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US National Guard troops in Washington DC playing the “epic furious” video game that completely mocks Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.

u/Flashy_Tension4452 — 3 days ago
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Elon Musk said he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, calling them “entitlements”: “That’s the big one to eliminate.”

u/Cultural_Pop6366 — 5 days ago
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A personalized bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon engraved with the words “Kash Patel FBI Director,” as well as a rendering of an FBI shield, obtained by The Atlantic

One of J. Edgar Hoover’s greatest reforms at the FBI was his embrace of fingerprinting. During the 1930s, visitors to the FBI offices in Washington, D.C., received souvenir fingerprint cards featuring his name. The men who succeeded him as FBI director were more discreet and judicious, mindful of the cult of personality that had developed around Hoover. They generally avoided giving out branded swag.

But then came Kash Patel.

President Trump’s FBI director has a great deal of affection for swag. Merchandise for sale on a website he co-founded—still operating, nearly 15 months into his term—includes beanies ($35), T-shirts ($35), orange camo hoodies ($65), trucker caps ($25), “government gangsters” playing cards (on sale for $10), and a fight with kash Punisher scarf ($25).

One thing not for sale is liquor, because liquor is something Patel gives away for free.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/kash-patel-fbi-bourbon/687066/

u/Cultural_Pop6366 — 7 days ago
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Bezos-owned Washington Post faces backlash after economist behind California’s $100 billion wealth tax calls editorial ‘misinformation’

u/CommitteeKey3325 — 7 days ago
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A justice department lawyer working in Todd Blanche’s office pressured prosecutors to file criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) despite their concerns about the strength of the case, a whistleblower told House Democrats.

The lawyer, Aakash Singh (right), reportedly “ordered” federal prosecutors in Alabama “to rush through the indictment of the SPLC, despite serious concerns about the strength of the case”, Jamie Raskin and Mary Gay Scanlon said in a letter on Friday. The Democrats also said they were opening an investigation into the matter.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/southern-poverty-law-doj-investigation

u/CommitteeKey3325 — 12 days ago