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Husband, Dad, & All Things Bears

[90s WWE @90sWWE]

ALL BY MYSELF!

[Fazir Ali @KingFazir]

Watching fans from all over the world experience America has been one of the coolest parts of this World Cup.

People are losing their minds over things most of us don’t even think about anymore:

- Free chips and salsa.
- Buc-ee’s.
- Massive grocery stores.
- Six-lane highways.
- Air conditioning everywhere.
- Endless refills.

Meanwhile, the tournament is being played in world-class stadiums that were already built. No rushed construction. No billion-dollar vanity projects.

It’s hard to ignore what visitors keep saying: the infrastructure is incredible, the people are welcoming, and the scale of everything is unlike anything they’ve seen before.

Sometimes it takes seeing your country through someone else’s eyes to appreciate what we have.

We take a lot of it for granted.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.

Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

No matter who is in office, the stock market seems to find a way.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[Strider Elass @StriderElass]

EARNINGS UPDATE AN ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE QUARTER: 322/500 companies in the S&P 500 have reported for Q1. 81.7% have surprised to the upside. Earnings are +25.9% from a year ago. Overall, consensus was estimating +12.4% YOY at start. Revenues are +10.9% YOY vs. +9.4% estimate at the start. $SPY $SPX $QQQ $VIX #SP500 #SPX500

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

The 2026 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Inflation is the silent thief.
Over the last 30 years, it cut the value of $1 in half.
But $1 invested in the S&P 500 became nearly $9 – AFTER adjusting for higher prices.
That’s the power of ownership.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Are you ready to have your mind blown?
Since 1989, money invested when the market is at all-time highs has actually outperformed money invested on any given day. 🤯🤯🤯

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

From its inception in 1957 through today, the S&P 500 has hit 1,313 all-time highs, hitting a new high once every 19 days on average.

[Jay Feely @jayfeely]

You could buy a grocery store for 2 million
You could build a grocery store for 3 million
And yet somehow, when the socialist government does it, it won’t open until 2029 and cost 30 million.
Thank you for the perfect example why socialism is always an object failure

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Always something, yet the market finds a way...

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Update: one year ago today the $VIX closed above 50, a signal with a 100% win rate over the following year and an average S&P 500 return of 35%. The S&P 500 has gained 38% since then, adding to the list of times when it paid to be greedy when others were fearful. $SPX

[Maria Davidson @MariaDavidson]

State with the worst gap between population growth and spending in the last decade?

Illinois.

Population shrunk by 1%.

State spending grew 72%, inflation adjusted.

I'll continue asking - where did all the money go?

[The Misfit Patriot @misfitpatriot_]

Why the fuck does Jeff Bezos have to give you 7 billion dollars?

The American people give the government around 7 TRILLION dollars every year and you fuckin retards haven’t fixed shit with it.

You think if the creepy bald Amazon dude adds another 0.1% to that figure you’re finally gonna figure out how to stop blowing our fuckin money?

Better idea, how about you give the other 99.9% to the private sector and see if they can figure out how to cure diabetes or make a sandwich for 4th graders. I bet they’ll have change left over.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

The stock market goes down roughly once every four years, on average, and bear markets are a regular occurrence. Investors should embrace this risk because without the left side of this chart (downside) there would be no right side (upside).

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

If you made $500,000 per day, every single day since the Great Pyramids were built, you would have less than half of what the US govt has borrowed since June.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Everything government touches becomes more expensive and unaffordable.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Simply insane stats around wealth in America. About 75,000 households have a net worth over 100 million. Over 200,000 have a net worth over 50 million. And over 400,000 have a net worth over 30 million.