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Jerome Powell is wrong to hold rates and even more wrong to suggest he can stay on past his term. The Fed is misreading a weakening economy and overstepping its authority when leadership and clarity are needed most. forbes.com/sites/stevefor…

@Forbes @Forbes you are insufferable 🤡.

ICE officers deployed at airports across the United States are collecting a paycheck, even as they face criticism for being untrained to patrol airports—while TSA workers have gone more than a month without pay. Read more: forbes.com/sites/conormur…

@FT Pls don’t opine.

Opinion: One minute he threatens death and destruction, the next he says the US and Iran are engaged in negotiations. ft.trib.al/5wnTQqD

@WSJ we know that you have a lot of young hipsters posting stuff that they shouldn’t be. But please read this headline again. What are you really trying to say? No need to keep on deprecating your credibility. it’s already done. You’re not recovering from this in a very long time if ever.

With much of Iran’s leadership in hiding or dead, Abbas Araghchi is the most prominent voice of a government refusing to be cowed by the U.S. and Israeli military campaign on.wsj.com/3NKAMaG

@greenbergnation I think it’s scarier that she says these things without a tinge of shame at the level of ignorance. It truly is scary.

A MOST IGNORANT TAKE from San Francisco’s Connie Chan, member of Board of Supervisors (city council) and candidate to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress. Lack of understanding. Major disservice. Ridiculous messaging.

@Scott_Wiener Liar get you facts

ICE was at SFO airport last night, terrorizing a mother while her daughter watched. So much for the “hey we’re sending ICE to airports to fill in for TSA” BS. ICE OUT OF CALIFORNIA

September 1997. Steve Jobs stands before Apple employees and tells them he's been up until 3am finishing an ad. He's been back at the company for eight weeks. Apple lost $1 billion that year. Three months earlier, WIRED put Apple's logo on its cover, wrapped in barbed wire, with the word "Pray." He starts by saying what he's found since coming back. He couldn't figure out Apple's own product line. He spent weeks trying to understand which model was which and how they fit together. He talked to customers. They couldn't figure it out either. He cut 70% of the product roadmap. People whose projects were canceled were, in his words, "three feet off the ground with excitement" because, for the first time in years, someone told them where the company was going. Then he says something about marketing that changed how every tech company thinks about advertising. He says Nike sells a commodity. They sell shoes. But when you think of Nike, you feel something different than a shoe company. Nike never talks about their products in ads. Never tells you why their air soles are better than Reebok's. "They honor great athletes. And they honor great athletics. That's who they are." He compares it to the dairy industry spending 20 years trying to convince people milk was good for them, failing, and then running "Got Milk," which doesn't even mention the product. Focuses on its absence. He says Apple spends a fortune on advertising. "You'd never know it." Then he fires the ad agency. Not just fires them. Apple was running a competition with 23 agencies. He scrapped the whole thing and hired Chiat/Day, the agency he'd worked with a decade earlier on the 1984 Macintosh commercial that advertising professionals voted the best ad ever made. The question they asked themselves: "Our customers want to know who is Apple and what is it that we stand for?" His answer: "Apple at its core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better. And that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do." Then he plays the ad. In this room. To Apple employees. For the first time. "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers." He says almost none of these people had ever appeared in an advertisement before. He personally obtained Yoko Ono's permission to use John Lennon. He says the estates and living subjects agreed because of their feelings toward Apple. "I don't think there is another company on Earth that could have done this campaign." The ad broke that Sunday during the network premiere of Toy Story on ABC. Two 60-second spots. Newspaper ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today. Billboards in major cities. Buses in five cities featuring Rosa Parks. Painted walls. The whole thing. Apple's stock was around $0.10 split-adjusted when this meeting happened. The company is worth $3.68 trillion today. Think Different ran for five years. Every product that came after, the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, was built on the identity this campaign established by a guy who'd been back at the company for eight weeks and finished the ad at three in the morning. Video: Steve Jobs internal staff meeting at Apple, September 1997. This is the first time the Think Different campaign has been shown to employees. Jobs had been back at Apple for eight weeks. Footage leaked from an internal recording.

@FT @FT you guys are insufferable ……… impressive that when everyone thinks you reached rock bottom of negativity. You’re able to go lower!!!

America’s war on Iran is a gift to Vladimir Putin ft.trib.al/dg9Oxpp | opinion

@TheEconomist Pls @TheEconomist don’t give up. You’re trying so hard to be as negative as possible. I already mentioned this beforehand please stop eating mushrooms.

