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by Michael Have we ever seen crazier weather during the month of March in the United States? Literally dozens of high temperature records have been shattered in the Southwest. Meanwhile, a very alarming series of historic droughts stretches all the way from the beaches of southern Florida to the mountains of northern Colorado. It is …
Nearly HALF of TSA agents call out at America’s busiest airports as lines stretch for almost five hours and travel chaos worsens Travelers are waiting in 270-minute-long queues at America’s busiest airports after nearly half the Transportation Security Administration officers called off work. Wait times have reached nearly five hours at George Bush Intercontinental Airport …
Over half of Americans say health care, a weeklong vacation and a new car are unaffordable, per ABC — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) March 17, 2026 JUST IN: US 30-Year Mortgage Rate jumps to 6.86%, the highest level since November byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Another out of context quote. Full quote shows Hassett saying this is “going ahead of …
Yamaha pulling out of California after half a century: HQ headed to Georgia https://t.co/4K0heOFWaA pic.twitter.com/8V81XKXsNz — New York Post (@nypost) March 10, 2026 After nearly 50 years in Orange County, Yamaha Motor Corp. USA is packing up its headquarters — trading Cypress, California for Kennesaw, Georgia in a sweeping corporate shift that will impact about …
More than half of teenagers in the United States use artificial intelligence tools for help with their schoolwork, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. Fifty-four percent of students ages 13 to 17 said they had used a chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot for tasks like researching school assignments or …
1 in 4 unemployed Americans is stuck in the trap. After 6 months:→ Employer callback rates drop ~45%→ ATS systems flag the gap automatically→ Network connections go cold→ Savings run out The job market seems to be structurally punishing people for being in it too long.… pic.twitter.com/QqSI4m4Osb — RANTZINE (@rant_zine) February 17, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Trump want half of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge. Truth Social Truth Social Link: As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge …
Not really shocking. Half of Congress thinks we are a democracy and not a constitutional republic. — No one special (@mickdayank) February 9, 2026
🚨 WTF?! A jury in Louisville recommended 65 years in prison for a convicted RAPlST KIDNAPPER, and an activist judge cut it in HALF Because he’s BLACK. The convict made CRYSTAL CLEAR he didn’t have any remorse, and didn’t care about the victim. IMPEACH! pic.twitter.com/38vigX8h6f — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 9, 2026 Per Grok: Fact …
🇨🇦 Household debt to GDP at 98.9% of GDP. pic.twitter.com/51FUUZq6w4 — Alex Joosten (@joosteninvestor) January 23, 2026 A new Food Banks Canada report shows an estimated 25 % of Canadians cannot afford two or more household essentials, suggesting roughly one in four people are living at a poverty level far higher than the official 10 …
🚨NEWS: The Fed has quietly delivered nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS of no-strings-attached bank bailouts in the last few months, according to documents & data reviewed by @LeverNews. In all, the new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis TARP bailout. pic.twitter.com/gHbVWY3eSm — David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 14, 2026 Massive, unprecedented …
pic.twitter.com/NSn8Oqi4rJ — Annie (@ZeroWarningShot) December 11, 2025 BREAKING: US rent prices declined -0.2% MoM in November, to $1,706, recording the largest November drop in at least 15 years. This also marks the 5th consecutive month of flat or negative rent changes. Annual rent growth slowed to +0.7%, down from +1.5% in Q1 2025. This comes… …
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei: "AI will wipe out half of all white collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next 1-5 years." He's known for being honest (that's why he left OpenAI). He DGAF and doesn't sugar coat it like @Sama. He knows AI is net negative for growth. pic.twitter.com/AzssdSRwyQ — Zoomer 🧢 …
HSBC has said that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030, per FT: pic.twitter.com/KQrsGIqFnK — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 4, 2025 “OpenAI may continue to attract significant funding and could ultimately develop products that…revolutionize the world. But at present, no start-up in history has operated with expected losses on …
The system is quietly trapping everyone while pretending nothing’s wrong. According to the BLM's most recent numbers, private employers are reporting 13,500 job cuts a WEEK. These are PRIVATE EMPLOYERS. NOT GOVERNMENT JOBS. The BLM reports we are seeing the worst job numbers since 2008. If you can HONESTLY justify that, you're a lot of …
