BREAKING: Jared Kushner is reportedly pissed his lawsuit threats against Vanity Fair didn't scare them into retracting their reporting of his laundered foreign bribes because his lawsuits couldn't possibly be backed up by the financial records he'd have to disclose in discovery.
DOSE OF REALITY: The WNBA has spent the week bragging about Game 1 of the Finals being some ratings juggernaut despite it not breaking into the 10-most watched WNBA games of the season.
How'd Game 2 go? It drew as many people as a 2025 Caitlin Clark preseason game against Brazil. Let that sink in. PRESEASON.
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
Reporter: You're offering 10% to whistleblowers—
Trump: 1%
Reporter: Okay, that's actually worse. According to the False Claims Act, which has been on the books since 1863, whistleblowers can get between 10% and 25%.
New Talarico ad running statewide:
"Ken Paxton says, I don't have his experience, and he's right.
"I've never been indicted for fraud. I've never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I've never been impeached by my own party, and I've never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.
"I have a different kind of experience. I've worked with both parties to cap the cost of insulin and pass the largest property tax cut in Texas history. I'm James Tallarico and I approve this message because we need a different kind of experience in Washington."
Ken Paxton assumed a Maga influencer was a Democrat protester just because she was black, & had her removed from his rally.
She has 200k Tik Tok followers.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump adviser Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year that included access to Trump, according to a text message reviewed by Axios that the WH counsel is investigating. https://t.co/UBX5EO98cv
"According to analysis conducted by the Financial Times, 24 ships were hit in the two weeks to 11 October, the most intense period of attacks in the entirety of the war. It is almost double the second worst period, when in the first two weeks of the war in March, 13 ships were hit. 'Iran may be developing its anti-ship missile capabilities to improve its ability to target vessels,' the Institute for the Study of War said."
Bet you'll never guess who's helping Iran develop its anti-ship missile capabilities...
The Strait remains perilous, oil hits $100 a barrel, and the country helping America's adversary in the Gulf gets sanctions lift, while the country helping to protect U.S. forces there from drone attacks gets its air defense system degraded. https://t.co/lRnngvA3ZR