Behind JD's bloopers, bungles, and bonkers claims is a dead serious plan. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jds-strategy

The GOP in a nutshell!

Trump is helping the people Cuba’s foreign minister said 170 containers of UN aid worth $6.3 million are stranded because a U.S. oil blockade has left the country without fuel to distribute them Türk warned that children are dying due to medicine shortages, and infant mortality rates have doubled

#WhiskersWednesday #cats

life comes at you fast

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked the SEC to delay SpaceX’s IPO, set to price Thursday and trade Friday on Nasdaq citing governance and valuation risks Warren warned that index “fast entry” rules could funnel millions of passive fund investors into the $1.77 trillion offering without their consent

ShinyHunters says it breached 300 Oracle PeopleSoft instances across more than 100 organizations Oracle has a long history of technology failures. The State of Oregon sued Oracle after Oracle failed to deliver the database Oregon purchased to run their state health insurance program

Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter lied to clients Wednesday that Tesla has effectively achieved “Level 4 autonomy,” even though it has failed to get reliable taxi service running in Texas, thereby digging an even deeper hole by reiterating an “Overweight rating” for the failing company.

Trump cited his close ties with Erdogan as tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem surged over Israeli occupation in Syria and Lebanon Erdogan told parliament that Israeli occupation in Syria and Lebanon now directly threatens Turkey, urging world powers to stop Israel’s “aggression”

A previously unpublicized letter from former acting ICE Director Todd Lyons contradicts his sworn testimony NPR revealed that Lyons’s letter acknowledges ICE collects “biographic and biometric information” on individuals at protests, even those never arrested

Putin signed a law Wednesday allowing seizure of property from Russians living abroad who are accused of offenses “against Russia’s interests.” The law removes proportionality limits, letting courts freeze assets worth millions of rubles even over minor fines, with cases heard in absentia.

B’Tselem released footage Tuesday appearing to show a family’s car stopping near soldiers before an IDF troops shot 7-month-old Sam Abu Haikal on June 5 The Israeli military had said a soldier fired after sensing a vehicle “speeding towards them,” but the video shows the car slowing and halting

This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.

OB-GYN association, deviating from CDC guidance, issues its own vaccine recommendations ACOG recommends that pregnant people receive Tdap, RSV, influenza, and Covid shots during pregnancy.

Trump claimed on Fox News that Iranian officials asked him to stop bombing, but a senior Iranian official called the assertion “completely false,” according to state media. It is hard to disbelieve the Iranians because Trump lies every day, all day and all night long.

Yep! Show us the Epstein files now!

Chanos said SpaceX’s target valuation cannot be justified under “reasonable assumptions,” calling the IPO a bull-market trend of overpaying for promises Morningstar valued SpaceX at $780 billion roughly half the $1.75 trillion IPO target while NYU professor Aswath Damodaran estimated $1.2 trillion

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Bucks County DA Joe Khan expanded a 2023 federal lawsuit, adding X Corp., Roblox, Discord, and a Meta subsidiary as defendants. The amended complaint alleges the platforms use defective reporting systems, weak parental controls, and manipulative algorithms that expose children to grooming.

xAI filed a motion in federal court seeking to strip anonymity from four plaintiffs, including a minor, who allege Grok generated nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images of them. Plaintiffs responded with affidavits citing fears of doxxing and harassment by Elon Musk, his agents and assigns.

Grok is the LLM of choice for pedophiles

Putin ordered security to protect Russian youth camps calling EU sanctions against the facilities “nonsense” and a “spiteful stunt” The EU sanctioned 16 individuals and seven entities on May 11 over what it calls the systematic deportation and forced assimilation of nearly 20,500 Ukrainian children

It sounds like Rubio has overdosed on crack.

WHO said three labs in eastern Congo ran out of Ebola testing supplies, leaving backlogged samples unprocessed as confirmed cases hit 598 with 115 deaths. If possible, send Elon Musk to Mars before the IPO. Before he kills anyone else.

Ben-Gvir urged officials to “think outside the box” by abducting Lebanese women and youth to use as leverage against Hezbollah The proposal came during a Tuesday cabinet session also weighing expanded military operations, with Smotrich reportedly pushing for strikes on Beirut.

Lesley Groff, Epstein’s assistant for 18 years, told the House Oversight Committee she arranged pre-presidency calls between Epstein and Trump Groff told lawmakers she never witnessed misconduct; New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez separately criticized the DOJ for withholding unredacted Epstein files

Bill Gates told lawmakers Wednesday that Jeffrey Epstein attempted to leverage his extramarital affairs to coerce him into re-engaging Gates called the relationship “a grave error in judgment” and denied witnessing or participating in any of Epstein’s criminal conduct.l

Trump kills everything he touches

Jenny and the Mexicats

🚨BREAKING: In a shocking find, scientists have discovered the world’s first dog with two fully functioning assholes. 🐕

Just when you thought they couldn’t be any stupider…well by now we all think they can get stupider. Regardless, there is another grift that needs to be called out.

Rep. Kamlager-Dove: "I rise today to sound the alarm about a grave national security threat: Donald Trump's sleeping habits ... we cannot trust the WH on matters concerning the president's health because they are denying what Americans are seeing with our own two eyes."

The US sold its military expansion in the area as the best way for Sunni countries to protect themselves from military aggression by their neighbors. Then WE started a war with no plan at all how to succeed or exit.

How Mexico greets its World Cup visitors, verses the US. [They're giving the Senegal players what amounts to a full body search]

Tax the rich.

Vance, whose primary concern apparently is himself and his electoral prospects, called a meeting with top administration officials to calculate the damage and control the messaging, but not to release the Epstein files. Covering up crimes is now the primary focus of the administration.

Florida cities are projecting steep revenue losses from a constitutional amendment that would raise the homestead exemption to $250,000 over two years Palm Beach County estimates a $324 million annual shortfall, while some small cities could lose nearly all their property tax revenue, officials say

Seattle unanimously passed an emergency moratorium halting new data centers requiring more than 20 megavolt-amperes of electricity, immediately The action came after four companies proposed five large-scale facilities in the area; over 300 related bills have been filed across 30 states in 2026

Musk keeps fluffing stock ahead of the IPO. Bloomberg reports long waits and stalled rides as Tesla’s driverless fleet covers all of Austin with roughly 20 active vehicles. A Reuters investigation found Austin wait times exceeded 15 minutes half the time, with no cars available in 27% of checks.

Vance spreads false hallucinations about negotiations with Iran. Iran continues to hold all the cards while the Trump administration can only lie to the American people as Vance and company, at best, can just flail around and lie.

May CPI came in at 4.2% year-over-year, up from 3.8% in April, marking the highest annual inflation rate since April 2023, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.