Jeanine Pirro is offering prosecutors $25,000 bonuses to commit to two more years, after a string of collapsed cases that have enraged the president.

Jeanine Pirro doles out $25K bonuses as prosecutors try to quit and Trump rages: report

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro offered prosecutors $25,000 to stay as President Donald Trump raged at her over a string of collapsed cases, a new report shows.Pirro last month offered the retention bonuses to prosecutors willing to commit to two more years, the Wall Street ...

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Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

More on the biggest pump and dump operation in modern times. Today’s investment contest: Guess how many paragraphs deep is the revelation that SpaceX lost $541 million in a single quarter in first report after IPO. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...

SpaceX Shares Sink on AI Spending Plans

The Elon Musk-led rocket company spent $15.8 billion on AI projects in the second quarter and doesn’t plan to slow down.

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FAA investigating air safety incident involving Trump’s Marine One helicopter and passenger plane. I expect Sean Duffy will blame Biden … again. www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/u...

FAA investigating after passenger plane taking off got too close to Trump’s Marine One helicopter | CNN

Officials are reviewing how a commercial jet full of passengers got too close to the military helicopter carrying President Donald Trump, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.

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WSJ offers details on the scam that Scott Bessent (a seasoned currency speculator-predator) is using to try to artificially prop up the Japanese Yen, just as he propped up the Argentinian peso earlier. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Why Bessent Is Leaning on the Fed to Help Prop Up Japan’s Currency

The Treasury secretary wants the central bank to help by raising its $60 billion borrowing limit on an obscure lending program.

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BOOKER: Let me make this easy. Be a man. Yes or no -- did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: ... the Congress certifie-- BOOKER: There you go. Stop! Can you please tell me yes or no, did President Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: The Congress certified-- B: You are showing cowardice.

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New Mexico sues justice department for ‘stonewalling’ Epstein investigation

Filing by attorney general Raúl Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files

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This whole thread. Enjoy.

Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 20h ago

Video thread go! 🧵

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Trump has said "gas is coming way down" weekly for 5 months straight now. The national average holds at $4.08 per gallon.

SCHIFF: When Trump ran against Hillary Clinton, who won? CANDEUB: Um. Trump was certified as winner S: Did he in fact win? C: He was certified S: Do you have some doubt about if he won? C: I have no doubt he was certified S: When did it become so difficult to answer such a simple question?

An armed man was arrested outside of a Trump golf course in Southern California days before he was scheduled to visit, per CNN.

Armed man arrested at Trump golf course ahead of presidential visit

An armed man was arrested outside of a Trump golf course in Southern California days before he was scheduled to visit, per reports.According to reporting by CNN, the man was arrested by federal agents on Sunday, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported it via a statement on Tuesday. ...

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"Integration debate isn't over"

Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 22h ago

Trans debate isn’t over

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Politician Finally Dares to Ask If Missing Mitch Is Dead

It’s what nobody dare ask, but now our must-read D.C. gossip sheet can name the Kentucky politician who finally went there.

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SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

The Spokes on Saturn's B-Ring. A day on Saturn is 10 hrs long, so two hours of observation covers quite a bit of its rotation. If you look closely, a ghoulish shadow appears and disappears as Saturn’s B ringrotates. Decades of observation show the appearance of Saturn’s spokes varies by season.

RBADVISERS: “.. ISM Services New Orders (LEADING Indicator) and Prices (LAGGING Indicator) are both in clear uptrends for the first time in 10 years. Will someone at the Fed take note?”

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 17h ago

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

Maybe black bars over all their eyes to give it a really seedy vibe. Make my book look like something sold in a plain brown wrapper

rickoughta.bsky.social@rickoughta.bsky.social · 16h ago

I imagine you are calling your publisher to add a red banner with white letters saying BANNED IN TEXAS.

“.. People really effing hate data centers,” El-Sayed said at a July event. @politico.com #MIsen www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

"To kill life, to kill a normal economy, is to kill the country itself," the Moscow mayor and one of Putin's potential 'successors,' Sobyanin, said regarding the shift to a wartime footing. Is this a mutiny already?

The “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” people are going to go all in on racism in Michigan.

Abdul El-Sayed is projected to defeat Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, closing out a primary that laid bare the party's ongoing split between its progressive and establishment wings. ⁠

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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Mike Johnson shrugs off allegations of Max Miller’s abuse as ‘domestic events’. For someone usually ignorant about current events, he seems to know a lot about this. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Mike Johnson shrugs off allegations of Max Miller’s abuse as ‘domestic events’

The Republican House Speaker says that ‘it’s not my business to get engaged in it’

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Best Bars in Montreal ♥️

Best Bars in Montreal

As voted by our readers in the 2025 Best of MTL readers poll, the best bars in Montreal are Turbo Haüs, Star Bar, Champs Sports Bar, Bar de Courcelle and Foufounes Électriques.

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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

Suncor not ready to speed output growth, CEO says, despite government's pro-oil stance reut.rs/4gew28M

Suncor not ready to speed output growth, CEO says, despite government's pro-oil stance

Suncor Energy ​is not yet willing to accelerate plans for production increases, the company's CEO said on Wednesday, despite ‌large-scale policy reforms promised by the federal and Alberta governments in an effort to spur growth in Canada's oil industry.

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El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"