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Microsoft Corp. has pulled back on data center projects around the world, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering artificial intelligence and the cloud. The software company has recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota …
Those junk mail envelopes come with prepaid return postage. If everyone sent them back stuffed with their own junk mail, the original senders would be stuck footing the bill for the return postage. If everyone did this it would annoy the junkers a little. Right?? — Austin Spitler (@fedmykidkorn) April 1, 2025
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to restore truth to American history through an overhaul of the Smithsonian. The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” slams the Biden administration for ushering in an era of “corrosive ideology” in recent years and seeks to unfurl “divisive, race-centered” themes plaguing the institution. …
https://twitter.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1904998891969220805 Public support for proof of citizenship requirements is high, with surveys indicating that 87% of Americans favor such measures as a way to ensure election integrity. https://www.aol.com/news/trump-signs-election-order-calling-022314535.html
Financial Times has quietly toned down its claim of a $1.4 billion misstatement in Tesla’s cash flow. After speaking with accounting sources, the publication now reports a $500 million discrepancy—a number small enough to be explained by foreign exchange movement, asset write-offs, and other adjustments. Another overhyped financial hit piece against Tesla bites the dust. …
The latest data show that Americans are taking an increasingly grim view of the U.S. economy and their own financial outlooks as uncertainty from the Trump administration’s tariff hikes and other policy changes drags on. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index fell for the fourth consecutive month, dropping 7.2 points to a reading of 92.9 …
GAVIN NEWSOM SCHOOLS TIM WALZ ON MAGA. This is actually pretty interesting. Walz is a clown who blames racism and sexism for Kamala losing, and Newsom corrects him.pic.twitter.com/KSUuiXzljL — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 18, 2025
In a statement, Chief Justice John Roberts said in part, “Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”
Attention Bitcoiners: You guys are running out of time. Most of you are too young and inexperienced to recognize what the markets are telling you. The Bitcoin bubble has popped. Real gold is in and digital fool's gold is out. You fail to recognize this shift at your own peril. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) March …
BATYA UNGAR SARGON IS NOT AFRAID TO DEFEND TRUMP. Bill Maher was not expecting this answer.pic.twitter.com/pY59mHVfAl — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 15, 2025
by Guest The economy’s not looking too hot right now. Take it from someone in the trenches of the automotive industry. Sales might be ticking along, but when you dig a little deeper, it’s clear things aren’t exactly thriving. Looking at the numbers month-to-month, I see a pattern: we’re not exactly bouncing back from the …
Can anyone watching this not see what is going on? They are trying to manipulate events surrounding Tesla to get Elon to back off of DOGE. For all the patriots that understood that the November elections were about saving US, Tesla is now part of the same fight. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 — Mary G Martis (@martis_mar24502) March …
Only 20 trillion Yen $JPY in debt. 150 bln $USD, or half GDP of Costa Rica or New Zealand. We live in money illusion world. pic.twitter.com/0ULLL31RYv — Kacper Piotr Kaminski (@Kacper_PK_CH) March 4, 2025 https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1896895309919424582 Don't be alarmed; it gets much worse. pic.twitter.com/GDnjp7VVl1 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) March 3, 2025
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis remained stable through the day on Sunday and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, the Vatican said, in a sign of progress as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia. Francis has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for more than two weeks. He was admitted on February …
It seems unthinkable that anything could live after tens of thousands of years in hibernation. The discovery of a tiny creature in the Siberian permafrost has sparked conversations about how resilient life can be. In a recent breakthrough, researchers determined that a worm which had been frozen for about 46,000 years had survived and remained …
