Breaking News: Russell Nelson, who led significant changes to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as its president, died at 101.

The Daily did an episode today w/ me on Trump's ordering the US military to summarily kill drug smuggling suspects in the Caribbean, including why this has raised legal alarms & what it may portend for Venezuela. w/ Natalie Kitroeff www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/p...

Just a little Hitler banter from Elon

The Pentagon said on Friday that it would require journalists to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release or risk losing their credentials to cover the military.

KERNEN: Speaking of Nvidia, I don't know if it's a shakedown, but it doesn't seem normal to say 'you can sell your chips to China, we just want 15%' HASSETT: There's a serious national security risk if the Nvidia chips lead to Chinese getting a head start in AI K: How does getting 15% solve that?

SCMP - China, US in final stage of negotiations for a state visit to Beijing by President Trump. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3325739/trumps-china-trip-many-hinge-boeing-and-soybean-deals-sources-say

Japanese automakers are continuing to slash prices to preserve market share in the US.

Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going to go after hate speech, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech,

The students of Utah Valley University witnessed the worst possible outcome of political violence. Now, some are determined to create a model of civil discourse.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

That was a disturbing commercial @pncbank

“.. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

Ukraine is ready to end the war along the current front line in exchange for security guarantees, — U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO.

JUST NOW: Donald Trump is booed by the crowd as he arrives at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the US Open men’s final

Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects. They were financed by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which he passionately opposed ahead of its passage.

This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda. In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.

Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.

Check on your people

"The photo of the three dictators side-by-side, walking the red carpet in Tiananmen Square together...seemed to provide a bookend to the era MacArthur had ushered in eighty years before—an era in which United States leadership was central." That era is no more. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-emba...

“Since Mr Trump singled out India with an unexpectedly draconian double dose of tariffs earlier this month, he has reportedly phoned the Indian prime minister on four occasions to seek a compromise. Each time, the Indian leader refused to pick up.” (The Telegraph)

Volkswagen Brazil was found guilty of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous” to slavery between 1974 and 1986 in the Amazon and ordered to publicly acknowledge the abuses and pay more than $30 million in damages.

No one understands how to play this.

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

Years after a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a young Florida couple in 2019, crucial data detailing how the fatal wreck unfolded was missing. Tesla claimed it didn’t have it — until a hacker made the critical discovery.

NBC - You could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, the saying goes, but, in Washington, a federal grand jury just declined to indict a man for throwing a salami sub. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/grand-jury-declines-indict-sandwich-guy-threw-sub-dc-federal-officer-rcna227464

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

The Trump Justice Department has fired or demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors, even as those they sent to prison walk free. One called it the whitewashing of a traumatic event in U.S. history.

Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Igor Korotchenko said it was his idea for the FBI to go after Bolton, which he voiced months ago on Russian state television. He also praised Trump, Vance & Hegseth for not criticizing Russia's strikes against Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htah...

This is what it is, along with a financial incentive to play up anecdotes for the algorithm. For a lot of Americans, their feeds both locally and nationally have turned into Best Of Liveleak, an outgrowth of a political project Musk and Congressional Republicans have wanted for years.

BRENNAN: Well that February meeting in front of cameras where Zelenskyy was dressed down-- RUBIO: Do you know how many meetings we've had since then? BRENNAN: I was just up in Alaska watching the one with Vladimir Putin where a red carpet rolled out. It was very different

The officers refused to identify themselves.

Ask Jeff Bezos.

As of early August, Airbus had narrowed the gap with the 737 to just 20 units, and the Boeing lead is likely to disappear as soon as next month.

NPR - Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.

Markwayne Mullin: "I'm not joking when I say this. I drive around Washington DC in my Jeep - yes, I drive myself - & I don't buckle up. The reason I don't buckle up - people can say whatever they want - is because of carjacking. I don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry."

“I was skeptical about a Stewart candidacy, but maybe ‘The Daily Show’ host is the right person to shake up the Democratic presidential primaries.” Me for Zeteo on the debate over ⁦‪Jon Stewart‬⁩ and 2028:

An Israeli strike in Gaza City Sunday night killed at least four journalists from the news network Al Jazeera. “The order to kill Anas Al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, along with his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence voices ahead of the occupation of Gaza,” Al Jazeera said.

Australia became the latest U.S. ally to announce plans to recognize a Palestinian state in response to the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, following recent moves by Canada, France and Britain.

“A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China,” writes Greg Ip, the Wall Street Journal’s chief economics commentator […]

President Donald Trump is rushing to break ground next month on a giant White House ballroom, but has not yet submitted the project for a review that experts said is required by law and often takes years to complete.

The gunman who opened fire on the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday was a 30-year-old who had become fixated with the coronavirus vaccine, officials said. The attack comes after the spread of false information around the vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say.

Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

Breaking News: Germany said it would suspend any exports to Israel of military equipment that could be used in Gaza, a significant break with its postwar past.

This is complete fantasy. Just an absurd made up lie. The EU is not giving Trump “$600 billion to invest anyway I want.” They aren’t giving him 1 dollar to invest. It is just astonishing that a president can go on a financial network and lie like this & it barely registers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

My 85 year old mother walks alone to church in Chicago.