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With the trillions of dollars at stake in the data center race, we should expect to see fraud, grift, and scandal. The 4 GW nuclear reactors in Texas by 2032 were already highly suspicious. Now we're starting to see the fallout. Stay skeptical my friends amarillotribune.org/2026/05/14/fer…

Unless I missed it, Trump did not say one word about freedom, liberty, democracy, or the rule of law during his two day visit to autocratic China. He didn’t meet with any students, or civil society folks, religious leaders, or private entrepreneurs. Oh well. That’s how he rolls.

You really can't make this shit up. Eichorn faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.

You can take all the corruption from every single US administration in history, add it all together, and it will not equal the amount of corruption committed by the Trump Regime in less than two years.

The "sophisticated" power teams at these hyperscalers are finding that their early procurements were "in the money," but contracts signed in the last five years are increasingly "out of the money". Some of the world's largest energy buyers are now sitting on billions of dollars in annual losses because they procured gigawatts without fully accounting for the real-time congestion and basis risk that separates a wind farm from their data center load. They are paying for power they cannot physically receive at the time they need it most.

The US government already has a ballroom just down the street. The Andrew Mellon Auditorium is less than a mile away from the White House is beautiful and accommodates more people than the new ballroom will and is owned by the U.S. Government. via Shelia Earl

Xi Jinping’s "partners, not rivals" speech in the Great Hall of the People is a masterclass in CCP theater. While the video shows him calling for a "historic landmark year" and a "new chapter," history tells a much grimmer story. Behind the smiles and the floral arrangements lies a decades-long trail of broken treaties and shredded promises. To understand the CCP, you must ignore the teleprompter and look at the track record. The evidence of Beijing’s diplomacy by deception is overwhelming. Here is why the world should be skeptical of every word spoken at the 2026 summit: The Phase One Trade Deal (2020): China promised to purchase an additional $200 billion in US goods. They never even came close, failing to meet nearly 40% of the target. They used the deal to stall for time while continuing the same subsidies and IP theft they promised to stop. The Hong Kong Betrayal: The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration was a legally binding treaty promising Hong Kong high autonomy for 50 years. The CCP unilaterally declared it a historical document with no practical significance and crushed the city’s freedoms 27 years early. Militarizing the South China Sea: In 2015, Xi stood in the Rose Garden and promised the US he would not militarize the Spratly Islands. Today, those islands are high-tech military fortresses bristling with missiles and runways, used to bully neighboring nations. WTO Entry Commitments: Since joining in 2001, China has systematically ignored the rules on state-owned enterprises and market access. They used the "developing nation" status to gut Western manufacturing while keeping their own markets locked behind a "Great Wall" of regulations. IP Theft and Fentanyl: Despite repeated handshake deals to stop state-sponsored cyber espionage and the flow of fentanyl precursors, both remain at crisis levels. To the CCP, a signed agreement is simply a tactical pause to regroup, not a commitment to change. Xi’s "partnership" is a one-way street where the US cooperates and the CCP gains. He talks about steering the giant ship, but his goal is to make sure the US is the one in the lifeboats. Watching what he does, not what he says, is not just skepticism. It is a survival strategy. #UnveiledChina #TrumpXiSummit #CCPDeception #TradeWar #BrokenPromises #Geopolitics #Beijing2026

Real story: Judge was about to throw out the case bc Trump controls both parties. Before it’s dismissed, Trump tells both parties to reach a “settlement.” Settlement shields Trump from any future audit and creates a secret slush fund that can dole out money to anyone with no transparency. Mind-boggling corruption. @SpeakerJohnson - you may not know it, but your job is to conduct oversight of the admin. You can’t run away from this one.

Trump is poised to effectively steal $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds to pay off January 6ers and other political allies, without any oversight by Congress and despite the fact that the people who’ll be handed cash straight from our paychecks don’t have viable legal claims.

@McFaul How do MAGA not see how thirsty Trump is?

I’m struck by how often Trump referred to Xi as his “friend” and a “great leader.” Xi Jinping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, is a dictator. He also offered no such reciprocal praise for Trump. That asymmetry makes Trump appear in a visibly weaker position.

@NormOrnstein Wouldn’t even need to offer the cash. The hotel & golf franchise would do it.

Just a little thought experiment. Imagine Xi tells Trump that he will give him $10 billion plus unlimited Trump Towers and golf courses on Taiwan if he simply lets China take over. What do you think Trump would do?

Bro is flying

@MAGAVoice What he meant was: “Let’s be friends — I’m gonna need you to look the other way when I take over Taiwan, okay friend?”

BREAKING: President Xi stuns the room saying to Trump: “We should be partners, not rivals" 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 I NEVER in a million years would have thought Xi would say something like that The Deep State is shaking right now

The Iranians are telling people that they will never give up their nuclear material for American security guarantees because Trump is not honoring the security guarantees that America made to Ukraine when Ukraine gave up their nukes.

Over 300 Chinese J-20 stealth fighters have been built at roughly $110 million each. Not one carries a turbine blade that matches the service life of its Western equivalent. The WS-15 reached serial production on the J-20A in December 2025. Its high-pressure turbine runs on a third-generation Chinese single-crystal superalloy, rated about 30 degrees Celsius hotter than the second generation. The chemistry works. Casting yield at production scale does not. Chinese foundries scrap two of every three blades they cast. Western foundries scrap one in twenty. Chinese military engines improved from a few hundred hours between overhauls to roughly 1,500 with better blades. Western equivalents run roughly twice as long between overhauls and several times longer in total service life. Western foundries target sulfur below 1 part per million. Best practice runs below 0.3. At that purity, the coating survives thousands of hours in gas streams hotter than the alloy's melting point. A few extra parts per million and the coating peels, the blade oxidizes, and the engine fails prematurely.

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Insanity.

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

If the Trump administration think it can do this and still win a permitting deal this year I will eat a hat (not mine - I don’t wear hats these days - but if someone else has one I’ll oblige) heatmap.news/sparks/burgum-…

Nearly 12,000 habeas cases filed is a staggering amount, something not seen in generations. And for the government to lose 86% of the time, in front of hundreds of judges appointed by every living president, is a sign of just how much ICE and DOJ stretched the law until it broke.