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Thousands of miles from the Élysée Palace, Brigitte Macron is heading to a courtroom in Delaware, and she has to prove she is biologically female. She will show medical records, pregnancy documents, and expert testimony. This is not just embarrassing. It is surreal. A public figure is being forced to defend a basic fact about …
The text messages prosecutors released are supposed to show motive, but anyone under 25 would just laugh. Young people do not write in full sentences with perfect punctuation, yet that is exactly how the government says these texts appeared. It looks less like evidence and more like a script written by someone who never used …
The parents of Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer Tyler Robinson are a construction worker and a care worker, it can be revealed. Police sources identified the 22-year-old Utah resident as the main suspect in the assassination of the conservative activist. Robinson was taken into custody on Thursday night in southern Utah after having allegedly confessed to …
India-US trade is neatly balanced if we include imports and exports of IT services. True that. pic.twitter.com/ZEqORiHm86 — Arijit Roy🇮🇳 (@iArijitRoy) September 3, 2025
View post on imgur.com Redditors smugly claim "this comic is literally the opposite of reality" As usual, these Redditors are wrong. Here's a picture of the actual situation that this comic was based on: pic.twitter.com/JyN6XTp40Q — Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) August 21, 2025 View post on imgur.com A knifeman stabbed a well-known Islam critic, a police …
Sales of Tesla ’s flashy Cybertruck are a fraction of the more than 1 million reservations the company had a month before deliveries began rolling out in November 2023. So far, U.S. sales total just over 52,000 units, according to Cox Automotive. “It’s a really remarkable vehicle,” said Sean Tucker, executive editor of Cox Automotive. …
Funny how once you actually start digging, you find all the bodies https://t.co/AHDusUTGTn pic.twitter.com/ZXoxiXF3Zn — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 18, 2025
Germany's economic decline is much more severe than most people think. The country is actually in free fall. pic.twitter.com/FPOplP101R — Thorsten Polleit (@ThorstenPolleit) August 13, 2025 Investor morale collapsed. “The economic sentiment index fell to 34.7 points from 52.7 points in July, while analysts polled by Reuters had pointed to a reading of 39.8.” https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-08-12/german-investor-morale-falls-more-than-expected-in-august-zew-finds …
Bitcoin vs. actually disruptive technology byu/doctorfeelgood33 inButtcoin “The Bitcoin line excludes lost and dormant wallets. The entire ecosystem of bitcoin is manipulated through whales and a niche market with price escalation almost entirely timed via FOMO narratives (halving, ETFs, inflation hedge, etc.). Thing fucking s**ks.”
Plot twist… they are actually the ones following the law. — Maverick…….. (@Maverick2024LF) August 4, 2025
The new Naked Gun reboot starring Liam Neeson is getting rave reviews and super high scores from critics. It is being called 2025’s funniest movie. “Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun Revival Scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes”—critics say it delivers nonstop jokes that work.https://www.thecinemachina.com/2025/07/30/liam-neeson-naked-gun-comedy/ Reviewers call it “[It] delivers a cavalcade of gut‑busting jokes and gags that …
Assuming the economy continues its downturn as all the major markets are pricing, what would that look like and what should we be looking for? That leads into the question of how deflationary money becomes a deflationary or depression economy in the first place. That means we need to examine economic mechanisms.
No one being able to compete with Nvidia would actually be a legitimate reason to break them up…. Wtf is he even talking about? — Pivot Point Investing (@P_Earns24) July 24, 2025
by Adorable-Low-1568 You likely know about Wired article, where they discovered from the video metadata that it was edited and that it actually used two source clips. You also know about the missing minute from 11:58:58 to 12:00:00. Another redditor used a different exiftool command for more metadata. There you can find the lengths of the two source …
AI-Generated videos depicting MAGA supporters – including Trump himself – working in warehouses sewing and manufacturing are going viral after the trade war between Beijing and Washington kicked off. pic.twitter.com/7L58XWnFGb — Briefly (@Brieflybynewj) April 9, 2025 China on Friday struck back at President Trump’s ballooning tariffs, raising its duties on imports of US goods to …
Why didn’t Democrats have anything to say about this? Ohh wait… that’s (D)ifferent pic.twitter.com/uJwxnAhYrE — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 7, 2025
by confoundedinterest17 Remember when President Joe Biden uttered “I give you my word as a Biden!”? Coming from perhaps the biggest liar in history who NEVER tells the truth! Well, the latest in his long string of lies is that he is handing the strongest economy in modern times to Trump. Instead of the 1.1% …
It’s happening — Yep Its Spicy (∞/21M) HODL (@yep_its_spicy) December 15, 2024 Honestly I share your sentiment that BTC isn’t worth this value it’s trading at. It’s fueled by momentum only. Pretty soon it will cycle down hard I feel. Just after the exhaustion — Matt (@TradersParadise) December 15, 2024
TV-news programs are some of the most-watched in a fragmented media ecosystem, but advertisers have increasingly shied away from the medium in recent years, fearful that polarized audiences will associate their pitches with hot talk and tough stories tied to politics, climate change and cultural debates. They may be making a poor decision. A new …
Recessions are a process and what past episodes all have in common is one key ingredient. Rather, one element that comes up missing every time. This critical factor doesn’t just end up being the difference between downturn and full-blown contraction, it also turns a recession into a depression. And we’ve got the data for it …
Does the mayor understand that its up to 20 years he talking about? Thats just for conspiring to stop federal agents. If he actually tries its obstruction insurrection and a probably a few others crimes. pic.twitter.com/3a1w6Kz0fl — MostlyHarmless (@harmless_human) November 26, 2024 Sean Hannity: Tom, you heard this mayor out there in Colorado. I want to …
CNN anchor Chris Wallace was the first network star given the boot as the channel faces a staffing bloodbath in the face of cratering ratings. Puck News reported that Wallace, who was paid $7 million a year, was told his two shows on the network were being axed by CEO Mark Thompson. He was told …
CNN host Dana Bash typically registers among the sea of corporatist, establishment-fluffing career media hacks populating the cable news shows. So it came as something of a surprise when Bash went off script recently and questioned whether Democrats’ electoral strategy of shunning an invitation from wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan — especially because of how …
Inflation is a controversial topic among economists. They can’t always agree on the best ways to measure it, or even what causes it. They all agree on one thing, though. You’ll never believe why the so-called experts think inflation is a necessary evil… Key takeaways Inflation boosts GDP and tax revenues, benefiting governments at the …
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks has a TOTAL MELTDOWN over Donald Trump’s victory, and is on the verge of tears! Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks has a TOTAL MELTDOWN over Donald Trump's victory, and is on the verge of tears! #Election2024 pic.twitter.com/KhkRCxWz7d — Shamoo (@ShamooYT) November 6, 2024 This aged like milk pic.twitter.com/9RYoqi1Wy9 …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, By placing search/social media in the bucket of newspapers, radio and TV networks, perhaps we’ve obscured their true nature as “Digital Marketing Mechanisms.” Language is a funny thing. If we don’t have a word for something, in some way it doesn’t exist. When we find a word in another language …
Journalist: Trump leads with men by 16 points. Why is that? Kamala — Look at this audience. Men are supporting me. Voters can be 'unburdened by who they may have voted for in the past.'pic.twitter.com/JSpVuYvTOm — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 28, 2024
The look on Sara Sidner's face says it all. pic.twitter.com/LoEK8dODs6 — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 16, 2024 ‘Now I like him’: Some Black voters in Georgia see Trump as a real option | Politico Republicans are working to turn out more new Trump voters. The pews were filling up inside Mount Zion Baptist Church, where …
