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Centcom confirmed additional self-defense hits on Iranian radar and missile sites while Tehran reported retaliatory drone and missile fire toward Kuwait. Pakistan mediators called the channel extremely fragile with both sides accusing the other of bad faith. Oil prices jumped then pulled back but remain elevated near 95 dollars a barrel. Trump administration described actions …
Berkshire fire sells big names and piles into cash… Thierry thread exposes index providers waiving profitability and seasoning rules just for this IPO… Thirty trillion in 401k money now mechanically buys at whatever valuation insiders set… Ted chart shows S&P versus M2 hits most overvalued level ever… Passive savers who followed the rules for decades …
People in the Dallas suburbs who laughed and confessed to you over drinks in 2024, “I can’t believe Zillow says my house is worth $850,000. I couldn’t afford to buy it today. Who would pay that?” Are now in 2026 all listing their homes for sale for $850,000 and posting on… — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) …
ExxAlerts and NY Post lay out the nightmare… Tenant racks up 30k damage ripping walls and bathroom… Landlord drops 40k on lawyers plus endless delays… City funnels 2350 monthly voucher cash then ghosts the problem… Neighbors cut leases and flee because the guy endangers everyone… Blue city courts force landlords into unpaid social worker duty …
🇺🇸 Boston Dynamics robots are now patrolling World Cup venues in Dallas They inspect perimeters, check suspicious packages, monitor restricted areas, and support security teams with 360 cameras, thermal & chemical sensors, and AI for anomaly detection pic.twitter.com/pce9RxxZC8 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 30, 2026
This marks the first known humanoid deployment anywhere in combat… Company already locked in 24 million dollars of US military contracts… Eric Trump sits as chief strategy advisor…Ukraine turns into the real world test ground for these machines… Dangerous grunt work gets handed off to metal while soldiers stay back… Taxpayers foot the bill with …
Thread nails it everyone obsesses over spotting the next bubble… Bear case – people buying SPCE thinking it's SPCX. Meme trades are back. pic.twitter.com/tpvCzsFqXf — StarBuccaneers (@Starbuccaneers) May 30, 2026 All the usual suspects like capex slowdown circular funding inflation get dissected nonstop… Over emphasis on risks means only a totally original unseen smoking gun …
Quantinuum is heading public with a $12.7 billion valuation after generating just $36 million in revenue last year The IPO is reportedly being sold at a 27% premium to the last private funding round At the same time, investors across Reddit aren’t asking what to buy next They’re asking whether they’re already too late The …
Traders are pricing in peace while global inventories are evaporating in real time Chevron CEO Mike Wirth confirms physical shortages have already hit Asian markets Twenty percent of global energy transit remains offline with one billion barrels of supply missing US distillate fuel inventories have cratered to their lowest levels since 2003 Refineries are running …
A Kenyan court blocked the US from building an Ebola quarantine camp at the Laikipia Air Base. The ruling stops the facility cold, leaving Washington scrambling after trying to offload containment risks onto local soil. Locals are sounding off on the double standard, refusing to let their country serve in a staging ground for a …
Mario Nawfal drops the clip where Maher asks the question elites dodge… How does government pay people when AI kills all the jobs and tax revenue… Tax base collapses while AI billionaires hoard the profits… Replies scream tax the robots or just print more money… This is the trap nobody in power wants to admit… …
Hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail in Southern California have been hit with norovirus, but they’re not the only ones suffering. Wastewater data shows high levels in many states. Recent wastewater surveillance reveals an upward trend to “high” levels of norovirus across much of the country, with rates currently rising in the Northeast. From Aug. …
Mario Nawfal and GeneralMCNews flag Section 224 Pushes joint weapons production AI cyber data fusion and co-development Shifts it all into opaque defense contracts No more annual aid votes or public fights…Only 16 percent of Americans want unlimited Israel arming This locks US tech troops and budgets into Israeli ops permanently Bypasses all backlash while …
DHS snatches mystery items from the hoard. Campers tear through tents and trash piles hunting what vanished. Full paranoia mode with screams about planted evidence. These well-funded clowns never expected real pushback. Blockade fantasy ends tonight. Camps clear out fast. 🚨 NOW: ICE just RAIDED one of the encampments out here outside ICE Newark as …
