grasp that the libertarian weasel fired 2 women for telling the truth, for explaining to the public what had happened. jared polis is against the public being informed and he against it because he knows releasing tina was the wrong thing to do.
'general hospital'?
ava remained in the storage room with ethan. ethan was going in and out and ava kept saying, when he was lucid, she would say she was going to leave the room and he would tell her that sidwell would kill her if she did that. she'd tell him she could handle sidwell and then he would say something like, 'please stay with me' so she'd stay.
outside their safe room, sidwell had a gun on the acting d.a.
spoiler, he didn't use it and kill her. too bad because it would have been the best thing for the show.
so sidwell's pointing the gun at her and explaining to sonny that he wants to leave port charles and he knows sonny can make it happen. sonny agrees. even agrees to the pilot not knowing where the destination was until they were up in the air. but he won't agree to sidwell taking the acting d.a. with him.
sonny gives the acting d.a. a signal as he starts telling sidwell how marco died. lucas had gotten marcus to see the truth about sidwell (marcus' father) and marcus was helping lucas and ross couldn't handle it and killed him. sidwell wanted to argue that and called him a liar and sonny hit him with the fact that marco died because of sidwell.
sidwell exploded and sonny was able to overpower him and take the gun from him as acting d.a. broke free of sidwell.
sonny wants to shoot him but acting d.a. begs him not to saying she doesn't want to have to bring murder case against sonny. sonny lowers the gun.
the police arrive and ava asks them to get an ambulance.
she announces she's going to the hospital with ethan and stops to tell sonny that ethan took the bullet for her, that sidwell was trying to shoot her and ethan saved her by stepping in front of her.
carly is at sidwell's and ross' henchman is about to kill her when she hits him with the fire poker. it doesn't stop him but he tells her that now he's not showing any mercy and he's going to kill her slowly. as he approaches, he's shot.
by 'nathan' who has killed the man. he asks her if she knows where lisel and josslyn are? she does.
how?
how does she know? i'm guessing it's when charlotte's was giving her directions but charlotte didn't know where on the island sidwell was holding her.
at any rate, cassius gives her the code number to get into the cell.
lisel has rigged the door so that it's locked - at sidwell's - after the henchman showed up with a gun outside of it. josslyn wasn't happy about that, now they were locked in. and the electricity has been disconnected. lisel gets the electricity back on. carly punches the code and gets in. she's thrilled josslyn's fine. she explains nathan gave her the code because he's going to try to stop ross from leaving the island with the project. that's all josslyn needs to hear. she's going.
she leaves with lisel and carly locked in the cell. carly gets on lisel to fix the door so they can get out.
she's got to stop josslyn from getting hurt.
anna gets felicia to share the news about nathan being casius to the doctor treating ana. the doctor thinks that's enough and agrees that anna can leave the next day. felicia tells anna she's sorry for not believing her. they have a scene that's probably only so-so written but due to the talent of the two actresses and due to their performances on 'gh' since the 80s, all that shared history, it was a really powerful moment. i even cried during it.
cody took james to the quatermaines and tracy was in a fit over james leaving a gate open but cody told her not now and she looked at james and could tell he was upset so she dropped it. molly came over - chase had called her - and she got james to agree to teach her how to do marshmallows correctly for 'smores. cody then explained to tracy that nathan wasn't nathan. and tracy and cody talked about the damage this was going to do to james. he's losing his 'father' who isn't really his father and that's going to impact him. tracy tells him that he's right but that he (cody) is going to be there for jack for years to come and she knows that.
cassius is at the warehouse and sees ross among the henchman. he takes a shot but ross moves just in time. the bullet misses him and alerts the bad guys to nathan's presence. they descend on him and he's trapped on the dock behind a barrel with one of the henchman sneaking up on him from behind. he's about to get shot when the henchman gets shot ... by josslyn.
josslyn gets behind the barrel with cassius. she sees ross get into the van and start to drive off with the project. she tells cassius that they can't let him get away with it and to cover her. she stands up and goes running after him only to be shot. she falls to the ground. cassius shoots 1 of the henchmen dead and goes to josslyn.
