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🚨Honda is CANCELING it's $15B EV plant in Canada. The Honda plant was part of the failed $52B Liberal plan to shower manufacturers with subsidies to develop the industry here. Honda will make EVs and hybrids it needs in Ohio instead where it can do so on one production line. pic.twitter.com/h6MydWJh59 — Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) …
🚨 JUST IN: Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar is REFUSING to turn over all documents to the Minnesota fraud committee regarding her involvement in a $250M scandal, despite today being the deadline Ilhan Omar's name appeared in a chain with the fraudster who led the scheme, MULTIPLE times… pic.twitter.com/CcRVHhnjtL — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 5, 2026
Delta Air Lines canceled dozens of flights out of Atlanta this evening due to unexpected crew shortages. The airline cited a combination of weather delays earlier in the day and crew fatigue. Passengers are facing major rebooking issues at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Delta is offering hotel vouchers and meal credits where possible. This isn’t a one-off. …
Here we go again with this bullshit. They’ll do it and try to blame Iran. We all know this. They’ll do it on whatever date their numerological witchcraft tells them to do it @netanyahu pic.twitter.com/fI32kFQKS5 — T-rashPandadada (@T_rashPandada) May 5, 2026
City leaders pitch “local business” and “environment” while pushing tighter travel and zoning rules. They wreck economies then lecture the little guy about flying too much. Foreign tourism has fallen off a cliff. This is a $100B domestic industry largely concentrated in NYC, southern Florida, southern California, and Las Vegas. Hotels, airlines, restaurants, and tour …
Ram this through and watch the next rug pull leave retail holding bags while executives already cashed out in the dark. Awesome. Even less transparency for markets. All this does is incentivize investors to take on even more risk despite knowing even less about how a company is performing. This turns the market into even …
$480k home with 10 percent down hits $3,400 monthly mortgage while he clears just $5,800 take home via PurpleRecognition216 I max my 401k, I have an emergency fund, no credit card debt, no car payment and no student loans. Grew up in Austin. My parents bought their house in 1991 for $87,000 on a …
Vivek Ramaswamy has won the Republican primary for governor of Ohio this evening. He defeated Casey Putsch in a decisive victory according to early results. The win positions Ramaswamy as the frontrunner in the general election. This is a major development in the 2026 midterm cycle. Ramaswamy celebrated the result with supporters. Vivek pulling off …
A group of publishers filed a lawsuit against Meta this evening accusing the company of using their books without permission to train AI models. The suit claims Meta violated copyright laws in the process. This is the latest in a series of legal challenges against big tech over AI training data. The publishers are seeking …
Then how do you explain people calling it a housing bubble in 2006 and people calling it a tech bubble in 2000. Just because everyone is standing on the beach filming the tide go out doesn't mean there isn't a tsunami coming. Humans love to ignore reality. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) May 5, 2026 ⚠️The AI …
We need to continue to fix the fracture between the left and the right. We now know what true evil is. It is us against the Epstein class and warmongers. — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) May 4, 2026 I wouldn’t write this off entirely. Her audience is huge. Her influence is huge. I still don’t like …
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is currently cleaning house in a way we haven’t seen in years. Several heavy hitters in the command staff just got their walking papers because they were caught cooking the books on crime stats. Basically, the “illusion of safety” in D.C. was being manufactured in spreadsheet cells rather than on …
pic.twitter.com/IBdMVpDtUX — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 5, 2026 Factcheck: No, it’s not true. FIFA’s last-minute sales phase is active with tickets still available first-come, first-served across all matches. Claims of mass cancellations due to ICE fears or “crashed” sales to $100 have been debunked by FIFA as fake news—no bulk refunds or drops reported. Resale …
