The Forgotten Soldier

Progressive voter pushing back against tyranny, racism, facism, misogyny and the lies of Trumpism. researcher of #AI tech, investor and trader of stocks.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Marco Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep.

Rep. Ted Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

[The Forgotten Soldier @PDX_Reporter]

The Justice Department is permanently abandoning its plan to set up a $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress on Tuesday.

“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche said in a hearing with the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department’s funding.

via @lindsemcpherson @WashTimes

[Rob Shiveley, Financial & Tax Strategist, CPA, MBA @PDX_CPA]

Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his tax information in a case in which the IRS was preparing to fight. The DOJ, which is controlled by Trump, is barring investigations or audits of Trump’s past tax filings and those of his family members or businesses.

“We’re talking about Trump family members who have had almost a doubling of their net worth in the last year and a half. How can you not at least have them be subjected to the same thing I’m subjected to and every one of you?”

— Senator Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

The hiring rate was just 3.2% in April — hovering around its lowest level since 2013 (outside the 2020 shock).

The job market has frozen for many job seekers.

[Andy Duehren @aduehren]

Gift link: https://t.co/bFL6fdlVy3

[Andy Duehren @aduehren]

Scoop: Lawyers at the IRS prepared a 25-page memo recommending that DOJ move to dismiss Trump's lawsuit against the agency.

DOJ instead settled the case by creating the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund.

[Andy Duehren @aduehren]

Link: https://t.co/mTxLxg5Bkn

[Andy Duehren @aduehren]

Scoop: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department suddenly stepped down on Monday.

Comes in the wake of the Trump admin's $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund."

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

SENIOR IRANIAN SOURCE TO REUTERS: IRAN'S NUCLEAR ISSUE IS NOT PART OF THE PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Thomas Massie has said he will publicly read the names of the Epstein clients before his time in Congress comes to an end.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Senator Thom Tillis slams Trump’s $1.8B slush fund:

“I think it’s stupid on stilts… Taxpayer dollars will compensate someone who assaulted a police officer, got convicted…and now we’re going to pay him for that? This is absurd!”

[Steven Cheung @StevenCheung47]

Do not ever doubt President Trump and his political power. Fuck around, find out.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did today.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."

An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️

[Acyn @Acyn]

Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China. 

Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well. 

The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer. 

Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company.

That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company.

Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies.

CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Let this sink in.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Price increases since start of the Iran war
Sulfur: +97%
WTI Crude Oil: +60%
Jet Fuel: +58%
Heating Oil: +55%
European Natural Gas: +54%
Gasoline: +52%
Diesel: +52%
Brent Crude Oil: +50%
Cotton: +28%
Urea: +24%
Rice: +23%
Fertilizer: +20%
Palm Oil: +12%
Iron Ore: +12%
Coal: +11%

[David Frum @davidfrum]

In case you've forgotten, here are some of the things learned from the Trump tax returns leaked by a government contractor in 2020:

In 10 of the 15 years before Trump won the presidency, Trump paid no federal income tax. In 2016 and 2017, he paid $750. https://t.co/yGgjY0sQdP