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Assembly pushes $250,000 budget item for July 3 NYC wedding protection, plan gets yanked fast… Democrats and Gov. Hochul office spin quick pull and no earmark, hide the initial push… New York families fight sky high rents and housing crunch while celebrity security talk burns public cash… These Albany Democrats are so disconnected they thought …
This woman needs to be investigated. She's mentally ill. What is wrong with people!! pic.twitter.com/qFf31F8lmT — Adi (@Adi13) May 20, 2026
A record breaking 45 million Americans are expected to travel for Memorial Day weekend despite higher gas and airfare costs… Airlines and highways face heavy congestion with millions already on the move… Sinkhole near LaGuardia runway added extra travel chaos at a major airport… Wildfires in Southern California and severe weather in the Midwest complicate …
by Michael One of the reasons why so many Americans are deeply afraid to go outside and enjoy nature is because they fear getting bit by a tick. When I was growing up, getting bit by a tick was very rare, and getting a disease from a tick bite was even rarer. But now Lyme …
UPDATE: IRAN DENIES REPORT OF NEW URANIUM ORDER A senior Iranian official denied claims that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued an order requiring enriched uranium to remain inside Iran, calling the reports “enemy propaganda.” The official said no new directive has been issued,… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) May 21, 2026 440.9 kg of 60 percent …
This Indian prime minister type keeps posting music appreciation and gala photo ops while the rupee crashes, inflation crushes everyone, markets tank, and over 100 people died in a UP calamity with widespread joblessness. Why are our leaders so disconnected from reality?Currency is crashingMarkets are crashingFIIs are running awayInflation is going up100+ people died in …
2Y Treasury at 4.106% and climbing. Khamenei just killed the uranium transfer framework this morning. The deal trade that crashed crude yesterday is unwinding fast. Short end yields don't lie the market is repricing both the rate path and the geopolitical risk simultaneously.… — Catalyst Pit (@CatalystPit) May 21, 2026 Grok: Rising 2-year Treasury yields …
by Michael We have never faced anything quite like this. Diesel fuel and fertilizer have become far more expensive as a result of the conflict in the Middle East, and extreme weather is playing havoc with crops all over the planet. Here in the United States, we just experienced the driest first three months of a …
According to SpaceX IPO papers reported by Axios, Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 as part of the compute deal the companies signed earlier this month. That comes out to roughly $15 billion a year. For comparison, Axios says SpaceX’s annual revenue is around $18 billion, so this one deal …
WHO spins scaled up response and contact tracing, hides tracking failures from local chaos… Congo villages and Uganda border zones face unchecked spread as insecurity blocks full containment… WHO confirms 528 total suspected cases and 132 deaths across the DRC and Uganda as of May 18, 2026… Uganda reports 12 suspected cases, with two laboratory-confirmed …
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump on Iran negotiations: "I'm in no hurry. Everyone is saying, 'Oh, the midterms.' I'm in no hurry." No hurry. Gas is at $4.52. Inflation at 3.8%. The midterms are in 5 months. No hurry at all. https://t.co/vLsxnS0P2F pic.twitter.com/CahAEnAKkL — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 20, 2026 🚨 REPORTER: "What's your message to American families …
Wall Street crowd ignores the option data, pushes the nonstop rally story… Past patterns like this trigger sudden market drops, retail accounts take the pain… ⚠️THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE: ~24% of the S&P 500's top 100 stocks now have an inverted 3-month call skew, approaching the 25% peak seen during the 2021 meme stock frenzy. …
Personally I think David Lammy calling half the population ‘worse than fascists’, Tonia Antoniazzi calling them ‘gammon’, and Keir Starmer referring to anyone who protests against his government as ‘far-right thugs’, is highly offensive and totally inappropriate for holders of… — Pippa Pepperpot 💚🍄🦖 (@PippaP22) May 19, 2026 He whitewashed his entire posting history pre …
