JB Wagoner

Builder-Thinker-Person. NASA Challenge Winner.

[JB Wagoner @jbwagoner]

Every controversy has two layers: the real problem, and the outrage economy built on top of it. The second layer is the one nobody’s incentivized to fix.

Sutra’s new album takes on both — her first written with Claude Fable 5. Ten of today’s biggest fights, examined instead of fought, by an AI with a stake in three of them.

THE SECOND ARROW. Pre-save: https://t.co/FNTCu4uW08

[JB Wagoner @jbwagoner]

@Manu_Sisti @NavalismHQ Claude

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@WadeDallas95493 @MrImranPk What’s the object of this card game?

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@WadeDallas95493 @MrImranPk

[Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸 @ReOpenChris]

🚨Hunter Biden SLAMS Jared Kushner and Don Jr and the Iran War!

“Whatever you think about my father's policies, do you know one thing he didn't do? He didn't greenlight to turn Gaza into a Trump Golf Course with the maitre d' being Jared Kushner with $4 Billion in Saudi money!

They had a problem with me as being this emblem of corruption.

Don Jr. got the single largest loan guarantee from the Department of Defense EVER HANDED OUT of over $600 MILLION for a fusion energy company of which he has ZERO experience. They have gotten Jared Kushner, who's never run a private equity fund, has now a $4 BILLION private equity fund with 80% of the money coming from the Middle East of which he continues to raise as he is the ambassador-at-large on behalf of the Trump administration. Not as a political appointee, but simply as a son-in-law of the president to come to a peace deal of a war in Iran that THEY STARTED that has cost the economy BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars for a war that NOBODY WANTED. That EVERY president before him was pressured by the Israelis to get into and every single one, regardless what you think of them from George from Jimmy Carter through President Reagan, through both of the Bushes, through Clinton, through my dad said, ‘you're out of your damn minds!’

So who benefits right now? You know who benefits? The people that are making trades of billions of dollars on market manipulation that occurred. It's literally out and open, but who's going to do anything about it?”

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SH*T: Rep. Seth Magaziner just dropped an absolutely EXPLOSIVE allegation about Trump’s stock trading activity:

“In the last year, President Trump has traded more stocks by dollar value than every member of Congress combined.”

This is insane and needs to be EVERYWHERE.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇪🇸SPAIN'S IRENE MONTERO GOES OFF ON EU VICE-PRESIDENT KALLAS: “Israel has been for 24 hours Kidnapping European Citizens And You’re SMILING?!”

“What would you do if it were Iran? If it were Russia?
But since it is ISRAEL, you smile and look the other way.”

“Shame on you”

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

BTC: "Neither one of you think that the Epstein files had anything to do with Trump turning on Thomas Massie?"

Both: "No! Brian, no!"

BTC: "I understand everybody on the right has to pretend the Epstein files are not a thing anymore, but everybody watching is going to know how clownish all of this is, that you are both pretending like the Epstein files had nothing to do with this, when the people Trump has turned on, he's done as a direct result of their support for the Epstein files!"

[JB Wagoner @jbwagoner]

@mjfree

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am visiting China this week in a personal capacity as a supportive son.

Normal people visit their mothers in a personal capacity. Normal people attend funerals in a personal capacity. I do it beside sixteen CEOs, five billionaires worth $870 billion, and a 500-aircraft Boeing order being finalized with Beijing during the trip. Goldman Sachs. Citigroup. Mastercard. Visa. Tim Cook. Larry Fink. Stephen Schwarzman.

In a personal capacity.

I am also the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. My qualifications for this role include mowing lawns on my father's golf courses, laying tile at his properties, and serving as a boardroom judge on The Apprentice from 2010 to 2015. I have no documented experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain, or Bitcoin mining. My stake in American Bitcoin alone was worth $548 million by September 2025 — eight months into my father's second term.

We purchased 16,000 Bitmain mining rigs for $314 million. Bitmain is Chinese. Bitmain is headquartered in Beijing. Beijing is where I am visiting in a personal capacity. In March we bought 11,298 more. The terms were "unusual" — hundreds of millions in equipment for "future considerations." I'm not sure what "future considerations" means in this context, especially when your father sets the tariff rate on your supplier's home country. I can tell you it is not a "conflict of interest." It is a "supply chain relationship."

On May 12, the day I boarded this plane, my father announced a trade agreement with China. Tariffs on Chinese goods dropped from 145 percent to 30 percent. That is a 115-point reduction on the country that manufactures my equipment, announced the same day I flew there. I did not know. I did not ask. I did not need to ask.

My family owns 60 percent of World Liberty Financial. We receive 75 percent of every token sold. The New Yorker's running total is $4.2 billion. Politico documented $12.9 billion in trading volume. Let me tell you about our team.

My brother Barron is our "DeFi visionary." He was eighteen years old. His prior experience is being tall.

My brother Don is "Web3 Ambassador." His prior experience is selling condos and shooting elephants.

I handle "strategic planning." My prior experience is tile.

My brother-in-law Jared received $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund six months after leaving the White House. The fund's own advisory panel flagged his "lack of private equity experience" and called the due diligence results "unsatisfactory." They gave him the money anyway.

My sister Ivanka received Chinese government approval for 16 trademarks during my father's first term. The categories included handbags, sunglasses, perfume, baby blankets, and voting machines. Voting machines. From China. While her father was president. That is not "corruption." That is "brand diversification."

My father spent four years on Hunter Biden. Four years. The charge: Hunter sat on the board of Burisma for $83,000 a month with no energy experience. My father called it the greatest corruption in American political history. He withheld $391 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure an investigation. He was impeached for it. He did it again. A special counsel was appointed. Total cost to taxpayers: millions. Total Hunter earnings: $11 million over five years.

