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There’s never a lack of interesting updates to share. Look up, look down, to your left and right, it’s everywhere. We’re swimming in a sea of information so grab your snorkel and let’s see what’s kicking around in the sand on the bottom.

Are aerial phenomena a daily event now? Mr. MBB brings us a new one, and June is just getting started. We hear June 30th is the heaviest day for “meteorites”, so have your phones and cameras ready for National Meteorite Month.

PEOPLE ACROSS 7 STATES LOOKED UP AND SAW THIS ☄️

Late last night, something bright suddenly tore across the sky.

Witnesses from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky began reporting a brilliant fireball racing overhead.

Some described it as a… pic.twitter.com/THXXEtTNVj

— Michael Bradbury (@MrMBB333) June 2, 2026

I also see that idiotic “Juneteenth” notation on our calendar. I hope we dispense with that forthwith.

The comms are indicating arrests, says Joe Rambo & Frens.

Throw this one on the STACK we showed on DECLAS yesterday. 

Memes ready?
Q

Are you ready to see arrests?
Are you ready to see PAIN?
Are you ready to be part of history?
Q pic.twitter.com/jzCJN5NrMf

— Joe Rambo (@RamboAndFrens) June 3, 2026

America is fraught with corruption and underhanded manipulation of the system and outright, blatant disregard for the law. They think they’re so smart. If they were, they would know that no one is going to get away with anything any longer. The Space Force has it all. From Telegram.

KABOOM 💥

The FBI just RAIDED a $35M Mansion and just arrested California tech CEO Jamshid Ghomi for supplying U.S. equipment to Iran’s nuclear and military establishment

Ghomi moved over $15 million from Iran into his U.S. bank accounts and a separate escrow account, falsely reporting the money to the IRS as a foreign inheritance, according to the DOJ.

His federal tax returns reported almost no income with his highest reported income in any year being $20,684. He allegedly claimed the tax break intended for low- to moderate-income working individuals and families, in seven different tax years while reporting more than $1.7 million in mortgage interest. 🐸

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Last week a Google employee got the hook. These people had it all figured out; how to beat the system. How to prosper themselves and steal from others and I bet they didn’t have any trouble sleeping at night because they never thought they would get caught. This is from the DoJ website.

Google Employee Charged With Insider Trading

Joe M has posted a patent on Telegram showing the dark’s plans for Humanity post-Covid vaccination. While the normies might scoff at this, we know the technology they had was far more advanced than any one of us ever thought possible. They could, and they would, had the Alliance not stopped them.

888 “This patent application from Pfizer was approved on August 31, 2021, and is the very first patent listed in a list of over 18,500 patents that serve the purpose of remote contact tracing of all vaccinated people worldwide, who are or will be directly connected to the ‘Internet of Things’ via a quantum connection with pulsating microwave frequencies of 2.4 GHz or higher from cell towers and satellites.”

Read that AGAIN!

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The appalling crimes against Humanity—against children—these monsters commit is shocking to the Human psyche. The Human trafficking networks and the torture, rape, and murder of children and babies has to be stopped. Real scenarios unfolded and something was done about it. The statistics are astronomical.  39 min.

Get ready… Because this will chill you to the bone.

In 1998, in Zandvoort, Netherlands, an unexpected discovery was made: CD-ROMs filled with thousands of files containing images and videos of babies and young children being raped, tortured, and murdered in the most sadistic… pic.twitter.com/eqCxT1HGZV

— PizzaGate (@PizzaGateX) May 31, 2026

Several years ago we saw a photo of Barack Obama and a young Asian girl. Later, a photo emerged of a girl taped up in a box and a Telegram post features a video clip from Ben Fulford explaining that the girl was chosen for Obama, specifically, and she had been harvested for adrenochrome. If you’re on Telegram, you can watch the clip from Ben’s update.

For anyone who does not know what adrenochrome is, it is the adrenalized blood product drained from the neck of someone—usually a child—after they have been tortured and terrorized to the point their adrenal glands secrete the highest concentrations of hormones which the “elites” on the planet get an insane high from when they ingest it.

It costs a king’s ransom to buy, and it “decomposes rapidly when exposed to air or light”. Source   Therefore, fresh supplies are always in demand and hence the millions of children who go missing every year. We won’t even get into the children bred in the tunnels who are undocumented and therefore they can rape, torture, harvest their adrenochrome, and use them for genetic experiments with impunity.

