“Where is Vader today?” “He’s paying the Rebel Alliance $300 billion dollars after defeating them completely, every day for the last four months, sir.”

Someone made a baseball movie montage and it actually deserves an Oscar.

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. More specifically, his net worth is $1.2 trillion or $1200 billion. That number doesn’t even compute for most of us, so here is some helpful context: The USDA needs $18.8 billion to feed every child in the US school system breakfast and lunch each day. Elon could pay for that 64x and still have money leftover. The World Food Program needs $13 billion to feed the 110 million hungriest people on earth. Elon could pay for that 92x and still have money leftover. The National Alliance to End Homelessness needs $9.6 billion to provide housing for every unhoused person in the United States. Elon could pay for that 125x and still have money leftover. The average American teacher makes $74,495 per year. Elon could pay the annual salary of over 16 million teachers and still have money leftover. The problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The problem is that we have built a world where one person can accumulate more wealth than the GDP of 180 countries while children go hungry, families drown in medical debt, teachers are forced to buy school supplies for their students, and people sleep on the streets. This is a complete moral failure.

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The USA flag was loudly booed at the World Cup opening ceremony. The whole world hates America.

Today, I am sanctioning Cuba’s state-owned energy company, Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), under President Trump’s EO 14404. Cuba’s Communist elites have weaponized energy as a tool of social control and kleptocratic profit. For decades, the regime has stolen and hoarded available fuel — using it for the Castros’ private jet, the security services forces used to repress the Cuban people, to keep empty tourist hotels lit up, and to bus people in for fake protests and political stunts — all while the Cuban people have suffered blackouts and waited weeks to fill their cars. President Trump wants a new future for the Cuban people with greater economic and political freedom and opportunity. Until then, we will continue to target the Communist regime’s ability to leverage its energy trade to further its corrupt agenda and violently repress the Cuban people.

In 1945, a sixteen-year-old girl in New Orleans sat in a classroom and listened to teachers describe Black people as inferior, ignorant, and dangerous. She knew it was a lie. And she decided, then and there, that she would spend her life proving it. That girl was Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. By the time she was seventeen, she had already helped organize the New Orleans Youth Council — a bold, interracial group fighting for African American voter registration in the heart of the segregated South. She marched, she organized, she was arrested. She did not stop. But her most extraordinary act of defiance came decades later — not in the streets, but in a courthouse. While conducting research in Louisiana in the 1980s, Hall opened an old ledger written by 18th-century notaries. Inside were names. Hundreds of them. Names of enslaved Africans — their origins, their skills, their families, their rebellions. Details that English colonists almost never recorded. Details the world had assumed were lost forever. Hall was astounded. She spent years traveling between archives in Louisiana, France, and Spain, piecing together fragments of stolen lives. With the help of five dedicated assistants, she built something the world had never seen: the Louisiana Slave Database — a searchable record of over 107,000 enslaved individuals, documenting their names, ethnicities, occupations, family relationships, and places of origin. What she found also shattered a long-held assumption in academic circles. Scholars had believed colonial Louisiana was shaped primarily by Haiti and the French Caribbean. Hall's database revealed the truth: most enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana came from Senegal and Gambia — a finding that forever changed how historians understand the roots of Creole culture. But perhaps the most profound impact of her work is the most personal. Families — for generations separated from their history by the deliberate erasure of slavery — could now search a database and find an ancestor. A name. A face in the darkness of history, finally brought to light. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall passed away on August 29, 2022, at the age of 93. She is remembered at Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, where two long walls bear the names of every person she found — 107,000 lives, no longer forgotten. She gave them back their names. And in doing so, she gave us all a more honest history.

