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• @realDonaldTrump

• We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. (pic)

• @Business

• President Donald Trump said American jets struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites, pulling the US directly into the country’s conflict despite his longtime promises to avoid new wars. 
• Israel-Iran: Live Updates as US Says It Attacked Iranian Nuclear Sites.
• Yemen’s Houthis said they will target US vessels and battleships in the Red Sea if the US gets involved to support the Israeli attack on Iran, according to a statement published on a Houthi spokesperson’s official Telegram account.
• Wall Street entered 2025 with bullish bets on onshore Chinese stocks, counting on Beijing’s stimulus drive to cushion the blow from US tariffs. Six months in, they couldn’t have been more wrong. 
• Pakistan said it will nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. 
• Steps taken by the OPEC+ group to boost oil supplies have proved astute, given developments in the Middle East conflict, according to Rosneft PJSC CEO Igor Sechin
• Canada’s cybersecurity agency said Chinese-backed hackers were likely behind recent malicious activity targeting telecommunications infrastructure.
• Eli Lilly's experimental weight-loss pill helped patients shed pounds without serious side effects in a clinical trial, burnishing the drug’s blockbuster potential.
• Startups used to brag about valuations and venture capital. Now AI is making revenue per employee the new holy grail. 
• For investors and traders trying to game out where the US economy, the stock market or interest rates are headed in the second half of 2025, good luck. 
• Apple executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and technology. 
• Hedge funds boosted their bullish position in Brent crude by the most since early October as Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear program imperiled a region that produces around a third of the world’s oil. 
• How quant investing at multi-strat hedge funds actually works.
• What happened in the global economy this week. 

• @Zerohedge 

• Alleged Minn. Assassin Says Gov. Tim Walz Wanted Him To Kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
• Force Posturing: Six B-2 Stealth Bombers En Route To Indo-Pacific Ahead Of Trump's Intel Meeting. 
• Gov. Hochul: 'New York Is Providing $50 Million To Cover Legal Services' For Illegal Aliens. 
• Early Signs The Iran War Is Triggering Another Mideast Refugee Crisis.
• How Housing Bubble #2 Bursts? (graph)
• Walmart Remains Price Discount Juggernaut.
• The Censorship-Industrial Complex Has Now Become Self-Perpetuating.
• NATO's Procurement Corruption Scandal Might Delay Its Rapid Militarization Plans.
• The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, & A Dying Republic.
• The Coward's Bargain: How We Taught A Generation To Live In Fear.
• U.S. Ramps Up Surveillance Amid Fears Of Iran-Backed Sleeper Cells.
• Iran's Internet Blackout Enters Day Two As Starlink "Beams Are On".
• Trump Warns Lindsay Graham, Mike Pompeo To Watch Their "Mouth" In Stoking Ukraine War.  
• Dollar's Best Week In 4 Months, Bonds Bid As LEIs Trigger 'Recession' Signal; Uncertainty Drops. 

• @MarioNawful

• CHINA THREATENS U.S. WITH GLOBAL BLOWBACK IF IT BACKS ISRAEL. A top Chinese Communist Party official warned that if the U.S. or its allies jump into the war on Israel’s side, they won’t be the only ones showing up armed. He called the conflict against Iran an "unjustified and undeclared act of aggression" and argued Tehran has every legal right to fire back. The most eyebrow-raising part? “Other major countries want to fight together with Iran.” Not exactly subtle. Beijing may not be launching missiles, but it’s clearly lighting rhetorical ones. (video)

• BarronsOnline

• Had bullish commentary on (PINS) and (TPR).

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 22938 -1.58% #DOW 41706 -1.30% #NASDAQ 21335 -1.48% #FTSE 8677 -0.91% #HANGSENG 23208 -0.89% #GBPUSD 13407 -0.31% #EURUSD 11486 -0.31% #USDJPY 14627 +0.11% #GOLD 3403 +1.03% #USOIL 7941 +7.37% #TSLA 31828 -1.33%.

• Polymarket

• Fordow nuclear facility destroyed before July? 79% Chance.
• Will Iran close the Strait of Hormuz in 2025? 54% Chance.

• @WSJ

• From @WSJopinion: There is more danger to society from tolerating the breakdown of law and order than from responding to that breakdown with all legal means, writes
  @HMDatMI.
• There is one way for colleges to defeat AI cheating—and it's every student's worst nightmare. Blue books are back.

• @CNBC

• 5 stocks to buy for the second half from investors.

• @Osint613

• NYT reports that approximately 30 tons of explosives were used in the strike on the Fordow nuclear facility.
• House Speaker Mike Johnson: "The President gave Iran’s leader every opportunity to make a deal, but Iran refused to commit to a nuclear disarmament agreement." 

