Monday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:    

• Meloni Hosts Vance, Von Der Leyen for Trade Talks, Hails New Era.
• Bessent Calls Moody’s ‘Lagging Indicator’ of US Fiscal Health.
• China Gave Pakistan Satellite Support, Indian Defense Group Says.
• Australia Set for Another Rate Cut as US-China Tensions Ease.
• Timing Not Right for China Home-Sales Overhaul: State Media.
• Portugal’s Center Right Wins Vote But Falls Short of Majority.
• Chinese Trader Who Made $1.5 Billion on Gold Builds a Giant Bet on Copper.
• Iran Vows to Uphold Pursuit of Peaceful Nuclear Energy.
• Clock Ticks on Hostage Talks as Israel Readies Major Gaza Sweep.
• Dollar, US Stocks Futures Weaker on US Downgrade.
• Oil Steadies After Early Drop With Ukraine, US Outlook in Focus.
• Cybersecurity Firm Cyera Valued at $6 Billion in Funding Round.
• Democrats Say They’re Reckoning With Biden’s Role in 2024 Loss.
• US States Likely to Defy US Downgrade to Keep Top Credit Ratings.
• NJ Transit, Rail Union to Resume Negotiations as Workweek Looms.
• Crypto High-Rollers Go Big on Bodyguards to Deter Kidnappers.
• Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.

Zero Hedge: 

• Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive' Stage IV Prostate Cancer.
• MAHA Working: Goldman Finds "Better-For-You" Consumption Shift Underway.
• Weekend News Roundup - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• Tattoos May Be Linked To Cancer - Here's Why...
• Patel & Bongino Tease New 'Russiagate' Evidence In 'Wave Of Transparency' - Yet Insist Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself.
• Trump Denies Rift With Netanyahu, Says PM 'Fought Hard & Bravely'.
• The Great Simmering In The West.
• Two Dead After Mexican Navy Smashes Into Brooklyn Bridge.
• Hartnett: How To Trade The "Next Big Bull Market" .
• Did The Biden Admin Fudge Jobs Numbers Into Election? Labor Dept Report Raises Questions.
• Houthis Again Target Israel's International Airport With Ballistic Missile.
• The Irony Of Moody's Downgrade Of U.S. Credit.
• Vance & Zelensky Repair Relationship In 'Good' Vatican Meeting.
• EU Establishment Fumes As "Far Right" Romanian Candidate Closes In On Presidential Win.
• US Space Chief Says China, Russia May Escalate Space Conflict.
• Vince Foster, James McDougal, Seth Rich: Trump Posts Wild 'Clinton Body Count' Clip.
• The Latest Hungarian-Ukrainian Tensions Are Troubling.
• Is Christian Nationalism The Solution To The Frailty Of Liberalism?
• China Set To Become Top Nuclear Power Source By 2030.
• Biden-Hur Tape Drops, And Boy Is It Rough - Listen To All Five Hours Here.
• Desperate San Francisco Pins Business Hopes On Nintendo Flagship Store.
• "I Don't Know What To Do!": Borrowers Report Credit-Score Carnage As Student Loans Hit Reports.
• Los Angeles County Targets Retail Theft With New Warning Program.
• How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy For A Century.
• "Very Intense Explosion" Rocks Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Leaving One Dead.
• Nuclear Names Oklo And NuScale Move Forward With SMR Permitting, Plans.
• Doug Casey On DOGE, Deficits, & The Coming Financial Earthquake.

Wall Street Journal:

• GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California’s EV Mandate.
• Hamas Wanted to Torpedo Israel-Saudi Deal With Oct. 7 Attacks, Documents Reveal.
• Meet the ‘Stealthy Wealthy’ Who Make Their Money the Boring Way.
• Israel Expands Gaza Ground Operation, Says Targeted Hamas Leader Is Likely Dead.
• Just How Expensive Are Stocks After All the Ups and Downs? We Check the Math. This Takeover King Leans on Yoga and Team Bonding to Make Billions.
• The Data-Center Wars Arrive in Small-Town West Virginia.
• Europe Is Out. Road Trips Are In. Welcome to the Scaled-Back Vacation.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (ONON) and (NFLX).

CNBC:  

• Mike Johnson stresses Memorial Day deadline as budget bill heads for revote.
• Scott Bessent calls Moody’s a ‘lagging indicator’ after U.S. credit downgrade.
• The wealthy are spending big on jewelry — as long as it’s the right brand.
• S&P 500 rips higher by more than 20% as animal spirits awaken in six-week market comeback.
• Top Wall Street analysts prefer these dividend stocks for stable returns.

MarketWatch.com:  

• Why is the Fed quietly buying billions in bonds — and hoping nobody notices?
• Strong earnings keep stock-market bulls in charge. What could bring the rally to a halt?