The relentless assassinations of Iranian leaders are likely to make the regime more brittle—but they may also make it harder to bring America and Israel’s war on Iran to any sort of negotiated end econ.st/4rDxp3o Photo: Reuters

Where has our seriousness gone in order to present credible people that have credible points of view. The fact that she was able to get un platform and spew all the venom and ignorant opinions that she has is mind-boggling. Even more so for the people who approved her to be on this interview. Well obviously our as ignorant as she is.

There used to be a time when I would sit down and explain to Joy Reid why comparing the situation of women in America to women in Iran, and even implying women have it better in Iran, is an insult to Iranian women and a bald-faced lie. But after the latest verified report of two nurses who were tortured and raped by regime security forces for the “crime” of treating wounded protesters, raped so brutally with foreign objects that one had to have her uterus removed and both now live with colostomy bags, I’m done explaining. For Joy Reid and every idiot pushing that lie, I have only two words and I would like to ask you to deliver it to her: FUCK YOU.

@WSJ At first, I thought this was a parody account because of the ridiculous coverage of a pseudo news story. Sad ending for a legendary news

The White House is using video games, action movies, and memes to sell the war in Iran. The Journal analyzed over 100 video posts shared by the White House on TikTok and X since the beginning of the war.⁠ ⁠ Watch more: 🎥 on.wsj.com/4uzmU3N

@business The scariest part of this are these individuals that with total ignorance make these pronouncements and Bloomberg publishes them as certitude’s

No one know if Iran's new Supreme Leader is alive or incapacitated, according to US Representative Adam Smith. Watch the full interview on Bloomberg This Weekend. Watch the show LIVE every Saturday and Sunday morning: bloomberg.com/btv/series/blo…

@tferriss Add this early stage it is undervalued. We haven’t even scratched the surface yet just pure speculation.

Do you think that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other foundation model companies are undervalued or overvalued? What's your rationale?

Let’s not forget get that in 1957, Castro contacted foreign media to spread his message; he became a celebrity after being interviewed by Herbert Matthews, a journalist from The New York Times. The philosophy inside of the newspaper is that he was a saint and that all the actions that he took were justified no matter who he killed, and how many he killed.

The NYT cannot help but romanticize commie regimes - especially Cuba's It uses the emotionally loaded term "abandonment" to lament the supposed betrayal, like a family turning its back on a troubled relative or a beleaguered symbol of resistance cruelly forsaken. The whole thing is dripping with the kind of sanctimonious leftist framing that treats the brutal, one-party dictatorship as an "ideological lodestar," conjuring images of "longhaired guerrillas" and "revolutionary nostalgia." Like clockwork, it dutifully recites the Castro regime's "triumphs" such as eradicating illiteracy and universal healthcare, heralding it as a "unyielding bastion of resistance" against US policies while overlooking the abject human cost. Genuinely, what the hell is the point of literacy and healthcare when people are starving? Generations have been living in poverty, crushed under surveillance and censorship, dissidents beaten and disappeared. Blackouts are routine and basic goods are fantasies. A young Cuban's prospects are either to beg tourists for soap or join insurgencies to prop up narco-tyrannies elsewhere in Latin America or flee as a refugee. Cuba is nothing more than yet another failed socialist experiment. Will Western lefties finally square their cognitive dissonance with reality? Not going to hold my breath. ¡Cuba libre!

@lamps_apple So why even entertain talking about this buffoon?

