In 2021, Trump Media (Truth Social) told investors that by 2026 they could have 81 million users and $3.6 billion in revenue.
Instead:
2023: lost $58m
2024: lost $400m
2025: lost $712m
Who knows maybe this will be the year they turn it around! lololol
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I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!
If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is
DHS employees are running out of paper and staples. FEMA's disaster relief fund is running dry. TSA lost more than 780 officers. FIFA planning has run behind. The Coast Guard has 500 unpaid utility bills.
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OMG -- the RFK Jr breathing noises during this hearing are absolutely horrifying
BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?
RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number
BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy
RFK Jr: *death growls*
BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?
"I was born fresh and my anti-vaxx disinformation was erased in 2025 when I took office."
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”
The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.
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Musk remains a Trump like genius in focusing coverage. All of the coverage of the SpaceX IPO barely or rarely touches on DOGE.
There’s absolutely no mention of how the 28 Democratic primary is likely to become an arms war of the different ways we can excise musk and SpaceX from the taxpayer dime.
LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America
SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours
@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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The New York Times is right. I don’t care!
(And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)
It is actually fascinating to watch the Washington Post try out this combination of USA Today editorial content and a WSJ opinion page. It's "laundry tips!" plus "We must slash capital gains taxes." Unfortunately for Jeff Bezos, the number of living human readers seeking this combination is zero.
War is peace
Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning;
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republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it
Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”
Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:
"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....
Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"
I’m guessing Trump’s staff makes their own AI videos that show millions of Iranians in the streets carrying Trump signs, and he gets a steady diet of that all day long.
Pick your poison: speech, discrimination, voting, violence, etc. etc.
@gregsargent.bsky.social nails it here that the essence of Trumpism is that he and their followers can do what they want, but when the opposition does the same it is wrong.
EU loan for Ukraine approved. The 20th sanctions package approved. A good morning all in all.
Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.
There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.
Exactly.
I don’t favor the partisan redistricting of blue states for “vengeance,” or to hand an advantage the Democratic Party. I favor it as necessary to preserve democracy — by marginalizing a party that has come to oppose the democratic project.
“the Afghans would be given a choice between returning to live under the Taliban or being sent to Congo, which is suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.”
So we’re making them choose to be killed or live miserably.
What have we become?? 😞
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NEW REPUBLIC: “Where Did Millions in Funding Go?”
$63 MILLION companies paid in *settlements* to Trump appears to have vanished (into his pocket) and @SenWarren wants answers.
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
In completed counties so far, NO is only over-performing Trump by 1.2. He lost the state by almost 6 points.
see i understand this take but i think the issue is that basically as the process of polarization continues as the right continues to drift more extreme, they will see basically every transition of power as an existential threat
I could be wrong but I feel like this legal theory is the one DOJ/Smith declined to pursue against MAGA fundraising groups after 1/6.
Israeli actions on the West Bank, tacitly encouraged by the Netanyahu administration, are heinous, ethnic cleansing actions, which cannot be tolerated. We need to suspend military assistance to Israel and send a strong message.
