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• @Business

• After years of being propped up by demand for its oil, a broad and tightening array of sanctions are having increasingly visible effects on Russia’s economy.
• Jerome Powell and colleagues will deliberate on rates at a time of immense political pressure, evolving trade policy, and economic cross-currents.
• Investors are showing signs of pulling money out of government bonds and plowing it into US and European company debt.
• Union Pacific Corp. could reach an agreement to acquire Norfolk Southern Corp. and create a transcontinental rail behemoth as soon as early next week, people familiar with the matter said. 
• KKR & Co. is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5 billion.
• President Donald Trump said he called the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia to urge them to stop the fighting that erupted earlier this week. 
• Top Trump administration health officials are expected to bring tech companies to the White House this week to roll out a plan to encourage more seamless sharing of health-care data.
• What happened to the global economy this week — in charts. 

• @Zerohedge 

• *EU CUTS AID TO UKRAINE OVER CORRUPTION CONCERNS: NYT.
• Buttigieg Spent $80 Billion On DEI, Half DOT's Budget, Instead Of Upgrading Air Traffic Control: Report. 
• 5 Things To Know About Trump Admin's Settlement With Columbia University.
• These Are The World's Fastest Growing Jobs.
• 2026 Health Insurance Premiums Could See Largest Hike In 5 Years: Report.
• Fewer Than 400 EV Charging Ports Built Despite $7.5 Billion Biden Funding: Watchdog.
• Ghislaine Maxwell's Appeal Looms As Lawyer Says She Discussed '100 Different People' During Interview With DAG.
• GS out with a huge new podcast featuring two of the most market moving traders.
• Why is Global M2 at record highs? Well, this is where we are in the global easing cycle, and the Fed has yet to restart cutting. (graph)
• Peter Hotez Panics After Heavily-Vaxxed Caller Reveals "Worst Experience Ever" Post-Booster.
• Market Technicals Remain Favorable, But Goldman's Hedge Fund Honcho Warns 'The Light Of The Oncoming Train Focuses The Mind'.
• This woman then became head of USAID. 
• Revenge Or Justice? 
• New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). (graph)
• After spending 10 years trying to shut ZH and countless other websites down, Media Matters get a triple Karma enema.  
• *DOGE USING AI TOOL TO CUT 50% OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS: WAPO.
• The Fed's FAFO Moment Is Here.
• S&P options price a 6% chance of +5% returns next month. Goldman says it’s 30%. 
• Farage: Britain Is Facing Complete "Societal Collapse".
• 40% Of All Violent Crime Suspects In German Schools Are Foreigners, Over 2 Knife Attacks Per Day.
• The Rise Of China's 'Surveillance Colonialism' In Africa.

• @MarioNawful  

• RFK JR.: VACCINE INGREDIENTS MAY TRIGGER LIFELONG ALLERGIES. "You’d take an aluminum adjuvant and inject it into that rat with a protein… that rat will have a lifetime allergy. That’s the same aluminum adjuvant that’s in hepatitis B vaccine. Vaccinated children, according to [a] study, are thirty times more likely to have allergic rhinitis than unvaccinated children. We need to look at the aluminum in the vaccines… to see if that has anything to do with this explosion of allergies that began in 1989." (video)

• @BarronsOnline

• Had bullish commentary on (DE) and (MTN).

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 24335 +0.10% #DOW 44924 +0.05% #NASDAQ 23309 +0.04% #FTSE 9150 +0.05% #HANGSENG 25435 +0.15% #EURUSD 11747 +0.05% #GOLD 3340 +0.07% #USOIL 6500 +0.05% #TSLA 31703 +0.11%.

• Polymarket

• Which Countries Will the US Agree to Tariff Agreements with Before August? 

• EU 60.0% -11.0 percentage points
• India 25.0% -4.0 percentage points.
• South Korea  47.0% -3.0 percentage points.
• Mexico 29.0% unch. 

• @FBIDDBongino

• During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening. The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned. We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH. God bless America, and all those who defend Her. Respectfully, Dan.

• @IAnonPatriot

• Nurses all across the country are LOVING Trumps “No tax on overtime” policy.. (video)

• @nicksortor 

• JUST IN: Sen. Tom Cotton is attempting to pressure Kash Patel into hand over to him EVERYTHING the FBI knows about James Comey. NO! Tom Cotton is a deep state SNAKE! The same snake who just filed legislation to GUT TULSI’S OFFICE after she exposed Obama. He’ll merely forward everything Kash and Dan have uncovered to his deep state friends, including James Comey and John Brennan. Cotton is NOT on our side. 

