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This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
reuters.com/business/energy/…
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For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
eyesonice.net/p/covid-hero-d…
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I'm less impressed by how @ossoff speaks (though he's terrific at that too) and more impressed by what he says.
This 2-minute clip is the best explanation of Trump corruption that I've ever heard. His explanation of the Russian dirty deals is so accurate and so clear. He knows the facts cold. And he explains them better than I can.
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In the 80’s there were periodic television writers’ strikes. David Letterman made the decision to go on anyway, without the writers. The comedy suffered, and he would improvise with bits like “Hal Gurnee’s Network Time Killers.” The shows exposed the artifice of television; that what you think you know as a relationship with a host is in fact a shallow parasocial construct driven by dozens of professionals, all dancing for the sponsors. A fugazi.
The writers are no longer drafting new material for Trump. He’s a character without a support team because as the lamest of ducks, he’s now a man entirely without stakes.
He will drift around in the White House for the next two years, fiddling with his sad Washington DC Construction Playset (The Reflecting Pool! The Golf Course! The Ballroom! Trump-Kennedy Center! The Arch!) while Washington’s careerist mob turns its attention to those who might aid their advancement in the future.
The sad old man is not a mastermind or writer. He is a television character, animated by professionals. We may think we know him, and maybe we do, a little. But the architecture of his politics and the sources of our rage are constructed by off-camera craftsmen who are quietly moving on to their next projects.
It may seem unintuitive that the writers would leave his character without a grand finale, a final sendoff, or a “who shot JR?” cliffhanger. But he’s perhaps not worth the effort. This ain’t TV… it’s real life. In transactional Washington, his worth was always rooted in what he could deliver. He’s now shown he’s a liability, and the writers have moved on.
He may improvise, or try to. But the comedy will suffer, and we will all get a glimpse at the difference between the man himself and the complex Oz-machine we have called Trumpism as it, Terminator-like, oozes and morphs into its next carnation, leaving its old avatar behind.
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BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this:
"Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President."
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin…
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When it was reported he expressed this privately during the first term, I asked him whether he said it. He wouldn’t fess up. And his aides screamed for us to get out of the Oval. He’s just letting the Klan talk rip now.
nitter.gq/kylegriffin1/status/95…
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Elon wants chip fabs on the Moon now. Lunar soil is 20% silicon, he says, so you just mine it, refine it, stamp out solar cells and chips. Next level of the video game. His words.
He's a walking 1954 Popular Science cover. "Moon Factories by 1975!" You can picture him red-faced at some poor SpaceX engineer, jabbing a finger at a render: "I saw this in a magazine! Why can't you guys do this?" Because the magazine was fiction, Elon. That's why.
Boring question one: water. A single leading-edge fab burns through millions of gallons of ultrapure water every day, the kind filtered and polished until it turns chemically aggressive and rips ions out of anything it touches. Making it takes an industrial plant of its own. On the Moon you'd be chipping ice out of permanently shadowed craters at minus 230 C and feeding it through a purification chain that doesn't exist, powered by energy that also doesn't exist.
Boring question two: shaking. Lithography machines sit on tuned vibration isolation, springs and masses and counterweights engineered around Earth's gravity down to the millimeter. Lunar gravity is one sixth of that. Every spring rate and tuned mass in the stack assumes 1 g, and the Moon has its own moonquakes nobody has fully mapped. So forget shipping a fab up there. You'd have to redesign the entire physics package from scratch, in a hailstorm of charged abrasive dust that eats seals and bearings for breakfast.
And here's the part that makes it funny instead of just dumb. NASA studied all of this while Elon was still in college. Ignatiev and Freundlich published the actual paper in 1991: waste silicon from regolith processing, vacuum-deposited thin-film cells laid right on the surface. Serious work, fifteen years of it, and by 2005 the best anyone could promise was 5-8% efficient cells sprayed on melted moon glass, economical only at megawatt scale. Chips? Never in the plan. Not once, in thirty years of study. Then a 2006 follow-up walked back even the crude version, because melted regolith is too lumpy and dirty to make a decent substrate. The 2025 research gave up on purifying lunar silicon entirely and just ships the semiconductor layer from Earth.
