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@RealJessica He probably teaches gender studies while running the school's DEI club.

A NYC school teacher has a GREAT idea for billionaires leaving New York. 🤣🙄 He suggests that if the billion dollar companies leave then the regular folks should just take over their businesses. Journalist: “What do you say to the folks who say, if you tax millionaires, they're going to leave the city and the top 1% pays 40% of the taxes in the city. What happens if they leave? What's your response?” NYC Teacher: “We should take their business and we run it for the city ourselves.” 🤡 Journalist: “They take their business to Florida, you feel like you can keep it here?” NYC Teacher: “They can't leave the building. They can't just bring their whole entire workforce to Florida. Right? They can't bring all of the resources that they have to build the business here to Florida. Thats where you would say we're building a real movement, right?” “To stop that, we’d make it illegal for them to actually leave. We would find them to hell if they're gonna try to abandon their property here. Because clearly people do need to work, right? People do need to make a living.” Are they really all this stupid?? Follow: @RealJessica

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

@AB84 They do this to humans except the body fluid of choice is blood 🩸 🥺

yeah bitch suck this mosquito dick

If you’re working on your taxes this week don’t forget to report your income from illegal activities and stolen property

@chamath Yeah Sama Hoole has some good content!

So true

🚨 JUST IN: The No Kings protestors are being called out as massive hypocrites after waving COMMUNIST FLAGS in NYC They don't like kings — but they like straight-up DICTATORS. The dumbest political movement of our lifetime.

@SexKitten99999 Fellatio sounds like an Italian dessert

We need a proper word for women getting head like men have blowjob. Cunnilingus sounds like a fucking dinosaur species no one is saying that shit out loud. What are we calling it

Here in Philadelphia. Truly appalling. These assholes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?

@RoizMichael83 Keep up the good work Michael !

@Blacksails911 Me either, I think IM shouldn't even consider it as it simply makes it worse

In the ongoing encounter GM Zhou, Jianchao - IM Tutisani, Noe Black had s slightly inferior, but holdable endgame. However, 38...h5?? shouldn't be even considered. What's the reason?

I placed $1.5 billion in futures at 6:50 AM. Fourteen minutes before President Trump's Truth Social post. That's generous. Usually, I get five. The S&P was barely breathing. Premarket Monday. The kind of quiet where a single order echoes through the entire book. I bought $1.5 billion in futures. The index moved 0.3% on my entry alone. That's how thin the market was. That's how empty the room was. At the same time, I shorted $192 million in crude oil. Then I sat there. Three screens. One coffee. The futures blinking green on the left, the oil contract bleeding red on the right, and in the center, a Truth Social feed set to refresh every four seconds. Fourteen minutes is a long time when you know what's coming. Not because I was nervous. Because I was early. At 7:04 AM, the president posted. Productive discussions. Five-day halt on strikes. Peace talks with Iran. S&P jumped 2.5%. Oil cratered 6%. My position gained $60 million before most Americans' alarm clocks went off. Good morning. Iran later denied that the talks ever happened. Called it fake news. The speaker of their parliament accused the president of manipulating financial markets. The talks might not be real. The sixty million dollars is. The analytics accounts flagged it within the hour. "Unusual activity." "Orders 4-6x larger than anything else trading at the time." That's their word for it. Unusual. My word for it is Tuesday. They always flag it. That's their function. Flagging is not investigating. Flagging is the system's way of noting that it saw something, documenting that it will do nothing, and calling that process oversight. The actual investigation is conducted by the CFTC. The CFTC has one commissioner. Out of five seats. One. The other four chairs are empty. Not vacant. Emptied. There is a difference. Vacant means nobody applied. Emptied means somebody decided the body responsible for policing futures markets should not have enough members to hold a vote. That's not negligence. That's architecture. You know what we call this pattern on the desk? TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. Escalate on Friday, capitulate on Monday, and extract in the window between the decision and the post. It's so reliable, we named it. We have a private Slack channel. #taco-tuesday. It updates automatically when Truth Social pushes a new geopolitical keyword. We don't teach it as insider trading. We teach it as a market structure. New analysts learn it in their first week. By the second week, they stop flinching. The phone rang at 6:47 AM. Three minutes before I entered the position. The call lasted ninety seconds. Ninety seconds of context. $60 million of outcome. You call that insider trading. I understand why. Insider trading is the word you learned. It's the crime from the movies. The whispered merger at a cocktail party. Four hundred shares of a mid-cap pharmaceutical. That gets prosecuted. That's the version of this crime the system was built to catch. What I do is different. I place $1.5 billion against a war decision made in a room I have the phone number to. On a platform overseen by a commission with one member. In a market where the president's social media account is the most powerful price-setting mechanism on earth. That's not insider trading. That's infrastructure. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your brother-in-law. I made $60 million trading on a war. The difference is not the crime. The difference is the decimal point. Americans paid for this war with four-dollar gas and sixteen billion in taxes. I paid for a phone call. We are not in the same economy. Last month, $529 million was wagered on Polymarket's Iran strikes market. Six accounts pocketed $1.2 million. Deposited funds the same day. Hours before the bombs fell. One account cleared $553,000 at 17% odds, seventy-one minutes before public confirmation. He has not placed another bet since. The president's son sits on Polymarket's advisory board. Two federal investigations into the platform were quietly dropped this year. Twelve government officials sold stocks in the weeks before the tariff crash. All of them reported the sales after the deadline. Nobody calls any of that insider trading. They call it prediction markets. Delayed disclosures. Portfolio rebalancing. I call it the junior varsity version of what I do with futures. An Oxford law professor called it the most far-reaching securities fraud in history. We call it the window. Tomorrow, this will be gone. Buried under a new tariff. A new ultimatum. A new TACO. Next Monday at 6:50 AM, I will be here again. Coffee. Three screens. The phone. The ninety-second call. The fourteen-minute window. The game isn't rigged. Rigged implies something broke. Nothing broke. Every component is functioning exactly as specified. The one-member commission. The anonymous platforms. The four-second refresh on the Truth Social feed. The phone that rings at 6:47. I didn't exploit a flaw in the system. I am the system.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

