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A Despicable Betrayal of the Dead
Four American soldiers died for this country last weekend. Their bodies were flown home. Their families stood on the tarmac at Dover and watched the flag-draped cases come off the plane. And then the fascist authoritarian Trump regime wiped their names off the official list of the war dead like they were a clerical inconvenience.
1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan.
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.
One day the Pentagon's public casualty count said 18 Americans had been killed in the Iran war. The next day it said 14. The four most recent deaths — three in a missile attack in Jordan, one in Iraq — were simply deleted. Military sources told The New York Times the order came because the deaths happened after Trump's April "cease-fire." The Pentagon's official line was the pathetic excuse of "temporary data disruptions."
This is not a mistake. This is a calculated insult. These men and women put on the uniform, followed orders, and paid with their lives. The government they served responded by erasing them from the public record the moment their deaths became politically inconvenient. That is not leadership. That is cowardice dressed up as administration.
There is no honorable way to explain this. You do not get to decide that a soldier's death "doesn't count" because it happened after a speech. You do not get to scrub their names while their remains are still being received with ceremony. You do not get to treat the ultimate sacrifice as a data point that can be adjusted for better optics.
This is the purest form of disrespect: not an open sneer, but a quiet bureaucratic deletion that pretends the dead never existed on the official ledger. Every family who has lost a child in this war just received the same message — your grief is real, but Trump's version of the truth is more important.
That is not how a serious country treats its dead. It is how an authoritarian regime treats them when it has something to hide.
Check it out: https://t.co/7BMenF6aov
The Trump administration just did a complete 180 on AI regulation.
16 months ago, Trump killed Biden's AI executive order on DAY ONE. Called AI "a beautiful baby" that shouldn't be stopped with rules.
His AI czar David Sacks went to every conference saying deregulation was the only path. JD Vance flew to Paris and told world leaders the future is won "by building, not by hand-wringing about safety."
That was the whole pitch. Regulation is for losers.
But the same White House just started briefing Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI executives on plans for MANDATORY government review of AI models before public release.
The exact policy they destroyed 16 months ago.
Fortune called it a "head-spinning policy pirouette."
So what happened?
ONE AI model happened:
In April, Anthropic announced a model called Mythos.
During internal testing, it found THOUSANDS of unknown security vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser on earth including a 27yo bug in OpenBSD, an OS literally famous for being unhackable, and a 16yo flaw in FFmpeg that survived 5 million automated security tests.
NOBODY asked it to do any of this. The capabilities emerged on their own as the model got smarter at coding.
Anthropic's researchers said they found more bugs in weeks than they'd found in their entire careers combined.
The UK's AI Security Institute confirmed Mythos could autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks on networks. Tasks that take human professionals DAYS.
Anthropic refused to release it. Formed "Project Glasswing" with Apple, Microsoft, Google, JPMorgan, and 40 other organizations to use it defensively before attackers develop similar tools.
Their estimate: Competing labs will have comparable capabilities within 6 to 18 months.
That timeline is what scared Washington.
Because here's what nobody in the White House considered while removing safety rules:
What happens when a devastating AI-enabled cyberattack hits American infrastructure and the government has ZERO oversight in place?
No safety testing, pre-release review, or reporting. They literally burned all of it.
David Sacks quietly left in March. Treasury Secretary Bessent and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles took over AI policy.
They're now drafting an executive order for an AI working group that would vet models before release.
Some officials want the government to get FIRST ACCESS to new models. The same government that said 16 months ago it had no business being involved.
But here's where it gets really insane:
The company that triggered all of this was BANNED by the Trump administration from government contracts. Labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk." They tried to punish them for refusing to let their AI target US citizens autonomously.
Anthropic is currently fighting the Pentagon in federal court.
So the timeline reads like this:
January 2025: Trump kills Biden's AI oversight.
July 2025: Calls AI a "beautiful baby," signs orders to fast-track AI with zero safety guardrails.
March 2026: Bans Anthropic from government work.
April 2026: Anthropic's Mythos demonstrates it can hack every major OS on earth.
May 2026: Same administration rebuilds the oversight it destroyed BECAUSE of the company it banned.
