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[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Donald Trump's former spiritual advisor and the former pastor of a Texas megachurch, Robert Morris, has turned himself into Oklahoma authorities today on child sexual abuse charges.

Throw away the key.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

USAID was investigating Elon Musk! 😡😡

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided.

And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract.

So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Elon is in charge of X, and it’s crashing.
He’s in charge of Tesla, and the stock is plummeting.
He’s in charge of SpaceX, the rockets are exploding.
He’s in charge of DOGE, how do you think that is going to end?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I went to the Senate floor to lay out for my colleagues the stunning story of brazen, open corruption during the first 6 weeks of the Trump presidency.

I think it's a story everyone needs to know.

1/ So a🧵with the highlights from the speech.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I’ve had my team cataloguing Trump’s corruption campaign since the start. Here’s the chart I used in my Senate floor speech laying out the stunning graft from just the first 6 weeks of his presidency.

[Lrviv @lrvivo]

Epstein Tapes: Trump Is "A Horrible Human Being" https://t.co/GzwOi41qRb via @YouTube

[𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖞 🏴 @hexxx___]

@frontlinekit Even @grok agrees

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Some thoughts on the US President's proposal for Gaza:
1) Look here at the attached image of one of the hostage release productions. What the President correctly sees is that Gaza has no objective geographic problem. It is not some windswept landlocked area facing droughts. It is located on a beautiful part of the Mediterranean with soft sands from the Egyptian Delta. It sits at the cross roads of two ancient trade routes. Connected by train through Israel to the Red Sea, it could provide competition to the Suez Canal (is this also part of the thinking?). It has energy reserves. It has everything it needs to be a major trading and tourism hub (and a US military base?).

The only problem Gaza has is politics - its people are committed to an ideology of destruction (sustained in that by organizations like UNRWA) - meaning destroy what the Jews have built next door rather than build for themselves. What the President seems to notice is that Gaza's inhabitants could have built for themselves something remarkable on this strip of land, and instead they chose - and it is an ideological choice - to turn it into an integrated weaponized landscape for the singular purpose of destroying Israel.

So the President sees what Palestinians, Egyptians, even Jordanians, should have long ago seen - Gaza is an extremely valuable piece of land - if, and that's a big if - the politics can somehow be moved from ones of destruction to construction, figuratively and literally.

2) However, the Arab world is no stranger to grand US building project ideas intended to help settle Arab refugees and move on from war. What the Arab countries have done in the past with such grand US ideas, beginning in the 1950's is take the money, hijack the agency though which it was to be done (UNRWA), build nothing, and keep the Arab refugees generation after generation turning them into a people - the Palestinians - tragically organized around the idea of no Jewish state.

This means that any grand project depends on taking advanced actions that will not allow it to be hijacked. As the US defunds UNRWA it must avoid repeating a situation where western money flows, but the politics of destruction remain. Perhaps, this is why the President speaks of the US taking over the territory immediately.

3) How can the politics of destruction be changed? The key is to end the lie and the scam of perpetual Palestinian refugeehood and the violent vision of "return" which underpinned the October 7th attacks and massacres, and which for generations have sent Gazans the message that Gaza is not their home, but a launchpad from which to "liberate Palestine from the River to the Sea".

How? transmute any notion of refugeehood and "right of return" into property rights in Gaza.

Gaza's inhabitants, regardless if they are given temporary or permanent refuge in other Arab countries, and even if they just remain in Gaza, must be struck from UNRWA's records as refugees and must each individually recognize that they possess no such thing as a "right of return" into Israel.

In return for that, and only after this is done, each Gaza resident receives a unit of property rights (such as an apartment) to be realized when Gaza is rebuilt. That right can then be realized or sold, but it is a simple property right in Gaza, where Gaza is home, not a destructive vision of "return" to somewhere else.

4) Finally, if I were Jordan, I would finally recognize how valuable Gaza is and I will make a play for it - offer to provide temporary or permanent refuge to Gazans - and in return take over Gaza as a Jordanian foot in the Mediterranean. I would then offer Israel to give back the Arabs of the West Bank the Jordanian citizenship that was stripped of them in exchange of Israel allowing two train routes from Jordan into Gaza through the West Bank and from the Red Sea, creating competition to the Suez Canal. (and if I'm Egypt, I would try to prevent Jordan from doing this, and offer to take over Gaza myself).

Bottom line: what the President's proposal served to highlight is this: Gaza is an incredibly valuable piece of territory. Whoever can figure out how to change its politics from the current ones of obsessive destruction to forward-looking construction, will benefit greatly themselves and will benefit the region more broadly.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Basel Adra won an Oscar last night for his anti-Israel propaganda film. The entire crowd cheered for him as he called on Palestinians to "resist".

But here’s what they didn't talk about. Adra is from Yatta, a Hamas stronghold that has produced countless terrorists. I couldn't find one instance of Basel condemning Hamas. Not in his speeches, not in interviews, not on his X account, @basel_adra.

Instead, his feed is packed with blood libels, terrorist propaganda, and straight-up antisemitism.

