This from Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband is more corrupt than the typical corruption we see in Washington. Aren't they extremely rich? Why do this?

Markwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations. Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.

There. Is. Always. A. Tweet.

🚨 The White House app uses code from a vendor still operating in Russia. Its founders kept accounts at sanctioned Russian banks after the invasion. One also complained privately about being summoned by Russian tax authorities. NEWS from The Newsground (link below)

We fixed JD’s book title

“I have totally defeated you and also transferred $300 billion dollars into your bank account”

Leave it to a group of women to finally hold JD Vance accountable for his hypocrisy.

The right had a fit when Obama returned 1.4 billion dollars to Iran. Where is the outrage about Trump GIVING Iran $300 billion?

Every word

The US-Iran deal is being sold as Trump ending a war. Read the terms. This is an Iranian victory, and not a close one: 1) Iran is openly selling oil again immediately. The MOU waives sanctions on Iranian crude the moment it is signed, and covers the banking, transport, and insurance to make the sales work. Two supertankers, the Diona and Hero II, already crossed the US blockade Tuesday. 2) The blockade that defined the war is gone. The US lifts it. Iran lifts its closure of Hormuz. The single point of leverage Washington spent three months building, surrendered up front. 3) The strait reopens "under Iranian arrangements." Not freedom of navigation. Iran manages the chokepoint it just strangled. The no-toll promise runs 60 days, then expires. Before the war Iran charged up to $2M per vessel. 4) The oil concession was free for Iran. A former Mossad official told the WSJ Iran would have resumed smuggling the second the ports opened. Washington just legalized a trade that never stopped, and called it a sweetener. 5) Iran is owed $300 billion in reconstruction. Trump called it fake news. His own VP confirmed it on camera, "the sort of thing they could have access to." 6) Iran kept the nuclear program. Still enriching. Vance admits Tehran has not agreed to stop. Stockpile removal is deferred to talks that have not started. The war aim was ending the nuclear program. It survived. 7) Iran wants $12B up front, $24B over the window, against ~$100B frozen. Sanctions can be reimposed. Transferred assets cannot be clawed back. Whatever Iran banks, it keeps. 8) Amazingly Iran earned more from oil during the war than before it. Prices spiked from its own Hormuz closure. Higher margins, lower volume, healthy treasury. It negotiated from strength, not collapse. The US and Israel set out to end Iran's nuclear program, drain its missiles, cut its proxies, and topple the regime. None of it happened. The terms read like a list of things Iran wanted. This is what losing a war you started looks like.

NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that? SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.

A confused Trump wanders off in the wrong direction and has to be guided back in front of G7 world leaders.

Makes you realize that JD Vance may be even more dangerous to freedom and American democracy then the malignant narcissist facing mental decline who is now president

Unbelievable

In a hilariously bad interview, JD Vance admits Trump's Iran deal doesn't even have nuke inspections settled, days before a deal signing. Seems like that would be important.

The great thing about pushing Vance out in front to sell this thing is that not only is he making Republicans very, very nervous (imagine if John Kerry had said the IRGC has seen the error of its ways in 2015), but he's giving Democrats a very strong argument for 2028 that he'd be a terrible foreign policy president, naive and stupid when it comes to America's adversaries. Absolutely incredible stuff. And people are wondering why Marco Rubio has gone into occultation right now.

BREAKING: A source close to the IRGC says there is "growing satisfaction" inside the Revolutionary Guards over the deal, with IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi saying "first, we take the money" in reference to the $300 billion in reconstruction funds and $24 billion in frozen funds Iran is receiving, and then the IRGC takes over the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb after Hormuz, where it plans to "play exactly the same game." The IRGC's internal assessment is that Iran preserved its ballistic missile program, full regional proxy network, complete control over Hormuz and ability to rebuild while extracting hundreds of billions of US dollars and recognition, with discussions already focused on "the day after the agreement, not the agreement itself."

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program > screwworm outbreak almost immediately > $1B to combat it Government efficiency