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“Football is our game, our business is winning.”

[Reyda 🦖 @MsReyda]

Guys. I don’t think people understand what is happening.

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

100 Watergates a week under this administration.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Trump faked y’all out yesterday. He didn’t implement Country of Origin Labeling for Beef.

He signed an EO to commission a study that will report back after the election and after we’ve imported 300,000 tons of foreign beef.

I’m the only R who’s actually voted to keep MCOOL.

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Some of the documented timeline from the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war announcements—each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Oil fell around 15 percent.

On April 17, around $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil dropped.

On April 21, approximately $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire. Oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million. Iran called the report "the Americans' wish list."

Previously, a senior Iranian official told investigative outlet Drop Site News that Tehran privately warned JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations—"more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@mattvanswol @Kelly4Info SECURE THE ELECTIONS is a weapon of mass distraction…

from the fact that Republicans won the elections and have since:

increased debt, increased spending, started a war, caused inflation, protected the criminal elite, betrayed our sovereignty, and infringed on your rights.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Oyer: "I had great hope Blanche would be an effective leader and responsible steward of the DOJ, but he quickly proved me wrong. Two days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser ... I was shocked to hear Blanche's testimony about this yesterday. What he said about my firing is provably false."

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.

US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.

But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

BOMBSHELL!!! PENTAGON PLAGIARIZED ADELSON FUNDED-ISRAELI THINK TANK TO JUSTIFY WAR ON IRAN!!!

The White House's official justification for launching the war on Iran, a March 2 document titled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens," appears to have been lifted almost verbatim from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Side-by-side comparison shows the same historical events, in the same order, with nearly identical framing reworded just enougH.

WHAT IS FDD?
Founded in April 2001 as "EMET" (Hebrew for "truth," Its original IRS filing stated its mission was to "enhance Israel's image in North America." After 9/11 it rebranded and broadened its stated mission to counterterrorism.

It is funded by some of the most prominent pro-Israel billionaires in America: Bernard Marcus (Home Depot co-founder), Sheldon Adelson (casino billionaire), Paul Singer (hedge fund billionaire), the Bronfman family (whiskey heirs), Michael Steinhardt, Lynn Schusterman, and Leonard Abramson. All are prominent pro-Israel donors. In 2011 alone it received over $20 million. The UAE also wired $2.5 million through a cutout in 2018.

It has testified before Congress 17 times against the Iran nuclear deal. It has spent decades pushing for confrontational US policy toward Iran.

The United States went to war against Iran. The justification was written by an Israeli intelligence cutout. And the White House put it on official letterhead.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program.

"Then I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this." https://t.co/IVYuX8URKf

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers & importers absorbed 96%," per WSJ

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Thanks to Trump, right-wing multibillionaire Larry Ellison will now control the TikTok algorithm, along with:

CBS
MTV
The Free Press
BET
CMT
Simon & Schuster
Nickelodeon
Paramount+
Pluto TV
and more

This is what Oligarchy looks like.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

"This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board." —@_david_ho_

https://t.co/YVuyoyunwQ

[Nateinthewild | Nate Luebbe @nateinthewild]

As an American citizen it is intensely offensive to me that we would spend this kind of money on Greenland when we don’t have universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave, good public schools or any sort of social services.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Breaking: After a historic 19-season run in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin just informed his team that he is stepping down as the Steelers head coach, sources tell @JFowlerESPN and me.

The Steelers now will be looking for only their fourth head coach since 1969.

[Michael M. Grynbaum @grynbaum]

Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:

[Joe Rutter @tribjoerutter]

Updating one of my fave stats: The Steelers have gotten the ball 6 times this year to open the second half. The results of those drive: 4 punts, one interception and a fumble return for a touchdown.

[Matt @sixringsofsteeI]

- Fumbling the Kenny Pickett pick
- Hiring Matt Canada
- Letting Brian Flores walk for Teryl Austin
- Always neglecting the CB position
- Paying DK Metcalf T5 WR money
- Paying Pat Freiermuth T10 TE money
- The Russ/Fields carousel
- Clearly misusing George Pickens
- Banking on a 41 year old Aaron Rodgers

This team has operated like a bottom 10 organization since Ben retired. Somethings got to change.