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[Reuters @Reuters]

The $TRUMP meme coin generated about $616 million for the Trump family, while buyers lost more than $700 million, according to Reuters' estimates. The coin has tumbled 97% from its January 2025 peak https://t.co/D6RjrGkMnV @specialreports

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Mark Cecchini, CFP® @markcecchini]

texts I get from my wife from while I’m trying to monitor the situation and escape the permanent underclass

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

I wrote about the insanity of "medical privacy."

It's hard now to do research that could cure major diseases because we are too worried about the handling of people's personal data, which they themselves appear not to care about.

HIPAA was a mistake. https://t.co/gq27mf3P2T

[New York Post @nypost]

A one-armed woman has gone mega-viral after she quickly refuted a cop’s claim that she was driving with a phone in her “right hand.”

[Alan S @AShaughnessy25]

@MainLineTopMind @scottsalaske What are the biggest downsides of the strategy for the average investor?

[Alan S @AShaughnessy25]

@McRibfan69 @samalgren @FuentesUpdates The chain is not the same as the original lol

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This administration cares a lot about what the lowest gutter racists think. In many cases they’re in the administration. Not surprising that something this basic would get deleted.

[Alan S @AShaughnessy25]

@Bukowskis_Beer @BedroomMaster_ Trying to make a woman cum being “beta maxing” has to be a new level of incel haha

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

More and more people are realizing that SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.

Your phone is an umbilical that connects your brain to a universe of hatred, ruled by the most hateful, twisted people in our whole society.

[Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker]

In Kyiv for @thetimes, I spoke to a Russian drone operator who walked six miles through a battlefield to defect to Ukraine.
Not just any soldier — a member of Russia’s elite Rubicon drone unit. For weeks, he had been secretly talking to Ukrainian intelligence. 🧵 1/

[Overton @overton_news]

Joe Rogan just took time out of his podcast to express genuine concern for his friend Theo Von.

He admitted that some of Von’s recent behavior after getting on SSRIs “freaks me out” — especially his comments about suicide.

ROGAN: “Theo Von’s going through the exact same thing and last time he was on the podcast he was explaining it to me.”

“It freaks me out because I know Theo has had conversations before...like even publicly.”

“He had a Netflix taping and it didn’t go well. It was like they actually never...they shelved it. They never used it.”

“And you know there was all these stories from people that were there saying he bombed. I think he just had a kind of a breakdown.”

“And when he was talking to the crowd and there’s a video of it, he said, you know, the people were saying, hey, we still love you.”

“He goes, thank you. Look, I’m just I’m trying not to take my own life.”

“And like you hear stuff like that and you just go like, oh, Jesus Christ.”

“I’ve known too many people that I didn’t think were going to kill themselves and then did.”

“And then he goes down these spirals where he starts talking about world events and freaking out. I’m like, oh, Jesus Christ! Like, I got to help this dude.”

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

Serhiy Kernytskyi spent 346 days on a frontline position near Chasiv Yar. During that time, he killed 23 Russian soldiers and captured 6 more alive.

He deliberately let Russian troops come within 20 meters before opening fire — just to make sure he would not miss in close combat. The 24th Mechanized Brigade has nominated him for the title Hero of Ukraine.

Throughout the entire year, Kernytskyi kept a video diary on an ordinary phone. He filmed assaults, trophies, and daily life on the position. There was almost no communication, but somehow the phone kept working.

He charged it using batteries from captured Russian SPG grenade launchers. Hundreds of short videos survived: burning dugouts after Molotov attacks, captured rifles lined up in rows, ribs frying on a stove, fish soup boiling in a battered pot.

Before the war he worked construction jobs in Khmelnytskyi region. He was mobilized on November 3, 2024. He thought he would spend three months at the position. Then maybe another six. It turned into almost a full year.

Whenever he asked why they were not being rotated out, the answer was always the same:

“There are no men left to send.”

The position itself was a tiny dugout, three by four meters, near Chasiv Yar. Later it was unofficially named “Kernytskyi’s Position” in his honor.

On the very first day, one of his comrades was killed when an artillery shell tore through the roof, leaving a hole nearly five feet wide.

Kernytskyi’s close-combat tactic was brutal and simple: let the Russians come as close as possible, hit them with grenades, then finish the fight at point-blank range. Shooting blindly through bushes made no sense to him.

