A screenshot from the New York Stock Exchange website saying that America 250 is ringing the opening bell tomorrow at 6:26 a.m.
I shit you not America 250 is ringing the opening bell at the NYSE tomorrow www.nyse.com/_events/NDE1...
ok this is at least very funny
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.
Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.
american century of humiliation
These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.
Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.
I remind you all that last May the NTSB Vice Chair, Alvin Brown, was also fired by the administration with no explanation.
No one has been talking about what happened to Brown. Now, Inman is fired. apnews.com/article/nati...
i estimate the chance of the national average reaching $4/gal in the next month is now 80%
Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week.
We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!).
Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY
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“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.
Event / Conflict Year Volume Lost (MBP Hormuz Blockade (Current) 2026 ~20.0 Iranian Revolution 1978 5.6 Yom Kippur War (Embargo) 1973 4.4 Iraq-Kuwait War 1990 4.3 Iran-Iraq War 1980 4.0 Russia-Ukraine Invasion 2022 1.0 - 3.0
The largest oil supply shock in history in million barrels per day terms. Well done, Trump.
This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”
huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward
BREAKING: the 52.0c/gal weekly rise in the national average price of gasoline is now the fifth largest ever recorded by GasBuddy data going back to 2000.
oh people don’t want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?
a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc
This is elite signaling, the rich exurbs pretend to be rural by doing conspicuous consumption of being rural and the actual rural areas follow them as taste makers. It’s also why they look down on cities even though they don’t live in one and what happens there doesn’t matter to them at all.
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
The US Administration has embarked on a large, unprecedented program of excluding lawful, highly-skilled workers and students from the United States.
I talked with the brilliant @gracesegers.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com about the broad economic ripple effects.
newrepublic.com/article/2073...
I regularly go to New Hampshire to hike and ski. If this is enacted, I will not comply and will dare them to enforce this on me. I've been using the women's bathroom without issue for a decade. I'm not letting them push us backwards.
www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter of The Roots joins Gorillaz on SNL.
Five states now have seen average diesel prices skyrocket by over $1/gal over the last 168 hours:
Texas ⬆️$1.09/gal
North Carolina ⬆️$1.07/gal
Georgia ⬆️ $1.03/gal
Tennessee ⬆️$1.01/gal
New Mexico ⬆️$1.00/gal
Closing in:
Mississippi ⬆️98c/gal
Arizona ⬆️97c/gal
Florida ⬆️93c/gal
Plenty of that across industries, there’s this pervasive belief that President Trump could never make a catastrophic mistake, or if he did, it could be reversible by the omnipresent “adults in the room”. That is, American biz genuinely believes the WH could never break something they couldn’t fix.
Brian Niccol of Starbucks took home the award for the most nonsensical disparity between CEO and employee income: He earns $95,801,676, while the median salary for a Starbucks employee was a mere $14,674. trib.al/EOv81eF
DHS deports six-year-old deaf boy after preventing him receiving his hearing aid, lawyer says
Front pages in Milwaukee and Raleigh are about stalled-out commercial real estate.