that's when ross walks up. he had pretended to leave to 'smoke them out.' and now he's going to kill cassius. and he'll kill his mother lisel. oh and his sister britt? he's taken care of her as well. she didn't have hunington's disease. they lied to her and told her she did. they gave her medicine to make her feel sick. the injections he gave her that were saving her life? just saline. but he knew cassius would try to save her so he tampered with the saline in the safe and put poison in them. she's dead by now, he tells cassius.
and he shoots cassisus. josslyn has been moving towards a rifle near her. she's bleeding and struggling. but she gets it and ross turns around to look at her and she shoots him. he's down. cassius is down and josslyn's in and out.
she sees a helicopter. it's the wsb. remember, cassadine went to the wsb to tell them that ross was a double agent and working with sidwell. the helicopter lands and agents get out with a boss - played by john oliver - walks up and tells josslyn everything's going to be ok.
let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'
President Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows.
All told, the president pulled in at least $2.2 billion, a figure that includes other parts of his vast holdings, such as his real estate assets. That compares to a minimum of $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, before he returned to the presidency.
One of his biggest hauls in 2025 came when an investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates bought nearly half of the Trump family’s main crypto company, World Liberty Financial, a transaction that blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s wife owned a profitable radio station. George W. Bush was on the board of an oil company while his father was in the White House. And Hunter Biden was paid by a Ukrainian natural gas company while his father was vice president.
But never before in American history has there been anything like Donald J. Trump, a president who in his first year back in office has collected about $1.4 billion in new revenues from cryptocurrency businesses that directly benefited from his actions as president, a financial disclosure report made public on Tuesday shows.
Overall, Mr. Trump’s revenue in 2025 jumped to at least $2.2 billion, compared with a minimum of $622 million in 2024 before he returned to office.
“It is completely unprecedented,” said Megan Gorman, a tax attorney and the author of a recent book, “All the Presidents’ Money,” that studied the history of presidential wealth dating back 250 years.
Generally, throughout history, Ms. Gorman and other historians said, American presidents have taken actions to try to separate themselves from corporate entanglements that might create conflicts.
“Public office, if anything, was a source of debt, not a source of revenue,” said Lindsay M. Chervinsky, a historian and the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.
Mr. Trump and his family have done the opposite, creating new business ventures that are profiting from actions Mr. Trump has taken since he returned to the White House.
Those include the pardon Mr. Trump issued in October to Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, who founded the company Binance, which has been a critical business partner to the Trump family’s own crypto venture. They also include legislation that Mr. Trump signed last July to promote a form of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, four months after his family-backed firm introduced its own stablecoin.
There are all these characters in the book which is another problem.
You encounter Republicans and Libertarians and MAGA and even the Tea Party.
And then?
And then you have the left. Such as, on page 134, when he writes of being part of "a group of lefty writers." Socialists. That's what he's talking about on that page. He notes a left "environmentalist" in the book -- a Socialist. He writes of the genocide in Gaza insisting that the "left" was all basically on the same side ("The left was more or less opposed to the war, but the conflict quickly exposed a split on the right.")
Is that what he heard in the echo chamber bubble he lives in? For the record, we are opposed to the ongoing genocide and have been throughout. But we're not so stupid that we think that is the uniform opinion on our side. For example, October 30th -- days before the US presidential election -- Linley Sanders (AP) reported on the latest AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll:
But there’s a big partisan split on whether the Israeli government bears “a lot” of responsibility for the war’s escalation. About 6 in 10 Democrats say they do — similar to the share of Democrats who say Hamas bears “a lot” of responsibility — while only about one-quarter of Republicans say the Israeli government bears “a lot” of responsibility.
Six in ten is not 100%, it's barely over half.
But damned if the media ecosystem that Eoin hails from -- FAIR, THE NATION, COMMON DREAMS, etc, etc -- hasn't misled everyone on that reality.
In a really poorly written section about leftists brought on FOX "NEWS" (made even worse by his desperation to name check another friend), he notes that the network brings on two types -- the ineffectual (think Alan Colmes) who is seen as ridiculous and then the Glenn Greenwald types who are there to insult the left.
We wish it would have been better written book but we also wish he had the nerve to go beyond finger pointing at the other side. What he's describing -- the fake assery of FOX "NEWS" when it comes to the left -- is what the media eco-system he hails from does over and over. In fact, that's what DEMOCRACY NOW! did every day from the start of August through October 30th when covering Kamala Harris.
