🛡The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the departure of 16 senior executives on Wednesday, a significant shakeup of its leadership ranks less than two weeks before the start of what is expected to be a busy hurricane season.

Those leaving include MaryAnn Tierney, a 26-year emergency management veteran who until May 9 had been the agency's acting No. 2, as well as key people in finance and disaster response, according to internal emails seen by Reuters.

The agency, which coordinates the federal response to natural disasters, has been roiled by the loss of hundreds of staff and low morale since finding itself targeted by President Donald Trump.

Trump wants FEMA to be shrunk or even abolished, arguing that many of its functions can be carried out by the states.

The changes have, however, disrupted the agency's planning for the hurricane season, stoking concern that it will be ill-equipped to deal with any disaster.

The departures unveiled on Wednesday follow the abrupt firing of FEMA's then-acting administrator Cameron Hamilton earlier this month. The agency's new leader, David Richardson, has vowed to "run right over" staff who resist reforms.

#Trump #FEMA

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House Republicans released amendments Wednesday night about their massive megabill, and a slew of name changes caught the eyes of critics, who likened the move to cult-like behavior.

The first page of the list of amendments included the following language:

"Page 10, in the item relating to section 110115, strike 'MAGA' and insert 'Trump'."

The swap of "MAGA" for "Trump" appears to refer to House Republicans' proposal to include seed money to be posted to "MAGA accounts" for children. The idea came from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and includes a pilot program to start the accounts with $1,000.

The newly unveiled change appears to edit "MAGA accounts" to "Trump accounts" for children.

A Rules Committee vote was expected Wednesday night, followed by overnight floor action, according to Politico.

The rule change led to swift mockery on social media.

"An absolute cult,"

chided Democratic strategist Chris D. Jackson on X.Jake Sherman

"They are renaming the 'MAGA Accounts' ... 'Trump Accounts,'"

remarked Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News, sharing a screenshot of the bill and about 10 of the proposed edits.

"For f---s sake,"

reacted Fred Wellman, host of the On Democracy Podcast.

Congressional reporter Jamie Dupree appeared equally stunned.

"Almost 5 full pages of the GOP changes are nothing but striking the word 'MAGA' and inserting the word 'Trump.' (I'm not kidding)"

wrote Dupree. Post

The anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project surmised on X,

"Are House Republicans so embarrassed by this bill that they are finding anyway to place the blame on @realDonaldTrump?"

Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, wrote,

"Just when you thought it could get stupider than 'MAGA Account,' they've decided to rename it to... 'Trump Account,'"

adding a face-palm emoji.

#GOP #MAGA #Democrats

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The United Arab Emirates has developed a jet suit for the flight, which is trying to compete with the speed of the Emirates Airbus aircraft.

#Emirates #costume #jet

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Trump is getting rich fast — in 125 days of his presidency, his family's fortune has grown by $ 2 billion, according to the New York Times

According to the NYT dossier, Donald Trump uses his post to enrich himself — his personal, his wife Melania and his sons ' development company, the Trump Organization. All obvious conflicts of interest are ignored or cynically justified. At the same time, the authors of the NYT are surprised by the almost absence of indignation on the part of the political establishment and many voters.

According to the publication, the Trump family and its partners earned $ 300 million on commissions in complex cryptocurrency transactions. Another typical way to earn money is a dinner party with 220 large investors who invested in the US president's memcoin $TRUMP. The dinner was held at the Trump National Golf Club near Washington, formally Trump received guests "in a personal capacity." One of the investors, Chinese billionaire Justin Sun, invested $ 40 million. It is noteworthy that the US Securities Commission has been investigating him for fraud since 2023, but the new White House administration closed the case.

Forbes also noticed an increase in Trump's fortune. Now it is estimated at 6.1 billion dollars — 1.2 billion more than last year.

The president's sons Eric and Don continue to make new real estate deals: a hotel in Belgrade, a skyscraper in Dubai, a golf resort in Qatar and other properties around the world. It is interesting that politicians in these countries, with which the United States has recently had tense relations, reduce the requirements for these business projects in order to speed up their implementation.

Trump suddenly became close to his former nemesis, Jeff Bezos. They are said to have decided to bury the hatchet of the war that broke out over the anti-Trump stance of the Bezos-owned Washington Post. Shortly afterward, Bezos announced the upcoming film adaptation of Melania Trump's biography on his Amazon Prime platform. Melania's fee is $ 28 million.

Trump's critics point to unprecedented corruption and a weakening of the regulatory agencies that should be monitoring it. The US president himself does not see any problems in such transactions.

#Trump #fortune #Scandal

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Trump congratulates everyone on MEMORIAL DAY, including scum

#Trump #TruthSocial

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In May, the Trump administration lost 96% of cases in the courts, with the ideological difference between judges playing a minimal role.

