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pic.twitter.com/1FJbGPt8pN — axcilla (@axcilla) February 21, 2025 https://twitter.com/Jedi_ant/status/1892919743205507091 Fort Knox is Empty! Seeing a headline like this is a non-zero probability event that could happen within the next few weeks. "Gold Reaches $10, 000 Overnight" could follow the next day. Are you appropriately hedged? pic.twitter.com/Zyn8rDUPu8 — In Gold We Trust (@IGWTreport) February 21, 2025
Housing oversupply hits record levels—never seen before without a recession.
https://twitter.com/rev_cap/status/1892756066443640857 The housing market is in MUCH worse shape than 2008 pic.twitter.com/tsnp7DucXE — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 20, 2025 Look no further: pic.twitter.com/gJjpoaoj4W — Saw Chuck (@Saw_Chuck2023) February 21, 2025
Apple Removes Advanced Security Features From Their British Customers Because Of The Government
Apple will no longer offer its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) tool to UK customers following a data privacy row with the UK government. ADP is a tool offered to Apple customers that means only account holders can see things like photos or documents that they have stored online. Apple itself does not have access to …
Microsoft Discovers Using Artificial Intelligence Destroys Cognitive Function
Using generative AI at work may impact the critical thinking skills of employees — and that’s according to Microsoft. Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University surveyed 319 knowledge workers in an attempt to study the impact of generative AI at work, raising concerns about what the rise of the technology means for our brains. …
Coca Cola (KO) Dividend Increase- 2025
Congratulations to my fellow Coca Cola owners on your raise. Cool 5.2% increase. Goes from $0.485 per share/per quarter to $0.51 per share/per quarter. This makes 63 consecutive years of KO paying a growing dividend. Consumer Staples have been struggling as of late. The latest KO earnings call combined with this dividend increase demonstrates Coca Cola’s …
Rand Paul: I fear the greatest danger to our country is from within
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., unpacks the battle over the reconciliation bill as President Donald Trump and DOGE leader Elon Musk attempt to remove waste from the government on ‘Kudlow.’
This is the energy the world needs—ruthless efficiency, bold leadership, and zero patience for bloated, corrupt systems.
Momento único. Fin.@JMilei @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/dsbp3bWC6F — Manuel Adorni (@madorni) February 20, 2025 https://twitter.com/_/status/1892702003127578694 https://twitter.com/_/status/1892701566408249582 President of Argentina Javier Milei, dubbed the ‘Argentine Trump‘ presented Elon Musk with a DOGE chainsaw on stage at CPAC on Thursday, to wild cheers from the conservative gathering in National Harbor, Maryland. Musk said, “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!” …
For years, Democrats have weaponized the DOJ against their political enemies. Now the tables are turning.
Rep. Garcia, Sen. Schumer, and other Democrat leaders—the same ones who preach about accountability—are now facing serious legal trouble. .@RepRobertGarcia is now under investigation by the DOJ for threatening Elon Musk with violence. Garcia should be censured and then expelled from Congress. He should also be deported since he originally came to the US illegally. …
Mitch McConnell announces he’ll retire, ending his four-decade Senate career
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-serving Senate leader in history, announced on his 83rd birthday Thursday that he won’t seek re-election next year, bringing an end to his four-decade career in the chamber. McConnell, elected in 1984, climbed his way up to the Senate Republican leader position in 2007 and remained there until …
Wait, what?! Trump appoints Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to Council of Governors
https://gazette.com/news/wex/trump-announces-his-appointments-to-council-of-governors/article_1140c7fc-f575-5ed1-9b6c-c2f4512755a3.html https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3324509/trump-announces-appointments-council-governors/
Luxury homebuilder says more than 70% of business is from wealthy move-ups and empty nesters with years of home price appreciation. The rest are rich millennials
Home prices and mortgage rates are high but haven’t hampered demand for what Toll Brothers calls its “luxury niche.” That niche is made up of empty nesters, rich millennials, and wealthy buyers who are inoculated from housing market swings. “Demand for our homes continues to be supported by our affluent customer base,” Toll Brothers chief executive and chairman …
It’s Started.
It was so difficult for years for me to explain why people should look at the stock market on a logarithmic view. Glad more people are doing it. h/t @NoOneToNoOne89
RAND PAUL TELLS AN INFURIATING STORY ABOUT SPENDING.
Let's give Rand an ally in the senate! Vote Nate Morris! pic.twitter.com/fuIIuhJela — J.R.Franklin (@JRFranklin15) February 20, 2025
A federal agency, funded by American taxpayers, is actively shielding illegal immigrants while keeping secrets from the very government meant to oversee it.
