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They clap when asked if they’ll actually visit the $850 million ego project Maher immediately calls bullshit and tells them they’re not going Bill Maher calls his own audience a “bunch of f*cking liars” after one question about the Obama library. It started when Maher rolled his eyes at Obama’s library costing $850,000,000 to build …
Who else is not surprised that the Barack Obama presidential library is two years past due $600 million over budget and many of the contractors have not been paid. pic.twitter.com/YX8ovoB3m3 — Keith Ainsworth (@AinsworthKeith) June 15, 2026 “- The X post by Keith Ainsworth questions surprise over the Obama Presidential Center’s reported $600M+ budget overrun …
Former President Barry Obama’s high opinion of himself extends to the $30 admission cost to visit his vast presidential library in the failed Democrat-run city of Chicago. Oh, but if you live in Illinois, you can visit for free on Tuesdays or enjoy a $4 discount the rest of the week. BUT, you must show …
Trump says his presidential library in Miami will be a hotel pic.twitter.com/rujbiKGdnw — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 31, 2026 Across several interviews and press interactions, Trump made the following points: “It’s gonna be most likely a hotel.” He repeated this multiple times when asked what the upper floors of the skyscraper‑style library would contain. He …
Longtime Obama confidante’s salary exceeds leaders at Bush, Carter, Reagan and Clinton foundations As construction nears completion on the long-delayed $850 million Obama Presidential Center, federal tax filings show the Obama Foundation paid CEO Valerie Jarrett $740,000 in 2024 while several former Obama White House officials collected six-figure salaries as foundation executives. The Obama Foundation …
Multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Justice released the Epstein files with a broken, unreliable search engine. The search tool frequently returns incomplete, inconsistent, or zero results. Searches for the same term can produce different numbers minutes apart. This is a known issue acknowledged in reporting. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/doj-begins-releasing-epstein-files-with-broken-search-tool/ar-AA1SGTS6 So we started at 12073 results …
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The cost of the project, managed by the Obama Foundation, has also reportedly skyrocketed from an original estimate of $300 million to at least $850 million. In 2017, the estimated budget clocked in at $500 million when the design was unveiled. It later increased to $700 million in 2021, due to construction costs alone. In …
Former President Joe Biden is running into a problem in his nascent effort to raise money for a presidential library: Donors are checked out. “I want an $800,000 refund,” said John Morgan, a Florida-based personal injury lawyer. He was referring to the nearly $1 million he said he raised for Biden that went to then-Vice …
🚨BREAKING: CUAD has announced that ~80 students received 1-3 year suspensions or expulsions for violently taking over Butler Library. This is a strong move from @Columbia. We hope that repeat offenders were expelled and that Columbia will continue to take discipline seriously. pic.twitter.com/sRE5xUL8im — Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students ✡️🇮🇱 (@CUJewsIsraelis) July 22, 2025 Columbia …
Bolting billionaires. Ballooning budgets. A racial discrimination suit from a thwarted subcontractor. Who needs Jussie Smollett? The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) is turning out to be Chicago’s greatest hoax. Sprouting up on the city’s South Side in 2021 like an Egyptian funerary complex, the Taj Barack has already taken nearly twice as long to build …
They say the engineering firm was racist in setting too high of standards. The engineering firm just showed the photos of the massive gaps and cracks. That is quite standard in Chicago with many jobs awarded to "minority" contractors. They're usually just buying votes and kickbacks. Some jobs go unfinished, money paid anyway. Other jobs …
President Biden’s post-presidency now looks as bleak as his brutal final months. Some top Democrats tell us they’re so furious about Biden’s abrupt, clumsy pardon of his son Hunter that they’re threatening to withhold donations from his future presidential library. “If they had their sh*t together, they would have been doing the work on this over …
Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center on Tuesday afternoon. Video captured …
After police had routed pro-Palestinian protesters out of Portland State University’s Millar Library Thursday morning, the school’s construction managers with police surveyed the damage, finding paint splattered on floors, walls covered in spray-painted messages and screeds, furniture moved and overturned, cameras disabled and entrances blocked. “We’ve got our work cut out for us,” said one …
Secret Service is now saying the cocaine that was found at the White House was in the West Wing NOT the library.. https://t.co/hm9VkvhoRc — ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) July 4, 2023 Cocaine was found in the West Wing of the White House apparently. Does anyone know whose it was? Asking for a friend. — Not Elon …
830 years after 9 million books in Nalanda were burnt by Islamists, the largest public library in the city of Marseille in France has been set on fire. Knowledge is everything. The villain understands this more than the victim. pic.twitter.com/omGJ32n2mc — Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) June 30, 2023 Burning down libraries is sacrilege — Elon Musk …