To pair the word “conspiracy theory” with “adrenochrome” is the ultimate betrayal of children and Humanity. It is real, it is valid, there is untold documented truth on video and from victims’/survivors’ mouths as well as email proof. The ugly truth is about to go mainstream and it’s long past time for people to wake up and help stop it.

UPDATE!!! ⚠️

After all these years, we finally know who this little girl was in the box 📦 and why they chose this pic out of 1000’s of pictures that are the same gruesome scene of children.

She was ment for Barry S. (Aka Barack Obama.)

She was dessert 🍨 for him that night. Hand picked like a diamond 💎 🩸 🧍‍♂️

Fulford Report –
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Mr. KidPool17 tells us about the plan for “religion” and its role in Human civilization. The truth about the religion trap will re-unite Humanity. What a miracle that would be. Pure spirituality without religion.

EVERY RELIGION WAS GIVEN THE SAME STORY. THEN THEY WERE TURNED AGAINST EACH OTHER

One source. One original text. One event. Told to every civilization on Earth at the same time — approximately 5,000 years ago. Then fragmented. Deliberately. Split into competing narratives so that the people who received the same truth would spend millennia killing each other over which version was “correct.”
The Great Flood. Present in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, the Sumerian tablets, Greek mythology, Chinese mythology, Aboriginal Australian oral tradition, Native American tradition, Norse mythology, and 270+ other cultural records worldwide. The same event. Same timeline. Same details. Different names.
Not “cultural borrowing.” Not “shared archetypes.” The same historical event recorded independently by every civilization on Earth. Because it happened. To everyone. At the same time.

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The original text exists. Not in any church. Not in any temple. Not in any museum open to the public. In the Vatican Archives — Sector V — a wing that has never been accessed by any non-Vatican personnel in 1,700 years.
The archive contains 84 kilometers of shelving. 35,000 volumes in the “restricted” catalog alone. Documents from every conquered civilization. Every absorbed culture. Every tradition the Church encountered and consumed during its expansion.

What they kept — and what they removed from public religion — tells the complete story.
The original texts describe a single unified teaching given to humanity. Not a religion. A science. A precise description of how consciousness creates reality. How frequency shapes matter. How the human body interfaces with dimensions beyond the physical. How death is a transition, not an ending. How the universe is conscious, responsive, and participatory.
This wasn’t faith. It was physics. Described in the language available 5,000 years ago.

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The fragmentation was strategic. Take one truth. Split it into 4,000 religions. Make each one claim exclusivity. Make each one declare the others false. Now 8 billion people who share the same origin story are divided into warring camps — each defending a fragment while attacking the others for holding a different fragment of the same whole.
A united humanity — understanding the complete original teaching — cannot be controlled. A fragmented humanity — fighting over incomplete pieces — controls itself. They don’t need guards when the prisoners police each other.
Every religious war in history was fought between people who believed the same thing — told in different words, through different prophets, in different languages. Brothers killing brothers over pronunciation.

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The Vatican knows. They’ve always known. The complete teaching sits in their archive. They released fragments — enough to build faith, not enough to build understanding. Enough to create followers, not enough to create sovereign beings.

Every “heresy” that was burned, every “pagan” tradition that was destroyed, every indigenous teaching that was eradicated — was a piece of the original that threatened to complete the puzzle. They didn’t destroy heresy. They destroyed completion. Kept humanity in permanent partial knowledge — enough to seek, never enough to find.
The Alliance has obtained copies of 14,000 documents from Sector V through an operation that took 7 years. The documents are being translated. Cross-referenced. Assembled. The original teaching is being reconstructed — not from one religion, but from all of them. Because all of them hold a piece. And when the pieces reunite, the division ends.
CODE: SECTOR-V / ONE-SOURCE / 4000-FRAGMENTS / REUNION-ACTIVE
They split one truth into 4,000 religions and watched you kill each other over the pieces. The complete picture is being reassembled. And it belongs to everyone.
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You were never meant to fight over God. You were meant to understand the same truth — together. The fragments are reuniting.

