Ellison controls CBS/Paramount and has part-ownership in Elon's Xitter, and now, tik-tok. He wants Warner Bros. "The new investors — which include the software giant Oracle; MGX, an Emirati investment firm; and Silver Lake, another investment firm — will own more than 80 percent of the new entity."

#Gaza No word yet about a Trump hotel at Auschwitz: "Kushner’s plan for a “New Gaza” includes a focus on tourism, with luxury hotels as well as a new seaport and airport." newrepublic.com/post/205542/...

1) "Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among people younger than 50 in the United States, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association." www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

#Booksky Just logged onto Bluesky and 2 of the first 10 posts were from so-called "authors" offering to sell their AI slop book covers which didn't make their cut. Great way to forge relationships with potential readers who must wonder if your words are AI generated too. Nuked both accounts.

Get some, Jack! This Vietnam Vet salutes you, Sir!

In just one year, Donald Trump has done all he can to destroy 80+ years of alliances and partnerships. That destruction is not strength — it's weakness masquerading as strength.

1) "Moderna and Merck now have eight Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials underway across several cancer types, including melanoma, non‑small cell lung cancer, bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma. Enrollment for the Phase 3 adjuvant melanoma study is already complete." www.benzinga.com/trading-idea...

If Chuck Barris came back to life and saw this shitshow, he'd hit that gong so hard it would fly off its stand like a railgun projectile.

#$TSLAQ Prepare to laugh:

#Canada globalnews.ca/news/1162087... "We’re forming buyer’s clubs anchored in the G7 so the world can diversify away from concentrated supply. And on AI, we’re cooperating with like-minded democracies to ensure that we won’t ultimately be forced to choose between hegemons and hyperscalers."

I expect to hear Elon opine on this milestone sometime this week. Maybe he already has.

#$GOLD #$BTC For the first 20 days of January 2026, real gold is out-performing Bitcoin. Gold up +10.09% eod, yesterday. (Gold futures atm suggest a new all-time high today.) Bitcoin up +1.88% as of 6:47 AM EST today. Gold and Bitcoin monthlcy charts:

Tesla shill and $TSLA stonk pumper Adam Jonas is in charge of Morgan Stanley’s Global Autos & Shared Mobility research team. He’s the bank’s lead analyst for 18 US-listed automotive stocks. Here’s his 2025 output: $TSLAQ

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

#$TSLAQ Read all about it, Extra, Extra! . . . Tesla is no longer just a robot/robocab company . . . Now fraudy boy is hyper-pulsating into "Space-Based AI Compute?" First question I'd ask as an analyst: "My Nibs, what's the addressable market in just this solar system for SBAIC?"

Y'All Been Musked

Who will trust the USA while Grandpa is at the wheel? youtu.be/U5sAP9GP6N4?...

Just watched the CEO of Coreweave on Bloomberg Pre-Market sputter through his argument that GPUs are NOT depreciating faster than other tech is the LOL moment I needed this morning. In the real world, Coreweave GPUs are depreciating faster and harder than a Cybertruck. #$CRWV daily chart

Watching every business leader from around the planet tiptoe around questions by reporters concerning "Greenland" and "tarriffs" tells me Newsom is more popular with EU leaders in their kneepads, than Trump"

1 way to get more Nazi scribbling onto X & Grok's LLM? "By entering, participants grant X irrevocable rights to use, reproduce, and distribute their articles and related personal identifiers globally and in perpetuity, without additional compensation." www.business-standard.com/world-news/e...

1) #Futures #FinSky At 2:30 AM EST, all US market futures are deepening red (-1% to -1.5%) and gold, silver, palladium, etc are firmly in the green. Natural gas futures are up +20.43%. Precious metals look set to open 2-3% higher. News affecting markets/commodities to be added below this OP:

Cyber truck conversions coming soon.

#$TSLAQ Reminder: In 2023, Musk predicted Tesla would reach a production and sales rate of 250,000 Cybertrucks per year by 2025. "Last year, sales were nearly cut in half, with the firm estimating that Americans bought some 20,200 Cybertrucks in 2025." insideevs.com/news/784715/...

"Don’t get me wrong, it is exciting to see Tesla pushing the envelope on custom silicon. However, claiming a 9-month design cycle when we are currently seeing multi-year gaps between HW3, HW4, and AI5 feels like classic Musk over-optimism." electrek.co/2026/01/17/e...

"Cassidy is already facing John Fleming, the Louisiana state treasurer and a former congressman, in the April 18 primary, but Letlow running with Trump’s endorsement would complicate his road to reelection." www.unionleader.com/news/nationa...

"Ryanair and its subsidiaries operate a fleet of 643 airplanes, which handled 206 million passengers last year. 2024's statistics showed that it was the world's third-largest airline group, behind American Airlines and Delta Air Lines." www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ry...

