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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Police in New Bern NC are asking the public's help to identify the two men who cut down a brand-new Flock camera that was just installed.

The public allegedly has submitted hundreds of tips by sending in names like "Batman and Robin" and "Lone Ranger and Tonto."

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The net effect of this decision is political parties will have more power over individual candidates. When elections are over, winning candidates will feel more obligated to vote with their parties instead of their constituents.

Fewer Thomas Massies and Ro Khannas, more zombies.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Feds placed the pipe bombs and fomented the demonstrations on January 6, 2021. One day this will be known as certainly as the fact that COVID was the result of U.S. funded lab research.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[TOMAS YANO @tomas_yano]

@bluewmist "purpose" is a head concept. think in pulls. follow what feels alive today, tomorrow, next week. "interesting things" are the signal. every move is connected. the pattern was always there

[willo2 @willo2_Poly]

Congratulations Shayne, I mean it.

We all watched Polymarket grow from a tiny crypto-native betting market into one of the largest information oracles available to the public.

Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, Polymarket gave up on its values.

I was rugged for $500K by Polymarket after correctly predicting the future - that Microstrategy sold Bitcoin before May 31st. As anyone knows, Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time in 3.5 years at the end of May. Your own platform's X account tweeted it out. The rules were clear, but "sharps" and insiders colluded to scam thousands of traders by modifying the rules, disqualifying evidence, and publicly rewriting history.

You chose to focus on the money - Sports+US Election markets over smaller crypto+world politics markets.

That's fine, but Polymarket is now essentially unusable for anyone who believes in your original vision - a free and open information oracle, futarchy as a public service, and the simple concept of making money by correctly predicting the future.

Insider cabals have taken over smaller markets and now rats, both inside and outside of your organization, abuse these for financial gain. If it's not a large market, there is no guarantee that it will not be manipulated, disputed, or challenged on technicality or supposed precedent.

Polymarket is essentially just another sportsbook now. And that is unfortunate, because it could have been so much more.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This should be an album cover

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

IAN CARROLL: “UFC is owned by Ari Emanuel, son of Benjamin Emanuel—an actual Israeli terrorist. His IMG agency supplied models to Epstein’s Jean-Luc Brunel.”

Trump’s WH 250th anniversary event is sponsored by literal Israeli terrorists and Epstein associates.

[willo2 @willo2_Poly]

Polymarket would like you to believe they are a "truth engine".

In reality, they are a centralized bookmaker that can change market outcomes as they see fit.

Polymarket scammed me for $500,000, and they will keep doing it as long as they believe they can get away with it.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

$500 per vote.

That’s what the Israeli lobby spent to beat me,

and they still couldn’t do it with factual ads, or even fake ads based on policy.

They ran with personal lies and AI videos to convince elderly voters I was sleeping with Ilhan Omar and AOC at the same time.

[Shane Cashman @ShaneCashman]

There’s literally nothing weird about Thomas Matthew Crooks emailing a deputy from Butler, PA before the assassination attempt. It’s not weird that he practiced shooting at the same range Homeland Security used. It’s not weird that the local police and Secret Service spotted Crooks with a rangefinder, photographed him, and texted about him for over an hour and still let him climb the roof with a rifle. It’s not weird that the Secret Service wasn’t flying drones that day, but Crooks was. It’s not weird that Butler was the first Trump rally of the year with Secret Service anti-sniper agents on the roofs. It’s not weird that Crooks’ house looked like a sterile lab with no trash or silverware. And it’s not weird that his body was cremated ten days later before Congress could see it. This is like when people say the CIA was shadowing Oswald before he, and he alone, shot JFK.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.

[🌽🌽 Erica, The White Trash Socialist 🌽🌽™️ @herosnvrdie69]

America should have a universal job guarantee. We have so much work to do as a country. We should have centers that I can show up to at 7am with my ID and get assigned work for the day. Trash clean up, food pantry distribution I mean the possibilities are endless

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When I paid $200 for 3 bags of groceries today, I thought to myself, “I’m sure glad they’re having a UFC fight on the White House lawn”

[THE SIMPLIFIER @TheSimplifier7]

Respectfully Northstar. Weak chart, intact structure. Both true at once.

HL3 sits at 4,498. Friday closed at 4,509. The framework's structural floor is being tested again this morning.

Your 4,345 to 4,420 support zone is where we look if HL3 fails. Not until. The chart can show whatever pattern it wants. The structure has one floor that matters and it has held twice.

Thursday we ship R3-1 of the Catalogue Series: the 2022-23 case where the chart looked exactly this and the structure held. In week six we ship R3-6: the 2012 case where it broke.

The chart on its own cannot tell you which we are in. The macro can. The macro is hostile and the structural floor has not surrendered.

The chart is always the last to know.

[Deep Cut Golf® @deepcutgolf]

@cashflowgolfer

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s an idea…

Rather than the government mandating digital ID on all of us, we should be mandating digital ID on the government to monitor exactly where they spend our tax money and the meetings they have with corporate lobbyists. We don’t serve them. They serve us.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Thomas Massie moves to finish what John F. Kennedy started, introducing a bill requiring AIPAC to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.

All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy