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> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCrtVMj_8Y

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gunshots-reported-near-white-house-rcna346671

WASHINGTON — The White House was briefly locked down on Saturday evening after gunfire erupted nearby, injuring at least two people, according to four law enforcement officials briefed on the matter.

One person is in grave condition, the officials said.

One of the individuals is believed to be a suspect, but it isn’t clear if the second person is also a suspect or a bystander, the officials said.

The investigation shows that the U.S. Secret Service engaged with the suspect and fired at the person, according to two senior officials briefed on the matter.

Those officials say that at this early juncture there doesn’t appear to be any injuries to Secret Service agents.

The Secret Service said on X it was aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW and is “working to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground.”

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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) -- There is no longer a threat of a catastrophic explosion at a tank filled with a toxic chemical at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, officials says Monday.

The "crisis situation" has forced 50,000 people out of their homes in Orange County for several days.

Crews worked overnight on a risky mission to confirm if the pressure in the tank was releasing after a crack was discovered.

In a Monday morning update, the Orange County Fire Authority said the threat of a BLEVE, which stands for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion, at the site "is now off the table."


https://abc7.com/live-updates/garden-grove-chemical-tank-emergency-leaking-toxic-chemicals-orange-county-will-spill-explode-officials-say/19152918/entry/19165547/?userab=kabc_content_recs-577*variant_c_trending-2482,otv_web_content_rec-539*variant_c_trending-2268,otv_search_page_design_unification-546*variant_b_search_redesign-2300,abcn_popular_reads_exp-542*variant_b_7days_filter-2288

This is clearly retaliatory because California is standing up to t-Rumps Nazi fascist dictatorship

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https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/trump-taiwan-china-ukraine-arms-sales-b2981871.html

>Trump has suspended weapons sales to Taiwan in a move that again shows he favours potential enemies over allies

We can not stop winning?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html

Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.

Three companies — each with ties to the Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.

A growing portion of the agency’s portfolio, prediction markets allow Americans to bet on everything from whether the United States will take over Cuba to what color tie President Trump will wear next. The moneymaking opportunities were breathtaking, but the companies’ practices were causing a stir.

Senior career officials worried about whether Crypto.com was treating small bettors fairly. They feared that a second firm, Polymarket, did not have strong enough protections against fraud. A third, an offshoot of the crypto firm Gemini, had yet to pass the agency’s required review to open for business.

Despite these concerns, Caroline D. Pham, then acting chairman of the commission, and her senior counsel intervened to help the firms get what they wanted, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.

By Christmas, the agency had put two top officials who had raised questions about the companies on leave, barred them from the office and placed them under internal investigation. Three other senior officials who had enforced laws involving cryptocurrencies — another industry linked to the Trumps — suffered the same fate.

None of those officials were told what they had done wrong. But current and former agency staffers said in interviews that the commission’s work force took away a clear message: Don’t cause trouble for those industries.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/green-card-applicants-trump-administration

Foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the United States to secure green cards will have to do so from outside the country via the state department, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Friday, in a move criticized by aid groups, policy analysts and immigration attorneys.

USCIS announced the move in a policy memo, which directed officers to consider relevant factors and information on a case-by-case basis when determining whether extraordinary relief is warranted.

The green card process had been unchanged for more than 60 years, marking the latest significant move by the Trump administration on immigration policy.

“An alien who is in the US temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply,” said the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has oversight of USCIS.

“This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes.”

According to an analyst with the Cato Institute, more than 1 million immigrants in the US are waiting on their green cards.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-congo-epicenter-treatment-center-set-on-fire/

Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, the staff there said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the region in a week.

No one was hurt in the attack, according to initial reports but as patients ran out to escape the fire, 18 people with suspected Ebola infections left the facility and are now unaccounted for, a local hospital director said.

The angry residents had arrived at the clinic in the town of Mongbwalu on Friday night and set fire to a tent set up for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of the Mongbwalu hospital, told The Associated Press.

"We strongly condemn this act, as it caused panic among the staff and also resulted in the escape of 18 suspected cases into the community," he said.

