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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This American is a Christian. She says she’s had to move stores at Starbucks 5 times because of harassment for being Christian and conservative

She says Starbucks claims they are about inclusivity, but that is only for minorities and the LGBTQ community. She says if you’re a Christian you are harassed repeatedly, they even find your social media and harass you

Again, this isn’t one store, she’s on her 5th store and it’s the same in every store

“They didn't like what I had to believe in and they started treating me differently. They started harassing me at work — They wouldn't talk to me. Wouldn't communicate with me. Um, would be more harsh with me. Would look at me a weird way. Would exclude me from conversations. Would cut my hours. All the things.”

“it's insane. Starbucks, all of that for an inclusive environment. More like it's only inclusive if you're nonreligious or you don't believe in Jesus Christ or you're a leftist and you support abortion and the LGBTQ+
— Mind you, I was nice all the time, like genuinely all the time. Like even some people that were on the opposite party and different political views”

“They treated so many employees that were religious, completely different”

She says it got so bad she was forced to just leave the company because of the harassment at Starbucks

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[greg @greg16676935420]

Never been at a lower point in my life

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

California Democrat mayor just quit after admitting she was a Chinese communist agent.

Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia, stepped down after striking a plea deal and admitting she acted as an illegal foreign agent for the Chinese government — spreading Beijing’s propaganda in the U.S. under their direction.

She faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

How many more are still in office?
#ChinaSpy #CCP #California #Arcadia

[thiago @iamthimartins]

QUE PORRA É ESSA QUE EU ACABEI DE VER?!

[greg @greg16676935420]

How do I know if I have regular Taco Bell diarrhea or parasite Taco Bell diarrhea

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

I am not exaggerating when I say that @nickshirleyy is currently the top journalist in the country.

He appears to get a business owner defrauding the US government to admit it on camera in just a few minutes.

Insane.

[Asmongold Updates @Asmon_Updates]

Asmongold reveals the real reason people hate capitalism

"Do you know why people hate capitalism? Because capitalism is the acknowledgement that you are a failure of your own design. The reason why you don't have what you want is because you're not smart enough, you haven't put in enough work, or you haven't come up with a good enough idea to earn that thing."

"Capitalism is accountability. Socialism, communism, this is group consensus accountability. And nobody ever really gets held accountable for doing something right or wrong ever. And that's it."

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

I want one. Any adult sizes? I want to go to the range in this.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[Nina Varsavsky @ninavars]

Son feministas hasta que Bad Bunny les baila pegado.

Son socialistas hasta que descubren lo cómoda que es volar en primera clase.

Son ecologistas hasta que toca un fin de semana en yate o un vuelo a las Maldivas.

Son tolerantes hasta que se enteran de que votas a la derecha.

Son pacifistas hasta que alguien discrepa de ellos.

Son partidarios de la libertad de expresión hasta que escuchan algo que no les gusta.

Son antielitistas hasta que los invitan a un reservado VIP.

Son ciudadanos del mundo hasta que les toca tenerlos de vecino.

Son partidarios de repartir la riqueza hasta que les toca repartir la suya.

[Krit @NFTkrit]

@poof_eth @westEgg0 I'm not broke im just "experiencing temporary price discovery"

- me when i look at my OpenSea wallet

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

We know that the Treasury has been suppressing cash settled oil futures on behalf of the administration.

But think when we finally audit this corrupt administration we’ll also find they were bolstering the S&P 500 futures as well.

During the past two weeks, we’ve had aggressive nightly TWAP buying during closed market hours, repeatedly shifting prices up 0.2% plus, reversing every sell off and obeying every EMA line.

Remarkably odd behavior, and it always perfect front runs the next Barak Ravid headline, and leads with futures with spot chasing.

The administration has risked billions in tax payer money to fraudulently paint the tape, in violation of its own CFTC regulations.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop.

Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly.

The fundamental question is simply this:

Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.

I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.

Then they stole the charity.

[AVB @TheAccountant90]

There you have it.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

- Matthew 18:3

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Thailand is not at war with Iran. Thailand did not participate in Operation Epic Fury. Thailand did not vote for strikes. Thailand did not host bases. Thailand is a Southeast Asian kingdom of 72 million people whose principal relationship with the Strait of Hormuz is that its ships pass through it carrying cargo.

Today the IRGC struck one of those ships.

The “Mayuree Naree”, a Thai-flagged bulk carrier, 178 metres long, 30,193 deadweight tonnes, built 2008, IMO 9323649, was hit by an unknown projectile 11 nautical miles north of Oman while attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

The projectile ignited a fire in the vessel. Twenty crew members were rescued by Omani naval forces. Three are missing.

Three Thai sailors are missing in a war their country has no part in, on a ship that was trying to do what 138 ships per day used to do without incident: cross a 33-kilometre waterway carrying cargo from one side of the world to the other.

The weapon that struck the Mayuree Naree has not been identified. The signature is consistent with IRGC coastal-launched projectiles, kamikaze drones, or fast-boat missile attacks that have characterised every strike in the Strait since 28 February. No claim of responsibility has been issued. The Mosaic Doctrine does not claim. Any of the 31 autonomous provincial commands with coastal access could have launched the attack without authorisation from Tehran, without consulting other commands, and without the knowledge of a Supreme Leader who has not spoken, not appeared, and exists at his own rally as a cardboard cutout.

The fire was extinguished after several hours. A skeleton crew reportedly remains aboard. The vessel is damaged but has not sunk. No environmental spill has been reported. But the damage to the vessel is not the damage that matters. The damage that matters is to every shipowner on Earth who just watched a neutral country’s bulk carrier get hit for the crime of attempting to transit.

The US Navy has three carrier strike groups in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. The USS Gerald R. Ford in the Red Sea. The USS George H.W. Bush en route. Combined firepower exceeding the military capacity of most nations. Reuters reported the Navy has refused near-daily escort requests from the shipping industry since 28 February because the risk is too high. The Mayuree Naree transited without escort. It transited without war-risk insurance, which seven P&I clubs cancelled effective 5 March. It transited because someone calculated that the cargo was worth the risk. The calculation was wrong.

The ship’s insurer, if it had one, will not pay for a vessel that entered a war zone after coverage was voided. The owner faces a total loss on a 17-year-old bulk carrier that is now damaged, crewless, and anchored in waters where mines have been confirmed and 31 autonomous commands continue firing. Salvage would require a tug to enter the same corridor that just struck the vessel it would be rescuing. The insurance that would cover the tug does not exist either.

Iran did not strike Thailand. Iran struck a ship. The Mosaic Doctrine does not distinguish between flags. It distinguishes between presence and absence. Any vessel in the Strait is a target. Any vessel outside is safe. The doctrine’s enforcement is binary: you are in the corridor or you are not. Nationality, cargo, neutrality, and intent are irrelevant. The 31 commands that fired on the Mayuree Naree do not know it is Thai. They know it is there.

Three sailors are missing. The ship is burning. And the Strait that was supposed to be “very complete” just attacked a country that was never in the war.

Full analysis below.

https://t.co/eMrt5qYqCV

[AVB @TheAccountant90]

😂

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Mamdani is now begging New Yorkers to sign up to shovel snow after mountains of snow and garbage were left on the streets for weeks.

He asks people to register online to shovel snow which requires ID

ID to shovel snow but no ID to vote. You can’t make this up.