A man wants sexual favors, he will find that. They didn't have to come to Epstein for that. — Ghislaine Maxwell
So, what’s up? Two main points on the John Bolton raid. One, contrary to some takes this is a big deal; Bolton is Deep State royalty, a key player in the leak driven narrative control exercised by the Swamp and its stenographers in legacy media. Bolton got his start in the spooky web decades ago and has parlayed it into a pretty nice life via the combo of TV hits and speaking engagements. And books, like the $2 million advance he got for his last one. Which brings us to point two, the raid may be about his Trump-bashing tell all book. Or it may not be. Too early to tell. Yes, Bolton and his publisher did not technically get clearance for the book. But that does not mean that maybe some more recent activity triggered the FBI. For example, was Bolton the subject of a FISA spy warrant? We don’t know what we don’t know at this point. But I think we will very quickly know a lot more. Is this a limited hangout op or the start of roll up? Certainly Jim Comey, he of his “memos” which he laundered through a law professor buddy and has been dodging a conversion of government property to private use charge ever since, must be wondering the same thing.
We shall see

Is a Canadian solar panel maker operating in secret in South Carolina without the proper permits? That is what one whistleblower claims.
Dumb crap of the week:
Hundreds of different goods just got a lot more expensive to import into the United States, now that President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on steel and aluminum has kicked in.
Butter knives, baby strollers, spray deodorants and fire extinguishers, considered “derivative” steel and aluminum products, were previously excluded from the 50% tariff …
Successful effort to block a cell tower dump of phone numbers to a government investigation of several shootings.
Doc felt betrayed by US medicine for its COVID response. Join the club.
So some Epstein files dropped. Kinda. They are from last month. Still.
Ukraine has completely wiped out a generation of men fighting Russia.
All of legacy media cannot wrap its head around the fact that ICE really is rounding up some bad actors, but this take was hilarious.