Stephen Martin

[Belfast Books @BelfastBooks]

"A mother who I was very, very, very - I became very fond of her." Patricia Smyth, now a High Court judge, on a parent in her family court who social workers said had spat at them.

Her family law training before hearing such cases - "Two weeks in total." https://t.co/eTVHbq8V0p

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, documents show. https://t.co/O2a2TRrSHd

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Two Press Corps

American reporter: Mr. President, Iran says it now controls the Strait of Hormuz. Your response?

Trump: Which news agency are you with?

Reporter: Reuters, sir.

Trump: Fake news.

Reporter: Thank you, Mr. President.

The reporter sits down. The next hand goes up with a question about the White House ballroom.

Later the same afternoon.
European reporter: Mr. President, Iran says it controls the Strait of Hormuz. Tanker traffic is down forty percent. What is your plan?

Trump: Which agency are you with?

Reporter: Deutsche Presse-Agentur. And the question stands.

Trump: Fake news. Total fake news.

Reporter: The shipping data comes from your own Department of Energy, sir. Are they fake news too?

Trump: Next question.

Reporter: That was the next question.

Two reporters, same question, same non-answer. The difference is what happened next. One said thank you and sat down. The other stayed standing and asked again. Access is not journalism. Follow-up questions are.

[BetterMe App @betterme]

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[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

19 years ago tonight, June 10, 2007, the series finale(“Made In America”) of ‘The Sopranos’ aired on HBO.

• 6 seasons; 86 episodes
• 112 Emmy Award nominations; 21 wins.
• The greatest TV show of all time.

Final scene.

[DANNY @Danny_Crypton]

🚨 WARNING: JUNE 12 WILL BE THE WORST DAY OF 2026!!

You need to see this, because...

SpaceX IPO is the biggest CASHOUT in history.

No ragebait/fud or any other bullshit.

SpaceX valuation: $2T, revenue: $18.7B
Samsung valuation: $850B, revenue: $230B

To justify that price, SpaceX would need around $1.1T revenue by 2035.

That means 50% growth EVERY year for a decade.

No slowdown. No bad quarter. No miss.

Now look at the real story.

Insiders own around 95% of shares and sit on $1.6T of paper wealth.

By November, 93% of eligible insider shares could be free to sell.

This isn't just an IPO.

It's one of the biggest liquidity grab events Wall Street has ever seen.

I’ve been in finance for more than 15 years.

When I EXIT the markets completely, I’ll say it here publicly, like I always do.

Turn notifications on. If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.

[Bill Brooklyn @BillBrooklyn10]

SpaceX will become the largest, most profitable company on the planet

This might be the fastest way to hit $1 million by the end of 2026:

$SATS (EchoStar) → $103 Must buy

$RKLB (Rocket Lab) → $105 Must buy

$ASTS (AST SpaceMobile) → $88 Must buy

$STM (STMicroelectronics) → $63 Must buy

$LUNR (Intuitive Machines) → $25 Must buy

$MU (Micron Technologys) → $850 Must buy

$MRVL (Marvell Technology) → $255 ust buy

I often get asked why I don’t turn this into paid content, but for me, sharing stock information is just a hobby. I’m not financially struggling, so I choose to share it for free.

NFA

[Muskonomy @muskonomy]

NEWS: Billionaire investor Ron Baron has placed a $1 billion order for SpaceX IPO shares and says he is not selling in his lifetime.

Baron, the founder and CEO of Baron Capital, laid out his case on a client call. His firm has put about $2 billion into SpaceX across 27 employee tender rounds since 2017, a position now worth roughly $15 billion after compounding at 54% per year.

He believes SpaceX, coming public at under $2 trillion, will reach $10 trillion to $30 trillion within 10 to 15 years and become the largest, most profitable company on the planet. People inside the company tell him he is lowballing it.

