The [Deep State] money that runs their criminal system is drying up. They are panicking.
The fake news is pushing the narrative that President Donald Trump has not accomplished or won anything. This is going to backfire because now that accomplishment and winning is being pushed, it is having the opposite effect.
Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent turned the tables on the [Deep State]. They are using the weapons that the Deep State created to control countries against them. Pain. Here’s more from the X22 Report.
The Kremlin released rare footage of a high-level meeting between Vladimir Putin and Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, followed by their first trip to Kyiv this term and a comparatively restrained response from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signaling revived U.S. diplomacy on Ukraine.
The script argues Putin views the American team as a more trusted broker than European leaders and notes a recent sequence of engagements, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s public Moscow visit and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s G20 outreach to Russia’s finance minister.
With Kirill Dmitriev present, Moscow described detailed discussions of major U.S.-Russia economic projects, alongside claims that Bessent is choking off offshore and banking channels funding Ukraine via Europe, the United Kingdom and Canada.
It then pivots to Argentina’s renewed Malvinas/Falklands push as Trump publicly and reportedly reconsiders automatic U.S. support for British sovereignty, recalling internal U.S. divisions during the 1982 war. Here’s more from Susan Kokinda with Promethean Updates.
A blockbuster U.S. jobs report showing 162,000 jobs created is contrasted with Canada’s 40,000 job loss under Mark Carney. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Steve Bannon that Wall Street and major outlets like the Financial Times and The Wall StreetJournal stoke economic panic and spread “fake news.” Bessent cites a misframed story about Norway’s sovereign wealth fund shifting from Treasuries into higher-yield Fannie and Freddie securities.
The episode frames today’s challenge exiting from a “Red Queen economy.” America must grow productivity fast enough to outrun debt, China’s advances, and infrastructure and skills obsolescence, all while coping with Biden-era inflation and spending. This spotlights the Trump administration workforce initiatives, including expanded training and Pell Grant use and the new Foundry School—an advanced manufacturing program with a Stanford curriculum and international PAX Silica partners.
Finally, it covers President Donald Trump’s executive orders aiding ranchers’ beef processing and the Department of Justice antitrust scrutiny of major meatpackers and retailers. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
Susan Kokinda analyzes U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s remarks to Larry Kudlow about tracking IRGC assets, focusing on offshore hubs like the British Virgin Islands and the broader British-linked financial architecture behind shell companies, alongside Treasury’s campaign warning 60 entities to clean up, with Hong Kong a major target.
She argues this financial offensive is part of a strategic realignment away from imperial “choke points,” echoed by Doug Burgum’s call to shift global energy focus toward the Western Hemisphere.
In the Middle East, she highlights lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, the formation of the Mecca Joint Defense Alliance (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan), and Trump’s “Board of Peace,” under which Hamas has agreed to disarm. She also covers G20 tensions over inviting Russia’s finance minister, Bessent’s meeting with him, and Bessent’s claim of shared U.S.-China goals on Iran. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
The U.S. Transportation Department has joined the fight against illegal aliens by shutting down 110 schools offering commercial driving licenses. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, says the schools were offering the CDLs to illegals, including those who had failed English-language proficiency tests.
“From states failing to follow the law to shady training schools and illicit companies, together we will tackle every link in the chain,” Duffy said. This follows Operation Highway Shield, which involved targeting unqualified drivers on big rigs in four states — Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa. The operation led to the arrest of 51 illegal aliens, as well as recovery of nearly one million dollars worth of stolen cargo.
Also in this edition: Border Security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demonstrates the power of financial enforcement and energy chokepoints remain under threat, notably the Strait of Hormuz, but others as well. Pray. Here’s more from And We Know.
From Camp David, President Trump framed a reported Hamas disarmament agreement as a breakthrough enabled by pressure on Iran, arguing the regional strategic terrain has shifted.
The episode highlights two developments presented as unprecedented: Hamas agreeing to disarm and Israel and Lebanon resuming talks after three decades, both attributed to cutting off Iranian funding for proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah.
It claims the decisive “weapon” was Treasury action under Secretary Scott Bessent—sanctions, OFAC tools, anti–money laundering measures—described as “economic fury,” including designating over 1,000 Iranian-linked individuals, ships, and companies and disrupting routes through shipping, insurance, and offshore finance.
The script also points to the February 19, 2026 launch of the multinational “Board of Peace,” tasked with rebuilding Gaza, as a preplanned institutional blueprint that helped secure the Hamas agreement. Here’s more from Susan Kokinda on Promethean Updates.
‘The Days of America Being Played are Over…” says an op-ed in the New York Times.
Wait — what? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that the purpose of the Treasury Department is to grow and protect America’s economic might throughout the world.
Manage your own decline, Euroweenies! Here’s a new edition of The Right Angle. Scott Ott leads the discussion, joined by Bill Whittle and Steve Green.
Hasan Piker is having the worst week of his career. On top of the Treasury subpoena over the Cuba trip, the UK Home Office just cancelled his visa on the grounds that his presence “may not be conducive to the public good,” barring him from attending SXSW London and a scheduled Oxford Union appearance. Cenk Uygur got banned too.
But this video is mainly about N**gas for Trump who cornered him at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center protests in New Jersey — and absolutely cooked him. Hassan stood there surrounded by his posse of pasty hipsters in hijabs while a bloke called him a dog abuser for about five straight minutes, told him to go suck Dan Clancy’s d**k, accused him of view botting, and chased him down the street. Hassan couldn’t say a single word back because the optics of arguing with a black man are not great when you’re Hasan Piker.
We also have a GB News correspondent getting screamed at by a large angry man who wanted to talk about British colonialism instead of current crime statistics. He threatened to break his jaw. The GB News guy did not flinch.
The Iranians have their Navy and Air Force whipped out, so they’re now resorted to their final “secret” weapon to hold the United States at bay: They are launching Shahed-136 drones to ignite fires on board oil shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Only one problem? We appear to have pulled the same ruse as the Chinese, namely, we’re turning Iran’s own technology against them.
It’s not clear if we reverse engineered their drones or if we simply captured one of their drone weapon manufacturing factories, and have made off with the whole warehouse. But the United States is now using drones to strike Iranian targets with the goal of clearing a pathway along the Strait of Hormuz.
Once that occurs, says U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. naval vessels — perhaps joined by an international fleet — will accompany ships though the inlet, allowing for the safe transport of oil to resume. There won’t be a huge, traditional ground force, although there’s talk of squadrons of expeditionary Marines patrolling the shorelines. Here’s more from the Liberal Hivemind.
