The World Around Us (TWAU)

05/25/2026

05/25/2026

Woman says: “I was in the store today, and this non-English speaking family was in front of me. They had a whole cart full of groceries, steaks, shrimp, all kinds of stuff. They rung up $700 on the EBT card. $700!

I was like, ‘Okay, whatever.’ Then when we got out to the parking lot, they were getting into a Cadillac Escalade. Brand new one.

We are all being scammed. Taxpayers are paying for this. People who work every day, struggling, and this is what’s happening. It’s ridiculous.”

05/25/2026

🚨BREAKING: Hennepin County DA Mary Moriarty just let a Somali national walk on probation after he was accused of ra**ng a 15-year-old and multiple women.

Reduced serious sexual assault charges to a slap-on-the-wrist 5th degree plea — zero extra prison time.

Then the feds had to step in and charge him with kidnapping and ra**ng ANOTHER woman.

This is what "progressive" justice looks like under soft-on-crime DAs. American girls aren’t safe while these policies continue.

05/25/2026

She has about a month to release the findings of her investigations.

05/25/2026

⚡ TRUMP REFORMS BROKE THE CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR MACHINE

Trump’s critics talked about the H-1B pipeline as if it were the weather — unpleasant for some, maybe, but impossible to change. In reality, it was a choice made by companies that wanted cheaper labor and fewer demands from American workers.

That choice lands on real households. A father trying to keep his tech job, a young graduate sending résumés into silence, a family watching wages flatten while corporate boards explain that nothing can be done.

The excuse depended on everyone believing Washington’s hands were tied. Companies kept importing labor, politicians nodded along, and voters were expected to accept a deal that always seemed to work better for the boss than the worker.

H-1B visa applications fell 38% after Trump’s reforms, according to the figure driving this fight. That is not some tiny adjustment buried in paperwork. It is a hard drop in one of the most guarded labor pipelines in the system.

Plain English: the pipeline was not fixed in place. It was built by policy, defended by the labor lobby, and protected by people who preferred cheap foreign workers over pressure to hire and pay Americans properly.

Trump tightened the screws and the numbers moved. The critics did not just lose an argument. They were caught defending a rigged arrangement.

05/25/2026

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓

On Saturday, President Trump told eight Muslim leaders that any final settlement with Iran comes with one condition:

“𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘮, 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺, 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴”

The names on the call: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia and Qatar go first. Everyone else follows.

This is 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 running live. He isn't asking — he's making recognition of Israel the price of admission to the one thing every regime on that call wants: a Trump-brokered exit ramp that pulls Iran off the war footing.

And the brilliance is in a single word — 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲. Pakistan has never recognized Israel in its 78-year history. Erdogan's Türkiye spent years branding it a terror state. The Saudis have stalled for two years. None of them would ever sign alone — each would be cast as the traitor of the ummah back home. But all of them signing at once hands every leader the same cover: 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘰. One word dissolves seventy years of refusal.

Then the kicker: Trump floated 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 one day joining.

When he laid it out, the leaders were caught flat. A U.S. official told Axios what happened next: “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘫𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦”.

The 2020 Accords brought in the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, then Kazakhstan last November. That was the appetizer. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫.

And be honest about the scale. If Trump actually lands this — the Arab world and Israel welded into one framework, Iran boxed in and alone — it isn't just a good week. It's a feat with no precedent in the modern Middle East, the kind that goes in the history books beside a very short list of names.

𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝.