South Korean tanker just crossed the Ayatollbooth. Moving toward everyone plays ball with Iran while Trump plays with himself.

Watching the Spurs. Bro in San Antonio clued me in on Wembanyana. Sounds like a fun guy to watch.

Embassies where I served often did country stability assessments for US policymakers. Key issues of concern: unchecked executive, rampant corruption, weak legislatures, co-opted legal systems, nepotism, a complicit media, failed social safety nets, civil rights abrogated. Different times, I guess.

My work 401k is cash & foreign <small> stocks. No US, no big stocks. IOW I'm taking the other side of this. Happy to do it.

Agreement between US & Iran is close, say reports. Quoted skeet unrelated.

All of Trump's bloviating is meant to hide that Iran now controls the strait, utterly & completely. 08:27 News Bot: Iran’s IRGC Navy says 26 vessels, including oil tankers, container ships and other commercial vessels, transited the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours in coordination with Iran

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Department of further comment would be superfluous. This is a sum of advancers - decliners for the previous 21 days, and then the resulting number graphed for the past 21 days.

Is that, like, an oof?

"almost no one HERE in the United States seems to acknowledge the wrongness of what Israel is doing to Palestinians" That'd be news to the bulk of American Jews who absolutely agree that Israeli is committing war crimes vs. Palestinians...and the large number who believe it qualifies as genocide.

You’re behind the curve: www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

If it was known at the time that it would take at least 4 years to put him in prison, then the only logical conclusion is that he should have been shot on the White House lawn

The fact of the matter is that Trump attempted a coup on live TV. The fact pattern that we all saw with our own eyes is so damning that any system incapable of punishing it is not worth preserving

So we just got a smol check from NJ for their "Stay" program, a thing that is supposed to keep oldsters from moving to Florida or something. I had no intention of going anywhere near The Villages or whatever that awful place is called. But thanks anyway.

I really wish I had thrown some trash cans through the Capitol windows on J6 like a true patriot. I’d be rich now.

May 18, 1926: Aimee Semple McPherson, a glamorous pioneer of modern evangelism as a celebrity on the radio and in the pulpit, goes missing while swimming at a beach in Los Angeles. Her disappearance for the next 36 days will captivate the U.S., inspiring grief and a guessing game about her fate. 1/8

UK population: 70M UK Michelin-starred restaurants: 230 USA population: 344M USA Michelin-starred restaurants: 273 Sit down, my dear American friends. You eat spray-on cheese and your national dish is burgers

Bacon, eggs, sausage, 2 OJ's, 2 coffees.

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." A 1.5 ppm rise YOY is subpar. Trump continues to turn the world away from CO2 intensive development. It really is quite something.

True. I headed up to clear out the gutters. It was hot up there. Came back & poured water over ice & drank up.

This is a woman who will personally be building gallows on her first day in office and I am 100% behind her for no reason other than this. I am a single issue voter in 2028 and that issue is breaking the GOP at the wheel.

Please tell this to all the transgender adults & families with trans kids who’ve moved to Oregon & other solidly blue states because their rights are protected by our Democratic state governments. What gets done in Democratic trifecta states is what the Democrats believe in & do when given power

The thing about being in a bubble is the behavioral changes LOOK normal, because they go on long enough that it becomes part of the background. That doesn't make it normal though. COR3M, which measures the correlation between stocks, tends towards 100 in bad times and zip in good times.

234 years ago, on the 17th of May 1792, the Buttonwood agreement was signed between 24 stockbrokers on Wall Street, founding the New York Stock Exchange. #otd #history 🗃️

Very good read. Lifelong learning makes for the best stories.

Sometimes people wonder which sport has the dumbest athletes and I gotta say baseball is the only one where the guys regularly fuck up counting to three despite there being an elaborate on-field system in place to ensure they don't fuck it up.

its wild to live in a time where you know if this case came up now it would not be unanimous, and I can't even say for sure they'd strike down segregation

S&P 500 Concentration Risk is near its highest level this century 🚨🚨

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

Huckleberry Finn Catch-22 A Farewell to Arms

This one got people mad LOL For a good time, go check out the comments youtube.com/shorts/zxlbB...

Somehow I don't think the Iran war has even now managed to stay out there. www.reddit.com/r/art_for_ch...

Kash Patel should be taken to a place offshore with water too deep for his feets to reach the bottom and just enuf weight attached to keep his head just above the water and nothing else, and left there. Viewing stands should be erected by the shore. I'd buy tickets.

This turd doesn’t even mention that every Democrat but one voted to invoke the War Powers resolution.

The Anabasis of Xenophon. Woodcuts by A. Tassos. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1969. The book was made where the story happened. The warrior figure in brown, purple, & beige carries the geometric severity of the Geometric period into a twentieth-century woodcut idiom.

Just as in COVID, a thing people didn't take seriously until it slapped them in the face. I mean, these guys get paid big bux to properly analyze this stuff but seem incapable of even putting one foot in front of the other without guidance. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

138 years ago, on the 16th of May 1888, Nikola Tesla described the equipment that would allow electric power to be transmitted over long distances through the use of alternating currents. #otd #history 🗃️

Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Dudes on the internet: Ancient Greek warriors were the manliest, straightest men who ever lived, it’s an insult to suggest otherwise Ancient Greek Warriors: [oiling up a slave boy] god I can’t wait to look at more statues of men with the daintiest penises of all time

I'm old enough to remember when the US government had ethics rules. And astonishingly, officials were actually expected to obey them. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dang. Whomstsoever bot the dip at lunchtime is getting reamed right now, and most folks aren't even paying attention anymore...

omg, I have a profit YTD again on SJB. Will wonders never cease.

Impressed with Xi offering Trump seeds for roses to plant in the White House rose garden that he has concreted over.

Shiller PE is now less than 5% away from surpassing the level reached during the Dot Com Bubble which would give the stock market its most expensive valuation in history 🚨🚨🚨

LOL. Cisco is back.

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Found on r/WallStreetBets. An oldie I'm sure, but a goodie.