They brought on Socialists to lie and attack. And the biggest lie there was that they were Democrats. Even Democrats don't like Kamala, they insisted with their coverage thereby achieving Amy Goodman's intent to suppress turnout for Kamala.
That lie also helped them attack Kamala constantly regarding Gaza. Again, the lie was -- and continues to be in Higgins' book -- that the left was of one mind on Gaza. But, as polling demonstrated, that was never the case for the Democratic Party's members. Kamala had to navigate a tight rope but that reality was ignored as Amy Goodman repeatedly brought on Uncommitted to tell their lies -- frequently, the biggest one being that they were Democrats. They were, in fact, Socialists (and one Communist). Long before Eoin finished his book, we were pointing out here that DN! was using the FOX "NEWS" model.
It takes a lot of nerve and a lot of hypocrisy to rightly attack Glenn Greenwald for his lies, distortions and FOX-ification while you not only refuse to do the same with your own peers but, in fact, also applaud them in the book -- Naomi Klein (a Socialist whose pro-Kamala message on DN! was hold your nose and vote for her -- again, the messaging from DN! was that even Democrats did not support Kamala), Adam H. Johnson, Branko Marcetic and so many more Socialists.
We don't like Glenn, we have called him out here for years. But when the left does what we call out in Glenn, we call out the left. And when we say that we call out the left, we mean we call out Democrats, we call out Socialists, we call out Communists and we call out Greens.
Not only does Eoin refuse to do that, he can't even type the word "Socialist." Political closets run deep. And political closet cases worked overtime to defeat Kamala so we're in no mood to play and pretend this is some deep and important book.
It's trite and superficial. The scope is beyond the page length. It's 'finding' are generic and self-fulfilling. Doesn't make them necessarily wrong but does reduce this allegedly important book to nothing more than a basic primer good only for someone brand new to the topic.
There are all these characters in the book which is another problem.
You encounter Republicans and Libertarians and MAGA and even the Tea Party.
And then?
And then you have the left. Such as, on page 134, when he writes of being part of "a group of lefty writers." Socialists. That's what he's talking about on that page. He notes a left "environmentalist" in the book -- a Socialist. He writes of the genocide in Gaza insisting that the "left" was all basically on the same side ("The left was more or less opposed to the war, but the conflict quickly exposed a split on the right.")
Is that what he heard in the echo chamber bubble he lives in? For the record, we are opposed to the ongoing genocide and have been throughout. But we're not so stupid that we think that is the uniform opinion on our side. For example, October 30th -- days before the US presidential election -- Linley Sanders (AP) reported on the latest AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll:
But there’s a big partisan split on whether the Israeli government bears “a lot” of responsibility for the war’s escalation. About 6 in 10 Democrats say they do — similar to the share of Democrats who say Hamas bears “a lot” of responsibility — while only about one-quarter of Republicans say the Israeli government bears “a lot” of responsibility.
Six in ten is not 100%, it's barely over half.
But damned if the media ecosystem that Eoin hails from -- FAIR, THE NATION, COMMON DREAMS, etc, etc -- hasn't misled everyone on that reality.
In a really poorly written section about leftists brought on FOX "NEWS" (made even worse by his desperation to name check another friend), he notes that the network brings on two types -- the ineffectual (think Alan Colmes) who is seen as ridiculous and then the Glenn Greenwald types who are there to insult the left.
We wish it would have been better written book but we also wish he had the nerve to go beyond finger pointing at the other side. What he's describing -- the fake assery of FOX "NEWS" when it comes to the left -- is what the media eco-system he hails from does over and over. In fact, that's what DEMOCRACY NOW! did every day from the start of August through October 30th when covering Kamala Harris.
They brought on Socialists to lie and attack. And the biggest lie there was that they were Democrats. Even Democrats don't like Kamala, they insisted with their coverage thereby achieving Amy Goodman's intent to suppress turnout for Kamala.
That lie also helped them attack Kamala constantly regarding Gaza. Again, the lie was -- and continues to be in Higgins' book -- that the left was of one mind on Gaza. But, as polling demonstrated, that was never the case for the Democratic Party's members. Kamala had to navigate a tight rope but that reality was ignored as Amy Goodman repeatedly brought on Uncommitted to tell their lies -- frequently, the biggest one being that they were Democrats. They were, in fact, Socialists (and one Communist). Long before Eoin finished his book, we were pointing out here that DN! was using the FOX "NEWS" model.
