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Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 7:47 p.m. No.23303753   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3878 >>4029 >>4177 >>4286

DeVory Darkins

@devorydarkins

UNBELIEVABLE: A San Antonio City Council candidate calls for the MURDER of ICE agents on social media.

 

”I wanna see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles. Don't let me down.”

 

https://x.com/devorydarkins/status/1942664787239862695

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 7:49 p.m. No.23303760   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3878 >>4177 >>4286

Merck shells out $10 billion for Verona in bid to diversify beyond Keytruda

 

Merck

will buy UK-based Verona Pharma

for about $10 billion, the companies said on Wednesday, strengthening the U.S. drugmaker’s respiratory treatments as part of efforts to reduce dependence on its blockbuster cancer treatment.

 

Keytruda, the world’s top-selling drug with nearly $30 billion in revenue last year, is nearing key patent expirations from 2028, and Merck has doubled down on efforts to reshape its portfolio.

 

Since 2021, the company has nearly tripled its late-stage pipeline, combining in-house development with acquisitions such as the $11.5  billion purchase of Acceleron in 2021, which netted the pulmonary arterial hypertension drug Winrevair.

 

Wednesday’s acquisition is Merck’s first of the year and its largest since its $10.8 billion buyout of Prometheus Biosciences in 2023.

 

The deal gives control of Ohtuvayre, a newly approved treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a condition commonly called “smoker’s lung”.

 

The inhaled drug has generated sales of $42.3 million in 2024 and analysts have estimated it could exceed $3 billion in annual revenue.

 

Merck will pay $107 per American depository share for Verona, a premium of 23% to the London-based company’s last close on the Nasdaq.

 

Shares in Verona surged 20% in premarket trading, while Merck edged slightly higher.

 

“Merck deal looks good at first glance. Given their home run with Prometheus and Winrevair, this (Ohtuvayre) looks like a potential complementary therapy,” said Kevin Gade, chief operating officer at Bahl & Gaynor.

 

His sentiment was shared by others, including BMO Capital Markets analyst Evan Seigerman. However, Seigerman added a note of caution, saying more is needed to assure investors of a smooth transition of revenue without a strong decline after Keytruda expiry.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/merck-to-acquire-verona-pharma.html

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 7:50 p.m. No.23303761   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3788 >>3878 >>4177 >>4286

I just received a copy of the National Education Association's resolutions that they passed at their annual convention.

 

They kept them private this year.

The nation's largest teachers union adopted a business item "to defend against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials correctly characterize Donald Trump's program and actions."

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1942273473625137652.html

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 7:52 p.m. No.23303774   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3878 >>4177 >>4286

Andy Ngo

 

@MrAndyNgo

Mexico City — Mexican nationalists, leftists & Antifa attacked businesses to demand that Americans & foreigners leave. They blame the foreigners for expensive housing costs. Their counterparts in US are also rioting, demanding borders be opened to them.

 

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1942014601807237328

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 7:53 p.m. No.23303779   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3878 >>4177 >>4286

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

ICE AGENTS ATTACKED BY ANTIFA DEMOCRATS IN SAN FRANCISCO.

 

ICE agents need to start busting some heads.

 

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1942951886237171745

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:35 p.m. No.23303963   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4177 >>4286

Court Overturns Douglass Mackey Meme Conviction

 

A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of Douglass Mackey, the man prosecuted for posting satirical memes ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

 

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 9 that the government failed to prove Mackey knowingly participated in a conspiracy, a requirement under the statute used to charge him.

 

Mackey had been found guilty in 2023 of violating 18 U.S.C. § 241, a law dating back to Reconstruction that punishes conspiracies to deprive individuals of their constitutional rights. Prosecutors claimed that Mackey’s memes, which joked that Hillary Clinton supporters could vote via text, were part of a coordinated scheme to suppress votes.

 

That case has now unraveled.

 

“The mere fact that Mackey posted the memes, even assuming that he did so with the intent to injure other citizens in the exercise of their right to vote, is not enough, standing alone, to prove a violation of Section 241,” wrote Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston in the court’s opinion. Because Section 241 applies only to conspiracies involving “two or more persons,” the government had to prove that Mackey entered into an agreement with others, a threshold it did not meet.

 

Prosecutors attempted to tie Mackey to private Twitter message groups such as “War Room” and “Madman #2,” where users discussed political memes.

 

The court found no evidence that Mackey saw, let alone participated in, any of the conversations that allegedly formed the conspiracy. “This the government failed to do,” the panel wrote, noting that “Mackey did not send any messages in the War Room in the two weeks before he tweeted the text-to-vote memes.”

 

A key witness for the government, an anonymous user named “Microchip,” acknowledged that no express agreement had ever been made between members of the group.

