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@ChrisWickNews Don't forget the huge amount of money that trump's friends are doing by betting on financial products tied to oil price, which is going up and down according to his contradicting announcements. They are acquiring control of everything in the US. Not fed up about this? #MAGA1ST

We believed in Donald Trump. We thought he would put Americans first… protect our people… defend our future. But look at where the money is going. Hundreds of billions sent overseas — Ukraine, Israel, and now escalating costs tied to Iran — while people here are struggling just to survive. Families are falling behind. Homes are being lost. Groceries keep climbing. And yet the spending abroad never seems to slow down. Every dollar sent out feels like one taken away from someone here at home. Every foreign conflict funded raises a simple question — who is actually being prioritized? We were promised strength and protection. What many see now is a government more focused on global entanglements than the everyday reality facing its own citizens. If you’re tired of it… If you’re asking questions… If something about this doesn’t sit right with you… Share this. People need to start paying attention.

@compliantvc I get the humor but would you support driving under influence with no security belt and no speed limit in town? Also, get a flight on a plane that passed zero security checks.

Just spoke with dozens of European VCs They all agreed: AI is over No one is putting money into AI startups anymore OpenAI is likely going bankrupt I asked what the next big thing is They all answered in unison: Regulation. And the hot spot for the best regulations? Europe. Meanwhile, America is getting left behind

@Suewilson91 @BremainInSpain Of course you are welcome back any time. Please bring one Aston Martin for me. From the Mediterranean coast

Calling all EU citizens. Genuine question..... would you/your country support the UK rejoining the EU? Please state your country in comments. @BremainInSpain

@KobeissiLetter It's happening that some insiders are making a fortune on futures #maga

What just happened? Yesterday, at 8:45 AM ET, Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi announced that the Strait of Hormuz was "completely open" for all commercial vessels. At 9:06 AM ET, President Trump thanked Iran for reopening the Strait. Then, at 10:20 AM ET, Trump said Iran and the US were working together to remove all mines from the Strait of Hormuz. Between 10:40 AM ET and 12:00 PM ET, President Trump said Iran agreed to "never close the Strait again" and to "suspend its nuclear program indefinitely." Suddenly, at 6:14 PM ET, Iran's Speaker of the Parliament said Trump made "seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false." Now, Iran has CLOSED the Strait of Hormuz again and oil tankers are being struck. What just happened behind the scenes?

@AndrewPerpetua I work in biological research and I observe the same pattern. People higher in hierarchy steal results without really understanding and then sell it off as the product of their genius, often leading to bad implementation bcs of bad understanding. Just to say you are not alone 👋

We map an incredible number of events, and it requires an insane amount of work from a group of people to make this possible. Yesterday I was listening to a woman from the ISW talk about how over the course of the past four years their processes have barely adapted. Suspicious. Over the past few years we have had to invest heavily in developing our own tools, adapting methodology, and increasing work efficiency to barely keep up with the exponential rise in footage. We've done this at significant personal expense, with no funding outside of small donations from our users and supporters. Not to mention the tens of thousands of work hours that have gone into collecting, processing, and analyzing the data. Which is often then stolen by aggregators or others so they can lazily synthesize the data for their own purposes, spending 20 minutes vibe coding some dashboard built on top of maps they never bought licenses to, data they stole from others. Or, worse yet, the people who steal data, and then pretend to have collected it themselves. Who go on talks about how their data cannot come from AI because it takes a human touch to analyze the data. Which you then sell commercially to governments or journalists who whoever will buy it. And then when you look under the hood, nearly all of their data is taken from others. And, in most cases, from the team of people producing our map here. But, hey, it took a lot of human effort to personally steal every data point you sell for a profit. And, somehow, the journalists, whose job is to be able to have a brain and understand the most basic things, do not see what is happening. That a middle man is coming through stealing data and then selling it to them. Or maybe it is convenient to the journalist, because other journalists have quoted this middleman so many times that the middleman is now considered some sort of valued source, even though they aren't a source at all. They are an aggregator of other people's work. But, even worse, is that that work they are aggregating IS ALREADY AGGREGATED BY THE CREATORS OF THE WORK. So the aggregation is not even valuable or unique in the first place. Which brings us back to the true hilarity of the situation. Journalists think that sources of information are less valuable than officially recognized aggregators. Let that sink in. Let it stew within you. Journalists think that people who do work, who understand the work, who understands what went into the work and what it means and its limitations are LESS VALUABLE than people who take others people's work, without understanding context, without fully understanding what it means, having to add abstractions and bias and noise. Historically, it was the job of a journalist to seek out sources for the exact reason of getting closer to the truth. Today, journalists avoid them intentionally for the sake of time savings and laziness. What do you think this says about the quality of their work? What do you think the impact is on their work? If you look at the writing, you see the impact clearly. You see bias amplified. You see incorrect information amplified. And, occasionally, when Russian propaganda is quoted as a legitimate source (which these aggregators do regularly btw), you see Russian propaganda accepted as literal fact and injected into the discourse uncritically even by anti-Russian news outlets who rely on these aggregators rather than actual information sources. That is the true result. So, to get back to my original point: It takes an insane amount of work to analyze and map this data.

@cturnbull1968 Why do you need a second home and how can you be "barely making it" if you own 2 houses? With two houses you are well off, and if you don't know how to manage it let me know I can do for you.

If he can tax the second homes of millionaires, that are worth $5M or more, that means it’s only a matter of time before he goes after the second homes of average, hard working, everyday Americans that are barely making it. Diabolical.

