A. de Chastelaine
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Uh, oh! UFC raked in a $30 million loss with Freedom 250. If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. www.newsweek.com/sports/mma/u...
UFC lost staggering amount of money putting on Freedom 250 card at White House
The UFC knew it would lose money with the Freedom 250 card at the White House, but the final number was an eyebrow-raiser.
newsweek.com
The punk goddess and the Pope. Pope Leo meets fellow Chicagoan Patti Smith.
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) fractured a 2 year olds collarbone in anger, scalded his wife with boiling water, doused her with water while she was curled up on the floor, and put a gun to her head because she turned the light on to feed her baby. Republicans (including the wife's father): crickets.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “I support the president in Iran. We all have to do a better job messaging. If we can stand the pain of the rising cost of energy, we need to stay the course—at least for a few more months.”* *Means: we need to stay the course until after the Midterms.
Public health models and former officials estimate that cuts to USAID driven by DOGE have caused roughly 700,000 - 1 million deaths globally, primarily among children and vulnerable populations. Elon Musk: "I got carried away."
Still no news on Mitch! No update, nothing. The "free" press has moved on. Imagine if this were Biden or Pelosi. We're just going to let that slide and let them screw us out of another Senate seat by thwarting a special Senate election in KY. 17 days left.
So, we're just letting them pretend that Mc Connell is still alive until it's too late for a special election. If this was a Dem Senator and a Republican governor, they'd have scheduled an election weeks ago. This is why we'll never beat them. We fight with law books, they with flame throwers.
The American for-profit health care system has finally come up with a fitting logo.
This morni g, Americans all over the country are mourning the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham.
Reminder: The last guy that came back from the dead lived 2,000 years ago. And his name wasn't Mitch.
Where TF are our investigative journalists hiding? I remember when we had guys like Seymour Hersh and Roger Cook. It would have taken them about 12 hours to find out if a US Senator is alive or dead. And all that with no cellphones, Internet, and AI. A notepad, a pencil, and a Kodak. That was it.
Happy 4th of July. My resolution for today: no political posts. Trying hard to stay in a good mood.
The criminal who has been eating my plants has been identified!
Stephen Miller had a meltdown about James Talrico (who isn't a real man) of FAUX last night. This is how a real man makes love to his wife:
"I haven't washed my hands in 10 years because germs aren't a real thing." (Pete Hegseth) What about after taking a sh.t? Is that a real thing?
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Surveillance footage of Stephen Miller moving his assets to the Cayman Islands in the middle of the night.
24% lower SS checks! Still wanna vote Republican, retirees? "Report stated the worse outlook for Social Security relative to last year is due to three reasons: declining fertility rates, lower net migration, less federal tax revenue due to the One Big Beautiful Bill." thehill.com/homenews/hou...
House Republican says Congress ‘needs to get their act together’ on Social Security ahead of deadline
Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Wednesday that Congress has to act on Social Security, a day after the Trump administration projected that one of the program’s trust funds will run out by 2032. …
thehill.com
Formerly public New College in my hometown of Sarasota was taken over by De Santis cronies to bring it in line with the governors beliefs. They have been paying themselves inflated salaries plus consulting and lobbying contracts. Here's the result.
It's almost as if they less religion, the more prosperity and happiness. Scandinavian and Northern European countries consistently dominate the top of the World Happiness Report.
German-born, former South African oligarch Peter Thiel moves to Argentina to prepare for a possible nuclear war and for the wealth tax, which is even worse than nuclear war. Don't cry for me California,... www.ft.com/content/3d7a...
Peter Thiel moves family to Javier Milei’s libertarian Argentina
Palantir founder intends to spend several months in Buenos Aires initially
ft.com