On Thursday, another treatment center, in the town of Rwampara, was burned down after family members were banned from retrieving the body of a local man suspected to have died of Ebola.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/24/with-enhanced-games-silicon-valley-investors-turn-doping-into-billion-dollar-business-pitch/

AS VEGAS — This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine.
He injected himself with weight loss drugs, testosterone, and legal-but-off-label growth hormones, designed to reduce deep layers of fat and regenerate his cells. To feel more outgoing, he added the peptide oxytocin, typically used by doctors to stimulate labor. For focus, he popped a pill of his usual stimulant, normally prescribed for sleep apnea. He logged tens of thousands of steps, sprinting to meetings at his hotel and doing circles around a large swimming pool.
Angermayer was getting ready to show the world that the experimental health protocols embraced by longevity-obsessed business elites like himself can work for top athletes — and, ultimately, the entire world.
Angermayer, who at 48 looks a decade younger, is the co-founder and funder of the Enhanced Games, a Silicon Valley-backed athletic tournament that breaks a cardinal rule of sports by encouraging athletes to take steroids, hormones, peptides and any legal performance-enhancing drug.

The 42 inaugural participants who will compete Sunday in Vegas are elite swimmers, runners and weightlifters, some of whom are Olympic medalists. They are souped up on proprietary drug regimens prescribed by the organization’s team of doctors — an effort athletes hope will enable them to beat their personal records and earn millions in prize money.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/tulsi-gabbard-resigns-intelligence-trump-husband.html

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, becoming the latest Cabinet official to leave his administration, she announced Friday.

Gabbard, in a resignation letter addressed to Trump, said she has to step down in order to support her husband, Abraham Williams, who has “recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”

“I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position,” she wrote in the letter dated Friday.

Her resignation is effective June 30, she wrote.

Trump confirmed later Friday that Gabbard was “unfortunately” departing, writing in a Truth Social post that she has “done an incredible job, and we will miss her.”

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will take over from Gabbard in an acting capacity, Trump wrote in the post.

Fox News first reported Gabbard’s resignation.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/im-not-greedy-january-6-rioters-trump-allies-eye-18-billion-weaponization-fund-2026-05-20/

'I'm not greedy': January 6 rioters and Trump allies eye $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund

Capitol riot defendants and Trump allies seek compensation from new fund
Democrats and some Republicans question fund's legality and IRS audit ban
Some Democrats, including James Comey, consider applying for compensation

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - (This story contains strong language in paragraph 3)
Since President Donald Trump's administration announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund for Americans deemed to be victims of political "weaponization," January 6 Capitol riot defendants and other Trump allies have scrambled to figure out how to get their share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rU9Nexr6ew SHATTERED

Trump’s Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
The purge is the latest action by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the assault on the Capitol.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/23/trumps-justice-department-scrubs-its-website-of-news-releases-about-jan-6-defendants-00935096

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This comes after being told Oman would never negotiate with the Iranians.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/iran-in-talks-with-oman-over-permanent-toll-system-for-hormuz

(Bloomberg) -- Iran is discussing with Oman how to set up some form of a permanent toll system that will formalize its control of maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

“Iran and Oman must mobilize all their resources both to provide security services and to manage navigation in the most appropriate manner,” the Iranian ambassador to France, Mohammad Amin-Nejad, said in an interview with Bloomberg in Paris on Wednesday.

“This will entail costs, and it goes without saying that those who wish to benefit from this traffic must also pay their share,” he said in Farsi, through an interpreter, adding that the system will be transparent. “And if today there is any desire for the situation to improve, a solution must be found to tackle the root of the problem.”

Asked about the plan, US President Donald Trump rejected it.

“We want it open, we want it free, we don’t want tolls,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday, referring to the Strait of Hormuz. Oman’s government didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Iran effectively closed the waterway in response to US-Israeli airstrikes that triggered the war in late February by firing missiles at Washington’s Arab allies across the energy-rich Persian Gulf.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/boys-convicted-of-get-non-custodial-sentences-as-judge-says-they-should-not-be-criminalised-unnecessarily

Boys convicted of rape get non-custodial sentences as judge says they should not be criminalised unnecessarily.

Boys physically overpowered and then filmed attacks on teenage victims in separate incidents in Hampshire.

