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Column: Texas A&M coach Mike Elko called it out -- an expanded College Football Playoff is a self-preservation move, not something good for the game. Getting stakeholders to think beyond themselves remains one of the hardest things in college athletics. bit.ly/4dw4HxE

A federal appeals court is ordering @C__Herridge to identify her confidential sources, while keeping key parts of the case under seal. The public deserves transparency when courts make decisions that shape press freedom. freedom.press/issues/latest-…

Starlink coming to American Airlines! 💫

When people say “with all that’s going on”…do they realize how relatively calm and peaceful a time it is in our country? In the 1860’s we all decided to pick teams and butcher each other…in the 1960’s 5 of the most prominent political leaders were assassinated and we sent 1000s of our young men to be killed in Vietnam …in 1917 and 1941?…well you know what happened then…just stop…just because your favorite candidate didn’t win it doesn’t mean the sky is falling ya bunch of babies…also, please keep fighting for good policy despite who’s in office. And please be critical of your own guy as well as the other..that’s the only way anyone will listen…

Congrats to Lu for being named a Honda Award Finalist 🤩 → Helped lead the Aggies to their second NCAA women’s tennis title → Went 28-0 in singles play → 7-0 record against ITA top 10 opponents More 🔗 aggi.es/4dJsNnl #GigEm // #AggieWT

@mamboitaliano__ Beautiful

Rate from 1 to 10 my red mullet ragù I just made with peppers, yellow datterino tomatoes, and a red mullet bisque 🍝🇮🇹

Everything is earned, not given. Honoring a teammate that represents everything Texas A&M Football is about. Nana Boadi-Owusu is now on full scholarship!

@Ric_RTP lol. ‘They ain’t going back to the Farm after they seen Paree’

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI. The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace. They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up: Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it. Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived. Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead. The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much. Uber's story is even worse... Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April. Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems. Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session. The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money. Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans. Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative. Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing: AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs. The stock market rewarded every company that said it. Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up. But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools. Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible. Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone. And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control. The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP. This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in. $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work. What do you think?

Focusing on the Strait of Hormuz or the Iran regime’s nuclear file while leaving this regime in place is like blaming the tequila or the car and ignoring the drunk driver—until you deal with the driver, the crash is only a matter of time.

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

@Nicoletta0602 Why is RI so cra cra? Mostly very liberal but why the just nuts stuff?

RI bill H7345 prohibits restaurants from selling kid meals unless they offer at least 2 healthy kid meals under 550 calories. Have fun, pizza & Chinese restaurants! Shackling businesses doesn't fix bad parenting. There will just be less family restaurants, less family time.

@kerpen Bad

HBO moved French Open to an add-on tier that is not available to me even for purchase, apparently. So that's nice.

@WallStreetApes lol. Late season Turkey hunt and you will get acquainted. Nothing new.

Americans who are coming in contact with ticks say these new ticks are very different than the ones we’ve all known in America This man is in upstate New York “It was hot today, like 86 degrees, and I could see ticks literally crawling up my shoes and up my socks — these things literally just came out of the woods and came right to me. These are nothing like I remembered when I was younger. Go out in the woods, you might have one on you, find one under your armpit or one on your stomach. Or one on your sneaker. But these things, the minute you go out in the wilderness or the woods or the field, they're everywhere. They're crawling up your feet, your legs. I've never seen nothing like it. And I want to know where the hell all these ticks came from” “Is this what they mean when they talk about boxes of ticks? I have a farm right next door. Does that mean boxes of ticks were dropped off at my neighbor's house and now they've infiltrated my property? There's literally thousands of them. They're everywhere. We got to pick them off our dogs every night and they're both treated. What is going on with ticks and who sent them?” This testimony follows so many other Americans exporting the same thing. Ticks that are nothing like we’ve seen before, and so many of them Remember, Rep Tim Burchett said Bill Gates is behind this increase in ticks Pfizer is researching a vaccine for Lyme disease. Lyme disease comes from ticks. The timing is perfect This isn’t a social media trend There is a genuine, well-documented surge in tick activity and encounters in upstate New York and much of the Northeast and Midwest US in 2026 Experts at SUNY Upstate, Cornell, and state health departments report significantly higher submissions to tick-testing labs, a 145% increase They’re seeing more human bites, and expectations of an “early and heavy” season with risk levels at 10/10 in some areas Experts say this is due to a large acorn crop and climate change Most people would disagree “Why are these ticks starting to attack people”

In 2026, residents of every major city should understand this simple truth: Crime and squalor are choices. Policies exist that can both be compassionate but put the rights and quality of life of the tax paying and law abiding above everything and everyone else. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.

@WSJ @WSJopinion @FredKrupp Gibberish analysis. Just hokey wild accusations not based in fact.

From @WSJopinion: Natural gas is escaping into thin air. Mitigating waste could help solve the world’s energy shortage, writes @FredKrupp on.wsj.com/4wL1yBC

You forgot hillbilly and college dropout!

@JeffBezos @wholemars If the bottom 50% have no skin in the game on taxes, then they will demand more and more free stuff from the govt. It is horrible policy to have them pay 0%.

@JeffBezos Wrong. Everyone should pay some amount. You already have moral hazard of a large percent voting for insane policies you are debating and presenting. Everyone needs to participate. Skin in a game clarifies the mind.

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

@jareddiamond @WSJSports Really nice article Jared. Thanks.

For @WSJSports I wrote about the Ben Rice origin story. It's absolutely incredible. wsj.com/sports/basebal…