• @LauraLoomer

• Wow. @marcorubio time to clean house at the State Department. We have literal jihadists who hate America serving in the US government helping illegals bypass detection. This is unacceptable. He should be investigated by the DOJ and jailed. (video)

• @FoxNews 

• BREAKING: U.S. launches attack against Iran. (video)

• @GatewayPundit 

• “Giant SCAM” – President Trump Goes Off on ‘Green Tax Credits’ in Big Beautiful Bill.
• Alert: FBI Monitoring Possible Domestic Sleeper Cells.
• REPORT: Minnesota Shooting Suspect Vance Boelter Claims in FBI Letter He Was Secretly Trained by Military — Alleges Gov. Tim Walz Ordered Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s Assassination.

• @WallStreetApes

• WOW!! 74 PAGES OF STOCK TRADES by Congress all buying oil stocks right before the stock prices increased because of the new conflict in the Middle East with Israel and Iran. US Congress again insider trading off war and getting filthy rich “As soon as President Trump gave Iran 60 days to make a deal, our US politicians were buy buy buying oil stocks. This is page 1 of 74. (See video) Of course, Chevron is up, Exxon Mobil is up, Valero is up, and so is every other oil company. These politicians are on both sides of the aisle and have also conveniently tweeted in support of this conflict. It just makes you wonder even more if everything in this world is just about making money.“ (video)
• It ALWAYS comes back to Barack Obama. “How did Iran get so close to a nuclear weapon? Let's follow the money - Hillary Clinton becomes Barack Obama's Secretary of State in 2009 - During her tenure from 09 to 13, there were 4 companies that donated large amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation. Those companies are Boeing, Airbus, Total and Seaman - Their donation amounts total up to $25 million, but no less than $5 million. There's not exact numbers. (video)

• @EYakoby

• According to the latest polls, 13% of Democrats support the Islamic Republic of Iran and 52% are unsure—while 80% of Iranians themselves oppose the regime. The Islamic Republic has a higher approval rating among U.S. Democrats than actual Iranians. Let that sink in.

• @unusual_whales

• Duties generated $37.8 billion in revenue for the U.S. in April and May, after President Trump imposed new tariffs on steel, aluminum, cars and goods from China, Mexico and Canada. (graph)

• @GordonGChang

• BREAKING: Two Chinese electronic surveillance ships, 855 and 815A, are in the Persian Gulf. China is almost certainly providing signals intelligence and targeting data to Iran. (pic)
• China makes Iran dangerous. Yes, we have an Iranian problem, but we really have a Chinese one. (video)
• China is developing biological weapons targeting specific ethnic groups, so sending genetic material to that regime is aiding its researchers develop especially dangerous pathogens.

• @DC_Draino

• Some of us questioned whether Walz wanted his enemies taken out. Media said we were conspiracy theorists. Well now the killer himself, who was appointed to a governing board by Walz, has said that’s exactly what happened. What the hell is going on in Minnesota. (pic)

• @FirstSquawk

• Fox News, citing sources: Israel is considering options to destroy the Fordow facility if forced to act alone without US support.
  

• @SpartaJustice

• BREAKING NEWS: The State of Florida officially bans geoengineering and weather modification. They censored you, canceled you and said this was a conspiracy theory for years. Do you see how criminal these people are? They have lied about every single thing. The media and fact checkers should be shutdown, declared a terrorist organization and imprisoned. They facilitated murder, poisoning humanity and war.

• @GlobalMktObserv

• China's official holdings of US Treasuries have dropped for the 2nd month straight: The value of Treasuries held by China has fallen $27 billion to $757 billion in April, the lowest in 16 YEARS. However, China is likely owning $300-$700 billion through Belgium and Luxembourg. (graph)
• US economic activity is deteriorating: The US Economic Surprise index dropped to the lowest level in 9 months. Most recently, US retail sales and industrial production readings disappointed. (graph)

• @mitchellvii

• Pam Bondi could take down the entire DNC by appointing a special counsel to investigate #ActBlue money-laundering. The subpoena authority alone would intimidate #ActBlue to stop laundering foreign funds for 2026! If she doesn't do this, and soon, something is seriously wrong.

• @LeadingReport

• BREAKING: Zelensky says G7 leaders, including the U.S., should provide $40 billion annually in budgetary support for Ukraine.

• @cb_doge

• BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms that in the next 6-12 months, Neuralink will be doing the first implants for vision, where even if somebody's completely blind, they'll be able to see. They already had that working in monkeys. One of the monkeys has had that implant for 3 yrs. (video)

• @LawrenceSellin

• Not just Michigan. Pro-CCP activities by Chinese professors is occurring at every major university in the United States. Billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money has been used to directly or indirectly support Communist China's fused military-civilian research program. 

OpenVAERS: 

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,025,775 Reports(+454 from prior report) Through May 30th, 2025. 
  

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.