“To make sure I don’t miss,” he said. “To know for certain I will take him down.”

During winter he stood watch for two hours at a time because after the third hour his hands froze so badly he could no longer reload his rifle. He reinforced the dugout with dirt bags and captured body armor to stop shrapnel from flying inside. He hid the stove pipe far through the thorn bushes and covered it with branches so drones would not spot smoke from the air.

He stopped asking commanders for ammunition, grenades, or even food. Everything came from dead Russian soldiers. Over time he collected 12 captured AK-12 rifles, body armor, a laser sight, rations, and cigarettes.

By the end of January 2026, Kernytskyi was alone on the position. One comrade was killed by an FPV drone. Another — after nearly a year beside him — died from shrapnel that severed an artery.

“In the morning we laugh together,” Kernytskyi said. “By evening they are already the heavenly guard. May the earth rest lightly on him.”

When drones spotted a group of eight Russians moving to overrun the position, Serhiy burned all the sleeping bags, dismantled the captured rifles, and threw the firing pins far into the field so nothing useful would remain for the enemy. Then he slipped away alone into the darkness, moving like a turtle because his legs barely worked after repeated concussions.

He could not evacuate the bodies of his fallen comrades. One he covered partially with dirt. The other remained inside the dugout.

“I cannot forgive myself for that,” he said. “How do I explain it to their families? How do I look them in the eyes? It’s terrifying.”

Now he is in a hospital. His legs no longer function properly after endless blast concussions and nearly a year on the frontline position. He says he never thought about awards and never expected one.

“I just wanted to stay alive and see my family again. So my family could see me again. That was all I had left.”

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

At the request of the U.S., Ukraine set up its Sky Map air defense system at Prince Sultan Air Base following the Iranian drone attack a U.S. base in Kuwait, which killed six American servicemen, and after another attack destroyed an E-3 Sentry aircraft in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine's TTPs helped the U.S. shoot down Shaheds ($20,000-50,000) without expending expensive munitions such as the Patriot interceptor ($6-$10 million).

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Brett Kavanaugh, a man in his 50s, had been valedictorian of his high school, at Yale College and a star student at Yale Law, had clerked for the Supreme Court, had a top career as an appellate lawyer and federal judge and a pristine reputation, and then a random woman from the town he grew up in claimed he had groped her at a party 35 years earlier when they were in high school.

Kavanaugh didn’t try to argue that the incident was consensual. He didn’t claim he remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had to prove he had sexually assaulted her to scuttle his nomination, she only had to prove that the two of them had attended a party together at which such an assault might have occurred.

She was unable to do so. She did not know whose house the alleged assault occurred at. None of the people she claimed attended the party corroborated any aspect of her account. Leland Keyser, a friend of Blasey-Ford’s, who the accuser claimed was at the alleged party, said she recalled no such event and had never met Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh produced a detailed calendar he had kept during the summer Blasey-Ford alleged she was assaulted, which included his whereabouts of every weekend night and listing who he was with. Kavanaugh argued that he could alibi himself and provide witnesses for any night Blasey-Ford claimed she might have been at a party with him. Blasey-Ford responded that she did not know the date of her assault and was not entirely certain it even occurred that year. Instead of being seen as persuasive, Kavanaugh’s calendar was mocked in both mainstream and social media because the reason he kept it was for a drinking contest he was having with his friends.

Nearly a decade later, there is still not a single shred of proof or a single witness who will corroborate the claim that Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey-Ford were ever in the same room before she testified at his confirmation hearing. Nonetheless, people like Nick Kristof still claim Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting this woman.

[Gadget @Gadget440]

🚨 Myron Gaines gets emotional and ends the stream after Clavicular decided to leave the Fresh and Fit podcast after an hour

[fudge @fuckpoasting]

asking your homies what you did when you blacked out last night

[Brent Sullivan @TaxAlphaInsider]

3-pager:

https://t.co/lyRmflOXC7

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

Good rule of being a dad:

Don’t let your sons waste hours and days of their lives sitting out in the outfield.

If they aren’t a stud, find something else to do.

[Chet Baker Enjoyer @ChetBakerFan1]

The fact that NATO is not engaged in total war in Ukraine is the clearest sign that we are witnessing the winter of Western civilization.