Another interesting thing is that the percentage of losses is growing, which, I think, shows that the Administration has broken away (from the Constitution and laws).

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President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have given many Americans whiplash. The list of companies announcing price changes as a result is equally daunting.

Among the levies Trump has imposed is a 10% baseline tariff for most imports and a 30% tariff on most Chinese goods. Some goods, such as steel and aluminum, face higher rates.

Many retailers have issued warnings that they won’t, as Trump has suggested, “eat” the additional costs caused by those import taxes. That means anything from groceries and clothing to toys and cars could cost Americans more.

Walmart is one of the latest major retailers to say it would sell more expensive goods soon because Trump’s tariffs are “too high.” Other retailers suggesting they could hike prices soon include Ford, Best Buy and others.

Here are some of the companies that could raise prices on everyday items – whether or not companies are directly blaming Trump’s tariffs.

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he European Union could retaliate against US technology companies if the trade conflict with Donald Trump’s administration escalates, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

While the leader of Europe’s largest economy aims to reduce tariffs and defuse tensions with the White House, he said that the bloc would need to protect its interests and pointed to the US surplus in services trade with the EU.

“At the moment, we strongly protect US tech companies — also on taxes,” Merz said Monday in Berlin at the WDR Europaforum conference. “That can be changed, but I don’t want to escalate this conflict. I want to solve it together.”

Trade talks between the European Union and the US are at a delicate point. President Trump last week threatened to impose 50% tariffs on EU imports as of June 1, only to move the deadline back to July 9 after a Sunday phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Merz said he fully supports von der Leyen’s approach and reaffirmed his stance that Germany wouldn’t enter side deals but allow the EU to handle trade matters. He said the bloc would act if necessary.

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FBI will launch new probes into the 2023 discovery of cocaine at the White House during President Joe Biden's term and the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a top official announced on Monday.

Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster-turned-FBI deputy director, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on the cases' progress.

Both incidents have been popular talking points on America's right.

The discovery of a small bag of cocaine in a cubby near the entrance to the West Wing two years ago drew excited commentary from Republicans, including then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who said it was implausible the drugs could belong to anyone beyond Biden and his son Hunter - even though the Biden family was away from Washington at the time.

A White House spokesperson said then that the allegations were "incredibly irresponsible."
The publication of the Supreme Court's opinion ending the constitutional right to abortion in Politico on May 2, 2022, opens new tab, provoked condemnation from Trump, who called the source of the leak "slime" and demanded that the journalists involved be imprisoned until they revealed who it was.

#FBI #Biden #Scandal

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American flags upside down and calls for Trump's assassination at a demonstration in Kansas

At a protest in Wichita, Kansas, the participants made a splash with radical symbols. The demonstration stage was dominated by bleeding cartoons of President Trump and inverted flags of the US and Ukraine, the demonstrators chanted the combination of numbers “86 47”, where “86” in American slang means “kill” and “47” points to Trump's position as the 47th president of the United States.

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⏳Unless we die young, old age awaits us all — even U.S. presidents. Inevitably, the older we get, the greater the chances of our physical and mental health worsening.

📜Yet although the Constitution says a president must be at least 35, it sets no upper age limit. This is a dangerous oversight that should be remedied with a constitutional amendment that sets a maximum age of 75 for a person to be sworn in as president.

This would ensure that no one 80 or older will ever again lead our nation.

A study supported by National Institutes of Health estimated that about 24 percent of Americans in their 80s have dementia, ranging from mild to severe, including about 18 percent who have Alzheimer’s disease. The NIH describes Alzheimer’s as “a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out the simplest tasks.” That is not something we want in a president, even in an early stage.

Several books have been published claiming former President Joe Biden was too mentally diminished to lead our nation — claims that Biden vehemently denies. The book receiving the most news coverage right now is

“Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,”

by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

And we just learned the sad news that Biden, now 82, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of incurable but treatable prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. According to the American Cancer Society, there is only a 37 percent chance that a man with this diagnosis will be alive in five years, although some men survive 10 years or more.

I think Biden was an outstanding president who accomplished a great deal for the American people. I voted for him in 2020 and I supported his reelection until he ended his candidacy after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump. I hope he is one of the long-term prostate cancer survivors.

But we have to face the reality that if he had been reelected, Biden would have had to deal with cancer treatments while president and might not have lived until the end of his term.

🧓President Trump, now 78, will be 82 when his term ends in 2029. While repeatedly claiming that Biden has dementia, Trump insists that he is mentally sharp. Yet over 230 psychiatrists and other mental health professionals signed a letter published as an ad in the New York Times in October 2024 saying Trump is “grossly unfit for leadership” because, among other things, he “appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline.” A book published in 2017 titled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” argued that Trump is mentally ill and poses a danger to our nation.