Share this. https://t.me/MrKidPool17

Like we said, the technology they have and the system they built to manipulate and control Humanity is light years ahead of where most would think possible, and they can monetize anything. From Mr. KidPool17 on Telegram.

SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS DON’T SHOW YOU WHAT YOU LIKE. THEY SHOW YOU WHAT KEEPS YOU WEAK.

A former Meta engineer — senior algorithm architect, 11 years on the core recommendation team — provided the tribunal with 2,400 pages of internal documentation. Not about data harvesting. Not about privacy. About something they never expected to be exposed.
The algorithm isn’t optimized for engagement. It’s optimized for emotional state manipulation. Specifically: it’s designed to keep every user in a narrow psychological band between anxiety and inadequacy — the exact emotional range where humans consume the most, question the least, and remain politically passive.
They call it internally “The Corridor.” Keep the user in The Corridor. Never let them reach calm. Never let them reach anger. Calm people stop scrolling. Angry people organize. The Corridor — anxious, insecure, distracted — is where profit lives.
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The system maps your psychology within 72 hours of account creation. Not through what you post. Through what you pause on. What makes your scroll speed change. What dilates your pupils (yes — front cameras measure pupil dilation through ambient light reflection). What time of day your emotional resilience is lowest.
By day 3, the algorithm knows your insecurities better than your therapist. And it begins feeding them. Systematically.
Body image issues? You’ll see 40% more content featuring idealized bodies — not enough to make you leave, just enough to maintain a constant low-grade inadequacy.
Financial anxiety? Your feed fills with displays of wealth — luxury, success, abundance — calibrated to make you feel behind without making you feel hopeless enough to disengage.
Loneliness? You’ll see couples. Friendships. Social gatherings. Just enough to remind you of what you don’t have. Never enough to inspire you to put the phone down and go find it.
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The documentation reveals a metric they track internally called “Session Emotional Delta” — the difference between your emotional state when you open the app and when you close it. The target delta is negative. Always. Every session should leave you feeling slightly worse than when you started.
Not dramatically worse. That would make you quit. Slightly worse. Just enough to make you come back in 20 minutes looking for the relief that the platform will never provide — because providing relief would end the cycle.
2.9 billion people. Opening the app 47 times per day on average. Each session engineered to leave them 2-3% more anxious, more insecure, more isolated than before. Compound that over years.
The mental health epidemic isn’t caused by social media as a concept. It’s caused by an algorithm specifically designed to degrade psychological wellbeing because degraded humans are more profitable.

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The engineer testified that in 2019, a team proposed an algorithm modification that would promote content leading to positive emotional states. The test group showed improved mental health within 2 weeks. The modification was killed by executive order within 24 hours.
The reason documented in the internal memo: “Positive-state users show 63% reduction in ad click-through and 78% reduction in impulse purchase completion. Emotional optimization is incompatible with revenue targets.”

They measured the cost of your happiness. It was $63 per user per quarter in lost revenue. They chose the revenue.
The algorithm isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. And it’s designed to break you — slowly, profitably, imperceptibly — one scroll at a time.
CODE: THE-CORRIDOR / SESSION-DELTA / PUPIL-TRACK / WEAKNESS-ENGINE
They didn’t build a social network. They built a psychological weapon that you carry in your pocket and activate 47 times a day.
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Every time you close the app feeling worse — that was the plan. Not a bug. The product. Share this. https://t.me/MrKidPool17

It may be depressing to look at all the disgusting plans they had for us, but the positive side is, we found out, something is being done so it ends and will never happen again, and we will be bringing Heaven down to Earth. Ascension is coming.

It’s time to feed the baby. We could almost cook dinner on any hard surface here today. The thermometer says it’s about 105F but it feels like well over 110. I have patio chairs and towels blocking the sun from my zinnias because they are getting very wilty and looking a little sad. I think it’s going to be a very hot month. I hope those monsoons are building to cool it off in July.

See you next time, folks.

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Before you chase every opportunity.. there may be something deeper calling you.

Spiritually aware people often feel pulled in many directions.. helping, creating, fixing, searching. But sometimes the reason nothing feels complete is because there’s one thing you keep being brought back to.

A role. A lesson. A kind of work only you can do.

Not a job.

Something deeper.

