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Ossoff: "The financial entanglement, the way UAE money, Emirati money from Emirati royals has compromised this White House is astonishing. It may be one of the most significant scandals in American history. Who are the president's two chief negotiators? Kushner and Witkoff. The people doing our diplomacy are at the same time doing personal business across the region that's enriching the first family. And meanwhile my constituents in Georgia are paying $4 for gas ... "

I know it's a bit downmarket these days to point out Trump's crookedness and hypocrisy but MAGA simply cannot stop speedrunning the plot of Animal Farm, becoming everything they claimed to despise about the previous regime, except more so. Like, for four years, a central attack on Joe Biden was that Hunter was trading on the family name. They even launched a congressional investigation, iirc. Now they either say nothing or enthusiastically cheer on the president's kids as they run a cryptocurrency exchange, a bitcoin mining operation, a luxury real estate brand, and a social media company, all of which are getting money from foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds. Here Eric Trump is appearing on TV as an adviser to a company that just won a $24 million Pentagon contract! And Fox Business is like: "way to go, Eric, we're proud of you, you really knocked this one out of the park."

@AgentNicoleLynn That is cool.

The NFL Draft starts tonight, and one of the players I am representing— Chris McClellan— is my high school classmate’s son. I can’t believe how full circle this has come. I went to high school with Kenny McClellan (Chris’s dad) and now I’m representing his son! From Booker T. Washington to the NFL Draft!

@BrianKarem Brian I know you have seen liars. But have you ever seen a press office like this?

Apparently Biden is also responsible for boils and the plague of frogs too.

Pamela Brown: A $430 million bet was placed moments before the president's latest announcement. Sam Liccardo: Five separate presidential announcements in the last month where we've seen excessive trading within minutes. This is not a mere coincidence. This is racketeering.

@AmazingPopPod Yep. I think I’m old anyway.

Who can you identify them all? Thoughts?

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

@AnnieAgar @ArenaClub Nails hair and shirt are well done……

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@Devan_Kaney You looked great during the broadcast!!

Getting ahead of things here - if you’re attending the Flyers game tonight…PUT YA DAMN SHIRT ON

@lucyshow11 national bohemian (natty boh)

What’s missing? 🍻

RIP Darrell Sheets! Our prayers are with you and your family! It’s been a honor to share the stage with you the last 15 years! #aetv #storagewars #realitytv

@BookitWithTrent Ha. Flyers are heading for a sweep.

WEDNESDAY NBA/NHL MORTAL MEGA’s: Pistons -8.5 Penguins ML Stars ML Oilers -1.5 *I have lost 9 of my last 11 NHL wagers.

@jotechltd Number plate makes it.

1985 GT Performer — clean chrome, classic vibes 🔥 Letting it go for just $1500. If you’re into timeless builds, this one’s for you. Hit me up via DM or email: gererichard841@gmail.com More bikes dropping soon… need space in the garage for new build so would be selling a few👀

@JbsPetChicken Be careful with what you think is bunk. In 1990 we had a half sheet that we thought was old/no good….7.5 hits later it fucking kicked in. That was a tough ride full auditory and visual hallucinations for 8+ hours. Then I would gain a clue for minute and it would kick again.

Some old head gave me this pin years ago at a show while I was fully dosed. Wonder if these are legit…. Anyone ever come across these pins?

@VigilantFox Get some more plastic surgery.

Lara Trump reveals she’s raising her kids screen-free, says it’s “amazing” to see how creative they are without them. “Eric and I do not allow our kids an iPad, an iPhone.” “When we go out to a restaurant, phones down for us [adults], too.” “We’re not doing that. We want to interact together. And it’s amazing to see what our kids will come up with creatively just on their own, the games they make up…” “You look at a table in any restaurant, half the people are on their phones. And I think that’s a really scary place. I don’t like that at all.”

How can I not repost these boys?

@PatrickWCutler Ha. 🧹🧹🧹🧹 otw

The Philadelphia Flyers have never won a series when leading 2-0. Penguins 🐧 in 6.

@miles_commodore Why I never touched blow and I’m in my 50s.

In 1986 Len Bias died from a drug overdose. He was only 22 years old. As a 14 year old kid I made a promise to myself to never do drugs after this. This was truly heartbreaking. Do you remember that?

@FredWhiteJr @nhlpens Competent refs. Fucking homers couldn’t make the difference for you guys.

@nhlpens A couple bounces and some competent refs and series is 1-1. Pens just need to play entire gam like they have the third period.

The series is not over. Just like the Flyers came into Pittsburgh and won 2 hockey games, the Penguins can go into Philly and win 2 hockey games. On the road, no noise, no distractions. Come to play your best hockey game. One game at a time.

@nhlpens Ha. 🧹🧹🧹 on the way.