NewsMax:  

• Pope Leo Vows to Protect Church Doctrine, Face Modernity in Inaugural Mass.
• House Speaker: 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Still 'on Track'.
• Vance Meets EU Chief to Move Trade Talks Forward. 
• Bessent: Trade Talks Will Yield Regional Deals.

Fox News:

• Biden family insider blows the lid open on the administration’s culture of concealment.
• Alice Marie Johnson goes from jail house to the White House as pardon czar.
• Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' form of cancer.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Biden Slipped Up and Said That He Had Cancer While Telling a Story in 2022 (VIDEO).
• FLASHBACK: Frank Biden Accidentally Blurted Out Joe Biden Was Terminally Ill in July 2024. 
• McCarthy Blasts Republicans for Delaying Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’.
• GAETZ ON WAR ROOM: ‘We Cannot Be Tolerant of This Judicial Coup’ and ‘We Have to Thoroughly Reject Unconstitutional, Nationwide Injunctions’.
• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says He Only Hires Blacks Because They Are More ‘Generous’ Than Whites (VIDEO).
• Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Says France Pressured Him To Censor Right-Wing Voices in the Run-up To Romanian Elections.
• PRESIDENT TRUMP: ‘We Now Have SUBSTANTIALLY Over $10 Trillion of Investment’ Following UAE Visit (VIDEO).
• Tom Homan Details Rescue of Pregnant 14-Year-Old Girl Found Living with Two Men Who Were Trafficking Her (VIDEO).
• Malia Obama Accused of Completely Ripping Off Indie Film for Her Nike Commercial Directorial Debut (VIDEO).
• HE WENT THERE: Trump Posts Video Compilation of Mysterious Deaths and ‘Suicides’ Linked to Hillary Clinton.
• Turncoat Mike Pence Rules Out Another White House Run After Humiliating 2024 Campaign (VIDEO).
• Oklahoma Schools to Teach Issue of Democratic Voter Fraud — Students Will Analyze 2020 Election Anomalies.
• The FDA Just Approved Another COVID Vaccine — But RFK Jr. Has Already Intervened.
• Trump’s Approval Numbers Surging in Blue New Jersey – More Popular Than State’s Democrat Governor.
• CNN’s Scott Jennings Red-Pills Bill Maher’s Liberal Audience While Talking About Trump’s Foreign Policy (VIDEO).
• AOC’s NYC District Sees 70 Percent Surge in Major Crime Since She Took Office in 2019.
• War Room’s Steve Bannon and Patrick Wood Discuss the Exponential Power of AI Advancement within the Next Few Years (VIDEO).
• Mile High Marxist Bernie Sanders Proves There Is No Climate Emergency.

The Epoch Times:

• China’s New COVID‑19 Report Exposes CCP’s Biggest Fear, Analysts Say.

Around X:

• @elonmusk

• BREAKING: GOOGLE CEO SAYS — ELON MUSK ABILITY TO WILL FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES INTO EXISTENCE IS “UNPARALLELED”. (video)
• Grok can now generate charts. Currently works in browser, will come to more platforms in the coming days. (pic)
• China's electricity per capita is up 569%. Ours is down 7%. Yeah we've had some energy efficiency gains and that's great, but we need more electricity. We should be building industrial capacity and electrifying our economy. (graph)

• @MarioNawful

• BRITISH KIDS ARE SWALLOWING MAGNETS FOR FUN?! Yep, tiny metal balls from toys are landing hundreds of kids in hospitals across the UK—and some are barely making it out alive. Doctors are yanking magnets out of toddlers’ intestines after emergency surgeries that sound more like horror movies than playtime cleanups. One girl swallowed fourteen. Another kid ate fifty-four just to see if he’d become a human fridge. Spoiler: He didn’t. But his guts nearly exploded. This “magnet trend” is blowing up thanks to viral stunts and dodgy online sellers—and no one’s stopping it. 
• NVIDIA'S CEO RETURNS TO COMPUTEX WITH AI ARSENAL. Jensen Huang isn’t just unveiling new tech—he’s redefining what the future of AI computing looks like. From robotics to cloud systems, Huang is expected to drop major updates that could reshape how AI is deployed and scaled across industries. Last year, fans called it “Jensanity.” This year, he’s armed with Blackwell Ultra chips, a desktop AI system, and CPUs built to run Windows. 
• THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF PEOPLE—AND IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK. Forget robots taking your job—soon there won’t be enough humans left to do them anyway. Birth rates are crashing in rich countries like the US, Japan, and South Korea. In 40 years, the global population will start shrinking, not growing. (graph)
• STARMER MAY UNDO BREXIT... TO PLEASE BRUSSELS. Imagine breaking up with someone, then begging to follow their house rules just to hang out again. That’s basically what the UK might do with the EU. PM Keir Starmer’s about to sign a deal where Britain follows EU laws again, obeys their judges, and lets millions of young Europeans live and work here—while still saying he’s tough on immigration. Cool trick.
• AMERICA’S LAWSUITS COST $529 BILLION—AND GUESS WHO’S PAYING? That’s over $4,200 per household just to keep the tort system running. Yes, you’re basically funding courtroom drama without popcorn. These costs are growing faster than inflation—7.1% a year. If that keeps up, we’ll be flirting with $1 TRILLION by 2030. California, Georgia, and Texas are the worst offenders. West Virginia, somehow, is the legal MVP—cutting costs by 20% with reforms and posting the cheapest bill: $2,100 per household. 
• The Global AI Government Market Is Surging: The AI in government and public services market was valued around $19.2 billion in 2023 and projected to reach $59.6 billion by 2031. (charts

