Steven Hall

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I just want a party that follows the Constitution.
Is that too much to ask? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Steven Hall @hallse]

Starting today I am part of AI Mission Ready, Cohort 2.

4 weeks with @theoathandoak, @strategyatwork and @leadwithai, building AI that actually does something in the work I already do. A working asst. by Demo Day.

A cohort of vets, I will share what I build.

#AIMissionReady

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. House will be in session only 4 full days from July 24th to November 8th.

That’s 100 paid days off versus 4 full workings days plus 4 travel (half) days.

Meanwhile TRUMP says YOU have too many holidays.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The results of the Big Beautiful Bill are in:

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Being angry at Fauci or being angry at Israel isn’t productive anymore. The anger is justified, but without real accountability it’s just wasted energy—unless it’s directed effectively into a pursuit for positive change.

Trump won in 2024 because most Americans understood that wars in the Middle East are bad for the U.S. & that COVID was a crime against humanity. He built a historic coalition that promised, with conviction, that voting for Trump meant we’d get accountability, no more foolish wars, & an administration that would actually put America first.

Instead, we have a new war in the Middle East and Trump announcing he’ll honor Fauci’s pardon.

This is all infuriating, but don’t let it demoralize you—because it’s also clarifying.

We can declassify documents, stage hearings, and post talking points on the internet all day. But none of it matters when we have a justice system that refuses to deliver genuine, bipartisan accountability, impartial to political influence from any direction.

Right now, Trump has the ultimate power to pursue that accountability, and he’s choosing not to. That tells you everything you need to know.

We know who will hide behind performative outrage about Fauci, Iran, or the Deep State while taking no real action in efforts to shield their political careers—and we know who will actually stand up, fight, & tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable the consequences may be.

The problem isn’t the War Machine, foreign interests trying to push us into war, or the Deep State & their pathetic apparatchiks like Fauci seeking to control us.

The problem is putting our faith in leaders, again and again, who lack the courage to fight them.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

The White House posting a graphic from the pro-Israel think tank, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), illustrates just how influential the pro-Israel lobby is within the Trump administration.

The U.S. IC assessed that Iran was not seeking a nuclear weapon, yet unverified information from pro-Israel groups dominated the intelligence reaching POTUS in the lead-up to the war.

The tragic part is that the successful Iran policy Trump enacted in his first term—and was enacting this time around—was working, and he was on his way to securing a much better deal than the JCPOA.

This was a threat to Israel’s goal of getting the U.S. to provide the combat power for regime change in Iran. Groups like FDD, members of the media, donors, and key Israeli officials played a key role in convincing Trump that his policy should shift to zero enrichment and that the Iranian regime would quickly crumble if he struck now.

Hopefully, POTUS will look at the results of the advice he has received from FDD and the Israel-first/neocon lobby and correct course.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

American media used to call the USSR a "gerontocracy" because many of their officials were in their 70s.

Now, members of the US Congress stay decades and cling to power until death. Many are in their 80s. Dianne Feinstein was 90 and had no idea where she was. Chuck Grassley is 92. Biden is now 83. Trump will be 80 in June. Pelosi is finally leaving at 86.

The Congressmember who announced this Congressman's death herself is 82 years old (Virginia Fox), with a history of obvious confusion and dementia. The Hill is like a nursing home.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

To any red states that think this can't happen to you…

Less than 10 years ago, Virginia Republicans had a 64 seat majority in a 100 seat state house and 7 of the 11 congressional seats were Republican.

Stop treating the current fight like it’s business as usual and start acting like it is culturally existential.

Because it is.

[Francis Daniels @FDaniels86]

Buffalo hasn't made the playoffs since 2011... but

• they were the largest U.S. market for the 2026 Olympic Gold Medal Game
• In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 Stanley Cup Finals they were the largest local viewership from a neutral market
• In 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 they were the 3rd largest local viewership of any U.S. city for the complete postseason
• Game 1 tickets this year were $464 USD on average, the most of any team in the NHL
• they're projected as the largest U.S. market for the 2026 regular season

They're the most passionate American hockey city, hands down.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

This is class warfare. It is un-American, bad for business, and ultimately hurts the very people it claims to help.

Americans are already taxed enough, far too much, actually. The real problem is not that we lack revenue; it’s how Washington wastes it through rampant spending, fraud, and abuse.

The American way is to reward entrepreneurs who build successful businesses, create jobs, and provide for their fellow citizens, not to confiscate a chunk of their profit.

Capitalism is the way.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial.

There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance."

600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President.

The distance is my best work.

