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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEW: As diesel prices hit record highs, Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson admitted in court that the “America First Refining” oil refinery he co-owns with MAGA figures including Donald Trump Jr. is set to send its fuel to India, per AJC.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Welker: What vetting did the Trump administration do before giving this suspect asylum?

Noem: That’s the Biden administration’s responsibility.

Welker: Asylum was approved in April of this year on the Trump administration’s watch. So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?

Noem: Yeah, the vetting process all happened under Joe Biden’s administration.

Welker: Are you saying he wasn’t vetted when he was granted asylum?

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

This will help you understand why the big PBMs are bad.

You can go to https://t.co/PaVuij8agA and buy a GLP1 for under $500 and falling. It's cheaper, because no PBM is involved

Your company, uses a big PBM for your pharmacy benefits. It charges your company $1300 for a GLP1, which means you pay $1300 during your deductible phase. The PBM then gives the rebate it gets, from the money you paid, to your company.

And it won't allow you to buy the GLP1 from lilly direct.

No PBM < $500. Big PBM $1300

This is one of many reasons you should show this to your CEO and tell them to switch away from their PBM

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Kristi Noem , as it turns out, was the one that made the final call to go ahead and ship all of those migrants away, even though the judge told her not to, putting her in contempt of court.

It’s taken months for the DOJ to finally release that information to the judge, meaning that cosplay Barbie is going to be the scapegoat. And I absolutely love this for her

https://t.co/ofxoHVnxNA

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Unavoidable conclusion: SCOTUS has put 1 man in America above the law & created a king. Not the first time a case has been decided wrong. The fix for democracy lies, as it did in Dred Scott, with fixing a broken decision. Hopefully this one won’t require a civil war.
https://t.co/A62cZjguku

[Acyn @Acyn]

Sachs on G20: Why isn’t Donald Trump coming tomorrow? Because he has a four-year-old mentality and he’s having a tantrum.

What is the tantrum? That the rest of the world says, “We don’t want a king.” As President Lula said, “We don’t need an emperor.” He would come here as just one of 20 leaders — or 21. He doesn’t want that. He’s having a tantrum.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

“Would a Russian paid agent do less than” Witkoff”? asks GOP Congressman Don Bacon:

[Tom Winter @Tom_Winter]

NBC News Flashback: "Witkoff’s plane, which he uses to fly to Russia for the meetings, is not fitted with a secure government communications system, according to two Western officials"

Story: https://t.co/Avis2pNTU0

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Carol Leonnig: "While Merrick Garland and Lisa Monaco [DAG] kept saying we're gonna follow the facts where they lead, we're gonna go from the riot [J6] and see how it might connect to people higher and higher up, when news begins to leak out of the house select committee's investigation, that the fake electors, that they are finding evidence that was coordinated, that Rudy Giuliani, Trump's campaign adviser, is at the center of that, when that news starts to leak, it becomes a very big story, and it becomes very embarrassing."😳

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Can someone ask Mike Johnson how he can justify being Speaker of the House when he can’t answer a single question about what’s going on in this country?

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

Usha before: "I was raised in a religious household. My parents were Hindu and that's one of the things that made them good parents and good people"
JD now; "She grew up in a Hindu family but not a religious one and she was agnostic. I hope she comes around to my faith"
What a guy 🤢

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0.

Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
https://t.co/6NQtjhhFsk

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
https://t.co/RQW7qAIjj3

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump is calling Reagan’s words in this video “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad. Watch this clip and read the full transcript:

Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. Now, there are sound historical reasons for this. For those of us who lived through the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing. And today, many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period, called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery.

You see, at first when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while, it works, but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is, first, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.

And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. The memory of all this occurring back in the 30s made me determined when I came to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity. Now, it hasn't always been easy. There are those in the Congress, just as there were back in the 30s, who want to go for the quick political advantage, who risk America's prosperity for the sake of a short-term appeal to some special interest group, who forget that more than 5 million American jobs are directly tied to the foreign export business, and additional millions are tied to imports.

Well, I've never forgotten those jobs. And on trade issues, by and large, we've done well.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨 ICE agents are illegally swapping out license plates in Illinois to hide their identity.

And Illinois Secretary of State, Alexi Giannoulias, isn’t having it:

“Swapping out license plates or tampering with them to avoid or conceal detection is illegal, unsafe and will not be tolerated in Illinois. No one, including federal agents, is above the law… This is a matter of public safety and protecting the wellbeing of our communities.”

His office just launched a “Plate Watch Hotline” for residents to report suspicious or tampered plates.

📞 Call: 312-814-1730
📧 Email: [email protected]

Because if ICE can drive around with fake plates, what else are they getting away with?

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

BREAKING: trump is having a temper tantrum, ending ALL trade negotiations with Canada.

He's butthurt that they aired an ad of President Reagan that shows how dumb trump's tariffs are.

It's VERY effective.
Be a shame if it went viral. 🇺🇲🇨🇦

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia now imports gasoline from across the map: from Asia — China and others — and from Europe, Belarus in particular.

This is one of the consequences of Putin’s war: the gas-station-country isn’t selling fuel — it’s buying it.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to betray MS-13 informants in exchange for access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison.

Justice Department officials say Rubio threatened to undercut years of work to secure the cooperation of high-ranking gang members. https://t.co/pWlOfgBIsk