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[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Trump administration waives 31 federal laws to speed construction of border barriers and roads in Texas' Big Bend region

The following laws have been waived for the project:

• Clean Air Act
• Endangered Species Act
• National Fish and Wildlife Act
• Safe Drinking Water Act
• Wilderness Act
• Federal Water Pollution Control Act
• Federal Land Policy and Management Act
• Eagle Protection Act
• Farmland Protection Policy Act
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• National Historic Preservation Act
• Energy Independence and Security Act
• Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
• National Park Service General Authorities Act
• Archaeological Resources Protection Act
• National Trails System Act
• Solid Waste Disposal Act
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Migratory Bird Conservation Act
• Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
• Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act
• Federal Cave Resources Protection Act
• Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• National Environmental Policy Act
• National Park Service Organic Act
• Noise Control Act
• Paleontological Resources Protection Act
• Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
• Antiquities Act
• Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act
• Administrative Procedure Act

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

He keeps showing off this same chart. Unwell.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

Ross Ulbricht founded a black market for drugs, illegal guns, and assassination services.

At least 6 people died because of his website.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Trump has blocked new U.S. aid for Ukraine, and hasn’t condemned Putin’s recent missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian civilians — and now on an apartment building in Romania. He doesn’t even call out Putin for helping Iran target U.S. forces. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? https://t.co/l60XzOQSig

[Kyiv. The City of Courage @Kyiv]

This may be the most infernal night in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war. Dozens of ballistic missiles, crusie missiles, hypersonic missiles and drones attacking the capital non-stop. Explosions are so loud, that the ground is shaking. Just praying that everyone sees the sunrise alive and safe.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Russia threatened to do this if Ukraine attacked the May 9 parade on the Red Square. After Trump’s intervention on Putin’s behalf, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire so Russia could hold the parade. Two weeks later, Putin unleashed the ballistic missile barrage on central Kyiv anyway.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.

[Matt Viser @mviser]

2019: Donald Trump calls on China to investigate Joe Biden for having son Hunter fly to China on Air Force Two as he sought business in China.

2026: Donald Trump flies son Eric to China on Air Force One as company linked to him explores a deal with a Chinese chipmaker.

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

This guy is a White House spokesman. So I guess this is an official communication?

[Dallas Mavericks @dallasmavs]

🔟 reminders why he’s your Rookie of the Year 😤

#MFFLAGG

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

New: Sen Mitch McConnell slams Pentagon for failing to spend #Ukraine aid passed by Congress: “Appropriators fully funded that authorization for fiscal 2026 with overwhelming support,” he wrote in The Washington Post. “Yet the Ukraine aid we passed months ago is now collecting dust at the Pentagon.”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨NEW: Under Pam Bondi the DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases.

Terrorism. White-collar crime. Healthcare fraud. Drugs.

Gone.

While opening 32,000 new immigration cases.

The same DOJ sealing the Epstein files. The same DOJ subpoenaing everyone who investigated Trump.

The same Pam Bondi testifying under oath in 14 days.

Justice is not the priority. Enemies are.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The Pentagon is denying a report by The Financial Times that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stockbroker was seeking to make large investments in major defense companies in the days before the U.S. and Israel struck Iran.

That report is raising more concerns about the people in and around the Trump administration who seem to be profiting in unusual ways.

@ElizLanders reports.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

"Mr Trump was asked if he would reconsider the US’s membership of Nato after the conflict.He replied: 'Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.'"

Putin would of course love the United States' withdrawal from NATO, which may only be added incentive for Trump to say this.
https://t.co/nzSbLYAwRJ

[Acyn @Acyn]

Phang: This is so typical of what has happened in this administration.

Michael Flynn sued and is now going to be given $1.5 million in a settlement.

Ashli Babbitt’s family is receiving $5 million.

The Trumps are suing for $10 billion.

Five members of the Proud Boys are suing for unspecified compensatory damages, plus $100 million in punitive damages.

I mean, that is just a snapshot of the type of bullshit litigation that is happening right now.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

50,000 Americans deployed to war
Oil over $100/barrel
Costs spiraling out of control
Airports still a mess

The President:

[Rep. Joe Neguse @RepJoeNeguse]

House Republicans are trying to change the law to give Attorney General Bondi the power to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys into perpetuity — without Senate confirmation.

Their hypocrisy in defending this radical departure from Federal law was on full display.

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mike Johnson: Tonight we have created a new award. We are going to do something we've never done before. We will honor him with a new award. He is the first ever recipient of the America first award. That is this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the golden era.

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

The most entertaining two minutes I've watched today.