Astor White

[Wouter Kabouter @WouterKabouterr]

Moslim gooit puppy's in een vuilnisbak 😡

#deoranjezomer #nieuwsvandedag #starsonstage

[John Betts @JohnFromCranber]

Muslims are the most intolerant people on earth - in any Muslim majority country, there are no minority rights - or religious freedom for other faiths.

They're simply unwilling to let everyone else be.

For them. It's my way or the highway – "convert or die".

Their holy book – the Koran is practically built around intolerance, submission, and domination.

[Astor White @Astor_White]

@bbva necesito un certificado de deuda cero. No me lo quieren dar en una oficina

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

North America's newest international bridge is finished.
The roads are painted.
The customs booths are staffed.
The lights are on.
But not a single car can use it.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge, a $6.4 billion (CAD) project connecting Michigan and Ontario, was built to ease congestion, lower shipping costs and speed up the movement of goods between the United States and Canada.

It carries enormous importance.
More than 25% of all trade between the two countries crosses at Detroit.

That means car parts.
Food.
Medical supplies.
Manufacturing equipment.
Products that eventually end up in supermarkets, dealerships and businesses across North America.
The bridge was supposed to make all of that faster and cheaper.
Instead, it sits empty.

Why?
Just before it was due to open, the Trump administration reportedly refused to issue the final federal approvals needed to connect it to Interstate 75.

Trump then demanded that Canada hand over a 50% ownership stake in the bridge, despite Canada paying for its construction under a long-standing international agreement.

Then another detail emerged.
Just weeks before the bridge was blocked, Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the aging Ambassador Bridge that currently dominates the crossing, donated $1 million to a pro-Trump Super PAC.

The new Gordie Howe Bridge was specifically designed to compete with that decades-old private monopoly.
Now the new bridge sits empty while the old bridge continues collecting tolls.

The administration insists its actions are about protecting American interests.
Others see something very different.
Because this isn't just about a bridge.

Every week it remains closed delays more efficient freight movement, adds costs to supply chains and creates more uncertainty for manufacturers already struggling with higher prices.
Those costs don't disappear.
They eventually reach businesses.
Then consumers.
Then your wallet.

The bridge is reportedly costing its operators around $7 million CAD every week in lost revenue while it sits unused.
It was built to move people and goods.

Instead, it has become another political bargaining chip.

And once again, ordinary people are left paying for Washington's games.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Inflation is now so bad that even computer and cell phone prices are rising sharply. Electronics were one of the few places consumers got relief, as productivity gains offset government-created inflation. The Fed can't hike rates enough to put this genie back in the bottle.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Euroscepticism is rapidly losing ground.

Even prior eurosceptics like Meloni are now calling for the EU to take a stronger role, and Orban has been kicked out by a Pro-European party.

The age of euroscepticism is over, welcome the age of European Patriotism!

[Алёна Попова @alyonapopova]

«Я бы бойкотировал российские товары, если бы мог вспомнить хоть что-нибудь, что Россия производит, кроме яда для всего мира».

Хью Лори (Доктор Хаус)

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Wall Street just got exposed for FAKING the ratings on a $3 TRILLION market.

Columbia Business School researchers found that the ratings underpinning the private credit market are systematically understating how risky the investments actually are.

The ratings say these loans are safe. But the researchers say they're lying. And US life insurance companies have $807 BILLION of their money parked in this exact market.

Private credit is a $3 trillion shadow lending market where investment funds lend money directly to companies instead of banks. It exploded after 2008 because new regulations stopped banks from making risky loans, so Wall Street just moved the same risky loans to a different address where regulators couldn't see them.

The market grew from $10 billion twenty years ago to over $3 trillion today, and the people rating these loans have been telling everyone they're safe the entire time.

But they're NOT safe.

Fitch Ratings reported in May that the US private credit default rate hit a RECORD 6.0% in April 2026. Companies with less than $25 million in earnings are defaulting at 15.8%.

More than one in ten loans in private credit funds have been marked down by at least 50%, meaning they've already lost HALF their value on paper.

And Moody's found that 65% of defaults in 2025 weren't even counted as real defaults because lenders restructured them through extensions and payment-in-kind deals where borrowers pay interest by taking on MORE debt instead of cash.

