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[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Outrage erupts after a stunning report finds 9.2 MILLION people — or 46% — of Medicaid expansion enrollees likely DID NOT QUALIFY for the program

That is a possible 46% FRAUD RATE, and costs $33 BILLION dollars.

Purge the rolls!

"[As many as] 9.2 million adults that enrolled in Obamacare's Medicaid expansion may not have met federal eligibility requirements in 2024. That's 46% of expansion enrollment that year and an estimated $33 billion in taxpayer costs."

@willcain

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Donald Trump has called off a major attack on Iran because “the perimeters of a deal had been agreed to”—one that would open the Strait of Hormuz and end Iran’s nuclear threat. The phrase about “fool me once” comes to mind. I’m just not sure yet who should feel shame.

Before sorting the candidates, let’s examine the deal.

The attack meant for this weekend was to be the coup de grâce—a large joint U.S.-Israeli strike on the one area that has enjoyed immunity so far, Iran's energy infrastructure. Now, perhaps, it won't be needed. Resting on Trump’s declaration alone—a reopened Strait of Hormuz and a denuclearized Iran—the deal amounts to near-total victory.

I’m skeptical. Two weeks was floated as all that remained of April’s bombing campaign, but the two weeks since strikes resumed have been light by comparison—too light to have forced the Islamic Republic into its first diplomatic defeat. More likely, Trump is running a Beetlejuice strategy: summoning the terms of a deal into existence by saying its name enough times.

According to officials cited by Channel 12, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi agreed overnight to a compromise proposal drawn up by Qatari and American mediators to reopen the Strait. Under it, vessels entering the Gulf through Hormuz would transit Iranian waters; those leaving would transit Omani waters. It resembles an Omani proposal built on “voluntary transit fees or tolls” that Iran rejected three days ago for failing to “address Iran’s concerns.” The concern likely being that Iran wanted 100 percent of the Strait, not 50.

So far Oman has signed on to this newest iteration, but wants to know whether Araghchi’s consent also speaks for the Revolutionary Guards. Qatari mediators are still working with Tehran to ensure it does, likely with cash in hand.

Still, one should remember that before the war, traffic crossed freely between the two coastlines. If the compromise is that both the Iranians and the Omanis now impose tolls, we are further from freedom of the seas and closer to legitimizing Iran’s hold on the Strait.

Which brings us to the first candidate for being fooled a second time: Trump. If the president is conjuring a deal from thin air, the reason is plain: he bit off more than he could chew. As with his April threats of civilizational destruction, he has grasped that his latest promises of escalation were unlikely to bring the Republic to heel, and is hunting for an offramp that still points roughly where he wants to go. If this is de-escalation by any means necessary, then he has indeed been fooled a second time, and the shame is his. Then again, Trump might have learned caution from the MoU’s death, and so far he has said nothing about loosening the blockade or unfreezing assets.

Worth remembering here is a senior Israeli intelligence official’s estimate that, should the economic pressure hold, the Islamic Republic would not survive 2026. That was before the MoU and the several-billion-dollar reprieve the regime banked in the interim—yet he remains confident that a few more months would be enough to burn through those limited funds.

In which case, the one fooled may be the Islamic Republic. A standing blockade and a half-share of the tolls won’t begin to cover its deficit. And if it imagines Trump’s signature will shield it from American bombs the next time it fires on the Strait, it should find sturdier shelter. Then again, the other provisions of this agreement—an end to the blockade potentially among them—have not been forthcoming. As Trump used to say, “Iran has never won a war or lost a negotiation.”

The most likely candidate is us if we take Trump’s words on faith. After the oceans of ink spilled on clauses 7 through 9 of a now-binned deal, we should hesitate to treat another bargain between a fundamentalist regime and the most fickle president in memory as carved in stone. Otherwise, the shame is on us.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The prime ministers of 22 out of 27 EU member states have written a joint letter to the EU, demanding an emergency summit over the invasion of illegal migrants in Ceuta.

They are outraged by the recent ruling of the Spanish Supreme Court:

🇮🇹 Italy
🇩🇪 Germany
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇫🇮 Finland
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇫🇮 Finland
🇬🇷 Greece
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇵🇱 Poland
🇷🇴 Romania

France, Ireland and Portugal were the only larger EU states that didn’t sign the letter.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Finland is now JOINING Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in planning to block Spain from the European free travel zone, after up to 100,000 3rd world barbarians were allowed to invade Spain

MASS REMIGRATION with secure borders is the ONLY solution.

