Ray Pride

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.

In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.

What a confession.

❗️The abduction of Ukrainian children is more than a war crime. It is genocide, — U.S. Democratic Senator Blumenthal.

"It is genocide because the ultimate goal of abducting these children is to erase Ukrainian identity.

Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways Nuzzi and the magazine will let her contract expire at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

Trump is an asshole. That’s the post.

I mean, do we talk enough about how deranged this person is—and how he should be miles away from the levers of power?

Executive summary – World Energy Employment 2025 – Analysis - IEA World Energy Employment 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

"The electricity sector is now the largest energy employer, surpassing fuel supply for the first time, as the Age of Electricity gathers pace."
www.iea.org/reports/worl...

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from the abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida. You know.
The one when Pam Bondi was Attorney General for Florida? The one that Alexander Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary over? That one. 🍿

Every American who wore the uniform from Valley Forge to now took an oath against tyranny, making them textbook antifascists. The military's entire purpose is defending democracy from authoritarianism. Declaring antifa "domestic terrorism" means our founding principle is now a prosecutable offense.

Hello. The FIFA grift prize simply isn’t worth a news spot

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

"About 25% of children who develop chronic hepatitis B will die of their infection."
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Remember when he claimed he won the “Michelin Man of the Year” Award when no such thing existed?

Somehow this FIFA medal is even more embarrassing.

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

"What are believed to be ICE agents" is not a sentence the news should have to use to report on law enforcement operations.

Everything so stupid, also the worst person in the Nuzzi scandal got to keep his cabinet appointment

Americans, of course, are famous for not using cars

No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage. When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.

Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."

newrepublic.com/article/2039...

“Now serve us many more rabid young judges to approve for lifetime terms!”

Now you’ve got Pete’s attention

in all seriousness, I think this is the actual plan

“Dear __,”

It sounds like they’re describing a toddler having a tantrum.

Dear American Media. This is not that hard to do.

Fascism in general is obsessed with aesthetics above all else, because aesthetics dictate reality for them. They will actively make themselves less capable in the name of looking the exact image they desire to project, and angering the exact people they want to anger.

Blanche warns lawyers who criticize Justice Department DOJ’s No. 2 official said says prosecutors see "inconsistency" in attorneys’ private pleas and public commentary.

Todd Blanche is now warning lawyers who criticize Trump's Justice Department:

The DOJ's No. 2 official suggested that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they've publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime.

A horseman of the apocalypse, fond of hawks and carrion

On left:

President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:

"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."

On right:

(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.

UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis * What is polygenic embryo screening in IVF and does it work? Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ, height and health, the Guardian has learned. The controversial screening technique, which scores embryos based on their DNA, is not permitted at UK fertility clinics and critics have raised scientific and ethical objections, saying the method is unproven. But under data protection laws, patients can – and in some cases have – demanded their embryos’ raw genetic data and sent it abroad for analysis in an effort to have smarter, healthier children. Continue reading...

UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health