Charlie Ledezma 🇵🇦🇺🇸🏒🥅

🚨 JUST IN: Ilhan Omar is flat out REFUSING to turn over documents to a Minnesota committee investigating the $250 MILLION Somali “Feeding Our Future” fraud She is KNEE DEEP in this scandal, and DOJ needs to go after her HARD. DO NOT let her get away with this!

🚨 After Ilhan Omar failed to produce documents requested by the Minnesota House Fraud and Oversight Committee, Chair Kristin Robbins (R) moved to subpoena her. Democrats unanimously blocked the effort, protecting Omar. The fraud runs deep in Minnesota.

@EnergzdEconomy Clearly.

Nice attempt to jawbone the oil prices lower when markets open in the morning. Ships are actively being attacked, there were multiple missiles/drones fired at UAE today and clearly whomever Trump is negotiating with isn’t in charge of the missiles & drones in Iran

@NHL_Muse @reporterchris Minny

Auston Matthews isn't sure if he'll be back with Toronto next season, per @reporterchris. If not Toronto…. who?

@ChadHartmanShow Agree

Don’t agree Since the Olympic break, Wallstedt has clearly outplayed Gustavsson Wallstedt has his first bad game in a long time and you bring in Gus who hasn’t played in weeks. Feel like other teams would have done the same thing, but for me this hook is too quick.

@RussosFilter Middleton

In honor of 5dM, give me the Wild player who records the Wild’s *5th* shot on goal of the game, with #RTFB, for the shirt. 1st correct answer in my TL wins.

@citchmook 5-2 Avs.

Avalanche and Wild fans, how are we feeling about game two? I have the Avs winning 4-2.

Clearly.

Lol

Can he pay or is he on a sanctioned list?

@ATMcrazy8 @RussoHockey Fair and reasonable. We shall see.

@Charlie_Ledezma @RussoHockey I agree he deserved 1a by the end, but they each had 50% of starts over April with Gus getting the sole meaningful game (Loss at Dal). I'm definitely not saying the Wild will win game 2 because Gus is playing, just saying I agree with the decision to try Gus in this spot.

Filip Gustavsson starting tonight for #mnwild. Gametime decisions on lineup

@RussoHockey @nytimes So confusing

@ATMcrazy8 @RussoHockey Do not agree. Wally had taken the 1a as the season was drawing to an end.

@Charlie_Ledezma @RussoHockey By that logic, Gus would have started game 1 since he was 1a throughout the regular season. I get what you're saying, but playoffs require the right adjustments and I believe this was the right move. But we will see! Could certainly be digging our own grave.

@ATMcrazy8 @RussoHockey Problem is that the playoffs aren’t the time to be experimenting.

@RussoHockey It's the right choice imo. If Gus does well, Hynes is pulling the right strings. If Gus does poorly, Wally is cemented as 1a going forward. Plus, like Lapanta said, if not now then when. Maybe Gus steps up to the challenge, he's great when he's on.

🚨 🇺🇸 Something important is quietly shifting in the credit cycle right now. A change in behavior that tends to matter much more for what comes next. ➡️ At first glance, the latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey looks fairly benign: lending standards are only modestly tighter, and demand is broadly unchanged. We’re not in a crisis. We’re in a transition. 🏦 Banks are still lending, companies are still borrowing, but the terms are becoming more selective. You see tighter covenants, higher risk premiums, stricter collateral requirements. At the same time, some pricing metrics remain competitive, which tells you liquidity hasn’t disappeared. This is not a credit crunch, it’s a late-cycle normalization where risk is being repriced more carefully. Importantly, banks themselves are pointing to a more uncertain macro environment and lower risk tolerance. 🏠 On real estate, the signal is more subtle. Standards are mostly unchanged and even eased in some cases, but that shouldn’t be read as strength. What’s happening is more about competition and refinancing than new growth. Terms have improved, larger loans, tighter spreads, longer interest-only periods, but demand remains weak in construction and development. ⚠️ The most important signal sits in non-bank financial institutions. Banks are tightening standards to these actors, while demand for credit from them is rising across the board. When liquidity needs increase while access to funding becomes more restrictive, it usually points to underlying stress. This matters because a growing share of credit creation has moved outside the traditional banking system over the past decade. 📊 On the consumer side, the trend is consistent with a gradual loss of momentum. Lending standards are stable, but demand is weakening for credit cards, auto loans, and other consumer credit. Households are simply less dynamic. This does reflect a more constrained environment. 📈 For markets, this kind of setup doesn’t trigger an immediate reaction but it builds the conditions for one. It supports a gradual slowdown narrative, keeps the door open for future rate cuts if needed, and reinforces the idea that the next phase of the cycle will likely be defined less by a banking shock, and more by tensions emerging in the shadow credit system. *Link: federalreserve.gov/data/sloos/slo…

A mother and her eight sons, all of whom served and returned home safely.

Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:

February 2003: Hugo Chávez fires 18,000 PDVSA employees in a single day. He eliminated petroleum engineers, geologists, refinery technicians, and the guy who actually knew how to keep the Paraguaná Refining Complex running without blowing it up. Chávez replaced them with loyal party members who couldn't distinguish crude oil from chocolate milk. PDVSA used to be the crown jewel of Latin American state enterprises (which tells you something right there). The company refined 1.3 million barrels daily in 2002 and exported expertise to other oil nations. Then Chávez decided that technical competence was less important than revolutionary fervor. By 2019, Venezuela was importing gasoline from Iran to fuel its own cars while sitting on 300 billion barrels of proven reserves. You can't redistribute knowledge the way you redistribute wealth. When Chávez's government chased away the engineers, they took decades of accumulated expertise to Calgary, Houston, and Aberdeen. The new managers learned this the hard way when refineries started exploding—literally. The Amuay refinery blast in 2012 killed 48 people because nobody left in charge understood basic safety protocols. Today you'll find Venezuelan petroleum engineers designing fracking operations in North Dakota while their homeland rations gasoline like it's 1943. The oil stays in the ground because socialism created a country that forgot how to drill holes and turn crude into something useful.

Justice Jackson argues that sticking to the 32-day default rule is necessary to avoid the appearance of partiality. Alito correctly identifies this as a tactic to run out the clock on the 2026 election cycle. She claims the Court’s decision creates chaos because the primary process had already started… ballots were already in the mail. This hypersensitivity to "chaos" masks a desire to maintain a gerrymandered status quo that her ideological allies find useful. She accuses the majority of letting principles give way to power. It’s a groundless and irresponsible charge meant to shame the Court for actually enforcing the Constitution. She wants the Court to stay in the business of racial sorting because a world where race and politics are disentangled threatens the leftist grip on redistricting as a tool for power. Her position is an explicit rejection of the principle that the Constitution is color-blind.

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