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The sudden irrelevance of verified checks on this app had originally been glorious but now I have no idea what information is accurate about any current events. @elonmusk pls fix

@DanielJHannan Huh

Trump has just lost a war to Iran. I would liken it to the Suez débâcle except that, at Suez, Britain successfully swept Egyptian resistance aside. We were defeated by Eisenhower’s hostility, not Nasser’s tanks. This time, the US just flat out lost - and the world is vastly worse off for it.

@6abc Stark contrast between Philly and and Montco crime and police response

Thieves stole 96 bananas from Wawa in Montgomery County, police say 6abc.com/post/96-banana…

@6abc These headlines are ridiculous lmao

Iran declared victory Tuesday, saying the Iranian military will "cease their defensive operations" if the U.S. halts its attacks. 6abc.com/live-updates/i…

@CFBHome “College football forever the boys”

I asked Ai to create a render of the average Big Ten fans bedroom in the 2000s. How does it look? 🍕

@Genetics56 The pac12 schools must feel pretty good about leaving that sinking ship for big ten. Sometimes the grass is greener

First it was Indiana football. Then it was Michigan men's basketball. Next immediate turnaround? UCLA football. What UCLA accomplishes the next 2 seasons will be whatever it becomes, but that is the next turnaround. I am fully confident in that statement.

@realdillvols @CFBTalkDaily @jdpickell The point wasn’t irrelevant at all

@CFBTalkDaily @jdpickell What does that have to do with what I said? NIL helped them yes. They also have the best or 2nd best coach in football right now. How good was Vandy before NIL? I can make irrelevant points too

Everyone is worried about the evolution of AI when we should be talking about the unstoppable force that the Big Ten is becoming.

@aakashgupta Probably didn’t need this long winded analysis to draw the conclusion but yes - considering most corporations have Jewish people on their boards, this is the likely response from these institutions vs the general public

The Kanye comeback is producing the most cleanly split market response in modern entertainment history. U.S. side: Two sold-out SoFi Stadium shows. $33 million in ticket revenue across two nights. $18 million from a single Friday show, one of the highest-grossing single concerts ever. "Bully" debuts at #2 on Billboard 200 with 152,000 units. Spotify and RapCaviar feature him on top playlists. Live Nation is booking the tour through August across India, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Portugal. U.K. side: Wireless Festival announces him as headliner for all three nights. Within days, Pepsi pulls its sponsorship. Diageo (Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker) pulls its sponsorship. The Prime Minister publicly condemns the booking. Campaign Against Antisemitism calls for a travel ban. Liberal Democrat leader calls it "extremely serious." Same artist. Same week. Same album cycle. One market is pricing in the apology. The other is pricing in the pattern. In January, he took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad titled "To Those I've Hurt," attributed everything to bipolar disorder and a frontal lobe injury from his 2002 car crash. The ADL's response was telling: the apology is "long overdue" but "doesn't automatically undo" the years of antisemitic behavior. The financial math tells you where this is actually heading. In October 2022, he lost Adidas ($1.5B in net worth gone overnight), Gap, Balenciaga, Vogue, his talent agency, and his lawyer in the span of about 72 hours. Forbes dropped him from $2B to $400M. Three and a half years later, he's pulling $33M from two shows and selling $20 merch on Yeezy.com. He rebuilt the revenue without rebuilding the corporate infrastructure. No brand deals. No equity partnerships. Direct-to-consumer everything. The concert math and streaming numbers prove the audience never left. The sponsor math proves the institutions did. That's the actual story here. The consumer market and the corporate market have permanently forked on the same person.

@BillSny60603610 @6abc I don’t disagree, I just find it annoying that this headline uses the opinions of so-called experts to frame specific actions in war as immoral when we often revere the heroic actions of those who fought in world war II. It is all subjective and they know it

@dhcueb4 @6abc Estimates were 80 years ago, we and our allies would have has upwards of a million casualties to take the Japanese home islands. Their numbers would have been worse. Took two bombs. Sad but saved lives. Put the real story out there, not just a random point.

Trump's threats against Iran could be war crimes if carried out, some experts say 6abc.com/post/president…

@amuse @AutismCapital Also… how long are they gonna have a human chain at these places? Say he holds off a week and then blows it all up?

@AutismCapital It is a war crime.

If this is true it's a very interesting move to call Trump's bluff. Iran is trying to make the cost of his decision so morally high that it becomes a line that if he crosses there's no coming back from. i.e. "Are you prepared to directly kill all the youth?" It's diabolical.

@JakeSnake857 @ghettogata @vanillaopinions 😭😭😭

@ghettogata @vanillaopinions Ok, Cashappesha

the racial difference in payment app usage is fascinating

@NASA Enjoy the view🌕

@nyaraVT Europeans gonna realize the welfare state doesn’t exist when there’s no longer free protection

Threatening us with a good time.

@PastorMarvy Nigerian paid by china to say shit like this hahah

China became the new global leader without firing a single bullet. Talk about positioning!

@business @Matthew_Winkler @opinion LOL

Gavin Newsom's stewardship of California's economy has been so stellar that even Elon Musk admits he can't quit the Golden State, says @Matthew_Winkler (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@Jimmyking35 Gayborhood erasure

Yes! Open Streets has expanded to Midtown Village! Sundays between June 8-29 from 11am-5pm, residents can enjoy car-free streets on 13th from Chestnut to Locust, Sansom St from 12th to Juniper, and Drury St Let’s pedestrianize Sansom Street, Philly [map via Inquirer]

@brianschatz Let enemy get nukes or attack enemy energy infrastructure??? Hmmm, hard choice!

Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime, and the time to speak out against it is right now.

@ajlamesa @emre_mayo Certainly not most of Philadelphia… maybe parts of south philly. Whole city is dirty but the politics are dismissive when one party controls power in city hall for decades on end…

@emre_mayo I can think of many urban environments with large populations of middle-class families and the public spaces are still not as clean and attractive. With both ordinances and efforts to shift sociocultural norms, we should address littering, filthy sidewalks, and rude behavior.

What's remarkable about Mexico is that, despite extreme inequality, significant poverty, brutal organized crime, and a large informal sector, its town and city centers are lively, orderly, and clean. So what's our excuse north of the border?

@kabaivanoff1 @NilesGApol Do you think that was my argument or are you pigeon holing me? Record 9.1% YOY inflation was the highest increase since the 70s under Carter. And once the prices rose they never dropped sooo yea it was never a return to “normalcy”

@dhcueb4 @NilesGApol do you think the only time inflation and stagnant wages ever happened was after the pandemic??

2023 (pre-October 7th) was honestly the only time it felt like we were headed back to pre-pandemic levels of normalcy tbh