Trump Media and Technology Group, the company affiliated with former U.S. president Donald Trump that operates Truth Social, reported $770,500 in revenue for the first quarter of 2024 and a net loss of $327.6 million.
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ooouggh got my @bakoon.bsky.social piece back from the framer (but have to take it back bc they didn’t know which side was up and mounted the wire wrong)
an often understated aspect of the R Budd Dwyer story is that he was obviously guilty. like so extremely guilty. awarding a huge contract to a no name out of state firm run by your friend? Mickey Mouse ass corruption.
1. friday (performs the alchemy of making a weekday feel like a day off)
2. saturday
3. thursday
4. sunday (by far the most chaotic day via church/football/monday dread)
5. monday (higher because you try to add something fun to offset it)
6. wednesday
7. tuesday (unmoored and bereft of meaning)
Cool how if you want to install an ADA-mandated elevator inside a subway station you have to do years of community input and environmental reviews justifying it, but if you want to fill the same subway station with guys holding M16s doing constitutionally-dubious searches its just "i've got a hunch"
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probably the funniest thing about this whole valuation crimes deal is that in the real estate circles trump ran in, this is definitely true, and everyone else he knew in the business was doing the same thing, nobody cared, and he *is* being picked out here specifically. still a crime!
Turning to Trump’s allegedly false annual financial statements that are at the heart of this case, Trump says banks aren’t interested in that kind of thing. “They are not documents that the banks paid much attention to,” Trump says. (Stewart Bishop)
remembering in university when we did a charity haunted house, first hour we had a guy who played piano play spooky songs in a disconcerting way, but he was busy and i had an entire disc of The Conet Archive so we played numbers stations instead youtu.be/GUQUD3IMbb4
found out that because the first soda bottles were corked, the bottle cap would not be invented until 1892, they were purposely made in this "torpedo" shape so they could not stand. If stored upright, the cork would dry, shrink, and the bottle would open itself.