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Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 - Mosque Shooting; Trump’s J6 Slush Fund, Iran War Insider Trading, Elon Lost in Two Hours
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- May 19, 2026
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Summary
Today's Headlines: Three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego — the city's largest mosque — by two teenage gunmen who died of self-inflicted wounds, with a security guard preventing the attack from being significantly worse. Notably, one shooter's mother had called police two hours earlier as a runaway juvenile report, telling them her son might be suicidal and had taken three of her weapons and her car. On the grift beat, the DOJ officially created the "Antiweaponization Fund" — a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund that will pay unlimited, untaxable claims to anyone who says they were persecuted by the Biden administration, administered by a secret five-member board appointed by Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal criminal attorney. This is the "concession" Trump made in exchange for dropping his $10 billion IRS lawsuit — while still personally pocketing $230 million and getting all his family's tax audits dropped. Meanwhile, 60 Minutes reported that nine interconnected Polymarket accounts made $2.4 million betting on specific military actions during the Iran war with a 98% win rate across 80 bets, including the exact dates of the first strikes and the ceasefire announcement, which raises some extremely interesting questions about who's behind those accounts. Trump also announced he's pausing his planned Iran strike — which he said was scheduled for today — at the request of Gulf state leaders, while simultaneously instructing Hegseth to have a "full, large scale assault" ready at a moment's notice, because that's what de-escalation looks like now. Speaking of Hegseth, he flew to Kentucky on taxpayer — sorry, "personal" — time to campaign against Thomas Massie ahead of today's primary. In dictator vibes news, Putin arrived in Be…