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It's not quite, "Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?" But close.

Republicans ready to invoke the 25th amendment for Biden but make it Trump

RFK Jr and Statistics:

Hahaha (Credit: PrimeChinister on FB)

Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, is one more reason we shouldn’t have confidence in Trump’s economy. Holy shit—this is so bad!

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Finally *liberated* from a strong economy, record stock market, and historically low unemployment.

deals are being made every day

Update: The USGS has made a notable update to its ShakeMap. Now showing a substantially larger rupture that suggests major impacts for an even bigger portion of Myanmar. 3.71 million people now estimated to have felt Violent (MMI: IX) shaking. That is hugely concerning. Strong aftershocks persist.

Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America. This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.

This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning. He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

Pete is pissed.

This where we are. The United States is no longer trusted, and in my mind….it can’t be. As an American and veteran, I am embarrassed; I am angry; and I am disgusted. To the young men and women who died defending this country, I am sorry.

“Less medical research, a pull-back on life-saving vaccines, turning away from science and embracing folk medicine. Make America Healthy Again. Again. Meaning: America used to be ‘healthy’ and now is not. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This Tesla vs. BYD chart isn’t just two stocks moving up and down. It’s an entire superpower pulling away from another, explains @liamdenning.bsky.social 🎥

Flood The Zone… Time to plaster those “Trumpflation” stickers everywhere! Let’s make sure everyone knows who’s responsible for draining their wallets.

Perhaps Russia is ‘absolutely pounding’ Ukraine right now because this dickhead cut off Ukraine’s intelligence sharing?

Holy shit are we fucked, pack it in.

Take a moment to read this absolute artifact of a 1999 Salon piece about Elon Musk. All the pieces are there: high confidence, low experience, inept results, lucky bailout, and the fawning coverage that made it all happen while building the blueprint for a generation of Silicon Valley bullshit.

It's almost like someone doesn't have the faintest idea how sovereign risk works

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

The real State of the Union…

Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

TRUMP: We will be a merit based society.

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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The chaos will be unbelievable if they don't sort this out quick!!! www.sfgate.com/california-p...

No f*cking comment…

Having fun with Grok this morning Elon owns xAI and if he’s erratic there’s no hard stop to keep him from leaning on me to push a narrative. His track record-wild X posts, impulsive calls-doesn’t scream “steady hand” And with his reach that’s not just a glitch; it’s a potential disinformation bomb.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

Make America Healthy Again

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

nobody is safe from The Realization

Sam Harris on "The Trouble with Elon" And here he documents what led to their falling out. open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

kinda funny that all it took to defeat traffic in the most crowded city in the country was only a simple $9 congestion relief zone

In sport, we refer to this as hypercompetitiveness. And more often than not, it leads to being miserable and underperforming because you are PROTECTING your self, instead of doing things needed to compete well in what matters most. From my new book Win The Inside Game:

Some PhD student is going to write a terrific dissertation someday on how Trump's immigration ban and deportation policy will collide with the massive demand for construction labor in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.

"You see, trade isn't just about numbers and dollars; it's about respect, fear, and the art of the deal. I'm here to introduce a new tariff, one that will make you all reconsider your little games with America's wealth."

Let’s see - I’m being sentenced for 34 felonies on Friday, I’ve nominated a bunch of unschooled idiots for my cabinet, and I owe E Jean $483 million. What can I distract the idiots with?

Expectations??! Hahahahaha