Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Under Trump, the CFTC has dropped investigations into Kalshi and Polymarket, announced its opposition to states’ attempts to regulate them, and made no moves to crack down on insider trading. Donald Trump, Jr. is an advisor to both Kalshi and Polymarket. Always follow the money.

Nowadays you can't even sit down to enjoy something as simple as a baseball game on a summer's day, featuring two teams owned by billionaires, being played in a stadium built with public funds, where you take off your hat and sing the national anthem without someone getting all political about it.

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I keep listening to podcasts with oil analysts & the shit they are saying is absolutely apocalyptic. If it stays closed, we're going to have to reduce oil demand *more than demand fell during Covid*. Remember that? When the entire world shut down? More than that.

Why the coming stagflation will hit single-digit billionaires especially hard.

they really did it

The enemy doesn't need an intelligence operation any more, just a Polymarket account. $2 MILLION has just been bet on the same outcomes: - US forces enter Iran after March 31. - No ceasefire by March 31 Potential profit: $2.5 MILLION Insiders making millions from filling caskets with US soldiers

Keep an eye out for the Cava bags those money smugglers use

President Donald Trump has cast another mail ballot in Florida as he continues to publicly bash the voting method as a source of fraud and push Congress to curtail the practice.

Given the choice between bringing on a huge source of zero-marginal cost electricity to slash consumer bills or just lighting a billion taxpayer dollars on fire, the Trump administration will always choose the latter. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

the airport really is the ultimate pressure point for senators, huh

It's not a government, it's an auction.

RUMP: DISCUSSIONS WITH IRAN TO DETERMINE WHETHER BROADER AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED

If you’ve got the time, this is an interesting read - a deep-dive into why the Trump administration is a “paedophile protection unit”.

so if i have this correctly: we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran masterful gambit

We will blunt Iranian oil sales by allowing Iranian oil sales. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

BREAKING: Judge voids Pentagon's new press policy that led most outlets to surrender their credentials. In suit brought by NYT, Judge Paul Friedman (Clinton/DC) says policy violates 1st Amendment because it's designed to "weed out disfavored journalists." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

80 percent of the “news” in America will now be run by the same exact people who have tried to end jimmy kimmels show and others. This is what state capture of media looks like in a modern authoritarian state and how it works as it destroys the news and replaces it with a fascist facsimile.

The fundamental problem is that people like Trump and Weiss have two roads to victory: successfully corrupting an institution or destroying the institution. People who want to preserve institutions have only one victory path.

The idea that this illegal war is great for our long-term economy is laughable. The reckless destruction of oil and gas infrastructure combined with Republican policies to keep us dependent on fossil fuels means increased volatility that sends energy costs soaring.

$200 billion. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is the conservative pitch to most Americans: Sure, you might be suffering as a result of our policies, but other people -- people who are different from you, people you don't like -- they're suffering a lot more than you, so it all works out.

HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.

The national average price of gasoline has reached $3.80/gal, according to GasBuddy, while diesel now sits at $5.03/gal. Americans today alone will spend $330 million more on gasoline than a month ago.

I buy shoes that are too big for the same reason President Trump does, to force my associates to wear them as a humiliation ritual and establish dominance. It’s actually very normal male bonding behavior.

He was afraid of Vietnam, though.

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

It is difficult to articulate how little he knows or understands about literally anything. His inability to absorb information is matched only by his disinterest. I doubt he is desperate, if only because that would require a level of awareness I believe he lacks.

Jen Psaki on Trump saying he will know when the war is over because “I will feel it in my bones”: “Ah yes, Donald Trump’s bones, making his military decisions since 1968.” 😂

Explain it to me like I’m five… 🤬

We’re lifting sanctions against Russia even though Trump admits they might be giving classified information about US troops to Iran and 13 military service personnel are dead But somehow it’s Zelenskyy’s fault What, exactly, does Putin have on him

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

If you just walk between the trenches, you can move about Verdun as you please!

This company should be nationalized, torn apart, and sold back to the industry as spare parts.

The White House’s failure to think a step or two ahead—such as what Iran could do with the Strait of Hormuz—is another “reminder of what it means to purge government and decision-making of all the experts.” @profsaunders.bsky.social dropping some political science with @gregsargent.bsky.social.

The folks who have never figured out how health insurance works might have been expected to stumble over how maritime insurance works.

The Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members was more severe than previously known. Dozens were injured with brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, with over 30 still hospitalized, including about 25 at Landstuhl in Germany. -CBS News

Periodic reminder— Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates— 💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion 💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million 💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million

Everything’s fine

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exclusive: Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are backing Powerus, a drone company vying to meet Pentagon demand and fill a hole left by the administration’s ban on new Chinese drones in the U.S.

Oil Prices Soar: Brent Up Nearly 24%, WTI Futures Rise Over 26%

Is that 1,000 points or 1,000 dollars? I can’t get ahold of my financial advisor, Ghislaine Bondi, to verify which it is.

How will this affect the Riyadh comedy scene

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

This is an astounding and irresponsible and obvious lie by the Commander in Chief. This feels like another unthinkable red line crossed.