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[Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow]

Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.

Watch live views: https://t.co/tm2wZQmAVD

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@TheMattBerman @openclaw @vishalojha_me @Meta ADS

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Rumours are going around that UK, Germany, and France have threatened to liquidate official reserves in US Treasuries in a 'nuclear option' if Trump does a deal with Putin over Ukraine to end the war against European interests.

If true, it reveals what intellectual pygmies the Starmer, Macron, and Merz are. They massively underestimate what is practical or legal once again.

Let's be rational on their behalf.

1. Total holdings of US Treasuries as FX reserves by the Bank of England, Banque de France, and German Bundesbank total approximately $550 billion of the total $1350 billion Treasuries owned within the three states. They cannot order liquidation of commercial bank holdings, the principal form of global margin and repo collateral keeping Europe liquid in global capital markets.

2. The 3 central bank holdings are just 1.43% of the total $38.45 trillion of US debt, so 1/70th.

3. US could take the hit much better than retaliatory selling of gilts, bunds, and tresors! The potential for blowback in European rates and volatility is massive.

4. State leaders lack the authority to order central banks to liquidate FX reserve assets. It's not their bonds, but the assets of central banks granted independence over monetary and reserves policies by statute as a fundamental choice of modern economies. I can't see any central bank asset manager agreeing to accept a liquidation order or state intervention in asset management policies, absent explicit divestment sanctions being imposed on USA.

5. The $550 billion couldn't be sold off all at once as no US dealer would do the liquidation, worrying about angering the New York Fed and the very poor liquidity and capacity for onward trading in today's massively over-concentrated and illiquid UST market. (The Silicon Valley Bank failure to liquidate its Treasuries reserves triggered a massive crisis in March 2023.)

Like the threatened EU expropriation of the official reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in anticipation of Trump ceding the assets back to Russia, always inevitable when war ends, European leaders show a fundamentally flawed understanding of the world and their influence in it.

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@CL_fTrader Hi Benjamin! Saw some educational posts and videos on your feed but was too busy with my work. Wanted to come back and study it later. Am I too late? 🥹

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@CL_fTrader What is your stop loss?

[NASA @NASA]

We are going.

For the first time, the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Photos from tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink → https://t.co/095WHWN1zX

[Options Mike @OptionsMike]

Mostly quiet day in the markets $SPY held in fine.. $QQQ not so much.

$COST $WMT $TGT $KHC were the places to be today .. no me sadly.

$TSLA nice beat but not really moving yet..

$AA not so good.

HAGN!

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@DunoForLess @rb077

[NWS Miami @NWSMiami]

5AM Thursday 9/7 Hurricane Irma update: The threat for major impacts for South Florida continues to increase. #FLwx

[Пeрзидент Роисси @KermlinRussia]

Кержаков наконец-то вышел на ту дистанцию, с которой невозможно ударить выше ворот, и забил.

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@iberostar_eng thank you! So this is not about free cancellations? You always have the same terms?

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@iberostar_eng on the iberostar site. From 5 June for 2 weeks. The description is similar, I can't see any difference

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@iberostar_eng hello! Was going to book iberostar bavaro, I see 2 prices, what's the difference? Thank you!

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@askairasia hello! I've checked in via smartphone but didn't receive a barcode.

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@CEAChina hello! Are there individual entertainment systems in the front seat in the economy class on these flights: MU592, 547? MOW-PVG-BKK

[Ben Malbon @Malbonnington]

1 GB of storage cost $200,000 in 1980; today a drive holding a terabyte (1,024 GB) is $100 (Economist) http://t.co/judQwWQK

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

@sween what was your trip?

[oli.d @littlethirteen]

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#ThankYouSteve

[редакция KONTR TV @minaev_live]

50 тысяч россиян готовы купить пятую айфошу за 4 косаря баксов в первую неделю. Эх. Пойду Доширак заварю. #minaevlive