Essentially, this would be (1) paying Donald Trump to (a) make market-moving statements, and (b) provide inside information about those statements—and hence (2) setting up a market manipulation scheme and giving Trump his cut of it.

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

Guess who the conservatives are now?

Jag älskar den här killen.

USA tänker påverka val i Europa. De har till och med satt av pengar för det. Åkesson sa att han ville ha stöd av Trump. Varför har hela journalistkåren kollektivt glömt dessa två faktum? www.dn.se/varlden/karl...

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Perhaps the most amazing part of the story is that the teleprompter guy only made $100k.

Tänker de köra ungerskt i Serbien?

A White House teleprompter operator used his position to win around $100,000 by placing bets on the prediction market Kalshi about what President Trump would say in his speeches, the company said on Thursday. nyti.ms/4w7ZDWT

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Being obnoxious, even hoping that someone had died painfully, is not, or should not be, a crime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Zelensky says he fired Ukraine's defense minister because he couldn't end the minister's feud with army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. "I wanted unity. The sides didn't find it," Zelensky said. "If they can't resolve it, I have to." meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Vilket mysigt gäng hela världen verkar hålla på.

Ska man behöva hålla på Spanien i finalen nu alltså?

WHOA! Nancy Pelosi says she will vote for Massie's amendment to withhold arms from Israel despite calling it "ill-conceived!" "The American people are rightly demanding an end to a perpetual cycle of war, and the Netanyahu government cannot maintain its current course. "

Fejksidan svtdebatt.se är tillbaka på nätet. Nu ser det ut som att det bara är AI-genererade artiklar av påhittade skribenter. Fortfarande komiskt uselt.

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

UK: IWGB Game Workers union forms 'redundancy taskforce' to defend workers' rights www.gamedeveloper.com/business/iwg...

Hundar 🥰

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Russia seeks more gasoline from India after Ukraine attacks refineries, sources say reut.rs/4fgmZ5H

Today in youth radicalization: "A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence after police discovered an alleged plan to target two London mosques that was linked to 'extreme right-wing terrorism.'"

One aspect of the final Maine story that hasn’t gotten enough comment: he came to her home, and attacked her there What women hear is: the place where she should have been safest and most in control was taken away What the manosphere says is: “yeah of course where else would we do it” /1

KELLY: Can you tell me why Joe Biden was certified as the winner of the 2020 election? CLAYTON: ... I really ... Uhm ... I don't want to continue to debate about this, but I believe he had the most electoral votes KELLY: So he won the election? C: ... hahehe K: Trump isn't even in the room today

Viktor Orban's long time foreign minister has joined BYD! Péter Szijjártó has resigned from Parliament to join Chinese car giant BYD as the executive responsible for the company's external relations and the development of new business divisions. Via Viktória Serdült on X

”Galenskap är att göra samma sak om och om igen och förvänta sig olika resultat” Den här ronden av beskjutningar och blockader tillför ingen ny dimension av konflikten. Förutom att Saudi verkar vilja dra in Ansar Allah också. Att Trump förväntar sig att Iran kommer vilja förhandla på hans ->

This is the third one in 12 months?

calm down, unc

"As they start preparing for the massive reconstruction project that faces them, Democrats should learn this important lesson from McConnell: while the public may recoil at certain kinds of substantive radicalism, they will barely notice procedural radicalism." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

“It was the third death in about a week involving encounters with ICE agents, following shootings in Texas and Maine.” Three deaths in a week is not a coincidence. A few months from now, we’ll learn about some new horrific directive thar intensified ICE’s violence.

⚡ Polish fighter jets intercept Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea. united24media.com/world/polish...

Lakers fan nailed a half-court hook shot for $75k and LeBron tackled him out of pure excitement. Less than 1% of pros can make that shot.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Ukraina slår mot ryska skuggflottan på Azovska sjön https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/ukraina-slar-mot-ryska-skuggflottan-pa-azovska-sjon

Har de börjat spela fotboll nu?

Not seen a French national defence collapse this badly since 14th July 1789.

And downhill from there…

Spanien leker.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to compel New Mexico to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-15 in these cases. Elias Law Group and its clients are undefeated! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-me...

Great reporting that is unfortunately wrapped up in lots of euphemism to avoid one obvious word: corruption.

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Frankrike påminner mig om Brasilien i finalen 1998. Halvljummet fast det är VM-semi.

In Kazakhstan, a Russian couple was detained over a "Z" T-shirt. The Russians stood there making excuses, saying they didn't know and that it was no big deal, but they were taken to the police station anyway.

Det här är en ganska tråkig match. Trodde det skulle vara mer drag i Frankrike.

Mike Johnson is holding a press conference to yell a lot about "communism," as though that is what Democrats are trying to impose on America (meanwhile, Trump is seizing the means of production for his regime)

Skojade förra vecka att den dåliga 90-talsrevivalen som pågår bland generation alfan kommer så småningom leda till att folk går runt i Limp Bizkit-tröjor. Ja, hörni… det gick lite fortare än jag trodde…

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/lapd-regular...