I am the reason these events are unrelated.

World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence.

Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated.

Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated.

Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated.

Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated.

Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard.

On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well.

The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders.

Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial.

His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded.

The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency.

Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name.

On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio.

Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job.

600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access.

A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25.

My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper.

The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family.

I am the reason these events are unrelated.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The New York Times story from today shows exactly how Netanyahu manipulated Trump into the war in Iran, and now to the verge of economic disaster and possible use of nuclear weapons:

1) Netanyahu was the primary driver of the military campaign, spending months pressing the U.S. for a major assault. In a high-stakes Feb. 11 Situation Room meeting, he delivered a pivotal presentation arguing that Iran was "ripe for regime change".

2) He and Mossad Director David Barnea presented intelligence suggesting that intense bombing, combined with Mossad-fomented civil unrest and ground incursions by Kurdish fighters, would lead to the Iranian regime's collapse.

3) When questioned by U.S. officials, Netanyahu argued that the "risks of inaction" far outweighed the risks of a strike, asserting that the Iranian ballistic missile program could be destroyed within weeks with minimal blowback.

4) To avoid leaks and pushback, the key Situation Room meeting on Feb. 11 was kept small. Vance was in Azerbaijan and unable to return in time, leaving the path clear for Netanyahu to make his pitch directly to the president.

5) While intelligence assessments were pessimistic, Trump deferred to Netanyahu’s confidence, believing that a U.S.-led mission could "finally bring an end" to the Islamic Republic.

The story is clear. This was a pet project of Netanyahu and he used his sizable manipulation talents on Trump, who proved highly susceptible. This led us to the current disaster. That is not a conspiracy theory and it is not antisemitism. It is a fact.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Our constitutional rights are not negotiable. I’m fighting to restore the freedoms that Washington has chipped away for decades.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Loving your country should never be synonymous with loving your government.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

A true display of American strength would be NOT taking the escalation bait. Don’t double down on failure by committing ground troops & increasing air strikes.

Show the world we can still lead by restraining Israel & negotiating w/Iran to open Hormuz, restoring order is power.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Israel moved the red line & forced the war.

POTUS’s original red line was no nuclear weapon for Iran. The Supreme Leader agreed & held a prohibition on a nuclear weapon since 2004. The disagreement & debate was on enrichment levels & monitoring.

The Israelis convinced POTUS that zero enrichment was the red line, the Iranians disagreed, we took out their enrichment capability w/ Op Midnight Hammer, making enrichment a dead issue.

Iran was back at the negotiating table afterwards, this was a major threat to Israel’s goal of regime change, so they forced our hand & attacked Iran, knowing Iran would then attack us, plunging us into the war.

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

FIVE YEARS OF GROCERY RECEIPTS JUST EXPOSED THE MOST PROTECTED LIE IN ECONOMICS.

Since 2019, the government says cumulative inflation is about 25%.

Here is what actually happened to the things you buy every single week:

Eggs: +79%
Ground beef: +77%
Coffee: +68%
Car insurance: +55%
Electricity: +43%
Bacon: +26%
Bread: +24%

Five out of seven of those are running 2x to 3x faster than the official number. And the only two that tracked near CPI? Bacon and bread. The lowest-cost, lowest-margin items in the basket.

The things that actually drain a household budget, the protein, the energy, the insurance you are legally required to carry, those are the ones the official number keeps understating.

The CPI was retooled in the 1990s to reduce reported inflation. They added substitution adjustments. They changed how they weight housing. They smoothed out the things that spike. This is documented BLS methodology, not conspiracy.

Food overall is up 30% since end of 2019. Car insurance premiums up 54% since 2020. Electricity just hit all-time record prices. But the official line is 2.4% annual inflation and the Fed debates rate cuts.

Your grocery receipt is the only honest inflation report left.

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

I’m a Republican. I supported Trump. I raised money for him, I voted for him. I donated $60,000 to his campaign.

Trump lied. He rugpulled us all. I didn’t vote for Lindsey Graham / America Second policies.

You can disagree with me if you want. It’s your right to be fooled. But if you say I have “TDS” or am a “liberal” you need a new argument. There are millions of conservatives and members of the now torched “broad coalition” just like me.

The only ones left supporting him are MAGA always Trumpers who place the man above the policies and our country.

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

My guy this was literally your job

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Netanyahu gave Hamas $35M a MONTH!

Hopefully it's now clear that Israel had an obligation to the citizens of Gaza and the world, to remove Netanyahu BEFORE responding to October 7th. Imagine having your society destroyed, and children killed, by a man cleaning up his own mess.