Derek Adler
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🚨 THIS IS INSANE.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights.
Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick's sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar.
The firm told clients it had "capacity to trade up to several hundred million" in these claims.
They confirmed at least one $10 million trade was already executed as of July 2025. They said they expected that number to "balloon in the coming weeks." That was 9 months ago.
Today those claims are worth 100 cents on the dollar. The refund portal is live, $166 billion in refunds are being processed.
If Cantor bought $100 million in refund rights at 25 cents on the dollar, they spent $25 million.
They now collect $100 million from the government. That is a $75 million profit. A 300% return.
If they scaled to "several hundred million" as they told clients they could, the profits run into the hundreds of millions.
Howard Lutnick was the architect of the tariff policy.
He pushed Trump to impose them. He fought against officials who wanted to limit them. Then he left Cantor Fitzgerald to his sons and transferred his equity into a trust benefiting them.
Tax free under government ethics rules. He received $360 million from the buyout.
His sons positioned the firm to profit from the exact policy their father built.
Their father publicly championed tariffs he knew could be struck down while his sons were buying refund claims betting they would be.
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I recently learned about the proposed Alaska North South Pipeline which would cost less than the Iran war already has and provide a 10 day LNG lifeline to Japan and South Korea
This is the shit we could do while actually helping allies instead of fighting stupid wars
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I was skeptical, but now I’m completely convinced. Fencing will become super popular due to this one very particular improvement to the sport.
“Sword tip visualization” It’s going to debut at the summer olympics.
Every single duel will look like a bloody lightsaber fight
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Hasan Piker on 2028 candidates
Rahm Emanuel: “No”
Gavin Newsom: “No”
JD Vance: “Absolutely no. I will never vote for a Republican, ever”
Gretchen Whitmer: “Maybe. She’s to anti-M4A, but more responsive. I’m 50/50”
AOC: “Yes”
Tucker Carlson: “No”
Cory Booker: “No. Absolutely not”
Jon Ossoff: “Again, interesting candidate. Maybe”
Kamala Harris: “Oh God. No”
Pete Buttigieg: “No”
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🚨Tesla Akku aus einem Model 3 als Hausspeicher? Geht!
Insgesamt 79kWh!
Geladen mit 11kW Solarstrom.
Ein richtig schönes Beispiel dafür, dass Batterien aus Elektroautos nach dem Einsatz im Fahrzeug nicht einfach ausgedient haben, sondern als Speicher ein zweites Leben bekommen können.
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⛏️ Senate votes to allow copper mining near Minnesota wilderness
The Senate voted 50 to 49 on Thursday to repeal a Biden-era moratorium on new mining across more than 225,000 acres of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, which encompasses the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The House had already passed the Republican-led resolution under the Congressional Review Act of 1996, and President Donald Trump is expected to sign it into law.
The measure clears the way for Twin Metals Minnesota, a subsidiary of Chilean mining giant Antofagasta, to pursue a copper and nickel mine roughly five miles from the wilderness area. Environmentalists, Native American tribes who depend on the watershed for fishing and wild rice harvesting, and hunting and fishing groups had fought the project for years, warning of contamination from heavy metals and sulfuric acid.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
NEW: Republicans are handing precious public lands to foreign corporations and billionaires. We went to Superior National Forest, which is on the verge of being sacrificed to a Chilean mining company. Americans want public lands protected, but Trump and the GOP want profit.
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Disney spent $1 billion in 2019 building a Star Wars theme park where you were not allowed to meet Luke, Leia, Han, or Darth Vader.
Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland was set on Batuu, a backwater planet in a narrow window between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. By that timeline Luke was dead. Han was dead. Vader had died 30 years earlier. Leia was alive but had no canonical reason to show up at an outer rim smuggler outpost.
Imagineer Scott Trowbridge spelled out the design rule in 2022. Characters on Batuu would stay locked to their specific era. No visitors from other Star Wars timelines. The immersion was the entire point.
In practice guests flew to Anaheim for Star Wars and walked through a $1 billion set to meet Vi Moradi and Dok-Ondar. The locals of Black Spire Outpost.
