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“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

This is insane! They need to find a home for $86B worth of SpaceX $SPCX stock on day one They're planning to sell 30% to retail, normally 5% is risky The sheer size of this retail allocation is 150x times larger than any previous IPO in history 🤪 @TheCompoundNews @NoelKapela

🚨The world released 285 million barrels from strategic reserves in just 4 months. By July, the taps are nearly dry. ⚠️ Global strategic stock draws, Mar–Jun 2026: → March: 36 mb → April: 79 mb → May: 74 mb → June: 76 mb (forecast) → July: 22 mb ( → August: 20 mb The US SPR is doing the heaviest lifting the dominant blue bar every single month. When strategic releases drop from 76 mb/month to 22 mb/month and Hormuz is still semi-closed, the market has to find its own price. That price is higher than the one the SPR was suppressing. Central banks can't fix a physical supply shock. Strategic reserves can absorb it temporarily. Both tools are now reaching their limits simultaneously. Full analysis including what this means for commodity inflation and the assets positioned to benefit in my latest article. Link in the comments 👇

Bondi's Epstein handling exposed the personal information of nearly 100 survivors. A court found Blanche personally directed a vindictive prosecution. His response to the ethics complaints was to declare "war" on bar associations. Bondi proposed a rule to let the AG block bar probes by investigating itself.

"Designated free speech pen" is definitely a phrase that happens in a free country

Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion. And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.

Hear me as a retired defense lawyer when I say this: he knows he raped her. When you read a post like this—which confirms $100M wasn’t enough to shut this rapist up; Carroll will have to sue him again—think of what a psycho you have to be to know what you are and still post this.

Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre. Israel is currently demolishing Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Israeli forces have taken #Beaufort Castle, some 80 km south of #Beirut. A few hours by road, and a generation backwards in law and politics. This should be seen through three lenses. First, the jus contra bellum: the prohibition of aggression, the unlawfulness of invasion, and the legal consequences of any occupation born of it. Second, the jus in bello: Israel exercises actual authority and, subsequently, assumes the duties of an occupying Power, including the duty to restore the public life it has violently interrupted. Third, lex non cogit ad impossibilia: law does not compel the impossible, and the impossible here is the fantasy that another belligerent occupation of Lebanon will yield security or peace, including for Israelis. Take it from someone who, in another life, stood at Beaufort. This is legally unsustainable, an already humanitarian catastrophe affecting scores of forcibly displaced Lebanese, and politically ruinous for Lebanon, Israel and the wider region.

This story opens with an account of a Salvadoran on temporary protective status who scrubbed Logan Airport bathrooms for nearly 30 yrs but just got fired because of an @StephenM initiative. Somehow reminds me of that tweet that got @TerryMoran fired. nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/…

The next time you pull up to a national park and pay the entrance fee, know this: Our parks have $23 billion in repairs that have never been made. But instead of prioritizing that our national parks are clean, maintained, and ready for your next visit, the President is spending some of the money on vanity projects like painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. nytimes.com/2026/05/27/cli…

The geographic scope is worth documenting before it expands further. FBI has already raided an election hub in Georgia, seizing ballot images. It seized election data in Arizona. It demanded ballots in Michigan. It demanded names and addresses of 2020 poll workers in Fulton County. Now Wisconsin. Fulton County called the data demand a "fishing expedition" aimed at harassment. Bipartisan observers and a conservative legal review both confirmed Wisconsin's 2020 results. Trump lost nationally by more than 7 million votes, 306 electoral votes to 232. The investigation isn't following evidence. The evidence confirms there's nothing to find. The investigation is now visiting people at home.

After breaking her leg at the protest in #Newark, a reporter from @AP had to NEGOTIATE with law enforcement to be able to leave because police were blocking BOTH exits. Like what are we doing here?

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

BASH: There are questions about where private funding is coming from for Freedom 250. It's not transparent. Should the public show know? BURGUM: Transparency is always a good thing. I work for the president I think i most transparent ever BASH: So you'll make the donors public? BURGUM: It's not about the donors

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core. The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old. It had fewer than 50 employees. And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it. Here is the part the administration tried to bury. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast. One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done. Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion. A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son. This is public money. Your money. Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for. And there is more coming. A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review. This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer. propublica.org/article/donald…

Notice how at the end he runs INSIDE the ICE facility. He’s acting as an extension of the Trump administration, to propagandize and assault protestors. Also, since when are people allowed to carry weapons (mace) inside a federal detention facility?

