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Orlando Miner rages at the pump as diesel hits $5.69 and suppliers warn of worse this weekend. Everything tied to fuel now costs more from groceries to jet tickets to DoorDash runs.
California farmers must destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes its canneries and cancels more than $550 million in long-term contracts For many warm weather fruit lovers, the prospect of unlimited ripe and rosy peaches is mouth-watering. For Central California farmers, it’s more of a waking nightmare. To make ends meet, these farmers are …
DJT is trading at a multi-billion dollar market cap while generating less revenue than a successful suburban car dealership. The disconnect between price and productivity is reaching escape velocity. Nearly 90% of the quarterly loss is tied to $368.7M in unrealized hits on digital assets and equity. The balance sheet is effectively a high-stakes crypto …
NEW: 🇺🇸 Despite gas prices are skyrocketing, Trump told Americans that this is not true: “Gas prices are way down. Have you looked?” pic.twitter.com/XfqMc9gCzD — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) May 8, 2026
Investigators identified 11 robberies and 6 grand thefts in the span between October 2025 and May 2026 in the Intracoastal District, near NW 6th Avenue and 152nd Street, that the four subjects carried out.
McDonalds kills self-serve soda fountains nationwide by 2032 This is a five alarm fire, folks. pic.twitter.com/TmX8fuKVXO — Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) May 7, 2026 WOW🚨: Fast food spots installing bulletproof glass between employees and customers is wild. What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/o7w0UiIfxg — Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) May 7, 2026
Another view from Chalmette Refinery earlier today. pic.twitter.com/qEnwvoBRzk — Mark Tournier🇺🇸 (@marktournier2) May 8, 2026 Update from Chalmette Refinery: pic.twitter.com/C2tvGupX0A — Mark Tournier🇺🇸 (@marktournier2) May 9, 2026
Burry just dropped the biggest warning yet on this clown market. lol. Ridiculous. WTH is going on. 1999 vibes https://t.co/NjwbDbjYUW — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 8, 2026 Nasdaq 100 $QQQ is now the most overbought since 2017 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/r1CrDWHi3z — Barchart (@Barchart) May 8, 2026 BREAKING: Michael Burry says the market today feels like 'the …
The Taiwanese Legislative Yuan passed a special defense budget totaling 780 billion NTD ($25 billion USD) to counter rising PRC aggression. The funding is split into two rounds, with 300 billion NTD allocated for immediate purchases of HIMARS, M109A7 howitzers, and Javelin missiles. The second round of 480 billion NTD focuses on anti-ballistic missile systems …
U.S. forces fired on and disabled two Iranian oil tankers on Friday after they reportedly attempted to breach a naval blockade of Iranian ports. The escalation follows an overnight exchange of fire between U.S. destroyers and Iranian Revolutionary Guard units in the Strait of Hormuz. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported a fresh barrage of …
NASA’s 5,000°F “Plasma Spear” clears path for 2030s Mars missions — May 7, 2026 JPL successfully tests a 120-kilowatt lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster… The engine uses electromagnetic fields to accelerate plasma, reaching internal temperatures exceeding 5,000°F… This “Nuclear Electric Propulsion” (NEP) is designed to move massive payloads to Mars far more efficiently than chemical rockets… …
🇺🇸👽Tim Dillon on Trump releasing UFO files: "We're in a war, everything's going up, and the last thing they have is to say is there's alien bases under the water. Stop bothering us about this war. Their goal is for you to have a nervous breakdown."pic.twitter.com/eAG2tj0wiN https://t.co/AIR1t9hqsq — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 8, 2026
🇺🇸🇮🇷 A recession is coming, and most people won't see it until it's too late. Energy Economist Anas Alhajji explains why the official numbers are lying to you. "Don't be fooled by the stock market going up. The first official data of a recession is going to come out. We are… https://t.co/3hzrU37ROP pic.twitter.com/t8nbWqglLZ — Mario …
Only 13 days left until the primary everyone. This is going to be a tight race, even though Massie still has the 3:1 edge in the betting markets. Please everyone do what you can to support this man until May 19 so we don’t lose our most steadfast representative for liberty in Congress. Even just subscribing to …
Debt-to-GDP ratios explode higher as politicians ignore all spending limits. Markets quietly price in trouble while the big three Euro nations keep borrowing like addicts. h/t Themetalin
Tenant screening industry worth $1.3 billion blocks renters over old 1985 debt-to-income rules and dismissed evictions. Credit floors, non-refundable application fees and seven-year blacklists slam doors on working families. Landlords reject solid tenants while units sit empty in the middle of a supposed housing crisis.
