In December 2015, before Trump won the presidency and chose Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, Flynn took a $45,000 fee for giving a speech in Moscow at an event for RT, a state-controlled Russian “news” outlet. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin sat beside him at the banquet. 2/4🧵

Russians paid Mike Flynn $45k for RT speech, documents show

The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency earned more than $50,00 from giving speeches RT and two other Russian companies.

nbcnews.com

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

nytimes.com

He was also very publicly paranoid & was publicly promoting a variety of factually untrue beliefs as his best intelligence inputs. To the point where Flynn should've been considered a very high priority insider threat by counterintelligence just on these two items alone. 2/

I have a theory regarding Flynn. Back in 2013 he met w/the then head of the GRU, his Russian counterpart, in Russia. At that time it was publicly known that Flynn was disgruntled, unhappy with DOD leadership, & w/Obama who had made him head of the DIA because he'd been very public about it. 1/

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

"The commander-in-chief did not blame Iran. He blamed MN, claiming it attacked itself. 'You know who's behind it?' Trump said. 'Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent.' Who's going to tell a presidential brat otherwise when telling him is so costly?" www.editorialboard.com/america-is-n...

America is now seeing the destructive consequences of twice electing a spoiled brat

Less authoritarian politics, more prepubescent politics, but with the same results.

editorialboard.com

"The only world that matters is his, and while everyone wonders whether Pirro will have a job by week's end, he reminds us that he's the sole arbiter of reality, and if you don't like it, tough. 'I’m the president and you’re not.'" www.editorialboard.com/america-is-n...

America is now seeing the destructive consequences of twice electing a spoiled brat

Less authoritarian politics, more prepubescent politics, but with the same results.

editorialboard.com

"What does he say to people who hate illegal taxes, who hate paying higher prices as a result of those illegal taxes, and who constitute a clear and overwhelming majority that is going to act with prejudice against his party in the coming midterms? 'Tariffs have been incredible.'"

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 8m ago

America is now seeing the destructive consequences of twice electing a spoiled brat www.editorialboard.com/america-is-n...

Likewise: bsky.app/profile/leah...

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h ago

⚠️ Democrats in array: Schumer, Gillibrand, and Whitmer coalesce behind El-Sayed

Correct but the fact that the leftists keep winning and are better organized and motivated than they’ve ever been before does. It remains to be seen how much and how hard the empire successfully strikes back in this intra party conflict but ofc the Dems are going thru their “tea party” phase rn…

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 4h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Can we please call this the My Pillow Case?

The Heritage Foundation is run by Opus Dei Catholics Kevin Roberts and Roger Severino. More than 50% of the 100 orgs behind Project 2025 were funded by Opus Dei affiliated Leonard Leo. Miss the faith driven politics and you miss the story. jesspiper.substack.com/p/give-them-...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

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Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Temu, Tavern, Walmart, Marketplace, Wayfair, Segway, Deepower, Wilson’s E-Bikes and several dozen other online retailers will receive cease and desist notices demanding they stop selling devices that don't meet the city's legal standards for e-bikes or e-scooters.

Mamdani Targets Online Illegal E-Moto Retailers - Streetsblog New York City

Mayor Mamdani sent cease-and-desist letter to more than three dozen online retailers who sell illegal e-motos to New Yorkers.

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City law enforcement officials have issued violations to brick-and-mortar stores that sell these illegal devices from brick-and-mortar locations, but, until now, officials offered no clear plan for the anything-goes online marketplace. buff.ly/bZcQAu1

Mamdani Targets Online Illegal E-Moto Retailers - Streetsblog New York City

Mayor Mamdani sent cease-and-desist letter to more than three dozen online retailers who sell illegal e-motos to New Yorkers.

nyc.streetsblog.org

Haley Stevens says she will fully support @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

“Like other Haitians losing #TPS, they now face an agonizing choice: Try to stay in the US and find underground work, constantly fearful of being caught by [ICE] agents. Or return to a nation so overwhelmed by gang violence and poverty that some feel deportation is tantamount to a death sentence.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 1h ago

“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”

this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

The Boston Red Sox play against Boston College some day during most spring training seasons. The Red Sox sometimes lose these games! No one thinks this means BC is better.

It also wouldn't really prove anything. The 1992 Dream Team was beaten by a selection of the best NCAA players. And sure, there were *reasons* for that result but the fact that anything can happen in sports is kind of the reason people are into it. Either enjoy it or shut the fuck up about it.

It's just sexist posturing. These guys need women to know their place (even as they are clearly inadequate). Relying on some imagined humiliation on the part of women ("high schoolers would beat you!"). Gives the same vibe as viewing sexual assault as a viable way to police women's sexuality

I heard that WNBA teams scrimmage against teams of male ex-college players, since there's plenty of guys who can't make a living playing ball who but at least want to make a buck. And the scrimmage teams have terrible rollover because they get consistently beaten and the players don't take it well

Yeah, comparing to the *overall population* is the big thing here. Combined pros in the NBA and WNBA is ~730 IIRC. Let's call it another 1,000 for G-league, other minor leagues, and Americans playing in Euro or Chinese teams, then round to 2k. 1 in 171,500 Americans. 0.0000058%.

“The top 0.5% of men’s basketball players could beat the top 0.1% of women’s basketball players.” “Why no, I’m not in either group. Yes, I care about this deeply for…personal reasons” Just the lamest fucking people on earth. Who cares? Who cares at all? It’s irrelevant

Don't just drive past the premise, though, which is absurd. Any WNBA team is exclusively the top 0.01% athletes in the sport. Pretending that a high school team could hang with, much less beat, them is ridiculous.

Okay so the context here is the USWNT did some experimental lineups, tactics, and player changes in a camp scrimmage against the national top line U-15 boys academy team for Dallas, it wasn't just "a team of 14 year-olds" uswomensoccer.com/uswnt-vs-fc-...

USWNT vs U-15 Boys: The Real Story of the Dallas Match

Fact-checking the USWNT 5-2 loss to FC Dallas U-15 boys. Discover why this scrimmage happened and what Carli Lloyd said about the result.

uswomensoccer.com

found the exact kind of guy we’re all making fun of right now

it's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't

Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d ago

What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

A huge congrats to Abdul El-Sayed and the people of Michigan. It’s time for our party to unite and do everything we can to ensure Abdul wins and we flip the Senate. Let’s get money in your pockets and Medicare for All. And thank you to Haley Stevens for your service to your district and the country.

Now do Mitch McConnell!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 1h ago

Perez Hilton was hospitalized after he appeared to harm himself on camera during a TikTok livestream on Tuesday, the authorities said.

Yet Mitch McConnell is dead and you report....nothing?