Jack Smith

Passionate about music, politics, sports, and the internet. I wish I was a rapper.

[Jack Smith @jacksmith023]

Pause & remember those who have paid the ultimate price 4 R freedom. https://t.co/Qs47p7K3GO #Arlingtwins #AmericatheBeautiful #MemorialDay

[Dasha Burns @DashaBurns]

I asked @brian_armstrong why he posted this picture showing him and Jamie Dimon as the characters in Heated Rivalry ... 👀

⬇️ What he told me:

[Jack Smith @jacksmith023]

Folks have written @politico off like 17 times since 2016 & each time we just become stronger, more essential to everyone who occupies the halls of power in business & government. The problem for those folks now is we are doing it now at the federal, state & global level.

[Jack Smith @jacksmith023]

@ABC She is a hero. She's a good example for all billionaires.

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

Factual thoughts….@ScottPelley and @mhenryschuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too. I wrote him when I was hired.

[Jack Smith @jacksmith023]

@ARLnowDOTcom Ban all tobacco smoke shops in Arlington. They are nuisance in every neighborhood they are in and generally look awful.

[Dasha Burns @DashaBurns]

Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong told me it's "kind of sad" to hear Jamie Dimon call him "full of shit."

"I think, in general, when people communicate through the media, nuance gets lost," he said on #TheConversation.

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[POLITICO Press @POLITICOPress]

NEW: @dustingardiner joined @Boris_Sanchez on @CNN to analyze the developing results from California's elections.

Watch👇

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

The House just passed this geothermal package by voice vote 🚨. "At a time of extreme political polarization, this package shows that Congress can still come together on commonsense solutions to better the lives of the American people,” @RepAOC told me

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

Hello AI watchers! Here is a round up of @politico’s reporting on the twists and turns of the White House Al executive order which has been months in the making.

- We scooped this morning that President Trump privately signed the EO today after meeting with a small group of senior officials yesterday: https://t.co/aFB3xSZvbW

- The final version was very similar to the unsigned version we published two weeks ago, except the 90-day government review period was shortened to 30 days: https://t.co/tyMGwdxj4T

- When Trump pulled the EO last minute on May 21, we were first to report that David Sacks tanked it by calling Trump directly: https://t.co/0GLIe4M4uj

- The sudden decision to pull the EO also exposed the three main camps in the West Wing on how to regulate the emerging technology: https://t.co/7AYBb20x5i

- Secretary Bessent was displeased in the early stages of the policymaking process with the pace of the admin response to Mythos, as he and ONCD disagreed over their respective lanes: https://t.co/5dQGC3I7bW

- My colleagues were first to report on the turmoil inside ONCD: https://t.co/gLekxYwSJA

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This is a fun story, but note that Barack Obama and Joe Biden both also had to deal with Israel’s desire to get a war with Iran going and managed to actually avoid this situation rather than just yelling on the phone.

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

NEW: FERC's big AI rule is coming to speed data center access to the grid. I spoke w/Commissioner David LaCerte for the @politico Energy Podcast on what to expect. In this timely ep, LaCerte goes off on Big Tech for 'self-inflicted wound' causing backlash https://t.co/xZ8wFRwq43

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Footage from Congo

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I’m actually pretty pissed at how badly they’ve bungled America 250. First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders. Then when that didn’t work they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes. This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 year history. Now it will be a political rally identical to the ten million other ones we’ve already seen.

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

Bezos did a Roman’s Rocket Launch from Succession IRL lol

[Dasha Burns @DashaBurns]

NEW: Jill Biden’s memoir is the latest frustration for Democrats eager to move on from 2024.

Former Biden aide Meghan Hays tells me on @CSPAN’s "Ceasefire" that the book risks reopening debates about age and the election just as Democrats have momentum.

"It is not welcome from Democrats."

Latest w/ @lisakashinsky and @andrewjfhoward

https://t.co/PsQknFb5Xr

[Jack Smith @jacksmith023]

@clintonyates Oh hell yeah.

[CDC @CDCgov]

Effective May 28, 2026, after 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), CDC will expand public health entry screening for Ebola to include John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). CDC’s Port Health Protection system operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to support these and other public health response activities at U.S. ports of entry. John F. Kennedy International Airport previously conducted enhanced public health entry screening and has established operational procedures in place.

Enhanced public health entry screening is currently conducted at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), and George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Public health entry screening serves as one component of CDC’s layered public health approach, which also includes overseas exit screening, airline illness reporting, and post-arrival public health monitoring.

[Jack Smith @jacksmith023]

Is Burning Bridges from @Drake a tribute to Dillion Brooks’ pregame dance with the Grizzlies? @JoeBuddenPod