• @LauraLoomer

• President Trump has bad actors working for him subverting his agenda. At the highest levels. I accepted a position at DHS HQ not because I needed a job, but because I wanted to fight for my children’s future and the future of this country from the inside. I was just fired from DHS HQ for fighting the career bureaucrats that are subverting Trump’s agenda, and moreover, hellbent on continuing the destruction of America. In the coming days I will be dropping bombs that will include specifics on how household names - people you think are “conservative” - are not who you think they are. Oh boy.
• SCOOP: I’m told White House Counsel and the DOJ are currently prepping Stanley Woodward for his Senate Confirmation hearing, even though close allies to the President were told Stanley would not be confirmed after my oppo on Woodward was published. The day of his hearing has been scheduled for May 21st (my birthday lol) and his name is not being listed on the Senate website for his confirmation because they likely don’t want a flood of MAGA protest over Stanley’s nomination, even though they now know he’s a Marxist who sued the Trump admin and made 15 donations to Obama.
• President Trump reposted a post on Truth Social that says “Why haven't they raided his house in the middle of the night and arrested him?” in reference to Former FBI Director James @comey. Comey recently called for President Trump to be ASSASSINATED! (pic)
• Why is @BillClinton traveling to South Korea, likely with a full US Secret Service detail, for over a week 2 weeks before South Korea’s elections? Is he trying to help create a communist takeover in South Korea on US taxpayer dime? Sure looks like it. Reporters should ask Bill Clinton why he’s going to South Korea as their elections kick off.

• @BiancoResearch

• Why the Moody’s downgrade of the US SHOULD BE a nothingburger —- In August 2011, S&P went first and downgraded the US from AAA to AA+. All hell broke loose. The reason hell broke loose was a lot of derivative contract, loan agreements, investment directives and the like prohibited the use of any non-AAA security. The fear was treasuries were not eligible collateral, and could put some people in violation of their directives or in technical default. In years after 2011 those contracts were rewritten to say government securities, excluding the qualification of the credit rating.  That’s why in August 2023, when Fitch downgraded to the US to AA+, the US became a split rated AA+ country. This downgrade had almost no effect on the bond market.

• @quay_dr

• Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.

• @mrddmia

• From first arrest to its ruling, it took the Supreme Court over 30,000 hours to provide relief to January 6th defendants persecuted by Biden. From habeas petition to its ruling, it took the Supreme Court only about 24 hours to provide relief to Tren de Aragua foreign terrorists.

• @BehizyTweets

• BREAKING: Pam Bondi is working on allowing federal prosecutors to be able to indict members of Congress without the approval of the DOJ's Public Integrity Section. All these Democrats committing crimes in broad daylight could soon be heading to jail if this succeeds.

• @Kylenabecker

• Remember: The Fake News Media that *LIED* to you about Biden's decline is now trying to pretend they didn't. Too bad for @CNN & @MSNBC there are *RECEIPTS.* Lots and lots of receipts... (video)

• @amuse

• CHINA: Why did President Biden fail to enforce the Phase One trade agreement with China? The CCP was allowed to ignore its obligations under the agreement and it cost the US $2 trillion in lost GDP. The Chinese delegation admitted Biden allowed them to ignore the deal. (video)
• GENOCIDE: Trump has granted asylum to almost 9,000 refugees since taking office, fewer than 2% of whom are white. But the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the drive-by media are claiming the admission of 59 white farmers facing South African genocide is racist. (video) 
• DOGE: Rep. Harris noting that what was once dismissed as conspiracy theory, before Elon Musk, & DOGE, is reality: over 2M illegal aliens were given SSNs in 2024, more than 1M received Medicaid, & the taxpayer burden now exceeds $150B/yr. (video)

• @CallahanAutoCo

• Callahan Auto is officially severing all ties with Walmart! It’s come to my attention they raised prices on Callan Brake Pads (in the name of tariffs) even though we manufacture and source 100% in the USA!!!

• @C_3C_3
  

• Want your blood to boil? Congress is fighting harder to protect their insider trading than codifying our DOGE cuts. Sickening.

• @IntelPointAlert

• BREAKING: Boat collides with NYC’s Brooklyn Bridge.

