Narcissistic Mortification

He can't stop his eventual demise and the loss of control is driving him insane. We are all suffering the consequences.

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

Meet, Trump’s Under Secretary of State, Jacob Helberg. Did you notice that he came from Peter Thiel’s Palantir? 1/

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

GRAHAM: “We’ve done it — I almost cried. We’ve been pushing this for years… Trump loves blowing stuff up.”

WSJ releases a new doc showing dead Republican Senator Lindsey Graham laughing that he helped Bibi convince Trump to attack Iran and get us into another deadly costly war

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

CNN compiled footage of JD Vance asserting that ICE agents have “absolute immunity,” then, two weeks later, saying he did not claim officers who commit wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. (2026)

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement that the Endangered Species Act had been used for too long "to stop almost any new project in America, driving up costs for families, weakening our competitiveness, and undermining our national security."
https://t.co/6KAx4MUwq0

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

There it is. RFK Jr’s son, “Finn” Kennedy recently launched his own investment fund focused on AI in healthcare. It should surprise no one that he worked at 8VC—the investment fund launched by Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder (Joe Lonsdale)—in 2025. 4/24/26 … 1/

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

A former 60 Minutes correspondent has revealed that Paramount CEO David Ellison and CBS editor Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that "never happened."

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain Indigenous young woman—for standing on public sidewalk.

Protest started after reports of an ICE raid—on Warm Springs Reservation land.

Agents claimed they only stopped on Tribal land to "use the restroom"—and deny targeted enforcement.

1855 treaty with Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs remains legally binding—yet has historically been violated by the U.S.

The woman has a red handprint painted across her mouth and cheek.

That is a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives movement.

Arrest occurred outside the South Portland ICE facility in Portland, Oregon.

Kawthar Nukshai doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Pentagon proposes new secrecy power to withhold unclassified records from public-access laws making it harder for the public to know how taxpayer money is being spent within the government’s largest federal agency raising concerns among watchdogs: CBS News https://t.co/cO9Gu3vtBG

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

You are looking at @USDA prime topsoil being stripped off farmland that’s hosting Excelsior Solar.

The solar salesmen told everyone in the area the land would be “farmable again.”

They are stripping prime topsoil that’s grown food for nearly 100 years in the area, loading it up, and taking it off the property.

This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz.

They are then bringing in low quality soil, clay, and crushed rock to take its place.

Where is the prime topsoil going?

The drivers do their best to hide that from the landowners in Byron. The resources, like topsoil, are extracted during late or early hours, sometimes behind fencing so landowners that leased can’t measure the resources they are losing (and not being paid for - more posts on that).

One investigation uncovered the soil goes to a local dump, as part of an arrangement with incoming hazardous waste that the landfills will have to accept. For legal purposes, this investigation uncovered that allegedly.

USDA prime topsoil takes 100 to 500 years to form. But it only takes an afternoon for it to be loaded into trucks, carted off as part of the biggest scam ever peddled on the American public.

ORES doesn’t monitor the worksites. It’s the Wild West. And it’s all on purpose.

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

The FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB”
https://t.co/mQaEf7SfY3

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

The media needs to ask every single Republican politician in this country if they think Congressman Max Miller should resign over the abuse of his wife and daughter. It's disturbing that this story is largely being ignored.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A Nikkei investigation found that Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn't appear on their balance sheets, more than the $1.35 trillion they officially report. These are GPU contracts, data center leases, and joint ventures that don't count as debt under accounting rules until the facilities go live. Meta's hidden debt is $420 billion, triple its reported debt. Oracle's grew 30-fold in four years. All five declined to comment.

My Take
Nikkei examined the actual filings and put a number on something the BIS already flagged as "shadow borrowing" back in March. These companies owe more off their balance sheets than on them, and the accounting rules let them keep it that way until the data centers go live. That's legal, but it means investors looking at quarterly earnings this week are seeing less than half the picture.

Four of these five report earnings in the next two weeks. The reported debt will look manageable. The $1.65 trillion in footnotes won't make the headlines. But when those data centers start operating, the leases hit the books all at once. If AI demand comes in below projections, those facilities get marked down and the losses land on the investors and insurance policyholders who funded the construction through private credit and project bonds without realizing how much total exposure they were carrying.

Hedgie🤗

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr's tenure has seen a huge rise in

—Measles
—Ebola
—Hantavirus
—Flu
—Rotavirus
—Whooping cough
- Cyclospora

In other words

- Rash
-Bleeding
- Fever
- Cough
- Explode diarrhoea

Nice job Bobby

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) long maintained he wasn't impaired during a 2011 crash. But newly obtained toxicology reports reveal he had MDMA and Klonopin in his system.
It's part of a 2,000-page trove of records we obtained about Miller, who is currently running for a third term.
https://t.co/fTfNNFb8ur

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.

So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.

It's called World Monitor.

Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.

> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.

+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.

It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.

It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.

It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.

Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NYT reports the Pentagon did not disclose multiple Iranian strikes on U.S. bases in Jordan last week that reportedly injured dozens of American service members and damaged helicopters. https://t.co/TO5Cu7A2JX

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

A college student just killed the biggest advantage politicians have ever had. The gap between the lie and the fact-check.

He built a Chrome extension called InTruth. It listens to any live speech, debate, or interview.

Transcribes every word. And checks every claim against real sources in real time. Before the speaker even finishes the sentence.

It works on debates. Press conferences. Town halls. Interviews. Anything with someone talking on video. The fact-check shows up on your screen while they're still talking.

Until now, fact-checking happened hours or days later. By then the clip has been shared, the headline has been written, and the damage is done. Nobody reads the correction.

InTruth closes that gap to seconds. The claim and the fact-check exist in the same moment.

A college student, a Chrome extension, and an AI model just did what entire newsrooms couldn't figure out for decades.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

NEVER FORGET THAT JD VANCE ACTUALLY TRAVELED TO ROMANIA TP PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON THE SEX TRAFFICKING TATE BROTHERS 🤷

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.