https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/nx-s1-5386668/atf-trump-administration-gun-violence-memorial

Trump has had a medical stroke during an NBC interview, Trump blanked on basic legal rights, muttering “I’m not a lawyer,” demonstrating the damage to his brain from series of strokes. Americans see the ex-president is spiraling into delusion, confusing fact with fantasy as he rambles about being the savior of the economy—while comparing himself to a pope and a galactic warlord. At one point, sources claim he mistook the interviewer for Melania and tried to pledge allegiance to a framed photo of himself
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-huge-issue-cognitive-decline/
'Huge issue': Trump's new interview spurs growing calls to cover his 'cognitive decline'

Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging NBC interview, and his various answers led to renewed discussion about his purported "cognitive decline."

Among other things, Trump was asked, "Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and noncitizens, deserve due process... Do you agree?" The president then replied, saying, "I don't know... I'm not, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know."

This answer and others led numerous high-profile observers to question Trump's mental capacity.

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-vote-against-gun-control-surprise-move-2067263
very weird

Scientists have come to consensus that trumps policies are hastening a coming apocalypse. They concluded through a decade long study that trumps latest budget cuts will result in the near extinction of human life with the preservation of only the billionaire class
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/nsf-funding-freeze-scientists-education-research-catastrophic-cuts-national-science-foundation-grants/
Scientists Deem Trump’s Latest Funding Freeze a “Slow-Moving Apocalypse”
The National Science Foundation has long been a crucial supporter of research and science eduction.

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The hits to science, and scientists, keep coming under the Trump administration.

This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency that funds research across the country, told staffers that “until further notice,” it will stop payments on grants it has already awarded for studies—and stop awarding new ones.

That’s according to a scoop from the science journal Nature, which got its hands on an internal NSF email. The freeze will be “a slow-moving apocalypse,” an NSF-funded scientist told me, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “In effect, every NSF grant right now is canceled.”

In the past, the agency has funded hundreds of thousands of researchers every year, including technical professionals and students. The NSF did not give a reason for the freeze in its internal email, and it declined Nature‘s request for comment.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amazon-tariff-prices-trump-response-b2741552.html

The White House claimed on Tuesday that Amazon was acting in a “hostile and political” manner by choosing to display how much President Donald Trump’s tariffs would increase the cost of imported goods.

With consumers’ concerns growing about the impact of tariffs on costs, the e-commerce giant has decided to display the amount Trump’s aggressive policy will add to the price of products on its website, Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday.

While it may help consumers understand where the costs are coming from, it has angered Trump, a recent ally of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday morning after speaking with the president. “Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” Leavitt added.

Leavitt claimed the news was “not a surprise” and pointed to a December 2021 Reuters report, which she described as “recently reported,” which said Amazon “partnered with a China propaganda arm.”

“So this is another reason why Americans should buy American,” Leavitt added.

At the time of that reporting, Amazon insisted it adhered to all laws and regulations in the countries in which it operates, including China.

The Independent has reached out to Amazon for comment.

Since winning the election in November, Bezos appeared to be cozying up to Trump, giving his inaugural fund $1 million, attending Trump’s inauguration and re-directing the editorial section of The Washington Post to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets.

As recently as this week, Trump had touted that Bezos and other billionaire allies “have been great.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/trump-iran-oil-sanctions.html
Let's hear all that nonAmerican democrat seethe about how fucking mad you are that rich multinational corporations can't buy oil that funds terrorism

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-unveils-federal-budget-blueprint-2025-05-02/

https://www.reuters.com/world/kyiv-is-ready-sign-resources-deal-with-us-ukraine-government-source-says-2025-04-30/

KYIV/WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine and the U.S. on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction.

The accord establishes a joint investment fund for Ukraine's reconstruction as Trump tries to secure a peace settlement in Russia's three-year-old war in Ukraine.
The agreement is central to Kyiv's efforts to mend ties with Trump and the White House, which frayed after he took office in January. Ukrainian officials have hoped that the deal would ensure continued U.S. support for Ukraine's defence against Russia.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko were shown signing the agreement in a photo posted on X by the Treasury, which said the deal "clearly signals the Trump Administration's commitment to a free, sovereign, prosperous Ukraine."

Svyrydenko wrote on X that the accord provides for Washington to contribute to the fund.
"In addition to direct financial contributions, it may also provide NEW assistance - for example air defense systems for Ukraine," she said. Washington did not directly address that suggestion.
The U.S. has been Ukraine's single largest military donor since Russia's 2022 invasion with aid of more than 64 billion euros ($72 billion), according to the Kiel Institute in Germany.
Before the signing, Trump repeated on Wednesday that the U.S. should get something for its aid to Kyiv, thus the effort to secure a deal for Ukraine's plentiful deposits of rare earth minerals.
In announcing the deal, the U.S. Treasury said the partnership recognized "the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion."

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-ukraine-war-journalist-tortured-organs-removed-report-rcna203648

A Ukrainian journalist was tortured and killed and had her organs removed before her body was returned by her Russian captors, according to a new report by media organizations into her death.

Viktoriia Roshchyna, 27, was captured in 2023 after she traveled to the Russian-occupied region of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine to report on the illegal detention and torture of Ukrainians by Russian forces, according to the joint media report published Tuesday by the nonprofit media organization Forbidden Stories and 12 news outlets.

A forensic examination of her body revealed numerous signs of torture and ill-treatment, Yuriy Belousov, the head of the War Crimes Unit at the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office said last week. These included “abrasions and hemorrhages on various parts of the body, a broken rib, neck injuries, and possible electric shock marks on her feet,” he said.

He added that there were signs that an autopsy had been performed before the body was returned to Ukraine. The missing organs, he said, could signal that Russia attempted to hide the cause of death, possibly to conceal that it had committed a war crime.

NBC News could not independently verify the allegations in the report and has contacted Russia's Ministry of Defense, the FSB security service and the country's Federal Penitentiary Service for comment.

https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/Cases/CR01-24-31665-25.html

after the recent interview with SG, and new docs coming out, things are looking more and more sus for DM. it’s funny how she called and texted everyone except her boyfriend QK.

BK used to be a heroine junkie, QK is a known drug dealer. it’s got me wondering if those two knew each other somehow