Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

SCOTUS hasn't figured out that he may eventually decide that 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 are a threat? 🤨

In their dissents, both Sotomayor and Jackson addressed the question of whether a president would have immunity from criminal prosecution for acts of murder, including ordering the assassination of a political rival. --such hysterical women, yadda yadda, how ridiculous

way back in July 2024

The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.

They really are eugenicists.

So, 2 things:

1. Glad a reporter asked about this.

2. The reporter ultimately didn't ask Johnson a moral/religious question, but a technical policy one. Given Johnson's background, worth asking him *specifically* if he supports shooting clergy w/pepper balls and if it's a religious liberty concern

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. Not anymore.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Zero surprise that the new GOP is manufacturing these horrible young men www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

If the constitution wasn't actually in effect right now, how would we really know? The Second Amendment still seems pretty sturdy, but that's about all I can confidently say these days.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump SECRET WATCHLIST for American Citizens FINALLY EXPOSED

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here:

youtu.be/lURA__ng9dM

Klippenstein: To what extent it’s going to activate what are called Joint Terrorism Task Forces?

The military is really limited in terms of what they can do.

But these Joint Terrorism Task Forces don’t have those limitations. They can do and go places the military can’t.

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

500 National Guard troops arrive in Chicago area amid resistance from Illinois governor The troops, composed of units from Texas and Illinois, are based at an Army Reserve station about an hour southwest of Chicago.

Latest: Some 500 National Guard members have arrived in the Chicago area and are mobilized for an initial period of 60 days, despite an ongoing lawsuit challenging their deployment there, according to a statement from U.S. Northern Command.

Trump Puts Trigger-Happy Marine in Crucial Immigration Job Daren Margolin was relieved of his command for negligently discharging a firearm.

Trump has put a retired Marine who was relieved of his command for shooting his office floor in charge of the U.S. immigration court system.

NEW: A group of appeals court judges openly struggled with — and in some cases criticized — the Supreme Court's terse and vague shadow docket rulings. One said they've left lower courts "in limbo," forcing them to interpret "signals"

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)

Democrats add 1 more vote in Congress after Virginia special election Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw was widely expected to succeed his former boss, longtime Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly.

GREAT NEWS! Democrats add one more vote in Congress after the Virginia special election. 💙💙

The Government Wants to See Your Papers And the Supreme Court decides that the Fourth Amendment might not be for everyone.

Am I angry about the SCOTUS decision today that basically lets ICE ask for your papers like goons in a police state? You bet I am:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

BREAKING: Judge Cobb *blocks* Trump's removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Very Strange Indeed….

Yeah, moron, and whose fault was that? 🤨

RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.

In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions.

In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.

President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

EARHARDT: Dems were spreading the narrative that we don't need the National Guard in DC bc crime has gone down around 30%, but then we heard those numbers might be inaccurate. Can you clear it up? Are those numbers correct?

LEAVITT: These numbers are absolutely correct. We're proud of these efforts

Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.

Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

The IRS clashed with the White House over using tax data to locate suspected undocumented immigrants just hours before Trump officials fired IRS Commissioner Billy Long.

Long's dismissal makes his tenure now the briefest in the agency's 163-year history.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...