Remarkable, heartening, inspiring. A fifth of federal lawyers from the @TheJusticeDept and other agencies, more than 10,000, have left. Flooding into legal jobs fighting the anti-democratic, anti-freedom. anti-progress policies and corruption of this—yes— regime. Gift link below.

Stephen Miller’s pathological hatred of immigrants made stupidity and cruelty official policy across every part of the federal government. “Only American citizens and green card holders can be airport janitors” is ridiculous. This woman legally worked there for almost 30 years!

WOW! "We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president. That issue has now resurfaced. As we discussed at the time, Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump and has always ruled in his favor, was never going to order the release of Volume II of the Special Counsel Report, which covers the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. But now the matter is in the hands of a different court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which has not hesitated to correct Cannon’s errors in the past. There is a fascinating resonance between Cannon’s decision to prevent the release of Volume II and the issue we’ve seen surface in Trump v. IRS, the case whose “settlement” led to the creation of the slush fund Trump can use to give taxpayer dollars to January 6 defendants while erasing his and his family’s liability for debts owed to the government, like back taxes from tax audits. The common thread is cases where, instead of a legitimate adversarial process, with opponents duking it out in court, Trump is the actual party in interest on “both sides of the v.” In both of these situations, it’s Trump v. Trump, which leaves the president to decide what positions government agencies will take in these supposed legal conflicts. In the case of the special counsel’s report, DOJ, which would normally argue for its release, has taken Trump’s side. And Judge Cannon has played along. On Inauguration Day, she issued an order blocking the Justice Department from sharing the Volume II with leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, who were set to receive it in accordance with the typical practice after a special counsel concludes their work. With DOJ on Trump’s side, there was no one to challenge it. While Judge Cannon was doing everything possible to prevent the release of Volume II, two groups of journalists, American Oversight and the Knight First Amendment Institute, asked to intervene in the case to ensure a truly adversarial proceeding, with the parties presenting opposing views on whether the report should be released. Cannon dealt with that by dragging her feet, simply refusing to rule on the request. That went on until November, when the matter reached the Eleventh Circuit and she was given 60 days to rule. The Eleventh Circuit pointed to “undue delay.” Cannon predictably ruled against permitting intervention, and the issue was appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. Now, the Eleventh Circuit has ordered a briefing schedule on the requests to intervene and argue in favor of the release of the report. The timing is fast, with the next set of briefs due 14 days from the date of the order, and all of the briefing to be concluded by July. The scheduling order is signed by Judge Nancy Abudu, who was appointed to the Eleventh Circuit by President Biden. The court will have to consider the issues once the briefs are in, but the ruling over Cannon’s foot dragging signaled they were out of patience with her efforts to keep her thumb on the scale for Trump. There is good reason to be optimistic here, even if the process takes time. Assuming the media entities are permitted to join the proceedings, there would still have to be briefing on the issue of release, but here again, Cannon was an outlier, and there is good reason to believe the Eleventh Circuit would not agree. DOJ’s accidental release earlier this year of a document detailing some of the work in the case gives us reason to believe there could be interesting material in the report. Is it coincidence that two separate cases, involving two of the most important challenges to Trump’s ability to exert control over the government and pervert the rule of law, are coming to fruition at the same time? Perhaps so. But what’s at stake here is a core constitutional principle. Article III of the Constitution gives federal courts jurisdiction to decide actual “cases” or “controversies,” which means there must be opposing parties with conflicting interests. The Supreme Court has held that the “case or controversy” requirement means there has to be a genuine, active dispute between genuinely adverse parties for a court to have jurisdiction. Trump has elicited favorable decisions in both the IRS case and the release of the report case by trying to avoid that requirement. But it’s starting to look like time is up." Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him, by @JoyceWhiteVance open.substack.com/pub/joycevance…

BASH: On the reflecting pool, the Times reports you awarded two multimillion no bid contracts. Is that true? BURGUM: Well, this is expedited contracting to get these projects done BASH: Does that mean 'no bid'? BURGUM: You're implying something untoward is going on BASH: The company doing the reflecting pool has a 20% project margin. Standard is 6-12%.