Diane Gray

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Russia is attacking everything. It’s no longer under the cover of darkness, and they don’t even bother lying about it anymore.

They don’t need to.

Internationally, virtually nobody is saying a damn thing about it.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year.

You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Scenes from Kyiv, just 24 hours after Trump's son-in-law sat in the city center asking Ukrainians to help Putin accomplish his "aspirations".

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here’s a list of Scott Bessent’s wrong predictions and/or promises that didn’t happen:

February 5, 2025: Long-term interest rates would come down as Trump’s economic policies took effect.

Spring 2025: The federal deficit would move toward 3% of GDP.

Spring 2025: Trump’s policies would produce roughly 3% sustained real GDP growth.

July 8, 2025: The U.S. would collect well over $300 billion in tariff revenue in 2025.

September 1, 2025: The Supreme Court would uphold Trump’s emergency tariffs.

September 7, 2025: The economy would see a “substantial acceleration” in Q4 2025.

December 7–16, 2025: 2025 would finish with 3% to 3.5% real GDP growth.

December 16, 2025: Inflation would see a substantial drop in the first six months of 2026.

February 20, 2026: The economy could grow at least 3.5% in 2026.

April 14, 2026: 2026 GDP growth could easily exceed 3% or 3.5%.

April 14, 2026: Core inflation was falling and the Federal Reserve would need to cut interest rates.

April 14, 2026: Trump’s tariffs could be restored to their previous levels by the beginning of July.

June 2026: Again maintained that 2026 growth could reach roughly 3% to 3.5%.

2025–26: Lower energy prices, fiscal restraint and Trump’s policies would bring down long-term Treasury yields.

2025–26: Faster growth and tariff revenue would materially improve the federal deficit.

And now we get to track this one:

September 5, 2026: Oil could eventually fall to $40–$50 per barrel after the Iran war ends. The economy is now “in the liftoff phase.”

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Just to make clear how dramatic these [E. coli] readings were, the level considered unsafe for bathing is 1,000 colony-forming units per 100ml. The group’s highest reading showed 370,000."

Christchurch Harbour everyone, Christchurch Harbour.

https://t.co/CH7nvPaAVr

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainians Russia has murdered under Putin's command will have no incredible stories and their families will have only memories of them. What a disgrace, these worms supposedly representing America.

[Cedric Leighton @CedricLeighton]

One thing to keep in mind about the #Witkoff #Kushner motorcade in Moscow: They are being driven to & from the Kremlin in Aurus limousines- specially built for Russian leaders. Witkoff & Kushner are not in U.S. Embassy vehicles. Field day for Russian intelligence….

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump has found so many ways to use the presidency to enrich himself and his family that we had to narrow the list down.

Here are 75 of the most staggering examples of Trump corruption in 2026. And yes, there were more. Read Ron Filipkowski’s full breakdown: https://t.co/F6OcxzK4u3

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A company in Riga, Latvia is paying a 300,000 dollar monthly budget to overseas contractors, told explicitly to hide their location with US proxy servers, to post clips designed to look like ordinary Americans spontaneously praising the GOP. The campaign's own instructions state the goal in writing: so that republican win in USA. No disclosure that the poster was paid, no disclosure it is coordinated. The money trail traces to Blake Wynn, 26, nephew of mega donor Steve Wynn, whose company's employees uploaded the campaign's source videos.

Wynn has said he regularly talks to FBI Director Kash Patel, sat next to Trump on Election Night 2024, and was close with Charlie Kirk. The campaign's own banned topics list is its own tell, no Jan 6 videos, no Trump family crypto, no RFK Jr, careful image management dressed up as spontaneous grassroots enthusiasm. When the Atlantic's reporter contacted everyone involved, the campaign folders and Discord listings started disappearing within a day.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

He was convicted of terrorism and this was a qualification, not a deterrent, to his appointment by Netanyahu.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

No matter where you stand on Ukraine, you'd have to recognize this is extremely problematic.

Not even 3 months ago this guy was Ukraine's Minister of Defence, meaning in charge of weapons procurement, including from Palantir - the company whose CEO is now the lead investor in his new private venture.

That alone should raise eyebrows, and not in a small way...

But also think about it from a European taxpayer's standpoint.

EU taxpayers have given literally hundreds of billions to Ukraine's war effort, much of it spent buying American defense technology - including from Palantir.

And now the expertise that spending generated is being privatized by those same Americans, and will likely be sold back to Europeans as a product.

