A Singular Monkey

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

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.

Here’s the moment LAPD ordered media along with protestors against the wall, despite requests for a supervisor as well as reminders that PC409.7(b) specifically exempts media from dispersal orders. Never made contact with a PIO. didn’t speak with a supervisor for a very long time after being cuffed.

Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

Trump’s calling in the US military over a pair of unarmed tween carjackers and he still can’t distract from the Epstein Files.

The Republican party: solving imaginary problems since 1969

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.

“Long had previously told agency executives that his agency would not furnish confidential taxpayer information outside of the confines of the IRS’s agreement with DHS, the people said.”

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Per CNN, police believe the Emory shooter targeted the CDC because he was sick or thought he was sick “and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine.”

And this is why we keep telling you that anti-vax conspiracy theories are dangerous.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

it will raise the cost of mortgages. We know Donald Trump isn't very sharp, but maybe one of his economists can tell him that means it will be harder to buy a home.

Trump tells military to target Latin American drug cartels, source says President Trump has directed the military to target drug cartels in Latin America, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.

President Trump has directed the military to target drug cartels in Latin America, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.

In Dayton, Ohio, vacant positions for purchasing agents resulted in delays in acquiring hundreds of prosthetics, according to an internal VA report from May. Kasperowicz said the hospital has recently cut processing time for such orders by more than half.

Prez Trump has said, "We love our veterans. We're going to take good care of them."

We got internal docs showing VA cuts & chaos have doctors and others to flee.

In one hospital, lack of staff has led to delays in acquiring *hundreds of prosthetics.*

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

"Non-profit" board members often pull down 6 (or 7) figure salaries and sit on multiple boards

Dystopian cyberpunk update: the TikTok algorithm is actively suppressing news about massive protests in LA so people are getting around it by tagging it as a 24 Hour Music Festival and then you search that hash tag so you see ppl in riot gear facing down tear gas talking bout the festival is lit

Trump administration's universal flu vaccine project puzzles scientists The Trump administration has launched a $500 million project to develop a universal flu vaccine that won't need yearly updates. But vaccine experts are mystified by its focus on a dated technology.

I suspect he is thinking about this contract, awarded to Matt Memoli, who was willing to eviscerate NIH for the President, without any process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

He's confusing Universal influenza vaccine with universal vaccine agaisnt all viruses.

Back in 2005, Howard Stern had a 59 year old felon on his show. And in typical male chauvinist fashion, they talked about sex, women, girls and beauty pageants.

You’ve seen the memes.

Now listen to the segment.

Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.

NEW: Security researchers have found a backdoor in a certain kind of electronic lock used by at least 8 safe brands that allows them to open the safe in just seconds, as well as another vulnerability that lets them obtain the unlock code. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/secura...

The weirdest thing about llm/education people are acting like doing paper exams, a thing I did when I went to college less than a decade ago (graduated 2019) is some radical idea that would completely reshape education

The Trump regime is way out of bounds and must be reined in. Voters, we know our mission: Insist on free and fair elections, then vote the complicit GOP out of office.

The social media accounts for federal law enforcement agencies keep posting the exact kinds of things you'd report to federal law enforcement agencies if a normal citizen posted them.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

"I wouldn’t be shocked to see this SCOTUS come up w/ a way around the crystal clear language & original intent on who is counted in the census. I’m more skeptical they’ll accept a new one-off census. But they could. It’s a deeply corrupt institution. That’s your path to the dissolution of the union"

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit has vacated Judge Boasberg's contempt order over the Trump administration's decision to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act in defiance of his TRO.

Rao (Trump), Katsas(Trump) side against Boasberg

Pillard (Obama) dissents
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

America’s CEOs come to the White House bearing gifts and flattery Tech industry CEOs have lavished gifts, flattery and attention on President Trump. The administration has rolled out industry-friendly policies.

This is just so incredibly gross.

Gifted article

When the D.C. Bureau Chief of the Independent drops a truth bomb.

"Netanyahu insists Israel is 'not going to occupy' Gaza as alarm grows at home and abroad"

Netanyahu, famously truthful and never dissembling or evasive in his words

Astonished he is allowed to do this. Though guessing maybe he isn't, but Congressional Repubs are too pusillanimous to stop him.

Wherever you stand on 'gender', the issue is 100% irrelevant here. If you served years in the military, you *served*. And earned benefits for your service. That's it.

We will fight this troubling effort to defy longstanding constitutional protections and reintroduce religious coercion into public meetings.

Everyone in Chino Valley, religious or not, deserves school board meetings free from prayer and proselytizing.