u/ShyLeoGing

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Bwst Friends Club adds one more to the list! This is Fine, right?

> Diamantas, 38, left Miami law firm Jones Day to join the FDA in February 2025. At the firm, where he served as a partner, he defended Abbott Laboratories in a lawsuit accusing the company of failing to inform parents that its formula for premature infants increased the risk of a deadly gastrointestinal condition. [...]

> In 2024, Abbott lost the lawsuit and was forced to pay $495m. A Missouri appellate court upheld the decision [...]

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> Diamantas is also apparently **a close friend of Donald Trump Jr**, the president’s eldest son. A 2021 post on X from Mike Tussey, founder of hunting club Osceola Outdoors [...]

Does this fit this subreddit

Go Figure he's insider trading!

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TL;DR

Nothing like good ol corruption in plain sight!

• 40% increase to 1.535 Trillion Dollars

• Equivalent of Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple **Combined

• 350 Billion for miscellaneous mandatory expenditures

• 20 Billion to Don Jr's Capital Firm 1789 Capital

• 23 Billion for critical capabilities required by the war fighter

• 46 Billion for Chips \~n ~~dip~~\~intelligence infrastructure

• 21 Billion for F-35 program that's a available less than half the time required

AND Mr. Trump’s prized Golden Dome missile defense program — a reboot of the Reagan-era “Star Wars” effort

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently asked Congress for a staggering amount of money: $1.5 trillion. That’s a more than 40 percent increase from last year’s also incomprehensible Pentagon budget and the equivalent of the annual revenues of Amazon, Google’s parent company and Apple combined.

> It would funnel more money to the traditional military contractors that Mr. Hegseth previously called out for feasting on a wasteful, bloated system. It would bankroll President Trump’s weirdly retro military wish list. On top of all that, Mr. Hegseth has asked Congress for $350 billion that would come with far less oversight or accountability than the rest of the sum. And that’s before the bill for the Iran war comes due; the Pentagon estimates it has cost $29 billion so far, up from an estimate of $25 billion a few weeks ago.

> There’s $20 billion to provide “strategic capital” to selected companies; one that has already benefited from loans is linked to the venture capital firm 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner. There’s a $23 billion kitty to spend on things like battery components and other “critical capabilities required by the war fighter.” A separate $46 billion “sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure” fund would be used to, among other things, buy up high-end chips, build data centers “inside and outside the continental U.S.” and provide “strategic investment” in private companies.

> At the other end of the spectrum, in every way imaginable, is Lockheed Martin’s $2 trillion F-35 program; Mr. Hegseth’s proposal looks to spend $21 billion on it next year, though roughly half the time, the stealth fighters are not available to fly their missions. The proposal would continue to pour billions into Northrop Grumman’s Sentinel ICBM upgrade program, despite costs ballooning by more than 81 percent from the original budget and a deployment schedule that’s slipping into the 2030s. And it would spend billions in munitions for Raytheon’s Patriot missile system, never mind the enormous inefficiency of shooting $4 million interceptors at $35,000 Iranian drones.

What has happend with the States Disunited Under Trump?

Charles McCall, Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate has some campaign ads and promises that are something else. Then there are ads that if true, holy sh*t. Here's an example of an unverified campaign ad, first 35/40 seconds [Oklahoma Ranks Bottom 10 In Almost Everything - YouTube.](https://youtu.be/zApA1XegqQE?t=7&si=Q2jzp0LPRZlJf6N9) ... again this is not verified but even if just a deepfake, the message is way off the deep end.

LOS ANGELES – The mayor of Arcadia has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Justice Department announced today.

It's nice to see there was ~ no ~ foreign actors handing the election to Trump! Abusing algorithms for political gain should be investigated, but like the DNC report, they're all cowards who know the truth but are afraid to admit it publicly!

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TL;DR -- follow the ** as they weave the breakdown, article link, full version of said breakdown.

The shadow docket was primarily used for XYZ and it was used a total of 8 times from 2001 to 2017, 41 times from 2017 to 2020, 19 times during Bidens 2021 to 2024, and currently Trump has used went to the Supreme Court 33 times.**

According to NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice** the second Trump administration has taken unprecedented use of the shadow docket, or “applications that seek immediate action from the court.” In the past, such applications were used in specific cases that could cause “irreparable harm.” But the Trump administration has turned to this emergency procedure a whopping 41 times in his second term as president.    

“Trump’s now using the shadow docket for a lot more than just death penalty cases,” explained Oliver. “Because if a lower court issues a ruling that he doesn’t like, say, pausing an executive action until it’s been fully litigated, he’ll now run to the Supreme Court and ask them to rule in his favor on the shadow docket. And recently, he’s been doing that a lot."        

The full Tl;Dr of the Brennan Center for Justice, explaining the times a president used the shadow docket.     

> **But in recent years, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of emergency rulings, prompting a surge in shadow docket motions. Between January 2001 and January 2017, the U.S. government, the most frequent litigant in the Supreme Court, asked the Court for emergency relief only 8 times. By contrast, President Trump’s first administration sought emergency relief 41 times. That number dropped to 19 during the Biden administration. Since Trump’s return to office, his second administration has filed 33 emergency applications, most of which have asked the Court to halt lower court injunctions blocking executive orders or other administration actions. The Supreme Court has expanded its use of the shadow docket in other contexts as well, including in cases related to voting and elections.

So this Substack page has a handful of good videos, this one could lead to many conspiracies.

The cash looks near at hand until it is not. Then gates close, marks slip, and the need to exit arrives at the exact moment the exit is sealed.

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Some key points

- Blue Owl cut values for a $14.1 billion tech-focused business development company by about 5 percent and nearly 3 percent for a $15.3 billion BDC

- Apollo’s MidCap Financial Investment Corp. posted a quarterly loss, with non-accruals climbing to about $167 million** from $48.5 million a year earlier. Oaktree marked down software assets,

- Sixth Street Specialty Lending trimmed its dividend

- JPMorgan-led Qualtrics financing [...] roughly $5.3 billion debt package for the Press Ganey Forsta acquisition stuck

• banks are staring at more than $500 million in paper losses.

** for those who that don't see the red flag, non-accrual is a delinquency 90+ days old. 3.5% of their total portfolio.

The weak link is not random. Direct lenders chased software because revenue looked durable, contracts were sticky, and collateral was “mission critical.” The AI transition and slower growth have exposed how procyclical that thesis can be. If a sizeable share of BDC and private credit portfolios tilts toward software and services, correlation rises at the exact moment investors assumed diversification. Some funds do have better covenants than public high yield. But in recent vintages, sponsor leverage rose and terms loosened at the margin. When non-accruals move and distributions get cut, the fragility is less about any single borrower and more about shared exposure to a business model re-priced by higher rates and technological displacement. Gundlach’s line that public high yield quality is better than pre-GFC is a tell: the public market has taken its medicine in real time. Private loans have not had to, yet.

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