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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

The rent is still free. Massie 2028
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[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

And I will be offering an amendment in the committee itself to strip section 224 out, @RepThomasMassie.

Trump can't kill the Massie/Khanna partnership no matter how much he posts on Truth Social.

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" is much more naturally achieved on Solar-based Standard Time.

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered.

You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day.

This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm.

The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone.

A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time.

Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans.

We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all.

Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair. The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away. His body rips in half. He falls dead before hitting the ground. And he is one of the lucky males in the hive.

When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out. The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop. The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him.

The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area. Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her. These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them.

By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years. From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again.

A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain. If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead.

The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse. As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings. The drones can't fly back in. They starve or freeze in the grass within days. The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. reveals FDA officials admitted they literally do not know how many chemicals are in the American food supply.

“When I came in, I asked FDA, ‘How many chemicals are in our food?’”

“They said, ‘We don’t know.’”

“‘We don’t have a list of them.’”

“It’s somewhere between 4,000 and 12,000.”

“In Europe, they only have 400 chemicals in their food.”

“The 9,600 extra ones that we have are all illegal there.”

[Black-Pilled @natosha_d]

This is Massies district, KY-4. This shows house and senate race totals. How likely is it that there were more votes for house in EVERY SINGLE county, than there were for senate? Did that many people (5k+) really only come in for the house race? Can someone explain?

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Congratulations to Trump and Israeli lobbyists for removing one of the few remaining free thinking, high integrity members of Congress.

The path forward is clear. @RepThomasMassie for POTUS 2028!

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

Thomas Massie: “For years I’ve been standing up for the Second Amendment, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment…

I just realized the Seventh Amendment is under attack!”

“The Seventh Amendment is your right to a jury trial.

They’ve taken it away for vaccines. If you get hurt, you can’t sue for vaccines. They’re trying to take it away for pesticides. They’re trying to take it away for these data centers.

NO!”

[Mr. Gerald Wayne @geraldwayne]

THE NUMBERS DON’T WHISPER. THEY SCREAM.

Massie gained votes.

Turnout doubled.

His opponent vote didn’t grow.

It exploded.

2024 opponent vote: 12,664
2026 opponent vote: 57,822

That’s a 356.6% surge.

Total turnout jumped from 52,593 to 105,361.

Maybe it’s real.

Maybe it’s clean.

Maybe every ballot checks out.

Then prove it.

An audit is not fear.

An audit is verification.

If voters are expected to accept the result then officials should welcome the review.

Call the Kentucky Secretary of State.

Call county election boards in KY-04.

Demand a full audit of the Republican primary vote.

Ballot count.

Chain of custody.

Machine logs.

Absentee totals.

Precinct-level turnout.

Trust is earned in daylight.

Open the books.

#ElectionAudit #KentuckyPolitics

[Jolene Almendarez @JoleneA1]

Last night, @RepThomasMassie gave me the first interview after his primary loss. This was after he spent HOURS taking photos and signing autographs for well over a hundred ppl who queued up to meet him. @kyenquirer @Enquirer @USATODAY

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie: “This is an inflection point.”

“If I win, we can demonstrate that … you can fight the righteous fights.”

“And live to fight another day.”

“If we empower a dozen congressman … AIPAC can’t spend $30 million on a dozen people.”

“It means that you don’t have to be a rubber stamp on foreign policy.”

“This week, we voted on a war powers resolution. The final vote was like 212 to 212.”

“But if there had been 12 Republicans, it would’ve been easy.”

“When you get down to like six Republicans … they go threaten a water project in that congressman’s district.”

“Or they say, ‘your political consultants are all gonna quit you in your re-election, because we’re gonna tell their 30 other clients to fire them if they keep working for you.’”

“Which is what happened to me.”

“They can’t do that to a dozen congressmen.”

“This will mean a lot when I win to the people who are already there.”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @5149jamesli @NewsWff

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Rep. Thomas Massie will play a major role on a new House subcommittee investigating the weaponization of the FBI and the intel community.

I asked him if he fears for his personal safety.

Hear his incredible reply:

[RT @RT_com]

Rep. Massie: Kentucky primary will be 'referendum on whether Israel can dictate foreign policy by bullying members of Congress'

'You can tell I’m ahead and they’re desperate'

'That’s why Prez losing sleep tweeting about this'

'That’s why AIPAC dumped another $3MN into my race'

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Remember when @RepThomasMassie absolutely humiliated climate cultist @JohnKerry during that House hearing… so badly that even his colleagues gave up their speaking time just to let the wreckage continue?

We need more of that, KY-04. You know what to do!

[Raphael 🇺🇸 ☨ @Deadswan65]

As @RepThomasMassie’s Legislative Director, I’m often never more than 10 ft away from him when he’s conducting official business in Congress.

I’m with him in hearings, markups, meetings, walking the halls etc.

Very often, Republicans will approach him in a whisper and say something along the lines of -

“I’m routing for you”

“what they’re doing to you is disgusting”

“I support you on this privately, but you know why I can’t back it publicly”

Or the worst one: “sorry I posted those hits against you. I had to for the endorsement. You understand, right?”

Well these guys: @RepBoebert @RepSpartz and @Rep_Davidson didn’t whisper.

They stand for what they believe in.

Whether you agree with them or not - they are honest and are willing to do the hard thing when they know this risk is high.

THIS is who you want as your elected officials.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Kentucky, I implore you. Do not let the Epstein class replace this man. I am already radicalized but if we lose Massie I will be left without hope at the federal level. Please get out and vote for him like the nation's survival depends upon it.

Because it does.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

There’s nobody in Congress more faithful to the Constitution than @MassieforKY. He stands against wasteful spending, runaway debt, and government overreach no matter which party is pushing it. Kentucky would be making a mistake by letting him go. @realDailyWire

[TFTC @TFTC21]

The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest law enforcement organization in the United States with over 382,000 members, is opposing a key provision of the CLARITY Act.

In a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren, FOP National President Patrick Yoes said the organization "strongly opposes" Section 604 of the bill, which would exempt non-controlling developers and providers from being classified as money transmitting businesses.

The FOP argues this change would "strip prosecutors and law enforcement of the statutes used to track and take down criminals using digital assets to commit crimes" and would make it "even easier" for criminal organizations to profit from illegal activity.

This is exactly the provision that matters most for open-source developers. The same section the FOP wants removed is the one that would protect developers from being prosecuted for what their users do with their software. Without it, building privacy tools, non-custodial wallets, or mixing software could make a developer criminally liable under money transmission laws, regardless of whether they ever touched a user's funds.

The FOP says it supports the right to trade digital assets. It just wants to make sure law enforcement keeps the ability to prosecute the people who build the tools those assets move through. That distinction is the entire fight.