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You’re grown now, but Ronald still wants you back: McDonald’s unleashes adult Happy Meal with mystery shake, mascot tins, and full McDonaldland reboot, launch timed with kids’ crossover drop

McDonald’s is launching an adult Happy Meal. But it’s not just a meal, it’s a full-blown nostalgia campaign dressed as innovation. The McDonaldland Meal drops August 12. It comes with a Quarter Pounder or McNuggets, fries, a mystery shake, and collectible tins. The characters? Ronald, Grimace, Hamburglar, Birdie, Mayor McCheese, Fry Friends. All back. All …

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Mass march in Manchester wants migrants sent back

Thousands marched through central Manchester today calling for mass “remigration.” Wow ! https://t.co/AsmMUzXb4K — JUNGO ⚜️ (@im_Jungo) August 2, 2025 🚨SEND THEM HOME🎶🚨SEND THEM HOME🎵🚨SEND THEM HOME🎶 Chant breaks out in Newcastle as POLICE start making ARRESTS pic.twitter.com/gg3pbS8fJ6 — Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 2, 2025 Beautiful UK, absolutely beautiful! pic.twitter.com/J53aY3Rkh1 — Rebecca Mistereggen (@RMistereggen) …

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Bud Light lost its fizz and can’t get it back

Budlight will never recover pic.twitter.com/dcug9mimWm — aka (@akafaceUS) August 2, 2025 Bud Light is losing ground fast. Its sales dropped sharply after a string of bad publicity and poor marketing choices. Once America’s top-selling beer, it now ranks third behind rivals like Modelo and Michelob Ultra. “Bud Light’s market share has significantly decreased, and it …

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If Texas cheats, Newsom says California might cheat back

A Texas House panel advanced a GOP plan to redraw districts. That kind of move is admitting you can’t win without cheating. In 2022 New York’s Democratic legislature drew a map that courts called unconstitutional and threw it out. That ruling forced a redraw by an independent official. TEXAS HOUSE PANEL ADVANCES GOP GERRYMANDER PROPOSAL …

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Redskins owner wants stadium back at RFK

Commanders Managing Partner Josh Harris speaks about the impact of building a stadium at the RFK site and what it would mean for the team and the city of Washington, D.C. Securing the site was one of the top priorities Harris laid out in 2023 when he purchased the team and with… https://t.co/XCPi1wETLc — Adam …

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Hayes blasts Trump over benefit agency cuts, but numbers don’t back her up

Jahana Hayes lashed out at Trump over proposed cuts to the Employee Benefits Security Administration. The EBSA oversees retirement plans and health benefits for over 150 million Americans. Hayes called the plan “reckless” and said it would “gut the very agency that protects workers’ savings.” But the agency’s budget has doubled in 10 years, while …

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UPS is closing buildings. Amazon is pulling back. Credit card debt just hit 1.18 trillion. BNPL defaults rising. Recession already here, experts warn

UPS is closing 73 buildings and cutting 20,000 jobs. Amazon volume is down 50 percent. That’s not automation. That’s collapse. UPS says it’s “reconfiguring the network” but the closures are concentrated in retail-heavy states where consumer demand is evaporating. Q2 revenue fell nearly 3 percent. Peak season plans? Not submitted. That means retailers don’t know …

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Bill Maher publicly walked back his earlier criticism of Trump’s tariff policies, admitting they didn’t tank the economy like he predicted.

Another pundit dragged kicking and screaming into reality. Maher’s confession underscores what the data already showed: tariffs didn’t sink the economy, they coincided with a bull run. The real damage came from the experts who were certain they would. 🚨NEW: Bill Maher ADMITS he was *WRONG* about Trump's tariffs🚨 "The stock market is at record …

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Trump just killed the $600 IRS rule. Venmo, PayPal, CashApp users now safe from tax form overload. $20K/200 rule is back.

President Trump signed off on a tax reform that wipes out the $600 IRS reporting rule for payment apps. The rollback applies to CashApp, Venmo, PayPal, Airbnb, Etsy, and other platforms that process peer-to-peer payments. Starting with the 2025 tax year, users will only receive Form 1099-K if they cross both $20,000 in gross payments …

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Intel slashes workforce and cancels billions in projects to fight back with AI chip focus and new technology push

Billions in chip projects scrapped in Europe. INTEL TO LAY OFF 15% OF WORKERS, CANCEL BILLIONS IN PROJECTS IN BID FOR REBOUND-WSJ — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) July 25, 2025 INTEL EMPLOYEE COUNT BY YEAR 2022: 131,9002023: 124,8002024: 108,9002025: 75,000 INTEL HAS LAID OFF NEARLY 45% OF ITS WORKFORCE OVER THE LAST 4 YEARS$INTC https://t.co/pjYvT9mYxf — …

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Redbook retail growth slows to 5.2%. Inflation hits food, apparel, and home goods. Even wealthy consumers are cutting back.

