I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late.
— Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) April 24, 2026
The right stack is always taller.
On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on…
It’s good to write the laws – and excuse yourself!
No Kings, eh? Right.
The reason this guy was charged is because the media has been watching polymarket for people in the Trump administration making money this way.
They caught some normal guy breaking the rules but they wont dig too deep or they will find congress members and their staff doing the same thing
The service member deserves their day in court in the military justice system, but if the numnuts and lamebrains who are members of Congress and their staff or the intellectually disabled among the media could figure this out, this special forces operator broke operational security, badly, and betrayed the bond of trust with special forces and military support comrades.
It is also a betrayal of the Commander in Chief who ordered this operation given the number of traitors in public life, which is the landscape in which Special Forces, who are supposed to be the elite of the elite operate.
I am genuinely saddened by this, even if I don’t have the military service cred to feel this way and judge this person. My hope is that our military, and especially Special Forces, are our last bastion of honor, whereas I have long given up on people in the media or Congress having any honor.
The problem with these “prediction” markets is that when you can bet on anything, everybody is an insider about something. I just read about an investigation of how, just after a bet was placed that the reported temperature at De Gaul airport would exceed a certain number, it suddenly did for just long enough for the bet to place. Not suspicious at all.
Congressional ethics would offend a Bulgarian child brothel keeper.
I would propose a Convention of the States restricted to consider one amendment only. The imposition of term limits on members of Congress.
Right. Once they’ve amassed a reasonable fortune they need to move on and let someone else have a chance. /s
The idea is not to give them the time to amass.
Apparently it can happen in a few months if they’re on the right committees.
Sounds like we need to vote for MoC’s that will vote to dissolve such committees. Can you enumerate for me so I can filter my voting appropriately?
Make American government neoclassical again.
https://x.com/Scavino47/status/2048463915323892084/photo/1
A flyover of @usairforce B-52H Stratofortress bombers and Royal Moroccan Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons over Cap Draa marked the launch of Morocco’s first joint terminal attack controller qualification course during #AfricanLion26.
https://x.com/SETAF_Africa/status/2048696571441590457
Make Spanish government Moroccan again.
“Ethics in government” is one of those phrases that rise above normal oxymorons. It’s beyond “military intelligence”, “government worker”, and even “civil war”.
How about “civil service”?
Civil Self Service…