Defend the West or Spain is cooked!

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

Fauci was wrong about virtually everything. We were right all along.

-Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine worked—safe, early treatments that were deliberately suppressed.

-Masks were theater, not science.

-Lockdowns caused far more harm than good.

-Remdesivir was, and remains, harmful.

-The mRNA injections carried serious risks that were never honestly disclosed.

-Six-foot “social distancing” was an arbitrary invention with no rigorous basis.

-PCR testing was massively overused and produced huge numbers of false positives that were treated as real infections.

-The case fatality rate for most people was low.

-COVID originated from the Wuhan lab, and NIH funding flowed into gain-of-function research there.

Fauci funded and defended that research while publicly denying it.

He lied to protect his position, his funding streams, and his power. He harmed ordinary Americans—patients, families, children—to advance his own money and control.

This man should face real accountability. Put the villain in prison.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Bill Gates had a Q Clearance and a private editor at NIH.
Across nearly twenty years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation built a relationship with the federal government that ran on personal access as much as formal partnership. I'm releasing the documents. 🧵

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Breaking: Ex-CDC chief admits Fauci diary shows Americans misled on COVID virus, vaccine effectiveness https://t.co/mf3xUYueN8

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Joseph Marine @DrJMarine]

More shocking revelations from the Fauci files. The plan for universal covid boosters was hatched in the White House and not the health agencies. FDA and ACIP were regarded as inconvenient "stumbling blocks." Myocarditis in adolescent boys was another nuisance to be overcome.
The outcome was politically pre-determined.
They followed the political plan and not the science.
The corruption is beyond belief.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

So many people are calling me and saying I should pipe down and let it blow over and while they mean well I'm afraid it's not an option.
Doubling down works for Donald Trump and we share a birthday with Che Guevara, Alan Carr and Paul O'Grady.
What a supergroup that would be. Move over Steps.
What is most shocking is the amount of gay folk attacking me but I am smart enough to realise that what you are cannot disguise who you are. No gay person speaks for an entire community and if you support terrorism you can in the words of Divine 'Take your toolkit and go fuck a garage'.
When I say 'they want to kill every last one of us' I am also talking about us queers not just the Jewish community. When will you wake up?
Regardless of which side you take, I am disgusted by anyone who posts hatred against anyone but refuses to show their face.
If you have something powerful to say then you should have the guts to show the world who you are but most, if not all of you, are unwilling to show your faces and the only reason is self interest.

[Indiespensable Thinker @IndiespensableT]

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[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Unpacking the Fallout: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Fauci's Legacy and Restoring Public Trust https://t.co/3vmdnJHhzS

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Trump admin to cut Biden-era Medicare subsidy as projected costs skyrocket https://t.co/xXsx5oLIm1

[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

Remember when Democrats promised the Inflation Reduction Act would save taxpayers money?

CBO now says its Medicare Part D redesign is projected to add roughly $550 billion in costs.

One expensive miscalculation!

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Dr. Fauci’s recently released diaries reveal how much the media abandoned its skepticism and curiosity to elevate him as the oracle who couldn’t be doubted on Covid.
https://t.co/eZ8J4FYh9q

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: When a virus began killing thousands, Fauci and other public-health leaders gaslit reporters, stonewalled congressional inquiries and evaded Freedom of Information Act requests, writes @jamesbmeigs
https://t.co/IGXwpzKIGu

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The list was so careless that it included the commissioner’s own name.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Here's the truth about Tony Fauci:

He's just not that smart.

During the HIV crisis, guys who knew they would die if they couldn't sort him out talked some sense into him (he was obsessed with vaccines that didn't work, surprise surprise) and he finally came around and funded useful research.

But by the time Covid came around, he was too powerful for anyone to reach, and his ego was so big he didn't even know what he didn't know. He was an 80-year-old man asking the wrong questions as Jake Tapper and the gang fellated him (not literally, I hope).

Now - in his own words - he has revealed the truth some of us knew by mid-2020.

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

Fauci in 2022: “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee.

I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.

I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all.”