 

He described the activity as “kind of like a silent agreement,” a characterization the court found legally insufficient to establish conspiracy.

 

The ruling emphasized that courts do not “indulge” in speculation or “conjecture” when assessing criminal guilt. “There was no evidence from which a juror could ‘choose among [the] competing inferences’ as to these two scenarios and resolve those inferences in the government’s favor,” the opinion stated.

 

Even Mackey’s retweet of a similar meme did not meet the bar. The original tweet came from a user who had not yet joined the message group the government alleged was behind the scheme.

 

The court found no basis to infer that the retweet reflected an “unlawful agreement,” noting that “[o]ne cannot infer from a retweet alone that the original poster and the reposter reached an agreement to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote.”

 

The panel underscored that while Mackey’s memes may have been provocative, distasteful, or misleading, they were not inherently criminal. At trial, the government itself conceded that “[a]lmost all of [it] . . . was not illegal.” The ruling warned against stretching conspiracy law to criminalize online political speech, especially when the alleged conduct involves memes and satire.

 

“A Section 241 conviction requires proof that the defendant knowingly entered into an unlawful agreement,” the court concluded. “Here, no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

 

The case has now been sent back to the district court with instructions to enter a judgment of acquittal. The decision delivers a strong affirmation of First Amendment protections and places firm limits on the federal government’s ability to police political content shared online.

 

https://reclaimthenet.org/court-overturns-douglass-mackey-meme-conviction

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:37 p.m. No.23303970   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4177 >>4286

Douglass Mackey

@DougMackeyCase

BREAKING: THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS THROWN OUT MY CONVICTION FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE

 

THE CASE HAS BEEN REMANDED TO THE DISTRICT COURT WITH ORDERS TO IMMEDIATELY DISMISS

 

HALLELUJAH!

 

https://x.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1942947069745934603

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:38 p.m. No.23303973   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4033 >>4177 >>4286

Trump now backs tough Russia sanctions bill, Graham says

 

A bill targeting Russia with substantial new sanctions is gaining momentum in the Senate, with a key GOP senator signaling Tuesday that President Donald Trump is now on board.

 

“We’re moving,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the bill’s author, adding that Trump “told me it’s time to move so we’re going to move.”

 

Graham joined Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators in signaling a scheduling announcement later this week. That could set up the long-stalled bill to come to the floor later this month.

 

The burst of momentum comes after Trump publicly suggested Tuesday he was seriously looking at the sanctions bill as he aired sharp frustrations with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to enter peace negotiations with Ukraine.

 

Behind the scenes, Graham and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) tweaked the bill to provide expanded presidential waiver authority. That, they believe, addresses the White House’s push for more flexibility for Trump.

 

While the existing bill would let Trump waive sanctions on nations purchasing Russian oil or uranium for 180 days, the revised bill provides for a second 180-day waiver, Graham said. Invoking the second waiver would prompt a congressional vote, though he did not detail what the vote would entail.

 

“I’m confident the president is ready for us to act,” Graham said.

 

A White House spokesperson declined to comment on Graham’s statement and instead pointed to Trump’s public comments earlier Tuesday.

 

The sanctions will not be on the floor this week, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose private scheduling.

 

But Thune told reporters he’s coordinating closely with the White House and House on timing.

 

“We’ll have more to say about that later this week,” Thune told reporters, adding that there’s a “lot of interest” in moving the bill.

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/08/congress/senate-russia-sanctions-lindsey-graham-00443192

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:39 p.m. No.23303976   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4177 >>4286

Senate Finance Chair endorses a second megabill this fall

 

Sen. Mike Crapo is joining a growing GOP chorus in favor of passing another complex domestic policy package in the coming months.

 

Fresh from passage of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo wants to pursue another party-line megabill and is tentatively eyeing fall for the next bite at the apple.

 

“I’ve always been in favor of a three-bill strategy and there’s a ton of things that we need to do,” Crapo said in a brief interview Tuesday evening.

 

The Idaho Republican’s remarks come as House GOP leadership, members of the administration, and House and Senate conservatives have all been publicly wishcasting about using the strict budget reconciliation process to pass another policy bill without Democratic support.

 

Crapo largely declined to say what he would want to see in a second megabill, though he noted there are items that got left out of the final version of the massive domestic policy package Trump signed into law this past weekend. That includes several provisions that were ejected in the final days of negotiations around the One Big Beautiful Bill Act because they were deemed in noncompliance with the rules governing what can go into a reconciliation bill.

