Swamp Captain

#securethebag

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Becoming a billionaire is a bit like having a PhD. You're incredibly talented at one extremely specific thing. It probably is a negative signal at cross domain knowledge

To the extent any of them are interesting at all is when they're post money

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Boomers just got a 3.6% inflation adjusted raise in social security benefits

Meanwhile everyone else just had the 6th straight month of negative real earnings

Despite this all you will hear about is how tough 'fixed income' is for boomers while we're literally getting poorer

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row.

The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Homebuying in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest level since the post-2009 housing crash

[Dark Triad Greg Heffley @AnimeSerbia]

Guy who maxes out all his credit cards because he saw someone on twitter say America is going to collapse soon

[Swamp Captain @Eric_McEzzy]

@angertab It’s all good Matt ReTardio did his own research.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Some of us are only pro-tigers eating people who jump into their cages.

Trump is apparently in favor of lions and tigers eating people on principle.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

This is a holy shit story. The fact that Trump insiders are trading on their information is of course not surprising, even as it is sickening. But if investors lose faith in the integrity of US financial markets we lose everything that makes us wealthy. This is a really BFD.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Percentage of people age 25-34 spending 30% or more of their income on rent.

Map via @TownsUsa

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Good, infantilize them even harder, they can only have pre-arranged play dates with their moms and dads present

[Swamp Captain @Eric_McEzzy]

@nicksortor Cry about it.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

It’s ok to just like musical theater. You don’t have to turn baseball into musical theater to justify it. We don’t have to do all of this.

[Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT @Peoples_Pundit]

"Don't kill anybody" unless they're little Palestinian and/or Lebanese children.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35.
https://t.co/g8hUUtWs66

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty

[Ole Miss Football @OleMissFB]

WAKE UP, IT’S GAMEDAY

🆚 Vanderbilt
📍 Nashville, TN
🕚 2:30 PM CT
📺 ESPN

#HottyToddy

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Not only has the US never televised public executions in its history, but not even the Nazi defendants sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials had their executions televised (it was deemed violative of the human rights that post-WW2 institutions were trying to re-establish).

The most amazing part of this is that Nidal Hasan is paraplegic and close to 60. So this disgusting spectacle will involve rolling him out in a wheelchair, then live-streaming his body as it's pumped full of bullets.

When I and others pointed out last night that public executions are carried out only by the countries we're told are the most primitive and savage (Afghanistan, North Korea), MAGA enthusisasts replied that we were too weak. Pummeling an old guy in a wheelchair with bullets -- as a reality TV show -- seems like an odd and dubious defintion of "strength," let alone an expression of the western values they endlessly claim they and they alone are trying to salvage.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

*PEPSICO CEO: 'WE DON'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE BEVERAGE BUSINESS'

*PEPSICO CEO: WE'RE PUTTING 'ALL THE URGENCY' TO IMPROVE SODAS

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Michael is a hero.

Millions comment online about how much they hate what’s happening in the world.

But you can just show up to Cornell, tell the student newspaper how disgusting they’ve been, and disrupt this whole scam.

Imagine if we just had two more like him.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.