100K+ counterfeit certs seized from 22 universities. Sold straight to visas and US jobs. Nigeria jumping in on the same scam. This is why your doctor sucks and patients keep dying. H1B floodgates are a public safety disaster. Time to vet every foreign credential or shut it down. America gets played again. It's not just …
SpaceX is reportedly securing major new Space Force contracts totaling $6.45B, reinforcing its deep government revenue base ahead of its IPO At the same time, reporting around the IPO highlights an unusual structure where roughly 78% of the expected ~$80B raise is already allocated to debt repayment, vendors, and insiders That leaves a relatively small …
Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s no AI search page has tripled following Google’s latest AI search rollout, with PC Gamer reporting weekly gains around 22%–28% and peaks near 30% on mobile People aren’t waiting to evaluate it They’re just switching away from AI-heavy search results as they show up Google is pushing AI summaries deeper into default …
NYT confirms Trump privately polls Vance versus Rubio while calling Vance a generational loser who can’t win on his own. Vance begged don’t hit Iran. Trump hit anyway. Now blasting Vance vacations Pakistan trip trophy drop. Vance snaps back on fraud. Trump doesn’t care. White House insiders leak the shade nonstop. This isn’t drama. Trump …
It’s not just blue-collar roles; white-collar, accounting, legal, and admin positions are now on the chopping block. Meta is reportedly cutting 8,000 roles, while Intuit is slashing 17% of its workforce. Microsoft’s AI chief predicts professional, computer-based tasks could be largely automated within just 12–18 months. Corporations aren’t hiding it, they’re bragging about efficiency …
Trump was fined $200 for filing financial disclosures way past the deadline. The filings show tens of millions in stock trades (Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) that were supposed to be reported within 45 days under the STOCK Act. Across the quarter it adds up to roughly $220M–$750M in total transactions across thousands of trades. And people …
Footage shows the strikes clean while the planes sat in repair. These beasts hunt subs and launch long-range strikes. Russia’s air fleet keeps shrinking hit after hit. Ukrainian drones penetrating deep and lighting up high-value targets again. This keeps happening while Russia brags about endless reserves. Moscow bleeding aircraft faster than they replace them. Ukraine …
A new rotation is showing up under the surface of AI stocks as capital moves out of pure momentum names and into the next layer of perceived beneficiaries Names like Reddit, Snowflake, and other “AI-adjacent” platforms are getting attention again as traders look for lagging catch-up trades after the first Nvidia-driven wave The first leg …
The E. Jean Carroll litigation is no longer just a civil court fight, it’s now feeding into new federal scrutiny over how outside funding was used to support the lawsuits. A DOJ probe is examining whether a Democratic-aligned nonprofit linked to Reid Hoffman improperly funded legal expenses tied to Carroll’s cases, raising questions about disclosure …
The old advice is simple but still being ignored at scale: use a password manager and turn on 2FA everywhere it matters. The reality is most breaches still start with reused passwords or stolen credentials, not “elite hacking.” Password managers remove the human failure point by generating and storing unique credentials per site, which kills …
The FCC is telling all broadcasters they will be held to “public interest obligations” or face the same kind of aggressive scrutiny now hitting ABC. ABC has already been forced into early license renewal filings two years ahead of schedule under protest, calling the move unprecedented and politically coercive. The agency is also signaling it …
Bloomberg: "Canada edged into a technical recession as weak business and government spending drove a slight contraction in the first quarter…Real gross domestic product fell by 0.1% on an annualized basis during the first three months of the year…: That follows a 1%… pic.twitter.com/ttA5YknRR4 — Mohamed A. El-Erian (@elerianm) May 29, 2026
US officials confirm Chinese shoulder launcher hit the fighter over Iran. Long-range early warning radar now tracks everything stealth was built to dodge. Iranian parliament head openly promises special treatment only for Russia and China in the strait. This is full weapons handover and blockade setup against America and Israel. So China can't sell it …
The S&P 500 closed the week right at the upper weekly expected move and the Nasdaq ripped almost 3% on the back of semiconductors, but underneath the surface the conditions setting up for next week are some of the most stretched we’ve seen in years — and almost nobody is talking about it. In today’s …
Cops mass quit so no calls get answered and zero reports get filed. Abracadabra reported crime drops on paper while real streets stay dangerous. Coldest snowy January in years helped hide the mess too. Subway crime up over 300% lately but they stay silent on that. Classic Democrat book cooking. Crime didn’t disappear. They just …