Israel Negron

Proud husband and father.

[Israel Negron @inegron]

.@perplexity_ai Still not a word. Thanks for showing me how much you value my business.

[Israel Negron @inegron]

@perplexity_ai Love seeing all your new releases here. Not enjoying your AI’s inability to handle something simple and your customer service being nonexistent. I was hoping your product would be helpful. Not seeing any evidence so far.

[Covie @covie_93]

A highly qualified Black woman getting nominated to serve on the Supreme Court is "DEI" but a white woman becoming senator simply because her brother died while he was senator is "highly qualified"??????

https://t.co/8WrSPRpnZE

[Maryam @hell_line0]

The first time I watched Return of the Jedi, I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous slimy mound of evil who could barely move around and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.

I get it now.

[Gordon Johnson @GordonJohnson19]

Every market has a fellow who is certain the prices are wrong and that he alone knows the right ones. Usually the market charges him tuition for this belief. Occasionally, it hands him the Treasury.

Consider the record. In 2000, Scott Bessent left Soros to run $1 billion of his own. Five years later, the fund no longer existed. In 2015 he tried again with Key Square, co-founded with Soros alum Michael Germino and seeded with $2 billion of Soros money — which is a bit like failing your driving test and being handed a Ferrari. Assets peaked at $5.1 billion in 2017 and finished 2023 at $577 million. Institutional investors reportedly went from 180 to 20, a retention rate that would embarrass a gym in February. And in 2018, Soros — the man who staked him — took his chips off the table. When your own anchor investor would rather not watch, that is not typically a buy signal.

Which brings us to the question: is the man now confidently dictating where oil, the dollar, Treasury yields, and stocks ought to trade a macro mastermind the market tragically failed to appreciate? Or did the market spend two decades doing its due diligence on him — and sell? He believes he’s smarter than the market. The market already graded that exam. Twice.

[Israel Negron @inegron]

@perplexity_ai Love seeing all your new releases here. Not enjoying your AI’s inability to handle something simple and your customer service being nonexistent. I was hoping your product would be helpful. Not seeing any evidence so far.

[Liberal_photographer118📷🇺🇸 @NikonGirl118]

The same old #Trump playbook…

Always taking credit for someone else’s work, but blaming others when his don’t.

[Brad LaPlante @bradlapgov]

Yale University researchers who analyzed how much “Medicare for All” would cost:

“A universal healthcare system in the U.S. would not require the country to spend more on healthcare. It would require it to spend less.”

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

With the mass shooting at Seattle Center, it might be good to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by nearly half - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths more than doubled - because it’s the fucking guns.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Jon Ossoff: Let's be clear, just one man attempted election fraud in Georgia in 2020. Donald J. Trump. The failure of that scheme to seize the presidency has enraged him ever since.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Shapiro: I was Pennsylvania AG in 2020 when Trump's enablers took me to court 43 times to try and throw out votes. Every single time they went to court, they lost. They went 0-43, and I went 43-0, because they could never produce the evidence to back up the president's BS.

[Being J Wood @BeingJWood]

When Bill Clinton was president, Republicans wouldn’t shut up about how character matters.

Now they won’t shut up about how it doesn’t.

Weird, huh?

[Israel Negron @inegron]

@AveloAir How much extra is it to be able to get off the plane without an hour wait on the tarmac? Is it less to just get the AC going? #BakingHumansbyAvelo

[Covie @covie_93]

The Mitch McConnell coverup story is everything Jake Tapper accused the Biden WH of doing.

[Joe Peta @MagicRatSF]

When I worked for Steve Cohen and was part of the Mets transaction committee, I suggested the Mets have a drawing each July 1 where they also give a random fan $1.193M. Thought it would turn around discourse around the annual event.

Steve looked at me and just sighed. 🤣🤣🤣

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

A few hours after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV last year, I was standing in the courtyard of the Augustinianum, the headquarters of the Augustinian Order to which Robert Francis Prevost belongs, just a few feet from St. Peter's Basilica.

I had just finished helping out ABC News (we were, providentially, using the rooftop of the Augustinianum) and they wanted to interview me about the new pope "on the street." I was quite moved by his election and actually wept after we had finished up the coverage on the set.

It was around 9 PM, and people were already coming to the Augustinianum to snap photos of the "former home" of the new pope. One group of sisters posed by the sign affixed to the outside of the building.

Not surprisingly, in addition to many reporters, I was standing among several excited black-habited Augustinians in the courtyard.

I said to one, dressed in a clerical shirt, "Are you an Augustinian?" "Yes!" he said. "Congratulations!" I said.

An American, he was very friendly and very excited. We joked a bit about having a Jesuit pope and now an Augustinian pope.

Then I said, "Do you know him?"

He said, "Who, Bob?"

I laughed and said, "Yes, I guess: Bob."

"I've known him for 40 years," he said.

I said, "I know him a little from the Synod, and he seems wonderful, but what's he like?"

"Oh well," he said, "you know we elected him twice as Prior General: the first time because we really liked him; the second time because he had done a great job." (Being elected twice as superior general by your brothers in a religious order is some feat.)

"But what's he like?" he said, repeating my question. "Bob is smart, kind, humble, a hard worker, a great listener, quite reserved, close to the poor, and beloved by our men. Everyone loves Bob."

Then he paused.

"But he's no pushover."

I think we saw that today.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

@JoshKraushaar Hey @JoshKraushaar - you'd have a lot more credibility in attacking the VA maps if you'd offered similar condemnation of Texas maps or supported Dems' push for ending gerrymanders across the country.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln said he was less concerned about whether God was on our side than “whether we are on God’s side”.

The Secretary of Defense’s shameless use of Jesus to defend this war is grotesque.
https://t.co/H9ybrmuI3z

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Joseph Schwartz was convicted of healthcare fraud.

His mom then donated $1 million to Trump.

Then Trump pardoned him.

Republicans don’t seem to care about fraud if it’s followed by bribes.