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Kinda wild seeing Nawfal completely flip tone today. He spent weeks talking like some truce was right around the corner, now suddenly he’s posting that the Gulf situation looks like “permanent war” territory after the Saudi airspace stuff. People in the replies noticed it fast because he was sounding way more hopeful before this. Mario …
🚨BREAKING: Trump’s ballroom will now cost $1 billion dollars and be fully taxpayer funded. pic.twitter.com/vgql9fiqMu — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 5, 2026 Republicans in the Senate just slipped $1 billion in taxpayer funding into a big reconciliation package for “security adjustments and upgrades” tied to Trump’s new White House ballroom (the East Wing modernization project). …
“THE QUANTUM DANCE”: MIT-IBM Lab launches to crack the next frontier Cambridge tech hub opens doors to fuse generative AI with quantum computing. Mission includes building toward the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum system by 2029. Scientists just imaged mysterious quantum pairing of particles inside superconductors. Quantum chips are now being tested for real uses like …
Powell gets shown the door in May while Trump lines up the softest replacement possible. Markets bet hard on rate cuts like 2021 never happened. Oil pushes higher on actual shortages and the Fed inherits an even weaker leader picked purely for loyalty. This follows the exact 1970s route with fresher memes attached. Politics wins …
by Michael A lot of people don’t seem to realize it yet, but this is a really big moment in human history. The drama that is currently unfolding in the Middle East is going to have enormous implications for all 8 billion people that are living on this planet. So if you have not been …
If the market is down hard again tomorrow then we will know that Goldman was tipped off about an imminent ground invasion. By Sleepy Donny. He said there would be no attacks on energy plants until April 6th, he didn't say there wouldn't be a ground invasion. The only ones who… pic.twitter.com/opizOMBxBP — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) …
HAVANA — Yonelkys GarcĂa, 44, a housewife and mother of two, finds it so difficult to travel to the hospital to treat her acute myeloid leukemia that she now stays at the facility one week at a time. GarcĂa has been in treatment for over a year at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology and …
Really hard to bearish seeing stats like this https://t.co/adTqOewbHC — Reformed Tr🅰️der (@Reformed_Trader) March 7, 2026 🚨 BREAKING! A LARGE tanker just SAFELY cruised through the Strait of Hormuz amid the raging conflict with Iran. Gas prices will come back down. pic.twitter.com/jdaNmgaXep — Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 8, 2026 Everyone is crying about next week… …
HUGE IRANIAN STRIKES rock the US base in Erbil, Iraq. Casualties already reported. Many American troops were inside. Trump is finished. pic.twitter.com/GTTW5QUhK8 — Parody Jeff (@Parodyjeffx) March 1, 2026 BREAKING: Iranian ballistic missile strikes Jerusalem; 7 reportedly injured. pic.twitter.com/Owa39vVUrS — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 1, 2026 https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/2028198772015284323 This is a bit embarassing for NBC …
No thanks! Please stay away from are hard earned income🙂💰💸 — JorgeNudist305🌴 (@JorgeNudist305) February 13, 2026
by Michael Over the past 5 years we have been witnessing an economic shift of epic proportions. When the cost of living rises much faster than paychecks do for an extended period of time, an entire nation can be transformed. Just look at what has happened to Venezuela. It has the largest proven oil reserves …
Return to office hit hard in 2025, and now women are leaving their jobs to stay home with their kids. Labor force participation for women aged 25–44 with children under age five fell by the steepest decline in over four decades!!!! pic.twitter.com/Y7HI1VwOvz — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) February 7, 2026 And for those curious, 60% of …
by Michael Look out below, because the dam is beginning to break.  Many of us were projecting that our economic problems would accelerate during the early portion of 2026, and that is precisely what has taken place.  Employers are conducting brutal layoffs all over the nation, the number of job openings continues to decline, stores and restaurants …
Hundreds of private equity firms are sitting on portfolios that nobody wants to buy and the flood of competition is making it worse. Their investors are fed up. This isn’t speculation. The capital is out there, but it’s not going into overpriced, illiquid assets. PE firms thought they could paper over risk forever. They can’t. …
