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[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

🚨 BREAKING: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has just fallen to its lowest level since August 1983- 340.3mb. That's a 42 yr low. No matter where you stand politically, it's a remarkable statistic: America's emergency oil stockpile hasn't been this depleted since the Reagan era.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Sen. Jack Reed: "Reuters is reporting that part of the deal is $24 billion in sanctions relief for the Iranians. So this is not a 'we win and you do what we say.' This is, 'how can we open up the straits? What will it cost us?'"

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Wait, is this for real? Trump spent $60 million of our taxpayer funds to host a UFC fight and then is selling UFC coin to line his family’s pockets. The Trump corruption swamp is a mile deep. https://t.co/jUtLu4cTaz

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Then why isn’t the Strait of Hormuz open?

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The "Trump Kennedy Center" apparently repeatedly ignored the terms of a contract with the Washington National Opera, locked the WNO out from viewing their own financial records, and is now refusing to return$17 million of their own money — and even already spent some of it!

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

We have a deal? Been down that road over 37 times. No one is holding their breath.

Trump needs a deal and the Iranians know it. He can't sustain this war politically at home. Gas prices are rising, Democrats are up 10 points in the generic ballot, his approval is stuck in the mid-30s, and even Republicans are breaking with him.

Meanwhile, Iran has been rearming and rebuilding far faster than predicted. We’re cornered.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

If Biden said "I love the inflation" the media would have collapsed on itself like a dying star in outrage. There wouldn't be enough room on the opinion page of the NYT or segments on cable news for pundits to demand he resign. This? A fart in the wind, forgotten by tomorrow🙃

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

The inflation story in one chart: gas +40% y/y, energy +24%.

An entirely self-inflicted wound caused by Trump’s War on Iran.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The inflation rate in Biden's last month in office was 2.9%. Trump (supported by a Republican Congress) has driven it up to 4.2%.

Thank you, voters, for your attention to this matter.

https://t.co/2BWtpX5aEf

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

JUST IN: US inflation jumped to 4.2% (y/y) in May —>the highest in 3 years and up from 2.4% in February before the war in Iran.

Higher gas and energy prices drove 60% of the gain. Shelter and food (especially restaurants) also contributed. The monthly increase was 0.5%.

Core inflation (excluding food and energy) was 2.9% —>highest since September

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

New Yorker exposé of Andrew Tate is even more horrifying than what we already knew. According to it, he raped and beat a 15-year old girl and bought her off with teddy bears. Tate was promoted by Tucker Carlson, Don Trump Jr., and Musk suggested he should be UK prime minister

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

CENTCOM said the pilots shot down were rescued at 7:33 PM ET within 2 hours after they were shot down. Trump boarded the helicopter from Bedminster to go to the Knicks game at 6:57 PM ET. So he was on his way to the game after they were shot down and before they were rescued.

[Owen Winter @OwenWntr]

Trump's approval rating is in freefall

[Molly Redden @mtredden]

After a decade+ of nonstop pollution offenses, GOP Sen. Jim Justice's coal empire learned earlier this year that it was under federal criminal investigation.

But before prosecutors could gather crucial evidence, Todd Blanche's office told them "pencils down."

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

BREAKING: U.S. SPR declines 7.9 million barrels in the last week to 349.2 million as of June 5, meaning that at any moment in the next few days the SPR will decline to its lowest since 1983, when it was being filled for the first time.

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

@JessicaTarlov @atrupar

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

As Trump screamed "Comey was a dirty cop" during "Meet the Press" questions about Trump's Jan 6 lies....

We should note:

1) Comey wasn't employed by FBI on Jan 6, 2021
2) The FBI worked for Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2021
3) Trump launched the Jan 6 prosecutions on Jan 7, 2021

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump to NBC: “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war.” And: “So when you say I promised – I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.”

Reality: Trump promised in two of his highest-profile 2024 addresses not to have any wars at all, and he also made that promise in a bunch of other forums. Some examples:

June 2024 social media post: The election is “a choice between STRENGTH or WEAKNESS, COMPETENCE or INCOMPETENCE, peace and prosperity or war and no war.”

July 2024 Republican National Convention acceptance address: “With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. I don’t have wars.”

August 2024 Pennsylvania rally: “Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.”

August 2024 North Carolina rally: Approvingly claimed Viktor Orban had said, “Make sure that Trump gets re-elected president and you're not going to have any more wars,” then added himself, “No more wars. No more disruptions. We will have prosperity and we will have peace.”

August 2024 Adin Ross interview: Boasted that he had no wars during his first term, then said, “And we won't have wars again.”

October 2024 Wisconsin rally: Did one of his numerous renditions of the Orban story: “Viktor Orban said, ‘If Trump comes back, you won't have any wars. You won't have any wars.’ And he's about as tough as they get, and he said it loud and clear and he said why. But you won't have any wars.”

November 2024 Election Night victory address: “I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars.”

That is in addition to the many times he struck similar themes without the explicit promise of having no wars period if elected again – for example, vowing to stop “endless” wars or prevent “World War III,” denouncing “warmongers,” boasting of having had “no wars” in his first term, or saying we don’t “need” wars.

Fact check with links to his full comments: https://t.co/qMQ8JmVG4z

[Robert E Kelly @Robert_E_Kelly]

An obvious tell of Trump’s unfitness for office is how often he talks about stuff regular ppl know as if it’s a staggering insight only he has figured out

Bc he doesn’t read, he’s constantly blow away by stuff like like ‘b’ in the word dumb, ‘the nuclear’, electric batteries

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor said Friday that his office is pursuing “multiple” election fraud investigations in California, amping up President Donald Trump’s baseless attacks on the state’s still-ongoing primary vote count. https://t.co/V0YHgs1XJX