Junebug 🚀

We wonder bout life, but none of us willing to learn. #CudFam #MostDope #SteelersNation #CudLife

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jaylen Brown says he used the NBA Players Association instead of hiring an agent for the NBA Draft because they're paid to help players

“When I entered the draft, I didn't have an agent. I'm probably the highest picked selected ever that didn't enter with an agent. When I was evaluating, I went through the whole process and sat with a bunch of people, and what they was offering I ain't really need. It was kind of already slotted, so I leaned on the union a lot more”

“A lot of the agents came and was like, ‘Yeah, we'll move you to L.A. We'll get you a trainer, put some money in your pocket,’ and I was like, ‘For what? Do I gotta give the money back?’ They was like, ‘Nah, but standard agent fee is 4%.’ I'm starting to do the math, and a house, car, and all that, whatever he was offering, is a lot less than what 4% would have been”

“Long story short, the math wasn't mathing for me. I ended up being the third pick. I think because I came in like that, a lot of people, I think it was the agents, they tried to slander my name a little bit, put it in the media that he's too this, he's too that. Ended up backfiring. It all worked out in the end”

“With the union, we pay dues. All the players in the NBA pay dues. We all pay like $10,000 out of our salary that goes to hiring lawyers, hiring staff, CEO, everything that you need to lead a company that works for us. So all of that is our resources that we all pay for, that we agree to. Once I learned that, I just started using it”

“I'm talking about you can get private investigations done. They give referrals for financial advisors. All type of stuff. Foundation wise, health insurance, whatever you need. They have a liaison that's paid to make sure that you get it done. So I put it on their desk like, ‘I need you to get this done.’ And they do because that's their job”

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The most successful trick the elites ever pulled was making "Poor" a personality flaw instead of a systemic result. We live in a world where a guy who inherited $100M calls a teacher "lazy" because they can't afford rent. And half of you believe him.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5M after jury found President Trump sexually abused and defamed her.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

A student pilot successfully landed a small plane after her instructor told her "you know what to do," grabbed his cell phone, opened the cockpit door, and leapt to his death.

https://t.co/Z7APrKL68v

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

journalist who broke the story of Mitch McConnell's cardiac arrest says he's braindead (per her sources) 👇
https://t.co/4rWP3s47a7

[MyRadar Weather @MyRadarWX]

WEDNESDAY, July 8 will feature a risk zone for storms across parts of the Plains and Upper Midwest. Things look to get wet overnight, potentially lingering into Thursday morning.

A cold front will impinge upon a humid, moisture-rich airmass, causing scattered thunderstorms to form between 6 and 9 PM, coinciding with peak daytime heating.

Storms may eventually merge into a line. There's not much jet stream wind energy blowing overhead, keeping the severe weather risk marginal. Only scattered gusts of 50-60 mph are likely.

That said, locally heavy rainfall is probable. Storms will sag southward overnight before dissipating into Thursday morning.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

I CALLED IT, ANIMALS, AND YOU LAUGHED!!! Months ago I told you ICE would buy facilities DIRECTLY from the prison companies at north of $150,000 per bed — and I was WRONG, folks, it was BETTER!!! ICE just bought TWO facilities from CoreCivic — $CXW — for $1.47 BILLION!!! That's $286,000 per bed in California City, $371,000 PER BED at Otay Mesa, $323,000 a bed COMBINED — DOUBLE what these things cost to build!!! Even I underestimated the beauty, and I NEVER underestimate!!!

AND WHO OWNS $CXW??? DONALD TRUMP!!! It's RIGHT THERE in the disclosure, folks — the man holds CoreCivic AND GEO Group, the two companies running America's ICE detention centers!!! Follow the bouncing ball: HE runs the immigration crackdown!!! HIS DHS just wired $1.47 billion to a company HE OWNS SHARES IN, at DOUBLE replacement cost!!! The buyer is his government, the seller is his portfolio, and the taxpayer is the ATM!!! That's not a conflict of interest, that's a CLOSED LOOP!!!

And the STRUCTURE is a masterpiece: DHS buys the buildings, but CoreCivic KEEPS OPERATING them under the same contracts!!! Sold the real estate, KEPT the revenue — like selling your house and the buyer pays YOU rent!!! Gain north of $1 BILLION on assets carried at PENNIES!!!

