Ruben Escobedo

Not financial advice.

[Ruben Escobedo @bearchamp]

@unusual_whales

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This’s Cuba and there’s no electricity. This's a hospital running on bare minimum power in Cuba.

The U.S is starving millions of people in Cuba. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel and humanitarian aid, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die.

Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working. Systems are breaking down, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

This's a criminal act of collective punishment, it's a blatant violation of international law, This’s a crime against humanity.

We should be speaking out loudly in the international community: U.S. military action against Cuba is illegal and unacceptable.

Put an end to U.S. impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

American soldiers die in Trump's war, not a word from Donald. Gas and food prices skyrocket, not a word from Donald. People demand the Epstein files, not a word from Donald. But the minute you take his fat name off a building, Donald writes Mein Kampf for Morons.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

The middle class is the most expensive place to live, and no one talks about it. Lower income households get assistance. The wealthy use tax strategies and loopholes. But the middle class pays full taxes, full tuition, full healthcare, full everything. So you work 50 hours a week just to stay in the same place and fund everyone’s life except yours.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ansari stepped out of Pam Bondi's Epstein files interview to tell the American people what's happening behind closed doors.

"The DOJ has been weaponized by Donald Trump to ensure that the most massive cover-up in American history is carried out."

She didn't stop there.

Ansari also accused James Comer, Mike Johnson, and Republican leadership of helping enable it.

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. A total sham.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

No living US president has had their face on US currency in 150 years since Congress passed a law banning it. Because that’s what dictators and autocrats do.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This week alone:

DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.

The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.

The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.

Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.

It’s just Thursday.

The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

As reported by CBS News' Michael Kaplan, while at Walter Reed hospital, Trump had the chance to visit with 14 U.S. soldiers wounded in his war of choice against Iran. Unsurprisingly, the coward snubbed EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER. He didn't have the guts to look them in the eyes.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Fox: Food prices will go up soon. One third of the world's fertilizer comes through the Strait of Hormuz. Since the start of the Iran conflict, the price of fertilizer is up by 44%.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Three years ago today, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

If Ken Paxton beats James Talarico in the general election it means:

1) MAGAs don't care about child sex abuse

2) MAGAs don't care about securities fraud

3) MAGAs don't care about bribery

4) MAGAs don't care about infidelity

It would mean MAGAs are completely full of shit.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Disgusting to see drunkard rapist Fox Propagandist Pete Hegseth spreading his hate at Arlington Cemetery when he has never done an admirable thing in his trashy immoral life.

We went from a highly decorated black 4-star General to this repugnant white supremacist war criminal.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

“We don’t take an oath to a King”….

“We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator”

“We take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"

- General Mark Milley
#MemorialDay

[JTheretohelp1 @JTheretohelp1]

From ZeroHedge, with a bit of my own commentary:

The bond market is moving in a way that usually starts to intimidate the stock market.

“So, what happens next?

i. This is the ballpark you’re playing in: it’s a bull market and the primary trend is clearly higher.

ii. This is also the ballpark you’re playing in: local market technicals feel somewhat stretched, a significant amount of levered risk has been added, and the macro backdrop is not uncomplicated.

iii. So, for as wildly interesting as the hunting has been, my instinct is the summer is going to be a bit trickier.

I’d conclude by saying that ZeroHedge is right but also wrong. We are in an era of full-blown idiocy. The bond market will break things. Enjoy the final leg higher, because the backside of this charade will decimate a generation of idiots….”

[Common Sense Investor (CSI) @commonsenseplay]

The last 3 major market crashes ALL coincided with CPI crossing above 3.8%:
- Dot-com crash: −49%
- Financial crisis: −57%
- 2022 rate-hike selloff: −25%

CPI is approaching that level again… while the S&P 500 is sitting near all-time highs.

History doesn’t repeat, but it sure rhymes.

$TLT is my play for the next 12 months, while getting paid a monthly dividend wait.

When stocks finally crack under this inflation pressure, the flight to safety AND Fed rate cuts with Warsh now in place will send long bonds soaring.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Yuriy Matso @yuriymatso]

Based on the Shiller PE indicator, the market is close to hitting the 2000 level top.

chart by @exposurerisk