The Midterm’s Hidden Hand
Plus, Republicans are making an absolute unforced error.
Alert🚨: Multiple reports say President Trump will (or has) ordered a massive bombing campaign against Iran this weekend
📃CBS reports Israel will join — that would be a game-changer.
Be smart🧠: How many times have we been down this path only for Trump to pull back at the last minute because of some new “agreement” with Iran?!?!
Sound the alarms⚠️: There’s going to be another 9/11, and this time, it’s going to come from AI.
What’s happening‼️: The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic are out bragging about how good their AI models are —
Talking about how it broke out and hacked somebody all on its own as if it’s an autonomous thing that can do whatever it wants.
Reality💻: They’re the ones who programmed it, allowing this to happen — and are making billions of dollars while putting all of us at risk
They continue to refuse to do anything about it.
“They” being Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
Full disclosure❗: I use and love Claude on an hourly basis.
⚠️These AI models are going to hack a hospital or bank or air traffic control—
Cause plane crashes, steal fortunes, help terror groups.
The AI heads are the ones warning us about AI — yet aren’t doing anything about it.
Good read📰: The Atlantic headlines, “The Return of ‘Move Fast and Break Things’” writing:
“The AI industry is getting sloppier”
Proof✅: ChatGPT revealed classified location of the nearest Strategic National Stockpile
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Zero answers‼️: It’s been almost a month since Nolan Wells died while on a trip with friends to an island off the coast of Mississippi for the 4th of July, and we still don’t know what happened.
Be fair💔: Losing a child is the worst thing parents can imagine — the lack of answers and urgency by Mississippi authorities is appalling.
Nolan’s body was found two days after he didn’t return with his friends
There’s no reason to suspect foul play.
📺The story’s gotten millions of hours of cable news time, insane conspiracy theories and now death threats — yet we have no basic answers
Did he drown?
Was there water in his lungs?
What’s the toxicology report?
This isn’t hard.
What I’m thinking💭: The fact that we still don’t have answers to these basic questions may simply point to a failure of competence by police —one that, sadly, seems to happen far too often.
⌚A month to get autopsy results that aren’t released — and then still no toxicology reports.
🤷No wonder the parents are pissed.
Tonight📺: A former assistant director, criminal investigations, FBI Chris Swecker
Money & Musk 💸💸
‼️All the TV networks, X experts and pundits that breathlessly report a coming Republican shellacking should remember two things: Elon Musk and money.
💸The Republicans enjoy a cash advantage measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.
It keeps growing — read The Wall Street Journal story detailing Trump’s unbelievable fundraising
💰Elon Musk will not only spend a reported $100 million on the midterms — X, the artist formerly known as Twitter, sets much of the political agenda.
The Spain immigration (invasion) crisis
Sophie Cunningham and the WNBA
Whatever cultural stories happen between now and November
Coming soon⏩: Democrats will start crying foul over the money in politics
Abdul El-Sayed already is
The party is pretty rich considering Obama’s famous fundraising, not to mention George Soros among other Democrat megadonors.
I don’t see Democrats complaining about JB Pritzker
🤦Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take oxygen out of life — not going to happen.
Watch tonight📺: Douglas Farrar, Julian Epstein and Mary Margaret Olohan on the real midterm battle that nobody is talking about.
Hamas Disarms ?! ⁉️
🤝Hamas agreed to put away their guns and give up control of the Gaza Strip as long as Israel withdraws from the area.
If true☑️: This would be remarkable — count me as very, very skeptical and not the least bit optimistic.
Reality👀: Hamas agreeing to disarm is like Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and hand over all their nuclear dust
Hamas, just like the Iranians and jihadis, are professional liars
If they aren’t trying to kill you, they’re lying about trying to kill you.
📰According to The Wall Street Journal, the terror group agreed to a plan to place their weapons in a storage facility that’s overseen by the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza
This is a Palestinian-led technocratic group that oversees Gaza’s political and security transition.
🦊This is a team of foxes guarding the chicken coop.
Bigger picture‼️: Trump trying to isolate Hamas, isolate Hezbollah and Iran; it shows he understands the real problem in the Middle East is Iran and the Iranian regime.
👀President Trump understands the real danger of Iran … JD Vance doesn’t.
The Washington Post writes, “Trump’s Iran strategy is working. His vice president isn’t.”
The Wall Street Journal headlines, “JD Vance’s Warning About Regime Change Gets It Backward,” writing
“Mr. Vance presents mass migration as the most likely consequence of a regime-change policy while ignoring what has driven generations of Iranians abroad: the Islamic Republic itself.”
Tonight📺: Amb. Kurt Volker on Trump’s Iran strategy
Ohio GOP Troubles‼️
🐘In the state where Trump won by 11-plus points in 2024 —Republicans are having some GOP problems.
👎Ohio’s GOP gubernatorial candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, was booed off stage this week at a young conservative event
📉Ramaswamy is behind Democrat candidate Amy Acton in recent polling
Vivek Ramaswamy (R): 49%
Amy Acton (D): 50%
🗳️Democrat Sherrod Brown is beating GOP Jon Husted in recent polling for the state’s senate race.
Sherrod Brown (D): 53%
Jon Husted (R): 45%
Good read: The Times headlines, “Ohio May Be the Sleeper Senate Race of the Midterms”
😬Republican Congressman Max Miller, who is up for reelection, is facing abuse allegations from his ex-wife, who has a new restraining order against him
Miller is now barely leading in the polls for the state’s 7th District race
Max Miller (R): 44%
Brian Poindexter: 43%
🚨Republicans have a problem — candidates in places like Ohio are getting crushed.
😡People are angry
They don’t like what they see at the gas pump or the prices of their groceries
43% of Ohio voters say inflation and high prices are a top issue.
👎Trump’s messaging on the economy isn’t working
This is another example of Republicans creating an absolute unforced error
Watch tonight📺: Bill Cunningham from Cincinnati on how Republicans are going to have a difficult time going forward until they figure out their messaging.
Nice lineup! Looking forward to tonight!