• @KariLake

• 100% FACT! The 2020 election was stolen and many others since then. We must clean up our rotten, corrupt elections or we will no longer have a republic. (pic)

• @VigilantFox

• Dear 𝕏 Community, I write this post out of desperation. A coordinated group is making my life a living hell. I’ve been forced to DELETE over 196 of my own posts in just the past 5 weeks! This includes simple thread summaries of @joerogan’s podcast. I fear my safety and my account could be in danger. Please listen to my cry for help. (thread)

• @mrddmia

• Let’s get this straight: Obama can drone strikes Americans. But Trump can’t repel foreign terrorists. Biden can import over 10 million illegal aliens. But Trump can’t send them home without years of court process. The American people never agreed to this. Not at our founding. Not after the Civil War. Not anytime since then. Certainly not in the last election. The Supreme Court is heading down a perilous path.

• @RodDMartin

• BREAKING: Putin says he's now ready for "negotiations without preconditions". Could this be the REAL DEAL? My sources say YES.
• The President telling the obvious truth.
  

• @MikeBenzCyber

• Yale, which receives $1 billion in gov't funds and works closely with the worst parts of our intelligence state, pre-tested using guilt, embarrassment, anger, and "trust the science" messages to get people to take the Covid vaccine, months before a vaccine was even developed. (video)

• @DividendTalks

• MASSIVE $UNH INSIDER BUYING. 1. CEO BUYS $25M 2. CFO BUYS $5M 3. DIRECTOR BUYS $1M 4. DIRECTOR BUYS $500K TOTAL INSIDER BUYING = $31.5M.

Night Trading

• Asian indices are -.5% to +.25% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 80.25 +.5 basis point.
  
• China Sovereign CDS 51.75 unch.
• China Iron Ore Spot 99.9 USD/Metric Tonne -.16%.
• Swiss Franc/Offshore Chinese Renminbi Cross 8.63 +.29% 
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 37.0 +.05%.
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 70.0 +1.4%.
• US 10-Year Yield 4.48% unch.
  
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 20.3 +4.3%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures +.06%.
• S&P 500 futures -.9%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures -1.1%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly lower, weighed down by financial and industrial shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open modestly lower and to rally into the afternoon, finishing mixed. The Portfolio is 75% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Trump Plans Call With Putin to End ‘Bloodbath’ in Ukraine.
• Taiwan Shuts Last Nuclear Reactor as Energy Debate Heats Up.
• US Says It’s Not Decided Next Steps on NYC’s Congestion Pricing. 
  
• Trump Says Walmart Shouldn’t Blame Tariffs for Higher Prices.
• Costly Loss for Sports Team Owners Embedded in Trump Tax Bill.
• NJ Transit Says Union, Officials to Hold More Talks Saturday.
• The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here.
• Moody’s Tells Us What We Already Know About US Debt.
• Charting the Global Economy: US, China Forecasts Improve on Tariff Truce.

Zerohedge:

• "We Study Fascism...We're Leaving The US": NYTimes Runs Video Of Yale Profs Fleeing To Canada.
• Vietnam Q1 Auto Sales Outperform Asian Peers, Rising 24%, Led By Chinese Brands .
• The Ball's In Trump's Court After The Latest Istanbul Talks.
• Manhunt Underway: 3 Inmates Caught, 7 Still Loose After Brazen New Orleans Jailbreak.
• Recession Probabilities Decline .
• Moody's Downgrades USA Credit Rating From Aaa.
• Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook's Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users.
• Nvidia CEO Sees "No Evidence" Of AI Chip Diversion To China As Trump Rolls Back Restrictions.
• The 'N' In SNAP Means Nutrition.
• Macron: Europe Prepping Fresh Russia Sanctions 'In Coordination' With US.
• Denmark And Italy Lead Pushback Against ECHR On Migration Rulings .
• National Police Week: A Tribute To Our Law Enforcement Heroes.
• These Are The World's Largest Economies, Including US States.
• House Considers Universal De Minimis Ban As Fees On China Parcels Ease.
• How Legal Immigration Is Keeping Farms Afloat.
• Federal Contract Activity Slows As DOGE's Cost-Cutting Measures Take Effect.

WSJ.com:

• A Death-Sentence Diagnosis and the Wrenching Realities of Life Insurance.
• Will DEI Return to the University of Florida?
• U.S. Drillers Say Peak Shale Has Arrived .
  
• Meet the China Factory Owner Who Voted for Trump and Doesn’t Regret It. 
  
• International Paper Is on a Quest to Build a Better Cardboard Box. 
  
• Students Are Humanizing Their Writing—By Putting It Through AI. 
  
• In Gaza, Long-Suffering Palestinians Are Directing Their Anger at Hamas.
  
• In a Trade War, Walmart Lacks Some of Amazon’s Ammunition. 
  
• AI Agents Face One Last, Big Obstacle .

