Keith Boykin

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions On Shellfish, Steak, Fruit Baskets, Furniture Pete Hegseth's Defense Department blew through tens of billions in one month ... including huge splurges on steak, lobster, crab, fruit baskets, and furniture.

Pete Hegseth burned through $93 billion, including:

$15.1 million for ribeye steak
$6.9 million for lobster tail
$2 million for Alaskan king crab
$140,000 for donuts
$124,000 for ice cream machines
$99,000 for a grand piano
$26,000 for a violin
$21,750 for a flute
$12,000 for fruit basket stands

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

The New York Times analyzed newly released satellite imagery, verified videos, and official government statements and detemined that U.S. missiles likely destroyed tbe elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing 175 people.

The Trump administration would only say that it’s “investigating” the matter.

The war in Iran is another manufactured crisis — brought to you this time by America’s scandal-plagued president and Israel’s scandal-plagued prime minister.

WBD employees fear coming wave of job losses as Paramount tops Netflix's bid to acquire company WBD employees fear potential job cuts, culture clashes and high debt loads as Paramount supplants Netflix as the company's acquirer.

Warner Brothers Discovery employees fear massive job losses as Paramount executives plan to cut $6 billion from WBD.

Meanwhile, Paramount CEO David Ellison has promised Trump to make sweeping changes at CNN. Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief at CBS, could take over the cable news network.

Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and big Trump supporter Austin Tucker Martin, 21, believed the president was a ‘strong leader,’ sources say, but became increasingly concerned by the prospect of a government cover-up and powerful people ‘getting away with i...

The alleged gunman shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday was identified as Austin Tucker Martin:

• 21-year-old white male
• Trump supporter
• self-identified Christian
• golf course illustrator
• came from a Republican family
• lived with Trump-supporting parents
• from small town North Carolina

Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that ...

The US Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s tariffs in a 6-3 opinion.

Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito dissented.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested at Sandringham estate Former prince arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Former Prince Andrew has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

While Trump pretends to care about drug dealers invading the country, he used your taxpayer dollars to escort convicted Honduran drug trafficking conspirator Juan Orlando Hernández from a high-security prison in West Virginia to the luxurious Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.

Over four decades, I watched Jesse Jackson up close turn protest into votes, and votes into change. His message never wavered: You have power. Use it.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted to Congress today that he visited Epstein Island in 2012, four years after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor.

13 minutes. That’s how long the Super Bowl halftime show made some people feel “uncomfortable.” But millions of Americans live in discomfort 24 hours a day.

Donald Trump has disinvited Maryland Governor Wes Moore, the only Black governor in America, from a bipartisan dinner for the nation’s governors. Moore is the vice chair of the National Governors Association.

They lied to us about Alex Pretti. They lied to us about Renee Good. Just like they’ve been lying to us for centuries.

Live updates: Rubio says US won’t govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade Secretary of State Rubio suggested that the U.S. would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after Trump anno...

Yesterday, Trump stood in front of Marco Rubio and said the US will run Venezuela. Now Rubio says the US will not run the country. Clearly, they didn’t think through what they planned to do after they abducted Maduro and left his vice president in place.

Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela proves it was never about drugs or democracy. It was always about regime change, oil, money, and power.

Tesla sales fall for the second year in a row Tesla's stock has hit record highs over its robotaxi rollout, but the company's EV business is struggling.

Tesla sales dropped for the second year in a row.

It’s a new dawn.
A new day.
A new year.
Let us march on
Till victory is won.

Day 5 of Kwanzaa is about Nia (purpose) and comes with a reminder that all holidays are made up.

Day 3 of Kwanzaa: Ujima — collective work and responsibility.

Day 2 of Kwanzaa: Kujichagulia — self-determination.

Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, and the principle for the day is UMOJA, or unity.

It’s been a long year.
If you’re tired,
that’s not weakness.
that’s awareness.
Sometimes the most
important political act
is living
to fight another day.

US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes

Farmers say Trump's $12 billion aid plan is not enough to undo the damage from his tariffs. This year alone, US crop farmers have lost $34.6 billion and farm bankruptcies are likely to top 1,000.

Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein webpage, including a photograph showing Donald Trump, less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation.

The Epstein Files, According to Trump
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Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress

Rep. Elise Stefanik, the Republican frontrunner, has dropped out of the New York governor’s race and will leave Congress.

Justice Dept. Won’t Meet Friday Deadline to Release All Epstein Files

Trump breaks the law again, refusing to release the Epstein Files today, despite a federal statute requiring him to do so.

Workers Add Donald Trump’s Name To Facade Of Kennedy Center Trump's name was placed above that of the late president.

They had this Kennedy Center name change planned and ready to go long before that rigged vote.

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Trump's hand-picked Kennedy Center board votes to rename it as the 'Trump-Kennedy Center' The board's decision to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Center could face legal hurdles, as the law creating the center prohibits renaming the building.

Trump's cronies on the Kennedy Center board have voted to rename the historic institution as the Trump-Kennedy Center.