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Friday, April 24, 2026

Friday Rides - The Good - The Bad - And The Ugly

1971 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler

Rare & Fully Restored, 1 of 353 Cyclone Spoiler 429CJ V8 4-speed Ram Air

1 of just 3 1971 Cyclone Spoilers produced with a 429, Competition Yellow paint and White upholstery

This YouTube video was made ~3 years ago when this car was offered for sale by RK Motors. At about 2:40, you can hear it run in several poorly done video clips. I read that it sold for ~$140,000. The original sticker price was $4,852.40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZskKeLM06c

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 2.24.2026 - 2

(I was gonna put this in the social media post but it fit the above meme perfectly.)

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 4.24.2026 - 1

We NEED Rain In Florida And Georgia

I live in an area almost surrounded by fires. Not really close, but close enough where I'm keeping a close eye on it. If I go outside, I can smell smoke and it's been like that for 3 or 4 days now. In the mornings, the sun looks like it's rising up through the fire, there's so much smoke in the air.

Omar Winery Listed At Millions Dissolves Days Later As House Oversight Presses For Answers

A California winery co-owned by Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's (MN-05) husband, Tim Mynett, was legally dissolved nine days after Omar quietly amended her financial disclosure to list it as worthless, roughly one year after she had reported it was worth up to $5 million. Omar's husband's business partner signed the termination filing for eStCru LLC on April 4 without explanation.
The winery existed almost entirely on paper. Its website was blank. Its phone line was dead. Its social media was dormant. A visit to its Santa Rosa address turned up a letter from the building manager confirming eStCru hadn't been a tenant there in years. It sold bottles with names like "Blockchain" and "Clothesline." That was the full extent of its operations — a ghost business, listed on a sitting congresswoman's disclosure at a value of millions of dollars.
The numbers were staggering for a company with no apparent pulse. On Omar's 2024 financial disclosure, filed in May 2025, eStCru was valued at between $1 million and $5 million, a jump of at least 1,900 percent from the prior year's valuation of as little as $15,000. At the time of that surge, court records showed the company had just $650 in its bank account, while defending a lawsuit from a D.C. businessman who accused Mynett of "fraudulently misrepresenting that eStCru LLC was a legitimate company" and sought $780,000 in damages. The case settled in November 2024.
Then, on March 26, Omar filed an amended disclosure. eStCru: no net value. Nine days later, it was dissolved.
When a reporter confronted Omar on camera about the winery and her finances, the exchange turned fiery and personal, (Omar actually lied during the confrontation.) as RedState previously reported:

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2046999797597458740

The winery question was never answered. It still hasn't been.
She wasn't alone in getting the brush-off. Other news organizations had similar experiences, with one claiming Omar ignored questions about the discrepancies entirely, chatting and laughing with another woman as the reporter spoke.
The eStCru implosion is part of a broader financial disclosure mess. GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) opened a formal inquiry in February after filings showed eStCru and a second Mynett firm, Rose Lake Capital, jumping from as little as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital claimed on its website that it manages $60 billion in assets, yet it is not registered with the SEC.
"This sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence," Comer wrote.
Omar's office has called the original figures an "accounting error." The amended disclosure slashed her reported wealth to between $18,000 and $95,000. Her spokesperson was quoted as saying: "The amended disclosure confirms what we've said all along: The congresswoman is not a millionaire."
But a winery that existed only on paper was reported as worth millions and vanished from the public record nine days after it was declared worthless. That's not an accounting error. That's a transparency question.

https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/04/23/omar-winery-listed-at-millions-dissolves-days-later-as-house-probe-presses-for-answers-n2201595