I actually believe longevity and body hacking industry is an underrated cause of how we ended up where we are today

Great read: Crypto Bucket Shops [I deleted the previous post because of problems with Substack links...]

alright the shorter faster version of this

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.** reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Are we in a new normal of stock market concentration? awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/the-...

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

"Smart tech guys" who lack the competence or at least insight required to operate a Pop-Tart without injuring themselves.

The indictment may relate to mortgage documents James co-signed to help her niece secure a loan for a property in Virginia. This @mollyroberts.bsky.social piece explains why it appears to be a pathetically weak case. (Fixed the link, sorry!) ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Important to remember as Frito-Lay US continues to falter that Pepsico is a portfolio. International still drove solid numbers at $PEP. But between lapping mega Covid consumption, healthier eating & GLPs, Frito has work cut out even if not as bad as food peers. $KO $GIS $KHC $CPB $XLP

I get luaghed at now when I say I'm short... I was max long on April 8th this year. Funny that.

another Kavanaugh Stop, executed to perfection

it's so bizarre that we are losing our country when the parade of horribles goes #1 cities on fire that aren't; #2 a trans girl playing high school soccer; #3 windmills

My latest at Substack montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/musks-plan...

More of this

10 Sunday Reads. ritholtz.com/2025/10/10-s...

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Dividends Matter (A Lot) www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/2025/10/divi...

10 Weekend Reads ritholtz.com/2025/10/10-w...

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

This seems to check out

Wow man. I’m becoming fully radicalized against big tech. I’ll admit these were not the antitrust concerns that I thought would win me over.

Congrats to CBS buying a publication that argues for the inferiority of their shows’ human actors because they are tainted by sex.

These stories all sound the same, but each one scares me that I’ll be reading them the rest of my life

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

feels like they're testing the waters for a Dershowitz-style "yes, Trump got a massage, but only with his clothes on" explanation

Killing it for sure

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

Every time Eric Adams is in the news, I think about this response he gave to the question of what the best concert he ever attended was.

10 Monday AM Reads ritholtz.com/2025/09/10-m...

Lol

As someone who often has to struggle with getting strong quotes out of finance types on weird esoteric stuff, I was particularly jealous of this:

As agents retreated back to the facility grounds, a protester was knocked to the ground and arrested.

Honeywell International $HON raised quarterly dividends by 5.30% to $1.19/share This is the 15th consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend achiever

*sighs heavily and affixes a bumper sticker reading "I bought this while elon was vacationing on pedophile island" to my 2014 tesla model s*

“.. In what appears to be a copy of Epstein’s itinerary, Musk had a tentative trip to Epstein’s island on Dec. 6, 2014. A note appended to that plan reads, ‘is this still happening?’” @politico.com $TSLA www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Update: The market seems to understand that Phil Mickelson, who is not on the board, speaks on behalf of management of his California Offshore Oil company (SOC) and is now -15% because he seems to have told the market that the company is boned. lmao

Most people aren't aware short selling firm Hindenberg reformed with team intact, minus founder Nate Anderson. They do amazing work, like this today, that proved Italian fashion brand Brunello Cucinelli is circumventing EU sanctions on Russia. Stock got smoked. www.morpheus-research.com/cucinelli/

ABC News is out of control

Looks like people really enjoy the time spent working for Elmo... xAI is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets by poaching employees Alex Spiro confronted a former "senior finance executive" for stealing xAI's "secret sauce" of rapid data center deployment for OpenAI here's his reply

On your knees Elon

Nevada employment growth is turning negative YoY, which in the past 35 years has meant the US was in recession:

As I was saying…

If you watch and share one thing today make it this