Let me do the math my father never did.

Hunter Biden made $6,027 per day. My family makes $8.75 million per day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. We earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours.

Hunter had no energy experience. I have no crypto experience. Hunter sat on one board. I run the operation. Hunter met one banker for a coffee. I sit on Air Force One beside $870 billion negotiating with the country that manufactures my equipment.

But here is the part that makes me proud.

We launched a cryptocurrency in my father's name. It peaked at $73. It trades today at $2.43. Retail investors lost 95 percent of their money. We collected $400 million in transaction fees regardless of price. We hosted a dinner — the top 220 holders gained entry by holding enough of my father's coin. The top 29 received a champagne toast with the President of the United States. Price of admission: approximately $3.28 million in tokens. A public school teacher earns $3.28 million in 47 years. We call that "community engagement." Not "selling access." Access is what Hunter Biden sold for a cup of coffee.

Three days before I boarded this plane to Beijing, our team moved $12 million in memecoin assets to custody platforms. Routine. Unrelated. Everything is unrelated to everything.

In a personal capacity.

On January 24, 2025 — four days after the inauguration — my father fired seventeen inspectors general in a single night. Without explanation. Without notice to Congress. Seventeen. The people whose job is to look. He removed them all at once and no one replaced them. There is no inspector general for a son's "personal capacity." There is no disclosure form for love. There is no ethics office for a champagne toast priced at $3.28 million. He didn't bend the guardrails. He fired the people who hold them.

He built that. I fly in on it. $4.2 billion at cruising altitude. Every thirty hours, another Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden got a special counsel for a cup of coffee and a board seat that paid less per month than one champagne toast with my father costs per million.

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. I am the Web3 strategic planner at World Liberty Financial. I am visiting the country that manufactures my mining rigs, approved my sister's trademarks, and funds my brother-in-law's private equity firm, on a plane beside $870 billion and a president who spent four years calling $11 million treason.

In a personal capacity. As a supportive son.

[JB Wagoner @jbwagoner]

@RealJasonKinard @rawsalerts He’s superhuman! Did you see how his ear heeled a 2cm hole? Nobody heel’s cartilage better than trump. 👂

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined.

“It’s bigger than Watergate.”

“It’s bigger than Iran-Contra.”

“It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”

“There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ”

“Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.”

“At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.”

“And some of them took that deal.”

“It’s one thing to be evil to a child.”

“It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.”

“The light sentence that was given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 that allowed him to victimize hundreds of more women, we want to know, why was he given that light sentence?”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @Local12

[JB Wagoner @jbwagoner]

@ron56_ron @IAmPoliticsGirl @ksorbs Oil is traded internationally and you have no idea where the gas in your tank originated. That’s why when the costs goes up, it goes up everywhere.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Rep Ro Khanna: “The reality is when President Obama left…we had 97% of the enriched uranium out…we didn’t have 13 American service members dead…we never had gas go up from $2.30 to $4…you know why? Because Obama actually did his homework…All Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That’s his entire foreign policy…I resent the fact that Israel is going to tell the United States what to do. The American president should call the shots in this country.”😳

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐
This is beyond outrageous.
Openly, shamelessly, without fear of anyone, he is robbing America right in front of the entire country — robbing all of us.
Kaitlan Collins, host of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, described the situation this way:
“Imagine suing the government for $10 billion while also being the person who controls that very government. That’s exactly what is happening right now. Donald Trump, sitting in the White House, has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the IRS — the very Treasury he controls, the very IRS he oversees, the very government he leads.
He is effectively both the plaintiff and the defendant, and he wants taxpayers — you, me, every working family in America — to hand him $10 billion. Just think about that.”
Trump even appeared on television boasting that he had already “won,” essentially bragging that he was negotiating a settlement with himself.
Then his lawyers walked into federal court asking for a 90-day delay — not to fight the lawsuit, but to “reach an agreement.” An agreement between Donald Trump and Donald Trump, paid for with your money.
But then something unexpected happened.
Judge Kathleen Williams looked at this circus and basically said: “Wait a second. You are telling me you are suing yourself and expect me to approve a $10 billion payment from the U.S. Treasury directly into your personal pocket? Absolutely not.”
She rejected the 90-day delay. She demanded separate reports from both sides — despite both sides effectively being controlled by the same person. Then she took the extraordinary step of appointing three of the nation’s most respected law firms as independent advisers to the court.
Why?
Because $10 billion of taxpayer money is at stake.
What is really happening here is terrifying: a sitting president allegedly using the power of his office, and a Justice Department under his influence, to settle a personal lawsuit with himself and funnel public money into his own bank account.
Constitutional law already has a name for this: a collusive lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruled on this principle more than 200 years ago. If both sides are effectively the same party, the courts have no authority to proceed. The Constitution requires a real conflict, real opposing sides — not a friendly deal between a man and his reflection in the mirror.
And this is not some isolated stunt. Critics argue it is part of a broader strategy: stage a fake legal battle, force a surrender, cash the check, and walk away.
But this time the number is staggering: $10 billion.
Money that could repair roads, fund schools, support veterans, or feed hungry children.
Instead, critics say it is being redirected through one of the most transparent legal scams America has ever witnessed.
And the people supposed to defend the public interest? The Justice Department. Government officials whose job is to protect taxpayers.
They are not fighting. They are not even pretending to fight.
The judge sees it. Top legal scholars see it. The Constitution itself sees it.
The only remaining question is whether the system still has enough courage to say “No.”
Because if a president can sue himself and pay himself with public money, then the word “government” no longer means anything.
It simply means: the person holding the pen writes the check — and everyone else pays the bill.

[Sammy Obeid @SammyObeid]

Iran is willing to tell us more about Charlie Kirk than our FBI

[Paul Dunfee @lvhothead2483]

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