Three teenage boys convicted of knife-point rape and other serious sexual offences against two teenage girls in Hampshire have not been given custodial sentences because the judge said he “should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”.

The boys, who were aged between 13 and 14 at the time of their offences, physically overpowered and sexually assaulted the girls, who were aged 14 and 15, in separate incidents two months apart.

The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were sentenced to youth rehabilitation orders ranging between 18 months and three years for their roles in the attacks, which prosecutors said were “brazenly filmed” on mobile phones.

They were convicted of rape even in circumstances where they aided and abetted another boy to carry out an attack.

One 15-year-old boy was convicted of three charges of rape against the two victims, who did not know each other, and four counts of taking indecent images. He will be subject to 180 days of intensive supervision and surveillance.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/owner-daycare-viral-nick-shirley-video-charged-daycare-fraud-scheme-prosecutors-say

A woman allegedly tied to Minnesota's massive "Feeding Our Future" scandal has been charged in a daycare fraud scheme after being featured in a viral video by influencer Nick Shirley, authorities said.

She is accused of pocketing millions of dollars meant for children's meals.

Fahima Egeh Mahamud was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.

Earlier this year, Mahamud was indicted for her alleged role in the initial $250 million "Feeding Our Future" scheme. Prosecutors allege she enrolled Future Leaders Early Learning — a Minneapolis daycare where she served as CEO — into the federal child nutrition program, falsely claiming to serve thousands of meals at her childcare center.

In addition to her involvement in the nutrition program fraud, Mahamud was federally charged Wednesday with a secondary scheme to defraud the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides daycare assistance to low-income families.

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https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-obituary-democratic-party-masssachusets-congressman-dead-86/

Barney Frank, legendary liberal who ripped into left-wing dysfunction on his death bed, dies at 86

Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted the most significant reforms to the financial system in a generation, has died. He was 86.

Frank died late Tuesday, according to Jim Segel, Frank’s former campaign manager and close friend.

After representing broad swaths of Boston’s suburbs in Congress for 32 years, Frank and his husband moved to Ogunquit, Maine. He entered hospice there in April with congestive heart failure and is survived by his husband, Jim Ready, and sisters, the longtime Democratic strategist Ann Lewis and Doris Breay, along with brother David Frank.

A self-described “left-handed gay Jew,” Frank was known for his acerbic wit, combative style and focus on marginalized communities. He represented the party’s left wing while keeping close with Democratic leaders who sometimes frustrated progressives.

He is best known as a pioneer for LGBT rights. After decades of grappling with his sexuality, he publicly came out as gay in 1987, the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily. With his 2012 marriage to Ready, he became the first incumbent lawmaker on Capitol Hill to marry someone of the same sex.

But in an April interview as he entered hospice, Frank said he hoped he would be remembered for advocating a brand of politics that embraced progressive ideals without forcing them on voters prematurely. It is an approach he feared was being rejected as Democrats prepare for what could be a rollicking primary as they hope to retake the White House in 2028 and move past the Trump era.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/rep-thomas-massie-loses-to-trump-backed-challenger-in-heated-primary/ar-AA23Bt5C

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has lost the Republican primary for his seat to a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump, Ed Gallrein, in a victory for Trump that underscores the strength of the President’s influence over the party.

The Associated Press called the race Tuesday evening.

Massie, who has represented Kentucky’s fourth congressional district since 2012, faced what he described as “by far the most challenging” primary of his career as Trump repeatedly levied fierce attacks against him and, in a rare move, even dispatched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to campaign for Gallrein in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election.

Massie emerged as one of Trump’s chief targets in his efforts to topple GOP opponents in the primaries ahead of this year’s midterm elections due to the maverick congressman’s frequent breaks with the President on key foreign and domestic issues.

Massie helped lead the push to force the full release of government files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; he vocally opposed and voted against Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill; he has criticized U.S. financial supporting Israel; and he has been a staunch opponent to Trump’s war in Iran.

Gallrein, a farmer and retired Navy SEAL, was endorsed by Trump in October before he entered the race. In the spring, Trump touted Gallrein as a “true American hero” while standing beside him at an event in northern Kentucky. “He’s a great patriot,” the President said, “and he’s doing it because he saw what this guy was doing to our country.”

>AIPAC WINS

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