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[TomT ✞ ن @VRWCTexanTwo]

Just Say No @POTUS @WhiteHouse @SecWar
U.S. does not have Patriots to spare.
Stock critically depleted and replenishment will take years.

The US fired 1,060 – 1,430+ Patriot interceptors during the ~40 day Iran conflict, roughly half (or more) of pre-war inventory. What we have remaining will be needed elsewhere.

[The Berg Brief @TheBergBrief]

Fed's Kashkari just connected the Iran war directly to a series of US rate hikes.

Oil at $93. Brent above $100 this morning. Camp David canceled. Trump staying in DC. Deal stalled.

A prolonged conflict is not a tail risk anymore. It is the base case until the deal closes.

Warsh sworn in with a hawkish track record. 35% hike odds already in the market. Now a Fed official is publicly saying multiple hikes are possible.

The S&P just closed at ATH. The bond market and the Fed are not reading the same script.

$TLT $SPY $TNX $VIX $USO

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[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

I've already started thinking that TMC in Bengal was better & more prosperous for Bengalis! BJP is ruining this prosperity😭

Look at this Palatial house in Murshidabad.

Owner- DCP & TMC’s blue-eyed Shantanu Sinha Biswas.

Salary- ~₹1.5 Lakh p.m

He also has two-storey house on upscale Fern Road, Ballygunge.

See how TMC Govt made their followers prosperous. Now BJP Govt has arrested him.😭

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Rep. Joe Neguse DESTROYS Trump's Interior Secretary over his wasteful $13.1 million "renovations" to the Reflecting Pool — and reveals a stunning legal crack in MAGA's plans.

This vanity project might not get finished after all...

"Are you familiar with Atlantic Industrial Coatings?" the congressman asked during a hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

"I— I'm not— N— Familiar with that uh," said Burgum.

"So Atlantic Industrial Coatings is a company. Are you familiar with that company?" asked Neguse.

"You're saying— You're saying Atlantic?" managed Burgum.

"Atlantic Industrial Coatings, correct," said the congressman. "Are you familiar with it or?"

"I'm not familiar with Atlantic."

"Okay, Atlantic Industrial Coatings is the company that received a no-bid federal contract for the project at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool," explained Neguse. "Are you familiar with that now?"

"I'm familiar with that project, yes," said Burgum.

"But not the company?"

"Uh— Nuh— I wasn't familiar that— With that specific name of the company," said Burgum.

"Okay. You're familiar with the fact that a company received a no-bid contract to do the work on that project, correct?" asked Neguse.

"I'm— I'm familiar that we uh— That we're working on a project to, uh, restore, uh, the Reflecting Pool before the, uh, summer season with record attendance, yes," stammered Burgum.

"Yes, and that was through a no-bid $13 million contract, right?" pressed the congressman. "That's not up for debate. That's a fact."

"But I— I— I'm positive that we followed all of the required bidding rules, so you're— You're emphasizing the word no-bid like something nefarious has happened," said Burgum. "And I— I reject that thesis."

"Okay, then explain it to me," said Neguse. "Here, I'll ask you the question. My understanding of the federal procurement rules is that a no-bid contract is reserved for situations where 'any delay would cause serious injury to the government.' Your proposition is what? That there'd be serious injury to the government if this company didn't get the $13 million contract to do this particular project right now?"

"Well, I think we do have a sense of urgency, I mean, we got handed a record amount of deferred maintenance," said Burgum. "We had 19 fountains across the city that didn't work."

"That's a serious injury to the government!?" said an incredulous Neguse, biting back a laugh. "A serious injury to the government?"

"Well, I'm not— I'm not— I'm not a... I suppose a lawyer could decide that, but I think that maybe all of us could agree that we would want to have our nation's capital looking great for the 250th," Burgum said. "I mean, this is a common sense decision."

"I would say, just last question, who picked this company? Because President Trump, a few months ago, in a New York Times article, said, 'I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. He looked at it. He called me up. He said, sir, we can do something on it.' Last night, he posted on Truth Social, also, 'I did not give out the contract, Interior did, to a contractor I did not know and have never used before.' So, Interior, he's talking about you. Did you give this $13 million no-bid contract to this company that's never done business with the federal government before?"

"The— The— The gentleman that you're talking about that has done, uh, construction work regarding pools and fountains for President Trump is not part of this contract," claimed Burgum. "He— He's just a citizen that cared about it and offered some free advice. There's nothing there there in terms of any dollars flowing to anybody that worked for President Trump."