CNBC:

• Trump tells Walmart to ‘eat the tariffs’ after retailer warned of higher prices.
• S&P 500 notches 5% weekly gain as U.S.-China trade tensions ease.
• House Budget Committee rejects Trump agenda bill in major setback for GOP leaders.
• Trump wants coal to power AI data centers. The tech industry may need to make peace with that for now.
• Nvidia CEO: If I were a student today, here’s how I’d use AI to do my job better.
  

MarketWatch.com:

• What to make of the stock market’s recovery. Plus: Gold’s big move.
• These 19 stocks at the intersection of AI and robotics could see big sales boosts.

NewsMax:       

• What's Stalling Trump's Megabill Agenda in House?
  
• White House Fires Back at Moody's US Credit Downgrade.

Fox News:

• Urgent manhunt underway for 7 violent inmates who broke out of jail in major US city.
• JONATHAN TURLEY: Biden not the only loser revealed by shocking Hur audio.
• Here's how President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will help seniors.
• More than 20 dead after violent storms batter America's Heartland.
• Bulk shopping retail giant to roll out game-changing switch to checkout process.
  

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• US to Begin European Troop Withdrawal Talks, NATO Ambassador Says .
• WATCH: Woman Shares Beautiful Story About the Night Donald Trump Saved Her Life During a Chance Encounter in NYC, Long Before He Became President.
• Vicious, Soulless FBI Agents File Suit Demanding Their Identities Remain Anonymous After They Terrorized, Stormed Their Homes, Busted in Doors, Harassed Children of Innocent J6ers.
• Germany Is No Longer a Real Democracy & the EU Is Turning to Totalitarianism — Interview with AfD MEP Christine Anderson.
• Ex-NFL Player Slams Minnesota AG Ellison for His Lawsuit Against Trump Admin Over Ban on Boys Playing Girls’ Sports.
• Leading BLM Activist Busted Trying to Meet Child For Sex — Once Worked as Brand Ambassador For Top English Soccer Club (VIDEO).
• United Arab Emirates Presents President Trump with Country’s Highest Civilian Honor (Video).
• Jesse Watters Says James Comey ‘Obviously Trying to Put a Hit Out on Trump’ (VIDEO).
• Secret Service Visited Home of Liberal Activist and Podcaster Ed Krassenstein for Posting ’86 47′ (VIDEO).
• Greg Gutfeld on the Joe Biden Mental Decline Scandal: ‘This Makes Watergate Look Like a Parking Ticket’ (VIDEO).,
• Colorado’s Democrat Governor Signs Law That Makes it Illegal to ‘Deadname,’ ‘Misgender’ Transgender People in ‘Certain Places’.

Epoch Times:

• Despite Negotiations, China Finds Ways to Circumvent US Tariffs.
• Stanford, Duke Under Spotlight Over China Infiltration Fears.
• Amid US–China Tariff Truce, Experts Warn CCP Will Deploy Delay Tactics.
• House Committee Leaders Urge Duke University to End Partnership With Chinese University.

Around X:

• @Zerohedge

• So someone is lying: actual spending all time high while reported sentiment (based on 250 polled UMich respondents) is all time low.

• @MarioNawful  

• GOV. GREG ABOTT: TEXAS IS BANNING CAPITAL GAINS TAX—PROPERTY TAX CUTS NEXT. “Hi, this is Governor Greg Abbott, and I'm about to sign a joint resolution that will constitutionally ban a capital gains tax in the state of Texas. Voters will vote on this to ensure that we’re not gonna have a capital gains tax in Texas. The next tax law that I will sign will be a tax law to reduce your property taxes in Texas.” (video)

• @LauraLoomer

• If Comey doesn’t get arrested & Pam Blondi doesn’t fire James @Comey’s daughter from the DOJ, then you’ll know all of the talk about accountability from the DOJ is nothing more than a Fox News talking point. If we care about law & order, now is the time for Bondi to prove it.

• @BennyJohnson

• BREAKING: Audio from Biden’s 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur has dropped. He forgets names, dates, and stumbles through every single answer. He was completely checked out. (audio)

• @Cernovich

• SCOTUS under John Roberts made J6’ers sit in prison for 3 years before deciding whether a never before used statute applied to misdemeanor trespass, converting a low level offense to a life-destroying felony. SCOTUS dropped everything for illegal immigrant criminal gang members.

