Politics, Everyday, All day... morning, noon and night....II

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From Kavanaugh stops to Bondi "papers? not even please"

Scene from Casablanca

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https://x.com/FearedBuck/status/2012771622382404085


https://www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes-2674906472/


"“If Hitler came back to see this group of mixed race young gay men chanting his name he would immediately kill himself a second time,” wrote Drew Pavlou, an independent journalist with more than 219,000 followers on X, in a social media post Sunday."

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https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... ry-19-2026

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https://bsky.app/profile/tom.medsky.soc ... f22bpdz225

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dealing with a fresh wave of backlash following the launch of a new AI nutrition chatbot by the Department of Health and Human Services. Users expecting normal diet tips got something else entirely. The bot started spitting out dangerous and totally inappropriate answers. This included bizarre, detailed suggestions on which foods were suitable for rectal insertion.


Anonymous users on Bluesky contacted 404 Media after receiving shockingly detailed responses to unconventional questions posed to the realfood.gov chatbot. When one user enquired about recommendations for an 'assitarian' diet—where only foods that can be comfortably inserted into the rectum are consumed—the chatbot enthusiastically acknowledged the query.



The system listed 'Top Assitarian Staples', recommending items like 'Bananas (firm, not overripe peeled)' as 'the gold standard' and suggesting slightly green bananas for better structural integrity




https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rfk-junior-un ... um-1778273

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A blast from the past Bush 1 war. George Carlin (1937-2008). NSFW dialog.

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Escalation is an addiction. Bibi is not reading and understanding Sun Tzu or Clausewitz and he has tricked 47, who is surrounded by bumbling enablers, into following him beyond the brink.

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/str ... an-3216471

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran ... ar-and-uae

Oil and gas infrastructure is very delicate. Think at least a year to rebuild. After the fighting stops. https://www.bechtel.com/projects/kuwait ... storation/

BRC will happen in 2026, we shall see how international participation and our fossil-fueled migration from home to BRC home and back goes. The state of the world economy in 2027 is unknown.

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.

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tiny fingers, big button.



https://united24media.com/latest-news/w ... iran-16995

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At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume, breaking from an otherwise subdued premarket backdrop. With thin liquidity typical of early trading hours, the sudden burst stood out as one of the largest volume moments of the session up to that point.

A similar pattern was observed in oil markets. West Texas Intermediate May futures also saw a noticeable pickup in trading activity at roughly the same time, with a distinct volume spike interrupting otherwise quiet conditions.

This “sharp and isolated jump in volume” — which you can see for the oil futures market in the chart at the top of this post — was especially bizarre because there were no major news items — no major publicly available news items — to drive sudden big market transactions. The story would be baffling, except that there’s an obvious explanation: Somebody close to Trump knew what he was about to do, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits.

This wasn’t the first time something like this has happened under Trump. There were large, suspicious moves in the prediction market Polymarket before previous attacks on Iran and Venezuela. But this front-running of U.S. policy was really large: the Financial Times estimates the sales of oil futures in that magic minute Monday morning at about $580 million, and that doesn’t count the purchases of stock futures.


https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trea ... es-markets