DC's 311 app has been broken since May 1, which isn't acceptable for something residents rely on to report sidewalk issues, missed trash pickups, and broken streetlights. I got curious whether the outage actually showed up in the submission numbers. So I pulled the open data. 🧵

The Race to Criticality - June 4th, 2026 - 30 days until July 4th, 2026 @AntaresNuclear goes critical! The first of at least three companies expected to go critical by the July 4th deadline in EO 14301.

Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has filed charges against a woman who brutally attacked her outside Capitol Hill today. Here’s a clip of the horrific assault. Viewer Discretion is advised.

A PARENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS: Age 5: “He’s got a cannon.” Age 6: “He’s the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.” Age 7: “Rec ball isn’t challenging him anymore.” Age 8: “We tried out for select. Obviously made it.” Age 9: “$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.” Age 10: “Cooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?” Age 11: “He needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.” Age 12: “I’m not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.” Age 13: “We changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)” Age 14: “Showcases are a requirement at this age.” Age 15: “Ya his ranking just ticked up. We’re cooking.” Age 16: “He just needs to get seen by the right school.” Age 17: “The D1 schools want him to walk on. He’ll earn a spot by sophomore year.” Age 18: “Okay, D2 is actually really competitive.” Age 19: “He’s redshirting. Strategic.” Age 20: “He’s focusing on school now.” Age 21: “You know what? He’s so much happier.” Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college. About 1.5% of those get drafted. Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues. The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between “struck by lightning” and “find a $100 in old shorts.” I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. ✌️

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: An official image has been released of Kai Havertz' challenge. Studs above the ankle is a 100% red card in the book of rules, but VAR decided NOT to give it.

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Denver-based AZAK is presenting its second-generation chassis-free unmanned ground platform at the LANPAC Symposium and Expo in Honolulu this week, bringing a vehicle architecture that U.S. Army and Special Operations Forces have been evaluating for resupply, casualty evacuation, counter-UAS, and drone-launch roles following a series of 2025-26 military trials.

3rd Annual Natsec Hackathon 🇺🇸 1000 applicants. 102 projects. $80,000 in cash prizes. Partnering directly with the @USARMYPIT/ @USArmy for the first time, we brought together top builders from across the nation to tackle some of our military’s most pressing challenges in under 48 hours. Judged by leading military personnel, including from the Army, Space Force, & more, teams worked across the full stack of modern warfare, spanning sensor analysis, mission C2, cybersecurity, edge deployments, and drone operations. A big thank you to our co-hosts at @ShieldCapVC, @PalantirTech, @DCVC, @L3HarrisTech and IQT, with support from @OpenAI, @armada_ai, @scale_AI, @TENEXai, and @Deloitte. Special shoutout to our incredible judges – @joesuh, @bohannon_bot, @BahlAnuraag, @muralikannan, @sgourley, and more. What will you build at the next one? 👀 The winners:

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion to build factories in the United States.

A season-defining VAR check, at both ends of the Premier League 📺 West Ham thought they had an equalizer. The officials, ultimately, ruled it out 🧐

"The US Air Force is eyeing procurement of more than 150 Collaborative Combat Aircraft through 2031, service leaders revealed last week, signaling for the first time the potential quantity of drone wingmen the service anticipates buying" ~ Via Inside-Defense 🔗👇

While the majority of VC funded “shipbuilders” are busy manufacturing dinghies, BWA’s @rylanhamilton is building properly sized vessels. Be like Ryan.