"More than 180 students at 10 schools were in quarantine as of Friday, according to the Department of Public Health. For the first time since the outbreak began in October, that includes schools outside of Spartanburg County, the epicenter of the outbreak." scdailygazette.com/2026/01/16/s...

"The soldiers are assigned to two infantry battalions with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, which is based in Alaska and specializes in cold-weather operations." www.unionleader.com/news/nationa...

Need a laugh? Check out the three clips Keith Edwards presents here: 1) A grifting fundamentalist preacher on "OIL". 2) Melania Trump sounding like an AI robot 3) Shawn Ryan and Ro Khana, agreeing on an issue, as Ryan burns white-hot against Trump's pedopile protection youtu.be/L-0_fvXQFxo?...

Elon’s priorities ranked in order: 1) Becoming a trillionaire 2) Putting Sam Altman out of business 3) Telling people how dangerous black people are

1) #$BTC #$MSTR NYT: "Mr. Saylor has woven a web of financial tools and borrowing agreements to funnel nearly all of Strategy’s available funds into cryptocurrency, a volatile, lightly regulated space that has nothing to do with the company’s traditional business." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...

Medical exmainer calls it homicide, witness confirms: "Deaths in ICE detention centers have occurred with increasing frequency in recent months, as President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown floods these facilities with record numbers of detainees." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

p.s. This janky one-tap Google protocol for headphones and earbuds means your iPhone can be hacked as well. Hackers can turn on your phone's microphone to hear ambient noise, or they can listen to & change your music, speak to you, locate you, etc. www.wired.com/story/google...

#MusicSky #MusicBlueSky #Sting #ThePolice www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... " . . . Sting – who called it “a nasty little song, really rather evil” – even felt compelled to undo the hex with the 1985 single that kicked off his solo career in earnest, If You Love Someone Set Them Free."

Status Coup News are worth a follow. Online media is picking up that these front line reporters deserve praise and amplification for their powerful eyewitness interviews and reporting. Watch one man admit he has never protested before in his life, but now ICE has brought him into the streets:

How it started vs. How it's going

im hearing that there's another ice involved shooting in minnesota right now

A reminder: Trevor Milton rolled one truck, down one hill, one time - and was convicted of fraud and jailed for it. $TSLA $TSLAQ $NKLA

#ElonMusk #HisNibs #SpaceX I had to make sure the photo accompanying Keith Edward's clip wasn't some kind of AI horror rendering from Grok. Cue at 5:56 to see Musk looking the worst you have ever seen him look. He looks like an abandoned meth lab. Watch him glitch: youtu.be/IhDnx3ei-Lg?...

$TSLAQ #Xitter #Grok #Pentagon If Pentagon brass and worried Senators and Reps don't speak out against this, we are truly fucked: This is the same Grok which countries around the world are busy outlawing due to sexually charged AI renderings of children. youtu.be/IhDnx3ei-Lg?...

#Evanescence #MusicBlue #AltRock Amy Lee is doing the world right by featuring other female voalists (K Flay here with Amy, Halsey in her older song "Hand That Feeds". ) I like this rocker which is just a few weeks old. Amy now free of old record company interference: youtu.be/qiUZ-FzbZEo?...

Another new scene for Idiocracy 2:

$TSLAQ loners, if you didn't catch this one two-days ago, it's an eyeopening laugh. Keubiko gets props for bringing this to our attention:

1) #Cat9EDMMix #EDM #MusicSky #MusicBluesky Last lookback at 2025, a great year for EDM. Cat9 EDM Mix #51 Music from Oliver Smith, Moone, Ali Bakgor, Aldous, Xerxes-k, Monolink, Trilucid, Solardo, Alec Monopoly, FORS, Tiesto, more . . . (Tracklist follows) www.mixcloud.com/Cat9OuterSpa...

$TSLAQ Do you ever think that Elon Musk Fealty Cult Members are founding members of the 21st Century's new Scientology?

I, for one, cannot understand why men like Rupert Lowe are opposed to banning X, despite it assisting sex offenders, paying people to invite the foreign powers to invade the U.K, and allowing state-sponsored cyber warfare against our democracy. It's a real mystery...🤔

We've got Orangey threatening narco-terrorists in Mexico. How long before American expats start disappearing? The number of American expatriates living in Mexico is estimated to be approximately 1.6 million, according to the U.S. State Department. www.remitly.com/blog/immigra...

#Lego #SmartBricks #CES A smart brick which lights up, makes sounds, reads where other bricks might be and at what angles + smart tags? I learn Lego is Danish and has almost 27,000 employees? Do team building exercises involve walking over thousands of Legos? www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gad...