B.J. Gunts

Trump's 90,000-Square-Foot Ballroom Plan Puzzles the Experts His planned space would be much larger than luxury banquet halls in the US capital and a departure from traditional presidential style.

People focus on the sloppy drawings we’ve seen of the Epstein Ballroom, but this article lays out the subtler ways it appears to be technically incompetent.

Nancy Mace berated airport police and TSA agents, incident report says The report claims Mace called officers “incompetent” and accused them of mistreating her.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor of her state, berated the police and TSA officials at Charleston International Airport, according to a report.

“She repeatedly stated [officials] were ‘F------ Incompetent,’” the report said.

If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.

Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Hey folks, an update on the battle to bring down prices!

this is insane.

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This really illustrates Trump’s lack of interest in both history and character, and his commitment to the enshittification of everything. This looks like what people imagine a “rich” hotel bathroom is, while simultaneously echoing one of those bath fitter things on TV they do in an afternoon.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

This is really appalling: Rep Adam Smith tells me that in a briefing, Pentagon officials said they reserve the right to kill people who are "affiliated" with their list of "narco-terror groups."

But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!

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One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes is even worse for the right—and America—than it looks.

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The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.

Bringing the House back into session doesn't affect Senate negotiations

Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files

In New York City, flash floods inundated the subway and sent cars floating down city streets. nyti.ms/3Li90ko

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

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YouTube video by MSNBC Kash Patel slammed FBI jets—then used one for date night

WATCH: FBI Director Kash Patel—who once railed against officials’ private jet use—is facing backlash after reportedly using a government plane to watch his country singer girlfriend sing the National Anthem at a pro-wrestling event.

TIRED: “I alone can fix it.”

WIRED: “Do something Democrats!!!”

Literally admitting that he's starving kids to put political pressure on his opponents.

One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.”
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CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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The plurality of DC political coverage continues to be, ten years in, "Trump Says Something."

one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Trump says he will release the Epstein client list if elected. The Democrat elites are shaking rn

Any updates on this

Sanctions Lifted on a Putin-Backed Autocrat After Lobbying by Trump Allies

NEW: The Trump administration quietly lifted sanctions on Wednesday against the Putin-backed Serbian leader Milorad Dodik after an intensive campaign on his behalf by Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Laura Loomer & high-priced lobbyists.

U.S. to withdraw some troops from Romania, NATO’s eastern flank It is the first announcement of the Trump administration’s plans to scale back forces in Europe, where the U.S. has underpinned security since World War II.

The U.S. informed NATO allies that it is withdrawing some troops from Europe’s eastern flank, as America’s longtime partners nervously await decisions on larger plans for a U.S. military drawdown.

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.