San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu just filed suit against GuestReservations.com, BookOnline.com and Booking Holdings for running a *massive* version of the restaurant menu scam - one that extracted *millions* from people booking hotel rooms: www.kron4.com/news/bay-are... 47/

Abdul is going to be a US Senator.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

Also, MO GOP had placed two amends. on the ballot, Amendments 4 and 5 where to replace our income tax to sales taxes, the other to make the vote on the Missouri Constitution would need super majority to win, not just a majority. The no vote for these amends. were over 80%, a super majority.

So legacy media has just discovered Epstein and his buddies were laundering money. Yeah. We know. I give you EFTA0280127. An obvious but rarely cited court case. #EpsteinFiles

As the mother of a currently deployed aviator who is in the thick of it and the wife of a First Gulf War veteran who is sick and has PTSD, can say the stress is off the charts. I’ve lost weight, my fuse is short and I don’t give a flying fuck about anyone else at this point. Fuck Trump, Hegseth

I figured out that I'd been rooked within a minute of clicking the buy button, but it took months and multiple appeals - and ultimately a threat to cancel my credit card - to get Visa to refund me. 55/

Google *says* it wants to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," but every dime it spends fighting fraud (a critical part of this mission!) is a dime it can't spend on stock buybacks, executive compensation and AI servers. 44/

Take abortions: fake abortion clinics - where pregnant women are bullied or tricked out of the abortions they're seeking - buy Google ads against the names of *real* abortion clinics. Google makes millions sending abortion-seekers to fake abortion providers: pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/p... 36/

This scammer - based out of a UC Berkeley dorm-room - had copied *hundreds* of restaurant websites, then bought Google ads for the restaurants' names, ensuring that searchers would see the scam result *before* the real one. 31/

When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/

Phone numbers for airlines listed on Google directed to scammers

A Google spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the company does "not tolerate this misleading activity" and that it had fixed the issue.

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It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. 17/

They just choose not to. They're too big to fail. They're too big to jail. They're too big to care. 15/

Ask Google for a product review and they'll pass over the most rigorous, honest websites on the internet in favor of affiliate scammers who repackage Amazon best-of lists to peddle overpriced, underperforming junk that's sometimes so bad it's *dangerous*: pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/i... 11/

Google is an absentee landlord. In 2019, they chose to *deliberately worsen* search results in order to make you search repeatedly to find the information you're seeking, because every fresh query lets them serve fresh advertisements: pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/b... 9/

The tacit argument is, "Sure, we repeatedly violated antitrust law in order to monopolize the internet, but the internet *needs* a monopolist. It's scary out there! We have amassed power so that we can protect and guide *you*." 6/

Joe Kernan, @cnbc.com “people start telling you there is an affordability issue enough times you believe it.I don’t get this are you better off this year than last year.” Me -I’m looking at gas prices to see if I should fill my tank today. WTheck forget civility, you’re all clueless.

We make hundreds of new Anne Franks every day here in the USA. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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“If you’re gonna call yourself a Democrat run as a Democrat”says the man who ran as a Democrat, and acts and votes like a Republican.

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..."

This went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.

Trump: "Almost anything my kids do -- if they buy a truck -- they have inside information"

Are we living in the Twilight Zone !? 🙄

@cnbc making Becky say it with a straight face.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

CNBC: "Oil moved pretty drastically on what the secretary was saying ... that in turn has impacted the futures pretty rapidly"

CNBC: "Next segment. Is Market Manipulation always a bad thing?"

If you look up "condescending look" you'll get this clip.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2d ago

Mitch McConnell’s communications director’s silence and smirk speak volumes. If he were fine, or even improving, she’d just say so. There’s no way this man is coming back.

“Have we tried CARAVANS of COMMUNISTS yet?”

🙏🙏🙏 Missouri voters have rejected Amendment 4 — — the Republican-backed measure designed to make it harder for issues like abortion rights & marijuana to be passed by requiring majorities in all 8 congressional districts — — has epically failed. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

Is it me or did the Capital One affair not really break through On Here Another day, another scandal that would have tanked basically any other presidency

Happy birthday to an actual President, Barack Obama. 💙