Hermann Göring grew up in a medieval castle in Austria owned by a half-Jewish man named Hermann von Epenstein, who was simultaneously his godfather AND his mother's open lover for 15 years. While the affair played out in the castle's upper floors, Göring's own father, a retired colonial diplomat, was quietly moved to a separate cottage on the grounds. Nobody seemed to discuss it. The boy grew up in the castle, calling Epenstein his second father, hunting the grounds, absorbing the aristocratic life. That shaped everything that came after. At 18 he enrolled in military school. By the time WWI broke out he had transferred to the air corps and was flying combat missions over the Western Front. He finished the war with 22 confirmed kills and was given command of Jagdgeschwader 1, the celebrated fighter wing previously led by Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, the most feared pilot in history. Göring was the man chosen to carry that legacy forward. He wore the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honor, around his neck. After Germany's defeat he drifted to Sweden, working as a commercial pilot for a fledgling airline, barnstorming aristocrats around Scandinavia. At a castle called Rockelstad he flew in a Swedish count, and at a party afterward he met the count's sister-in-law, a woman named Carin von Kantzow, a Swedish baroness from an old military family. She was married. She was also, by every account, instantly captivated. She left her husband and her young son for Göring. The two married in 1923 in a ceremony that Scandinavian society considered a scandal. He brought her back to Germany and straight into chaos. That same year he was shot in the groin marching alongside Hitler in the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Carin nursed him across three countries as he recovered. During that recovery he was given morphine. He never stopped taking it. At his peak he was consuming 320mg per day, a dose that would stop most hearts, while running the most powerful air force on earth and hosting foreign heads of state for dinner. Carin died of tuberculosis and heart failure in 1931, before she ever saw what he built. He was reportedly inconsolable. When he finally had money and power, he constructed a vast estate in the Schorfheide Forest outside Berlin and named it Carinhall in her memory. Then he had her body exhumed from Sweden and reburied in a specially built mausoleum on the property, so she could be with him permanently. Carinhall grew into something out of myth. The main hall was filled with stolen masterpieces. Endangered animals roamed the grounds. He kept pet lion cubs borrowed from the Berlin Zoo, seven over the years, raising each one until it was too large to be safe, then returning it for a new cub. In the attic he built a massive model train set complete with miniature aircraft that dropped tiny wooden bombs. King Edward VIII visited and played with it. Göring wore a red toga with a golden clasp to breakfast. He had a medieval hunting costume made for himself. He changed his personal uniform up to five times a day and received guests in a white fur coat while carrying a jeweled baton he had designed for himself because no existing rank in the German military was high enough to satisfy him. He invented a new one: Reichsmarschall. It had never existed before. It has never existed since. He spent the war years making personal visits to the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris roughly 20 times, hand-selecting from a collection of over 1,400 looted artworks for his private collection. Rembrandts. Renoirs. Tapestries. Sculptures. His collection was valued at over $200 million in 1945 dollars. One of the prizes he loved most was what he believed to be a rare original Vermeer. It was a forgery, painted by a Dutch con man named Han van Meegeren who had been quietly selling fake Old Masters to the Nazi high command for years. The crown jewel of Göring's entire collection was a fraud. He never knew. As the Reich collapsed and Soviet forces closed in on Berlin, Göring sent Hitler a telegram from Bavaria. It said: if you are incapacitated or lose your freedom, I am ready to assume total leadership of the Reich. Hitler read it as a betrayal. He stripped Göring of every title, expelled him from the party, and ordered his arrest. The man who had been his designated successor for over a decade was declared a traitor in the bunker's final hours. At Nuremberg, Göring walked into the courtroom and immediately dominated it. He was calm, lucid, sharp, and by multiple accounts the most formidable mind in the room. He sparred openly with the prosecutors, anticipated their moves, and gave answers so composed that the tribunal repeatedly struggled to regain control of the proceedings. He held court over the other defendants at lunch, coached them on how to answer, and was eventually separated from them specifically because his influence was considered too destabilizing. Psychologists found an IQ of 138. The chief psychiatrist described him as a man who had simply decided the normal rules did not apply to him, and had spent his entire life proving it. He was sentenced to hang. On October 15, 1946, two hours before the execution, the guard found him dead. He had bitten a cyanide capsule. How he obtained it is still debated. A second capsule was found in a jar of his hair cream. A US Army lieutenant was investigated and quietly transferred. A private was suspected of delivering it inside a fountain pen on behalf of a German woman. Göring's own note claimed he had concealed the capsule on his person the entire time, through every search, every intake, every strip-search across months of the most closely monitored imprisonment the Allied powers had ever conducted. He grew up in a castle that wasn't his. He flew under a dead ace's name. He loved a woman so much he reburied her in his garden. He kept lions as pets and played with toy trains and wore gold and fur and invented his own rank because nothing real was grand enough. He was addicted to morphine for 23 years and nobody ever fully stopped him doing anything. And when they finally had him in a cell with a date and a time and a rope, he decided that wasn't how it was going to go. He was right.

It is important to understand this one thing: No Republicans actually believe there was fraud in California's voting. This is all a pretext to sabotage the November elections.

If Donald Jessica gets a sequel, so do I. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸🙄🧠 #VeryStableGenius #PartTwo #parody

When I was at school, Dad convinced my friend that when you flushed away a huge turd you had to phone Thames Water so they could 'deal with it' to stop the pipes blocking. He gave my friend the landline number of his mate who was in on it. The calls carried on for several years.