Isn’t Buckley Tucker’s son that used a recommendation letter from Hunter Biden to get into college? or are both Tucker’s brother and son the same name?

“Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.” 🎸

The Al Khayyat family--Syria natives now based in Qatar--have secured at least $12 billion in deals to help rebuild Syria, which is recovering from more than a decade of civil war. But the Khayyats needed the U.S. to repeal sanctions on Syria for these projects to move ahead.

As President Trump supported sanctions repeal effort last year, the Al-Khayyat family negotiated with Mr. Kushner to help him finance a multibillion Mediterranean resort in Albania. Here is Ivanka Trump with Ramez Al-Khayatt in Albania in Jan 2026 in baseball cap. Prime minister of Albania on left

The Trump Organization has said no such Syria golf course is under consideration. But the golf course plan became part of the sanctions repeal lobbying effort, The Times investigation found.

The corruption is so gobsmackingly huge that it seems actually unbelievable, so much so that it is nearly ignored by pundits that lost their minds over Hunter Biden’s inflated art sales. The scale of corruption is not even in the same universe.

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

So Roberts and his team of hack partisans have essentially usurped the powers and roles of the other branches because they are ideologically committed to right wing causes. There is no legal reasoning here--just an exertion of power.
So much for Roberts as institutionalist (that was already dead)

Trump’s pardons of white-collar criminals are draining money from a fund that helps victims of violent crime.

At least $113 million in forgiven penalties would have gone into the Crime Victims Fund absent a Trump pardon, a Trace analysis found.

Read more: thetr.ac/Wy2SQ

Self dealing. Plain and simple.

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Trumpist Law Professors: John Eastman advocates for you being disenfranchised if you voted for the wrong party and shot by the army if you protest it. If you disagree, you’re INTOLERANT

Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

BREAKING on MS NOW:

Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.

screen shot of the referenced article from the NY post

I really thought this had to be satire, but nope…it’s real:

Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows.

The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.

The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.

GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

How many Twitter bots?

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

A doctor costume, honestly, not Jesus…

Zero mention of cancer here. She’s happy because she can afford to change her ac compressor

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State AG’s better get working.

Fully agree with you on what Trump deserves, but elected Republicans do not. What he deserves and what he will actually get is sadly farther apart than should be rationally tolerated

Zero R’s would vote to Impeach Trump….but a whole bunch of R’s would vote to remove Kennedy.

The report about the Iranians not being able to find mines they laid may or may not be true, but it might have been nice if we’d kept our own minesweepers around lnk.thebulwark.com/3NuMaYj

BREAKING WSJ:

Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments.

"I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval," Trump said in a recent meeting.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Wait till they start to demand Catholic Churches have their tax exemptions revoked.

Didn’t take your comment that way.

Also, there’s a fair number of American Catholics who are anti-Pope - more by the day as the Pope shows he has the moral fortitude to speak out - so there might also be a division growing even within the RC Church.