Embattled FBI Director Kash Patel is being accused of breaking the law after failing to properly report a six-figure purchase of stock in a crypto company that has received millions of dollars in government contracts through the Justice Department. According to NOTUS, Patel, 46, purchased between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of stock in MicroStrategy, a "bitcoin treasury company," on Nov. 21. He did not disclose the trade with federal regulators until May 26, well past the 45-day deadline required for reporting stock transactions over $1,000 under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday is taking the first ride on the newly retrofitted Air Force One 747, which was donated by the Qatari royal family. Trump, taking the retrofitted jet to North Dakota, touted it as "maybe the greatest commercial plane ever built." "I said to Boeing, 'What's the best one?' They said this is the best plane ever built, and you're going to have the privilege of flying it, and I have a privilege also of flying it," Trump told reporters before boarding the jet -- which is approximately 14 years old -- at Joint Base Andrews. The Qatari-gifted jet worth $400 million raised questions from some lawmakers and ethics experts over the unprecedented foreign gift. But Trump on Wednesday gave credit to the Qatari government. "Frankly, we couldn't build a plane like this because we wouldn't be willing to spend the kind of money necessary. They spent top dollar," the president said.
A majority of Americans say President Donald Trump has not paid attention to the issues that matter most to them, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov released Tuesday, as the president promoted a new Republican midterm convention aimed at energizing GOP supporters ahead of the 2026 elections.
President Donald Trump's plan to "fill the digital potholes" and use AI to quickly redesign every government website isn't going very well. Last August, Trump created the National Design Studio, or NDS, by executive order. A temporary DOGE-like entity that answers only to the president, NDS was tasked with creating new standards to update the US Web Design System (USWDS) and overhaul 27,000 dot-gov websites in just three years.
American workers' share of the economic pie has fallen to its lowest level since at least 1947, when the federal government began tracking the data, according to an analysis by Federal Reserve economists.
Even a 100-year-old pickle company could no longer support President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair after it was rocked by fresh controversy. Mt. Olive Pickles, a North Carolina institution founded in 1926, pulled out of the sparsely attended Washington, D.C. fair celebrating America's 250th birthday after a Confederate flag was displayed in their state's pavilion. The company said in a statement on X that it participated in the event after receiving an invitation. The North Carolina government did not participate in the fair, citing expenses, so private companies stepped in to sponsor the exhibit. Read more
Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden's Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) reported that Russia is likely to remain a security threat long after President Vladimir Putin (73) leaves office, describing Moscow's confrontation with the West as "deep, structural, and enduring."
These are not nice people
Since 1798, the US once operated a system of public health hospitals in major port cities to provide free medical care for merchant seamen. In part, their role was to check the spread of disease from other countries. At one time, there were 28 hospitals in the system. Over the years, military dependents, USCG personnel, Native Americans, and medically indigent citizens were added to the patient load. After World War II, however, efforts began in Washington to disband the system because merchant seamen were being highly paid and some officials felt it inequitable to provide free medical care not available to others. An estimated two to three million people were treated at no cost to the patients in these facilities. In 1981 POTUS Ronald Reagan (R) closed the last merchant seaman hospital, which was located in Louisiana.
The Endless GOP War on American Healthcare
NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (D) announced City Hall will provide 100,000 free tickets for New Yorkers to watch the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks from prime viewing areas at Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn and the Seaport in Manhattan. The public lottery at july4.events.nyc is open now and will remain open through 29 June. Winners will be notified between 30 June and 2 July and may claim up to four tickets.
Each member of the NBA champion NY Knicks will have a Manhattan street temporarily named after him.
On a recent podcast, VPOTUS JD Vance (R) displayed his full understanding of the Catholic faith he adopted years ago, as well as his knowledge of the Nicene Creed, by bleating that welcoming immigrants, supporting LGBTQ rights, and believing in climate change are all anti-Catholic ideas.
This wealthy heretic is the most unpopular VPOTUS in global history
Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) has just filed legislation to ban certain pregnant foreigners from entering America after SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship: "SCOTUS betrayed America. It's time to bar pregnant foreigners from coming to this country. We are being colonized. Anchors Away!"
The Ogles Family Christmas Card
Speaker Mike Johnson has once again lost a battle against hardline conservatives for control of his own House floor " and he has no clear way out. By Tuesday afternoon, Johnson was forced into one of the most humiliating possible positions for a House speaker: He conceded he could not regain control of the chamber and instructed members to leave Washington early. It's the second straight week that GOP leaders have had to scrap their plans, this time losing out on nearly an entire week's agenda. Read more
A woman known as Jane Doe 4 in the Jeffrey Epstein files is "staying off the grid" and lives in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration amid an escalating controversy over its handling of her case, according to a family member.
"Trauma is brutal. Chronic trauma destroys," said the relative, who described the woman's life as layers of abuse dating back to early childhood. "She's coping as best she can." Read more
And then there's this... thepostmillennial.com
Like a demented sequence killer, the US-funded Israeli Death Forces murdered 12 defenseless Palestinians, including four children in Gaza over the past 48 hours. Meanwhile, the ghoulish Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to establish three settlements in Gaza over the graves of tens of thousands of slaughtered or nebulized Palestinians.
Israeli hypocrisy
On hatemonger Glenn Beck's podcast, Lara Trumpf whined there are only 13 Democrats who signed an inane "Promise to America" pledge vowing to fight against Democratic Socialists like successful NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) or popular Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI): "I do think there are a few reasonable Democrats left out there, the John Fettermans of the world, who see this sort of thing and they're like, 'oh my God, this is the new party. This is the face of our party.'
Tom Suozzi (D-Israel) inexplicably initiated this idiotic anti-progressive pledge