Tellingly, Burgum offered no clarity on the actual bidding process. The reason is self-evident. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. Trump regularly hands out sweetheart deals and blatantly funnels our tax dollars into the pockets of his family members and cronies.

We'd bet good money that a look under the hood of this project would reveal rampant criminality. When Democrats get back into power, we must use our subpoena power to launch a full forensic audit.

In the meantime, Congressman Neguse has just pumped jet fuel into the lawsuits that are attempting to stop these hideous Reflecting Pool renovations. Clearly, the contract process was handled improperly because there was no actual threat of "serious injury" to the government.

The courts must step in and stop this project dead in its tracks!

Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecuting every act of corruption by this administration!

[Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM (V) @KlRajiv]

Formal Statement by Major General Rajiv Narayanan (Retd), AVSM, VSM (V)
I, Major General Rajiv Narayanan (Retired), AVSM, VSM (V), a former senior officer of the Indian Army with over 37 years of distinguished service, wish to issue the following unequivocal statement: I have no son. I have never had a son. Any claim, video, post, or allegation suggesting that a person recently confronted in the United Kingdom by so-called “pedo- hunter” is my son is completely false, baseless, and malicious, as made by Baba Thoka, @ThokaReturns, on X.
This appears to be a deliberate attempt at defamation and character assassination, linking my name — without any evidence whatsoever — to a private individual involved in an unrelated incident. I have no connection, familial or otherwise, with the person shown in the viral video circulating on platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok. Such false narratives not only cause immense distress to me and my family but also undermine the dignity and reputation I have built over decades of honourable service to the nation.
Spreading unverified and fabricated claims for social media engagement or political motives is irresponsible and potentially actionable under Indian law, including provisions relating to defamation. I demand that all individuals, accounts, and platforms that have published or shared this false information immediately remove the content, issue public corrections, and cease further dissemination.
Failure to do so will compel me to pursue appropriate legal remedies, both in India and the United Kingdom, against those responsible for originating and amplifying this misinformation. I request responsible media outlets and social media users to verify facts before sharing such damaging content. Issued on 8 May 2026
Major General Rajiv Narayanan (Retd), AVSM, VSM (V)
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[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Harvard professor spent 24 hours preparing every single lecture, filmed all of them, gave them away for free, and quietly made himself the most influential CS teacher in history without charging a dollar for any of it.

I watched the first lecture at 1am and immediately understood why every self-taught engineer I respect has mentioned this man's name.

His name is David Malan. The course is CS50.

Here is the part of the story almost nobody tells you.

In 1996, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore named David Malan walked into a lecture hall to shop a class called CS50. He was a Government concentrator with a vague interest in constitutional law. He had never written a line of code in his life.

He took the course because a friend dared him to and because the instructor that semester happened to be Brian Kernighan, the man who co-wrote the original textbook on the C programming language.

By the end of his sophomore year, Malan had switched his concentration to computer science. He has said in every interview since that the course did not just teach him to program.

It rewired his entire understanding of what intellectual work could feel like. He used to walk back to his dorm in Mather House on Friday nights actually excited to start the weekly problem set.

Eleven years later, in 2007, Harvard handed him the keys to the same course that had changed his life. Enrollment that semester was 132 students. The course had a reputation on campus for being difficult, dry, and only worth taking if you were already certain you wanted to be a computer scientist.

Most students who had taken it for years described it the same way. They were impressed. They were exhausted. They were not transformed.

Malan kept everything that was rigorous about it. Then he tore down everything that made it inaccessible.

He rewrote every single problem set so that the assignments connected to actual things students cared about. Cryptography became a problem set about decoding real messages. Data structures became a problem set about reconstructing memory from a corrupted image file. Algorithms became a problem set about searching genealogical databases. Same content. Completely different relationship between the student and the work.

He restructured the lecture experience so aggressively that journalists started writing about him as a performer. He shredded a phonebook on stage to demonstrate binary search. He hired a lighting director from the American Repertory Theater. He brought in guest speakers like Mark Zuckerberg.

He opened every single lecture with the same three-word incantation: "This. Is. CS50." And he walked into Sanders Theatre for the first time wearing a black sweater and jeans, looked directly at the audience, and convinced 282 students that semester that they were about to be part of something none of them would ever forget.

