Carl Johnson

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summer in Los Santos

[Carl Johnson @CarlJon20]

@gtabits Just got my PS5 pro for it!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Bookmark this Trump post and check to see if he bought Micron on his next disclosure

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

May revision: DOWN 43,000 jobs

April revision: DOWN 31,000 jobs

A total downward revision of 74,000 jobs between the two months.

[Carl Johnson @CarlJon20]

Fuck yes

[Carl Johnson @CarlJon20]

@Eagle_Rare2025 @atrupar Lmao fuck off.

[Carl Johnson @CarlJon20]

@hayburner49 @Osint613 Yet trump is about to unlock 300 billion. Such a fucking joke

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iranian Speaker of Parliament, Qalibaf:

"Khamenei's blood will be avenged by liberating Jerusalem. Iran will never allow IAEA access to bombed nuclear sites. The MoU proves America was defeated. We must build a true strategic partnership with China."

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump is rearming America.

His sons are invested in the companies selling it weapons.

Don Jr. and Eric are linked to investments in at least 10 defense firms that have drawn some $3.7 billion in federal funds since he took office — and no law requires them to step back.
https://t.co/trz98vqW4W

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Trump: "I gave the farmers $28 billion dollars."

No, YOU didn't give them shit. American taxpayers gave them $28 billion after your tariffs crippled their business.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The response to the aftermath of Russia’s attack is still ongoing in Kyiv: first responders are clearing the rubble, searching for people, and providing assistance. Damage has been reported at more than 20 sites across the city, most of them ordinary residential buildings. There was also damage to an ambulance station, a research institute, a hotel, and businesses.

As of now, we know that, tragically, 13 people were killed in this Russian strike. My condolences to their families and loved ones. More than 90 others were injured. Everyone who needs help is receiving all necessary assistance. Five people were wounded in the Kharkiv region, including a child, and two more in the Kyiv region, where civilian infrastructure was also targeted. Overnight, Russia also struck the Sumy, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Cherkasy regions.

In total, Russia launched more than 70 missiles of various types against Ukraine overnight, nearly half of them ballistic missiles, along with almost 500 attack drones, including jet-powered “shaheds.” The main strike was directed at Kyiv. Our air defenders managed to shoot down a significant number of the incoming targets, but not all of them.

Air defense supplies for Ukraine are an absolute and critical priority. Contributions to the PURL program remain essential – they directly help save lives. Every bilateral agreement we reach with our partners on air defense truly makes a difference. I am grateful to every leader who is helping.

It is especially important that we move forward with implementing our agreements on the production of anti-ballistic capabilities. We also very much count on a decision by the United States regarding licenses for Patriots and other forms of cooperation. These are the kinds of steps that can stop this war and prevent attacks like this. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine, with our people, and with our efforts to protect life.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Beyond the staggering moral dimensions, the wholesale destruction of USAID in the blink of an eye last year will live as one of the worst foreign policy and national security blunders in American history.
@SamanthaJPower lists just some of the tragic, immediate costs and consequences below.
Longterm, it will mean a world less stable and free--with more violence and conflict; disease, pandemics and mass migrations. Neither oceans nor the military can shield the U.S. from the impacts.
AND this shameful and foolish abandonment will result in less respect for, and allegiance to, the United States of America.

[The Field Negro @NotMyMAGAuncle]

Dear Suckers, Mr Trump would like to thank you.😊

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Fox News will never report this because it destroys their entire narrative.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

I am a proud, patriotic American.

Exercising my First Amendment rights to try to hold my government accountable is a most American tradition.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

It is fucking crazy how right-wing this country has become in the last 15 years. The Democrats have to run the most reasonable normie to ever live so they can win a swing district by 3 points against a wife-beating Christian Nationalist who got rich scamming nursing home residents and thinks black people look like that because Satan left them in the stove too long

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

JD Vance is human garbage

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Question: Is there any precedent even close for a U.S. President making this much money personally while in office?

Fmr WH ethics lawyer @RWPUSA: “None ever. We've never seen this much money made by U.S. President. We've never seen substantial conflicts of interest for any U.S. President since the Civil
War. Financial conflicts of interest. Every other president has voluntarily divested themselves of conflicts of interest with the presidency, except for Donald Trump .”

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

FBI Director Kash Patel failed to disclose a six-figure investment in Bitcoin-linked company Strategy within the 45-day deadline required by the STOCK Act.

The company has done millions of dollars in business with the Justice Department.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Americans aren’t that into corruption. Trump has overreached.