There were not two rounds of voting. Just the single vote followed by a 3.5 hour delay before Gilchrist was announced as winner.
This article is inaccurate. There wasn't two rounds of voting.
Congratulations to the Michigan Democratic Party on its biggest convention in history and to all of the delegates who survived! 🇺🇸
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Yeah, but they were done voting on iPads after an hour. Why the extra 2.5 hour delay?
Any word on why it took 3.5 hours to tabulate votes that were submitted via computer? Or where we can see actual results and the math involved?
Amir Makled defeats UM Regent Jordan Acker to win the Michigan Democratic Party's endorsement for the University of Michigan's governing board in another win for the party's progressive wing. Incumbent Paul Brown won the party's other endorsement.
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit wins the Michigan Democratic Party endorsement for attorney general in a win for the party's progressive wing.
Haven't seen any math. Not that I would trust it after an inexplicable 3.5 hour delay.
An announcement was just made that "momentarily" there will be an update on the SoS race.
No word on any of the other races.
#MDP
Well, the Democrats were "fired up". Fired up against her.
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State board of education, but they were uncontested as well.
8 PM at the #MDP convention that started at 3. No contested winners announced. No communication. I think Hertel is swimming to Canada.