According to the latest 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Warren Buffett trimmed Berkshire Hathaway’s stake in Nu Holdings by 46.26 million shares in the quarter ended 31st December 2024. As of now, the Oracle of Omaha owns 40.18 million shares of the Brazilian crypto bank, worth £329.73 million. Nu Holdings, …
Horrifying moment phone bursts into flames in woman’s back pocket, leaving her with serious burns pic.twitter.com/pwlncWE8a7 — New York Post (@nypost) February 11, 2025 A cellphone exploded in a woman’s pocket inside a busy supermarket in a terrifying scene that was caught on video. Security camera footage showed the unidentified victim standing next to her …
Senator Katie Britt destroys Senator Warren and the democrats for trying to call Elon Musk a co-president. This is epic. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/AvBnMlL4qU — Glockford Files (@GlockfordFiles) February 11, 2025
Common sense wins again! The war on plastic straws was never about the environment—it was about control. Paper straws were a useless, soggy, virtue-signaling disaster, and everyone knew it. “It’s a ridiculous situation. We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he signed the order. “These things don’t work,” …
by James Hickman It was early spring in the year 1171 AD when Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos decided to go to war against his much smaller ally– Venice. And the historical record shows that it was a really bad idea. The Byzantine Empire was still a vast and powerful state by the late 12th …
Apple has bought back $673 billion in stock over the past 10 years, which is greater than the market cap of 488 companies in the S&P 500. $AAPL byu/IAmNotAnEconomist inFluentInFinance
🚨 President Trump just DOUBLED DOWN on the Panama Canal “We're gonna take it back … they've TOTALLY violated the agreement.” LFG! pic.twitter.com/qgR5t5IHCG — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2025 Panamanian police on Friday fired tear gas and clashed with protesters angered by Donald Trump’s threat to take control of the Panama Canal, ahead of …
🇨🇳ALIBABA FIRES BACK AT DEEPSEEK – CHINA’S AI WAR GOES NUCLEAR Alibaba just dropped Qwen 2.5-Max in a direct challenge to DeepSeek’s meteoric rise, claiming it crushes GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B. DeepSeek’s shockwave through Silicon Valley has investors panicking… https://t.co/0gL7tjDTgu pic.twitter.com/Ib9TbXd1Ns — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 29, 2025 Here comes $BABA AI. Supposedly the best …
Free ride is over people, time to earn your paycheck. The end of remote work could be near for federal workers. President Donald Trump’s new Executive Order means federal workers must return to the office five days a week. It’s a policy change that’s getting support from D.C.’s Democratic mayor. FOX 5’s Tom Fitzgerald is …
The market’s reckless exuberance is running on free-money steroids. Back to the all time high. Breadth negative on both exchanges. pic.twitter.com/Unu50o96zo — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) January 22, 2025 It's true that I enjoy financial experimentation. I like watching it, I don't enjoy participating. pic.twitter.com/z1Tbxu64yR — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) January 22, 2025 Let's do this. pic.twitter.com/eNWBHDiT41 — Mac10 …
It seems success isn’t enough—they’re testing just how much subscribers will tolerate. Netflix is raising its prices again – after adding 19 million new subscribers in Q4 Key Takeaways Netflix confirmed it would be “adjusting prices” on most of its plans in its shareholder letter released Tuesday, saying the company “will occasionally ask our members to pay …
US Bank has recently launched the US Bank Smartly Visa Signature Card, an enticing option for those who maintain a high balance in their accounts. This card promises substantial rewards, offering up to 4% cash back on all purchases for customers who keep a qualifying balance of $100,000 or more. This innovative approach is part …
That’s a hostile act. Period. Full stop. Breaking from @hntrbrkmedia: China’s DJI, the world's largest drone manufacturer, has disabled U.S. geofencing on its drones, enabling flights over airports, military bases, and no-fly zones. DJI says it is putting “control back in the hands of the drone operators” pic.twitter.com/UGqDi8zjhP — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) January 14, 2025 h/t …
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission NASA announced Tuesday that it’s exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve environmental samples from Mars at a lower cost. The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space …
When it debuted a few years ago, Porsche’s Taycan broke records and shattered expectations of what an EV could be. Since then, though, times have changed, and public sentiment for EVs has cooled. Most recently, a perfect storm of variables has led to Porsche continuing to develop gas engines for many of its models and …