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#1 Muslim Mamdani-Backed Socialist Primary Winner Suggested America Deserved 9/11 in Unearthed Video - Peter D'Abrosca for Fox News, Melanie, Anonymous Me, Canary Mission, Isabella of Jerusalem, and Canary Mission/Summer/Stu Smith/Paul A. Szypula/Eyal Yakoby on X
Another radical far-left candidate backed by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire after a resurfaced social media clip shows her appearing to suggest that America deserved the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Aber Kawas is the Muslim daughter of illegal aliens who is now the Democratic nominee for the New York State Senate District 12. Like Mamdani, Kawas is a socialist. "The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy… and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people, and so this is a long trajectory, and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11," she said in a 2017 episode of the Asian American Writers' Association podcast titled "Islamophobia beyond 9/11 with Aber Kawas."
#2 Live Updates: Ex-Trump Adviser John Bolton to Plead Guilty in Classified Information Case - NBC News, The Bull Q, The Right News, Right Now., The Global Eye, and Gary Buckley™ on X
John Bolton, who was national security adviser during Trump’s first term and later became one of his fiercest critics, agreed earlier this month to plead guilty to one count of retaining national security information, two sources familiar with the matter said. Bolton will be arraigned on the charge today, and the judge will have up to 90 days to render a sentence, the sources said. Bolton faces a potential sentence of probation to 60 months in prison, the sources said. He has also agreed to pay $2.25 million in restitution, one of the sources said...
#3 Billionaire Leon Black Expected to Testify Friday Before Congressional Epstein Panel - Graham Kates for CBS News, Flushing Tenants Alliance, Lauren Ashley Davis -OG Meidas Mighty, CNG, PiQ, and Mario Nawfal on X
An investor who employed and was close to Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled to appear before members of Congress investigating the deceased sexual abuser. Billionaire Leon Black paid Epstein extraordinary sums that his spokespeople have said was for tax advice and estate planning. Earlier this month, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to the House Oversight Committee — which is set to interview Black on Friday — demanding they ask Black about some $170 million in payments to Epstein between 2012 and 2017. "To date, I do not believe Black has provided a credible explanation as to why he paid Epstein amounts that vastly exceeded those paid to other professional advisors involved in his tax and estate planning," the Oregon senator wrote...
#4 Judge Orders DOJ to Turn Over Some Unredacted Epstein Files - James Hill and Peter Charalambous for ABC News, Lise Latulippe @liselatulippe.bsky.social, agitprop + absurdity, Johnny Darko, Markm Mitchell, and Mahalaxmi Ramanathan on X
A federal judge is ordering the Department of Justice to turn over unredacted versions of some of the files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or explain why the materials were withheld. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with an independent journalist who sued over the withheld materials, concluding that the Trump administration likely violated the terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The Department of Justice has until July 2 to either turn over the documents with less redactions -- namely identifying the sender and recipient of some emails and the names of co-conspirators included in a draft indictment -- or explain "why the redactions should not be removed."
#5 Snap’s Evan Spiegel Joins Mackenzie Scott in the Billionaire Race to Erase Medical Debt—Wiping Out $550 Million for 260,000 Californians - Nick Lichtenberg for Fortune/MSN, The Right News, Right Now., Thought Catalog, Pubity, VLR, and Headlines on X
Evan Spiegel has never been the loudest billionaire in the room. Sometime this spring, the Snap co-founder and his wife, supermodel and KORA Organics CEO Miranda Kerr, quietly made a multimillion-dollar donation to a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt. The Los Angeles Times reported that in doing so, set in motion the erasure of $550 million in unpaid medical bills for more than 261,000 Californians. The move places Spiegel alongside MacKenzie Scott as one of the most significant individual donors to the medical debt relief movement—a fast-growing philanthropic trend that has found a peculiar but powerful arbitrage at the intersection of distressed debt markets and American healthcare dysfunction...#6 [Florida] State AG Pushes to Impeach Judge for Acquitting Woman Who Drowned a Child, Because She Had COVID - The National Pulse, Matt Walsh/Brandon Tatum, Eric Daugherty, Attorney General James Uthmeier/Collin Rugg, Libs of TikTok, and Matt Van Swol on X
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking the impeachment of Judge Miguel de la O after his controversial acquittal of a mother who drowned her child and stabbed her husband, citing temporary insanity supposedly caused by COVID-19. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced plans to draft articles of impeachment against Judge Miguel de la O, who acquitted Precious Bland, a mother accused of drowning her 15-month-old daughter, on grounds of temporary insanity caused by COVID-19. Bland also stabbed her husband and 16-year-old daughter. The judge’s ruling has sparked outrage, with Uthmeier and Governor Ron DeSantis (R) calling for accountability...#7 Board Freezes Rent on 1 and 2-Year Leases for NYC’s 1 Million Rent-Regulated Apartments - N.J. Burkett for ABC 7 EYEWITNESS NEWS, alhawadeth, Richard Christopher Whalen, Barry Tigay, Lillian Wong, and Mike.Rlog on X
For the first time in its history, New York's Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for both one-year and two-year leases for the city's one million rent-regulated apartments. The board voted 7-1 in favor of the rent freeze on Thursday night, as tenants, packed inside El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, unleashed unbridled joy and relief. "This is no longer just a city that's a playground for the rich," said tenant Lex Rountree. "This is a city for the working people making it run, and we are making it run for us, and I am so overjoyed, and we are finally here after so much fighting, after years of struggling to figure out how we're going to make ends meet." The board has frozen one-year leases only three times before Thursday's vote, but had never voted to freeze two-year leases...
#8 Elon Musk Moves X Closer to Becoming an ‘Everything App’ With X Money Rollout - FirstPost, Elon Musk, I Dissent/Corey, Dhruv Batura, Bull Theory, and Adam Lowisz X Meetup on X
Elon Musk has nudged X a step closer to his long-promised vision of an “everything app”, with the platform expanding access to its digital payments service, X Money, for a select group of premium users in the United States. The rollout is the latest sign that Musk wants X, formerly Twitter, to evolve far beyond a social media platform. His larger ambition is to turn it into a single destination where users can post, message, shop, and move money without ever leaving the app...
#9 USPS Wouldn’t Deliver Ballots in States That Refuse to Fork Over Mail-in Voter Info Under Proposed Rule - Alex Nitzberg for Fox News, Libs of TikTok, ThePersistence, Eric Daugherty, and Planet of Memes/Elon Musk/zerohedge on X
U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner indicated to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters, D-Mich., during a Wednesday hearing that under a proposed rule, if a state declined to furnish the federal government with its absentee voter list, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) would not mail election ballots in that state. Peters asked Steiner whether, under the proposal, the USPS would mail ballots from a state that "refuses" to provide the federal government with the state's absentee voter list. "Under our proposed regulation, no," Steiner said...
#10 GOP Lawmakers Divided Over Hegseth’s Ouster of Top Army Commander - Filip Timotija for The Hill, SEGAMI, Zenzland, Water From Air/Vatnik Soup, Border Report, and Paul Mooney 慕亦仁 on X
Republican lawmakers are divided over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ouster of Gen. Chris Donahue, the U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander. Some GOP lawmakers hammered Hegseth, who served in the National Guard and fought in Iraq, accusing him of rankling the ranks at the Pentagon and pushing out an experienced and well-respected military officer, while others were reluctant to weigh in, arguing all of the facts about the development should come out first...
