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They spent years calling tough policing racist and now act shocked when reversing it actually works. Blue city’s staggering 40% violent crime drop a ‘blueprint for other cities,’ law enforcement expert says. Data from the Memphis Police Department shows violent crime is down over 40% so far in 2026 compared to the same period last …
How to turn a $39,000 Kia into a $57,806 car with a 17% car loan interest rate. This was originally posted on Reddit on March 31st as an Arizona car ($5,000 undercoating lol) It was later picked up by some rando X account claiming it was their first car. pic.twitter.com/JhjWTboekv — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April …
via WSB: Like many of you, I was playing the volatility on 🥭’s war bullshit. Managed to make over 200k from trading 0DTE options. Was intended to withdraw it all that day, but decided to place one more trade before a work meeting. Work meeting went on longer than I anticipated, I even forgot that …
House Republicans have teed up a vote Friday night on a stopgap bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at fiscal year 2025 levels for an additional eight weeks, after their stunning rebuke of a Senate-passed deal to fund most of the department. The bill is expected to pass, assuming the GOP doesn’t …
Kari McCaw was flying with co-workers to attend a conference in Las Vegas last month when Southwest Airlines employees stopped her at the ticket counter. The agents’ message was clear — either buy a second seat for herself or don’t fly. McCaw is not alone in her experience. In January, Southwest’s popular “customer of size” …
https://finviz.com/ NoLimit @NoLimitGains 🚨 DAY 6, IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE: The war is now spreading beyond the Middle East. – Iran’s death toll has risen to 1,230. Over 6,000 wounded. 181 of the dead are children. – Trump told Axios he needs to be “personally involved” in selecting Iran’s next Supreme Leader. Called Mojtaba Khamenei …
Mac10 @SuburbanDrone This is the story of the stock market year to date as viewed by the equal weight NDX and the World ex-U.S.: Back in late January, U.S. stocks got hit by AI panic – The fear that AI was going to implode sector after sector including many Tech stocks. So Wall Street pundits …
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The US has spent nearly 2 billion dollars on the war in Iran, according to estimates. pic.twitter.com/uKjI7wFMKe — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) March 3, 2026 🚨BREAKING: JESSE WATTERS TURNS ON TRUMP “Gas prices are gonna jump. Mortgage rates are already ticking up. You're gonna see inflation.” pic.twitter.com/cHygnRCxfm — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) March 2, …
The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last year, according to a Wall Street Journal report, a substantial shortfall that led the paper to lay off a third of the company earlier this month. The Post’s leaders had been vocal about the financial challenges amid changing consumer habits, but have not shared precise numbers …
«A number of sources have reported that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy has deployed a Type 055 class destroyer to lead a contingent for operations around the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, including a smaller Type 052D class destroyer, and the Liaowang-1 maritime space-tracking and surveillance ship. At a time when the United States …
People have jobs, lives, emergencies. Arrests suck, sure, but someone has to make the streets work. You can’t just sit in the middle and act like rules don’t apply. 🚨 BREAKING: Police just made mass arrests of striking nurses in Manhattan after they blocked the entrance. You don’t get to shut down access and call …
Michael Saylor has officially pushed his total Bitcoin holdings to 713,502 coins with an aggregate purchase price of over $54 billion, but his average cost basis now sits at $76,052 per coin. With Bitcoin currently testing the $75,000 range, his entire strategy is technically underwater, and the inflation-adjusted loss is a staggering blow to his …
“Probably not the best sign for home sales.” 👇🏼 https://t.co/w7rVKqK4AU — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) February 2, 2026 New House Prices have dropped below Existing Homes for the first time in history 🚨🤯 pic.twitter.com/PGQ9rQlIvi — Barchart (@Barchart) February 2, 2026 Foreclosure rates have continued their double-digit surge across the country, up 21% from last year. …
The first shot couldn't have been from the confiscated gun because the bullet hit the ground next to the man while the agent was walking in the other direction. pic.twitter.com/oZmunclgfX — Lilly inLondon (@Lillyin_London) January 25, 2026
San Francisco’s rejection of progressivism shows what happens when ideology collides with reality. SAN FRANCISCO — If Zohran Mamdani represents the rise of progressive politics in America, San Francisco is fast becoming the deflating counterpoint for the left. It isn’t just that liberal lion Nancy Pelosi is on her way out or that moderate Democrats, …
