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Despite all the pushups?
A data breach at the Pentagon’s vast HR system has exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information of current and former military personnel, raising counterintelligence concerns among national security experts @snlyngaas @davis_winkie report cnn.com/2026/09/25/politics/…
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CNN reports Trump is so worried about Democrats winning the election that his "outside advisors" are telling him to declare martial law. Scary shit and we need to be ready.
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This is the most ridiculous White House ever. They are claiming the state propaganda they are running glorifying Donald Trump are “public service announcements.” Seriously. What is the public service in telling Americans to love Donald Trump? huffpost.com/entry/trump-pro…
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The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…
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Trump says he’s going to China in November. Is he going to take the defenseless extortion plane? Or a real AF1?
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Huh. I wonder if Trump did anything to warrant any of those investigations...
I will not hear any complaining about this. Joe Biden tried to put Donald Trump in jail for the rest of his life. If he can't tolerate a little bit of mockery, then too bad for him. Anybody pretending that President Trump needs to adopt this artifice of "Oh yeah, there's really bipartisan unity, and God forbid we insult one another," is being ridiculous. You don't get to try to put the former president in jail and then expect that the rest of us will just be okay with it (or that you won't get mocked if you end up losing)
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A few critics said I overlooked Trump's upcoming Xi summit in my column this week on Trump's boredom with substance and obsession with monuments to himself. Guess which part of Trump's Xi interactions was his favourite? Showing Xi his new ballroom.
"The term “lame duck” would be haunting any other president’s sleep. But the concept is alien to Trump. He spends more of his time telling people about his architectural plans than he devotes to Iran, AI or the economy. Insoluble problems hold no interest." My column. ft.com/content/571df338-895b…
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If they are an adversary, why has Trump been publicly glazing Xi this week?
Former Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender says President Trump’s “most important legacy is going to be reorienting the world when it comes to our approach to China… they really are an adversary”
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See? In this one here, our founders, who were total losers, gave special protection for the Fake News. Also lets people protest. So dumb. By the way, did you know in American, the word dumb has a "B"?
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🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. cbpp.org/research/food-assis…
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“I've interviewed President Trump about his relationship with Xi Jinping. President Trump thinks they are friends. He thinks they really like each other. And he thinks that this friendship can get all sorts of things for him and for the United States. He thinks that President Xi is not going to attack Taiwan, because he wouldn't do that to his friend Donald Trump. That's how trump really thinks about it.” “Trump is also not a China hawk. In his first term, he had a lot of China hawks around, Pompeo and Pence and these kinds of guys. Not not so much anymore. And what Trump believes is that the U.S. and China should have sort of an agreement to sort of divvy up the world - spheres of influence - and then just sort of get along as much as possible. That's also what XI jinping believes.” “Now, the problem, of course, is that the on the Chinese side, they're doing a lot of things that threaten our national security, our public health, our prosperity. Then why the praise? Well, because Trump is not a China hawk. He doesn't really care about that kind of stuff. He thinks it's about business. It's about investment. It's about keeping the relationship in check so that he can pursue his other adventures, like in Iran, et cetera.” “And you could say that plays into XI Jinping’s hands. Because if you think about the things that are really threatening us. China's expanding militarily. They're interfering in democracies. They're stealing our intellectual property. They're providing intelligence to the Iranians to kill Americans in the Middle East. It's really hard to address those things when the main goal of your policy is just to keep everything copacetic.”
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Historic in what way? That Xi showed up?
Chinese President Xi Jinping wraps up his visit to the United States today with a final stop at the National Archives. Here's a look back at Xi's historic visit to Washington and highlights from his state dinner with President Trump: foxnews.com/politics/xi-caps…
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This is news: “President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles.”
President Trump and I had a meeting where we discussed general matters. After that, our negotiating teams held a separate, long meeting. The agreement is as follows: we will brief the European side and discuss these details with them; the Americans will speak with the Russians; and in ten days, we will come back with views and results in some shape or form. As for a trilateral Ukraine-U.S.-Russia meeting, the American side proposed preparing it and meeting at the technical level. We are waiting for the United States to propose a date. The United States proposed the United Arab Emirates as the venue for such a meeting. There are concrete agreements regarding Patriot licenses. At our meeting, President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles. From answers to journalists’ questions. (1/3)
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The Kremlin starved Ukrainians once before. (This was a "terror-famine," to use Robert Conquest's term.) They're doing it again.
#Ukraine People are eating weeds because food has run out. Bodies lie in the streets. Some are reportedly eaten by dogs. Around 6,000 civilians are trapped, with no regular food, water, electricity or medical care. This is what Russian occupation looks like in Oleshky: bbc.com/news/articles/c60qxy…
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So now we get to hear from Trump that he doesn’t believe US intelligence that China is helping Iran with targeting and weapons because his good friend Xi told him they weren’t.
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Trump showing off his great love for the ruthless dictator of the world’s largest communist country.
“Who is that? I don’t recognize him!” 🤣 @POTUS shows President Xi their photo hanging in the West Wing
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This here is the exact reason Orban lost in a landslide.
For the midterms, I think corruption/self-dealing is issue 1b behind cost of living as 1a. It's not just that people feel things are unaffordable for themselves, they think those in power are helping rich friends get richer. From our latest "America in Focus" focus group...
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Red carpet. Military flyover. White House state dinner. All for the leader of a country whose state companies provided satellite targeting imagery to our enemies that was used to attack and kill three American soldiers. Shameful.
First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS toast Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, with Elon Musk looking on, as @POTUS host a State Dinner at the White House.
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It's not that I am opposed to the US President hosting the Chinese leader, geopolitics is geopolitics!, but does anyone in our politics and media ever stop to think how weird and lopsided all our conversations about human rights and terrorism and dictators are - here is the US president, along with top US tech and media figures, having a celebratory grand state dinner with the brutal dictator of a foreign adversary that the US government has accused of engaging in genocide. And no one thinks this is abnormal or weird or offensive in the slightest. Meanwhile, the mere statements of California Twitch streamers or Democratic Congressional candidates about Yemen or Iran are pored over by an outraged media. And this, below, is NORMAL.
Here is the full guest list for the State Dinner for China, categorized… This is taken directly from the White House email sent to reporters. CHINA STATE DINNER: INVITED GUESTS September 24, 2026 CEOs AND BUSINESS LEADERS Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices, CEO Tim Cook, Chairman of the Board of Apple John F.W. Rogers, Goldman Sachs EVP and Secretary to the Board Lynn Martin, President of the NYSE Eric Yuan, Zoom, CEO Kelly Ortberg, Boeing, CEO Larry Fink, Blackrock, CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone, CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI, CEO Greg Brockman, OpenAI, President & Co-Founder Dr. Miriam Adelson, Las Vegas Sand, Controlling Shareholder Sergey Brin, Google/Alphabet, Co-Founder Satya Nadella, Microsoft, Chairman & CEO Jim Taiclet, Lockheed Martin, Chairman, President & CEO Sundar Pichai, Google, CEO Larry Culp, GE Aerospace, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron, CEO Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm, CEO Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Chairman Jeff Yass, TikTok Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, CEO Michael Dell, Dell, CEO Mary Barra, General Motors, CEO David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, CEO Jane Fraser, Citi, CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX & Tesla, CEO Darren Woods, ExxonMobil, CEO David Ellison, Paramount Skydance, CEO Brad Gerstner, Altimeter, CEO Albert Bourla, Pfizer, CEO Bernard Arnault, LVMH, CEO Ryan McInerey, Visa, CEO Michael Miebach, Mastercard, CEO U.S. GOVERNMENT AND COURTS President Donald J. Trump Vice President JD Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio