The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.
This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).
This means that the battle lines have been moved.
Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.
But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.
Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr
🚨SCOOP: The House Ways and Means Committee is circulating a package of SEVEN digital asset tax discussion drafts that would overhaul how crypto is taxed in the U.S.
The bills tackle everything from stablecoin transactions, mining and staking, crypto lending and wash sale rules to charitable donations and a voluntary disclosure program for taxpayers with past digital asset reporting issues.
The move effectively breaks apart the broader Miller-Horsford Digital Asset PARITY Act, as well as similar legislation introduced last year by @SenLummis, into a series of standalone proposals.
The drafts will likely feature prominently at Tuesday’s scheduled Ways and Means hearing on crypto taxation.
I have less and less energy for the drama flare ups. I am staying focused on the most urgent and consequential issues in America. NDAA section 224 is the priority! If we don’t stop this, who will?
@RoKhanna Thank you Ro for using your position on that committee to offer the amendment. Looking forward to posting that roll call vote from the Armed Services committee. Maybe they’ll go ahead and strip the provision instead of taking the vote, now that people are on to them.
And I will be offering an amendment in the committee itself to strip section 224 out, @RepThomasMassie.
Trump can't kill the Massie/Khanna partnership no matter how much he posts on Truth Social.
🚨 Israel is attempting a hostile takeover of the U.S. military!!
Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act “would all but fuse American and Israel’s armed forces together”.
DO NOT COMPLY!! 🤬
If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.
We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW
My sit-down with @AnaKasparian has made a splash and is performing very well.
I am so glad to see people enjoying these crossover conversations.
The lies surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, Charlie Kirk, and Gaza ripped us all into a new reality.
https://t.co/UjxPo8fsvb
BREAKING: Micron stock, $MU, officially hits $1 trillion in market cap for the first time in history.
12 months ago, this stock was worth just $70 billion.
Massive bombshell. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warns that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale. He confirms tech elites have absolutely no mechanism to share the wealth, leaving the global poor completely abandoned to suffer. He is 100% accurate.
Catherine Austin Fitts on the Thomas Massie election results:
"I'm shocked he didn't win"
"The question [is], was it a fair election? And the answer is, I doubt it"
"[This] allows us to move out of the paradigm that we can vote our way out of this problem into a paradigm we have to take action across the board, including moving and shifting the money"
"It was basically a handful of billionaires against the people of Kentucky. And the question is, Could the people of Kentucky be forced to either rig the election or... vote for whoever does the most sort of dirty ads?"
"If you look at the ads, they were so misleading, so dirty, it was extraordinary. But you know what I'll say in that above-65 group [that voted for Ed Gallrein], that above-65 group has basically been trained, particularly in the South, to vote in whatever way AIPAC wants them to vote. And this is very unfortunate"
This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the), is taken from a discussion posted to the Children's Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) Rumble channel on May 21, 2026.
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"If you look at Massie's results, it says to me, first of all, I'm shocked he didn't win. And the question was, was it a fair election? And the answer is, I doubt it.
"But if you look at what happened, you literally had a small handful of billionaires literally forcing, putting up millions and millions of dollars. This is the single most expensive, congressional campaign in the history of the country.
"But it was basically a handful of billionaires against the people of Kentucky. And the question is could, could the people of Kentucky be forced to either rig the election or. Or, you know, vote for, vote for whoever does the most sort of dirty ads?
"If you look at the ads, they were so misleading, so dirty, it was extraordinary. But you know what I'll say in that above-65 group, that above-65 group has basically been trained, particularly in the South, to vote in whatever way AIPAC wants them to vote. And this is very unfortunate.
"In his concession speech, Massie said, I'm sorry to be late in giving my concession speech, but I had to find Ed, the guy running against him, to concede the election to him. And it took me so long to find him in Tel Aviv. And so literally, you have a clear message to the young people that you are being controlled by billionaires and foreign interests, and there's no fair elections in the United States.
"And so that allows us to move out of the paradigm that we can vote our way out of this problem into a paradigm we have to take action across the board, including moving and shifting the money.
"So to me, and I think if you look at, Massie's concession speech, it was very gracious. If you look at what he's going to do next for seven more months in Congress, you're watching a movement of the young people breaking out of the uniparty paradigm and, ready to bring about real change. So I'm very enthusiastic about the results of this election."
This post is from my Legislative Director, Raphael. He is the original author of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He was offered twice his salary to leave my office and declined.
The staff of @RepRoKhanna and @RepMcGovern also made tremendous contributions to the legislation.