THE DE-LEVERING — exactly like I told you: $716 MILLION of debt GONE overnight!!! Credit facility, GONE!!! The 2027 notes, GONE!!! And that puts them under the covenant thresholds that unlock UNLIMITED BUYBACKS with the $400 million left over!!! Fewer shares, folks — and whose shares get more valuable??? DONALD'S!!!

AND THE SEQUEL IS COMING: CoreCivic says it's in talks with ICE to sell MORE facilities!!! The machine runs forever: sign the orders, fill the beds, sell the buildings to yourself at double price, buy back the stock, watch the disclosure GLOW!!! One catch the animals should know — ICE can cancel those operating contracts anytime, so read the covenants before you chase!!! Do your own research, NOT advice!!! Is ANYBODY looking into this??? The SEC??? He APPOINTS the SEC!!! I called the trade, the price, AND the de-levering — GREATEST prison analyst in American history, maybe ever!!!

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Fun fact. Howard Lutnick missed work on 9/11 because he was bringing his son to school..for the first time ever he decided to be a dad. And the date of that school starting has not been confirmed. He lost everyone in his company that day. He also made an automated system that allowed him to not hire back the majority of people killed bc it took their jobs. He also sued American Airlines and won to the tune of $30 some odd million. He took the money and again, didn't have to replace anyone. He also cut off health insurance and payments to the families within 2 weeks. This matters because it sets the stage as to who he is as a human and sets the stage for what he's doing now. Coming tomorrow......bc f*ck you you child predator

[Forrest Miller 🎥🏆 @AlwaysFlacko]

@howardlutnick remember when you stole $15-25 Million dollars of the 9/11 victim's fund settlement that you kept implying would go to families but actually ended up being slurped up by your largest shareholders and executives..

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Imagine for a moment that your heart stopped.

You wake up 3 days later in hospital.

You’re recovering in hospital for the next 3 weeks, but stories of your death start to pop up on the news.

….and not once does any staffer “hey, you should make a statement!”

MEANWHILE:

-Your wife is in China
-Your daughter deletes her Twitter account
-Journalists hound your staffers.

Maybe you look rough.

Maybe you can’t even speak.

But not a tweet?

Not a written statement attributed to your name, that some staffer wrote?

Instead only a “statement from your office”

Why?

If you’re awake and recovering in a bed, why no statement on the rumors of your own death, which staffers have surely seen now?

Unless you are unable to.

And no matter why you are unable to…

…it means you are also unfit to serve.

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JackDunc1]

FIFA's own rules dictate that if a government tries to intervene in a disciplinary matter - that team is disqualified. Not happening to the USA though, despite trump making that phone call. Wonder why. 🤔

Fuck Trump. Fuck Infantino.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. https://t.co/bMp27wl79X

[Amie the Great @a_standal]

The House only worked 128 days last year for an average 5 hours/day.

Meaning *YOU* paid this asshole $298/hr + $80 daily meal allowance + THOUSANDS in EXTRA benefits to tell YOU to get fucked while he stuffs himself with steak and lobster YOU paid for.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The White House press secretary just suggested that young people who complain about affordability grew up with silver spoons in their mouths, are lazy, and should be sent to Cuba or Iran

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Trump: Now, as I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I'm going to give one to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome...

[TMZ @TMZ]

Trump jokes about having a "threesome" with his sons. 🥴

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

BRUH LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

House GOP out here cutting ads for Dems:

NEHLS: Affordability? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go there tomorrow. I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice ribeyes.

MT: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and rib eyes and all of that?

NEHLS: Maybe not. Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do.

They have NO IDEA what’s coming in November.

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Here’s what makes this so bleak:

In 1976, people flocked to DC for the Bicentennial. A whole week of celebration. It was proud, it was joyous, and it was packed.

Our generation never got that. And most of us will be pushing 90 by the next one.

This was our turn. There was a bipartisan commission, America250, built to give it to us — a celebration that belonged to everyone.

Instead, the administration stood up its own group, Freedom 250, to push the real one aside. They fired the original organizer. They routed tens of millions in taxpayer dollars to the president’s version while the bipartisan one went unfunded. States pulled out because it had become too partisan. The musicians quit, so he turned the concert into a campaign rally about deportations and grievance.

They didn’t celebrate the country. They celebrated themselves.

And you can see the result on the grass. A 250th birthday that should have belonged to all of us, turned into one man’s vanity project.

Empty. And sad.