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Trump’s great escape
Good morning and happy Tuesday! Trump was shuffled out of Air Force 1 in a catering cart after a credible threat on his life from Iran — but he let journalists take the “probably dangerous” (his words) flight anyway. What a guy. Here’s what else is on tap today:
Trump’s failing social media platform lost $238 million in three months
Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax gets blocked — but it’s not dead yet
Elon wants 130,000 acres of Louisiana coastline (and data centers in the sky)
AOC says millennials are ‘taking the reins’
And: Trump trots out a new racist slur for Democrats
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1. Trump fled AF1 in a catering cart — but sent journalists take the “dangerous flight” anyway
While cameras rolled on Trump boarding Air Force One in Ankara on July 8, the president was secretly being wheeled to a different, smaller plane inside an airport catering truck — the kind used to load meals preflight.
Kaitlan Collins aired the bombshell tape of the switch, which was prompted by a credible Iranian assassination threat, according to reporting from the Washington Post and New York Times, and was kept from reporters traveling with the president and some White House staff.
The journalists who thought they were traveling with Trump were told to keep their window shades in the press cabin closed. Trump later said that was because they were “probably on a dangerous flight.”
He went onto say: “But if I go, you go. Right?”
The same president who ran on strength and dominance was smuggled out of a NATO summit in a food cart, potentially put journalists in harm’s way — and the cover-up held until two major newspapers blew it open simultaneously.
Trump Media & Technology reported a $238 million loss for the second quarter of 2026, more than ten times the loss from the same period a year earlier.
Daily active users of the Truth Social mobile app fell from 436,000 in July 2025 to 261,000 a year later — a 40 percent collapse. The platform built to make Trump the center of the information universe is hemorrhaging both money and audience simultaneously.
The master businessman's media empire is now a money pit with fewer daily users than a mid-sized city's local news site.
3. Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax gets blocked — and his office immediately appeals
A judge temporarily blocked Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax, which would place a surcharge on second homes in New York City — applying to properties worth more than $5 million for houses, or at least $1 million for condos and co-ops owned by people who don't live in them full-time.
Homeowners sued last week. The block is temporary, and Mamdani's office has already announced plans to appeal.
This is how you know a policy has teeth: the people it targets lawyer up within days.
A newly elected progressive mayor proposing a tax on wealthy absentee property owners — and fighting for it in court when the wealthy push back — is exactly the kind of governing that the left has been demanding for years.
4. SpaceX wants 130,000 acres of Louisiana coastline — and the ecosystem be damned
Elon Musk's SpaceX is close to finalizing a deal to take control of 130,000 acres of coastal Louisiana in Vermilion Parish, where it plans to build a massive rocket launch site on an 18-mile strip of rapidly eroding coastline. Local opponents fear the development will badly damage the area's fragile ecosystem.
SpaceX also has ambitions to deploy AI data centers in space and has filed with the FCC to build a constellation of up to a million satellites that would host AI computing infrastructure in orbit.
The company already has a launch site in Texas. Louisiana's coast is disappearing at one of the fastest rates in the world — and Musk's solution is to put rockets on it.
5. Bernie Sanders demands Schumer and Jeffries ban AIPAC from Democratic primaries
Bernie Sanders fired off an open letter to Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and DNC Chair Ken Martin demanding they end the "corrupt system" of super PAC spending in Democratic primaries.
His target: AIPAC, which dropped $32 million trying to sink Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign in Michigan — and lost.
Now, AIPAC is reportedly ready to back Republican Mike Rogers to finish the job in November.
“It is insane that the Democrats allow super PACs like AIPAC to spend millions in their primaries,” Bernie wrote, “only for those same special interests to help elect Republicans in the general election.”
Sanders says the party has the power to shut this down right now — but don’t expect much from Democratic “leadership” on this front.
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KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
What the algorithm buried:
In that same interview, AOC also said she hasn’t ruled out running for president
Trump just added a new slur for Democrats to his repertoire and had to explain it mid-sentence
John Oliver had some choice words for the senator who voted yes after listing every reason to vote no
The MAGA lettuce grower Taylor Farms is hit with a new recall amid diarrhea outbreak
Trump is quietly floating a way out of the Iran war that involves getting absolutely nothing he promised
Mamdani plans to recycle NYC summer subway heat to warm buildings in the winter
Big Oil made $93 billion last quarter while 49 million people are going hungry — and what Trump is proposing is closer to socialism than most Dems are
Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested and charged with child sexual exploitation (he’s building his resume for a Fox News show)
Trump's approval on jobs collapsed 31 points since January — and CNN's numbers guy has two words for it
‘Are you listening???’: Trump adviser ‘friggin’’ flips out on Jeanine Pirro
NOTICE POLLING
Yesterday we asked, Would you hypothetically support Abdul El-Sayed for President in 2032?
91% OF YOU SAID YES:
“If he wins his senate race, and actually does what he promises, then I would vote for him, yes. I don't give a damn about his religion, it is his character that I'm interested in, his honor, ethics and integrity. That is what is important to me.”
- twoasps
“The Dems have all but alienated themselves, there's not a single Republican I'd trust to be a decent human being, El-Sayed has ALREADY shown himself to be a LOT better candidate than almost the entirety of the field...hell YEAH, I'd consider voting for him!”
- michaelhogshooter
“El-Sayed could be a great candidate for president in 2032, but I feel he has to prove himself to voters by winning the Senate seat in Michigan first. It wouldn't be the first time that happened; Obama was a Senator when he ran for president in 2008, and we know how well that turned out!”
- cdmalin
“I would definitely vote for anyone who cares for their constituents. Something that only a handful of the current staff do.”
- leilanisay
“Of course! He’s smart. He knows what the American people want. He has solutions that are attainable. He’s a physician. He loves his wife! And he speaks in coherent sentences and has compassion. For god sake why wouldn’t I want him as president? ”
- laceydance6
“He needs to prove himself when in office, then it is a possibility. Not enough information yet.”
- kmschroyer
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