April 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM EDT
Hegseth Orders Makeup Studio Installed At Pentagon

They don't call them a Vanity for nothin'. Source: CBS News

April 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM EDT
Trump Still Stuck On 1913 Dementia Economics

Earlier today Trump reiterated his obsession with destroying the US economy by glorifying tariffs and glorifying America of over one hundred years ago. Trade deficits have no bearing stock markets on US economy, and our 401(k)s

April 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM EDT
Elon Musk Is About To Get His Own Town In Texas

Granted, the strip of land likely to be incorporated soon as Starbase, Texas, is small. But it's a start for the billionaire Nazi fanboy who clearly thinks he deserves to be the king of the country if not the world. It's pretty clear Musk plans to use this power to grab even more. From The New York Times:

April 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM EDT
Will Ron And Casey Go To Jail Over $10M They ALLEGEDLY Diverted?

I put off writing about this, because it's so complicated and my brain is on constant overload FOR SOME REASON. But it's sounding more and more like Ron and Casey might actually have to pay for their sins this time, so I thought you'd be interested! (It will be helpful if you watch the above video.) Via The Florida Phoenix: The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times obtained a copy of an early iteration of the settlement agreement between Centene and the state that confirms the $10 million "donation" Centene made to the Hope Florida Foundation represented the return of taxpayer dollars stemming from Medicaid overpayments.

April 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM EDT
Trump Trades Private WH Tour To Investors In His Bitcoin

The announcement called it "the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World," a chance to have "an intimate private dinner" with the Talking Yam at his members-only golf club in Virginia, followed by a tour of the White House. A seat would be reserved for each of the top 220 investors in $TRUMP, the cryptocurrency that El Cheatolini launched on the eve of his inauguration. Via The New York Times: In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family's efforts to profit from cryptocurrencies, a website promoting Mr. Trump's so-called memecoin announced on Wednesday that the coin's largest buyers would be invited to meet with him. The effort was, in effect, an offer of access to the White House in exchange for an investment in one of Mr. Trump's crypto ventures.

April 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM EDT
BREAKING: TRUMP'S FREAKOUT Exposed By STAFFER Leaks

It turns out the only thing standing between Donald Trump, us and a full-blown economic Chernobyl was"his own staff leaking to the press and whispering mono-syllabic common sense into his ear with the kind of panic one might reserve for talking down a monkey with a machine gun. I wish I were joking here, folks. Trump, with his usual brilliant combination of megalomania and economic illiteracy, wanted to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, because interest rates made him feel some sads inside. Trump is mad, you see, because he's an idiot who's worked hard to destroy the economy, but is having trouble finding someone else to blame for it. So, Powell it would be, because...who the hell knows, to be honest. There's a good chance it involved a snorted-lb-of-adderall delusion or whatever Fox & Friends segment he happened to have just watched.

April 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM EDT
Mike's Blog Roundup

Darwinfish2 - the hacky habits of news aggregators and I can't even; Mock Paper Scissors - SCOTUS comes for education;

April 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM EDT
Signalgate Just Dropped Its Third Episode

Pete Hegseth just dropped a new episode of Signalgate! If you need to catch up, here is episode one where Hegseth shared classified war plans on an unencrypted messaging app with government officials and a reporter from The Atlantic and episode two where Hegseth shared the same classified war plans with his brother, wife and personal lawyer. Well, now we have learned that there is an episode three!!!

April 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM EDT
Chew Away The Flu With Antiviral Gum

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Dental Medicine have developed a gum made from bean power that can trap the influenza virus and apparently viruses that cause herpes in a lab. That's good news.

April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT
Trump Admin To Garnish Wages For Student Loan Repayments

Say goodbye to the pause put in place by the Biden administration on student debt collection. Student Loan Update: Trump Gives New Deadline for Garnishing Wages:

April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT
O'Donnell Calls Out Trump's 'Economic Policy Dementia'

It's about time somebody brought this up. Grandpa Syphilis is ruining the economy, the stock market, and all of our constitutional rights. LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: There was a time when a Secretary of Defense getting caught leaking sensitive information could have, among other things, rocked the stock market and sent it into a downward spiral.

April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM EDT
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Turn Voice Of America Back On

Here's some good news: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore all jobs and funding for the Voice of America and other US-backed news outlets, ruling that efforts to dismantle it violated the law and Constitution. Via the BBC: Over 1,300 VOA employees, including about 1,000 journalists, were placed on leave following President Donald Trump's order. The White House has accused the broadcaster of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".