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[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

Today, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia announced a historic, peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement.

Thanks to President Trump, this partnership will strengthen prosperity at home and security to our allies abroad.

[وزارة الطاقة @MoEnergy_Saudi]

Saudi Arabia and United States Sign Agreement on Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS joins FIFA President Gianni Infantino in presenting the 2026 @FIFAWorldCup championship trophy to Spain 🏆

[Riyadh Thought @RiyadhThought]

A gap between the tools of two ages.

The thinker and the think tank are not operating with AI logic, where readers can expose manipulation in minutes.

They still operate like old print journalism:
a simple binary, then a stupid, biased conclusion.
https://t.co/OOcNgzM0Oc

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

Meanwhile in America…
An economics professor at Emory University is violently body-slammed to the ground and zip-tied by police for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
She keeps telling them:
“I am a professor. I am a professor of economics.”
This is what happens when you speak out in the “land of the free.”

[David Pyne 🇺🇸 @AmericaFirstCon]

In an interview with his daughter- in-law Lara Trump that aired today, President Trump admits the US should never have started a war with Iran. He made a similar statement on March 16th shortly after the Iran war began saying "you could make the case that maybe we should be there at all."

[Congressman Chris Deluzio @RepDeluzio]

Trump’s Iran War has raised prices at the pump and anywhere else affected by oil.

[Anthony Adragna @AnthonyAdragna]

🚨 Top economist Mark Zandi pegs Iran war cost at $100 billion and says bigger tax refunds this year now "no longer cover the higher costs of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel caused by the war."

[Senator Roger Wicker @SenatorWicker]

The rumored 60-day ceasefire — with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith — would be a disaster. Everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught!

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

We’re all wondering why this war was started in the first place.. and concluding that war hawks like you persuaded President Trump it would be a good idea. It wasn’t.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

The deal being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook: Pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world.

Not remotely America First. It’s straightforward: Open the damned strait. Deny Iran access to money. Take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region.

Overdue. Let’s go.

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, there has been a “sea change in public opinion” across the Middle East, write @AmaneyJamal and Michael Robbins. “People in the region have lost nearly all confidence in a U.S.-led regional order.” https://t.co/muZQ5FRuvK

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

God bless Thomas Massie.

He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot & kept his integrity.

As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm Jewish, British & 64

All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?

NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I think I have my answer and it is profoundly disturbing

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history.

Nancy Pelosi traded $5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind.

Trump literally executed $750 MILLION worth of stock trades in ONE quarter while being President.

His ethics filing just dropped and the numbers are genuinely unprecedented in history:

Between January and March 2026, Donald Trump personally executed 3,700 individual stock transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million.

That's roughly 60 trades PER DAY.

While signing executive orders, meeting foreign leaders, and making policy decisions that directly impact the companies he's buying and selling.

Now here's where it gets really insane:

On February 10, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell stock.

Three months later, on May 8, he stood at a Mother's Day event at the White House, thanked Michael Dell by name, and told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell."

Dell stock surged 14.6% that day to an all-time high of $263.99.

Since Trump's February purchase, Dell is up 96%.

And 5 months BEFORE Trump bought Dell stock, Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a sitting president's signature program in modern history.

So the timeline goes: Dell donates $6.25 billion to Trump's program -> Trump buys Dell stock ->Trump tells America to buy Dell from the White House podium -> Stock hits all-time high

And that's just ONE stock...

The same filing shows Trump bought Nvidia stock on February 10. One week later, Nvidia announced a massive chip deal with Meta.

He bought more Nvidia stock one week BEFORE his own Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia.

He bought Intel stock starting in March 2026. The US government already owned a 9.9% stake in Intel worth over $41 billion. On April 30, Trump posted on Truth Social praising Intel, writing that "Intel Stock continues to rise."

Intel jumped 3% in after-hours and is now up 140% year-to-date.

He bought Palantir stock while his administration was actively handing them billion-dollar government contracts for immigration enforcement and defense.

He bought Robinhood stock while his own Trump Accounts program uses Robinhood as the broker.

He's currently sitting on over 100% profit on AMD, Intel, Bloom Energy, Marvell Technology, and at least 10 other positions.

Every single president since Lyndon B. Johnson has used a blind trust to avoid exactly this situation. But Trump didn't.

His assets sit in a trust controlled by his own children, and the filings show a broker acted as agent on several trades.

The White House says the portfolio is "independently managed."

But here's what independently managed looks like:

Buy Dell stock. Three months later, publicly endorse Dell from the White House. Stock hits all-time high.

Buy Nvidia stock. One week later, your own government approves their chip sales. Stock rips.

Buy Intel stock. Post about Intel on Truth Social. Stock jumps. The government you run already owns a 10% stake.

Buy Palantir. Hand them contracts. Buy Robinhood. Route a federal program through their platform.

Nancy Pelosi got absolutely destroyed for her husband's stock trades.

Her husband's total disclosed trades in his most controversial year were worth roughly $5 million.

Trump just disclosed up to $750 MILLION in a single quarter.

While making the actual policy decisions that move these stocks.

This isn't a left or right issue.

We're talking about the President of the United States averaging 60 stock trades per day in companies his own administration regulates, contracts with, and publicly endorses.

What do you think?

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

Gates laughs at how Netanyahu tried to convince him to bomb Iran.

His implication, of course, is that Trump and Hegseth have been fools to take Netanyahu seriously.

What has happened to our foreign policy establishment?

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. https://t.co/EwO84oHzs8

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

In total, 115 ambassador posts out of 195 total positions are vacant nearly 18 months into the second Trump administration.

https://t.co/4grWAZY0Nv

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Notice Xi pauses the longest for Stephen Miller