Pres. Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 55%. That's up from 43% when he was inaugurated on January 20th, 2025. TRUMP’S TARIFFS, CONTINUED INFLATION, & GREENLAND ADVENTURISM ARE GOING OVER LIKE A LEAD BALLOON.https://t.co/0NLAH6U7L0 pic.twitter.com/jQ9cOCpikN — Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) January 25, 2026 Ken Griffin: 'Unfortunately, the most recent research indicates the tax been borne by both …
🚨WATCH: US CITIZEN DESTROYS ICE AGENT Citizen to ICE: “I don’t know what you just said, I don’t speak Spanish.” pic.twitter.com/t8V04Nbbkn — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) January 20, 2026 Factcheck: The ICE agent said (in English, with what sounds like an accent): “But all that stuff like that is impeding our investigation.” The citizen then trolled …
Really hard to imagine why precious metals have been bid. pic.twitter.com/9g2lWKXnli — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) January 14, 2026 Monetary policy should be on hold until the 12% additional inflation we've had since January 2020 above the 2% trendline is erased. There's no point in having an inflation target if you're not going to adhere …
by Michael After months of submitting resumes and filling out applications, many unemployed Americans have given in to despair.  Dozens of large companies all over the nation have been conducting mass layoffs, and the competition for any good jobs that do happen to be available has become extremely intense.  But if you have not lost your …
While Americans Enjoy Christmas Celebrations and Last-Minute Holiday Preparations, ICE Law Enforcement Was Hard at Work Arresting the Worst of the Worst Including Gang Members, Pedophiles, and Attempted Murderers Release Date: December 22, 2025 If you are in the United States illegally, self-deport via the CBP Home app before December 31, 2025, and receive a …
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US Inflation Index is dropping hard. More rate cuts and QE is coming in 2026. pic.twitter.com/WqrdhQK4K1 — Ash Crypto (@AshCrypto) December 22, 2025
pic.twitter.com/U5ofh5qn9f — Libertarian Party NH 🦔 (@LPNH) December 21, 2025 https://twitter.com/369Love_/status/2002622900827009218 California took $24B from taxpayers to address their homelessness crisis. I wonder where that money went… pic.twitter.com/kgIUkqG3D1 — ZNO 🇺🇸 (@therealZNO) December 20, 2025
This reads less like coincidence and more like a power play people are pretending not to see. Stack the courts fast, lock in ideology, and suddenly elections matter a lot less day to day. Whether you call it diversity or strategy, the timing is the tell. Courts move slow, but once they are filled, they …
Market liquidity is surging: The Treasury General Account (TGA) dropped -$78 billion over the last week, the largest liquidity injection since June. The TGA is the US government’s main cash account at the Federal Reserve, and when it declines, cash flows directly into the financial system and boosts liquidity. This marks the 4th-largest weekly drop …
Playing out, sadly: RECESSION INTO ALL TIME HIGHS #Employment ADP commentary from Chief Economist Richardson: “Hiring has been choppy of late as employers weather cautious consumers and an uncertain macroeconomic environment. And while November’s slowdown was broad-based, it was led by a pullback among small businesses.” Playing out, sadly: RECESSION INTO ALL TIME HIGHS#Employment ADP …
via Phoenix Capital Research The financial system is currently undergoing a tectonic shift from paper assets to hard assets. And this has the potential to create life-changing profits for those who invest accordingly. There are two reasons for this tectonic shift: The AI technology race is now a matter of strategic importance to the U.S. …
Read more: https://t.co/2YyHIZcWMw. — More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) November 25, 2025
U.S. stocks are pumping hard Bitcoin is dumping hard Fuck this crypto shit man !! pic.twitter.com/3OSZNf5Weh — Ash Crypto (@AshCrypto) November 11, 2025 MicroStrategy ($MSTR) traded at a notable premium to its modified NAV (mNAV) relative to Bitcoin ($BTC). Because $MSTR also issued debt—effectively paying ~7–10% to lever up its Bitcoin exposure—the company’s equity became …
$960M SOLD IN A SINGLE DAY https://twitter.com/JordanKirs97407/status/1978864399801569600
via Phoenix Capital Research The bull market in hard assets is accelerating, NOT slowing down. Gold first cleared $3,800 per ounce on September 26th, 2025. Today, less than two weeks later, it’s over $3,900 per ounce. Gold is not the only hard asset ripping higher, either. Silver was below $46 two weeks ago. Today it’s …
