Steve Banfield

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Now just because I'm wandering doesn't mean you should jump to conclusions because...

One recurring #photography regret is getting rid of perfectly good "old" lenses in favor of some newer, "better" lens. Usually the new thing is bigger, heavier, and never made me a better photographer.

Right now I'm missing my old Nikon 35/2 AFD lenses to use on my F and D series SLRs.

And yes I get the irony of reposting this

GO SEAHAWKS!

Please read this excellent, point by point refutation of the claim that there was a "Russia hoax"
From @noupside.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

He's going to sell off "visits to the WH" to the highest bidder, so sycophants can sit in the "Rose Garden" so he can walk around and hold court like he does in Florida. It's a place for him to walk out and have his ego stroked at scale since the Oval is too small. #FDT

Forbes: Almost 90% of Americans are Worried about the Cost of Groceries PBS News: White House says it will begin construction on $200 million ballroom in September

Most Americans are worried about the cost of groceries.

Meanwhile, Trump is spending $200 million of taxpayers' money to build a golden ballroom.

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

The struggle is real.

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

This miserable fraud has poisoned the national conversation about lifesaving vaccines with his conspiracy theories, but he is also doing so much more to destroy science and progress.

This will grind lifesaving research to a halt and set us back decades for no good reason.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts That kind of shot was first used during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the health secretary has been sharply critical of the technology.

This is so harmful. Scientists are developing mRNA-based cancer vaccines that could save so many lives.

Don't be surprised that the family who stole from their own children's charity would think twice before stripping children's medical coverage to pay for their golden monstrosity.

Anyone who supports the Mad King over saving sick kids should just GTFO.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

To create “ideal kayaking conditions”? Don't they know that turds will float in any amount of water? #politics

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Wildfire In Wet Washington State Is Changing Under Climate Change The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.

Washington State, which is famously rainy, is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. But as global warming changes fire patterns in the state, all it can do is prepare.

Never forget, JD Vance was an investor and on the board of AppHarvest. JD Vance has never stood for or stood with the people of #Appalachia. He's only wanted to exploit them for his own gain.

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

Never Trump.
Never Twitter after Trump was reinstated.
Never Tesla after Musk became a Trump sycophant.

"No longer able to" implies he was at one time able to master his sums. The history of bankruptcy would seem to indicate math was never the Mad King's forte.

It's 3:30 AM. I can't sleep. AMA.

"L'État, c'est moi" says the Mad King

I LOVED this movie as a teen. Kelly LeBrock was everything.

Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

Eventually the water gets warm enough that the frog does feel it but by then it's too late.

The entire GOP are cowards to remain silent while the Mad King destroys anything that disturbs the illusion of his majesty. This is how countries wither and crumble.

chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/

The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

Why Ford’s Made-in-America Strategy Hurts It in Trump’s Trade War The company says new tariff deals with Japan, the EU and South Korea put it at a disadvantage.

So much winning. We let the Mad King, angry about his dirty diaper, play with a book of matches and light the global economy on fire.

Trump seeks to fire official overseeing jobs data after weak employment report President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in ...

Will anyone trust the numbers coming from this administration after this? Tell the truth, lose your job. The Mad King will tell you what the numbers will be and you'll like it! #econsky