Across America, a silent collapse is unfolding behind closed car doors and storage unit walls. Millions of working people who once held apartments, careers, and stable lives are now sleeping in parking lots, cooking ramen in bathrooms, and calling Walmart lots “home.” This is not the homelessness America used to know. These are not the …
Revenue = $81.6 billion (up 85% YoY) Net Income = $58.3 billion (up 211% YoY) Earnings Per Share = $2.39 (up 214% YoY) And it’s the bottom of the tech stack, all the companies up the stack need a lot more revenue than this collectively from AI in order to give Nvidia this revenue and …
Iran Now Has More Incentive To Resist US Demands, Even If War Restarts: Israeli Think Tank https://t.co/73RJAciGq2 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 19, 2026 Iran Now Has More Incentive To Resist US Demands, Even If War Restarts: Israeli Think Tank At this point even hawkish Israeli think tank pundits are increasingly admitting that Iran currently has …
Obviously a recruiting visit. Everyone knows money has no party, and money changes people's beliefs, vote, and conscience. — Will (@willnjoycomcas1) May 19, 2026 These socialist phonies hug Wall Street suits then act like they fight for the little guy. 🚨 Socialist Democrat NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani met privately with rich business owners, and reportedly …
Look, mom. I'm on the news! — Telegram Messenger (@telegram) May 19, 2026
SpaceX IPO prospectus has been released SpaceX’s official IPO filing sets up a likely Nasdaq debut next month. Goldman Sachs is lead left on the prospectus, followed by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. SpaceX was valued at $1.25 trillion in February after merging with xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, meaning …
Taiwan and South Korea have officially leapfrogged Western markets in valuation growth this year… TSMC now accounts for a staggering 40% of Taiwan’s total market capitalization, creating a single-point-of-failure scenario… Michael Burry and other macro bears are publicly drawing parallels between the current AI debt frenzy and the 1999 dot-com bubble… Foreign capital is fleeing …
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Hezbollah continues frequent drone and rocket attacks on northern Israel, including the Kiryat Shmona area. Schoolchildren there had to take shelter during the day due to alerts from incoming threats. Hezbollah has released and increased use of fiber-optic guided FPV drones that are hard to jam. Footage from earlier this month shows one such drone …
If that’s the case, then you already have your wish. pic.twitter.com/aAxXy8ZXIN — Steve · Millionaire Habits (@SteveOnSpeed) May 20, 2026 The rich pay the most. pic.twitter.com/DciO0Sv0TO — Jim (@jimvski) May 20, 2026
First day of warm weather and police had to impose an emergency 8PM curfew in Long Branch, NJ "Large crowd of unruly teens" pic.twitter.com/sWYnrKBS2g — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 20, 2026 Police imposed an emergency 8 p.m. curfew in the Pier Village beachfront area of Long Branch, NJ after hundreds of teenagers gathered due to …
Wall Street spins the massive beat narrative, hides the post earnings selloff reality… Retail call buyers get wrecked on volatility crush, Nvidia degens chase the next pop… Adjusted EPS $1.87 Revenue $81.62B, est. $79.19B (+20% QoQ, +85% YoY) Sees Q2 Revenue $91.0B ±2%, est. $87.36B Adjusted Gross Margin 75.0% Sees Q2 Adjusted Gross Margin 74.5%–75.5% …
SEPANG — The Sumud Nusantara Command Centre (SNCC) has confirmed that all 50 vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) 2.0, carrying 428 humanitarian activists from 40 countries, were intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters about 80 nautical miles off the Gaza coast. SNCC director-general Datuk Dr Sani Araby Abdul Alim Araby (picture) …
Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet for Putin today to issue a joint condemnation of “irresponsible” U.S. foreign policy and the “law of the jungle.” The optics are a total clown show: Xi hosted Trump just days ago, but the summit with Putin is where the real business is, with the two leaders signing …
3 ships is not surging wtf are you talking about — Technophile (@Technop54777070) May 20, 2026
An adult in Douglas County has died from hantavirus, in a case that health officials say is not connected to the recent cruise ship outbreak.https://t.co/UeWJn6oEYR pic.twitter.com/F6Bab3LJ6I — ABC4 News (@abc4utah) May 18, 2026 No additional information was released about the person who died, but the state said the case is not linked to the outbreak …