• @judgejeaninne

• Tom Cotton Trying To Take Tulsi Gabbard’s Power Away Just Showed Who He Is ! Another Dirty Deep State ! And Now This... (pic)

• @MJTruthUltra

• What the hell is going on? Chinese Nationals are on a Buying Frenzy of US Homes in America — Spending $13.7B from April 2024 to March 2025 Sen. Rick Scott: — “Every Chinese citizen is required BY LAW to spy on Americans. So why are we allowing them in our country to buy our land?” - Chinese buyers spent $13.7 billion on U.S. homes in 2024-2025, an 83% surge, dominating foreign purchases and driving up prices in key markets like California. - High CASH purchases (68%) outbid American buyers, worsening affordability. - Chinese Nationals are also heavily Investing near US sensitive military and nuclear sites.

• @EricLDaugh

• BREAKING: President Trump just blew the lid WIDE OPEN on the $100 million California fire disaster aid scam - SLAMS Gavin Newsom. A concert garnered $100M...but it didn't go right to victims. Trump's fuming. "LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER DEMOCRAT INSPIRED SCAM. 100 MILLION DOLLARS IS MISSING. WAS SUPPOSED TO TO GO TO THE LOS ANGELES FIRE VICTIMS, FIRES THAT, WITH PROPER MANAGEMENT, WOULD NEVER HAVE EVEN HAPPENED." (pic)

• @JesseBWatters

• We asked the Hollywood Celebrities who helped “raise” $100 MILLION for the L.A. Fire Victims… WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY?! Katy Perry and her friends WON’T tell us (wonder why?) (video)

• @WarRoomGeorgia

• WE WARNED some of the TOP TRUMP associates over AND OVER and OVER about the GA cabal that is manipulated by Kemp. Now here we are with a senate standoff between GUESS WHO??? KEMP and Trump. Kinda makes us wonder about the 22 race. Were the 2 democrats a better option to further the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM agenda? Were the democrats delivered to Washington indirectly or directly by Kemp? Do your own math and come to your own conclusion. As we said, there are competing directions MAGA America 1st vs the Establishment. Trump's a populist, Kemp's a globalist.
  

• @amuse

• TREASON: Expecting Clinton to win the 2016 election, Russian intelligence began gathering material they believed could be used to blackmail her. According to the House Intelligence Committee Report, Moscow obtained evidence of secret meetings between State Department officials and several US-based religious NGOs. In those meetings, the NGOs were allegedly offered financial incentives and government backing in exchange for supporting Clinton’s campaign. While the payouts didn’t materialize under Obama, they reportedly came later, during the Biden administration.

• @toobaffled

• Bill Gates, through his backing of Flagship Pioneering, has been given the green light to secretly spray synthetic RNA on America’s food products, with their new venture, Terrana Biosciences, designed to infiltrate crops and rewrite their biological functions, raising chilling concerns about unchecked genetic manipulation. This biotech scheme, linked to the creators of Moderna’s controversial COVID-19 vaccine, aims to alter plants in ways that could persist across ecosystems and generations, all without public consent or oversight.

• @WarClandestine

• The Dems/MSM are playing a clever word game. Elon did the same. They keep saying Trump’s name is “listed” in the Epstein files. We already knew this, via Guiffre’s deposition in 2016, in which she explicitly states Trump was never involved in any such heinous activity. But the Dems are insinuating that just because Trump’s name has been used in questioning pertaining to Epstein, this means Trump is guilty of heinous criminality, which they know to be false. Trump’s name has always been “listed” in the Epstein files. This is nothing new whatsoever. This has been publicly available knowledge for years. But the Dems/MSM are using this terminology to convince the public that this means Trump is on “the list” of clients who engaged in unspeakable acts against children… There are a plethora of individuals who are “listed” in files related to Epstein, who are not guilty in any capacity whatsoever. The Dems/MSM know this, they just don’t care. They are after Trump by any means necessary. 

• @MAGAVoice

• BREAKING! President Trump demands Senate Majority Leader John Thune stay and approve 135 of his appointments. TIME TO GET LOUD MAGA NO MORE VACATIONS. (pic)