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Trump on Venezuela: “We hit them so hard and now we've taken out millions of barrels of oil. Outside of the earthquake, the people are happy and dancing in the streets.” @Acyn (2026)

Lots of Green in this cell @IWeatherON @LakeErieNorth @alluringstorms @weathernetwork

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Seriously, how does this footage exist? How do we allow this level of slap you in the face hypocrisy day and day out? So either way, he’s to blame, right?

I’ve resigned from The Baltimore Sun after 25 years of politics and sports reporting. I was proud to have been there during a long period when our reporting followed the facts wherever they happened to lead. I’m not saying anything readers can’t see for themselves, but The Sun has changed since its purchase by David Smith, executive chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. I no longer fit there. I’m grateful to the sources whose trust enabled me to report responsibly, and to the readers who supported our work. I’m exploring new opportunities inside and outside journalism. My DMs are open.

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention. Here is what he found. Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail. Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods. The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced. So who got the money? Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team." That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies. Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal. Patel should answer for all of it. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

This may be a tough day for parts of the US and perhaps into southern Ontario. @weathernetwork

@TheStalwart he threw out the first pitch at a KBO game last night! what a time x.com/wallstengine/s…

Wall St Engine @wallstengine

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LLMs explained without all that yucky math stuff 0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actua…

🚨 🔥 MAJOR NEWS: Here’s Why This Story Is Exploding In Albania. According to critics, Prime Minister Edi Rama met with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on a Rothschild-owned yacht. Soon after, a protected stretch of Albania’s coastline was approved for development linked to Kushner’s investment plans. Now the backlash is escalating. Protesters have targeted Rama’s residence, courts have frozen funds connected to the project, and opponents are demanding answers about how the deal was approved. The fight is no longer about a real estate project. It’s about whether political connections opened doors that were supposed to stay closed.

Ghandi vs Ford on mass production from the NYT in 1931. Who was proven right? nytimes.com/1931/11/08/arc…

Protester screams, "Erika Kirk protects pedophiles," during the opening of the TPUSA Women's Leadership Summit

Y'all—this optimization stuff can make you fragile. If you are in recovery then yes, of course, a few glasses of wine will mess up your week (or worse). If you get drunk then yes, I could see it messing up a day or two. But if going out to dinner and having a few glasses of wine throws you for this much of a loop then perhaps you've actually just become fragile? I mean how would Steven manage having a newborn, or really any age kid? Or just the general uncertainty and messiness of life? In my new book I tell the story of golfer JJ Spaun, who was up all night with his vomiting toddler. His Whoop sleep score would have been zero. The next morning, he went out and won the U.S. Open. Actual excellence (not the elaborate, performative internet variety) demands resilience. It controls the controllables, no doubt. But it also ensures you don't optimize yourself into fragility, which is an increasingly common trap and performance killer. bit.ly/4uCzeQ7

Mikli @CryptoMikli

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Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink

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Trump: «Xi Jinping è un uomo buono e intelligente». Ricapitolando. In questi mesi il presidente degli Stati Uniti ha lodato Putin, Kim Jong-un, Orbán, Netanyahu, Lukashenko, Xi Jinping. E ha attaccato: Papa Leone XIV, Meloni, Macron, Starmer, Merz, Sanchez e la NATO.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

The Electricity Grid I post a lot of stuff about the electricity grid, here the CEO of the largest grid in America (PJM) lays it out pretty clearly. • What worked for 2 decades… no longer works • This is structurally different from history • You are facing an era of scarcity • The situation is not tenable PJM are facing a demand explosion. Now a demand explosion in some industries is +500% demand. But this is infrastructure, this is tens of trillions of dollars of assets and it takes time to mobilise and deploy things at this scale. In infrastructure, when demand growth shifts from +1-2%/yr to +8%/yr, then you suddenly need to be building 4-8 times more assets per year, than you previously did. If you were deploying $1 trillion / yr to grow at 1%, you now need to deploy $8 trillion / yr to grow at 8%. Suddenly you need to deploy many trillions of dollars per year to meet this growth. If you cannot get it done, prices will rocket for everyone. Failure leads to inflation. This is not a PJM problem, this is not even a US problem, this is a global problem. PJM are formally validating what some people have been saying for a while now. This is not temporary, we cannot uninvent the technologies that have precipitated this change. The world has changed and we must adapt. Global retail electricity sales are about $3.6 trillion per year, of that, around $900 billion goes to transmission and about $2.7 trillion goes to wholesale generation. The transmission system many developed countries have is the wrong system going forward. Our transmission systems in the West are built for transporting power from big coal plants to power big towns. That’s not what we are doing now. We have replaced most of the coal plants with two largely decentralised but highly correlated fleets of intermittent generators (wind and solar), that are growing like fracking wells because they are also quick to deploy. Their quickness to deploy new generation projects is massively destabilising for the grid. The grid was designed for coal plants. The grid is a $50 trillion machine. It is by far the biggest asset in any country. It isn’t something you can toss away, it isn’t something you can swap out overnight. We also have new categories of industrial demand (hyperscalers) that will capture an increasing share of GDP. This new demand category is going to set the marginal price of electricity for everyone else, and these guys are not as price sensitive as your widowed grandmother. This is a difficult problem to address because of: i) the scale ii) the capital intensity It’s also a global problem, because it’s born out of a new technological paradigm. It will not spread around the world at equal pace, but everywhere is going to eventually face it down. Some people are fleeing to space for solutions to avoid this snafu, but that’s only a temporary fix. Once the hyperscalers have their demand satisfied, the next demand explosion immediately follows, and this second wave is 20x the scale of the current problem. The second wave is how do you power billions and billions of robots and billions of autonomous machines, doing work that currently can’t be done? This industrial revolution is very much a two stage revolution, first you power up the chips, then you power up the actuators. Chips scale down, actuators scale up. There’s no Moore’s Law for actuators, they obey Newton’s Laws of motion instead. This is the crux of the energy problem facing our civilisation. The energy system we have today is the one we wanted 20 years ago. The energy system we will have in 20 years from now, is the one we start building today. It’s time to build this solution.

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Statcan released its real GDP-by-province estimates for 2025 today. Among many other things, the estimates show Ontario's economy, at the heart of Canada, to be growing even more slowly than in 2024. #cdnecon

The stalemate in the Gulf does not mean that global or US economic risk is ebbing. In fact as each day passes they increase In this case it’s to the North American & Global food supply chains via rising urea spot prices & fertilizers. Inflation via food prices is in train and will be part of the economic this summer.