Brooks Martin

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China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans SEOUL—In a historic trade agreement that President Donald Trump touted as a major win for an American farmer, China reportedly agreed Thursday to purchase 11 U.S. soybeans. “I am extremely honored tha...

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

Let them eat yellow cake uranium!

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥

RFK revoked Dr Pepper’s medical license

We must stop RFK

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

More than 70,000 King County residents receive enhanced premium tax credits to help them afford health insurance. If the credits aren’t extended, a couple earning $52K/year with an adult dependent son will see their annual health insurance cost skyrocket from $490 to $2,830.

ICYMI: Senate Republicans just blocked Democrats' bill that would reopen the government AND save health care for millions of Americans.

This is now the FIFTH time we've voted on this bill.

The Republican shutdown continues.

I mean, maybe he’ll be dead by the time it shows up.

Every time I read one of these horrible things that Kristi Noem has said, I try to wish something petty upon her. Can we all get together and summon a yeast infection for her?

Clipping.

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:

This is super concerning

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.

This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

More like liquid ASS, amiright? #IOS26

Genuine question.

When they were casting Star Wars, what were they looking for in the role of Porkins? I mean it just seems like a ridiculous 70s era joke.

(I suppose this is something I could probably look up, but it’s more fun to ask it this way.)

mayoknave

OK, record nerds… You need this.

It has, indeed, been hard. The THIS IS FINE squishy is PERFECT.

Happy birthday, mama!

I’m coming over

A slavery-defending traitor.

Listen when they say who they are.

Litter lovers. 😂

Trivia hosts that don’t take notes and do further research are dead to me.

Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell and Tom Hanks, who plays Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 (1995).

Jim Lovell and David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Jim Lovell.

RIP Jim Lovell.

One of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon in Apollo 8. Then he survived Apollo 13. . Prior, he flew on two Gemini missions (7 & 12).

He was 97.

☝️He played himself in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and the captain of the USS Iwo Jima in Apollo 13 (1995).

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.