The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets ahead of public announcements by President Trump, including during the Iran war. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod https://t.co/FaEezJpcNL
Donald Trump’s recent string of setbacks in Iran, Hungary, and more show that his usual intimidation tactics are no longer working, Jonathan Lemire reports:
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No wonder the Epstein files fuel a nihilistic and conspiratorial view that all elites are rotten. It is reprehensible—and hard to understand—why the DoJ has made so little progress filing charges over the past seven years https://t.co/epqN6DeFqI
American went to Panera Bread and he can’t believe the prices
He ordered 2 soups, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches and 1 other sandwich
The total was $71
Panera Bread priced have increased 70% across the menu since being bought by a private equity firm
Panera Bread is also regularly criticized for Shrinkflation
So prices are up 70% and portions are smaller
Private equity firms ruin everything
This really makes you wonder what the hell is wrong with some people! Imagine thinking that owning a store that sells Confederate merchandise is cool! 🤢
At a middle school basketball game in Southwest Virginia the opposing team showed up to their opponent’s Gym and waved Confederate flags while yelling racial slurs. The home team has mostly black players on it. Remember these are just middle schoolers doing this crap!
This is how Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos avoids paying a personal income tax
- For the last 20 years he’s had the same salary, $82,000
- He does this because a higher salary that would support his lifestyle would be subject to payroll and income tax, he doesn’t want to pay that
- Instead all his money is in his stocks, those are never subject to any taxes as long as they aren’t sold
- He takes out a loan and borrows against his stocks
- The only money he’ll ever had to pay is the loan and interest on the loan
This is common practice for billionaires so they avoid the majority or all of a personal income tax
"In three weeks, Blanche has made clear there is no floor he recognizes. He is all in, past Bondi, past any limiting principle." https://t.co/SLhc4dK2w6
At this point, all illusions that Trump’s America would help Ukraine have dissolved. But most people don’t realize how deeply the current administration is steeped in pro-Russian sentiment and activities.
Here’s a quick look at key figures in the Trump administration and their pro-Russia or anti-Ukraine positions:
- Donald Trump (President): Stopped aid to Ukraine and called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator who “has no cards.”
- JD Vance (Vice President): Said the thing he is most proud of is stopping aid to Ukraine.
- Marco Rubio (Secretary of State): Claimed that weapons bought by the EU or Ukraine could be diverted to the Middle East.
- Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence): Spoke strongly against Russia sanctions in 2022 and was a speaker at the 2023 Rage Against the War Machine event filled with Russia lovers and Putin sycophants.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Secretary of Health and Human Services): Has spread bullshit about the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and blamed NATO for the war in Ukraine.
- Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense): Has skipped every Ukraine meeting and usually sends Elbridge Colby instead, who has wanted to stop military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
- Scott Bessent (Treasury Secretary): Waived oil sanctions against Russia several times.
- Kash Patel (FBI Director): In 2024, received $25,000 from Russian Igor Lopatonok to produce anti-Ukraine and anti-Western propaganda.
- Steve Witkoff (special envoy): Said he admires Vladimir Putin and has developed a “friendship” with the Russian dictator.
The line is clear: this administration keeps siding with narratives that benefit Russia, while treating Ukraine like the problem.
Author: Pekka Kallioniemi, host of Vatnik Soup
Tesla has paid $0 in federal taxes in 19 of the last 20 years despite reporting $264 billion in revenue.
They shifted billions in profits to overseas subsidiaries to avoid paying taxes on it.
And conservatives will swear, the mom buying her kid a cookie with SNAP is the problem.
Donald Trump described the nuclear agreement Barack Obama signed with Iran in 2015 as “horrible”, “one-sided” and the “worst in history”
But the US president is now proposing a weaker deal - @memphisbarker breaks it down ⤵️
https://t.co/zyJLyvaVBl