Retail is cooling. Not collapsing. But the heat is gone. The latest Redbook Index shows year-over-year growth of 5.2% for the week ending July 19. That’s down from 5.9% the week prior. The sample covers 9,000 stores and represents 80% of the Commerce Department’s retail data. It’s nominal. Not inflation-adjusted. So the real story is …

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Elon Musk has noted that there was a bedroom in the back of Epstein’s infamous jet, the Lolita Express.

Elon Musk has pointed out the unsettling presence of a private bedroom located at the rear of Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private jet, commonly known as the Lolita Express. This Boeing 727, infamously used by Epstein to transport underage girls and high-profile individuals, reportedly featured this secluded space, adding to the disturbing allegations surrounding its operations …

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Gold prices are rising toward $3,400/oz like inflation is back, treasury yields are rising like deficit spending is worsening

Markets flash crisis signs… Current situation: 1. Bitcoin is up +60% in 3 months like the USD is broken 2. The USD is falling in its worst start to a year since 1973 3. Gold prices are rising toward $3,400/oz like inflation is back 4. Treasury yields are rising like deficit spending is worsening 5.… …

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Trump Warns, BRICS Responds – “There’s No Going Back”

Trump threatened tariffs. BRICS leaders fired back. Brazil’s president says there’s “no going back” on de-dollarization. Here’s why the summit’s quiet strategy just got louder, and what that means for the future of the dollar… By Peter Reagan For months, I expected the Rio Reset to unfold quietly: a slow, strategic rollout of an alternative …

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Mexico wants its territory back.

President of the Mexican Senate (TODAY): "We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico… Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland." pic.twitter.com/dvN6efNiSr — COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) June 9, 2025 Mexican …

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DXY has given back all of its gains following China trade news. Foreign Investors bought $57 billion worth of Japanese Assets (Equities + Bonds) last month, the most in AT LEAST 20 years

DXY has given back all of its gains following China trade news. pic.twitter.com/W9c8dZTGs9 — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) May 14, 2025 BREAKING NEWS THAILAND'S RICHEST MAN IS WARNING THAT THE UNITED STATES RISKS LOSING ITS GLOBAL LEADERSHIP POSITION IF COUNTRIES PULL BACK FROM INVESTING IN US TREASURIES Many powerful people now see it… — Gold …

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April to June 2008: There was a brief dip in expectations as some believed the worst might have passed and markets slightly stabilized.

April to June 2008: There was a brief dip in expectations as some believed the worst might have passed and markets slightly stabilized. — Citizen Watch Report (@Citizenwatchrep) May 13, 2025 Once again, the #recession never came. Economists and markets spent much of the past year bracing for a downturn—citing rate #hikes, inverted #yield curves, …

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Global Debt jumps to an all-time high of $324 Trillion. This won’t ever be paid back. It’s nothing but a giant Ponzi scheme at this point.

This won’t ever be paid back. It’s nothing but a giant Ponzi scheme at this point. https://t.co/1ok4LJIWZT — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 11, 2025 Gold scores highest weekly close in history 📈📈 pic.twitter.com/DOjfooThwz — Barchart (@Barchart) May 11, 2025 The U.S. dollar has lost 99% of its purchasing power since 1971 80% of all dollars …

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East Asia unites to counter U.S. trade pressure, ASEAN+3 back local bond markets cut reliance on Western finance

This is quite consequential. China, Japan, South Korea and the countries of ASEAN just issued a joint statement (https://asean.org/joint-statement-of-the-28th-asean3-finance-ministers-and-central-bank-governors-meeting/) in which they take a unified stance against “escalating trade protectionism”, a clear reference to Trump’s tariffs. They write that their common “policy priority” is “to reinforce long-term resilience” of the region, which given the policies …

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Foxconn China workers assembling $AAPL phones too expensive at $3/hour in 2023. The jobs aren’t coming back, only AI & Robots

Foxconn workers in China who assemble $AAPL phones, were considered too expensive at $3 per hour, in 2023. Does the Commerce Secretary really think those $3/hour jobs are coming back to the US?! https://t.co/BLGkhpT4w2 pic.twitter.com/fqRJnxgTnN — James Chanos (@RealJimChanos) May 1, 2025 The jobs aren't coming back, only AI & Robots. The overseas cost of …

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According to Polymarket, recession odds have climbed back near their April 9th peak. GDP Leaked?

According to Polymarket, recession odds have climbed back near their April 9th peak. GDP Leaked? pic.twitter.com/3O5XkEYKyU — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 29, 2025 $2,900 tariff on a $2,100 purchase from Hong Kong. You can kiss the global economy goodbye. Unavoidable now. Even if we stopped all of this tomorrow. Will take a very long time to …

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Student rescued from mountain twice in four days – after going back to find his phone

A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji last week had to be saved a second time just four days later, local authorities have said. The 27-year-old climber made an emergency call on 22 April after getting altitude sickness on the mountain’s Fujinomiya trail, about 3,000 metres (nearly 10,000 feet) above sea level. …

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