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This is flying under the radar, but Trump's cronies have started their own organization to plan 250th anniversary events. Not only is their "Freedom 250" receiving taxpayer funds, it's also soliciting big donations from corporations in exchange for face time with Trump. Everything is for sale.

Trump’s administration said China buying U.S. farmland was a national security threat. Then Hannity asked him about Chinese nationals buying land near military bases, and Trump said banning them could make farmers “lose a lot of money.” So is it a security crisis, or does Trump just like the money? zurl.co/k4WZZ

42 years ago today, Prince released "When Doves Cry," a worldwide hit, and his first Billboard Hot 100 #1 single, topping the charts for five weeks. And there's no bass.

Boca Raton, Floriduh. We winning yet?

From Monday 12p to Tuesday 12p, there will be a 24-hour public reading of the (released) Epstein files In New York #stream" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">epsteinfilibuster.com/#stream

@RadioFreeTom The Hatch Act does apply to the SECDEF but as long as he doesnt use his title or fundraise personally it is not a violation for a Cabinet member to be the featured speaker at a political fundraiser.

Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"

That pulls at my heart strings.

The first known aerial photo of New York — taken by James A. Hart (from a hot air balloon) in 1906.

California AG Rob Bonta says California has been going after fraud long before Trump was president, long before JD Vance was a senator, and long before Trump started pardoning people who defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars.

🚨 China just announced — on Saturday, after Trump’s Beijing summit — that it will reduce tariffs on American farm products. This is being framed as a Trump trade win. Here is the part that framing leaves out. US farm exports to China collapsed 65.7% last year. They fell to $8.4 billion. China had been one of the top three buyers of American crops. Trump’s tariffs closed that market. China retaliated with its own tariffs. American farmers lost a year of sales while Brazil and Argentina took the business. Brazil’s soybean exports to China hit a record 85 million metric tons in 2025. Today’s “win” is China agreeing to partly reopen the door the US closed.

I read something like this and I think: Some of us have been so focused on their authoritarianism and abuse of power and lawless that we’ve perhaps neglected to point out the additional fact that these are also just terrible humans—lacking class, grace, kindness or dignity.

Chip Franklin: “I ask people where is the enemy? Where are these killer immigrants? You’re sending US citizens and undocumented people to prisons in third world nations. You’re ten times more likely to be assaulted by a guy named John than a guy named Juan”

Tim Dillon on America: “We’re not the high school bully anymore. We’re the weird kid who may have a gun. We’re not the bully, we’re not the jock, we’re not the quarterback. This is not Top Gun, we are not Tom Cruise. We’re the college kid who keeps going to the high school parties. We’re a pedophile and we may have a gun”

I’ve been reading the Epstein files for months. The people inside that network were not thinking decade to decade. They were thinking generationally about power, influence, technology, and control. And if you think they stopped, you are not paying attention.

🚨 🇺🇸JUST IN: Pete Hegseth canceled a troop deployment to Poland that was already happening. The unit had cased their colors. The advance team was already on the ground. The equipment was already there. Then he pulled the plug. And he didn’t tell Congress. He didn’t tell Poland. The four-star general in charge of Europe pushed back. Hegseth did it anyway. This came out Friday at a House hearing. The Republican chairman, Mike Rogers, told the Army Secretary to his face: “We’re not happy. There’s been no statutory consultation with us.” Rep. Don Bacon — also a Republican, a retired Air Force general — went sharper: “Reprehensible. An embarrassment to our country.” The Pentagon’s spokesman called the cancellation “not a last-minute decision.” The Army Secretary, under oath that same morning, said it happened “a couple days ago.” Both can’t be true. This is the third time in seven months Hegseth has pulled US troops from a NATO ally without telling Congress. Romania last fall. Germany two weeks ago. Poland this week. Russia is watching. Poland got a phone call.

19th and Chestnut (1952) — in Philadelphia, PA

@TerryMoran @ScottMoore___ It was a great movie.

@ScottMoore___ Anthony Quinn’s career is hilarious. Go-to dark-ish guy. He also played Crazy Horse in “They Died With Their Boots On.” A movie I loved as a kid. Still, tbh.

Or Ben Kingsley playing Mahatma Gandhi. Or John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Or Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Richard Burton as Othello. Or Alec Guinness in “Lawrence of Arabia.” Or David Carradine in Kung Fu. Et cetera. Lighten up.

@TerryMoran Or a pedophile playing a President