Jorts the Buttered Himbo

A walking existential crisis...but upbeat!

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

S&P, the company that runs the world's most tracked stock index, considered changing its rules to fast-track SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic in after their IPOs.

It ultimately chose not to do so.

Thread.

[Katlyn◟̽◞̽🤍 @Blazelykay]

The fact that an 14 year old boy was RACIALLY profiled the minute he walked into the store, was accused of stealing water that he DID NOT TAKE, left the store camly get chased 130 yards by two GROWN Asian men and shot in the back get off not guilty!!!I’m so sorry Cyrus Belton💔

[Alan Fisher @alanthefisher]

The SpaceX IPO is reallying going to be the first domino that takes everything down.

>S&P 500 rules are waved to fast track SpaceX into the fund
>Mutual Funds will be forced to buy SpaceX stock using retirement funds & 401ks
>SpaceX is now tied to Xai which is losing a shitton of money
>Xai is tied to Nvidia
>Nvidia is tangled into every AI company in existence and we're already seeing cracks

And on top of all of this we have the dumbest administration of all time that's going to do a rug pull with the whole thing.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Yesterday the Israeli army massacred a family of six who were fleeing the south after forced displacement orders. 2 small children were among those killed.

Report on this massacre and another massacre in Saida just hours after.

[Jorts the Buttered Himbo @Merfae]

@jongeeting Not sure "no good reason" is accurate: https://t.co/gOSUZpDQeh

[est.1997 (but spooky) @MOLENAIDE]

Remember that AI is steeped in ✨Environmental Racism✨ a lot of data centers popping up are in poor Black communities. Because the land is full of “undesirables,” the government is ok with sacrificing the health and wellness of these people for the sake of “progress.”

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Elon Musk wants a SpaceX IPO valuing the company at upwards of $1.75 trillion.

To get there he got the rules changed so that index funds, with millions of Americans' retirement savings, are forced to buy in.

Retirees could take huge losses, while insiders cash out.

[Jorts the Buttered Himbo @Merfae]

@nickwoodpsyd @jongeeting https://t.co/wraC4meiso

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

New NYT poll:
“Nearly three-quarters of Democratic supporters now oppose military aid to Israel, up from 45 percent three years ago.
And nearly half of Democratic backers said the party was too supportive of Israel.”

https://t.co/mY1BmlVfvn

[Jorts the Buttered Himbo @Merfae]

@jongeeting Is it possible that the red areas could be filled with late write-ins after June restructuring?

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Every Biden admin resignee I spoke to in 2024 pointed to 4 people as the leading genocidaires who intentionally stood in the way of stopping the eradication of Palestinians, pushing for it to continue: Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk.

[mindy🌷 @mindyisser]

i also don’t think people should have to kiss the ring in order to be active in politics in this city. it’s supposed to be a democracy! dan siegel’s “you definitely don’t have to kiss the ring” shirt is raising more questions than answers!

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

Wtf ... VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti who was literally a VA nurse before he was murdered by ICE agents

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Take a home DNA test and there's about a 1 in 20 chance you'll find out your dad isn't your biological dad. Ancestry has "learned something unsettling" on the cancel screen for exactly that reason.

In December 2020, investment giant Blackstone paid $4.7 billion for Ancestry. They were paying for the DNA database sitting underneath the family-tree website: the world's biggest private DNA collection. As of March 2026, that database holds the DNA of about 30 million people, more than every other DNA-testing company combined. Ancestry makes over $1 billion a year. The company has 3.8 million paying subscribers, with DNA testing available in 128 countries.

In September 2025, Reuters reported Blackstone is now looking to sell Ancestry or take it public at a valuation of around $10 billion. Your DNA is sitting inside a company being marketed to buyers and stock-market investors at twice what Blackstone paid.

Look at what just happened to 23andMe. They filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025. When the news broke, traffic to their site jumped 526%, mostly from people scrambling to delete their data. A judge ruled the genetic data of all 15 million customers could be sold off to the highest bidder. Drug giant Regeneron won the auction with a $256 million bid. More than two dozen state attorneys general sued to stop the deal. It collapsed. The data ended up at a nonprofit set up by 23andMe's original co-founder.

On paper, Ancestry's privacy record actually looks pretty solid. Their 2025 transparency report shows they didn't grant a single valid law enforcement request for DNA data all year. They've fought police warrants in court before. In August 2025, they updated their terms of service to ban anyone using the platform for criminal investigations or court cases.

The deeper risk has nothing to do with the privacy policy. American bankruptcy law doesn't specifically protect genetic data, so if a DNA company goes broke, the database can be auctioned off like office furniture. The Don't Sell My DNA Act was introduced in 2025 to fix this loophole. It still hasn't passed.

So the cancel button is honest about two unsettling things at the same time. The personal one: half-siblings you didn't know existed, a grandfather who turns out to be a great-uncle. The deeper one: you handed your full DNA, plus a chunk of the DNA of every blood relative, to a private equity firm whose entire business model is buying companies and selling them. A credit card can be cancelled and reissued. A genome cannot. It stays the same for life and keeps showing up in the database every time a relative tests, including relatives who haven't been born yet. "Learned something unsettling" is honest marketing for what the product really is.

[Jorts the Buttered Himbo @Merfae]

@shannonrwatts How can you still be in support of Israel’s genocide after seeing what they're doing in Iran and Lebanon. Please get a new line.

[Nick Judin @nickjudin]

Today, the story of Israel and Max Makoka. Two brothers from the Republic of Congo, legally residing in the U.S., snatched, zip-tied and detained by ICE at a school bus stop. Israel, who turned 18 only weeks ago, was sent to CLIPC in Jena. Max, 15, was secreted out of state.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I am devastated by the killing of
16-year-old Marquise Byfield, a student whose future was taken in an instant.

This evening, I spoke with Marquise's mother and expressed my deepest condolences and my heartbreak for their entire family. She shared that Marquise was just weeks away from starting his first summer job —something he was excited and hopeful about.

No teenager in New York City should ever fall victim to gun violence, and no family should ever have to endure this kind of pain. Every shooting death is a tragedy, and it is especially heartbreaking when a young life is taken far too soon.

This horrific act is a painful reminder of all that we still have to do in tackling the scourge of gun violence across our city.

My administration is committed to doing everything in our power to prevent tragedies like this and to build a safer city for all New Yorkers.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.” https://t.co/1jqkKZbAIA

[Storm™ @dilophosaurid]

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic