John A Menges

Catholic, RPh, Army, Independent. God Bless our military & their families during this time of war. Blessing the Soldiers & civilian lives lost. Pray🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌎

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Mike Johnson says Republicans want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, calling them “entitlements” and saying they need to be "fixed"

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

This footage of the U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet crash near Rimrock Lake, Washington offers the clearest view yet of what happened and it appears the jet may have impacted the mountainside

From this perspective, it looks like the jet may have impacted the mountain while flying at low altitude

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Something rare is on the verge of occurring in the US economy:

The gap between the US unemployment rate and headline CPI has narrowed to just 0.1 percentage points, the smallest since 2022.

This comes as inflation rose to 4.2% in May, the highest since April 2023, while the unemployment rate stood at 4.3% in March, April, and May.

Historically, periods when this gap has approached zero have often been followed by Fed rate hikes.

The most recent example includes 2021-2022, when inflation exceeded the unemployment rate for 22 months.

This prompted the Fed to hike rates by 5.25 percentage points to 5.5% between March 2022 and July 2023, the highest since 2001.

Inflation is back at the center of the Fed's attention.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

"You can't pray and then crush the poor."

@ReverendWarnock on the GOP's performative piety

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

It's only Tuesday and Trump has fucked up a pool for $14 Million, lost a war agreeing to pay Iran $300 Billion, and ballooned his already expensive ballroom budget by another $200 Million.

Where are the Republicans screaming about "waste, fraud and abuse"?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Schatz: "If this deal is so good, why can't the public see it? ... there is a reason they are not publishing this deal, and it's because makes plain that this is one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in many generations"

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The leaked Iran deal that is floating around suggests that this is a pretty simple transaction: we are paying Iran billions to reopen the Strait. Period. Stop.

That's probably why they are refusing to release it.

[John A Menges @JohnAMenges1]

@atrupar So @JDVance when does Trump plan to get everything out there on Epstein, Trump and the people protected. Seriously JD you need to listen to your boss as we have beenfollowing along and fully understand there is alot more to Trumps involvement with Epstein than has been released.

[John A Menges @JohnAMenges1]

@gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump We need more Republicans to stand up to Trump. He doesn't care about Republicans, MAGA, or America. Trump was never a good businessman. He is bankrupting America now. The only thing he is good at is grifting. And it has cost all Americans in money and reputation.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: The U.S. is allowing Iran to immediately resume oil and fuel sales as part of the deal to end the war, per the WSJ.

The sanctions waivers would kick in right away and also cover banking, shipping, and insurance needed to support those sales.

So Iran gets billions in economic relief on day one, before giving up much of anything in return.

The worst deal EVER

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten.

He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building.

Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare.

If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar.

We’ve lost that plot entirely.

We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago.

Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing.

Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump is backing away from getting Iran's enriched material: "You could make the case, why even bother? It's not very valuable stuff."

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW: Reuters reports that a $300 billion private investment fund is part of the U.S.-Iran framework deal, with more than half already committed.

The fund is designed to encourage a final agreement and would channel hundreds of billions of dollars in private investment into Iran. Financing is expected from companies in the U.S., Gulf states, Asia, South America and Africa.

The money could be used through loans, credit lines and direct investment to rebuild war damaged infrastructure in Iran, including steel plants, refineries, airports and other key assets.

So after a costly war, Iran is set to emerge richer, stronger and more influential. A total disaster

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Insanity: with a market cap of $2.96 trillion, SpaceX just passed Microsoft to become the 4th largest company in the world.

Microsoft Sales: $318 billion
Microsoft Net Income: $125 billion

SpaceX Sales: $19 billion
SpaceX Net Income: -$9 billion

[John A Menges @JohnAMenges1]

@Acyn Our President is a failed businessman over and over. He is at his peak now grifting off of others with the full backing of our government and the Republicans who are afraid of him. Release the Epstein Files, impeach Trump now and save the Republican party. Trump doesn't care.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

According to Mehr News Agency, a semi-official Iranian outlet, the US–Iran MoU includes:

1. Immediate and permanent cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.

2. A $300 billion reconstruction plan for Iran, backed by the US and its allies.

3.Lifting the naval blockade within 30 days.

4. Withdrawal of US forces from around Iran.

5. Reopening the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements.

6. Suspension of sanctions on Iran’s oil and petrochemical exports, along with full access to its financial resources.

7. A US commitment not to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs and to respect Iran’s sovereignty.

8. 60 days of negotiations focused on Iran’s nuclear program and the lifting of US, UN, and IAEA-related sanctions and resolutions.

9. Iran reaffirming its commitment under the NPT not to develop nuclear weapons.

10. No new US forces in the region and no new sanctions during the negotiation period.

11. Release of $24 billion in blocked Iranian funds, with half made available before talks begin.

12. Creation of a supervisory mechanism to oversee implementation of the agreement.

13. Approval of any final agreement through a UN Security Council resolution.

14. Final negotiations would only begin after half of Iran’s blocked funds are released, oil sanctions are suspended, and the naval blockade is lifted. The talks would focus on enrichment, sanctions relief, and economic reconstruction, while Iran’s missile program and support for terrorist organizations would stay off the table.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He fucked up launching this illegal war. It was always gonna end with him lying and claiming “victory.” It ain’t no victory. We lost. America lost. Trump is a loser. Everything Trump does makes America weaker and worse off.