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This week’s sky is deceptively quiet — but make no mistake, it’s the kind of quiet that precedes a seismic shift. The Full Moon in Sagittarius cracked something open last Sunday, and now we’re standing in its light, asking ourselves: what did we just see? What did we just feel? And what are we going to do with that truth?
Mercury enters Cancer at the start of the week, pulling our minds out of Gemini’s intellectual speed and into the deep waters of memory, intuition, and emotional knowing. By Wednesday, Mercury is talking to the North Node — your destiny path is sending you a message, and it’s speaking in the language of feeling, not logic. But Neptune squares that same Mercury by nightfall, wrapping the signal in fog. You’ll have to feel your way through.
Sun sextile Saturn on Tuesday gives us one clean moment of clarity and structure — use it. And beneath all of this, Venus is slowly closing the gap toward Jupiter in Cancer, a warmth current building all week long, softening the edges, opening the heart.
Chiron sits at the last degree of Aries. The wound of identity, courage, and the right to simply be yourself is reaching its final exhale before crossing into Taurus later this month. This week holds one more opportunity to make peace with that story.
This is the week to harvest your wisdom. Because what comes next — the Venus-Jupiter conjunction, Uranus square the Nodes, the mid-June activations — will require you to be rooted in something true.

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And another Biggie Kicked in today 🔥

After the X class, another

M class 6.5 Solar Flare/Flash popped up⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

This is All Photonic Light, which comes in within a couple of minutes after the flare…

93% of the Functions of our

DNA 🧬 are:

LIGHT, SOUND RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION!

And people still don’t get it…🙉

Anyway, to those in the first Wave, keep Moving Forward, the rest will follow when this kind of information Becomes more common knowledge for the public…

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New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Hires Project 2025 Author; Pulte Takes Over ODNI Intelligence; NIH Scientists Caught Smuggling Monkeypox; more. 

JEFF CHILDERS

JUN 3READ IN APP

Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Your roundup includes: the Project 2025 author Kevin Warsh just hired to redesign the Fed, the three-hat bulldog Trump parked on top of the entire intelligence community, and the BSL-4 virus chief caught smuggling 113 vials of Congolese monkeypox through Detroit in a picnic cooler.

I’ll cover yesterday’s various primary results in tomorrow’s post, when I unveil my theory about how Republicans might be quietly giving up trying to pull the policy boulder uphill in deep blue jurisdictions and instead are allowing it to roll along downhill.

🌍🇺🇸 ESSENTIAL NEWS AND COMMENTARY 🇺🇸🌍

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Last week, Keven Warsh was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas as our newest Fed Chair. The ceremony was held at the White House, which was not the customary spot at the Fed’s HQ. Read into that what you will. Kevin has apparently unpacked and is already smashing norms and customs. Yesterday, CNBC breathlessly reported, “Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including ‘Project 2025’ author.”

To say that the establishment and the corporate media are frantically waiting for their chance to criticize whatever Kevin does next is like saying that Attila the Hun considered acquiring some real estate. Meanwhile, Kevin Warsh has done an admirably Trump 2.0 job of keeping the details of his plans more or less buried in word salad. Until now.

Yesterday, Warsh placed his first two hires on the chessboard. Their credentials provide what we might call a ‘signal,’ in the same sense that —to carry the Attila metaphor a little further— the Western Roman Empire might have described as ‘unrest in the plains.’ On paper, it looks wonkily boring: Kevin hired two conservative economic policy researchers. Yawn. The first, Daniel Heil, is a fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution think-tank, where Warsh previously held a position before joining the Fed.

The second hire was much more suggestive and triggering for big-government economists. Paul Winfree is one of the “Project 2025” authors, which is bad enough, but he also wrote the chapter on the Federal Reserve. Get ready. Winfree’s chapter described Fed reforms going far beyond any of Kevin Warsh’s public calls for “regime change” or even “breaking some heads.”

When I say ‘far beyond’ anything Warsh has hinted at publicly, I mean like this: if Warsh staked a Fed-reform position as far from DC as Arlington, Virginia, then Winfree’s proposals are located in the suburbs on one of Neptune’s outer moons.

