Volunteer Director of Camp Fiesta ( a summer camp for kids with cancer), a former, long time youth baseball coach and a financial advisor for 37 years running.
🚨 BREAKING: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has just fallen to its lowest level since August 1983- 340.3mb. That's a 42 yr low. No matter where you stand politically, it's a remarkable statistic: America's emergency oil stockpile hasn't been this depleted since the Reagan era.
Say what you will about Obama’s JCPOA deal with Iran but it didn’t get 15 service members (that we know of) killed and 500 wounded.
Obama’s deal also didn’t shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
Obama didn’t kill 168 innocent school children.
Nor did he start a war that has cost taxpayers $35B and when indirect costs kick in, the fiscal burden could amount to $1T .
We were told the war was necessary to:
• remove the ayatollahs and IRGC from power
• get Iranians to rise up and take control
• eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons capacity
• end Iran's support for terror around the globe
• create stability in the Middle East
None of those things happened. None.
Instead, Iran is getting billions. Its homicidal regime is intact, worse than ever before. It keeps its weapons-grade uranium. It gets to keep its proxy armies in Hamas and Hezbollah. It is getting de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz and has been transformed into regional superpower.
This "deal" is a fiasco. Not just for Israel, but for the world. And it will take years to repair the damage.
This is NEWS.
1. Obama: $1.7B in unfrozen assets/cash for 98% reduction in uranium & limit enrichment to 3.7%
2. Trump: $24B in unfrozen assets/cash, $300B reconstruction fund, lifted sanctions in exchange for opened Strait under Iran/Oman control
-From @TheMaineWonk
It turns out that if you gut CBS news, gut 60 Minutes, promise to gut CNN, cancel Colbert, get $29B in Saudi, Qatari & UAE money, and hold a weird lavish banquet for the President and acting AG in a federal building… you can get your illegal merger approved by the DOJ.
Elon becomes the world's first trillionaire via an overvalued SpaceX IPO. It allows the billionaires who took Twitter private to cash out after new investors raise the stock price (a pump and dump), and now they're integrating it into indexes so retirees are left holding the bag.
It is a moral failure of our country that we changed the rules to create a trillionaire while doing nothing about the 771,000 homeless and over 18 million who do not have enough to eat.
Haberman and Swan are not brave truth tellers. They are rank opportunists who are profiting off their access while simultaneously withholding information in real time to justify the book advance they received.
Dolan is lying through his teeth. He is cancelling tonight’s watch party to make it look like Trump wasn’t the reason in game 3. Billionaire nepo baby is prioritizing PR for another billionaire nepo baby over Knicks fans. Just a despicable piece of shit.
Bombshell from Haberman and Swan:
Trump wanted the Epstein issue buried and snapped at anyone who mentioned it.
In the days before WSJ published that Epstein birthday book scoop, Trump tried to quash the story by calling Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.'s chief executive, and The Journal's editor in chief.
He failed. https://t.co/FRS0DNATAh
After receiving an avalanche of boos and middle fingers from New Yorkers, the 80-year-old pedophile psychopath fell asleep in the middle of the NBA finals game between the Knicks and Spurs. 😂🤣👇
This is a devastating interview.
Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.
Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
“Right now, CBS News is on fire”
Scott Pelley: “We need adult supervision and at the moment we don’t have it. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. It’s not their fault, but they don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen at 60 Minutes or CBS News before. That is my hope, a return to sanity. A return to honor, a return to courage. We used to have all of those things in abundance and now we don’t. We can save this. It’s possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire”
Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.
Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.
She fired him.
JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.
The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.
The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.