Ben

Yep, sometimes I do have a life that I can tell you about!

[Ben @Benpormi]

@RapSheet @RapSheet non sense, please stick to NFL gossip only.

[Ben @Benpormi]

@Rasgulla_g @grok Dragons

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

🇧🇷 🏦 Brazil’s stock exchange is double the size of Mexico and quadruple Chile, boasting four sectors worth over $100B ↓

While Brazil’s $800B stock market features healthy diversification across finance, materials, utilities, and energy, Mexico is heavily concentrated in consumer staples and materials. We broke down the composition of Latin America's three largest public markets.

🗞️ see the data → https://t.co/YBMI2HbERb

[Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF @predict_addict]

Mexico is the absolute outlier in the OECD: workers log the most hours on Earth (~2,200+ annually) yet deliver relatively little economic output per hour—despite huge advantages like proximity to the USA.

Something went seriously wrong.

My take: the education system.

Even grads from top STEM unis often have shockingly weak fundamentals (based on interviews).

Sure, brilliant Mexicans exist, but the system fails the average citizen badly.

Work smarter, not longer.

Fix education → unlock potential.

Study math, just ask Peru 🇵🇪

[Ben @Benpormi]

@GilbertoEs77161 @sebasfootball Es la edad! Se me cruzaron los receptores!

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Former longtime Green Bay Packers President Bob Harlan passed away this afternoon at age 89, per his family. As one of the most important figures in Packers’ history, Harlan retired in 2008 as the winningest president in NFL history. He still is the only person in league history to hire two different GM’s that won Super Bowls with different rosters, in 1996 with Ron Wolf and in 2010 with Ted Thompson.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

INSANE: The #NFL admitted they missed a call that determined the outcome of the game in the iconic “Fail Mary” #Seahawks - #Packers 2012 matchup.

Despite WR Golden Tate and a GB defender having a hand on the ball, and Seattle was given the touchdown.

The league admitted that offensive pass interference should have been called and an interception.

An all-timer.

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

Warren Buffett watching the war with $380 Billion in cash

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

Mexico is a puzzle. Real GDP per capita (blue) has been stagnant for well over a decade and countries like Costa Rica (black) are pulling past it. I don't think this is about one government versus another. Mexico's stagnation has gone on for far too long.
https://t.co/1aWhAB5ZUd

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Eddie Bauer is reportedly preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and will close all its stores, per FOX

[Ben @Benpormi]

@elnorte https://t.co/qgvmNuHs8N

[León Barrena Rodríguez & Partners LLP @lbrglobal]

A U.S. Department of Justice document identified as EFTA01082667, recovered from materials associated with Jeffrey Epstein, shows a compiled list of Mexican political, corporate, academic, and media figures categorized within transnational elite networks. The document is a curated roster of influential individuals and institutions.

Within that document, several Mexican individuals appear explicitly: H. Blanco Mendoza (identified as affiliated with the private office of Herminio Blanco in Mexico City), Dionisio Garza Medina (ALFA), Carlos Heredia (international affairs), Alejandro Junco de la Vega (Grupo Reforma), Enrique Krauze (Editorial Clio), Antonio Madero (San Luis Corporation), Luis Rubio (CIDAC), Jaime Serra (SAI Consulting), Lorenzo H. Zambrano (CEMEX), and Ernesto Zedillo (former President of Mexico). Their inclusion places senior Mexican political, economic, and opinion-shaping actors within the same reference universe as U.S. and European elites.

The strategic question raised by the document is not whether these individuals had personal relationships with Epstein, but why a compilation mapping Mexican and other international elites across politics, capital, and media was in Epstein’s possession at all. Epstein’s documented pattern was not passive association but active cultivation of leverage through information, access, and network visibility. Lists of this nature are consistent with influence mapping, not social record-keeping.

The presence of Mexican figures alongside global power brokers suggests Mexico was viewed as a relevant node within broader transnational governance and influence ecosystems. The listed individuals disproportionately occupy positions that shape policy, capital flows, public discourse, and international integration. That concentration raises questions about whether Mexican elites were perceived as Epstein´s access points into state decision-making, regulatory environments, or narrative control.

Even absent proof of direct interaction, inclusion in an Epstein-held influence document invites scrutiny into how Mexican political and economic elites interface with opaque international networks, and whether sufficient institutional distance, compliance discipline, and reputational risk management existed. The document functions less as evidence of wrongdoing and more as a catalyst for adversarial interpretation and investigative pressure.

[Ben @Benpormi]

@NickBarnett @RobDemovsky I say yes!!! Split reps with Quay!!!! 😬🧀

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IS A ONCE-IN-A-DECADE THING 🚨

Everything was going well until the US market opened.

$BTC started to dump first, and then everything went downhill.

In the next hour:

Gold dumped 8% and erased $3.1 trillion.
Silver dumped 12% and erased $700 billion.
S&P 500 dumped 1.3% and erased $800 billion.
Crypto market cap erased $110 billion.

In a span of one hour, over $5 trillion was wiped out from these assets.

This is equivalent to the GDP of Russia and Canada combined.

But what triggered this?

For gold and silver, leverage was the biggest trigger.

Retail FOMOed at the top, and they got wiped out in an hour.

For crypto and stocks, US-Iran escalation was the trigger.

USS Abraham Lincoln has gone dark, which signals possible preparation for action against Iran.

Overall, today’s event is something that will be remembered for a long time.

[Kurt Benkert @KurtBenkert]

Terrible timeout usage.
Terrible second half gameplan.
Blown 21-3 lead.
Taking the ball out of Love’s hands all 3rd quarter.

Get him out of here.

[NFL Talk @NFL_Talk_Sports]

Should the Packers fire HC Matt LaFleur?

🔁 YES
❤️ NO

[Ben @Benpormi]

@GoodOleUnc @NFL_Talk_Sports Leading with the crown

[NFL Talk @NFL_Talk_Sports]

Is this not targeting?

[Caleb Williams @CALEBcsw]

@lulbrickk im believing in my packers #GoPackGo

[Charles Woodson @CharlesWoodson]

I agree 8-9 beat it.