Chief of Staff Susie Wiles U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Ambassador Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative Chief Justice John Roberts, Chief Supreme Court Justice Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court Justice Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice Speaker Mike Johnson, United States House of Representatives, Louisiana Representative Richard McCormick, United States House of Representatives, Georgia Kevin Warsh, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce Director John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy to Middle East Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Assistant to the President Dan Scavino, Deputy Chief of Staff, Assistant to the President Attorney General Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the United States Secretary Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health & Human Services Secretary Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary of Interior Secretary Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation Director Russell Vought, Director of Office of Management & Budget Administrator Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling, Acting Secretary of Labor David Sacks, Co-chair, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administrator Representative Jason Smith, United States House of Representatives, Missouri Senator Steven Daines, United States Senator, Montana General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Director Jay Clayton, Director of Office of the Director of National Intelligence CHINESE DELEGATION President Xi Jinping Madame Peng Liyuan Cai Qi, CPC Political Bureau Standing Committee Member, Chief of Staff to President Xi Wang Yi, CPC Political Bureau Central Committee Member He Lifeng, CPC Political Bureau Central Committee, Vice Premier of State Council Zheng Shanjie, Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce Ma Zhaoxu, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ambassador Xie Feng, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Tang Fangyu Director, Central Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee Minister of Finance Mr. Lan Fo'an Mme. Wang Dan, Wife of Ambassador Xie Feng Zhou Hongxu Deputy Director, General Office of the CPC Central Committee Director, Central Security Bureau Lyu Luhua, Secretary to the President Hong Lei, Assistant Foreign Minister Director General, Protocol Department Cai Wei, Assistant Foreign Minister Director General, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs Mao Ning, Director General, Department of Press, Communication and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhang Quan, Secretary to Madame Peng Zhang Yongchao, Deputy Director General, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs MEDIA Bret Baier, FOX News, American Journalist and Host Laura Ingraham, FOX News, American Television Presenter Jesse Waters, FOX News Host EDUCATION AND OTHER GUESTS Linda Mills, President of New York University Meredith O’Rourke, The O’Rourke Group FAMILY MEMBERS AND PARTNERS First Lady Melania Trump Second Lady Usha Vance Jeanette Rubio, Spouse of the Secretary of State Bonnie Perdue, Spouse of the US Ambassador to China John Freeman, Spouse of the Secretary of the Treasury Marlo Greer, Spouse of Ambassador Greer Ms. Ivanka Trump Mr. Eric Trump Ms. Lara Trump Ms. Tiffany Trump Mr. Michael Boulos Mr. Viktor Knavs Ms. Arabella Kushner Lori Huang, Spouse of Jensen Huang Daniel Lin, Spouse of Lisa Su Anna Brockman, Wife of Greg Brockman Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, Partner of Sergey Brin Lauren Sanchez-Bezos, Spouse of Jeff Bezos Jane Sullivan Roberts, Chief Supreme Court Justice Spouse Jesse Barrett, Supreme Court Justice Spouse Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, Spouse of Supreme Court Justice Kelly Johnson, Spouse of Speaker Mike Johnson Amy Baier, Spouse of Brett Baier Emma Waters, Spouse of Jesse Waters Susan Dell, Spouse to Michael Dell Jane Lauder, Spouse to Kevin Warsh Allison Lutnick, Spouse to Secretary Lutnick Michelle Ratcliffe, Spouse to Director Ratcliffe Katie Miller, Spouse of Stephen Miller Erin Scavino, Spouse to Dan Scavino Kristine Blanche, Spouse to Attorney General Todd Blanche Kathryn Burgum, Spouse to Secretary Burgum Rachel Campos-Duffy, Spouse of Sean Duffy Sangeeta Mehrota, Spouse of Sanjay Mehrotra Anthony Barra, Spouse of Mary Barra Kathy Woods, Spouse of Darren Woods Jeff Sprecher, Spouse of Kelly Loeffler Katie Simpson, Fiancé to Brad Gerstner Alexandre Arnault, Son of Bernard Arnault Sandra Lynn Ellison, Spouse of David Ellison Cheryl Hines, Spouse of Secretary Kennedy
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This is a huge NYT investigation into how Russia uses shell companies and Tether, a crypto coin, to evade sanctions and buy arms. What it doesn't mention is that the main U.S. backer of Tether is Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Howard Lutnick's sons. nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…
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