They call Yatta a town despite its population of over 60,000 because it makes it sound more sympathetic. If they admitted it was a full-fledged city pumping out terrorists year after year, it wouldn’t have the same effect. They shrink it down to make it seem like some struggling little village instead of a breeding ground for radicalism. The area that is actually in conflict is a miniscule portion of the wider city. It's the same trick they use with so-called "refugee camps", which have been around for 75 years.

Some of the deadliest attacks against Israeli civilians have come from Yatta, including:

🔴 The Sarona Market Massacre (2016) – Two terrorists from Yatta walked into a busy Tel Aviv market and opened fire, murdering four civilians and wounding at least seven.

🔴 The Murder of Dafna Meir (2016) – A 16-year-old terrorist from Yatta stabbed Dafna Meir to death in front of her children outside her home in Otniel. She fought back to protect her kids, but the murderer fled and was later arrested.

🔴 The Yavneh Stabbing Attack (2018) – A terrorist from Yatta entered a supermarket, grabbed an Israeli civilian, and stabbed him repeatedly in the neck and chest, leaving him critically wounded.

🔴 The Gush Etzion Stabbing (2018) – A terrorist from Yatta stabbed Ari Fuld, a well-known Israeli activist. Despite his fatal wounds, Fuld managed to chase down and shoot the terrorist before collapsing.

This is where Basel Adra is from. This is the place he constantly posts about, pretending he and his people are helpless victims while ignoring the parade of murderers his own city has produced.

He also claims that Yattah is an ancient Palestinian village where families have lived for generations. That’s a lie. Historical maps and records show no Palestinian presence there before Israel controlled the land. These aren’t long-standing communities. They are illegal outposts set up to steal land from Israel and force Jews out, exactly like the Israeli High Court ruled in 2022.

But they aren't just lying about history. Adra is part of the massive propaganda machine run in coordination with NGOs like B’Tselem and Amnesty International. Here’s how it works:

1️⃣ They harass Jews living in the area, trespassing, damaging property, and provoking fights.
2️⃣ The second Jews respond, they start filming.
3️⃣ They post the footage online with titles like ‘settler violence’ and "Jewish supremacy", Western activists eat it up, and the media amplifies it.

As far as I can tell, he has never condemned a single Palestinian terror attack. Not once. Instead, he spends his time spreading anti-Israel blood libels, glorifying ‘resistance’ at the Oscars to massive applause, and feeding the West a fake sob story. Meanwhile, his hometown keeps churning out terrorists, and the families of murderers proudly celebrate them as heroes.

Hollywood just handed an Oscar to a Hamas apologist from a city overflowing with terrorists.

Because of course they did.

[Mykhaïlo Golub @golub]

Sound on 🔊

[Tom Suozzi @Tom_Suozzi]

The 3rd Congressional District I represent is proud and patriotic. While I believe in the importance of seeking common ground, we must never waver in the face of tyranny, especially from leaders like Putin. I am steadfast in my commitment to championing democracy and freedom for all.

[Tom Suozzi @Tom_Suozzi]

Watch my full interview this morning on Squawk Box. We discussed the necessity of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse compared to DOGE's reckless approach, the importance of reinstating the SALT deduction, Ukraine, and more.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

How many times are you going to make the false statement that he doesn't beg governments for money?

Tesla got a $465M DOE loan, $11.4B in regulatory credits, and billions in EV tax breaks.

SpaceX has $38B+ in U.S. govt contracts, $900M in FCC subsidies.

China gave Tesla land, tax cuts, and local bank loans for Gigafactory Shanghai.

UK handed Tesla £200M in grants.

Poland helped fund 9,000+ Starlink terminals for Ukraine.

Starlink almost got a $885M FCC subsidy (denied in 2023), is being lined up for a $2.4B FAA contract, and is getting fast-tracked in Vietnam for licensing.

Canada gives Tesla buyers up to $13K in federal & provincial EV rebates, Quebec spent $9.5M on Starlink, and Ontario had a $100M Starlink contract (canceled in 2025 due to tariffs).

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world. Together with our allies, we defeated the Soviet Union—an empire so evil it had to build gulags and walls to keep its own people in. Destroying America’s alliances and abandoning the cause of freedom is morally and strategically indefensible. Putin will pocket Trump’s naive concessions and demand much more. Appeasement makes a wider war more likely, not less.

@realDonaldTrump, @JDVance, and @elonmusk have made clear who they are. Only fools—or Kremlin tools—would abandon NATO, side with Russia, and demand Ukraine surrender in the face of Putin’s brutal aggression.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wow, Vance and Trump are attacking Zelenskyy in the Oval Office

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Yesterday - Republicans voted to cut funding for Medicaid and Medicare so billionaires could get a 2 Trillion Dollar Tax Break.

Funding that was also meant for SNAP and Alzheimer’s medications for the elderly.

Then the fuckers prayed about it after the bill was passed.

There’s no Hate quite like Republican Christian love.

Fuck them.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Seeing how the USA now hellbent on emulating their newfound ally of Russia, both at home and abroad, I find myself obliged to repost my dive into Russia's posh cities, just to give your average MAGA a glimpse into the greatness Trump is sure to bring about! Do enjoy!🧵

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

What a shameful day to be an American.