Today has been an absolute bloodbath for many of the large accounts in the MAGA, Pro-Russian, Pro-Chinese, Pro-Iranian, Pro-Israel, and Crypto Communities, following the implementation of account location info by X. Today has been an absolute bloodbath for many of the large accounts in the MAGA, Pro-Russian, Pro-Chinese, Pro-Iranian, Pro-Israel, and Crypto Communities, following the …
AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10% to 20% in the next one to five years, predicts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. https://t.co/K53oCApIeF pic.twitter.com/6BgAlQ30pM — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 17, 2025 Anthropic CEO’s Prediction: “AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in 1 to 5 …
via James Hickman By the autumn of 1648, England had been embroiled in a chaotic and bloody civil war for more than six years. Extreme ideological tensions in England had been building for decades over freedom of religion, plus the balance of power within government. King Charles was wildly unpopular. And a majority of politicians …
#US flights may face delays/cancellations amid shutdown-driven #ATC shortages — reports pic.twitter.com/qkV53YBZJ6#FAA says nearly 50% of major facilities are understaffed; controllers working without pay, ABC News reported. Transportation Secretary #Sean_Duffy: “We will… — ⚡️🌎 World News 🌐⚡️ (@ferozwala) November 4, 2025 🚨⚡️BREAKING AND UNUSUAL U.S. Secretary of Transportation: We may completely shut down the airspace …
Washington’s latest sanctions have sent shockwaves through Asia’s energy markets. The decision to blacklist Russia’s two biggest oil exporters, Rosneft and Lukoil, has done more than tighten the screws on Moscow, it has thrown China and India into a scramble over how to keep their refineries supplied without losing access to the U.S. financial system. …
Public broadcasters just dropped a bombshell: nearly half of all automated news responses are wrong and the companies behind them are still pushing these systems into classrooms, search engines, and government portals without friction, disclaimers, or oversight. This isn’t a tech hiccup. It’s a systemic failure, coordinated across platforms and languages, where fabricated quotes, misdated …
https://downdetector.com/ You don’t say … 🤔 https://t.co/9oLKZGyec5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2025 THE INTERNET JUST FACEPLANTED – AND AMAZON’S HOLDING THE CORD Snapchat’s dead. Roblox won’t load. Canva’s crying. Even Alexa’s pretending she didn’t hear you. It’s not you – it’s AWS, the invisible backbone of half the web, choking in its own …
SOMETHING'S UP!! The insider whale now upped his $BTC short to $498M. This is the same guy who shorted just before Trump's speech. What does he know??? pic.twitter.com/NTqFkc2LdR — Kyle Chassé 🐸 (@Kylechasse) October 14, 2025 CHINA VOWS TO FIGHT TRADE WAR TO THE END. 🇨🇳 THIS IS DEFINITELY THE HEADLINE TAKING MARKETS DOWN A …
At least half of Kyiv is without power following explosions across the Ukrainian capital from a Russian attack – FT — Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) October 10, 2025 Half of Kyiv is without electricity at the moment. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko and city military administration head Timur Tkachenko report now that the eastern district of the …
The math is brutal, and yet no one is screaming it from the rooftops. Ninety-seven percent of all stocks are held by the top 10 percent of Americans. Half of all equities are concentrated in the hands of the top 1 percent. That leaves the bottom 90 percent with three percent, and if you do …
Vivek Ramaswamy just exposed how to clean up the crime problem in simpler terms than any Democrat could imagine. “This isn’t rocket science.” He says, “less than 500 people were committing over 50% of the crime [in Columbus, Ohio]. And then get this. If you look at the locations where they’re committed, over 50% of …
The top 1% of earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance Every rate cut will continue to drive the share up. This is incredible: The share of the top 10% of US consumers now account for 49.2% of all consumer spending, the highest level in data dating back to 1989. …
pic.twitter.com/pVKDFKqntq — no pullbacks in inflation (@no_pullbacks) September 17, 2025 and then there's this forthcoming problem pic.twitter.com/gL79bspbz7 — Scott Tindle (@scott_tindle) September 17, 2025
https://www.itpro.com/software/development/developers-arent-quite-ready-to-place-their-trust-in-ai-nearly-half-say-they-dont-trust-the-accuracy-of-outputs-and-end-up-wasting-time-debugging-code Software developers are using AI at record levels, new research shows, but they’re hesitant to place too much faith in the technology. Findings from Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey show the use of technology in the software industry has surged over the last 12 months, spurred on by the emergence of AI coding tools and, most …
Chicago Dem pol wants Trump to send in the National Guard — and says ‘half’ of city leaders agree but are too scared to admit it https://t.co/IxD8WfsNC8 pic.twitter.com/pL3UQ2FBT4 — New York Post (@nypost) September 14, 2025 A prominent Democratic leader on the south side of Chicago thinks President Trump should send in the National Guard …