Mark Raymond
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@markraymond
Research @American_Bridge, fan of democracy 🇺🇸 , Democrat, YIMBY. Previously research for @TomSteyer. I don't pay for the blue checkmark. Views are my own.
Minnesota GOP Senate candidate Michele Tafoya on rising gas prices: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks & so that gas goes a little further until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again. Let's just try to be patriots about this"
Followers do not see our content and vice versa. It's across the board. Small, medium, and big accounts. People are losing motivation and feeling very demoralized in posting. They can't grow their accounts. It feels very structured in what you can post and what you can't post. Not to mention, lists are a problem. Endless harassment from the left. K*ll lists are being implemented. Safety is a huge issue now. Mass reportings to take down conservative accounts. Last but not least, please fix the block button. People shouldn't be able to quote post me that I have blocked. They shouldn't be able to see me. Out of sight out of mind. The harassment is off the chain on X.
rhea seehorn on the importance of studios taking a gamble on original IP and *actually* marketing them
Chuck Norris has been hospitalized. No word yet on condition of the hospital.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Norris has been hospitalized after a medical emergency in Hawaii. What we know: tmz.me/7e8iqBd
I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…
Powell characterizes tariffs as "shock" that has "interrupted progress" on inflation
SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress
SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress
Jerome Powell: "If you look at total core inflation, it's about 3%. Some big chunk of that, around 1/2 or 3/4, is actually tariffs."
Roseanne Barr claims Trump is actually disrupting the hidden global cabal network tied to BRITISH power, who are behind the Big Banks and war profiteering.