Grok is not learning - it continues to tell me to walk to the car wash instead of drive lol. Also sometime x opens to some interesting thread I must have started at a different point in the day. - I reopen my phone and X and it’s suddenly gone into the ether- never to be found again !

We're reading all your feedback 👀 Keep the nitpicks coming!

LIKE IF YOU WANT TO SEE MICHAEL SAYLOR ON THE JOE ROGAN PODCAST 👀 IT’S TIME!!

@thebtcdad Hi!

If you are a Bitcoiner with less than 1K followers, please say hi. You will thank me later. ⚡

@MicahhParsons11 It's one of the few positive side effects when injured - you get a to work on your chess game during recovery!

I took a year off from chess and ended up dropping to a 600 skill rating. It took me a whopping 3.5 months to climb back up to the thousands! You lose so many fundamental skills and strategic concepts when you take time off from the game.

@MicahhParsons11 Openings depends on your style - are you aggressive, defensive, counter attacker, or maybe solid? You need an opening that's compatible with your type of play . Josh Jacobs is an elite RB, but he would fare less well as a WR

I feel like I would be a 1500 level player but black opening I struggle so much!

Hello. It's important we all stay in our specific lanes of expertise. We respectfully never comment about your specific lane of expertise which is: "My Life As A Garden Gnome." We ask you show us the same respect please....

@scottmelker This makes me want to own some Bitcoin 😕

Imagine you deposit $100,000 in a bank. You’re not particularly worried about the safety of the money because the government says your deposits are FDIC insured. If the bank fails, you’re told you will get your money back. That guarantee creates the sense that the system is stable and secure, and for the most part, it works because people believe it will. What most people never think about is how the insurance actually works. U.S. banks collectively hold tens of trillions of dollars in deposits, yet the FDIC insurance fund – the pool designed to protect those deposits – is only a tiny fraction of that amount. The system was never designed to cover every depositor at once. Instead, it assumes that failures will be rare and isolated. If one bank fails, the fund can cover it. If a few banks fail, the system can usually still manage. But if many banks fail at the same time, the insurance fund itself would not come close to covering all those deposits. At that point the FDIC can borrow money from the U.S. Treasury to make depositors whole. That means the government ultimately backstops the system. And where does the government get that money? It comes from the same places government funding always comes from: taxes, borrowing, or money created through the broader financial system. In other words, the famous guarantee backed by the “full faith and credit of the United States government” ultimately rests on the public balance sheet. Depositors are protected by the government, and the government’s promise is ultimately supported by taxpayers. As long as people trust the guarantee, the system functions smoothly. In modern banking, confidence isn’t just helpful – it is the foundation that holds the entire structure together.