The defaults are being hidden and the ratings are being inflated, and the people most exposed are the insurance companies managing the policies.

But here's where it gets genuinely scary:

The top 10 US life insurers now hold $352 billion in private illiquid bonds. Apollo runs an insurance company called Athene and KKR runs one called Global Atlantic.

These private equity firms are taking insurance premiums, lending that money to risky companies through their own private credit funds, rating those loans as safe through friendly rating agencies, and collecting fees at every step of the chain. The money goes in a circle and gets counted as safe at every stop.

Blue Owl, one of the biggest private credit managers, literally froze withdrawals from one of its retail funds in February 2026. An Apollo-managed fund cut its dividend and wrote down the value of its loans around the same time. Blackstone had to raise its repurchase limit to handle nearly $2 billion in withdrawal requests in a single day.

And a London-based lender called Market Financial Solutions collapsed entirely with a collateral shortfall exceeding $1 billion after a company called First Brands was caught pledging the same assets as collateral to multiple lenders simultaneously.

Jamie Dimon even saw it coming. On JPMorgan's earnings call he said "when you see one cockroach, there are probably more."

And remember, there's a $162 billion wall of debt that has to be refinanced THIS YEAR at significantly higher interest rates. The companies that borrowed this money can't afford to pay it back, and the lenders are running out of ways to pretend they can.

This is 2008 all over again. Bad loans, fake ratings, insurance companies loaded with toxic assets, and everyone looking the other way because the fees are too good to stop.

The only difference is last time it was mortgages. This time it's corporate loans. And instead of your house being at risk, it's the life insurance and pension.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Retired commanding general, U.S. Army Europe, Ben Hodges: Trump administration has failed miserably on Ukraine. They have so clearly been on Kremlin's side. All the pressure has been on Ukraine to make concessions. Fortunately, Ukraine no longer even pays much attention to that.

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

Trump now finds himself in an entirely new situation with the War in Iran.

He doesn't hold the cards. He has no notable leverage. And he can't simply declare bankruptcy for the seventh time and move on.

And it shows.

Donald Trump is not a statesman. He is not a diplomat. And I think, in many ways, this is what endeared him initially to many of his voters. He was businessman that accumulated billions of dollars of personal wealth through casino's, real estate, television, golf courses, and a multitude of endeavors.

You can say what you will, but at the end of the day, you don't accrue a net worth well beyond a billion, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, without being "successful", so let's put that partisan argument to the side for now.

But all throughout Trump's life, he's held the upper hand. He grew up wealthy. He received significant financial assistance from his father. And he had an effectively unlimited financial safety net in the event of failure. These are not points meant to be political hits, nor are they able to be refuted. They are simply the facts. Reality.

As a result, Donald Trump always had the leverage. He was a trust fund baby. Again, this is simply the truth. It is reported that Fred Trump left his children around a billion dollars when he passed away in 1999. Trust me, if you know beyond a shadow of a doubt you are set for life regardless, you live life differently.

What this means is that Donald Trump, throughout his business career which WAS hyper-successful, never HAD to succeed. He could also walk away if a deal was not in his favor. He, by definition, always held the cards. Generational wealth.

And don't get me wrong, President Trump was savvy in his exploitation of this reality. You'd be a fool to enter a deal you didn't think was highly beneficial to you if you didn't have to make a gamble. That'd be stupid.

In every transaction, every business dealing, it was either in his favor, or he walked.

Because. He. Could.

And when business endeavors failed to pan out? Bankruptcy could be declared. Again, save me the partisan takes, Donald Trump declared bankruptcies on his businesses six times. And he was RIGHT to do so. That's the correct financial decision... but it's an off-ramp. A quick fix.

These same realities - holding all the cards, being able to walk away, having a legal escape valve - do not exist in the quagmire he finds himself in with the Iran War.

The reality facing Donald Trump is one that he has never had to navigate before. Iran does not care that he is wealthy. It's irrelevant. Trump can't simply walk away because Iran would retain control of the Strait of Hormuz and it would destroy Trump's legacy. There is no emergency "bankruptcy-equivalent" escape valve here.

Now, Donald Trump has to sit on the other side of the table at a time when the stakes are the highest they have ever been in his entire life. No training wheels. No safety net. Trump's been thrown right into the deep end with perhaps the most savvy negotiators in the world.

