Mark Frisk

A Trump Family Project Spurs Resignations and a Criminal Charge in Serbia

Criminal charges on a Trump project? Shocker.

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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

Sleazebag corruption, right out in the open...

Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated (Gift Article) The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not that military information was shared in advance in a group text among top officials.

Well this isn't a surprise. Gross incompetence and negligence meets corruption...

"The only bucks that stop at Trump's desk are the bribes from billionaires." ~ @stonekettle.bsky.social

This kind of seems worse than anything Hillary might have done or not done...

Opinion | If Elon Musk Were Empathetic (Gift Article) Valentino Deng also has roots in Africa, but he exudes the empathy that Musk scorns.

Meet the anti-Musk...

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil (Gift Article) A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trump and Musk, neither of whom has ever served in uniform, just LOVE veterans. /sarcasm

"...therapy and other mental health services have been thrown into turmoil amid the dramatic changes ordered by President Trump and pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency."

German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S. - The New York Times | annotated by Mark Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.

Trump & Company, Inc. ... winning friends around the globe.

I can't believe this lunatic is the president. What a fucking nightmare.

Fashion? Rockets? Yachts? A Trump Ally Has Ideas for the Kennedy Center (Gift Article) Paolo Zampolli, a Trump appointee on the center’s board, wants the institution to host Valentino fashion shows, send art into space and open a marina and a Cipriani restaurant.

The death of culture. Who'da thunk it...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/a...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot estimates '75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset' President Donald Trump’s first major speech of his second term Tuesday night had all the hallmarks of one that could have been delivered by a ‘Russian asset’ compromised by Russian President Vladimir ...

Who'da thunk it...

Texas May Rename the New York Strip (Gift Article) The Texas strip? That state’s lieutenant governor wants to rebrand the cut, but New Yorkers aren’t biting.

Adventures in political (and culinary) idiocy...

The stupidity ... it burns.

This idiot doesn't even know what was in the bill that SHE VOTED FOR. An utterly incompetent, ridiculous joke.

Meet President Fool, whose idiocy knows no bounds.

Trump's health team has a trust issue Democrats, independents and Republicans have all lost trust in medical professionals and government health agencies over the past 18 months.

This is good news if you follow the logic to its conclusion...

Google Maps Bows to Trump With ‘Gulf of America’ Name Change Trump renamed the geographical features to the ‘Gulf of America’ and ‘Mount McKinley’ in an executive order on his first day in office.

Are you fucking kidding me?

www.thedailybeast.com/google-maps-...

Can't wait until that prick is in prison...

RFK Jr. announces he will run as an independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is abandoning his challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination

BOO.

Oh, the irony...

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[Pensacola resident Tim] Hudson offered only more praise.

“That just makes me support him even more,” Mr. Hudson said.

[It] "speaks to how the world really is right now. We’re tired. We’re fed up. We want to see people start getting things done.”

When Mr. Secretary Loves to Rock A viral video of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduced Americans to the guitar geek hidden within.

Well, well. You learn something every day. Rock on, Mr. Secretary...

Opinion | Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans With post-Roe outrage showing no sign of waning, strategists on the right are pushing a new lexicon on abortion.

Infuriating. Despicable.

Opinion | In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. In rare cases, tests are being used to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies in a country where abortion is effectively banned.

We need to be ready for this in the United States...

Grifters gotta grift.

[Seen on that other social network. I rarely participate there, but sometimes I can't resist.]

Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Delivers His Fringe Views: Not on the Trail The Democratic presidential challenger continues to espouse extreme ideas, but has dialed that messaging back in large public forums.

Sounds like a con job to me...

When The Rich Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them The capitalist who just told the world that capitalism requires hurting workers

Some people will tell you it's "too radical" or "too extreme" to say capitalism relies on hurting workers.

But what about when a millionaire CEO says it?

That's exactly what Tim Gurner said when he advocated for more unemployment and more economic pain.
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