It takes a lot of nerve and a lot of hypocrisy to rightly attack Glenn Greenwald for his lies, distortions and FOX-ification while you not only refuse to do the same with your own peers but, in fact, also applaud them in the book -- Naomi Klein (a Socialist whose pro-Kamala message on DN! was hold your nose and vote for her -- again, the messaging from DN! was that even Democrats did not support Kamala), Adam H. Johnson, Branko Marcetic and so many more Socialists.
We don't like Glenn, we have called him out here for years. But when the left does what we call out in Glenn, we call out the left. And when we say that we call out the left, we mean we call out Democrats, we call out Socialists, we call out Communists and we call out Greens.
Not only does Eoin refuse to do that, he can't even type the word "Socialist." Political closets run deep. And political closet cases worked overtime to defeat Kamala so we're in no mood to play and pretend this is some deep and important book.
It's trite and superficial. The scope is beyond the page length. It's 'finding' are generic and self-fulfilling. Doesn't make them necessarily wrong but does reduce this allegedly important book to nothing more than a basic primer good only for someone brand new to the topic.
Cloud of corruption surrounds Trump’s fundraising for library, ballroom, and other projects
Softbank reportedly made largest publicly disclosed contribution to Trump Presidential Library just before President Trump weakened an executive order regulating the AI industry
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), opened an investigation into reports that Softbank Group’s (Softbank) recently donated $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library — the largest publicly disclosed contribution to the Library and a possible attempt to curry political favor.
“The Trump Administration is the most corrupt in the nation’s history, and one apparent nexus of that corruption has been tens of millions of dollars that have been given by corporate interests to the President’s pet projects including his gold-encrusted ballroom,” wrote the lawmakers.
On May 22, 2026, Politico reported that SoftBank Group had donated $50 million to President Trump’s Presidential Library project, making it the largest publicly reported contribution to the Library. The donation followed a December 2024 Softbank announcement that it would invest $100 billion in the United States during President Trump’s second term. On March 11, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission also greenlit Softbank’s $4 billion acquisition of DigitalBridge, a data center investment firm.
The $50 million donation came before President Trump weakened an executive order regulating the AI industry. Softbank is “one of the largest AI investors in the world,” raising questions as to whether the donation was an attempt to buy political favors. The reported donation is the largest publicly disclosed contribution to the Trump Presidential Library to date.
Softbank has previously contributed to the Presidential Libraries of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, but only after the Presidents had left office. This time, reports indicated that Softbank quietly made the contribution while President Trump is in office, and before any presidential library has been constructed.
“These circumstances [under which the donation was made] raise concerns about the potential for bribery and whether donors are seeking favorable treatment from the Trump Administration through contributions that personally benefit a sitting President,” wrote the lawmakers.
The lawmakers asked the Softbank CEO, Mr. Masayoshi Son, to explain the company’s decision to contribute and whether it was made in exchange for any promises by the Trump administration.
Senator Warren has led the fight to prevent the Trump family from using the Trump Presidential Library for corrupt pay-to-play deals:
- In April 2026, Senators Warren (D-Mass.) and Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representative Stansbury (D-N.M.), released new responses from Big Tech CEOs indicating that they have no public explanation for where as much as $63 million in settlement money to Donald Trump’s now-dissolved Presidential Library fund has gone. The lawmakers followed up with a new letter to President Donald Trump pressing for answers to solve the ongoing mystery of the missing millions.
- In March 2026, Senators Warren (D-Mass.) and Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), pressed ABC, Meta, X, and Paramount on their settlements with President Donald Trump, in which the companies promised to donate as much as $63 million to President Trump’s future Presidential Library.
- In July 2025, Senators Warren (D-Mass.) and Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representatives Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Raskin (D-Md.), and Stansbury (D-N.M.) unveiled the Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act to close loopholes that allow presidential libraries to be used as tools for corruption and bribery.
- In July 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a new report exposing how companies, special interests, and foreign governments may be pledging donations to President Trump’s future Presidential Library as a corrupt tool to secure favorable outcomes from his administration.
###
-
-
-
-
-
GOP freaks out over the Constitution7 hours ago
-
-
-
-
-
The grifter Dr Oz7 hours ago
-
-
Hick for a Loop15 hours ago
-
-
A Verdict on (the) Slaughter1 day ago