To merely call Winfree’s chapter on the Fed ‘radical’ is to do it a grave injustice. Winfree argued that the Fed has mushroomed into an overpowered, politicized institution that causes the boom‑bust and inflation cycles it is supposed to tame. In Winfree’s view, the Fed should only be focused on protecting the value of the dollar and restraining inflation, and not messing about with jobs policy, climate/ESG agendas, and “too big to fail” rescues.

His Project 2025 chapter offers a buffet-style menu of options to drastically shrink, tightly leash, and outright abolish the Federal Reserve as we know it. There’s a common theme: stop using monetary policy to ‘manage the economy’ and refocus the Fed (or its replacement) on hard constraints around money and inflation. In the appetizer section of his menu, Winfree describes completely ending the Fed and moving to “free banking,” where competing private banks, not a central planner, issue notes and deposits, and the government can no longer mint new money at will.

Short of ‘free banking,’ which would require an almost unimaginable act by Congress, Winfree suggests something equally wild in DC terms: returning to some form of commodity standard, such as a gold‑backed dollar. Crazy, right? He also called for Congress to explicitly bar the Fed from launching any central bank digital currency, which Winfree said would give the state “unprecedented surveillance and potential control” over individual financial transactions.

I may regret saying this, but once again, we must nod at the ‘Q’ team, which predicted these sorts of themes, at least directionally. Winfree’s proposals describe a realistic, legalistic pathway to the kinds of radical Fed reforms hinted at in various Q drops and mythologized in the QAnon community — shrinking or even ending the modern Fed, moving back toward “sound money,” and slamming the door on a surveillance‑heavy CBDC.

CNBC didn’t say it out loud, but it did strongly hint that Warsh’s first two hires mean the new Fed chair is considering options once considered impossible or the stuff of conspiracy theory.

It won’t be easy. There’s only so much he can do without Congress passing or changing laws. More challenging, Kevin Warsh’s reforms will be opposed by some of the existing Fed governors, including Jerome Powell himself, who broke 70+ years of tradition and didn’t actually retire, but clung to his job as one of the twelve Fed governors, which he was technically allowed to do— a bold, defiant move that previous Fed Chairs have never historically made.

So, Warsh needs leverage — not just inside the Eccles Building, but across the parts of government that hold kompromat and control the surveillance tools. That observation leads us directly to the next story.

🔥 Yesterday, the Washington Post reported, “Trump picks mortgage chief Bill Pulte to lead on national intelligence.” Corporate media reports sneered at the new appointment as “strange.” Yesterday, President Trump appointed bulldog Bill Pulte, the Director of Federal Housing Finance and Director of Fannie/Freddie with a third job: as actingDirector of National Intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard. He’s giving Marco Rubio a run for his money in the stacked jobs department. What’s got everyone buzzing is that Bill has zero previous intelligence background. He is a baby in Spookland.

CLIP: CNBC’s full interview with FHFA Director Bill Pulte (14:10).

Alert readers will recall the clean-cut, pugilistic mortgage chief, who has referred various progressive luminaries for mortgage fraud prosecution, including Senator Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fed governor Lisa Cook. This disgruntled Democrats. Writing for the Atlantic, left-wing lunatic and self-selected elite David Frum called Bill an “ultra-partisan with a highly quarrelsome personality and great inherited wealth.”

As far as I can tell, “ultra-partisan” is right of “ultra-right-wing,” which right of the Third Reich and possibly as far right as it gets without the WaPo breaking out the thesaurus again.

Democrats are not taking this well. They can’t decide whether to laugh or feign outrage. A congressman you probably never heard of claimed to be terrified. “Frighteningly, he’s got more of a platform at the ODNI than as a housing regulator,” Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “There’s a lot of opportunity for mischief here,” he added conspiratorially.

Mischief was an odd word in this context. I’m not sure it completely bears the load of “frighteningly.” It sounds like Himes was describing a Dennis the Menace-style caper or something. I was only trying to help!

Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), 71, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who is not a little anything, was a little insulted. Warner snapped that Bill Pulte has “no time in the military, no time in Congress, no time in the diplomatic corps, no time in law enforcement.” On a four-in-a-row-‘no’ roll, Warner concluded: “It is an insult.” But, to whom? At least he didn’t say “mischief.”