On Starlink alone, Baron projects 300 million subscribers and about $1 trillion in annual revenue within a decade, making it worth around $14 trillion on its own.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had another mental health episode today and posted over 50 times online:

11:15 AM - Trump attacks judge who said he couldn’t put his name on the Kennedy Center
12:03 PM - Says he may perform and give a speech at the America 250 event instead of artists who cancelled
12:08 PM - Says Obama filled the Reflecting Pool with Garbage
12:09 PM - Attacks Biden
12:09 PM - Posts edited photo of Columbus Circle in DC with the caption “CLEAN”
12:10 PM - Attacks Biden again
12:11 PM - Posts AI photo of him and George Washington riding horses in front of the White House with a space shuttle and race car in the background
12:11 PM - Attacks Rosie O’Donnell
12:11 PM - Posts photo of him in front of the American flag
12:11 PM - Brags about his endorsed candidates winning
12:12 PM - Attack Obama and Biden over the reflecting pool
12:12 PM - Posts photo of him pointing at the camera
12:13 PM - Posts photo of the UFC event cage he’s building at the White House
12:13 PM - Posts an AI image of a “golden dome” for the White House
12:15 PM - Defends Jaxson Dart, calling him a “winner” and his critics “losers”
12:45 PM - Posts an AI image of him as a NY Knicks basketball player dunking on Governor Kathy Hochul
12:56 PM - Posts an AI image of him with Tom Brady
1:03 PM - Posts a garbage can labeling it “The Obama Presidential Library”
1:16 PM - Says America is back
1:16 PM - Says America is back again
1:16 PM - Says America is back for the 3rd time
1:55 PM - Posts an AI image of him golfing
2:55 PM - Says he’s in “excellent health” lol
3:17 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
4:33 PM - Attacks the Pope again
4:54 PM - Posts a weird image of him staring at Greenland (which he has posted already)
4:57 PM - Posts an AI image of the “drone port” he wants to build on top of the ballroom
5:33 PM - Attacks Biden
5:33 PM - Attacks Biden x2
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x3
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x4
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x5
5:35 PM - Posts cartoon image of Governors Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul saying they like crime (Trump is a felon)
5:36 PM - Posts meme about Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files losing their primaries
5:36 PM - Posts an old tweet of his where he attacks “disloyal” Republicans
5:37 PM - Posts an old tweet where he said he wants to stop the world from “killing itself”
5:37 PM - Posts a mock up of a “Trump Peace Prize” which may be the most useless peace prize known to man
5:37 PM - Posts a photo of a B-2 bomber with the caption “Trump energy 2026”
5:37 PM - Posts a photo of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:38 PM - Posts an image of him kissing the American flag (he’s the least patriotic president we’ve ever had)
5:39 PM - Compares himself to George Washington
5:39 PM - Says you were convinced to think a photo of a family sitting on a car is “evil” and billions were spent to do that (???)
5:50 PM - Says we should “physically audit” Fort Knox
5:50 PM - Posts an image of him cosplaying as a navy commander
5:51 PM - Posts another image of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:51 PM - Posts another photo of him and George Washington
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden again
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x2
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x3
6:09 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and King Charles
6:12 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and President XI in China
6:12 PM - Posts another photo of himself and President Xi
6:22 PM - Posts a photo of himself walking in China
6:48 PM - Says the U.S. should have a ballroom because China has one
7:03 PM - Says he wants to cancel his America 250 celebration and replace it with a MAGA rally
7:56 PM - Promotes Mark Levin’s show on Fox News
7:59 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump

All in one day. This man is not well. Impeachment and removal NOW.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

About $1.5 million was spent securing the music rights for Goodfellas, and every dollar of it paid off.

When Goodfellas hit theaters, what truly separated it from other crime films wasn’t just the performances or the story — it was the music. Martin Scorsese reportedly spent around $1.5 million securing music rights, a massive gamble at the time, but it became one of the film’s greatest strengths.

