BaronGoose

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[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

They spy on you without a warrant, then hide behind a secret court. That's not how the Constitution works.

My Fourth Amendment Restoration and Protection Act stops warrantless surveillance of Americans.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Boilers32 It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Shawn Ryan on Trump: “I just don’t see any positivity coming out of this administration. It seems very self-serving. He had Todd Blanche do the dirty work so him or anybody in his family could never be audited by the IRS? What the fuck is that shit? The drone company, the $400M jet from Qatar, the Executives Club. Does this shit look like he’s serving the fucking people? No.”

[Paul Kuharsky @PaulKuharskyNFL]

Two out of three catches in casual warmups here by Xavier Restrepo: One handed. Stay for the third. #Titans.

[AB @99friscoo]

@adampatrickNFL “You’re better than him JJ!”

[GoBirdsBro @gobirdsbro]

@adampatrickNFL Incoming

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘PRIMETIME’, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen.

The film follows Chris Hansen as he runs ‘How To Catch A Predator’ where he confronts adult men who think they are meeting minors to have sex.

In theaters later this year.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. should NOT use propaganda on our citizens, but that prohibition was lifted in 2013!

Thank you @RepDavidRouzer for cosponsoring HR 5704 to repeal the 2013 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

God bless Thomas Massie.

He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot & kept his integrity.

As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests.

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

JUST IN: The Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund just filed another $470,000 of spending against Thomas Massie.

There has now been more than $20,000,000 of outside spending in this race.

It is the most expensive House primary in history.

Track election spending on Quiver.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Thomas Massie moves to finish what John F. Kennedy started, introducing a bill requiring AIPAC to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

If you only do one thing today, tweet some kind of support for @RepThomasMassie he is the main guy pushing for the release of the Epstein files and Trump hates him for it.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

You used to sell stuff on eBay.

Maybe an old camera. Maybe Beanie Babies. Maybe a coat that didn't fit.

You paid a small fee. The buyer got the thing. Everyone went home.

That eBay is gone.

The website looks the same. The logo is the same. The 135 million buyers are still there.

But the company isn't really a marketplace anymore.

It is an advertising business with a marketplace attached for distribution.

Last year, sellers paid eBay $2 billion just to make sure their own listings showed up.

Read that again.

The board calls this growth.

A Canadian who runs a video game store called it something else.

Here is what actually happened.

In 2020 the board hired a new CEO. His name is Jamie Iannone. He arrived with a strategy called focused categories.

In plain English, that means leaning into the stuff people pay extra for. Sneakers. Watches. Trading cards. Auto parts.

The everyday seller, the person with the camera and the coat, was no longer the customer.

The customer was now the seller who would pay to be seen.

In 2025 eBay did $80 billion in transactions. They kept $11 billion of that as revenue. Of that $11 billion, $2 billion came from advertising.

Sellers paid them $2 billion to promote listings on a website those sellers already pay fees to use.

That is the growth story.

In the same year, the number of enthusiast buyers, eBay's own term for their best customers, was 16 million.

It was also 16 million the year before.

And the year before that.

And the year before that.

Four years. Zero growth. They mention this on every earnings call without mentioning it.

So what does a company do when growth stops?

It buys back its own stock.

In 2025, eBay returned over $3 billion to shareholders. Most of that was buybacks. In February the board authorized another $2 billion on top.

Buybacks shrink the share count. Earnings per share goes up even when earnings stay flat. The stock price follows.

The stock was $68 a year ago. It is $108 today.

The company did not improve. The denominator got smaller.

Then a man from Canada noticed.

His name is Ryan Cohen. He runs GameStop. He started his career selling pet food online and sold it to PetSmart for $3.35 billion.

He looked at eBay. 135 million buyers. $80 billion in transactions. Real margins. Real cash flow. A board harvesting the business instead of running it.

He bought 5% of the company through derivatives and stock.

Then on May 4, he offered to buy the rest. $125 per share. $56 billion total.

On May 12, the eBay board rejected the bid. They called it not credible.

The math is credible.

What the board means by not credible is we would have to explain why we sold.

Then Cohen went on Piers Morgan.

He said eBay is run by a bunch of losers with perverse financial incentives.

He pointed out that eBay's CEO has been paid $144 million over six years.

He pointed out that he personally takes no salary and has put $128 million of his own money into the company he runs.

You do not have to like Ryan Cohen to notice he is making a point that is hard to argue with.

eBay used to be a place where regular people sold things to other regular people.

Now it is a $48 billion company whose largest growth driver is charging its own sellers to advertise to a buyer base that stopped growing four years ago, while spending billions a year buying its own stock to make the chart go up.

The board calls this strategy.

A video game CEO from Canada called it what it is.

The market is now waiting to see who else agrees.

Plz fix. Thx.

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[BaronGoose @ByronGoose]

Comparison in Jalen Coker

40: 4.57
Vertical: 42.5”
Broad: 10’-8”
10 yard split (1.52, same with Pauling)

[BaronGoose @ByronGoose]

If you are looking for a good undrafted WR in the 2026 class that nobody is talking about, look no further:

Will Pauling

Pro Day 40: 4.37
Vertical: 42”
Broad: 10’-8”
3 cone: 7.01
20 yard shuffle: 4.31

Landed with the 49ers 👀

[Dean Cain @RealDeanCain]

I laughed a little too hard at this! 🤣🤣

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

Randy Fine just said he’s willing to stop aid to Israel.

He’s obviously lying, but the pressure is getting to him.

Congress has no accountability. Politicians who knowingly lie to the public should face criminal penalties.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

RANDY FINE: “I support ending all aid to Israel. This will allow Israel to act in its own interest and reduce the US deficit.”

Dan Bilzerian announces he’s running against Randy Fine. Randy Fine then calls to end all aid to Israel.

See how this works?

[Mikel at 6 @Quintorris_]

People are taking the 4th option on offense for the Jets at 1.09 in rookie drafts

Your great grandpa hasn’t even seen a dynasty class this bad

[BaronGoose @ByronGoose]

Just so everybody knows who was first on Lequint Allen. 32 man dynasty