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“Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication” -R. Putnam

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

As everyone argues about the $40 trillion debt threshold, remember:

Its 100% the other party's fault. Your side has never hiked spending or cut taxes. And if they did it was for a good reason and paid for itself. And we can fix deficits entirely by going after the bad people.

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

@Matt_Calkins @BillboardChris As a fellow LMU alum and NW sports fan, I’ve always enjoyed your coverage. Respect and understand your position though. @SeaTimesSports is losing out!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

QUINTANILLA: According to the filings, the president has been trading some Intel in the quarter

JIM CRAMER: Yeah, uh, yeah, hmm

FABER: Got nothing to say?

CRAMER: Uh, uh, yeah, whoa, yeah.

FABER: Don't worry. We're not having technical difficulties, but we gotta go

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

@Brett_Odesa @MrLeadslinger @KevinBerge9223 @scrowder @ForecasterEnten Exactly why they haven’t gone after hotels and most of big Ag

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

More of this pls

[TheCompany™️©️ @The_Real_Yay]

#Repost #Afroman WE DID IT AMERICA 🇺🇸 GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 LAND THAT I LOVE !!! FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!! Counter lawsuit is next? 👌🏽🗽⚖️🇺🇸

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

@AngelOf1764 @hieywieyneue Macerators increase O&M costs. Our city ID’ed a lift station frequently clogged by wipes and charged end users monthly fee to pay off the added cost.

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

It’s a big club…something something

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Keep an eye on this one ✍️

Rep. Kevin Hern just sold off his entire $500,000 position in United Health $UNH

His note in the filing was "Sell to close"

Hern sits on the House Subcommittee on Health

[𝒦ℰ𝒩𝒩ℰ𝒯ℋ 𝒲𝒜ℒ𝒦ℰℛ ℐℐℐ🤍 @Kenneth_Walker9]

ℳ𝓎 𝒟𝒶𝓌𝓰𝓈 ℰ𝒶𝓉 ℱ𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 @Arbys

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

I have attended quite a few protests in my adult life - I was carrying a gun at ALL of them. When they were high profile, such as VCDL's annual Lobby Day protest or the anti COVID lockdown protests in Raleigh for example, I absolutely carried a spare magazine as well.

Did I impede or resist law enforcement? Nope. Did I ever have any issues or get arrested/shot? Nope.

At the end of this montage you can see me peacefully handing out several hundred standard capacity AR15 magazines at a protest in Richmond. I had a Glock 17 RTF2 under my jacket - peaceful as can be.

This is not about the gun and this talking point WILL be used by anti-gunners if they keep saying it. The administration should stop parroting this illogical and counter productive talking point IMO.

Protest accordingly...

#CityLife #SouthMinneapolis #diversity #Snowgadishu #minneapolis #ICE #BorderPatrol #police #enrichment #SigSauer #AXG #urban #democrats

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

@RepThomasMassie Can’t wait to have my engine turned off during pothole season

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

DLaw-best offseason move

[BgMac Vote Blue Democracy Matters @bgmacneill]

@FieldGulls To sum it all up...what a play, what an athlete, what a signing, sad 49ers 🤣

[SEAHAWKGOON 🐦 @SeahawkGoon]

WAKE UP 12S ITS GAMEDAY IN SEATTLE!!! https://t.co/UbToyiJu7M

[CableThanos @JoshCashman_]

The Seahawks Are The #1 Seed

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

@EddPratt @NFLonFOX Best 2pt conversion since ‘14 as well!

[bowlingalone @bowlingalone]

@ChrisOpsMT @Softykjr W is a W

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

The first AI Slop artists to chart being in the genres of country and contemporary Christian music is honestly one of the least surprising things to happen this year

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

Elephant Seals on Macquarie Island (Aus):
“Gangs of men remain on the island throughout the year, to kill the sea-elephants that frequent it, and to boil down the oil. Parties belonging to two or three individuals [companies] are frequently living here at one time, and as keenly contested wars have occasionally raged among them for the dominion of a half mile of coast of this dreary purgatory, as ever took place between the rival heroes of Rome for the dominion of the world; and the combatants, in their long beards, greasy seal-skin habiliments, and grim, fiend-like complexions, looked more like troops of demons from the infernal regions, than baptized Christain men, as they sallied forth with brandished clubs to the contest. Their provisions are supplied from Sydney, the fire for cooking, and the light for their study and their toilet, being all derived from the oil, which is kept burning in a dish with an ample wick; and the wretched stone and turf-walled and grass-roofed hovels they inhabit, are rendered as dingy and dismal thereby as the interior of an Esquimaux palace, and send forth an odour to which that of nightman’s museum of foul abominations is myrrh and frankinsense. They are paid according to what oil they procure, and expend their earnings chiefly on the island in such necessaries as they may want, but principally in wines, spirits and tobacco.”
- British Chronicler Peter Cunningham 1822