@TallbarFIN If I am not wrong under soviets many people were given state job (even if working <1h per day) or a pension (even if minimal amount). People got used to this and those with zero competences probably prefer that system to the competitive western-style job market. My interpretation

Why are so many southeastern European countries, which have won their freedom from Soviet oppression, so eager to return to being russian vassals? Is their memory so short? Can't they see what russia is? As a Finn, I simply can't understand.

Kyiv burns as Ukraine no longer has any Patriot interceptor missiles - the only defense against Russian Iskander ballistic missiles. Vice President Vance recently bragged of his "proudest" achievement - cutting off military support for Ukraine.

The pope is a bit upset. He is right.

💔🇺🇦 At least 18 dead and 121 injured, including children… 📍Kyiv - 5 dead, including 2 children, 58 injured. 📍Dnipro - 3 dead, 34 injured. 📍Odesa - 9 dead, 23 injured. 📍Kharkiv - 2 injured. 📍Zaporizhzhia - 1 woman killed.

Absolutely horrific night in Ukraine last night - 44 ballistic missiles and 659 drones fired from Russia. Deaths in Kyiv, Odessa and Dnipro. Not even bothering to hide the fact that it is residential areas under attack. Barely on the news outside Ukraine. And @JDVance says he is proud that USA has pulled its support so the aggressor can keep aggressing. Disgusting. But Europe has to do even more now

Brutal, but to understand the current battlefield, you have to see it, I mean up close. With a 100km wide kill zones, many Russians will die never actually seeing an enemy position, in form up points, bases, and the travel in. This "road of death" - a small section in the Pokrovsky direction, in the Donetsk region, FPV drones destroyed a dozen units of military equipment and enemy assault vehicles This is the reality of Putin’s war.

@414magyarbirds 1

Hi, everybody. We have a series where pilots explain how strikes actually happen. It’s in Ukrainian. We’re going to post it here. Which format works better for you? 1 – Original Ukrainian + English subtitles 2 – English voiceover (with accent) 3 – English voiceover + subtitles

THE CHAOS TRUMP HAS CAUSED TO THE WORLD ORDER - this week alone! * Mexico’s President is angry at Trump over deaths of Mexican nationals in ICE custody and the Cuba blockade. * Italy’s PM is upset with Trump’s treatment of the Pope. * Canada’s PM’s party won big in an election in a refutation of Trump * Trump’s pal in Hungary lost in a landslide * Saudi Foreign Minister, “The era of relying on the US has ended.” * Europeans are planing a “European NATO” without us * Europeans are planning a post war Strait of Hormuz effort without us. * China’s President says the world order is “crumbling into disarray” (he’s right) * Gallup finds the world views China’s leadership more favorably than the US under Trump.

Thank you @JDVance We are looking forward to see you supporting AFD in Germany and Le Pen in France. Please dont forget to support Fico. Kind regards, The Free World

Bravo #Hungary

@FernandoAmandi No elon

POPE LEO - Many have asked me: My main concern with Leo stems from his persistent criticism of United States actions in controlling borders, Iran intervention, who for 47 years has been a terrorist threat to the Middle East, Europe and American troops, US actions against Venezuela, Cuba and US concerns with NATO allies while ignoring persecution of the clergy in Nicaragua, Christian genocide in Africa and Islamic killings in Iran. Most recently his call for greater regulations and global wealth ‘redistribution’ ignoring the benefits of capitalism and private entrepreneurship to generate prosperity for all. Yes I have a problem with this Pontiff. Do you?

@brockpierson Because the US (not America) is breaking the balls of so many.

Why is it that on 𝕏 so many non Americans primarily speak about American politics?

@Casey5122dark Your theory is based on infinite resources. Ressources on this planet are not infinite. If one grab too much there remains little for the others. Think of a village's source of water, either you distribute fairly, or one buy the monopoly and sell the water at high price. Welcome

Your Holiness, let me put this as politely as I can: you don’t know what you are talking about. If you want to write on a subject—horse racing, say, or musical composition—it’s a good idea to know something about it before putting pen to paper or, these days, hitting the computer keyboard. The same goes for economics. You don’t have to know anything about economics, but if you don’t, you shouldn’t pontificate on the subject. What you have written gives evidence of a soft heart, which is a good thing, but soft hearts, if they are not to be destructive, should be closely associated with hard heads. Your post is an embarrassment to those of us who are Catholic and who respect and venerate the office you hold. You wrote: "Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty." Yes, and that’s not good. However, almost all of the human race was immersed in extreme poverty for most of human history. The last two hundred years have seen the mass of people lifted out of poverty in a way that has never been achievable or achieved before. [see Hans Rosling’s Factfulness for some real information: [amazon.co.uk/Factfulness-It…] You wrote: "Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few." If wealthy people have obtained their wealth by honest means, issues of proportionality are irrelevant. They have provided goods or services that people are willing to pay for and they have been rewarded accordingly. What they do with that wealth is a moral issue for them and not a legal or political matter for anyone else. You wrote: “...the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.” [italics added] This is a classic example of the zero-sum fallacy. The solution to poverty is to make poor people un-poor, not to make wealthy people un-wealthy. [see stephankinsella.com/2023/06/casey-…] What you call 'equitable distribution' presumes that wealth is something that just sits there, waiting to be distributed. But wealth is something that is produced, and its production already determines its ‘distribution’. Your Holiness, there is much work to be done to sort out the problems in the Church. May I respectfully suggest that you direct your attention to the resolution of these problems.