The article unintentionally betrayed what Democrats are really worried about: Congress is preparing to vote to reauthorize FISA, the controversial law allowing warrantless surveillance of foreigners overseas. The actual problems with FISA are legion, but the only problem mentioned by WaPo —about a law Democrats lovedwhile bugging Trump officials, but that is now keeping progressive party chiefs up at night— is that “those intercepts sometimes collect data from communications involving U.S. citizens.”

Uh-oh! In other words, ODNI can read and listen to Democrat politicians’ discussions with foreign actors. Now, all of a sudden, FISA poses a crisis for democracy.

🔥 ODNI is not just another federal office to be plugged. It is one of the most critical slots in the Trump 2.0 Administration’s accountability structure. You’ll remember that Tulsi has been building the case since last year that Russiagate was a treasonous conspiracy, and collecting evidence related to the stolen 2020 election. Even aside from those significant projects, ODNI also oversees all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies.

Media is struggling to understand what’s really going on, and whether novice Bill Pulte will be immediately rolled by career IC operatives or possibly figure out how to “make mischief.” It is admittedly confusing. Why assign Bill Pulte, who’s a willing fighter but not a spook, into this ultra-sensitive role? And why also leave him in his multiple old jobs, forced to share time with the mortgage and housing finance agencies?

To be clear: I don’t know the plan. (And I don’t want to know the plan.) But there are some dots we can connect, and as usual, timing is our best clue. As today’s first segment reminded us, Kevin Warsh just stepped up as Fed Chief and is starting to overturn tables in the Fed’s executive dining room. Maybe there’s something there?

Curiously, there are a couple of connections between Warsh and Pulte, at least in their interests. The WaPo story said Bill Pulte “was a leading voice in trying to oust then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell.” Indeed, Bill surfaced Fed governor Lisa Cook’s obvious mortgage fraud in what was, at the time, considered a pressure campaign against the rebellious Fed chief. And Pulte, from his spot at the mortgage agencies, has been intensely critical of Powell’s interest-rate decisions.

🔥 In last year’s CNBC clip that I linked above, Bill began with a rant about the Fed. “I don’t believe for the last four years that the Fed has been independent,” Bill explained. “You see that even right now. You’ve got Lisa Cook, who’s being represented by Norm Eisen. Norm Eisen is the guy who tried to take down Trump, failed at it, but led the first impeachment. He’s the lawyer for Lisa Cook. This is a raging Democrat. Then on top of it, you’ve got Jerome Powell who’s sitting silent.”

“Powell doesn’t like our president,” Bill continued. “Look at what he did the last many years with Biden right before the election. And now you have low inflation and he’s not cutting rates. And then he gets a lady who’s alleged guilty of credible mortgage fraud, and he doesn’t even say, ‘hold on’ or announce an investigation. It’s very odd.”

If it’s not a coincidence, it’s a whirlwind of related action. Tulsi tendered her resignation notice on May 22nd— two days after Warsh was sworn in as Fed Chair. Ten days after that, Trump announced the placement of fierce loyalist and bulldog Bill Pulte at Tulsi’s spot at ODNI. It makes you wonder whether some coordination was involved.

Not only that. Bill Pulte’s appointment as acting DNI looks a whole lot like Todd Blanche’s appointment as acting Attorney General. Both men are “hyper-partisan” loyalists; thus, neither man could possibly be confirmed in the malfunctioning Senate. Now, through careful procedural gamesmanship, both men enjoy at least a year to make big moves.

🔥 Now sitting astride the country’s giant mortgage engines and the intelligence community, Bill Pulte is uniquely positioned to watch money move around the world, and to connect those flows to the people and groups behind them.

As FHFA director and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bill already oversees institutions that touch or guarantee a large share of U.S. mortgages, giving him access (directly or via agency tools such as anti‑fraud analytics) to extraordinarily detailed, often nonpublic financial and property data on elites and institutions.

Layer on top of that his new ODNI role, which coordinates foreign‑intelligence collection and analysis, including programs that sometimes sweep in the communications and financial dealings of U.S. citizens talking to foreigners, and suddenly the same hard‑charging operator willing to wield mortgage records against the Administration’s political enemies can, in principle, cross‑reference housing, credit, and ownership patterns with intelligence‑grade information about foreign contacts, shell structures, and illicit funding streams.

