Yeah, this is mostly true but the headline spins it a bit hard.

🚨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 …

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Over half of Americans say health care, a weeklong vacation and a new car are unaffordable. US 30-Year Mortgage Rate jumps to 6.86%, the highest level since November

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 …

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OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to IPO in 2026. OpenAI is targeting a $1T valuation. Anthropic at least $500B. AI is still mostly just a really good and fast Google search?

The reality is that both OpenAI and Anthropic are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars just trying to out compute each other over the next decade. Instead of guessing which massive software model wins the war at a $500B+ premium, the real opportunity is buying the… — 5to9_M.J. …

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Housing markets “freeze” before they crash. Why? Because it’s an illiquid market mostly held by overleveraged owners who ignored the math.

Housing markets "freeze" before they crash. Why? Because its an illiquid market primarily owned by broke morons who can't do basic math. https://t.co/5DlojhK7My pic.twitter.com/rjnEclAoap — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) October 8, 2025 Homebuyers Are Canceling Deals at a Record Rate. Here’s Why. Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on …

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The past few lockdowns, mostly bullish if less than 2 weeks…. Food assistance programs will be defunded?

The past few lockdowns, mostly bullish if less than 2 weeks. pic.twitter.com/O2Yzk9qBOc — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) September 29, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: In a devastating development, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that if the Democrats shut down the government tomorrow, "food assistance programs for women and children and impoverished communities" …

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The Enron-like accounting inflating the AI mania: Oracle’s revenue stream mostly depends on Nvidia, AMD, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI, yet Meta, OpenAI and xAI themselves all run on Nvidia and AMD.

Oracle slashes 3,000 jobs while their “backlog” ramps up 300%. Make it make sense. Correct After the crash, business schools will start teaching Earnings Quality again It was a super popular class after the https://t.co/4y5lv9vF2o fiasco, but has been replaced with classes including "how to become a social media influencer" …

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It is not like Rogan is a tough interview. He mostly just lets people talk. For Harris, just letting her talk is probably worse than asking her questions.

NEWS w/ @JarrettRenshaw @KamalaHarris will NOT be making a trip to Austin to speak with @joerogan during her upcoming Texas swing, several sources said. She will be in Houston on Friday to talk abortion rights and is expected to fly to Michigan right after.It remains unclear… — Nandita Bose (@nanditab1) …

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Approval for SS Counter Sniper Team only granted on friday, one day before rally. Not enough time to prepare. Secret Service team for Trump was ‘mostly temporary replacements.’

“Trump has a permanent detail, however it’s much smaller in the amount of bodies,” the source said. “His detail has been worked so hard with all the travel that they’re working 7 days a week with shift changes. so HQ sends in temp agents to supplement – not a good …

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MMT (Mostly Magic Theory)! The Fraud Of ‘Monetary Policy’ (Mortgage Rates Rising With Magical Fed Money Printing)

by confoundedinterest17 MMT is mostly magic! The Federal Reserve relies on “The Power of Magic” to fool people. For example, the massive increase in money printing following Covid and Biden’s disastrous economic policies (or FOLLICIES). Modern monetary theory (MMT) is not convincing to most trained economists of various schools of thought. This causes many to balk …

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THAT’S BAD, BUT COULD WE EMPTY OUT EVEN MORE FEDERAL OFFICES? We’re paying billions in taxes for federal offices that are sitting mostly empty.

I’m a lot happier paying for an empty federal office building than I am paying for one filled with anonymous apparatchiks wrecking the country. We need many more empty federal office buildings. via based-politics: The pandemic changed how people work, with remote work becoming wildly more prominent. And the federal …

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UK stores in “deprived” areas looted at the same level as the US, media mostly ignores it, retailers about to give up

Retail crime surges to record levels with repeat offenders and criminal gangs operating exempt from consequences, new data released by Co-op reveals today (Thursday, 27 July). Co-op has seen crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour jump 35% year-on-year, with more than 175,000 incidents recorded in the first six months of this …

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