.@kela_tech raising $200 million at $1 billion valuation with backing from @BillAckman and @ericschmidt. The Israeli defense startup is building an operating system to integrate modern military systems. calcalistech.com/ctechnews/a…

Exclusive: @GallatinAI Wins First Place at @cerebral_valley's National Security Hackathon (by Army xTech) El Segundo reigns supreme in SF. Gallatin AI took first place with an agentic radio agent built on @PalantirTech's Maven Smart System in 24 hours. The team of three: @danbuci (Co-Founder & CTO), Jake Siegel (AI Engineer), and Justin Oh (Software Engineer). On the battlefield, radio waves can quickly become overloaded, leading to missed critical information. A Marine may only have a small radio and a battered field notebook, which makes capturing large volumes of information difficult and results in lackluster data reaching senior decision makers. Justin Oh experienced this friction firsthand as a former active-duty Marine Corps field artillery officer. The agent receives radio traffic, turns it into a transcript, creates summaries for senior leaders, and directly actions enterprise Army systems such as updating Maven Smart System’s Gaia map and Gallatin’s Navigator Defense Logistics software. The agent supports capturing and understanding both tactical Green Gear as well as more advanced MANET radios such as the Persistent System’s MPU5. Atoms Not Bits saw multiple successful live demos firsthand. In one final-pitch scenario, the agent updated an infantry unit's location on a map visualization based on what they radioed in. Another covered resupply. @cerebral_valley’s 3rd annual National Security Hackathon was unique in that the U.S. Army put up the prize money. Problem sets included Sensor Analysis and Integration, Edge Deployments and Drone Operation, Mission Command and Control, Digital Defense and Cybersecurity, and General National Security. Over 100 teams participated, ranging from Stanford students to engineers at frontier AI labs. The event was hosted by @cerebral_valley and @ShieldCapVC. @GallatinAI, Inc. has raised $15M led by @8vc. The day job is AI-powered logistics for the Department of War, which makes the resupply scenario the most natural bridge between this side project and the core business.

This story is getting a ton of traction, probably because the accused is a female banker. This stuff doesn't surprise me at all. After all, JP Morgan banked Epstein for years after his first incarceration. But I experienced countless examples of deviance at all ranges of the spectrum. Just a couple of examples that come to mind: 1) High yield deal for Chinese billionaire property developer. Doing a global roadshow. The CEO drunkenly assaults a female analyst in a hotel room. Instead of bailing on the deal (and losing the IPO fees), the bank sends her home and continues with the roadshow. 2) My first boss, a Managing Director, never bothered to interview prospective analysts. Waste of his time. One day, he overheard us talking about interviews and that one female Ivy League applicant listed "Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year" on her résumé. He insisted on the doing the interview (~45 minutes). He came back 10 minutes later and said, "I guess looks were not among Glamour's criteria" and threw the résumé in the trash. He's still a senior MD in London. 3) The hedge fund sales desk only hired attractive female analysts. They referred to them as "tethered goats" and would bring them to all their client drinks. 4) Our head of trading got annoyed at the meekness of an intern and wanted to toughen him up. Made him take a survey of every guy on the trading floor and rank every female on the credit sales team in order of fuckability. And then had him chart it up and present it to us in PowerPoint. 5) Many emerging markets closing dinners were male bankers only because clients typically want to go to dirty karaoke. I could probably think of a dozen more, but you get the idea....

Glam DHS official's ex, who claims she used him as a $40,000 'sugar daddy,' is IT exec with $67M in government contracts trib.al/bFSgVEH

Secret 'sugar daddy' sex scandal explodes inside Trump's counterterrorism HQ: Read glamorous senior aide's voracious text messages, itemized 'trophies'… and her utterly shameless justification trib.al/Mzl6NOw

.@LockheedMartin announced a $25 million investment in @FortemTech, a global leader in airspace security. This investment will enable Fortem to accelerate production at scale and enhance deployment within the Sanctum counter-UAS ecosystem. Click for more:

NEW: Michael and Susan Dell commit $1 Billion to University of Texas at Austin

Tonight is a good night to repeat what I said last August when Texas started this mid-cycle redistricting chain reaction. Politics has to be more than a power grab. By either party. There have to be rules that everyone follows. Otherwise, it’s all about power and pretty soon there won’t be much left that holds our nation together.