• @WallStreetApes

• This is important. American fisherman reveals the real reason California is pushing for Dam removals. Citing specific instances where right after California removed other Dams, power bills doubled and water to farmland was cut off. (video)
• The state of Minnesota is turning into an apocalypse zone under Democrat leadership. “Welcome to Minneapolis, Minnesota. And for the record, let's just take a look around. It's a blue state in a blue city with a blue governor that felt he was good enough to help run the entire country. Let's see what's happening in his own backyard:” “I've lived just outside of Minneapolis for over 53 years and worked in Minneapolis for the last 35 years, and I have never seen it look quite like this”. (video)
  

• @AnnVandersteel

• Welcome to ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY AMERICA. Republican Congress REFUSES to do their job: "Nothing we can do." RINOs keep selling us out: "Nothing we can do." Leftist judges defy the sitting president: "Nothing we can do." Mayors and Governors defy the sitting president: "Nothing we can do." Congresswoman helps ILLEGALS to stay in our country: "Nothing we can do." Democrats DEFRAUD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE with an INSANE PRESIDENT for 4 years: "Nothing we can do." INSANE Democrat president opens our border to terrorists and criminals: "Nothing we can do." So the question becomes: If the GOP won't ever demand accountability for even THE GREATEST CRIMES... ...WTF do we even need them for?

• @WarClandestine

• The Hur tapes are yet another proof that a “Deep State” exists. We had a vegetable as President, and the bureaucracy carried on as usual. Biden was a just a figurehead. He was just the placeholder for the Deep State. Biden was not making decisions. He was taking orders. (video)

• @RodDMartin

• BACKGROUNDER THREAD: The Silicon Valley Company That's Revolutionizing Modern Warfare - AND The Defense Industry. What You Need to Know About Anduril Industries. (thread)

• @Geiger_Capital

• Our system is broken… One President can open our border and purposefully mass parole millions of illegal immigrants with court dates 4-10 years away. But the next President can’t deport any of them without giving them a hearing first. This means we have no sovereignty.

• @C_3C_3

• Justice Roberts… Saved the unconstitutional Obamacare. Protected Dobbs decision leaker Sheldon Snook. Appointed Marxist Judge Boasberg to preside over the FISA Court Protected fake Ukraine impeachment whistleblower Eric Ciamarella. John Roberts is part of the judicial coup.

• @joma_gc

• Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman, unborn has inherent dignity. And just like that all the recent Democrat Catholic converts who were fawning over Pope Leo now hate him.

• @MJTruthUltra

• If the public becomes aware of what is being sprayed on them… it would cause a shock wave around the world. (video)

• @GlobalMktObserv

• CHINESE DEBT SIZE IS ABSOLUTELY MIND-BLOWING! China's debt-to-GDP ratio hit a MASSIVE 366% in Q1 2024, a new record. To put this differently, for 1 unit of GDP the Chinese economy has produced 3.66 units of debt burden China has a debt problem. (graph)

• @GenFlynn

• This isn’t a game the deep state is playing. They’re in it to get total control over our lives, to destroy everything good and decent in our country and to act as though we’re too stupid to realize what they’re up to. DEEP STATE … WE THE PEOPLE GOT YOUR NUMBER AND WE’RE DONE WITH YOUR NONSENSE! I’ve said many times, arrogance will be your downfall and that is exactly what is happening. May GOD have mercy on your souls. (video)

• @StephenMoore

• Moody's is now officially a political agency, not a credit rating agency. They downgraded America's credit rating from Triple A under Trump, but before, when Biden spent $5 trillion and sent inflation to 9% - no problem at all. Trump's pro-growth tax cuts make America richer and reduce credit risk.
• Why won't Republicans cut blue state tax subsidies? Despite ZERO Democratic support for the Trump tax bill, GOP leaders continue to champion the SALT deduction, disproportionately benefiting blue states—75% of SALT deductions flow to these areas. This not only rewards higher taxes in liberal states but also undermines economic growth by perpetuating poor fiscal policy. (list)

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 23682 -0.17% #DOW 42296 -0.33% #NASDAQ 21206 -0.55% #FTSE 8666 -0.07% #HANGSENG 23184 -0.18% #GBPUSD 13290 +0.07% #EURUSD 11174 +0.10% #USDJPY 14533 -0.22% #GOLD 3219 +0.51%.

OpenVAERS: 

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,024,590 Reports(+590 from prior report) Through March 28th, 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.

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:  

• Trump Says He’s Willing to Travel to China for Xi Meeting.
• China Drops to No. 3 Holder of Treasuries, Falling Behind UK.
• Trump Says India Offered to Cut US Tariffs But He’s in No Rush.
• White House Criticizes Moody’s Downgrade to US Credit Rating.
• Lutnick-Built FMX to Start Treasury Futures Trade in Blow to CME.
• Space, Defense Firm Voyager Technologies Files Publicly for IPO.
• Wall Street Strategists React to Moody’s US Credit Rating Cut.
• Battered Wall Street Short Brigade Is Refusing to Admit Defeat.
• Hedge Funds Boost Bullish Bets on Brent on US-China Trade Truce.

