Chris Wright, US Sec of Energy, expressed strong confidence in coal’s long-term dominance, stating: “I’m pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die.” 👀
Southern Poverty Law Center says it's subject of criminal invest. by Trump admin. Nonprofit indicates probe focused on past use of pd confidential informants to gather intel on violent extremist groups (gasp)
Why would Trump admin defend violent extremist groups?
Unless..oh, they're his people
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Aaron Parnas
BREAKING: Trump Extends Ceasefire Indefinitely,
2 Americans Dead in Possible Botched CIA Operation, Republicans Seek to Carve Trump into Mount Rushmore
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Rat Lungworm Is Now in My State. Is It in Yours Too? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/para...
Claire Panosian Dunavan, MD
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Jill Filipovic
*GIFTED*
..word “contraception” comes up just once in Title X funding doct, only in a section on “reducing overmedicalization in health care.”
They promote nicotine patches, gums, lozenges, pouches, often filled with nicotine salt powder
To boosters, nicotine is a “natural” product the med establishment demonized, like beef tallow, peptides, raw milk
Influencers have put spin on drug, drawing elements of MAHA playbook, using rhetoric
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Dani Blum
Dave Asprey, a biohacking influencer & new wave of health influencers like Mr. Asprey, many of whom are aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement, are championing nicotine as a health product
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Santul Nerkar, Miles G. Cohen
Carmine G. Agnello Jr, grandson of John J. Gotti, was sentenced to prison, after pleading guilty to defrauding fed gov't out of >$1 million in Covid relief funds
question: how long before he get$ pardoned?
On 2nd major prediction-market platform, where a sr Trump family member also holds an advisory role, similar suspicious patterns emerged around the same events
It got so bad that the WH Management Office had to send a staff-wide email reminding WH employees not to trade on nonpublic information
On Polymarket— prediction platform where Donald Trump Jr. is an investor & advisor—small cluster of freshly-created accts placed precise bets about whetherUS would reach a ceasefire with Iran & whether Trump would strike Iranian energy infrastructure
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Fast-forward to 2026. In March, more than half a billion dollars flowed into crude oil futures 15 min before Trump announced a de-escalation with Iran
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On crypto derivatives exchange Hyperliquid, a single trader closed out a short position on Bitcoin & Ethereum opened in hrs before Trump’s tariff escalation—perfectly timed bet cleared roughly $160 million profit. Last piece of that trade was placed about 1 min before Trump hit “post”
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The S&P 500 rocketed more than 9%, one of the largest single-day gains on record. Trump Media closed up nearly 23%. The President’s personal stake in Trump Media, gained something on the order of $415 million on a single day
One day. One post. A half-billion-dollar swing in the family fortune
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1 wk later, with portfolios still bleeding out, Trump posted the words “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!” on Truth Social and signed it “DJT”-which, is also the ticker symbol for his own company. A few hrs after that post, he announced a 90-day pause on most tariffs
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Over the following week, roughly $11 trillion in market value evaporated — an event the history books will record alongside 2008 and 1987. Retirements vanished. College funds evaporated. Small businesses watched their credit lines tighten overnight
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Adam Kinzinger
On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump announced what he called “Liberation Day” tariffs. The market response was immediate and catastrophic. U.S. investors lost $3.1 trillion in a single day
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..her point in her memo that this is unprecedented. As I read the subsequent memos, including Robert’s second kind of goes unchallenged. So the court knows what it is doing
..it was also really the first example of the court directly intervening on a question of nationwide federal policy.
2nd, there’s a lot of back & forth-I think the figure who plays the institutionalist umpire of concern for the Court would be not Justice Roberts, but Justice Kagan-⬇️
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Harry Littman & Steve Vladeck
What's different about Clean Power Plan cases, 2 things: 1st was very specific relief court granted, which was to basically freeze an entire reg before any lower court had ruled on it..there are no prior examples of SCOTUS doing that
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Under those settlements, companies donated virtually all money to the library project, totaling at least $63 million. But the fund where most of the money appeared to be directed—Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund—was dissolved by FL officials amid failure to file a required annual report
Paramount for $16 million over a claim of fraudulent editing by CBS; Meta for $25 million & X for around $10 million over supposed censorship of Trump; ABC for $15 million over alleged defamation. Experts criticized lawsuits as weak, denounced the settlements as akin to extortion payments
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“Not one of these companies can say with any clarity where their multi-million-dollar donations to Donald Trump’s library slush fund are, or where they will go,” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who’s taken the lead in tracking this money
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ABC; Paramount; Meta; X—entered agreements with Trump to settle legal cases he’d brought against them which experts dismissed as dubious
Co's agreed to these shakedowns—um, settlements—fund created to receive funds dissolved last Sept. Since, Sen Dems have been asking: What happened to the money?
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Greg Sargent, The New Republic
4 huge co's pledged 10x millions $$ to help fund the creation of Trump’s presidential library, planned monstrosity in Miami that—in a perfect Trumpian twist—may also double as a hotel
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The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Secrets Have Been Spilled newrepublic.com/article/2092... via @newrepublic.com
Matt Ford, The New Republic
OH’s version of SAVE Act; a bill would ban drag shows..bills prohibiting immigrants from owning land, fluoride ban, bill to increase difficulty to access mifepristone
For MAHA: OH’s R-legislators may legalize raw milk sales for human consumption & normalize refusing kids’ vaccs, H.B. 561-CHOICE Act
The Ohio Republican Party Has Built a Laboratory of Autocracy newrepublic.com/article/2087... via @newrepublic.com
Sarah Stanskorb
There's bill requiring med personnel to file a “certificate of life” for every fetus in OH, after detection of a heartbeat
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Really American
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested it may actually be better for Americans if Trump is out on the golf course than inside the Oval Office making consequential decisions, explicitly tying that concern to renewed talk of the 25th Amendment.
Trump this morning claimed: "I would've won Vietnam very quickly if I were president. Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes."