Enrollment doubled in his first year. By 2011, the course had over 600 students. By 2014, it was the largest course at Harvard, period. Female enrollment grew by 48% in a single year. Students who had never touched a computer were sitting next to lifelong programmers in the same lecture hall, working on different versions of the same problem set, both of them rewarded for the level they were actually at.

Then Malan made the decision that turned a Harvard course into one of the most consequential education projects of the century.

He made it free.

In 2007, he started recording every lecture and putting them online. In 2012, he launched CS50x as one of the first major courses on the new edX platform. Then he uploaded everything to YouTube. Every lecture. Every problem set. Every walkthrough. Every section. Every short. The entire course that costs Harvard students roughly $80,000 a year to attend in person became available to anyone on Earth with a phone and a working internet connection. For zero dollars.

Over 5.8 million people have now taken it through HarvardX alone. The YouTube lectures have been watched tens of millions of times beyond that. The course is now officially taught at Yale and at the University of Oxford, both of which built their own versions on top of Malan's recorded lectures.

The thing he said in his recent interview that stayed with me the longest was about who actually takes the course now. He gets thank-you notes from prisoners who watch the lectures on smuggled smartphones. He gets emails from a Google employee who started in a non-technical role, took CS50 on the side, taught himself programming through the problem sets, and now builds AI systems that read medical scans for radiologists. He gets messages from teenagers in countries with no functional computer science education who finished the course and got hired as software engineers a year later.

Susan Wojcicki, the late former CEO of YouTube, took CS50 her senior year as a humanities concentrator. She said for the rest of her life that the course changed everything about how she thought. The platform she eventually ran is the same platform that now hosts every lecture of the course she took, available for free, to a billion people who never had to be admitted to Harvard to learn from the same professor she did.

The man teaching does not have tenure. He runs the course on a five-year renewable contract. He is technically a Professor of the Practice, which in academic terms is a slightly lower-status title than the research professorships that dominate the rest of the Harvard faculty. He does not publish papers in volume. He does not run a research lab. His entire job is to teach one introductory course, again and again, to anyone who shows up.

He has been doing it for 19 years.

The most useful thing I have ever heard him say, and the thing that explains why the course works so well, is that he refuses to assume any prior knowledge in the room. He treats the absolute beginner and the experienced programmer with the exact same respect, because his belief is that the only difference between the two of them is when they happened to start. The beginner is not behind. The beginner is simply earlier in the same sequence.

The most expensive university in the world quietly produced the most accessible computer science course on the planet, and the professor running it was once a 19-year-old Government student who did not know what a variable was.

Most people scrolling past CS50 on YouTube right now will never click on it. The ones who do will quietly join a community of millions of self-taught engineers who decided that the credential mattered less than the knowledge.

The classroom door was opened twenty years ago.

Almost nobody walks through it.

[Mario ZNA @MarioBojic]

🇺🇦🇵🇱Huge protests by Ukrainian refugees erupted on the streets of Wroclaw, Poland, against Zelensky’s corrupt regime.

Thousands of Ukrainians rallied to end corruption in Kyiv and back Donald Trump’s peace plan.

Legacy media is desperately trying to hide this story.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

IDF soldiers sniped a girl in her classroom today, in front of her whole class. She was 9.

Her name is Ritaj Rayhan. Please repost this.

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[Shaurya Mishra @shauryabjym]

She deserves Global applause 👏 atleast we Indians have to celebrate her victory by sharing more respect.

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[Hussein "CABAL" @lazyyuth001]

@deanofife @NigeriaStories Funding....
Currently the major factor facing the Nigerian police force is funding, according to @AthenaSecurity_
How will they fund state policing, in terns of running cost and structure cost across 36 states, when they're currently battling with the existing one?

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The quality of urban life is ultimately shaped by the collective participation of its community.

No amount of physical infrastructure can substitute for thst…

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[Mr. Whale @CryptoWhale]

🇮🇷🇮🇱 | Iranian media are reporting that Netanyahu is dead.

In addition, analyses suggest that Netanyahu’s most recently released video was likely generated using AI.

Interestingly, two days ago, during an interview, Scott Bessent was urgently called away for a conversation with Trump. When he returned, he appeared visibly shaken - something that was evident in both his statements and his behavior.

There is still no official confirmation.

[Sunday League @SundayShoutsFC]

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