Zerohedge:

• Biden-Hur Tape Drops, And Boy Is It Rough .
• Moody's Downgrades USA Credit Rating From Aaa.
• Federal Contract Activity Slows As DOGE's Cost-Cutting Measures Take Effect.
• The Rise And Fall Of Synthetic Food Dyes.
• Mississippi Has The Lowest Average Salaries In The US, D.C. The Highest.
• Will Nuclear Fusion Soon Be The "Norm?".
• Trump Fumes After Supreme Court Rules Venezuelan Illegals Can't Be Deported (For Now).
• Bees Are Behind Our Food And Natural Medicines - And They're Disappearing.
• Hapag-Lloyd Sees 50% Surge In Container Bookings From China To The US.
• US Drug Overdose Deaths Fall Nearly 27 Percent To Lowest Level In 5 Years.
• "Buy In May And Let It Play": How Goldman Is Trading The S&P Overshoot.
• Trump Tax Bill Fails To Advance As Conservative Holdouts Double Down On 'No'.
• "There Will Be Consequences" For Those Govt Officials Who Waged War Against The People Of This Land.
• Stocks extend rally as US/China relations dominated the week - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• Stocks Soar Most Since COVID Lows, Gold Gags As Trade Policy Uncertainty Plunges.

WSJ.com:

• Conservatives Block GOP Tax Megabill, Demand Changes.
• Coming to a Brain Near You: A Tiny Computer.
• Cassie Ventura Wraps Up Testimony in Sean Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial.
• Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Fail to Make Major Headway After Russia Demands More Land.
• Verizon Rolls Back DEI Policies to Secure $10 Billion Deal.
• Is This the Next Big Hair-Loss Solution for Men? ‘We Call It a Lunch-Break Procedure.’.

CNBC:

• Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating, citing rise in government debt
• House Budget Committee rejects Trump agenda bill in major setback for GOP leaders.
• Tech IPO market is finally showing signs of life.
• S&P 500 posts fifth winning day, notches 5% weekly gain as U.S.-China trade tensions ease.
• Insiders at UnitedHealth are scooping up tarnished shares.
• Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI are backing the UAE Stargate data center project.
• CoreWeave pops almost 60% this week on AI growth momentum, big Nvidia stake.
• Nvidia and Tesla ripped higher this week, boosted by Trump’s Middle East tour.
• Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries top $9 trillion in March, data shows.
• Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility as Wall Street continues plunging money into AI boom.

NewsMax:       

• Trump Surges Among Millennials .

Fox News:

• Biden struggles with words, key memories in leaked audio from Special Counsel Hur interview.
• SCOTUS blocks Venezuelan migrants' deportation under Alien Enemies Act.
• President Trump: If I didn't do this deal with China, they would have broken apart .
• Ex-Vikings player slams 'embarrassing' AG for letting trans athlete dominate softball.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• BREAKING: Disturbing Audio of Robert Hur’s Interview Showing Biden Repeatedly Struggling to Remember Names and Dates Released .
• BREAKING: James Comey to be Escorted by Secret Service to DC Field Office For Interview Over Trump Assassination Post.
• Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook’s Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning.
• Tired of Winning? Trump Brings in Massive Manufacturer That Serves 30 Countries, 91,000 Sq. Ft. Factory Coming Soon.
• 10 Inmates, Including Murderers, Escape From New Orleans Jail… May Have Had ‘Inside Help’.
• Italian PM Giorgia Meloni Endorses Right-Wing Favorite George Simion for Romanian President.
• President Trump GOES OFF After Supreme Court Blocks Him From Deporting Venezuelan Gang Members Under Alien Enemies Act.
• BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Group Releases Newly-Obtained Footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Island Bedroom.
• SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Human Remains Found Just a ‘Stone’s Throw’ from Taylor Swift’s Lavish Beachside Mansion.
• White House Slams Episcopal Church for Racist Double Standard After Refusing to Resettle White South African Refugees.
• ‘Donald Trump Has Some Pretty Good Political Instincts’: CNN’s Harry Enten on President Trump’s Rising Approval Ratings (Video).
• Beautiful: President Trump Sends Special Surprise Birthday Message to 104-year-old WWII Veteran After Viral Party Invite (Video).
• Defense Health Agency Must Not be Allowed to Thwart an Honest Investigation Into COVID-19 Shot Injuries, Say Those Who Witnessed the Devasting Effects Firsthand.
• WATCH: President Trump Speaks Out on James Comey’s Chilling Message Calling for Trump’s Assassination and On Comey Making Up an Outrageous Lie Afterward.

Epoch Times:

• China’s Keynesian Model Is Crumbling—It Needs a Trade Deal, Fast.
• House Committee Leaders Urge Duke University to End Partnership With Chinese University.

Around X:

• @realDonaldTrump

• Republicans MUST UNITE behind, “THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!” Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, but it will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need. The Country will suffer greatly without this Legislation, with their Taxes going up 65%. It will be blamed on the Democrats, but that doesn’t help our Voters. We don’t need “GRANDSTANDERS” in the Republican Party. STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE! It is time to fix the MESS that Biden and the Democrats gave us. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
• The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process...