Thirty years of papers saying "hard pass" and this guy shows up with the crayon version of a 1991 NASA study, calls it visionary, and the fanboys clap like he invented the Moon. He isn't a genius ahead of his time. He's a man who skips the reading, and it shows every single time he opens his mouth just to pump his cult stocks.
Elon Musk explains how to build AI satellites on the moon from lunar silicon and aluminum, and says 500 to 1,000 terawatts a year cannot be launched from Earth
“Well, the lunar soil is 20% silicon or something like that. So you can mine the silicon on the moon, refine it, and create the solar cells and the radiators on the moon. So get the radiators out of aluminum. So there’s plenty of silicon and aluminum on the moon to make the cells and the radiators. The chips you could send from Earth because they’re pretty light. But maybe at some point you make them on the moon, too."
"Like I said, it does seem like a sort of a video game situation where it’s difficult but not impossible to get to the next level. I don’t see any way that you could do 500 to 1,000 terawatts per year launched from Earth.”
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Trump is asked whether it makes any difference to him that Amy Acton was sexually abused by her stepfather.
He completely loses his temper and refuses to condemn the sexual abuse.
REPORTER: "Do the sexual abuse allegations make no difference to you?"
TRUMP: "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Who are you with? Who are you with?"
REPORTER: "But there are very serious sexual abuse allegations—"
TRUMP: "Listen, listen. Quiet."
REPORTER: "They make no difference to you?"
TRUMP: "Steve—isn’t she a fresh person? You’re a horrible little reporter, aren’t you?"
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It has been a long time but who can forget the hubris & overwhelming force of this book opening
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They broke Eisenhower’s globe because they didn’t want to wait for a team of specialist historians to move it.
I cannot think of a more apt metaphor for Pete Hegseth’s DoD.
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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When you hear Trump's team brag about how much they have given to Ukraine, here are the actual numbers.
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Abdul El-Sayed gives a BRILLIANT response to a guy asking him is he disavows the Muslim Brotherhood (he disavows them).
Why doesn't every Christian candidate get asked if they disavow the Proud Boys, or the KKK, or other Christian Nationalist terrorists?
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Trump has learned the wrong lesson from his mentor Netanyahu, who among other war crimes has deliberately destroyed over 1 million olive trees in Gaza—a key source of food for the civilian population.
Last weekend, anticipating a judge’s restraining order on Monday, Trump cut down over 400 trees in a beautiful area of green refuge for Washington DC city residents, aiming to convert an affordable public golf course into a private luxury club for professional events and his rich friends. He even cut down some trees after the judge issued her restraining order, therefore engaging in contempt of court if the judge chooses this sanction.
The legendary National Park Service, now under Trump’s clutches and in Trump’s Dump, has disgraced itself with such vengeful tree clear cutting. -R
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Remember when this guy was convicted of making false statements to the FBI about contacts with Russian spies (and receiving money from Russians)?
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The guy who wrote Trump’s crypto law was on the payroll of the company it regulates. When the law passed, they made him CEO.
Bo Hines is 29. He ran for Congress twice and lost both times. He’d never worked in government or crypto. In January 2025, Trump made him executive director of the White House crypto council.
His first priority was writing the GENIUS Act, the first real crypto law in American history. Billions of dollars depended on the details.
The Wall Street Journal just revealed that Hines owned a third of a consulting company while at the White House. His dad owned another third.
Weeks after Hines started, the company signed a deal with Tether, the biggest crypto company in the world. Tether paid them $415,000 a month while Hines was writing the bill that would regulate it.
Trump signed the bill in July 2025. At the ceremony, he asked, “Where’s Bo Hines?” Hines stood up and took a bow.
A month after Hines left the White House, Tether made him CEO of its U.S. division. He bought a bigger house. His dad bought a private jet.
This is how the place runs now. Trump set the example and everyone underneath him is keeping up. I break it all down and much more in today’s show (link in reply).