Ryan Carney

KC family man

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

Attention: AI generated writing has an accent. It is a sublte accent (Canadian vs American) but once you see enough of it you can definitely tell. When I hear the accent in email to me, I stop reading.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

After 25 years of brave & brilliant work by hundreds of scientists in my lab to understand then safely reverse aging for the first time, it was moving to witness the first human dose being delivered 🥹 https://t.co/veQsyUEORz

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Eleven days ago, I sat down with Johnson County Community College's record-setting baseball team to learn how they'd taken over juco ball.

Tonight they won a national title after an undefeated romp through the Juco World Series.

A story worth watching.
https://t.co/prrVcfmBxP

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

“If y’all could give us less than zero seats you would do it…The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy."

Nailed it.

[Kansas City Royals @Royals]

Nothing else like it.

[Charlie Hustle @CharlieHustleCo]

That @lucaserceg17 postgame energy? We had to do something with that.
So yeah… we made it a tee. ⚾️💙

SHOP IT NOW: https://t.co/kdF3tzFzBk
#KCRoyals #KC #Baseball #CharlieHustle

[Ryan Carney @ryansacat]

https://t.co/Ftsfe2a83I

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[John Kurtz @jlkurtz]

Yo this is a banger

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

Lutnick Wrote Trump's Tariffs Four Times Too High. His Son's Firm Cashed In.

The Commerce Secretary wrote the reciprocal tariff formula with an elasticity of 0.25. The correct value was 0.945. That single digit inflated every tariff four-fold.

Howard Lutnick's old firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by his son Brandon, was buying the legal rights to tariff refunds at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar while Lutnick publicly insisted the tariffs were here to stay.

On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down 6-3 in Learning Resources v. Trump. Potential refunds: up to $180 billion. A $100 billion secondary market waiting for its payday.

1/ AEI scholars Kevin Corinth and Stan Veuger documented the elasticity error in 2025. Their verdict: the formula had "no foundation in either economic theory or trade law." Tariffs "would not exceed 14 percent for any nation" under the correct number.

2/ Wired, July 2025, published the internal Cantor memo. The firm had "already put a trade through representing about ten million dollars of IEEPA Rights" with "capacity to trade up to several hundred million."

3/ House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin to Lutnick, February 27, 2026. Lutnick held "an insider's view of the tariffs' profound legal vulnerability, the Administration's weak litigation hand, and the prospects that the tariffs would be struck down, extraordinarily valuable and material nonpublic information to anyone betting against the tariffs' legality."

4/ Senators Wyden and Warren, August 13, 2025. "The firm's actions raise obvious conflict-of-interest and insider dealing concerns."

5/ Bill Ackman, March 2025. "He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes. An irreconcilable conflict of interest."

6/ In May 2025 Lutnick transferred Cantor to trusts controlled by his sons. BGC Group repurchased his shares for 151.5 million dollars. Newmark Group for 127 million. The "divestiture" kept the firm in the family.

7/ BGC, still a Lutnick-family platform, is one of the largest interdealer brokers in US Treasuries. The Treasury selloff after Liberation Day cleared through their terminals.

The Commerce Secretary wrote a formula four times too high. His son's firm cornered the secondary market on the refunds. The Supreme Court delivered the payday.

None of it is a coincidence.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨 THIS IS INSANE.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights.

Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick's sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar.

The firm told clients it had "capacity to trade up to several hundred million" in these claims.

They confirmed at least one $10 million trade was already executed as of July 2025. They said they expected that number to "balloon in the coming weeks." That was 9 months ago.

Today those claims are worth 100 cents on the dollar. The refund portal is live, $166 billion in refunds are being processed.

If Cantor bought $100 million in refund rights at 25 cents on the dollar, they spent $25 million.

They now collect $100 million from the government. That is a $75 million profit. A 300% return.

If they scaled to "several hundred million" as they told clients they could, the profits run into the hundreds of millions.

Howard Lutnick was the architect of the tariff policy.

He pushed Trump to impose them. He fought against officials who wanted to limit them. Then he left Cantor Fitzgerald to his sons and transferred his equity into a trust benefiting them.

Tax free under government ethics rules. He received $360 million from the buyout.

His sons positioned the firm to profit from the exact policy their father built.

Their father publicly championed tariffs he knew could be struck down while his sons were buying refund claims betting they would be.

[Tim Fitzgerald 💙☘️🌾 @LifeofFitz]

Yes. Some could. Some couldn’t. We all had to try. Different world.

[ThatsGoodSports @BrandonPerna]

I take back what I said about their dumb logo change. This is tight.

[Sam McDowell @SamMcDowell11]

Breaking: Mayor Quinton Lucas is expected to unveil during today's City Council meeting a $600 million funding plan for a Royals stadium at Washington Square Park, he told The Star.

Reporting the details here with @Kacen:

https://t.co/jM4NxgNMZq

[𝖕𝖚𝖘𝖘𝖞 𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖙💦 @pussyrrriot]

Pussy Riot occupies headquarters of American tech company Ubiquiti which powers Russian war crimes

Since the disabling of Starlink, Russian soldiers been panicking: “All we’ve got left now are radios, cables and pigeons.” But Ubiquiti’s hardware has emerged as the favorite replacement. 

We demand that Ubiquiti:
- Obey U.S. sanctions
- Acknowledge Russian military use
- Work with Ukraine to stop it

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins]

EXCLUSIVE: A group of 40-plus Catholic Democrats have issued what amounts to a theological rebuke of Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent theological defense of Trump’s immigration agenda, outlining religious principles they suggest compel them to reform ICE. https://t.co/JEHyCELzBU

[Dipti Sharma @Diptish09]

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