When a deal demands that all 🇨🇦 Canadian critical minerals be handed over to the US, veto power over who Canada can trade with, and changes to Canada's domestic laws, it stops being trade and starts being subjugation. These aren't trade terms; they're Trump's ultimatum that Canada become the 51st state.
Trump demands :
Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but the sitting president has all but declared war on states that didn’t vote for him, and I feel like the media should be talking about that every once in a while, right?
1. This @nypost cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie.
How do I know?
I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
You followed the rules.
You worked the job.
You paid the taxes — every cent they asked for.
You couldn’t buy a house because the price kept climbing.
You rationed the insulin.
You watched the medical bills pile up.
You did everything right.
Now look at what the President owns.
The company that bought your neighborhood and rents it back to you.
The three companies that flooded your town with opioids.
The insurance giants that deny your claims.
The private prisons — and the bill that fills them.
The drugmakers whose prices you can’t afford.
You foot the bill. He owns the check.
He didn’t put it in a blind trust like every president before him.
He put it in a trust run by his son that he can cash out anytime.
You play by the rules. He owns the rulebook.
Still think the system’s broken?
It’s not broken.
It’s working exactly how he built it.
As Trump and Doug Burgum get ready to cut down DC's oldest grove of cherry blossom trees for a golf course this Sept, understand this.
Trump removed federal protections on 3,000,000 acres of national monuments Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah for drilling, mining and development.
That reduces the size of those protected wilderness lands by 90%.
To give you an idea of the extent of that loss, 3 million acres is larger than the size of Yellowstone National Park. Imagine Yellowstone completely GONE.
It's the land equivalent of wiping out Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC, Jacksonville, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, San Diego, Austin. Imagine all those cities flattened and gone.
That's what Trump is doing to our protected public lands.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset"
U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
// Gingerspiced of bluesky
NPR did learn that there's a trick if you are applying in person in Washington and do not want a passport with Trump's image: Choose extra pages. The State Department says the 250th commemorative passport is only available in the standard, 28-page book
Scooplet: Republicans quietly killed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's amendment to bar DOD from investing in companies tied to President Donald Trump, his Cabinet and their families.
It failed in a party-line vote last week during SASC’s closed-door NDAA markup
https://t.co/vf2IPxZEWq
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE:
Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin.
Raskin is demanding documents from Patel — citing claims that $8,000 payments are made to agents who carry out "unlawful partisan and personal orders." https://t.co/ZOU8iRxj2u
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Hey media
Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"