David Lerblance

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Donald Trump made more money in one month via insider trading than Nancy Pelosi did in 37 years.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"We're not talking about Joe Biden though. The Biden administration is over. We're two years into the Trump administration!" -- Tim Scott's desperate attempts on Meet the Press to defend Trump's economic mismanagement by blaming Biden did not go over well with Kristen Welker

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BRENNAN: The president twice said the MMR shot may be lethal. Do you want to clarify that?

DR OZ: We want parents to have the autonomy to decide what their kids receive

BRENNAN: But he used the term 'lethal.' Do you want to clarify?

OZ: The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Trump said he'd be personally "involved" in deciding whether Netflix could buy Warner Bros.

One week after the deal was announced, he bought up to $500,000 in Netflix bonds and up to $500,000 in Warner bonds.

Four days later, he bought both again.

Then another ~$600K of Netflix in January, during the bidding war.

It's in his own OGE filing.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

National Farmers Union statement on Trump plan to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef

"Consumers deserve to know where their beef comes from, and American farmers and ranchers deserve credit for raising it. Imported beef is just a handout for monopoly meatpackers.."

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

694 of Trump's 1,051 stock trades in June were filed late.

The fine for that is $200. Total. Not per trade.

That's 29 cents per violation.

Here's the full month, day by day, straight from his own OGE filing:

JUNE 3 — Buys Palantir, $1,001–$15,000.

JUNE 12 — Buys $100,001–$250,000 of RTX. Sells Northrop Grumman the same day. Two defense contractors, opposite directions, one afternoon.

JUNE 14 — The United States and Iran announce a peace deal.

JUNE 16 — Sells Palantir, $15,001–$50,000.

JUNE 17 — Markets sell off as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh wraps his first meeting.

JUNE 18 — The big one. Sells $1M–$5M each of Meta and Motorola. Sells another $500,001–$1M of Palantir. Then buys $1M–$5M each of Berkshire Hathaway, Cintas, Visa and Mastercard. Stocks rebounded that day.

JUNE 22 — Largest single transaction of the month: sells $5M–$25M of a Vanguard dividend ETF.

JUNE 23 & 24 — Buys Palantir back.

Also in there: Coinbase. Home Depot. Treasury bond ETFs. A commodity ETF. Municipal bonds. A tech sector fund.

576 purchases. 475 sales. $78M to $263M. Twenty-nine days.

NOW THE PART NOBODY TELLS YOU:

The STOCK Act of 2012 requires disclosure within 30 days of learning about a trade, and no later than 45 days after it happens. Trump blew that deadline on two-thirds of these. The penalty is a flat $200 per report.

He has paid it before. The Washington Post found $200 fines in March and August for the same thing.

And 18 U.S.C. § 208 — the criminal conflict-of-interest law that would stop any other federal employee from touching a stock they can move with a policy decision — explicitly exempts the president and vice president. Congress wrote that carve-out on the assumption presidents would hold themselves to a higher standard voluntarily.

A real blind trust has to be certified by the Office of Government Ethics under 5 CFR 2634. Independent trustee. Model trust document. Certificate of Independence. Every president for forty years before Trump did it.

There is no such certification here. The Trump Organization says outside brokerages run discretionary accounts and the family can't direct trades. Eric Trump calls it a blind trust. The White House says it's "independently managed."

A blind trust means you don't know what you own. This filing lists what he owns, line by line, and he signs it.

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88% of Americans — across both parties — think officials shouldn't trade stocks in office.

The House bill with a pending discharge petition covers members of Congress only. The Senate version that cleared committee would cover the president too.

Guess which one is moving.

The filing is public. Read it yourself before someone tells you what's in it.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

🏛️ LOSS: The Arkansas Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit to put a measure before voters this November that would stop lawmakers from overturning constitutional amendments passed by voters.

Not only did the court disagree — it dismissed the lawsuit without explaining why. https://t.co/iaG5BJzIej

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

These women are American heroes and constitutionally righteous.

They exposed plainclothes ICE agents, condemned their actions, filmed them, and followed them into the parking lot. All 100% legal.

PAXIS confirms that criticizing government agents is not obstruction. Recording them is not a crime. Peaceful protest does not become illegal because agents find it uncomfortable, or because crying babies on the internet don’t like it.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY helps immigrants and allies understand their rights, record safely, preserve evidence, and hold government agents accountable.

PAXIS is free. Help keep it that way: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

Know your rights. Record safely. Demand names, badges, warrants, reports, and accountability.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is Donald Trump's AmeriKA

This is what 77 million lost Americans gleefully voted for.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

1/ In March 2025, shortly after his return to power, Donald Trump’s administration postponed the compliance deadline for the FDA’s Food Traceability Rule by 30 months. That moved it back from January 20, 2026, to July 20, 2028. We are now paying the price.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

20 years ago @Rosie had “snake oil salesman” Trump figured out completely, no wonder he hates her 👇🏽

Watch:

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

The leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway have arrived in Kyiv to take part in Ukraine’s National Flag Day and Independence Day commemorations, standing in solidarity with Ukraine.

Photos: Andrii Sybiha/X

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Bravo!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I'm tired of this BS. Charlie Kirk hated Muslims & mocked the deaths of Muslims, cracking jokes about innocent Palestinians having their homes destroyed & referring to "stupid Muslims." His murder was inexcusable & horrific, obviously, but he was undeniably a hate-filled bigot.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Official website of the US Department of Agriculture: “From 1989 to 1998, CUSTA and NAFTA dismantled virtually all tariff and quota barriers to Canada-U.S. agricultural trade, with a few notable exceptions, including: U.S. imports of dairy products, peanuts, peanut butter, cotton, sugar, and sugar-containing products—as well as Canadian imports of dairy products, poultry, eggs, and margarine.”

“In general, USMCA continues NAFTA’s provisions for tariff- and quota-free trade for almost all agricultural products traded between the United States and Canada, while offering broader market opportunities for U.S. exports to Canada of dairy, poultry, and egg products.”

https://t.co/YH2iGp248s

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

When you appoint reality TV people to the most important positions of the government running massive federal agencies, don’t be surprised when they treat the job like a reality TV show starring themselves while we pay them and the expenses.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Even without a slush fund, Trump has still backdoored $1.776 billion to his allies

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Instead of being in Memphis & DC, the National Guard should be in Gary helping them.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

In my judgement, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases. Iran now poised to control access the Gulf States. US will have to negotiate new access in western Saudi Arabia, Israel, southern Europe.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Hunter Biden: "My dad at 81 years old secretly got on a military aircraft, went to Ukraine, took a train for 16 hours to Kyiv as the first President of the United States to go into an active war zone.
Donald Trump fits his fat ass into a food cart truck and brings his work wife with him instead of the guy that carries the nuclear codes."