Jesse Welles - 3 hours ago
Because the Trillionaire Thread was closed.
Congress turned down President Donald Trump's request for funding for his modernization efforts at the White House " mainly out of concern that he would tap taxpayer dollars for his proposed ballroom. Now, the president is turning to a pot of money Congress approved last year for the U.S. Secret Service. Records show that the White House Office of Management and Budget last week quietly apportioned $352 million from Trump's tax cuts law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for "White House Security Measures."
Iran's national team has been subject to travel restrictions since the FIFA tournament kicked off last week which is impacting their match performance. For just one example, after their 2-2 tie with New Zealand in Los Angeles on Monday, Team Melli was forced to fly all the way back to their base camp in Mexico on the very same day. The Iranian team points out FIFA has not advocated enough for them in this long multi-national tournament.
Team Melli honoring Minab school massacre
Florida will soon close Alligator Alcatraz, a highly publicized immigration detention center that opened in the Everglades less than a year ago, according to multiple news reports citing unidentified officials. Companies hired to run the detention center were told May 12 that the facility would be shut down in June, the New York Times and CBS News reported. The cost of operating the center is the reason.
A hearing in Luigi Mangione's state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors said they failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court. Read more
When the US Department of Justice approved Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday, a DOJ press release said "a rigorous eight-month investigation led by the [Antitrust] Division's career staff" showed that the $111 billion deal would not harm competition or American consumers.
JD Vance's appearance on The View is raising eyebrows -- but not for his heated political debate with Ana Navarro or his admitting to being a "conspiracy theorist" about the Epstein files. Instead, people who tuned into the ABC daytime talk show episode Tuesday to see the vice president discuss his new book, Communion, were shocked by his bold TV makeup. Vance, 41, came on the show appearing to wear eyeliner -- which his wife, Usha Vance, has said in the past is not makeup, but actually his thick eyelashes -- and a heavy amount of orange bronzer. Read more
Sean Penn will direct a movie about a police officer who was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. Following his Oscar-winning performance in "One Battle After Another," Penn will direct the as-yet untitled film from his own script. Bradley Cooper is in talks to star, though no deal has been finalized. Representatives for Penn and Warner Bros. didn't comment Tuesday on the movie's protagonist but said he's based on a real person. When Penn attended the 2022 hearings of the House Select Committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol, he sat between Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, both of whom responded to the attacks. Fanone testified that he rushed to the scene and was "grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country."
Iran's top diplomat said Tuesday that the tentative deal to end the war with the United States would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon " a condition Israel has already rejected and that could sink the agreement, leading to the resumption of all-out war.
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade ripped the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran during a Wednesday morning interview with the Hudson Institute's Rebeccah Heinrichs. "Rebeccah, can we just start on the Israeli portion of it? Israel has to, I guess, stop fighting back against Hezbollah, who's lobbing missiles at the northern part of their country," began Kilmeade. "This makes absolutely no sense." "It makes no sense. And we also know, Brian, that there have been diplomatic attempts over and over and over again since the early 2000s to try to get Hezbollah to disarm. They will not disarm, it has never worked through negotiations and diplomacy. At this point, if this is tied to this deal, the United States would essentially be restraining Israel, our greatest ally in the region and the reason that we had such success in [Operation] Epic Fury," replied Heinrichs.
FBI Director Kash Patel prematurely announced details of an investigation into an alleged terror plot targeting last weekend's White House UFC event, sources told MS NOW on Tuesday. Ken Dilanian, the network's justice and intelligence correspondent, wrote on X that Patel's disclosure on social media compromised the sealed investigation because it came before another 10 suspects or so could be apprehended.
The Justice Department argued in a Mississippi federal court that Felon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has the right to run dozens of noxious air polluting gas-burning turbines in the state despite not having permits for them.
Who the heck cares if poor People of Color suffer from toxic air pollution and higher utility costs?
Dummkopf Trumpf's family multibillion dollar crypto business will soon be allowed to operate like a bank, a decision that would give US companies and nefarious actors a new route to steer money to the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF).
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Thanks to Islamophobic warmonger US Senator John Fetterman (D-Israel), the US Senate failed to advance the Iran War Powers Resolution, a measure that would have directed Dummkopf Trumpf to withdraw US forces from hostilities against Iran in a war being fought on behalf of Israel which has been bankrupting the US Treasury.
More foreign interference in the US body politic
This article argues that Trump's claimed Iran deal is vague, politically inflated, and dangerously built on Iran's unreliable promises while allowing him to take credit for easing a crisis his own actions helped create.
Getting back to the star of the show, on Monday morning Trump turned his attention to the July 4th celebrations centered around America's 250th anniversary.
And by doing so, he finally admitted the truth. Here is what he said on Truth Social yesterday.
"On July 4th at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in beautiful and safe Washington DC, we are going to host the most spectacular Trump rally of them all, a tribute to America."
And I'm going to stop reading it right there because that is the key. Read more