There’s a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddie’s data firehose and ODNI’s surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purpose‑built leverage machine. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening. I’m just saying.

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The swamp-draining and accountability at the big health agencies continue apace. Even better: More arrests! Even better than that: more arrests of Fauci-aligned scientists. Yesterday, Newsweek blandly reported, “Why two federal virus researchers just got arrested by the FBI.”Here we go again!

Unless you are a highly educated government scientist with a taxpayer-funded travel budget, you probably do not look forward to going to the airport. You know the drill. You stand in a security line longer than the history of the Byzantine Empire. You place all your items in a decidedly unclean-looking plastic carrier, which invariably exposes to your fellow passengers various embarrassing personal objects you would prefer remained private. You stand in a high-tech x-ray scanner that probably finishes off the last heroic gut bacteria clinging to life in your stomach because, in the hyper-vigilant minds of the Transportation Security Administration, you might have a machete secreted in your jockey shorts.

You do all of this willingly, because you are a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen who understands that Rules Are Rules, and that the federal government means well and is presumably keeping us safe from the unimaginable threat of slightly-too-large bottles of Head & Shoulders.

Meanwhile, in the VIP lane of international travel, we have The Experts.™

💉 According to a federal criminal complaint recently filed in a city famous for many things, such as flexible balloting, but rarely known for being the primary port of entry for exotic African viral pathogens, two scientists working for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Their names are Vincent “Herman” Munster, a 53-year-old citizen of the Netherlands, and Claude Kwe, a 38-year-old citizen of Cameroon. Vincent is not just any old NIH scientist; he is the Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at the NIH’s premier Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana. Claude is a “research fellow” in Vincent’s section. Their job, according to official government documents, is to study “emerging viral pathogens” and how they “cross the species barrier.”

Sound familiar? It should:

The two ‘scientists’ worked in the Montana lab’s premier Biosafety Level 4 laboratory. For Portland readers, “Biosafety Level 4” is the highest possible level of bio-security. It is the kind of lab you see in horror movies, where scientists wear pressurized space suits, pass through multiple airlocks, and are probably tackled by a team of guys armed with industrial Lysol sprayers if they so much as think about sneezing.

BS4 is designed to keep the most horrifying, flesh-melting viruses on Earth from escaping into the wild.

So, how did these two highly trained, BSL-4-certified global health experts decide to transport their latest research samples from the Republic of Congo back to Montana? Did they use a secure, military-grade biological containment transport system flown in on special reinforced military aircraft? Did they employ a specialized courier with armed guards and a refrigerated, bulletproof safe?

Nope. They jammed them in a plastic suitcase and boarded a commercial airliner.

💉 Correct! A packed commercial airplane. With regular passengers. People who were probably complaining about the lack of legroom or the fact that their complimentary bag of pretzels contained only three pretzels— entirely unaware that a few rows away, the Chief of Virus Ecology was flying coach with a carry-on full of monkeypox.

According to the FBI, Munster and Kwe arrived at Detroit Metro Airport’s McNamara Terminal on January 25, 2026, after a lovely getaway to Brazzaville, Congo— which, by sheer coincidence, was experiencing an active outbreak of monkeypox (now trendily called “mpox” by people who don’t want to offend monkeys).

As they rolled through customs, alert Customs and Border Protection officers noticed they were hauling a “large black plastic case.” The officer, doing his job, inquired as to what was in the large black plastic case.

Now, if you or I were asked this question, and we had a suitcase with a bottle of undeclared Mexican Viagra, never mind full of infectious tropical diseases, we would probably pass out from sheer terror. But Munster and Kwe are trained Public Health Experts. They wield degrees, credentials, and enough smug arrogance to satisfy Stalin’s entire General Committee. So of course they looked the CBP officer in the eye and calmly explained that the case contained only “diagnostics and testing equipment.”

This is what we in the legal profession call a “fib.” It was like getting caught with a trunk full of stacked hundreds and telling the police it was just “currency-testing paper.”

When the authorities opened the case, they did not find diagnostic or testing equipment. Instead, they found Styrofoam coolers containing 113 vials. One hundred and thirteen vials. That is more virus vials than you might observe in the mad scientist’s laboratory in an above-average 1950s horror movie.