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut... and you have to hear about this guy because it's one of the most incredible, most brazen, most dishonest examples of hypocrisy you'll ever see in American politics. Maybe ever. And there's a lot of competition, believe me. Back in 2014, Murphy is on the Senate floor, he's giving speeches, he's writing resolutions, and he's telling every Republican in Washington... don't you dare undermine these Iran negotiations. Don't do it. He said if Congress shows it doesn't take the talks seriously, it'll destroy our credibility with allies, scare off our negotiating partners, give Russia and China an excuse to walk, and leave us with nothing but a military option. His words. Not anyone else's. His words. And by the way, Trump rebuilt the military, made it the strongest, the most powerful, the most technologically advanced fighting force the world has ever seen... nobody's even close... so the military option isn't quite the disaster it would've been under the previous administration, but that's a separate story. So what happens? Trump gets back into office, and he starts serious indirect talks with Iran. April 2025. Oman-mediated. Very tough, very sophisticated negotiations. Steve Witkoff, incredible guy, working the back channels. Trump gave them a real deadline... sixty days... because he doesn't do endless process. He does deals. Zero enrichment, ship out the uranium, dismantle the key sites, open the doors to inspectors. Clear demands. Generous terms, frankly, very generous, because he didn't have to offer them anything. He could've just hit them. But Trump wanted to give diplomacy a chance because that's what a strong leader does. And what does Murphy do? The same Chris Murphy who said you must not undermine negotiations while they're happening? He goes on television. He goes to Iran International, which the Iranians are watching, and he calls Trump a liar. Says he has no idea what Trump is trying to achieve. Says most of what Trump says isn't real. He pushes war powers resolutions to tie the President's hands. He's out there broadcasting American division to the entire world... to Iran, to our allies, to everybody... while the United States is sitting at the table trying to close a deal that could've avoided all of this. All of it. And it gets worse. Murphy secretly met with Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, back in 2020. Secretly. Behind everyone's back. During Trump's first term. So he'll freelance with the Mullahs, but he won't support his own country's negotiating position when it matters. Think about that. Iran watched all of this. They watched Murphy trash America's leverage in real time. They saw the division. They stalled. They rejected every core demand. Zero enrichment? No. Ship out the uranium? No. Dismantle the facilities? Absolutely not. And the talks collapsed. They collapsed because Iran believed... correctly, unfortunately... that they didn't have to make a deal because half of Washington was working against the other half. And Murphy was leading the charge. So the only card left was the military card. The very thing Murphy warned about in 2014. The very thing he said would happen if politicians undermined negotiations. He predicted the mess. Then he spent a year engineering the mess. Then the military option becomes necessary, and now he's on NPR calling the war "incoherent." Now he's calling Trump senile. Now he wants to block all Senate business and defund the operation. The man who helped make the war inevitable is now complaining about the war. Incredible. And by the way... this is the same guy they're floating for 2028. That's their big idea. A senator from Connecticut who sabotaged his own country's diplomacy, sided with Iran's talking points, and now wants to be President. Good luck with that, Chris. Good luck. You have to ask the question. At what point does undermining your own country's foreign policy in the middle of the most sensitive, most high-stakes, most consequential negotiations in decades... at what point does that stop being opposition and start being something else? Because the people of Connecticut deserve better, the people of this country deserve better, and our incredible warriors now in harm’s way... including the 13 who lost their lives because diplomacy failed... they sure as hell deserve better than Chris Murphy.

@TheAtlantic @nancyayoussef What happened?

Regime change in Iran appears to be a lost cause, @nancyayoussef writes—so what endgame are Israel and the U.S. pursuing? theatlantic.com/national-secur…

@TheEconomist Truly, ludicrous what these people are saying..

The Gulf war has brought traffic in the Strait of Hormuz almost to a halt, sparking an energy shock that will reverberate around the world. Our editors analyse the impact on this week’s Insider episode: econ.st/47zivE3

@wolf_vukovic Please share the mushrooms you’re eating!

The full Alex Karp interview from the American Dynamism Summit.

@DavidAsmanfox Pls ignore this 🤡.. why give him the time? Nothing that he says is true.

First Sen Murphy brags about leaking information from a classified briefing. Then he claims that we are "not going to be able to achieve any of our stated objectives," ignoring our incredible achievements so far...such as those presented today in National Review by Noah Rothman: "To date, U.S. forces alone have conducted strikes on at least 5,500 Iranian targets, according to Admiral Brad Cooper, in accordance with the American military’s objective in this war: eliminating Iran’s capacity to “project power” across its borders. America’s operational tempo is accelerating while Iran’s is in retreat. The Iranian ballistic-missile launch rate is down 92 percent from the first day of hostilities. U.S. forces have entombed much of Iran’s stockpiles in their underground “missile cities.” U.S. drones monitor from the skies the cities that it hasn’t hit, striking them only when they observe Iranian activity. In addition, over 60 percent of Iran’s missile launchers have been disabled... "The Iranian navy is off the chessboard. According to Cooper, 60 vessels have been struck, sunk, or rendered useless to the enemy, including all four of Iran’s Soleimani-class warships. At least 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels have been destroyed. Ten of Iran’s 18 air bases have been hit and rendered inoperable. The U.S. maintains, if not air supremacy, superiority in the skies over Iran. The Iranian air force is a non-entity, as are its air defenses. As was the case in Venezuela, Russian and Chinese technology has proven unequal to U.S. capabilities, allowing the U.S. to transition away from the use of exquisite stand-off munitions (long-range missiles launched from a safe distance) toward cheaper, more abundant, precision-guided gravity munitions." Noah goes on with more, which you should read. But I ask Sen Murphy: What do you have against the real achievements of the U.S. military?