There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Bars

"I can tell that the Woke 2™️ tide is rolling in and desperately need to try and cover up how aggressively transphobic I have been for most of a decade"

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

youtu.be/QURZl3WxYVk?...

Currently listening to:

A Pound of Ground Beef Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage The typical American consumes nearly 60 pounds of beef each year. Widely available and easy to prepare, ground beef serves as a grocery mainstay for many families — which means skyrocketing prices mat...

At the time the $7.25 national minimum wage was set, a pound of ground beef cost about $2.20 per pound, meaning one hour of work could purchase more than three pounds of beef — enough to make a dinner or two for a family of four.

Now, it can barely cover one.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy

corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor

that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online “We are pleased to see today's ruling in defense of the First Amendment rights of all Americans,” one of the plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit said. The videos previously went viral when a DOGE…

Initially, the judge said the videos should be taken down as they could cause "reputational harm." Now, she's walked it back. It's a win for the "First Amendment," the plaintiffs say.
www.404media.co/judge-allows...

Details on the death of OpenAI's Sora:

• Video generator was losing ~$1M per day

• Disney execs found out about the shutdown less than an hour before it was announced

• Disney is now in talks with over a dozen companies to implement AI

• The Sora team is shifting focus to things like robotics

Ughh at least I was able to do my trip and come back before becoming Down With The Sickness 😷

My whole body hurts.

just a reminder that Trump rapes children

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video.

“It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?”

This lady’s response is🔥

police lie, and have no duty to protect you

He shouldn't be proud of the multiple dementia tests

Perhaps this is too obvious to say, but: "they are corrupting the purity of our native population by bringing in diseases from abroad" is bog-standard fascist rhetoric.

RYAN COOGLER X FILES?!
best news all week

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

I'm too old to care about Harry Potter, but I care about trans folk, so I am begging you not to engage with anything that makes that horrible woman money.

Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s AI company over Grok’s fake nude images Lawsuit argues XAI failed to disclose risks, limitations and exposure to harm that come with using chatbot

BREAKING: Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott and the city council have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging that Grok violated consumer protections by generating nonconsensual sexualized images.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law at trial about child safety A New Mexico jury finds that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. The jury announced its verdict Tuesday after...

Read more: www.newstimes.com/business/art....

Just staring at the door praying that nobody comes in. We have 8 minutes left. Please.

Tweet by Mike Sington describing a Pennsylvania voter confronting Trump at a gas station, calling him “a worthless pile of sh*t.” The image shows a woman speaking to a reporter holding a microphone at a gas pump, with cars and houses in the background.

Some brutal truths are dawning on many across the U.S.

Inshallah, it is a slow shift today.
I am... NOT feeling it, Mr Krabs

Why does anyone need humanoid robots?! Besides the waste of precious metals and resources, how about you just PAY HUMANS WHAT THEY'RE WORTH TO DO THE JOB THEY'RE ALREADY DOING

I hate this whole graphic for many reasons, but seeing "fact checking" in quotes is HILARIOUS