Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was sent a highly classified memo warning about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang and the memo was circulated on Air Force One and Trump was briefed. https://t.co/qpqftJtCKf
The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
Why is a Houston-based US Attorney threatening a Connecticut-based Senator over constitutionally-mandated oversight of DC figures?
Because the DOJ is hemorrhaging staff, who don’t want to do this dirty work, and this US Attorney is a trained seal for Trump.
No other reason.
BBC asks court to permit Jack Smith to sit for deposition in Trump's $10 billion defamation suit vs the media organization:
Smith has "strong evidence" that the January 6th violence was "foreseeable to Trump, that he caused it, and that he and his co-conspirators leveraged it”
This guard did his duty.
That may seem normal, but in the U.S. it’s becoming so rare when you see the cowardice of those who don’t dare stand up to these people and call the scoundrels what they are.
This guard demonstrated the kind of dignity that is the strength of democracy.
Initial reports of a serious incident involving the Iraqi Army in active hostilities against Iraqi Special Forces in the “Green Zone” of Baghdad, with elements of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) attempting to storm the area near the U.S. Embassy.
🚨This morning we reached the required 218 signatures on my discharge petition for Epstein Files Transparency Act II !
I’m working closely with @RepJayapal, @RepTeresaLF and @RepRoKhanna to get this to the floor for a vote soon.
🚨 CRACKS IN THE WALL.
Sen. Thune is now demanding the full release of the Epstein files.
He notes that in the UK, politicians and royals lost their positions over Epstein ties — while in the U.S., Trump officials like Howard Lutnick face zero consequences.
No more hiding. No more protection.
If your name is in those files, you answer for it. 🔥
There's something fishy going on in Alabama. Their state legislature set aside $1.3 billion to build 2 new "mega-prisons," but the construction of just the first facility has ballooned in price and devoured almost the entire $1.3 billion budget by itself. Total estimates for both projects have now expanded to $2.2 billion.
That comes out to $300,000 per bed.
The speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives called on the construction to be paused because costs are spiraling out of control, but Alabama's governor Kay Ivey rejected that request. Even high-ranking Republicans in Alabama are unhappy with this.
A single construction project involving mass incarceration has doubled in cost and fallen years behind schedule with little to no public oversight. I smell a much bigger story involving criminal activity, mismanagement, and financial corruption. And the consequences of this are putting Alabama further and further into debt.
Alabama is on a stretched budget with limited revenue streams. Spending $2.2 billion on 2 buildings meant for mass incarceration blatantly wastes funds that could otherwise go toward public education, food, rural hospitals, or housing. This should be much bigger news.
This is the fist bump everyone needs to be talking about.
Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans celebrating after blocking a bill to help toxin-exposed veterans survive.
A new lawsuit accuses Alex Bruesewitz, a digital strategist who worked as a campaign aide for Trump in 2024, of failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars he allegedly accepted from individuals associated with Qatar.
https://t.co/JWq0xFNsBh
SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. https://t.co/5Duzi14eEp
HOUSE MINORITY WHIP KATHERINE CLARK's office sent out this note to members about the TCAVA vote:
"After publicly announcing a recorded vote on TCAVA, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections. While RM Takano and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within minutes — depriving RM Takano of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history."
Dear @SecWar Pete Hegseth,
You are just a POS with no respect for fallen American soldiers.
You can't spin or explain this.
Your wife can't get you out of it.
Your own mother told us who you were.
Your mother was right.
House Republicans just jammed through a bill to CUT veterans benefits on Veterans Day. Plenty of money for tax giveaways for billionaires and corporations, but they have no problem slashing veterans’ benefits.
I will keep fighting this betrayal of my fellow veterans and right-wing efforts to gut and privatize the VA.