Evan Torma

News junkie, progressive, labor activist, former campaign staffer and bartender.

[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.

[Josh Dubow @JoshDubowAP]

Teams down 20+ points in postseason last 2 years:
Knicks 5-3
Rest of NBA: 4-71

[Jacob Kaye @JacobKaye_]

The Knicks trailed by 17 points with less than 9 minutes to go.

Entering today, teams were 0-96 when trailing by 17+ points in the final 9 minutes of regulation of a Finals game since 1970-71.

The Knicks have just made that 1-96.

[Alex Trataros 🇯🇲🇬🇷🏁✊🏽 @Traticaster101]

Any other player in the league does this would be ejected. The fact this has now happened in back to back games and hasn’t been called for it is egregious.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Shoutout to everyone who said OKC vs Spurs was the real NBA Finals

[casey at the bat🏀🏆 CHAMPS @thebenchesclear]

don’t you dare forget your roots you little red fuck

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

don’t make us take this down, bro

[Fullcourtpass @Fullcourtpass]

Jalen Brunson has REFUSED to go in any rooms for promotional material for the Finals with the Larry O'Brien Trophy

(h/t @MrBuckBuckNBA)

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The boos will be so loud that it will derail the trains below in Penn Station.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In the US, spending on data center construction now exceeds spending on public transportation infrastructure — including airports, marine terminals, and all mass transit.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.

[Sam Block @theblockspot]

Indiana won the National Championship.
Sam Darnold won the Super Bowl.
Knicks are in the NBA Finals.

Apply for your dream job.
Buy your mom a house.
Hit up your crush.

2026 is the year to just go for it all.