Why The Merrill Bonuses Are A Watershed Moment

Donald Trump was impeached twice and suffered through scandal after scandal, mishap after mishap during his first term in the Oval office. Much of what he did can be classified as immoral, ignorant, or criminal. The lessons he's learned from his first time in office was that he needed to put people in place who will do his bidding and adhere to his every whim, regardless of the law and the US Constitution. That was why the US received nominations of people like Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Junior, Pete Hegseth from the treasonous one.

Adam Kinzinger, who was one of only two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, wrote a scathing Substack post in which he threw down with El Cheato's threat to imprison him and the rest of the committee members. Via IBT Times: "[Former Rep. Liz] Cheney was behind it. So is Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee, honestly, they should go to jail," Trump said during an NBC "Meet the Press" interview on Sunday. Hours later, Kinzinger, who served as an Illinois rep.

"It's disgusting how everyone is turning this guy into some kind of folk hero. Insurance companies, like any company, have a duty to shareholders to maximize profits, no matter how ruthlessly. The radical left espousing otherwise needs to grow the hell up." -- Grandpa Ketamine, aka Elmo It's been a crazy week, and it's even crazier now that a suspect has been arrested.

by Jeremy Kohler ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. One month after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state are already working to overturn it — or at least undermine it. One measure would ask voters to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception, declaring that embryos are people with rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The result would be to classify abortion as an unlawful killing. Another proposal, aimed at repealing the abortion rights amendment, would ask voters to ban gender transition procedures for minors, tying the two issues together, despite the fact that the amendment did not address gender surgery and gender-affirming care for transgender children is already illegal in Missouri.read more

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I'm not 100% certain that we know the motive for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The obvious answer is that he was killed by a policyholder who was denied coverage, although it also seems possible that the shooting is connected to an insider trading investigation of Thompson and other executives.