People are finally hitting the brakes on this AI takeover because enough is enough. The backlash against AI invading almost every aspect of the computing experience is growing by the day. Particularly as an onslaught of lazy AI slop subsuming news feeds, the tech is starting to feel like a massive distraction — and huge …
Remember when Trump curiously suggested putting light inside the body to treat COVID? The media mocked him with bleach jokes. But Trump wasn’t crazy. It “actually works.” And it’s a story that blew even Joe Rogan away. Back in the 1940s, UV blood irradiation was used to treat sepsis, pneumonia, and even polio with remarkable …
Jeff Gundlach on 2026 Positioning TLDR: > Long the belly (2-10 year maturities) > Long commodities > Long $GLD > Long high-quality fixed income > Long EM fixed income > Long non-US equities < Short USD $DXY < Short long-duration $TLT < Short private credit < Short high yield https://twitter.com/zoomyzoomm/status/1999682682641613283 https://twitter.com/zoomyzoomm/status/1999683233710272667
The CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman is in the newborn parenting trenches with husband Oliver Mulherin, and he’s turning to an unlikely source of support: his own OpenAI chatbot. In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week, Altman revealed that he turns to ChatGPT for help raising his baby. “I cannot …
It's clear 99% of the public has no idea what's really going on here. Entire "donation" + more is written off to avoid taxes Bradley Gerstner setup the investment, pumping it back into the S&P $DELL & encouraging parents to invest more at the top of the largest bubble we've seen pic.twitter.com/7gHUkgxYJU — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) …
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: “When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.” –Louis-Ferdinand Celine AF REPLY: That is on point Allen. These European leaders are living in the past. Their history of previous imperial greatness has become the core part of a their view of their nation’s story about …
The shutdown has started to feel like a slow disintegration. Not a fight in Congress, but a chain reaction. The kind that begins with paperwork and ends in hunger. Inside the Department of Agriculture, someone finally wrote what everyone else had been avoiding. “Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will …
Renters across much of the U.S. have enjoyed easing prices and months of free rent this year. Now, this tenant-friendly environment looks poised to extend deep into next year, and perhaps beyond. Apartment rents nationally are advancing at their slowest pace in years, thanks to the glut of new units that has taken longer than …
$GLD is topping and $SPY is not too far. Gold topping is usually sharp spike and Equity topping is round top. More details below 👇👇 🟡 Gold Tops – Sharp Spikes Driven by Fear: Gold often rallies during crises, panic, or inflation fears. When fear peaks suddenly (like geopolitical shocks or banking stress), prices spike …
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign isn’t just taking foreign cash—it’s laundering radicalism. $13K from Dubai donors? Including his own mother-in-law? Curtis Sliwa called it: where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Mamdani’s team still hasn’t returned $7K+ in illegal donations—because rules… — CityDeskNYC (@CityDeskNYC) October 13, 2025 Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has taken almost $13,000 in potentially illegal foreign …
It seems like for every employee AI replaces, or robots for that matter there’s should be a tax or something that goes either to education or training or something. I don’t know but I can see it as leverage for control or just a devastated economy — skizznit (@skizznit) October 9, 2025 In 2026, you …
Drone Light Show in China Ends in Chaos: A drone and #fireworks display in Liuyang, China, turned #disastrous as hundreds of #drones malfunctioned and fell from the sky, some in flames. Sparks hit the crowd and started a small forest fire. Officials say no one was injured!… pic.twitter.com/Gda8MbGmyq — Amitav Bhattacharjee (@bamitav) October 5, 2025
The line between comedy and government retaliation doesn’t exist anymore. It’s being rewritten in real time and the guy in the White House is holding the pen. What used to be jokes and sketches is now a battlefield. What used to be safe speech is now a target. When Donald Trump interrupted the season premiere …
US farmers are saying we “just need temporary help, until things get better.” Here’s the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CAN’T get better. Other countries are now fillingl China’s demand. We’ve walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it. The thing is, this isn't even the first time US …