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You have to watch it at normal speed to appreciate the agent's response. He identified the threat, drew his weapon, planted his feet, and fired before the wannabe assassin reached him. At no point did he flinch or duck for cover. Hero! — Steve McGrath (@DeplorableDesi1) April 30, 2026
This just like the Detroit auto plants that kept shedding shifts until the whole industry ghosted the city. Quixote Studios Lays Off 70, Winds Down L.A. Locations Amid Production Slump. Hudson Pacific Properties bought the company in 2022 for $360 million, but has since had to write down the entire value of its Quixote unit …
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 …
🚨 TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE DEAL TO CUT WEIGHT-LOSS DRUG PRICES President Trump is set to announce a deal Thursday at 11 a.m. to lower the cost of certain weight-loss drugs, sources told CBS News. The agreement with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk would reduce prices for some obesity… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) November 6, 2025 …
So jobs at Wendy’s is off the table now I guess. WARNING 🚨 BANKS BORROW $50 BILLION IN EMERGENCY LIQUIDITY FROM FED REPO WINDOW TODAY ‼️ 🚩 $20 BILLION THIS MORNING AND $30 BILLION MORE IN THE AFTERNOON ⚠️ CRISIS INCOMING 🚩 https://t.co/lLWvoC191y pic.twitter.com/ekoTvK6ewz — The Butcher of Wall Street Marcel Kalinovic (@BossBlunts1) October 31, …
The American economy is not drifting. It is running headfirst into a wall and the passengers are just realizing the brakes are gone. Seventy percent of Americans say the economy is on the wrong track, but that doesn’t capture the full collapse in confidence. It is not just pessimism. It is paralysis. The job market …
Dental amalgam, commonly used in fillings, is approximately 50% mercury by weight. Unfortunately, it leaches into your body and has the potential to harm your health. Today, I issued guidance recommending against amalgam for dental fillings. Safer alternatives exist. Patients… pic.twitter.com/tZ8DMQFuJb — Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) August 25, 2025 State Surgeon General Dr. …
Nearly 300 pancreatitis reports and 6 deaths. 🇬🇧UK REGULATOR LINKS WEIGHT LOSS JABS TO DEADLY PANCREATITIS Mounjaro, Wegovy & Ozempic – the jabs everyone’s injecting to shrink their waistlines – are now tied to nearly 300 cases of pancreatitis and 6 deaths in the UK. But the MHRA (that’s the government body supposed to… https://t.co/d1LJ6smstc …
Source:https://t.co/ffBUUXEt8t — Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MaryBowdenMD) June 23, 2025 Good catch — Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MaryBowdenMD) June 23, 2025 The American College of Cardiology just released new guidance that flips the old playbook. For years, patients were told to try diet and exercise first, then consider medication if that failed. That sequence is …
France and Japan are unraveling before the world’s eyes. The fiscal picture in both nations is not simply poor. It is catastrophic. Deep structural imbalances, ballooning debt, and no clear way out. Both are cautionary tales masquerading as advanced economies. Start with France. The national debt is now over 110 percent of GDP and climbing. …
Plastic spoon The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. Researchers detected these “almost unbelievable” levels of microplastics and nanoplastics in the brains of human …
For higher education, “AI’s takeover [is] a full-blown existential crisis.” “College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point.” “I think we are years — or months, probably — away from a world where nobody thinks using AI for homework is considered cheating.” “It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, …
Jensen carrying the weight of the world byu/SorryLifeguard7 inwallstreetbets
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on ‘weight stigma and weight neutrality’ despite the city in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and violent crime. Virgie Tovar, a self-described ‘anti-weight-based discrimination’ expert describes herself as a prominent advocate for ‘fat positivity’ and body acceptance. Announcing …
The San Francisco Health Department hired a ‘fat positivity’ influencer to consult on “weight stigma and weight neutrality.” The new weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar, is a self-described expert on “anti-weight-based discrimination.” Tovar, author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat,” boasted about her new role as a consultant on “weight neutrality” on social …
Whoopi Goldberg strongly disagreed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent criticism of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, defending both her own and others’ use of the medication on The View.
Proposals to give weight loss jabs to unemployed people living with obesity could be “very important” for our economy and health, the prime minister has told the BBC. Sir Keir Starmer said he acknowledged that more money was needed for the NHS, and the government also needed to “think differently” to ease pressure on the health system. …
This video is hilarious. This Lenny dude makes a lot of videos like this. All the girls say height matters and they can judge a guy for his height. But when asked if they can be judged for weight or bodycount, they don’t think they should be judged. Not for waist size, not for anything. …
THE world’s former fattest man has revealed he is still bedridden and may never walk again. Paul Mason weighed 70 stone – 444.5kg – at his peak and was the heaviest recorded person from the UK. The former postie’s battle with his weight hit breaking point after the coronavirus lockdown when he took an overdose …
UNITED STATES: Bloomberg reports that a 'growing number of financial elites are throwing their weight behind Trump' — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) May 31, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1796617047733878931 Their weight. pic.twitter.com/NiTN59jHLs — Food Today (@The_Food_Today) May 31, 2024 Financial elites pronounced Elon? — Mirth O. Molefe (@mirthdot) May 31, 2024 h/t DOORBERT
by nobjos This chart has nothing to do with the weights of the stocks in the index. It’s highly unusual for the biggest companies to outperform the index (aka size effect). The latest research from Dimensional shows that once a stock joins the top 10 largest U.S. stocks, its subsequent returns tend to lag the market. Based …
Brandi Mallory, who made a name for herself after being featured on Extreme Weight Loss in 2004, has died. She was 40. A cause of death was not given. Along with being part of the popular reality show, Mallory was a makeup artist and dancer. Per Entertainment Weekly: “Mallory was featured on the fourth season …
by Chris Black If the drugs you’re taking are making you fat – don’t worry. We have drugs for that. Focus: US psychiatrists prescribe Wegovy to battle medication-induced weight gain https://t.co/A43fdMuKqo pic.twitter.com/xt14jKZx9B — Reuters (@Reuters) August 3, 2023
by Chris Black It was totally insane to put these on the market. Taking a drug for weight loss is like taking a drug for driving too fast. Like, imagine taking a drug to change a behavior. Of course it’s going to be unsafe. Turns out that Big Pharma's weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy can …
‘Following reports of sunken faces, muscle mass loss and malnutrition with Ozempic, another rare side effect has popped up: severe gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis. Ozempic, a glucagon-like peptide receptor agonist approved for Type 2 diabetes, works by mimicking GLP-1 to suppress appetite and delay the passage of food in the stomach. Some patients told CNN …
California’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund that pays out state benefits is now “structurally insolvent,” according to a recent report. The Legislative Analyst’s Office noted the debt crisis involving the California Employment Development Department’s (EDD) UI trust fund on July 7. The state report was released following last week’s “May Fund Forecast” report by the …