Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.

A former nursing-home owner, who had been convicted of tax crimes, paid a lawyer and lobbyist at least $100,000 to help secure a pardon from President Trump and walked free. Others are following his blueprint in a lucrative pardon industry that has emerged around Trump.

Fuck off.

Gulf allies complain US didn’t notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say Officials say Iran’s retaliatory attacks in the Middle East over strikes from Israel and the U.S. have left some of America’s partners in the Gulf frustrated over a lack of notice or adequate defense.

Gulf allies complain US didn’t notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say #usnews

Oh great... just what we need, more price gouging😐

Totes ethical.

I've read their heart size DOES matter😲

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Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

HTTC

“I would not be ready to declare Ring harmless because the company has called off a potential partnership with Flock Safety,” Dr. Matthew Guariglia, Senior Policy Analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told WIRED. “People need to realize that all these police devices and data streams are incredibly interoperable. Axon, the maker of a huge percentage of police body-worn cameras and a popular operating system for fusing all police surveillance, is making a tool to let police request Ring footage, so the fight continues, despite some feeble PR maneuvering.”

Canceling a potential partnership with Flock Safety was not the end of the fight with Amazon Ring....it was a shallow face-saving measure after it's Super Bowl commercial blunder.

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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Wow. The TV ratings for Trump's recent State of the Union SUCKED - at 28M, down from over 36M last year, and down from over 40M by Biden 2024, and 46M by Trump 2019.
Not only that, but Fox was down 15% compared to last year (and down 24% in ages 25-54), so lots of Trump voters tuned out from him.

these people would genuinely bring up a retired NFL coach from 20 years ago who said one slur and use it as an argument to say that the NFL is terrible and should be boycotted

not to discredit all of the awesome users I've met on this platform but this is just cancel culture 2.0

They're doing great!🙄

Down with new ideas!!

The creator of Einstein doesn't want to do shit of the sort, he wants to scam money from schools, thats the whole business plan

Genuinely fuckin hilarious that we got guys who couldnt sit through a class out here lecturing on how education should work this is like asking the kid who hates sports to coach your NFL team

Describing this as a "simulated war game" seems like a huge leap to me. A professor ran a turn-based game where he asked chatbots what to do on each turn. That's not what people usually mean when they say "simulation". He generated a bunch of statistically likely text.

Nothing Real Can Emerge From The American Right's Unreality The idea that the US is split exactly down the middle politically and culturally infiltrates everything

Wrote about the Turning Point USA Super Bowl halftime show and the Melania movie as the latest in a larger project to make the American right *seem* far more popular and culturally relevant than it actually is.

badfaithtimes.com/nothing-real...

Sunday's Republican halftime show is just the latest in a never-ending string of unreality creation. For decades right-wing organizations have goosed the book sales of conservative authors who have no real audience, buying tens or even hundreds of thousands of copies to catapult those books onto the New York Times bestseller list, giving the books – often unreadable ghost-written dreck – the sheen of mass appeal and national popularity. They did the same shit with tickets to the "Melania" movie, Jeff Bezos' public bribe to our sundowning tyrant. Conservative groups reportedly bought out entire theaters for the movie's opening weekend to ensure the final opening box office numbers would not prove humiliating to the president and his eternally scowling wife. These groups also paid people fifty bucks to sit in the theaters and watch "Melania" as part of a coordinated campaign to fake public support for the First Lady. The total first-weekend haul – around $7 million – was then reported both in right-wing media and mainstream outlets as a legitimate number. The normie turning on the news on that Monday morning sees a headline about "Melania" doing quite well – better than anyone could have predicted – and either consciously or unconsciously believes there is a significant audience for such fascistic propaganda, that there is an appetite for the right wing's unreality, when of course there is not.

None of this is particularly new. The unreality creation has hit a new gear though.

Aye

I need to be careful what I say here, apart from a dozen who are sound through nfl, football, sharing music etc.

Where are all these American loonballs coming from talking non stop politics pish.

Have I been added to 24 hour politic bollocks 😆

Come back to Washington! We have a different owner and doctors!

@down.blue

And unfortunately "we" (commanders) need them both🤦

Someone should ask her if they will also be investigating her uncle who is in the Epstein files.

After a large snowball fight in New York City’s Washington Square Park, a crowd was recorded throwing snowballs at NYPD officers.

“I’m totally on the side of science I’m just saying when science disagrees with my bigotry it’s political and not science so I don’t need to listen to it”

All of this because Fauci was having a hard time not laughing at trump. Fucking snowflakes.

Jesse Singal is the Aaron Rodgers of JK Rowlings