The parallel failure was Galactic Starcruiser. $5,000 for two nights in the same sequel-era window. No Luke, no Vader, no Han, no Leia. Disney wrote down $250 million to close it 18 months after opening.
On April 29, Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland abandons the rule. Darth Vader will roam Batuu hunting Luke. Leia and Han will appear at the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren is being pulled from the land and relocated to Tomorrowland. The ambient Batuu music gets replaced with the John Williams score.
Disney spent seven years defending the design principle. Then Galactic Starcruiser closed with a $250 million write-down. Luke Skywalker showed up for one limited event last year and got swarmed by guests. The rule quietly got dropped.
Avengers Campus figured this out on day one. You put Captain America in the Avengers land.
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BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters.
The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.
The way Republicans passed this bill that prevents future administrations from issuing protections for Superior National Forest, so this pristine land will be exploited in perpetuity unless Congress intervenes to reverse this decision.
The state of Minnesota can still block the Chilean mining corporation from operating in Superior National Forest and protect the Boundary Waters from pollution.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The Senate is about to vote on handing a national forest over to a foreign corporation. A Chilean mining company wants to develop a copper mine upstream from the Boundary Waters, a pristine wilderness. The GOP has to choose between a foreign corporation and their constituents.
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Woah! Ashley St. Clair sounds like she’s about to drop a bombshell on pro-Trump influencer @bennyjohnson
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Absolutely nothing good will come from opening the door to mass day trading
Retail "day trading" generally is a TikTok oneshot designed to bankrupt you while you forestall doing literally anything else useful
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On the Senate side now. Should I drink this or not? ☠️
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As Chairman of the House 2A Caucus, I will testify today before @SenRandPaul's Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The hearing will examine ongoing threats to Americans' right to keep and bear arms.
Watch live today at 10 AM ET: hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-s…
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Do these people think that we can't just ask AI for the research and find large studies that show that none of this is true? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40326424/
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab
Cannabis is detrimental to sperm: even if they can fertilize, there can be DNA damage. Many miscarriages and (in the case of IVF) “day 3 crashes” which is when paternal DNA normally kicks in, are cannabis related. Dr Natalie Crawford on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.
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@anishmoonka An estimated 17.7 million Americans used marijuana daily or near-daily as of recent study findings published in 2024…..
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The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.
I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.
Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.
Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.
Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.
Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab
Cannabis is detrimental to sperm: even if they can fertilize, there can be DNA damage. Many miscarriages and (in the case of IVF) “day 3 crashes” which is when paternal DNA normally kicks in, are cannabis related. Dr Natalie Crawford on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.
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@anishmoonka Wow, I must have some strong sperm. 4 kids, AP classes and I smoke multiple times a day for 30 years. All healthy kids.
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@esaagar I have been smoking weed for 30 years, have four kids. Same woman we are still together. My kids that are old enough to be in school or in honor and AP classes.
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Weed is literally killing humanity
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab
Cannabis is detrimental to sperm: even if they can fertilize, there can be DNA damage. Many miscarriages and (in the case of IVF) “day 3 crashes” which is when paternal DNA normally kicks in, are cannabis related. Dr Natalie Crawford on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.
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@ComicDaveSmith @esaagar @krystalball @emilyjashinsky and @ryangrim opened my mind. Also thanks to @joerogan for introducing @BreakingPointsN to me.
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I’ll go on Breaking Points any time they want me on. I love all of those guys.
I don’t really have any beef with Kyle. He started talking shit about me for some reason and I responded in kind, I think the way he’s going at people for voting for Trump is dumb but I’d still do his show.
Jaguarguy899@jaguarguy899
@ComicDaveSmith I’d love to see you go on breaking points again and maybe bury the hatchet with Kyle Kulinski and go on Krystal Kyle and Friends.
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Today’s the 30th anniversary of RATM’S um, ‘memorable’ performance on SNL. There was a fight onstage between our crew and SNL stage hands moments before our performance, wrestling over some upside down American flags which adorned our amps. Timmy C then attacked host/billionarie/presidential candidate Steve Forbes’ family in the dressing room with a wadded up flag. Secret Service flooded the hallways. SNL cut (censored?) our second song and kicked us out onto the sidewalk.
Evil Empire entered the Billboard Album Chart at #1.
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