Judd Legum

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details.

2. Primary source documents, videos, and all the receipts: popular.info/p/the-smoking-…

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

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3. Trump purchased between purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell Technologies stock on February 10. During an economic speech in Georgia nine days later, Trump told the audience to “go out and buy a Dell computer,” saying the company made “phenomenal products.”

3. The overlap between Trump's public statements and his private investments were previously unreported. They were buried in a new 113-page financial disclosure filed by Trump. We've uncovered more examples.

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

2. Three more SMOKING GUNS in Trump's new 113 page financial disclosure. Trump purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron stock on March 25 (also unsolicited). The next day he called into The Five, said he had just met with Micron's CEO, and called Micron "one of the hottest companies."

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3. The Pentagon's own internal estimate, from weeks ago, was $50 billion, according to CBS News. Popular Information added up the costs, with a detailed methodology, and arrived at $72 billion over the first 60 days. Other independent estimates are even higher. popular.info/p/the-real-cos…

1. Major media outlets are credulously reporting that cost of the Iran War was $29 billion so far, citing the Pentagon. This number is absurdly low. It is based on flawed accounting and completely excluding major categories of costs. But it still made all the headlines.

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9. Advance Local previously outsourced the scheme to Catena Media, which says it attracts players to gambling sites by “leveraging the visibility we gain from… high rankings on popular search engines.”

1. A network of prominent news outlets, including The Oregonian, The Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, have quietly published more than 17,000 articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books and prediction markets Advance Local, which owns these outlets, claims this is journalism.