Rather than relying on a traditional score, Scorsese built the movie around real songs from the eras it moves through. As Henry Hill climbs deeper into the mob world, the soundtrack evolves with him — shifting from upbeat doo-wop and girl groups of the 1950s into darker rock tracks of the ’70s and ’80s as his life begins to unravel.

Songs from artists like The Rolling Stones, Cream, and Derek and the Dominos don’t just sit in the background — they shape the scenes themselves.

One of the best examples is the famous “Layla” piano outro sequence. As Layla plays over the discovery of bodies after the Lufthansa heist, there’s barely any dialogue, yet the music communicates everything: the paranoia, the fallout, and the deadly consequences of greed.

Then there’s the legendary Copacabana tracking shot, where Henry leads Karen through the back entrance of the club. The smooth, dreamlike music makes the entire moment feel seductive and glamorous, pulling the audience directly into Henry’s world.

That’s why the $1.5 million wasn’t just an extravagant expense — it was part of the storytelling itself. The soundtrack acts almost like a narrator, marking shifts in time, mood, and character without ever needing exposition.

A lot of films have great soundtracks, but Goodfellas uses music with precision. Every song feels purposeful rather than simply chosen. Decades later, it remains one of the clearest examples of how the right soundtrack can elevate a film from great to unforgettable.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

This statement from Rory McIlroy after blowing a historic 6-shot lead, comes across as wildly arrogant & has a mentality of “one Masters championship is enough for me”

Tiger Woods would never answer a question like this.

[Kaly Queen @Kaliza_queen]

Took me a second, but then I couldn't stop laughing till now💀😂

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Watch NASA executives have a complete mental meltdown, when a live call of rings in, and asks why they were able to live stream the moon landing in 1969, but not in 2024.

They know they’re lying, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

Brace yourself for this one. In the final, heartbreaking scene of All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Burt Reynolds (voice of Charlie) reportedly required over 60 takes to finish the scene because the child actor Judith Barsi (Anne-Marie) was murdered by her father before the film was completed.

Burt broke down every time but felt the need to finish due to its symbolism to her spirit and her legacy. I can't even finish watching it, let alone have had to perform the scene. This would be a hard scene for any dog lover even without the added tragedy. With it, it's a life changing watch.

I dred to think how many takes I'd have needed. If I had, as I imagine it did to Burt, it would haunt me until the end of my days. 💔🌹#RIP

[9/11 Revisited @911Revisionist]

How did you feel when you learnt that the tooth fairy and Santa are a LIE?
You're going to feel the same way too, when you finished watching this video about Building 7, as you've been lied to about it being a controlled demolition.

You should preferably watch this on a computer screen and not your phone, and certain parts has no sound, in order for you to focus on what's being shown on the screen.

[Movie Moments Analyst @Real_Moviescene]

Spider-Man cast reacts to Tom Holland’s audition (Tom, Zendaya & Jacob).

Casting Tom Holland as Spider Man took months, narrowing 7,500 audition tapes down to around 200 serious contenders.

His performance stood out.

[Ben Wehrman @benwehrman]

The NASA Moon Landing fully debunked in 2 minutes

[Bono’s Bible @BonosBible]

Is this the funniest U2 TV appearance ever? The Graham Norton Show in 2014.

Graham drags out early U2 promo shots... “during the great conditioner shortage in 1980”... Bono asserts “I am not just a sex object”... and is mercilessly mocked for his sunglasses obsession.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

The dam jump in GOLDENEYE was performed by British stuntman Wayne Michaels from Switzerland’s Verzasca (Contra) Dam, a 220‑metre drop. It went on to be voted one of the greatest movie stunts ever filmed.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

This is wild.

It looks like her, AI says it’s her…and it also looks like her brother.

The prison that Ghislaine is staying in should do a DNA test to settle this. I’m certain she knew she’d be sent to prison for her crimes and likely planned ahead.