Will Bowen

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts, per NYT.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, and the Trump family’s deals are expanding.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

JD Vance is right. More people need to know that the president is trying to take $10 billion in taxpayer money for himself.

[DJ Branham 🗽 @DJBranham]

America First is when you let a foreign company pollute your national waterways

[CBS News @CBSNews]

The Justice Department said that a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal that requires the president to preserve certain documents and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of his administration is unconstitutional. https://t.co/LZPGVdW2Oo

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII.

In exchange for more war he wants to:

-Cut the EPA budget by half
-Cut $10.7 billion for housing
-Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs
-Cancel $15 billion for clean energy
-Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water
-Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training
-Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department
-Eliminate $395 million for senior employment
-Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants
-Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy
-Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health
-Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Q: You’re suing the government. Is it fair to ask Americans to pay for that?

Trump: I’m giving it to charity

Q: But that still takes it from the American people

Trump: No, because they give money to charity….@Acyn (2026)

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President Donald Trump to attend Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court. https://t.co/y4JknrkRpg

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

What a difference a new President makes

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: U.S. Treasury is working to put President Trump's signature on new paper currency, a first for a sitting president, an AP source says. https://t.co/hGz5tfJuf9

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

While our wonderful president was out playing golf all day, the TSA is falling apart, just like our government! Airports a total disaster!

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

Trump has granted clemency to more than 70 people convicted in fraud cases.

At the same time, he says he is waging a "war on fraud."

Those granted clemency included allies & donors.

Those targeted in the "war on fraud" include Somali & other immigrants. https://t.co/MRumc9WzCd

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Jewish People aren't the problem.

Muslim people aren't the problem.

Extremism is.
Warmongers are.
Corrupt governments are.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

They did the cartoon.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Trump’s second-term pardons are historic in their enormity—billions in fines erased, allies protected, donors rewarded, DOJ undermined, and election norms threatened. Corruption looks less like an exception and more like the rule, says Cato’s Dan Greenberg.
https://t.co/rR2YH0O7py

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

This morning, the White House posted targeting footage with an explosion emoji and “No pause. No hesitation.” The gamification of war in real time. This afternoon, a SpongeBob meme celebrating bombing runs in Iran.

Over 1,000 people are dead. Kill footage as content wasn’t enough. Now it’s kill footage as comedy. This is a shitpost about war. The official account of the United States government is using a children’s cartoon character to celebrate bombing runs. And it normalizes escalation. People are dying. Children are dying. And these people find it entertaining.

[Alex Kane @alexbkane]

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. https://t.co/YoR5WY3bWn

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students

Within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people" https://t.co/ZZhPSI7RDE

[Acyn @Acyn]

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.

You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

Last week, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff as retribution for a Trump probe.

The group Patel targeted? An elite counterespionage unit that specializes in Iran.
@CarolLeonnig builds off of New York Sun reporting.

https://t.co/a4Ou9NOEHO

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”