Over 100,000 undocumented Chinese nationals sit in US while China takes just 3,000 then drags its feet. Law-abiding Chinese travelers now face cash bonds and visa blocks because their government won’t take its own back. US prepared for visa sanctions on China over migrants issue, official says https://t.co/RuvLOQ4OOx — The Straits Times (@straits_times) May 5, …
US KC-135 tanker screams emergency over Persian Gulf right off Iran. JUST IN🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇶🔥 An American KC-135 refuelling aircraft — affiliated with the U.S. Air Force has declared an emergency while flying over the Persian gulf off Iran. 🚨has Iran Started a electronic warfare or jamming against US and Israel? pic.twitter.com/VkAYjsCD3T — RKM (@rkmtimes) May 5, …
Senate Republicans are pushing a bill to fund $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for Secret Service upgrades. The proposal includes security for President Trump’s ballroom at the White House. The measure comes amid ongoing threats and recent incidents. Democrats have already criticized the high cost. A billion dollars for White House security upgrades is a …
Arsenal defeated Atlético Madrid this evening to book a place in the UEFA Champions League final. It is the first time Arsenal has reached the final since 2006. The win ends the longest gap between finals for any team in the competition’s history. Fans and players are celebrating the historic achievement. The final opponent will …
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated this evening that the US military operation against Iran known as Epic Fury is now concluded. He said the focus has shifted to reopening the Strait of Hormuz under Project Freedom. The ceasefire remains shaky but holding for now despite recent Iranian strikes on vessels and the UAE. Rubio …
Government buys your location purchases and searches then lets AI agents connect the dots in minutes. Anthropic balks at DOD but OpenAI jumps in to supercharge mass surveillance loophole. How LLMs could supercharge mass surveillance in the US “There are pieces of your life scattered all over the internet, and some of them are for …
Hollywood elite cheer as Perry waves classic occult symbol like she’s casting spells on stage. Katy Perry’s glove w/ The Magician tarot card, at the 2026 #MetGala. pic.twitter.com/YwF0vPDyUE — The XO Show ™ (@latenightxoshow) May 4, 2026 Katy Perry showing her 6 fingers gloves at the MET GALA shading AI. pic.twitter.com/cMLjX6Tkwk — kanishk (@kaxishk) May …
Once you let the state kill the depressed it’s game over for the vulnerable. Normalize this and watch Canada start clearing hospital beds with body bags next. Toronto woman fights court for MAID over bipolar and PTSD “A Canadian woman who has been fighting for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to be an option for …
FedEx and UPS in freefall, double digit losses in a single session… Bezos building a moat around the entire planet’s shipping… The legacy players looking like ghosts, old models dying in real time… The death of the middleman, one prime truck at a time. Investors dumping transport like it’s a toxic asset. Monopoly power has …
Market melting up on sheer momentum… Tech giants crushing earnings, sucking all air out of the room… VIX cooling to 17, shorts getting incinerated… Unreal, purely algorithmic at this point. Nobody wants to sell the top, everyone afraid to miss the moon. The higher it goes, the harder the snap will be. During the 2000 …
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user’s installs of …
Causes of death in London in 1632. What do you notice pic.twitter.com/l35pDgY5Fb — Science girl (@sciencegirl) May 5, 2026 Some definitions: Affrighted = stress-induced heart attack Ague = fever with periods of shivering and sweats (like malaria) Apoplex = stroke and aneurysm, Meagrom = migraine or severe headache Bit with a mad dog = rabies …
Delta customers in uproar as airline cuts snack and beverage service on hundreds of flights daily https://t.co/kaPUqak1W5 pic.twitter.com/TmHJaOKaV9 — New York Post (@nypost) May 5, 2026 It’s B.Y.O. snacks for thousands of Delta passengers. Starting May 19, Delta Air Lines will no longer offer food and beverage service on 450 daily flights. The removal of …
A fireworks factory explosion in central China has left dozens dead and many more injured. h/t b4its2l8
Just 25% of U.S. non-homeowners expect to buy within five years, the lowest on record. pic.twitter.com/RpZFcUsxX3 — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) May 4, 2026