This is a full-scale, taxpayer-funded cover-up. The Department of Education, the agency entrusted with shaping our future, is instead engaged in a secret operation to protect illegal immigrants—and they’re using encrypted apps to evade oversight. Travis Combs himself admits they’ve deliberately removed citizenship status checks to keep the program off the books. Who authorized this? …
22 Really Bizarre Facts About The Most Orwellian Society On Earth
by Michael Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a truly Orwellian society where there is absolutely no freedom of speech, absolutely no freedom of religion and absolutely no freedom of the press? You may think that the rules that you are currently living under are bad, but the country …
AI Tech Bubble POPS: ‘Humane’ AI, Valued At $850 MILLION Last Year, Goes Bankrupt
Humane, which made wearable, AI-embedded pins, is shutting down the devices it had sold and pawning off its software, patents and employees to Palo Alto tech giant HP Inc. The deal, which Humane said in a Tuesday press release will close at the end of February, marks the end of the line for a startup …
Kash Patel slams Schiff as Congress’s worst criminal in 250 years… Charlie Kirk hints at Schiff’s desperation outside the FBI building.
Elon musk claims that Schiff is a criminal. Charles Kirk is publicizing the madness. We’re still waiting Shifty Schiff. pic.twitter.com/hyav4uKo3v — Cheryl Kane (@cherylkanere) February 20, 2025 h/t Orangutan
Fidelity account holders who are active need to pay more attention…
via DY1N9W4A3G PSA: Fidelity account holders who are active need to pay more attention than usual to their cash balances and open trade orders. For about a month now, Fidelity is having some sort of problem with their systems that will allow you to place trades that add up to more cash than currently settled …
On Mondays and Fridays all of last year, at EPA HQs – only had 8.9% daily attendance.
Imagine what would happen to you if you didn’t ever show up to your job? Incredible work @epaleezeldin. https://t.co/quyMac0nAn — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 18, 2025 🚨🇺🇸 $149 BILLION MISSING: THE WASTE DOGE IS HUNTING The numbers are staggering: $149 billion in improper government payments last year alone. That's enough to fund NASA for …
Why are we paying twice?
This is a slap in the face to every hardworking New Yorker. These roads were built with their taxes, yet Governor Cuomo wants to tax them again just to use what they’ve already funded. Middle and lower-income workers—who can least afford it—are the ones hit hardest by these unnecessary tolls. 🇺🇸 SEC. DUFFY: NEW YORK …
We’ve reached a point where 89% of fund managers are starting to see what’s coming, and they’re all saying the same thing: U.S. equities are overvalued.
It’s the highest level of concern we’ve seen since the Dot Com Bubble. What does this mean? The U.S. economy is heading into dangerous territory. But it’s not just the stock market that’s in trouble. The U.S. government’s interest expense has gone off the charts, pushing past a staggering $1.1 trillion. And if current trends …
“Donald Trump has left Britain simply no choice but to plan for military conscription” – Former NATO Chief Sir Richard Shirreff
🚨🇬🇧 “Donald Trump has left Britain simply no choice but to plan for military conscription” – Former NATO Chief Sir Richard Shirreff How would you feel about being forced to join the army to go camp out in Ukraine? pic.twitter.com/VedELZK8Jk — Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) February 19, 2025
A Credit Suisse-style collapse is imminent in Japan, and there’s no easy or inexpensive fix for the disaster that’s brewing.
If Norin sells foreign bonds now, it suggests deep liquidity trouble beyond CLOs. https://twitter.com/Bogachan_1971/status/1892415980887855409 Japan’s second-largest bank, Norinchukin, is deep in a liquidity crisis, and it’s becoming nearly impossible to hide its mounting losses. A Credit Suisse-like Collapse is Looming in Japan And there is no good/easy/inexpensive way to clean up the mess Japan's Second …
Ouch….surprised CNN aired this.
911, I’d like to report a murder.. Dr. Paul Offit’s Smear Campaign Against RFK Jr. Backfires Spectacularly on CNN as Calley Means Obliterates and Exposes him as a Big Pharma Shill “As you know, you were the Merck chair at the children’s hospital… it was like a NASCAR driver… pic.twitter.com/esjid50cnG — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) February 19, …
A BLM leader siding with the Right?
Even the most extreme Democrats can’t ignore it anymore—they’ve got to start questioning the narrative. It’s no longer just the “left vs. right” divide; now, everyone is seeing the cracks.
Hispanic republicans warn Mike Johnson.
A group of eight House Republicans in the Congressional Hispanic Conference sent a warning shot to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on the chamber’s budget resolution that outlines sweeping cuts as part of advancing President Trump’s legislative agenda, adding to the complexity of getting enough support in the slim GOP majority to advance it on the …
Mike Waltz tells Zelensky to ‘tone it down.’
https://twitter.com/maynolal/status/1892403942778130495