Rebecca Hudson

The CEO of the world’s largest oil company said something on Friday that should terrify every energy importer on the planet. Oil is already up 57% since Feb 28. He says the market still hasn’t priced the shock. Let that sink in. 🧵

Trump's increasingly unhinged social media posts raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental state.

It’s because he is an asshole. It’s not rocket science. He’s a terrible leader way over his head. He must resign.

A reporter reminded President Trump yesterday that he’d said the night prior that the US might be better off not making a deal with Iran. Trump said “I didn’t say that.” He’d said it the night prior. On camera. cnn.com/2026/05/03/pol…

@YourAnonNews The first thing I thought if when I heard he was ill

Rudy Giuliani

The Trump administration has downsized US science by historic margins — but it's not just via grant or workforce cuts. Our new @nature analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across all major science agencies.

@grantstern Snopes says false. Kid rock toured the Pentagon as a guest of Hegseth

This is Trump's way plan. Kid Rock.

IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER! IT WILL FEATURE A HANDSOME, HIGH-QUALITY PHOTO OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S THE BEST LICENSE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THIS IS ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR BEAUTIFUL STATE (IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, DESPITE THE VERY HANDSOME PHOTO!). ENJOY! — GOVERNOR GCN

@WhiteHouse No Kings

TWO KINGS. 👑

Iran’s diplomat makes a Jane Austen reference. White British male newscaster does not get it. SO much of contemporary British cultural hubris and ignorance (even of themselves) encapsulated in this clip.

@ProfSunnySingh ' It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single country in possession of large oil reserves must be in want of US guardianship' 😏

The father-son Ellison duo will soon own a kingdom of media properties now that Warner Bros. shareholders approved a major deal: -TikTok -Warner Bros. (including New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment) -Paramount -DC Studios -The Discovery Channel -CNN -CBS (including news and sports) -HBO -BET -Fandango -Rotten Tomatoes -Nickelodeon -MTV -Cartoon Network -Food Network -Travel Channel -Investigation Discovery -Animal Planet -Comedy Central -Showtime -TBS -TLC -HGTV And more. huffpost.com/entry/ellison-…

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.

This should be a much bigger story. The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way. Here is how it works. The government has something called the Judgment Fund. Think of it as an emergency savings account for when the government loses a lawsuit or settles a real legal fight. It is not a checkbook the President can use whenever he feels like rewarding a company. To get around that rule, the administration is pretending TotalEnergies was about to sue. But TotalEnergies had no case. The company signed a contract in January 2025 with clear rules: the government cannot cancel these leases unless it first pauses the project for five years. The lease is less than four years old and was never paused. TotalEnergies agreed to those terms. There was no real lawsuit coming. So the administration invented a fake legal threat to justify raiding an account Congress controls. That matters because the Constitution says Congress, not the President, decides how taxpayer money gets spent. It gets worse. The White House claimed TotalEnergies would take the money and reinvest it in American oil and gas. The actual paperwork, now public, requires nothing of the kind. The company gets a billion dollars of taxpayer money and owes us nothing. So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he’s not fit to be president.

@DropSiteNews The petrodollar is the real elephant in the room here. Neither our politicians nor our media seem willing to discuss this.

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms, including a Senate investigation, the Mueller report, multiple intelligence investigations, multiple reportorial investigations in the US and elsewhere, and multiple books. Leaving out that crucial fact allows the reader to miss the way this echoes prior authoritarian "investigate the investigator" moves as well as the fundamentally Orwellian character of this. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/…

Trump has established a dangerous precedent by firing upon and seizing a vessel in international waters. When the move is reciprocated, remember who set the precedent.

🚨 UAE presidential adviser to Reuters: “The UAE no longer needs the United States to defend it, as it proved during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself effectively.” ▪︎ “It is time to consider closing U.S. bases in the Arabian Gulf, as they are a burden on the UAE.”

The Atlantic reports that Kash Patel is drinking so heavily that meetings need to be rescheduled and his security detail has trouble waking him up. At one point, they had to request SWAT team equipment because he wouldn't answer the door. Some think that his drinking is responsible for major blunders like when he put out inaccurate information about the Charlie Kirk investigation. With the war in Iran, government officials are wondering what happens if there's a terrorist attack and he's too drunk to respond. Patel fired members of a counterterrorism squad working partly on Iran, and instead spends his time demanding that FBI merchandise look more "fierce." Asked to comment, he threatens to sue the reporters. Kakistocracy. Learn that word.