Notable pre-mkt headlines. - Tasnim reports the US is offering temporary Iran oil OFAC sanctions relief while negotiations proceed to sweeten the deal. Oil ⤵️, bonds/stonks ⤴️ - #$F announced 4 GWh/year battery supply deal with EDF's renewables business - #$NEE / #$D tie-up reported Friday confirmed

There’s regional and personal variation. But I grew up in NS and it was always Victoria Day. (Not that we meaningfully associated it with the monarchy, but that’s the origin.) I didn’t learn the other ones until moving away.

🚨 While China is not Japan, Chinese property prices are cosplaying www.ft.com/content/381f...

Many such cases!!

Saving this as reference for the next time the Brits get frisky about accurate assessments of the dire state of British “food”. (1/2)

@isaiahbishop.bsky.social just got a vlog of a Maine road trip from this girl speaking Chiac across my FYP. Funniest dialect I have ever heard.

finally, some Keynesianism from the folks at Liberal Currents !

Our Mountain Island Lake Teeter has a bar that is similarly hopping a couple nights a week. Nothing but respect for anyone that is so serious about getting tanked that they do it between the Jose Andres display and the Tostitos seasonal theme end cap.

Stocks unch

Oil up another 1%. Brent $110

Pick up heavy stuff, put it back down, give hugs.

love how it's another modern rectangle restaurant but they slapped a RETVRN mural on it

Good afternoon, we are so back.

If a national chain tries to take a bite of the NC fast food market I am duty bound to give them a shot.

Kind of inevitable that the wrecker left would ultimately do a "I'd vote for a woman, just not that one" even to AOC

Alarm accidentally went off way too early so folks we’re doing some early Sunday morning transit exploration. Turns out I can walk a mile then take a bus within three blocks of the stadium for CLT FC matches. Takes roughly 2-3x as much time as driving but for times it’s just me and my daughter…

“substantially underestimating uncertainty” is the problem with like 90% of ideas, ideologies, and philosophies that go awry

It’s worthwhile to conduct extreme thought experiments. Like, yes, the math here is correct and it’s worth considering those implications. But then you absolutely must caveat, because assuming a constant variable for two centuries is *extremely* crude. So your conclusions need to be limited!

The Honor Harrington series. www.rogermwilcox.com/stories/webe...

I don't think it's helpful to sanewash nonsense critiques.

I feel like prominent journalists being massive conspiracy theorists isn’t good for society.

Really hoping Hearts hold on, what a great story.

we really gotta start talking about think tanks as being a particularly recherché version of influencer houses

absolutely deranged post

i know the point is varying price points in different housing markets but there's also a very common explanation to "Why is this Victorian House suspiciously cheap"

i agree with balko about the seriousness of this, but the press corps have to stand up for themselves, because this a learned behavior with trump. he knows they’re not going to say or do one damned thing in response to this kind of provocative insult and that’s why he does it.

When I step into the Golden Corral

Huge story

Trump's popularity is about where it was in the final two weeks of his first term post-January 6th:

This episode was the essence of the podcast in an almost perfect way. An absolute joy to hang out with @patrickwyman.bsky.social and it was over too soon. But his book! bookshop.org/p/books/lost... And check out Past Lives! patreon.com/PastLivesMed...

10y yield now 10 bps higher on the day. IMO the global rates market is giving a clear signal that the AI boom is driving up demand for capital to a degree we haven't seen in a long time.

The answer is...end the employer mandate, make silver plans the baseline, expand premium tax credits, introduce a public option and wait 15-20 years after which you integrate with Medicaid or Medicare.

Starting a support group for dads who are a bit sick this week and have gotten badly addicted to Cities Skylines 2 Let's Plays.

30y Gilt yields +20 bps, highest since 1998 and above 5.85%. Global bonds getting absolutely rekt today.

Battery production up another 0.3% MoM in April.

Indictments for anyone involved (line agents on up) should be a Day 1 priority in 2029.

my favorite fact about jordan uhl is that during the pandemic he posted that going to a restaurant is murder three minutes after posting a picture of him eating spaghetti out of a giant wheel of cheese in italy on instagram

It’s all quite Roman general wins decisive battle against the Gauls and then marches to Rome where the grateful citizens acclaim him Emperor

FREIGHTWAVES: “.. Truckload spot rates surge to $3.57/mile, up $0.47/mile from a week ago. “.. Diesel is only $.01/mile higher than it was a week ago.” 🤓

mid-80s tomorrow afternoon. North Carolina moment

At a workshop honouring the great Jan Toporowski.

Leaning in to demographic collapse is certainly one approach. Chin's population has fallen for four straight years, and declines are accelerating. The birth rate has basically halved since 2019, death rate at record highs. *CHINA SEEKS MODERATE SIZE OF POPULATION: CCTV

Lotta crazy charts floating around, this might be the craziest.

We're already in @footballcliches.bsky.social territory with the Labour leadership race?!?! *UK'S STREETING:NO DOUBT BURNHAM IS ONE OF BEST PLAYERS ON PITCH

41 degrees F in CLT this morning. All-time record low for this date!

every one of the WaPo videos is just. Lauren’s tweet about not falling for that kind of perversion