 

Senate Republican leadership initially pushed a two-bill strategy — the first focused on border security investments, the second to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts — but then shifted to the one-bill approach backed by House Republicans and the White House. But in an effort to sell their holdouts on the final package, leaders have been promising their rank-and-file that they will get another shot to enact a broader host of conservative priorities and spending cuts. That will require another round of intense negotiations, not to mention a marathon voting session in the Senate, all with the midterm elections looming ever closer.

 

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Tuesday separately talked to reporters about his vision for a second bill, suggesting Republicans should try to rework provisions flagged by the parliamentarian so that they comply with Senate rules. He, like Speaker Mike Johnson, also floated a fall timeline for advancing the next package.

 

Crapo, however, acknowledged that Congress doesn’t always stick to a preferred deadline.

 

“This fall is when I would like it to be,” Crapo said, before adding with a laugh, “I can’t predict. You know me, I don’t make predictions.”

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/08/congress/senate-finance-chair-endorses-a-second-megabill-this-fall-00443261

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:39 p.m. No.23303980   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4177 >>4286

Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11

Net job gains/losses since January:

 

American-born workers + 2,000,000

 

Foreign-born workers (-) 543,000

 

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1942960181866041686

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:41 p.m. No.23303983   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4177 >>4286

Arrington sees another chance to notch conservative wins, spending cuts in second megabill

 

The House Budget chair has specific ideas for where Republicans should try again to advance certain priorities through the so-called Byrd bath.

 

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington says Republicans shouldn’t give up on advancing certain priorities that were cut out of their “big, beautiful bill” for not complying with Senate rules, telling reporters Tuesday that lawmakers will try again in follow-up budget reconciliation packages.

 

“There may be a longer list of things that were kicked out by the Senate parliamentarian as non-compliant with the Byrd rule — I think we should make another run at that and look for ways to structure the provisions so that it’s more fundamentally budgetary in impact and policy,” the Texas Republican said during the press call Tuesday afternoon. “I suspect that’s why they were kicked out.”

 

The so-called Byrd rule limits what provisions can be included in a bill moving through Congress through the reconciliation process, which allows lawmakers to skirt the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate. Arrington specifically pointed to one provision stripped in the Senate from the House-passed megabill that would have prohibited Medicaid coverage for gender affirming surgeries, and another that would have banned noncitizens from tapping into Medicaid resources.

 

“I think those — we need to spend more time” crafting the provisions to pass muster with the parliamentarian, Arrington said. “I don’t think we spent enough time to look for a pathway to success on them, and that’s sort of the landscape, as I see it, of the opportunities in another reconciliation bill.”

 

Echoing Speaker Mike Johnson‘s recent comments, Arrington said he suspects GOP leaders will attempt to do two more party-line packages in the 119th Congress, with the next one slated for the fall.

 

Arrington added members would likely demand that those additional measures be drafted under circumstances where both chambers adhere to the same budget framework, avoiding a repeat of the most recent scenario where House and Senate Republicans each gave their committees different deficit reduction targets.

 

He lamented the fact that the Senate did not comply with the House’s aggressive instructions for writing iits version of the megabill, but credited fiscal hawks for helping secure $1.5 trillion in savings in a final product, and noted that it was not “feasible” to expect the full magnitude of cost savings would be acheived in a single reconciliation bill — “politically, at least.”

 

As it currently stands, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law over the weekend, is “front loaded with costs and back-end loaded with savings,” which Arrington said should compel Republicans to make sure the administration follows through in “mak[ing] sure the savings actually happen.”

 

“That was a concern among conservative budget hawks,” Arrington said. “When I think about the Budget Committee’s role going forward, one of the things that we need to do … is keep the pressure on the Senate, on the House and the administration to be diligent in implementation and enforcement.”

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/08/congress/arrington-wants-to-retry-byrd-ed-provisions-in-second-megabill-00442404

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:45 p.m. No.23303989   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4003 >>4177 >>4286

Nvidia briefly touched $4 trillion market cap for first time

 

-Nvidia stock jumped Wednesday and pushed the company past a $4 trillion market cap in intraday trading for the first time ever.

-The chipmaker is the first company to achieve the milestone and has benefited from the generative AI boom.

-The recent rally in Nvidia has come despite geopolitical tensions and ongoing chip curbs that have hampered sales to China.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 8:55 p.m. No.23304015   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>23304003

Look into Planet Labs. It was an open source Planet Earth on steroids where you could see daily updates of earth's surface. Could see Putin was lying because Ukraine was flattened, and provided such sharp images you could find Chinese submarine bases.

Anonymous ID: 0e97f2 July 9, 2025, 9:35 p.m. No.23304133   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4138

>>23304130

I'm alright with people being choked out in 5 seconds in every spy ninja movie. I always think, why not bonk em in the head with something just in case… 5 seconds? Shitty asssassins.