Manchester-born. U.S. citizen since 2016; Retired Sports slot guy for the Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News; ESPN Trade Machine junkie .
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Mark Perner retweeted
Unfortunately, a lot of vendors get caught up in situations like this with wealthy individuals or companies who don't pay their bills. Trump famously doesn't pay his bills & bankrupted vendors.
A Bay Area restaurant owner says Elon Musk’s SpaceX owes him $70,000 for two dinners he catered in Palo Alto. “That’s not even a penny for them,” he said.
sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…
Mark Perner retweeted
More of this, please.
Mark Perner retweeted
I cannot fucking believe this shit. The motherfucker needs to not only be impeached, but arrested... IMMEDIATELY!
Trump's White House Ran an Extortion Racket Against Colorado — and Got Away With It
This wasn't governing. It was a shakedown.
In December 2025, while Trump publicly demanded Tina Peters' release and smeared Colorado's governor, his White House staffer Emily Underwood ordered five federal agencies onto a "brainstorm call" to immediately starve the state of grants and support. The next day the money started vanishing — hundreds of millions canceled by Transportation and Energy alone. More punishment followed: water funding vetoed, Space Command yanked, a world-class climate lab targeted for dismantling.
The email is a smoking gun. A federal judge called the whole idea "phenomenal" in its brazenness. Colorado's crime? Convicting a Trump ally who tampered with voting machines and refusing to scrap its mail-in ballot system.
The racket worked. Polis folded. Peters walked free. Trump got his win.
This is textbook abuse of power — using the federal treasury as a personal weapon against a state that wouldn't obey. Authoritarian regimes do this. Mature democracies do not. The fact that it succeeded only makes the corruption more disgusting.
Impeachment efforts have been launched over far less. A president who treats an American state like a protection racket target has already forfeited any claim to legitimate authority.
Mark Perner retweeted
Putting this out for J6 idiot deniers counter reality bc u hv no minds except what Trump fills it w 140 Cap Police were bludgeoned, maimed, eye gouged out, heart attacks (Fanone) had brain damage (Gonell, this woman & more) Sitnick died frm bear spray Ur all Trump’s sewer people
Mark Perner retweeted
Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.
Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.
Mark Perner retweeted
I am not making this up: Secretary Rubio actually sat before Congress today and said “the war is over.”
It’s a bizarre lie to tell when Americans know there’s obviously a war underway - not just from seeing it on screens, but from paying its costs every day at home.
Leaders with this little respect for the American people have no business in office.
Mark Perner retweeted
This is a lie. And he knows it’s a lie, and I can’t understand why any politician would vote to continue to fund this kind of un-American inhumane targeting of people based on what they look like. We have become a “papers, please” society and it is appalling.
Mark Perner retweeted
Once again for all the maga sitting in the back with their fingers in their ears singing LALALALALALA.
Mark Perner retweeted
The FBI took the murder suspect into custody at 10pm, but on orders from Kash Patel, did not announce it publicly because Trump wanted to do it himself the next morning on Fox. You can't make this up. It's all a show to MAGA. Trump doesn't care about the family, doesn't care about the country and doesnt care about us.
Mark Perner retweeted
Donald Trump LOSES big time in court.
Would be very terrible if this went viral!
Mark Perner retweeted
It is appalling how little coverage the shootings at the CDC received. A government agency was attacked with over 180 rounds of gunfire and David Rose, a responding police officer, was killed in the line of duty.
Vaccine disinformation and hostility against science have escalated to deadly violence — a threat not just to institutions, but to all of us. Dr. @celinegounder's reflections are essential reading for anyone concerned about the consequences of disinformation and the silence that often follows these tragedies: nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opini…
