Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent
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Did some cool things. Now concentrating on dad stuff. I rage against the dying of the light.
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
“From I cannot tell a lie to my accounts launder money.” A history of the US Presidency The title is here for the taking. Any authors want it?
Ice Age Sid: Call Me!
ALT: Ice Age Sid: Call Me!
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I'm shocked.
Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
4. Stupid, self-inflicted war that’s costing you, the voter that’s going to leave us with less than we already had to start with
They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.
Governance has gone full reality TV, to include ad placement
Now mixing in paid advertisements into his normal corruption.
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
Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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AYFKM? I hope the folks that believed him the first time around about not vaccinating sue him for everything he’s worth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
"they didn't die OF cyclospora, they died WITH cyclospora" incoming
Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
My wife and I have 2 Toyota vehicles that we’ve driven in Eco mode for years, ever mindful of the environment and the pocketbook. Out of curiosity, I decided to give normal mode a try. >500 miles later on both, towing loads, going up hills and city/highway driving, Normal is more fuel efficient 🤷♂️
There’s a certain Fallout pre-war vibe to this that is discomfiting.
Love drone footage of new builds in exurban Texas, gives me a very particular kind of dread to look at that is hard to replicate with other photos.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what happens, it can’t be forgotten.
Do we call them the Royal Family or the Imperial Family? I’m not clear on the terminology yet.
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
He’s back on his Greenland bullshit
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
Really been amazing throughout the process how “should the attorney general be a former personal attorney to the president who has overseen a bunch of failed political prosecutions” just does not matter at all to the entire GOP caucus.
You’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
The GOP goes on about protecting women in sports and then goes on to protect Max Miller.
🇺🇦‼️Jesse Eisenberg witnessed the Russian shelling of Ukraine during a visit and reacted to it: “What if they bombed New York?” "We were woken up by anxiety, we went down to the shelter, and in the morning I saw the consequences of the shelling. It was devastating, terrible, outrageous, tragic. 1/2
…I thought about what would happen if they bombed New York, or if they bombed my house, because Lviv reminded me a lot of the city where I live." 2/2