There is a common talking point in Europe that goes "sure we're spending an eyewatering amount of money to support Ukraine but it's also an investment in European strategic autonomy - Ukraine's battlefield innovations will feed Europe's future defense capacity."

I'm not making it up, that's a real argument made by serious people, for instance the German Council on Foreign Relations (https://t.co/cPts72NyMl): "The defense-industrial integration of Ukrainian innovation with European production and funding capacity bears huge potential for Europe’s collective security. Increased cooperation would give the EU and Ukraine greater autonomy from the US."

This deal illustrates perfectly just how wrong that argument is turning out to be. The first major privatization of Ukraine's defense expertise is... an American-owned startup.

Lastly there is the Palantir angle, a company so problematic that many, if not most, major European countries - such as France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and even Germany - are actively cutting ties with it, citing threats to data sovereignty and national security.

And yet somehow the man who ran Ukraine's defense with Europe's money - the single most expensive investment Europe made in several generations - is delivering the fruits of that investment to Palantir's CEO in a private deal.

Make it make sense 🤷

So, long story short, this is yet another chapter in what is becoming Europe's defining story: being the incompetent sucker in the room.

[Oswald @Oswald81288433]

Jesus Christ the state of that hull.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Yesterday the President revealed the secret of national wealth. “We don’t need their product. So if we cut off trade with that country, we just made $40 billion. You do a few countries like that, and we become a big money machine.” It is a lovely theory, provided you have never bought anything in your life.

Follow the logic and it only gets better. Stop importing aluminium and you have saved a fortune, plus you no longer need to make cars or aircraft, which saves even more. Stop buying gallium and germanium and the chip factories can close, which frees up the electricity you were about to stop buying anyway. Every cancelled purchase is a profit.

Do a few countries like that, he says, and the machine hums. What it actually produces is emptier shelves, dearer everything, and a superpower proudly announcing it has never been richer, having bought, and built, nothing at all.

He is the president of The United States of America.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Kelly: "When Trump was bankrupting the Taj Mahal casino, I was taking fire over Iraq... When Trump was writing birthday wishes to Epstein, I was among the first to arrive at the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts... When Trump was pushing conspiracy theories against President Obama, I was sitting beside my wife's hospital bed... I've been through far worse in service to my country. The president and Pete Hegseth will not silence me."

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Doris Coulson wasn’t supposed to be fed solid food — Parkinson’s put her at risk of choking. The staff at Joseph Schwartz’s nursing home served it to her anyway. She died. Doctors found scrambled eggs in her lungs.

Her family sued and won nearly $19 million. Schwartz never paid.

Schwartz ran a $39 million tax fraud scheme through his nursing home chain — money that should have gone to employee payroll taxes. He didn’t donate to a campaign. He paid a lobbyist $100,000, filed on federal disclosure forms, for one stated purpose: “federal presidential pardon advocacy.”

Three months into his sentence, Trump pardoned him. The Coulsons still haven’t seen a dime.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Oh, Canada!

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 83
🇺🇸: 79

Infant deaths per 1K births
🇨🇦: 3.6
🇺🇸: 5

Senior Poverty Rate
🇨🇦: 12%
🇺🇸: 23%

Yearly deaths from lack of health insurance
🇺🇸: 68,000
🇨🇦: 0

Uninsured/Underinsured
🇺🇸: 85 million
🇨🇦: 0

Health Admin Costs Per Person
🇺🇸: $1,076
🇨🇦: $231

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. (It's not clear whether all that money the state waived was needed to attract the construction: in Georgia's case, by the state's own estimate, 70% of the data center construction would have happened anyway.)

[vaish⁷ @hobabylvr]

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters filmed on phones that will get closer and closer to where you live until you are filming it on your own phone" keeps getting real day by day and we're doing nothing to stop it, this is so fkn scary

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

New reporting from ProPublica just exposed that Pete Hegseth polled top military commanders on cutting the program that protects civilians from military strikes.

Every single one wanted to keep the program, but Hegseth gutted it anyway for being too “woke.”

What followed was a U.S. strike in Yemen that a Pentagon review confirmed killed 153 civilians.

On day one of Trump’s unauthorized war in Iran, another strike hit an Iranian primary school and killed up to 168 people. Central Command itself warned that these cuts would mean “increased risk of target misidentification,” but Hegseth ignored them. 

These are the consequences of having the greatest military in the world in the hands of the most incompetent SecDef in American history.
https://t.co/kPW6YIWzOB

[Great White North 🍁🇨🇦 @MadeInCanada_eh]

"We recognized that sometimes [the United State's] signature was written in pencil."

This line will go down in history