Ideally, someone physically or mentally incapable of carrying out the duties of president would not run or would resign from the office. But presidents work hard to attain their position, and they and their staffs don’t want to give it up.

And although the 25th Amendment allows the vice president and the Cabinet, or a body approved by Congress, to remove an incapacitated president from office, it has never been invoked. It would likely only be used in an extreme case, such as if a president were in a coma.

#Constitution #AgeLimit

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Container ship with dangerous cargo sank off the coast of India 🇮🇳

There were 640 containers on board the Liberian-flagged MSC ELSA container ship, including 13 with hazardous materials and 12 with calcium carbide.

In addition, the ship's tanks contained 84.44 tons of diesel fuel and 367.1 tons of fuel oil.

The Indian Coast Guard evacuated the people on board. All 24 crew members of the vessel were successfully rescued.

#IndianCoast #Containership #sankoff

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When officials in the home province of Vietnam’s top leader went door to door recently, pressing residents to sign letters agreeing to the Trump Organization’s plans for a new golf community, Le Van Truong wanted to refuse.

Planning documents promised a “new benchmark in luxury, recreation and business.” Mr. Truong, 54, pictured something else: the uprooting of a cemetery with five generations of his ancestors and the loss of rich farmland that has sustained local families for centuries.

Yet he signed anyway, because, as he put it, “there’s nothing I can do.”

“Trump says it’s separate — the presidency and his business,”

Mr. Truong said.

“But he has the power to do whatever he wants.”

This $1.5 billion golf complex outside the capital, Hanoi, as well as plans for a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale. And as that blitz makes the Trumps richer, it is distorting how countries interact with the United States.

To fast-track the Trump development, Vietnam has ignored its own laws, legal experts said, granting concessions more generous than what even the most connected locals receive. Vietnamese officials, in a letter obtained by The New York Times, explicitly stated that the project required special support from the top ranks of the Vietnamese government because it was “receiving special attention from the Trump administration and President Donald Trump personally.”

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Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” that the Democratic Party will take the majority in the 2026 midterms and investigate President Donald Trump and his family.

Witt said,

“I’m curious if the Democrats take over after the midterms next year, the House and or Senate, do you think they’re going to push for investigations into Trump’s family and the whole crypto acquisitions that he has getting?”

Crockett said,

“Well, Alex, I’m glad you asked. Listen, so long as we end up taking the House, which I fully anticipate that we will do, and we are going to work hard to obviously help our senate colleagues as well, then as someone who serves on the Oversight Committee and hopes to lead the Oversight Committee, I can guarantee you that we will do what we are supposed to do as constitutionally sworn members of the House, which means that we will conduct oversight.”

She continued,

“That means that we will investigate. We will look at whether or not this president himself has violated the Emoluments Clause as it relates to say such things as getting a $400 million plane from the Qataris. We also will make sure that we’re looking into all these business deals that they have going on. I mean, think about it this way, Alex. they were going after Hunter because he sat on a board. Think about how much money they are raking, raking in, whether we’re talking about the next golf resort that they’re setting up in Qatar or whether we’re talking about them leveling Gaza, as they’ve talked about and talked about how it would be great beachfront property, whether we’re talking about this crypto scam, the scam that people didn’t even want to walk into and show their faces.”

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President Donald Trump said on Sunday his tariff policy was aimed at promoting the domestic manufacturing of tanks and technology products, not sneakers and T-shirts.

Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey, Trump said he agreed with comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on April 29 that the US does not necessarily need a “booming textile industry” – comments that drew criticism from the National Council of Textile Organizations.

“We’re not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts. We want to make military equipment. We want to make big things. We want to make, do the AI thing,”

Trump said.

“I’m not looking to make T-shirts, to be honest. I’m not looking to make socks. We can do that very well in other locations. We are looking to do chips and computers and lots of other things, and tanks and ships,”

Trump said.

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🍽 On the heels of the heavily-criticized dinner hosted by President Donald Trump for the top investors of the $TRUMP meme coin, a top New York Times reporter has come out with a stunning breakdown of how Trump has monetized his office.

📰In a piece published Sunday, New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker dove deep on Trump’s various financial gambits and concluded that they are without rival in American history.

“The Trumps are hardly the first presidential family to profit from their time in power, but they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House,”

Baker wrote.

“The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking.”

💰Baker listed off the various ways in which the Trump family has cashed in, and the staggering amounts they have added to their coffers.

The Trump family and its business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join, all in the past few months alone.

Just last week, Qatar handed over a luxury jet meant for Mr. Trump’s use not just in his official capacity but also for his presidential library after he leaves office. Experts have valued the plane, formally donated to the Air Force, at $200 million, more than all of the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.