President Trump holds effectively zero leverage with Iran.

There is not a modicum of domestic American support for this war. It was never sold to the American people. Many see this as Israel's war that is not "putting America first". The goals and objectives have changed by the day. For this reason, alongside the unlikely chance of success in the first place, a large-scale ground invasion is not a serious suggestion being put for by anyone with an above room temperature IQ.

Iran holds insurmountable "escalation dominance". If the United States targets Iran's energy infrastructure? Iran will retaliate massively across the Gulf. GCC countries have already made it abundantly clear to Trump that they fear Iran. That they don't trust the US-bought military equipment to protect their infrastructure or civilians. Iran can cut undersea cables. Iran could close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and further cripple maritime shipping. Anything the US can do to hurt Iran, Iran can do tenfold to hurt the global economy.

Reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force? We tried that under Operation Freedom, and it was so ridiculous and stupid that it was canceled within 48 hours. Some are suggesting we try again, but seem to entirely misunderstand reality (as they have throughout the entire conflict). What? Is the United States supposed to effectively occupy the Strait of Hormuz until the end of time? How many vessels per day would be able to navigate the Strait of Hormuz with US naval escorts? What would the costs of this be? Can we adequately protect our sailors? Why wouldn't Iran, again, utilize their escalation dominance and shut down the Bab al-Mandeb or strike Gulf infrastructure? It. Doesn't Work.

The unfortunate reality is that President Trump holds no cards. He has no meaningful leverage. His ONLY option is making concessions at the negotiating table...

Is this something Trump is even capable of navigating in the first place though? A President, one who has made perhaps the gravest mistake in the history of American foreign policy, one who has never experienced these constraints before, one who has a litany of allies ready to turn their backs on him the second he capitulates... A man who's entire legacy will not be, "Trump the Businessman", nor will it be "Trump the President". It will eternally become, "Trump the Failure".

But it's his only choice. The Iran Hawks and Israeli Lobby that surrounds him, and they do, are prepared to claw him to shreds on Fox News and Newsmax. We saw this exact situation play out just this past weekend when initial terms of a potential Memorandum of Understanding was leaked. His so called "allies" in the United States turned their back on him immediately, leaving him with almost nobody remaining. Not after the Epstein Files. Not after this Iran War debacle.

Donald Trump now finds himself in an entirely unfamiliar situation. He doesn't hold the cards. He has no escape valve. And there is no realistic scenario where he can credibly claim victory... The only path forward is the one that will permanently destroy his legacy.

But it's the only way to end this war.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WOW.

Trump’s financial disclosure forms reportedly show he bought between $1 MILLION and $5 MILLION in Dell stock earlier this year.

Then THIS WEEK…

the Pentagon awarded Dell a contract worth MORE THAN $9 BILLION.

Read that again slowly.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Allow me to be the first to congratulate the MAGA morons, who spent years howling about the $1.7B that Obama returned to Iran.

Your 4D chess master is handing Iran $300B, to open the Strait of Hormuz, that Obama kept open for free.

Brilliant!

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is amazing.

The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings.

"On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents."

North Korea.

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

“Kůň před chcípnutím nejvíc kope.” Putin je jako Hitler. Mezi Hitlerem a Putinem není zásadní rozdíl. Za jeho teroristické útoky a vraždění civilního obyvatelstva bude souzen stejně jako fašisté v Norimberku a stejně bude i potrestán. Slava Ukrajině! 🇺🇦 Slava Herojam!

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

En Arabia Saudita las autopistas tienen un cartel en rojo indicando el camino para los NO MUSULMANES. En Arabia Saudita hay ciudades donde no podés entrar si no sos musulman (La Meca y Medina)

Pero ellos pueden invadir Europa y los reciben felices.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A Muslim woman refused to shake hands with the Crown Prince of Norway during a citizenship ceremony.

Shaking hands is ‘haram’, but seeking refuge in a non-Muslim country, receiving free housing and food, and living on welfare is ‘halal.’

Hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

If Trump and his family don't have to pay taxes and adhere to laws, why should anyone else in the USA?
What the fuck makes Trump and his family so special that they can't be investigated for tax fraud or have to pay fines? The system is rigged for the rich.