💉 The FBI, having recently become suspicious of NIH scientists who lie about concealed virus sample vials, decided to test a few of them. As of the indictment, the feds have tested 20. The results were a delightful biological potpourri. Of the 20, 17 vials contained ‘deactivated’ monkeypox virus. 1 vial contained chickenpox virus. 2 vials contained only human DNA.

I will just say this about the media’s reassuring label of ‘deactivated.’ In 2014, CDC investigators found that dozens of staff were exposed to anthrax samples labeled ‘fully inactivated’ but that still contained live Bacillus anthracis spores. In a separate incident the same year, some old vials at an NIH campus lab labeled “deactivated variola” —smallpox— were found to actually contain live virus, despite labeling that they were completely non‑infectious.

Who knows what surprises could be in the other 93 vials? Ebola? Covid? The common cold? It could be the secret formula for New Coke or Doctor Munster’s leftover botox. The point is, they broke a small volume of federal criminal laws and regulations by smuggling them onto a passenger plane in a cheap cooler that could have been purchased at a Montana Stop-and-Go to keep Coors Light bottles cold.

U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. summed it up perfectly: “These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo. Let that sink in.”

Oh, never fear, we are letting it sink in, Jerome. It is currently sitting in the bottom of our collective stomach, right next to the airport Cinnabon we regret eating.

💉 The beauty of this situation —if “beauty” is the word you want to use for a horror movie cliché-slash-potential biological outbreak squeezed into the overhead bin— is the magnificent double standard of the federal bureaucracy.

If a conservative rancher in Montana tried to transport a cow across state lines without the proper 47-page veterinary permit, the Department of Agriculture would descend upon him with the fury of a thousand suns. If a regular American citizen tried to bring a single, uninspected lime back from a vacation in Cabo to put in their Corona, CBP would treat them like a cartel kingpin and deploy a tactical team of agricultural sniffer beagles to hunt them down.

But apparently, if you are a foreign national working for the NIH, funded by the very taxpayers you are bypassing, you can go on a biological shopping spree during a live outbreak in the Congo, pack your samples next to your spare underwear, lie to federal agents, and expect to get away with it because you are doing Important Science.

Which is probably what always used to happen in the pre-pandemic period.

Jennifer Runyan, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office, felt it necessary to remind the credentialed class: “No researchers should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law.”

Which was a very nice sentiment, Jennifer, but let’s be honest. They absolutely believed they were above the law. And why wouldn’t they? They work for the NIH, an agency that has spent the last several years telling the American public that they are the Science, to quit doing our own research, and that anyone who questions them is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal who probably eats paste. Horse paste.

But times are changing. Munster and Kwe now face a maximum of five years in prison, and the FBI’s counter-terrorism unit is involved. Five years seems … well, like a good start. That is roughly the same amount of time you would face if you cracked a joke in the TSA line about the only bomb on your person being the one you would drop if you didn’t get to a bathroom soon.

One question remains unanswered in all the many stories about this encouraging arrest: their motive. Why would senior NIH scientists risk federal prison? What were they trying to achieve that was worth taking the chance? It’s possible they never considered it much of a risk, since they always got away with it before. They may have thought that irregularities in the paperwork would be overlooked if they deployed their NIH badges and impressed customs agents with tales of their heroic and dangerous work in the Congo.

Maybe. After all, properly declaring and packing the viruses takes a lot more effort than just jamming them into a travel-sized suitcase.

Maybe. But allow me to suggest another motive. Sneaking the samples into the US accomplishes one particularly valuable objective: it erases the chain of custody. All the pesky declarations and paperwork required by federal law would have established documentary evidence that the Congolese monkeypox traveled from its African source to the Montana lab in January 2026. If, say, a Midwest outbreak of Congolese mpox variants happened a few weeks later in February, people might start asking uncomfortable questions.

Anyway. I can’t appropriately express how wonderful it is to know that the CBP and the FBI are no longer letting high-ranking NIH scientists skate through customs. And that another member of the Fauci possé is facing the music.

So, if the person in the middle seat has a large black plastic case and is wearing a t-shirt that says “I ❤️ Virus Science,” you should probably ask to be reseated.

Have a wonderful Wednesday! Fly back here tomorrow morning, for a lawfully declared but slightly subversive roundup of C&C-style essential news and caffeinated commentary.

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