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@LizAnnSonders @VisualCap Thank Republicans for the ideas and Bill Clinton for making it happen

Twenty-six years ago, U.S. was world’s dominant trading power; today, China has overtaken America as top goods trading partner for most countries globally … this @VisualCap map compares whether countries traded more with U.S. or China in 2000 and 2025, based on total bilateral imports and exports using @IMFNews Direction of Trade Statistics data

@PalmerLuckey UPS and fedex don’t want the job. That’s why they hire USPS to do it for them.

It is insane that America has given a monopoly on letter delivery to a quasi-governmental agency that then uses it to flood our homes with useless garbage against our will. America would never allow FedEx, UPS, DHL, or anyone else to force this on us.

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

@elerianm @bungarsargon Now add in repriciable stock options

A sobering statistic from the BLS highlights another dimension of the Main Street/Wall Street divide: The US labor share of output fell to 54.1% in Q1 2026, the lowest level since this data series began in 1947. Put another way, labor is consistently capturing a declining share of the value created by productivity gains, with the benefits increasingly accruing to the owners of capital. #economy #markets #labor #productivity

@Devon_Eriksen_ @RichardDawkins Physicists, the smartest minds in the world were not able to figure out how Randy bent the spoon

@RichardDawkins Biologists are not qualified to do the work of computer scientists, Richard.

#comment-1031777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

@MC51884630 @Robert_E_Kelly Yep, Dems just didn’t have to act like Hippy Nazis and they would have won easily. Dems flipped with Republicans and became anti free speech, authoritarian, pro war, religiously pure, etc. Brainwashed people don’t notice these things.

@Robert_E_Kelly Its not that we loved Trump. It's that the left became so unrelateable, so detached from reality, so woke and so looney we almost had no choice but to vote for Trump. Its the democrats fault we have Trump!

I just don’t understand how it took these hard-right influencers 11 years to realize what everyone else grasped almost immediately in 2015 Yeah, it’s great that they’ve come around, but how could anyone - who wasn’t getting paid - be duped this long?

@tferriss Does your family like you?

If you ended up sitting next to a Nobel Prize winner or billionaire, what would you ask them? If you only had 2 to 5 minutes and they were willing to talk, how could you make the most of it?

@Andercot I came to that conclusion as well.

99.9% of the information processing capacity of the universe lives inside black hole supercomputers

@unusual_whales Already happened

Warren: Having a sock puppet in charge of the Fed would also give the president access to the Fed's powerful authorities to enrich himself, his family, and his Wall Street buddies.

@Geiger_Capital Are we going to make pretend this is a dem/rep thing. They both suck and are total scum bags. And this shit has been going on for decades.

This is insane… The Virginia redistricting amendment on the ballot today is framed as a vote to "restore fairness in the upcoming elections." In reality, it turns a state that Kamala barely won by 5 pts from 6D-5R to 10D-1R.

@profplum99 2d chess is actually 3d chess. You always need time.

I am rapidly realizing that claims of “5D chess” are originating from those who can’t understand 4D chess.

@atrupar All you have to do is look a real estate around DC to know what’s been going on. Most expensive in the country for a reason

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

@chiefstrader @ajkraw57 @sunofwisdom @JasonJournoDC You are correct sir.

@ajkraw57 @sunofwisdom @JasonJournoDC Because it hold zero significance to the point of the original post

💥NEW: Bill Maher *BLASTS* media for misleading him on Viktor Orbán💥 "The media kind of played me. I mean, for years, all I've been reading about is: 'He's the second coming of Stalin. There will never be democracy again in Hungary.'" "And then, oh, actually, well, people got tired of a guy just like they do in every democracy. They didn't like him and they wanted somebody with different policies. And they voted him out. And he went and conceded the next day." "So, I do feel a little used ... a little hurt."

@HillValleyForum They only cared about making money. China showed their intentions early and billionaires chose to throw America under the bus

"We made a huge mistake. And 'we' being business, government, and military." Jamie Dimon on China: "There was this general assumption they'd become more democratic and more free. And it didn't really happen that way." "Too many people were changing the supply chains just because they're buying a piece of equipment for $10 less." "Business was making a lot of money there and they were like, 'Leave me alone.' It was a mistake." "We need to say: 'Can we, if they ever become an adversary, have all the things we need?' Now's the time to do it." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 @HillValleyForum @jpmorgan @ChairmanG

Time for punk to make comeback.

@BigBrainPhiloso So he read About Buddhism

Hume's most dangerous idea: cause and effect is an illusion. We assume it. We built civilisation on it. But we've never actually seen it.

@BigBrainPhiloso So he read eastern philosophy

@Molson_Hart But we need a strong dollar and the ability to lever it up.

People think America must reindustrialize to return to greatness. What it actually needs to do is to definancialize.

@nicrypto They were warned multiple times by specific hedge funds and investors that the GFC was coming, but the fed and treasury ignored the warnings.

Wow. A former US Treasury Secretary suggested US authorities prepare a back-up plan in case of a collapse in demand for Treasuries. This is the same guy who served during the Great Financial Crisis. Nothing to see here...

@newstart_2024 Feynman contradicted himself often

“There are no miracle people.” That’s what Richard Feynman said when asked if only geniuses can understand quantum mechanics or electromagnetic fields. “I was an ordinary person who studied hard.” No special talent. No innate brilliance. Just curiosity, time, hard work, reading, thinking, and doing the math. Feynman believed anyone willing to put in serious effort can reach the same level of understanding. The barrier isn’t intelligence — it’s persistence. One of the most encouraging messages from one of the greatest physicists ever. What subject or skill did you master simply by studying hard and refusing to quit, even when it got tough?

@newstart_2024 Yep, linear and none linear processing

Why is the brain split in two? Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s 30-year answer is eye-opening. We need two opposite kinds of attention at once. Left hemisphere: narrow, laser-focused on grabbing what it wants. Right hemisphere: broad, open, vigilant — watching the entire living world so you don’t become lunch while chasing yours. When the left dominates, life feels fragmented, mechanical, and empty. When the right leads, everything feels connected, alive, and meaningful. McGilchrist warns we’ve let the left hemisphere take over — and beauty, wonder, and purpose are quietly disappearing. Have you felt the world shift between feeling flat and mechanical… versus vividly alive and connected? What changed your attention?