And Mr. Trump hosted an exclusive dinner at his Virginia club for 220 investors in the $TRUMP cryptocurrency that he started days before taking office in January. Access was openly sold based on how much money they chipped in — not to a campaign account but to a business that benefits Mr. Trump personally.

The crypto scheme and the acceptance of the jet from Qatar has drawn heavy criticism on the left and even some on the right. Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, and Tucker Carlson are just a few of the notable conservatives who have called out Trump in recent days for profiting off of his office.

#Trump #crypto #Scandal

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📘 A small, tight-knit group in former President Joe Biden’s inner circle was running the White House like a “politburo,” and they were the “ultimate decision-makers” as Biden’s health and cognitive function continued to decline, according to the authors of a bombshell new book.

👥 This group, dubbed the “politburo,” included a coterie of seasoned political veterans, including Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed — but also family members such as first lady Jill Biden and the president’s son Hunter, the authors of “Original Sin” claim.

🎙 “In terms of who was running the White House, it’s a small group of people that have been around,”

“Original Sin” author Alex Thompson told PBS’ “Washington Week” on Friday.

“Some people within the administration called them the Politburo. That’s the term we used in the book.”

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain was at times part of the “politburo,” as was former senior adviser to the president Annie Tomasini. Also on the “politburo” was the first lady’s former top adviser and “work husband,” Anthony Bernal, whom The Post previously reported created a toxic workplace environment.

🧓“And Joe Biden himself also is part of this. Joe Biden is not like — it’s not ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ right?”

said co-author and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, referring to the movie about a dead guy who is wheeled around as part of an elaborate ruse.

#Biden #investigation

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Canada has elected a new speaker of the House of Commons.

According to the old tradition, he is literally dragged to the workplace, but he resists and pretends that he does not want it at all.

#Canada #workplace #dragged

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📘 "A scandal worse than Watergate." The author of a book about Joe Biden said that he did not actually run the country because of his health condition

🕵️ American journalist and author of the book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline" Jake Tapper compared the scandal surrounding the health of former US President Joe Biden with the Watergate investigation and concluded that "the situation is probably worse."

🍷 "At least Nixon's cognitive abilities were fine when he wasn't drunk,"

Tapper said.

👥 According to him, in the case of Biden, the country was actually ruled not by him, but by a narrow circle of assistants, his wife Jill Biden and son Hunter.

📚 The book "Original Sin," written by Tapper and journalist Alex Thompson, says the White House systematically covered up Biden's deteriorating condition.

🤕 Falls, forgetfulness, unsteady gait, confused speech — all this was hushed up. So, when Biden publicly searched for the deceased Congresswoman Jackie Walorski in 2022, this was explained as a "perception error."

🗣 The authors, who spoke to more than 200 sources, claim that instead of Biden, the real management was handled by:

Chief of Staff Ron Klain
Strategist Mike Donilon
Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed
Advisor Steve Ricchetti

👩‍⚕️ First Lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, whom Tapper calls "sneaky" and "prone to terrible decisions," played a big role.

🗨 "We wanted him [Joe Biden] to just win, and then we could hide him for four years, showing occasional signs of life,"

one Biden team member says in the book.

⚠️ Tapper argues that this strategy threatened not only the integrity of the election, but also the stability of the entire US political system.

#Biden #books #Scandal

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Musk lashed out at Trump 

Elon Musk sharply opposed US President Donald Trump, criticizing the new economic bill, known as the "Big Beautiful Bill". According to the head of Tesla, Trump's initiative will only increase the national deficit instead of reducing it." 

Musk said that he was disappointed with this massive spending law, which undermines the entire work of the DOGE team.

We are talking about a law that provides for tax breaks, additional costs for border protection and cuts in the healthcare sector. The House of Representatives has already approved the document, but a vote in the Senate is still ahead." 

Musk's financial concerns are backed up by official calculations. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the implementation of the law will lead to an increase in government spending by $ 3.8 trillion by 2034. As a result, the US national debt may reach 32 trillion, which is already 120% of the country's GDP.

Earlier, Trump personally appointed Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency(DOGE), where he promised to save hundreds of billions of budget dollars. However, in early May, Musk announced his resignation from the post before the end of the month — now the department will continue to work without him.

#Trump #Musk #DOGE #BigBeautifulBill

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🛍Donald Trump’s bumper tax-slashing, debt-swelling spending bill is not the only thing he professes to consider beautiful. His tour of the Persian Gulf earlier this month amounted to a full-blown compliment spree focused on other men’s appearance – Syria’s president was a “young, attractive guy”; the UAE’s was “magnificent”.

As for Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the emir of Qatar, “they’re both tall, handsome guys that happen to be very smart”, he said. “You sort of remind me a little bit of each other.” (They also happen to be very good at treating him like a fellow royal: smart indeed.)

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