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Little Full, Lots of Sap

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The NFL has asked the Department of Homeland Security to remove a video of Hall of Fame safety Brian Dawkins that the agency posted on social media in support of immigration enforcement. https://t.co/YAPYLjb0fW

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

"I found a considerable lack of work after doing concerts for Palestinian children.. if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be. If you support human rights, you gotta support them everywhere."

- Kris Kristofferson

[petesosal @petesosal]

@mindyisser We are usually aligned, but George Bochetto as his lawyer says it all. He should remain in jail.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

We are SEVERELY fucking underreacting to what’s happening in our government right now.

[petesosal @petesosal]

@PrettyGoodSam RICO the frat.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

So……. the Mark Walter federal investigation colliding with Gianni Infantino’s preferred private-equity backers is………… a lot.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Sergey Brin has made $140 billion since Trump was elected.

If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, he would owe $14 billion and still be worth $270 billion.

So what is he doing? Spending $100 million to defeat the proposal.

FIGHT OLIGARCHY. TAX BILLIONAIRE WEALTH.

[petesosal @petesosal]

@samsutliff Circles has great ones.

[Jawad Pullin @JawadPullin]

Philly is not overwhelmingly white trust fund baby transplants

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries.

From endorsing Jan 6th members to ensuring Congress remains in the hands of a 34-count felon, AIPAC is an org committed to undermining democracy at home and abroad.

See you in November.

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Some of the documented timeline from the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war announcements—each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Oil fell around 15 percent.

On April 17, around $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil dropped.

On April 21, approximately $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire. Oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million. Iran called the report "the Americans' wish list."

Previously, a senior Iranian official told investigative outlet Drop Site News that Tehran privately warned JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations—"more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

When I moved to Florida I realized there are millions of people who have been stewing in rage for years over the lockdowns.

It really made me understand that the core animating force in US society is selfishness. The whole freedom thing is a thin veil for a sense of entitlement.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is absolutely wild: Wesley Bell's campaign manager has been attending the Veiled Prophet ball for years. Notorious event.

[petesosal @petesosal]

@PrettyGoodSam @Jimmyking35 I legit looked into this 10 years ago! Duck boat situations being recent made it a gamble.

[petesosal @petesosal]

@BroadAndMarket Made of pewter.

[petesosal @petesosal]

@RachelTrue Can eat an apple through a fence.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

🚨 STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 @IBEW Local 614 workers are on strike—the first in the company’s 145-year history.

“PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win”

[Mack's Cats @maxkatz515]

This sounds amazing and I would've wanted to go to DC for this.

Alas, people wanted the child rapist in bed with the KGB instead.