• Musk backs down: Faster than their titan tit-for-tat escalated, Elon Musk is attempting to de-escalate his feud with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg: “Musk … eventually backed down when Tesla’s stock price tanked and his personal net worth crumbled by $34 billion, the second-largest loss in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index of the 500 wealthiest people on the planet. The only bigger one: Musk’s own wipeout in November 2021. Hours after saying he would end use of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, Musk reversed course and signaled there could be a cooling-off period with Trump. Tesla shares recovered some losses on Friday, but the damage to Musk’s business empire will be difficult to repair.”

• No, Trump was not on Epstein’s list: In the heated back-and-forth exchanges between Donald Trump and Elon Musk on social media in recent days over the president’s proposed spending legislation dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), Musk alleged that Trump was on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous list. The former DOGE leader has been particularly incensed by the amount of spending in the OBBBA, which explains the claim. Well, Epstein’s former criminal defense lawyer, David Schoen, has since weighed in, stating, “I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!” Musk backed off his claim, deleting his tweet. It appears that he was posting out of anger rather than genuine knowledge.

• FBI Director Patel’s house gets swatted: The 2024 election is known as the podcast election, and podcasts continue to prove their value. On the Friday episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience,” Kash Patel revealed that his house continues to be swatted even now that he’s the FBI director. Patel confirmed on the episode recorded Thursday that “my house just got swatted yesterday.” Swatting is a form of “prank call” — or, more accurately, it’s an attempt to get someone killed. A call is made to law enforcement informing them of dangerous activity at the address of a celebrity or political activist with the intent of eliciting a SWAT response at that address. Patel says he’s not taking it personally, but swatting is highly dangerous and should be prosecuted with full force.

• Auditing Biden’s autopen use: There appears to be some evidence that Biden’s cognitive decline accelerated in 2022, as he had previously physically signed his orders and pardons. There were at least three different autopen signatures in use, says the Oversight Project, even when Biden was present to sign the order himself. On June 13, 2022, the autopen was first used to pardon Brittany Krambeck, a drug convict. From July 15, 2022, onward, every executive order that year was autopenned. Two-thirds of the 24 executive orders in 2023 were via autopen; by 2024, it was three-quarters of the 19 orders. All 14 of Biden’s executive orders signed in 2025 were by autopen. Occasionally, he would sign a pardon personally, such as that of his son Hunter. Say what you will, but the Biden Crime Family sticks together, which is all the more reason to investigate the Autopen Presidency.

• Hunter Biden drops suit: When it comes to Hunter Biden and lawsuits, it appears they amount to little more than emotionally motivated temper tantrums with the aim of financial gain, following a significant loss of revenue with his father no longer in office. However, for the second time with Fox News, Hunter has dropped a lawsuit against the media outlet that he filed in 2022 over its miniseries spotlighting his “overseas financial” deals that just happened to correspond with his father’s political position. Hunter ridiculously alleged that Fox News had engaged in “revenge porn” when revealing the contents of his infamous laptop. It’s at least the fourth time Hunter has dropped a lawsuit. It costs money to sue, and the revenue from his “art career” has dried up. His chances of winning were slim, too.

• Greta’s “show is over”: Earlier today, Greta Thunberg’s sailboat flotilla, or “selfie yacht,” was intercepted by Israeli Defense Forces as it neared the coast of Gaza. Thus, her pro-Palestinian publicity stunt was brought to its predicted end. IDF announced that “using an international civilian communication system, the Israeli Navy has instructed the ‘selfie yacht’ to change its course due to its approach toward a restricted area.” Notably, the IDF reported that all activists were safe and unharmed, having been provided with sandwiches and water. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs observed, “The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels.” The ministry added, “The show is over.” Meanwhile, according to Minister of Defense Israel Katz, “I instructed the IDF to show the flotilla passengers the video of the horrors of the October 7 massacre when they arrive at the port of Ashdod.”

• Judge allows Trump’s firings of CPB officials: Back in April, Donald Trump fired three of the five board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the independent agency tasked with doling out some $500 million annually in taxpayer funding to public radio and TV stations across the country. They filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, but on Sunday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss found that they “failed to carry their burden of demonstrating that they are likely to prevail on the merits of their claim for injunctive relief or that Plaintiffs are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief.” While Moss, an Obama appointee, was sympathetic to the plaintiffs, he noted that as of now, the Trump administration has not violated federal law regarding the independent operational nature of the CPB.

• Trump orders U.S. to bulk up drone industry: President Trump took action last week to boost domestic drone manufacturing. The three executive orders allow for greater testing, “Beyond Visual Line of Sight” operations, and clarify where drones can and cannot be operated. It’s a necessary move to keep up with the Chinese drone industry, as currently, a single Chinese company, DJI, is believed to control 70% of the global drone market. Early adopters of drone technology in the U.S. have been first responders who use 90% Chinese-manufactured drones. Rep. Elise Stefanik has introduced legislation to ban that practice, but without U.S. manufacturing, that could completely deny first responders drone technology.

• Google feeds articles from CCP propaganda outlets to Americans: Google News is in bed with the Communist Chinese, says the Washington Examiner. The question is this: Should Google News index hostile state-run propaganda sources for American consumption? It’s a question Google has answered before when it banned Russian state media in 2022. The official CCP newspaper, People’s Daily, the China Global Television Network, and China Daily are the sources most at issue. The Justice Department has flagged the first two as foreign missions of the CCP, and the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department runs China Daily. In the second Trump administration, Silicon Valley players seem to be waking up to the dangers posed by our chief geopolitical adversary, so why are they promoting its propaganda to our citizens?

Headlines

• ABC’s Terry Moran suspended after “journalist” slams Trump, top advisor in since-deleted post (Fox News)

• Minnesota softball team with male pitcher wins state (Not the Bee)

• Olympian Simone Biles faces fierce backlash after clash with Riley Gaines over trans athletes debate (Fox News)

• Rahm Emanuel warns Dems have become party of “punks” who “talk down to people” and fret over identity politics (NY Post)

• Princeton won’t punish anti-Semitic students who disrupted event, hurled verbal attacks at Jews (Daily Wire)

• Russia launches biggest drone attack on Ukraine since start of war with almost 500 individual strikes (NY Post)

• Humor: Nine surefire ways to bring Trump and Elon back together (Babylon Bee)

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