Haven't seen France lose this decisively to the Spanish in 500 years

Whatever you position, this is a heck of a chart

Thought this was worth sharing. Made it a gift link for the three or so people who will see this post. lol. Happy Sunday www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Also reaching Soviet levels of extractive political institutions that enrich a narrow group of elites who have increasingly few constraints on their power.

“It’s a loss for the nation…When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures—and you shrink the supply of future scientists.” #highered

The Iran War has already eclipsed the supposed savings from DOGE's ill-considered cuts to USAID. And that's just considering the direct costs of the war. Cutting government waste takes time and discipline, not reckless dismantling of life-saving global health programs.

Science is woke

the real takeaway from the World Cup is that if you don't have immigrants on your team, it probably sucks

Michelle Obama: The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son that he too would be black, yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused.

Had another opportunity to have a great conversation on Iran with @editorialboard.bsky.social. Check it out: www.editorialboard.com/terms-of-ira...

Also means were are paying Iran, no way the needle moved without it.

How/why have markets not figured out that Trump has no idea WTF he is talking about?

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

ACA Marketplace premiums went through the roof this year... not much chatter about this headwind, but it's there. JPMAM Cembalest

This is 100% true.

Meanwhile no one is talking about how Apple is growing again and it’s basically an infinite duration company at this point so you can sleep well knowing they’ll be returning cash to you still at T+10 unlike memory companies.

A Strong Start to May Has Often Been Followed by a Short-Term Dip quantifiableedges.com/a-strong-sta... $SPX $SPY

The team that promised to fix everything on Day 1 still blaming Biden (and Obama) on Day 468. Nice.

"No one could stop the US raiding modern shipping, but it doesn't because it knows it benefits far more from unmolested maritime trade than any potential piracy spoils", used to be my go-to example illustrating how international law works. Will need to update with a "fucking idiot" caveat.

Iran’s worsening economic crisis is drawing unusually blunt warnings from state media and establishment voices as war, inflation and shortages squeeze households and expose the limits of the government’s response. iranintl.com/en/202604294396

"Jonathan Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the arm, head, and chest, is back in both an administrative and investigative capacity, facing virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight." newrepublic.com/post/209615/...

Out of 136 countries, the happiness of the U.S.’s under 25-year-olds ranks close to the bottom of the list.

he’s saying this because semis are up 25% in 8 sessions

Didn’t the president of United States post a snuff film last night? Guess we’re just moving on

Word? Trump has set a deadline? All the lolz

started going

Once again, Trump is BS'ing. Bloomberg Geonomics reports that despite the president's claims, no one can currently verify the location or condition of Iran’s full stockpile of highly enriched uranium, material. IAEA no longer has high confidence they know where all of the material is.

The market doesn’t care about ceasefire violations because it is assessing (correctly, IMO) that Trump has demonstrated he will make any concessions Iran ends up demanding in order to get out at this point.

WTF! The two-week ceasefire plan includes allowing both Iran and Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a regional official said.-AP

I understand the argument for how Israel’s national interest was advanced in this war. I do not in any way see how our interests were anything but severely harmed.

Also, does he actually think ships trust him to risk transit of the SoH?

This is subject to Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz. We have no idea if they will do that.

And here we go

Less than 24 hours until he extends the deadline. Again.

If folks would just take a step back. The idea that he’s going to kill 90 million people at 8pm tonight is just fanciful. Remember the guy is a reality tv star, and that wrestling is not real. His clownish tweets juice ratings

Less than 24 hours until he extends the deadline. Again.

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

If you’re “red-pilled” aren’t you, by definition, woke?

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

#$SPX closed below the Dec low and today's gap, unlike others recently, wasn't closed during the day. This isn't fatal yet (the Jan 20 one [dashed line] wasn't closed until the following day) but the bullish forces need to pull themselves together here to limit further damage.

Donald Trump is surprised at how poorly the Iran War is going — but the news media is covering all of this uncertainty and sham-handedness as if it’s all part and parcel of a normal conflict. Every article needs to start leading with: Trump is lost at sea. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

It's infuriating that every journalist, since Trump's 2024 campaign, has been incorrectly discussing Trump's tariffs as though they're economic policy. They're not. They're a primitive coping mechanism, employed by a psychopathic toddler to soothe his pain when he feels fragile and wounded.

“Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” - 9-year-old imprisoned for 113 days in Texas concentration camp

“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.” - 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp