Alex Sutherland

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency https://t.co/iIdiB9lAgl

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.

He’s just burning your tax money.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

It's notable how easy @ossoff makes this look. Delivering a clear message and an unwithering critique of Trump and Republicans without a bunch of throat-clearing or overly focus-grouped nonsense.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

In his second administration, President Trump’s family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest.

@ElizLanders reports.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

They’re letting the criminals from Jan 6 go free while they attempt to prosecute Cassidy Hutchinson for testifying in front of the January 6th committee. Disgusting stuff.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

Jesus I was not prepared for how long that list was gonna be

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Quite the midterm message: we can afford wars and ballrooms, but not your “daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things”

[Financial Times @FT]

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack https://t.co/bfuqIuJwIy

[Ana Cabrera @AnaCabrera]

NEW: Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds

The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. https://t.co/1nZ7xpRywk

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET.

Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time.

5 minutes before Trump's post.

Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer?

This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling https://t.co/KVa0cZRLn0

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Is this the best timed trade of 2026?

At 6:50 AM ET today, $1.5 BILLION in notional value worth of S&P 500 futures contracts were bought.

This trade was so large it sent the entire index +0.3% higher that minute.

Then, 14 minutes later at 7:04 AM ET, President Trump announced "productive discussions" with Iran were underway.

By 7:10 AM ET, the S&P 500 had added +$2 TRILLION in market cap.

That $1.5 billion position gained +$60 million in minutes.

Absolutely incredible.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:

* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.

* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.

More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.

Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Obama agreed to $1.3 billion in sanctions relief for Iran as part of a deal that prevented both an Iranian nuke and a war.

Trump withdrew from the deal, started a war that will likely result in Iran obtaining a nuke, and gave Iran $14 billion in sanctions relief.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

We’ve seen this playbook before — DC rushing into conflict while working families and young service members abroad pay the price.

Gas prices are skyrocketing. 7 US troops are already dead.

Americans want lower costs & no more forever wars — Trump is doing the opposite.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

SCOOP: U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of imminent collapse after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, per sources briefed. w/@JonathanLanday
https://t.co/02kwMBgUKG

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

Before our report, the Pentagon had only disclosed 8 injuries -- all of them serious.