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Trump is shutting down the nation's premier honeybee research lab even as a massive bee die-off unfolds. As usual, it is illegal to do this without approval from Congress, but Trump is doing it anyway.

A federal judge (Trump appointee Carl Nichols) unsealed an order holding Mike LINDELL in contempt and penalizing him $500 per day until he pays a $56,000 sanction to Smartmatic for frivolous legal arguments. Though LIndell claimed ot be insolvent, Nichols found he was paying other legal bills and his gubenratorial campaign recently bought $187,000 worth of Lindell's books. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Vance: ​“What I would say to both Russians and Ukrainians is we're talking about haggling over a few square kilometers of territory. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional russian and Ukrainian young men?" Vance is once again failing to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, attempting to convince you that it is acceptable to pressure the victim into complying with the aggressor’s demands. He fails to recognize that he is not only urging Ukraine to surrender territories, but also the people who live there, our homes, and our most fortified defense lines dooming us for future attacks, because this war is not at all about territory, but about Ukraine existence as a state.

Has a more subtly sarcastic headline ever been written?

Many athletes may only learn they are intersex from genetic testing. “There are places around the world where this kind of outing is incredibly dangerous. I would like to think the U.S. is not one of those places. But right now it doesn't feel like that to a lot of people.”

Epstein’s attorney Darren Indyke told the House Oversight Committee last month that he was not structuring cash withdrawals from Epstein’s Deutsche Bank accounts to avoid federal reporting requirements. Newly-unredacted Suspicious Activity Reports filed by Deutsche Bank with FinCEN say otherwise. The SARs document Indyke repeatedly asking tellers about Currency Transaction Report thresholds — and when told a CTR would be required, telling them he’d come back the next day to avoid the paperwork. That pattern continued for years, across multiple filings, after he was confronted by compliance officers. The DOJ originally released these documents unredacted on January 30. Then quietly re-redacted them. COURIER’s database archived every version before they disappeared. The originals are still accessible. Structuring transactions to avoid CTR reporting is a federal crime. Lying about it under oath is perjury. Indyke was under oath. Pam Bondi testifies in 8 days. epsteincoverup.us/report/did-eps…

New in PN: TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover "For years, conservatives told themselves that Trump’s constant escalations were crafty gamesmanship, that he was keeping all options on the table to avoid tipping his hand to the enemy. This barely-averted disaster cuts the knees out from under their creative fiction. Trump'’s not performing as a madman. He’s just barking mad." publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran-t…

Imagine if Michelle Obama did this

Trump went from making genocidal threats against Iran to becoming business partners with Iran in 24 hours. The guy is loonier than a shithouse rat.

Hegseth: Iran would be wise to find a way to get the carrier pigeon to their troops out in remote locations to know not to shoot missiles—we're prepared. Reporter: THEY’RE STILL FIRING BALLISTIC MISSILES Hegseth: Excuse me, why are you so rude?

JD Vance in Hungary: "You should never have a foreign head of state threatening the head of government of an allied nation. It's preposterous, it's unacceptable."

The threat - which had to be taken seriously unless we are now just going to ignore the President as a raving old man - turned out to be a major error, even alienating some Trump allies. Then Trump accepted a deal he had tried to ignore for weeks. Amateur hour all around.

Vivek Ramaswamy wants Ohio to welcome more AI data centers and Bitcoin mining operations. He has said so repeatedly — in speeches, in social media posts, and at campaign events across the state. What he hasn’t said is that his own company is heavily invested in the cryptocurrency those mining operations produce, that his two largest super PAC donors are crypto billionaires, or that data centers have collected $2.5 billion in Ohio tax breaks since 2017 while creating relatively few permanent jobs.

▪️PAM BONDI—“The [Florida] Bar rejected a well-founded complaint against her last year on the premise that it doesn’t go after lawyers while they occupy federal constitutional office. Soon, she’ll be out.” – “JON MAY, the Boca Raton lawyer who filed the first complaint against her, said Thursday he will file another with the Bar, ‘significantly revised’ to include a wealth of new examples of professional misconduct. The Bar’s closure letter last June acknowledged he could refile ‘once the above-named lawyer no longer serves in such a position.’” “May’s original complaint to the Bar was co-signed by 70 prominent legal ethics professors, former judges and lawyers. They included former FLORIDA SUPREME COURT chief justices Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince and a former president of the American Bar Association, MARTHA BARNETT. Their complaint cited lawyers who quit the DOJ or were fired by Bondi for refusing unethical orders.”

Including Russia, right? RIGHT?

Iran Deal by Obama: •0 Americans killed •0 Iranians killed •0 bombs dropped •$0 spent on war GOP: THIS IS AN TOTAL FAILURE! WE LOST! Iran Ceasefire by Trump: •15 American soldiers killed, ~700 injured •1900 Iranian civilians killed, 26,000 injured •$45 BILLION in taxpayer money wasted •18 countries bombed or involved in war MAGA: THIS IS A TOTAL WIN! SO MUCH WINNING!

Vance cheers Orban days before Hungary votes while Trump threatens Iran. Democracy ignored, global risk rising. This White House is chaos unleashed. America needs leadership, not reckless madness. #DemsUnited #GlobalAlert

Trump wants taxpayers to pay for his ridiculous arch. Previously he lied and said donors were going to pay. Now the truth comes out. I’m sure the same is true of his ballroom. #DemsUnited apple.news/AfS4XXQIwQXimI…

U.S.-South Korea Relations Are at Breaking Point: “What good is the U.S. security guarantee against China when the United States cannot even handle a middle power such as Iran? What was the point of suffering through China’s economic retaliation to deploy THAAD in the name of upholding the U.S.-South Korea alliance when the United States makes a mockery of that suffering by unilaterally pulling THAAD to a different corner of the world? What good is a guarantor that asks you to spend your resources to cover the liability it created?” 1/2

And the global repercussions begin...