Private credit market hits $2 trillion with banks insurers and pensions dangerously tangled in. FSB warns the sector has never faced a real downturn and data is too patchy to track dangers. Bailey just admitted the shadow banking bomb is wired up and ticking. FSB warns in a new report that traditional banks, insurers and …
Oddly enough, I think it’s finally started to affect my current maket’s used home prices. 6 months ago I didn’t click on 80-90% of the listings because the price point was astronomical and they were out of their minds. Last night I told my wife we may be buying a house finally in 2026. Prices …
The MV Hondius is scheduled to anchor at the Port of Granadilla, Tenerife, between 3 AM and 5 AM Sunday… The hantavirus-stricken vessel, carrying 149 souls, will not be allowed to dock at pier facilities to prevent local contact… 14 Spanish nationals will be moved under high-containment protocols to a military hospital in Madrid for …
via factsnsense I’m a former Republican (Reagan through Bush II) who broke from the party years ago. I’ve spent the last three months reading the primary documents on the 2026 election fight and scoring the claims against the evidence. My read is structural, not partisan, and here’s the unpopular conclusion: We’re already living in a …
Kids believe no matter how hard they work they’ll never afford a house or real life. This is a whole generation throwing in the towel. The message from the younger generations now is why bother saving? You’ll still never be able to afford anything Just spend it and have fun or to just survive. Basically …
More screens haven't made students smarter byu/normaldudeitsfine inworldinsights “For years, schools were told that more screens meant more modern education: laptops, tablets, digital assignments, one device for every student. The test-score data now makes that story look much less clean. In the U.S., 8th-grade math and reading scores peaked around 2013, started falling before the …
Post-debate poll shows massive shift with Angelenos done with the same old failures. Poll source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-mayor-debate-california-governor-race-live-updates/3883888/?cardId=1:9:3885308 Full debate:
via Many_Ebb7816 There’s a house two streets from me that’s been sitting as a bank-owned REO since February- listed at $265k, probably worth $210k in current condition, and getting worse every month it sits. I know for a fact they’ve had offers. Reasonable ones. Rejected every single one. Had an auction in April, nobody met …
8 weeks to stop the spread. NEW: President Trump says he's been briefed on Hantavirus. "It's very much, we hope, under control." "I think we're going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people — a lot of great people are studying it. It should be fine, we hope." …
Diamonds fall to their lowest value this century byu/BigSupermark inEconomyCharts Should be lower. Considering how cheap it is to lab grown those things nowadays.
The total market capitalization of Korea-listed companies has surged 74% this year to $4.59 trillion, while Canada’s has climbed about 7% to $4.5 trillion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Samsung Electronics Co., which recently crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark, and SK Hynix Inc. have both more than doubled this year as their dominance in the AI chip segment …
U.S. Central Command confirms the interception of multiple Iranian projectiles targeting three Navy vessels… The exchange follows a tense 24 hours of “mixed messages” from the White House regarding the 14-point peace memo… President Trump insists the ceasefire is “still holding” despite the flare-up, but warns of “a lot of pain” if Tehran stalls… UAE …
eBay wants me to commit a crime in order to get a refund for a counterfeit item received byu/smittyguy11 inmildlyinfuriating The only way to get a refund according to their help pages (and this support chatbot) is to return the counterfeit item to the seller. But it is a crime in my country to ship …
🇺🇸 U.S. Consumer sentiment falls to lowest reading on record pic.twitter.com/yHT0zCSdNI — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) May 8, 2026 Consumer sentiment falls to fresh record low in May as surging gas prices hit outlook Surging gas prices due to the Iran war sent consumer sentiment to a new low in the early part of May, according to …