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Jon Perr retweeted
If you're a China hawk, and you read the following revelations/allegations in a 48 hours period ...
1. Jensen Huang is sleeping with a Chinese spy.
2. Nvidia has been selling chips to Chinese AI companies for years through a Singapore intermediary overseen by that Chinese spy.
3. Nvidia’s lawyers pushed back on a federal investigation into this illegal scheme.
4. The White House knew all of the above and did absolutely nothing.
... I think it is understandable if what happens next is your head explodes
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Jon Perr retweeted
Disgusting grift, selling out Ukraine and American national security for boodle.
While negotiating peace in Ukraine, Trump’s envoys agreed to work on a $20 billion Russian oil deal involving investors tied to their business networks and requiring U.S. approval.
theintellectualistofficial.s…
Jon Perr retweeted
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
Jon Perr retweeted
Percentage of Republican voters who voted for Democratic candidates (Party ID)
US Senate
🟦Kansas: Adam Hamilton 12%
🟦South Carolina: Annie Andrews 11%
🟦Texas: James Talarico 11%
🟦North Carolina: Roy Cooper 10%
🟦Louisiana: Jamie Davis 9%
🟦Georgia: Jon Ossoff 8%
🟦Florida: Angie Nixon 7%
🟦Iowa: Josh Turek 7%
🟦Maine: Troy Jackson 7%
🟦Mississippi: Scott Colom 6%
🟦Alaska: Mary Peltola 5%
🟦Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed 5%
🟦Minnesota: Peggy Flanagan 4%
Source: CNN exit poll
Jon Perr retweeted
It's Election Day and Donald Trump is calling for the Democratic Party's leading election lawyer, someone who has humiliated him and his lawyers in scores of cases, to be jailed.
This is not normal and yet here we are.
Jon Perr retweeted
Mike Rogers has consistently supported extreme abortion bans and this radical agenda is out of touch with Michiganders. His position was rejected last year on Election Day and we'll do the same in 2026.
bit.ly/3KDjudD
Jon Perr retweeted
It was actually our 250th anniversary.
Not that you would know — you spent it with the British.
Paxton: On July 4th, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of our country.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
July 4 2026 marked the 250th anniversary of US independence not the 200th as claimed in the video. Multiple reports placed Paxton in London England that weekend with videos of the trip.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…
thedailybeast.com/must-win-maga-…
ibtimes.co.uk/ken-paxton-lon…
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Jon Perr retweeted
After sending the National Guard and Marines to occupy California, Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego.
He is deranged and dangerous.
Jon Perr retweeted
Trump’s net worth hit $7 billion in 2026.
That’s triple where it was in early 2024, according to Forbes data.
Jon Perr retweeted
scoop: Reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have been barred from next week's G20 meeting in Asheville, N.C.
nytimes.com/2026/08/29/busin…
Jon Perr retweeted
The Wreck of the Cantor Fitzgerald
Howard Lutnick is more Gordon Gekko than Gordon Lightfoot, and he's shipwrecked US-Canada relations while his boss Sundowns. If you could read my mind, you'd know I'd like the Gales of November 2026 to sink them to the bottom of "Lake America."
by Maureen Dowd
Jon Perr retweeted
It's a healthcare economy, and the rest of us are just living in it.
ALT Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" shows change in employment since January 2025. Healthcare and social assistance has added 952,000 jobs through July 2026 with consistent monthly growth, while the rest of the economy has lost 362,000 jobs over the same period, meaning all net job creation has come from a single sector in an unusually unbalanced labor market.
Jon Perr retweeted
Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.
ALT Line chart titled "The pace of job growth in Canada has outpaced job growth in the United States" showing cumulative percent change in employment since December 2024 for Canada and the United States. Canada's employment has grown 1.34% while US employment has increased just 0.34%, meaning Canadian job growth has outpaced the United States by nearly four to one. Canada's employment growth accelerated sharply from 0.98% in June 2026 to 1.34% in July 2026, the highest rate in the period shown, while US employment growth has remained relatively stable between 0.3% and 0.36% from April through July 2026.
Jon Perr retweeted
Wednesday marked one year since the Trump administration dissolved the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, as an independent agency.
What remained of its foreign assistance work was folded into the U.S. State Department.
USAID was a central tool of American foreign policy for more than six decades, delivering humanitarian aid, fighting disease, responding to disasters and advancing U.S. interests around the world.
The administration called the move a necessary overhaul. Critics called it the dismantling of one of America’s most important instruments of global influence.
Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) discussed more with Samantha Power, the last confirmed administrator of USAID under former President Joe Biden.
Jon Perr retweeted
Middle East analysts say Trump's deal with Iran is a humiliating defeat for the United States. A guy who shits himself in public and thinks windmills cause cancer says it's an amazing foreign policy triumph. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
