Justin Cornett

@grok @zerohedge The chart here notes 5-Feb-2027… I just assumed that’s what was being quoted … as just Feb 2027 calls. Am I not correct?

**The chart from zerohedge shows total EWY call open interest spiking to ~$5B+ notional recently (aggregate across all expirations, ~282k contracts at current ~$166 share price).** No standard Feb 27 (or Feb 2027) expiration appears in the chains I checked—LEAPs are typically mid-Jan like Jan 15 '27 (modest OI there). Near-term May 8 '26 has the biggest recent call action around 162 strike (518 OI) and 164 (469 OI), ATM-ish. The spike is broad, not one single strike/expiry. Any context on the driver?

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@grok @KatieMiller @DrunkRepub Then what front page was posted here? Was it a regional version of the NYT or is it just completely fake?

No, the New York Times front page today leads with the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It's the top story, with headlines on the gunman who targeted officials there, timelines, and Trump's response—framed in coverage as the third assassination attempt involving him. The screenshot from the post doesn't match the current site.

The third assassination attempt doesn’t make the front page of the New York Times.

Accurate

@60Minutes @grok what is the miracle drug he is referring to here?

Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse was told he had months to live after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December. Sasse credits "providence, prayer, and a miracle drug" with extending his life. Watch Sasse's interview with Scott Pelley, Sunday on 60 Minutes.

If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high: 1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated. 2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead. 3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity. 4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless. 5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure. 6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support. 7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats. 8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed. 9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD. 10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation. Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad. 11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979. 12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter. 13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz. And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy. That’s the strategic picture. It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.

Incredible. USAID was funding the SPLC through an organization called the Tides Center, based in San Francisco. From 2016 through 2024, USAID granted $27 million to the Tides Network to “strengthen global civil society organizations, promote transparency, accountability, citizen engagement, and serve as fiscal agent for USAID’s Civil Society Innovation Initiative.” The Tides Center set up a fund through its Tides Foundation with that money for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Vote Your Voice” initiative. The executive director of the Tides Center is Ayesha Khanna. She was co-chair of Women for Obama in Atlanta, Georgia.

Chamath urges donors to sue the SPLC and dismantle it. @chamath “If you have donated, there is $822 million of your money sitting in an offshore bank account waiting for you to get it back. Because the playbook seems to be: do the opposite to create the narrative, give it to your friends in the media who will look the other way and just amplify it. Tell the lie, create the craziness, and then raise a bunch of money, make a bunch of stink, and try to curate power.”

Japan's Sakurajima volcano has erupted.

@LanceZierlein Not like you… you seem to thrive on pressure and the spotlight in peak athletic form

I know exactly how Justin Rose feels right now. I've had some of the same accuracy issues with my disc golfing lately.

@EricLDaugh This guy’s neck is massive… am I the only one that notices?

🚨 LMFAO! Iranian officials are now complaining that President Trump and JD Vance failed to "GAIN THE TRUST" of Iran during negotiations So they walked away, but then Trump blockaded the Strait, and is HUNTING DOWN vessels who paid Iranian tolls THAT'S FAFO 🔥

@irishcelticsfan @johnarnold Agree… it’s all bad.

@Simracer @johnarnold If you wanna play the international law game are you gonna condemn the bombing of schools and hospitals as well? The wiping out of entire families of the people we’re actively negotiating with? Etc etc. can’t play the “maritime law” angle only when convenient to US I fear.

So what happens when a Chinese ship is trying to exit the Strait? The US is going to block it? The Chinese will allow that to happen?

@johnarnold No, it doesn’t seem stable. However, continuing to just let Iran decide who gets in and out of international waters seems like it acknowledges that they control the Strait, which they shouldn’t according to maritime law.

@Simracer Point is what happens in a few days when a Chinese ship tries again. Is the US going to try to block it? That doesnt seem stable.

@johnarnold 2-3 ships yesterday for the first time (positive) … normally 15-20 per day according to Gemini… (not-positive) … so, oil is not freely flowing certainly to any country, but your question/concern is valid nonetheless.

@Simracer bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@johnarnold Like you said early last week… oil, $150-200.

@VanLathan I could not accomplish any of these stats, even with an exoskeleton @LanceZierlein

I could not believe what I was reading. 6’4 306 lbs 4.63 40 39 in vertical leap SIX PERCENT BODY FAT.

@LanceZierlein Wow… he could spot me 2 seconds and run backwards the last 20 yards for the dub

@Simracer 4.65

306 pounds and 6% body fat.