This is what happens when ideology meets reality.
Every government told itself AI regulation could wait. Mythos proved them wrong overnight.
Open-weight models with similar capabilities are even closer. Once those tools are in the wild, no executive order puts them back.
Marjorie Taylor Greene:
Donald Trump texted me that if my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a traitor to him. I’d probably get put in jail if I released the texts. That’s our president. That’s the man who says MAGA is everything he wants it to be.
@MLB I want it!
@Gabbar0099 This is insane even though it might not be true.
@BBGreatMoments Ruben Sierra
He is worthless. Gutting our government and filling vacancies with yes men or to the highest bidder. They are all grifters
Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.
The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.
Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.
On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."
That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.
The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.
The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.
Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.
Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"
Now there's no board to answer to.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"
That's the actual question.
Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.
RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.
RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"
Trump: "Right"
I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.
On April 21st, the left screen moved first.
I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.
At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.
On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.
At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.
Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.
I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.
My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.
The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:
Reviewed.
That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.
Let me show you my flags.
March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.
March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.
April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.
April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.
April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.
That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.
The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.
Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.
Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.
Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.
The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.
I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.
The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.
One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.
One account is a coincidence. But there were six.
Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.
My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.
March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.
The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.
The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."
Then the White House sent the email again.
I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.
I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.
But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.
Zero prosecutions.
As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.
I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.
The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.
In my field, we call this price discovery.
@OleTimeHardball Andres Galaraga
@VinnysCorner1 Or Kevin Mitchell
@VinnysCorner1 Brett Butler
True stuff
BREAKING: Trump insanely asserts that he would have "won" the Vietnam War "very quickly" and would have done the same with Iraq in a deranged rant for the ages.
This is a hell of a claim from President Bone Spurs...
"When it's over, and it will end, when it's over— You know, they want it to be over immediately," Trump said to CNBC about his illegal Iran War. "And I just looked at a little chart, World War I, four years and three months, World War II, six years, Korean War, three years, Vietnam, 19 years, Iraq, eight years. I'm five months, okay? Five months."
"I would have won Vietnam very quickly," he rambled on. "I would have— If I were president, I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time that we won, because essentially, we've won here, okay? I mean, people can play games."
Obviously, Trump has not won his war against Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has not surrendered and still holds all of the real leverage through their control of the Strait of Iran. Trump keeps insisting that he has defeated them. That does not make it so.
As for his Vietnam boast, this man was too much of a coward to actually serve in that conflict. The suggestion that his military brilliance would have turned that disastrous quagmire — which claimed some 3.5 million lives between both combatant parties — is so absurd as to test the very limits of that word.
Tellingly, Trump didn't spare even a moment to reflect on the morality of the issue. He doesn't care that the Vietnam War was a deeply evil, imperialist conflict aimed at stripping the Vietnamese people of their right to self-determination. Right and wrong never factors into his thinking.
"The Democrats can say, well, we should have done better, no matter what, If I did it in one week, they should have said, they'd say, we should have done better," Trump continued.
"Look at Venezuela," he went on. "I took it over in 45 minutes. It was basically a 45 minute— By the way, a very strong military country. And we took it over in a day, but let's be nice. But we basically took it over in 45 minutes. We took it over during the attack in 45 minutes. And they would say, I'm surprised they haven't said it, that you should have done it in 30 minutes. It took too long, you know?"
Again, Trump did not "take over" Venezuela. He sent special forces into the country in the dead of night and kidnapped the Venezuelan president, behaving far more like cartel boss than the leader of a modern nation-state.
All of this posturing boils down to a profound, deeply rooted insecurity on Trump's part. He wants to be perceived as a genius strategist and historic conqueror. In reality, he started a wildly unpopular war without Congressional approval and it has promptly devolved into disaster. This Iran War will go down as the most embarrassing, pointless, and wasteful war in American history. That is Trump's military legacy.
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MASSIVE:
🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying.
A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements.
Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts.
We tracked a whale for weeks.
0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate.
You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets.
Now the BBC has the receipts.
Nobody will be investigated.
Nobody will be charged.
The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.
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