• @Zerohedge

• But wait, there's more: just hours of entertainment here. Here is a chart of Democrat inflation expectations vs actual inflation surprises. (graph)
  

• @MarioNawful  

• RFK JR. ON VACCINES: “I’M NOT HERE TO CENSOR MYSELF”. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced fire at the Senate hearing this week over his vaccine comments — and didn’t flinch. RFK Jr.: “I’m going to tell the truth about everything we know and we don’t know about vaccines. I am not going to just tell people that everything is safe and effective if I know there are issues. I need to respect people’s intelligence.” Sen. Chris Murphy warned Kennedy’s messaging could tank public trust. “Nobody swims in a lake if you say it’s full of alligators," he said. RFK's reply? “Then maybe they should know about the gators.”
• AI DATA CENTERS ARE ABOUT TO EAT THE ELECTRIC GRID. By 2030, data centers could suck up nearly 1,000 TWh of electricity a year — 4× more than in 2020. That’s more than what Japan uses annually. Accelerated servers (built for AI) are the fastest-growing slice, jumping 10× from almost nothing in 2020 to rivaling all conventional servers by 2030. Cooling alone may top 200 TWh — more than every home in New York City uses. All for LLMs, crypto farms, and, well... cat videos.

• @catturd2

• Yes James Comey was calling for the assassination of Trump. Yes he knew exactly what 8647meant. Yes he put the shells there himself and didn’t just happen to find them on the beach. Yes he knew exactly what he was doing. Yes nobody is buying him playing dumb now.
• Predicting the midterms is easy … If Republicans codify Trump’s agenda, unite, and stand behind the President, they’ll win a landslide. If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide. It’s almost like they want to lose.
  

• @StephenM

• Weird how the Supreme Court never ruled that Biden couldn’t import vast armies of illegal alien invaders.

• @CheddarFlow

• BREAKING: $UNH CEO JUST ADDED $25 MILLION WORTH OF SHARES. THEY AREN’T SCARED AT ALL. (pic)
  

• @GuntherEagleman

• This is heartbreaking. Tom Homan describes a child who was just rescued from a HORRIFIC situation: "We just found one two days ago. A 14-year-old little girl. Living with two adult males. Who trafficked her." "We found her, she’s pregnant. From trafficking being forced into prostitution. 14 years old. We are taking care of her. Both physically and mentally. Despite what the media says, we are not heartless. We care about these kids. I am a father." "That shit is happening every day. We are going to put an end to it. Everything we can do." (video)
• Sources are saying with their lack of action, both @SpeakerJohnson and @LeaderJohnThune would rather lose the midterms than pass Trump's America First agenda. Let them hear you!!! Get LOUD, call, post, email! All of it! Tell them they suck. (Respectfully of course)
  

• @WarClandestine

• The craziest part about this whole Comey “86-47” thing, is the timing. This happened while Trump is securing peace deals in the Middle East, and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. This is not a coincidence. The Deep State do NOT want Trump to bring world peace. Because when he does, not only are their money laundering operations shut down, but Trump will have the overwhelming approval of the American People. (video)

• @kylenabecker

• REMINDER: Maureen Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was a prosecutor on the Epstein case and is now a prosecutor in the Diddy case. There has been no justice for victims and almost no arrests made in either of these high-profile cases.

• @RodDMartin

• THREAD: The Utter Complete Total Fraud of Wind Power - The math simply does not work, no matter how many political lies are told. The SHOCKING TRUTH about Wind Power that "green energy" lobbyists DON'T want you to see.

• @DataRepublican

• EXPOSED: Soros, the Deep State & the Shadow Network. Today, I launched a powerful new tool that indexes the National Endowment for Democracy journal... and here's what it uncovers: Dozen-plus Open Society Foundation staff, funded by George Soros, are writing in a U.S. government-backed journal. That journal is part of our taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-government operation tied to foreign "democracy" missions- and Congress sits on its board. No conspiracy theories. This is hard data. This proves Soros and our intelligence apparatus are deeply intertwined. (pic)

• @IanJaeger29

• JUST IN: Amy Comey Barrett sides with the liberals and blocks President Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Unreal.
• BREAKING: Several House Republicans sign a letter demanding that the House gets to work on codifying President Trump’s Executive Order’s into law.
  

• @MJTruthUltra

• Nicole Shanahan: USAID was Conducting Clandestine Geo-Engineering Projects to Block out the Sun — They are Literally Sterilizing the Planet. “Why are we accelerating our way towards an extinction event?” — our soils are dying. — root systems are dying. — exposure to Bioavailable aluminum shuts down nutrient uptake in crops. (video)
  

• @wallstengine

• $GOOGL CEO: “Quantum feels like where AI was in 2015... in 5 years, you’ll see the ‘aha’ moment — useful computation far better than classical.” (video)

• @GlockfordFiles

• Rep Tim Burchett is calling out the House RINOs led by Speaker Johnson. Speaker Johnson is out of the RINO closet and needs to be removed before he runs out the rest of the clock. (video)