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Musk Spent $288 Million to Elect Trump

February 1, 2025 Buck Banks

$288 million

“Elon Musk spent at least $288 million to help elect President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates,” according to a Washington Post analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings. “Friday’s FEC filings cement Musk’s status as the biggest political donor of the recent presidential cycle at a moment when he has amassed an extraordinary amount of power as a member of Trump’s inner circle — and decried by critics as a de facto, unelected co-president.”

As If Trump Wasn’t Enough, a ‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Could Hit Earth

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

1 in 83

NASA says a “city-killer” asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, Live Science reports.

Leave It to Leavitt??

January 30, 2025August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

It takes a special person to shovel Trump’s bullshit,
They have to stand there and lie like they believe it.
While youth isn’t a crime,
Experience does take time,
And it simply ain’t prudent to leave it to Karoline Leavitt.

Trump Starts Term with Positive Approval

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

46%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 46% of voters approve of the job Donald Trump is doing in his first week as president, while 43% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion.

Menendez Gets 11 Years Behind Bars for Gold Bars

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

11

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was sentenced to 11 years in prison “for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the country’s history, with bribes totaling nearly $1 million in cash, checks, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz,” the Washington Post reports.

85% of Greenlanders Do Not Want to Become Part of U.S.

January 29, 2025 Buck Banks

85%

As much as President Donald Trump wants Greenland to become part of the United States, Greenlanders do not want to join the U.S., reports the Daily Beast. So says a poll conducted for Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq and Denmark’s Berlingske, which found that an overwhelming 85 percent of the Danish island territory’s residents oppose becoming a part of the United States. A mere 6 percent are in favor.

Senator: Trump Is Trying to Collapse Our Democracy

January 29, 2025 Pensito Editors

“In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy — and probably our economy — and seize control.”

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Twitter.

Just One More

January 28, 2025August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

If you ask Donald Trump, nobody’s done more.
And as for MAGA, there’s nobody they love more.
But leave it to a Fox News panel,
Gushing on Trump’s favorite channel,
To float the “epic” idea of adding his face to Mount Rushmore.

85% of Greenlanders Do Not Want to Join the US

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 Pensito Editors

85%

Number of Greenlanders polled who oppose Donald Trump’s plan to make Greenland a US territory, according to a recent poll. Just 4% of respondents support Trump’s plan.

Project 2025 Is Well Underway in Washington

January 27, 2025 Buck Banks

28

Out of the 52 presidential directives that President Trump signed last week, “28 contained language resembling text published as part of Project 2025,” the Washington Post reports.

$288 million

1 in 83

NASA says a “city-killer” asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, Live Science reports.

46%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 46% of voters approve of the job Donald Trump is doing in his first week as president, while 43% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion.

11

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was sentenced to 11 years in prison “for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the country’s history, with bribes totaling nearly $1 million in cash, checks, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz,” the Washington Post reports.

85%

“In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy — and probably our economy — and seize control.”

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Twitter.

85%

Number of Greenlanders polled who oppose Donald Trump’s plan to make Greenland a US territory, according to a recent poll. Just 4% of respondents support Trump’s plan.

28

Out of the 52 presidential directives that President Trump signed last week, “28 contained language resembling text published as part of Project 2025,” the Washington Post reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

71%

$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.