King of Make Believe
@504spyboy.bsky.social
A speck of dust clinging to a speck of dust attempting to comprehend the limitless and timeless within a speck of time that is life. Location: Potholed Elysian Field, just north of the Gulf of MEXICO, Earth, Milky Way. 🙏🕊️🗽🇵🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🌎🌏🌍🟧
So where is the money? Who controls it? Who is accounting for it? Meanwhile Venezuela is still reeling from the Earthquake and we're no longer helping them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agoTrump on Venezuela: "We're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars"
How tragically have we diminished our experience as travelers through the cosmos: "New Orleans sits under an intense Bortle Class 9 inner-city sky, meaning severe light pollution washes out all but the brightest stars and planets, making the Milky Way entirely invisible to the naked eye."
"What distinguished West Point is not that it claimed a monopoly on character development, but that it recognized technical competence without moral development can become dangerous." Many of our leaders lack both, but character might be most important.
Character Is Countercultural
On virtue, politics, and public service.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Mike Johnson speaks on Max Miller “I haven’t spoken to Max about this in the last few days. Of course, I will,” Johnson said, adding “it’s not my business” to get engaged in members’ family matters. He called for a House Ethics investigation to “play out.” @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
The escalation management crowd is weirdly quiet about North Korea giving Russia ballistic missiles to bomb Ukraine. 🤷♀️
A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.
Just one disputed area of Trump's reported business losses could be worth more than $100 million in back taxes, interest & penalties, according to legal analysts reviewing the deal. That's before counting the more than $2B Trump reported earning last year, largely from crypto ventures… | Forbes
Todd Blanche’s Latest Trump IRS Immunity Deal Is No Concession At All
This latest agreement would continue to assure that Trump and his sons would benefit from special tax treatment no other taxpayer has received.
forbes.com
Cash from misery. Time to spread these profits around a little. #climatecrisis
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
They are the Epstein Party. Every single one of them.
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about th...
reuters.com
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination as Attorney General. Todd Blanche led the Trump administration’s Epstein files cover-up. Instead of holding him accountable, they’re giving him a promotion. Shame on them.
Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Capital One disclosed in a federal court filing that it closed more than 300 bank accounts tied to Donald Trump and the Trump Organization in 2021 due to internal anti-money laundering (AML) concerns.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 2d agoIf we weren't so broken, divided and led by corrupt rapists, this would be the biggest story of the week. But barely a blip. apnews.com/article/trum...
Preznit Fuckwit is hella mad at America's tipsiest US Attorney right now. you know what? boo fucking hoo. I'm actually overdosing on schadenfreude right now. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I laugh at how she clownfucked her own stupid career. link is here: bit.ly/3TS4q0s
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
Think about it Trump was willing to push a charge that could hurt innocent people because the optics mattered more to him than the evidence and still does. The Ultimate Asshole
