Nacmtrader17

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Texas Longhorns | Head of Equity Trading for Regional IB | Blocked by ZH on the other site since 2019

They're named in the Epstein files — and donated to Ken Paxton’s campaign: At least one member of a Texas family whose business once considered buying Jeffrey Epstein's notorious plane — "The Lolita Express" — donated thousands of dollars to support Ken Paxton's Senate campaign earlier this year.

They’re named in the Epstein files — and they donated to Ken Paxton’s campaign

This family’s aviation company was once in talks to buy Epstein’s plane, and one family member was the focus of an anonymous allegation.

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If your DSA candidate didn’t win their primary election, and you’re thinking of sitting out the general election as a result because you can’t vote for an establishment Democrat, then you have completely lost the plot. See also, the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections.

I keep reading experts on Iran assuming someone has something to say that is different than what it looks like to me - i.e., the US has been completely defeated strategically due to intense dumbness - and everyone says different version of "the US has been defeated due to intense dumbness."

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14h ago

"When I asked current and former U.S. officials what had to be done to win, the most common first response was a primal scream of sorts that translated into, “We never should have started this war.” That was followed by: “What do you mean by ‘win’?” Pretty much. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond (R) says if people give him $100,000 through GoFundMe, he will sue 9NEWS. Pond will not say what happens to the money if it's not used on litigation. Pond was not asked when he appeared on KNUS-AM where the host promoted the GoFundMe on air.

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To my European pals. The one thing I remember when the Solar Eclipse came through a few years back, was how quiet it got just before. Birds stopped singing, crickets quieted down. And before it was over, they were as loud as can be. Wonder if you have the same experience.

7 years ago (oh my god, how has it been that long), I did a piece for Media Matters where I watched every single PragerU video that'd ever been made so I could try to explain the strategy. Tafoya popped up in one of the videos and I was like, "Oh! Didn't realize she's conservative." And well...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

Minnesota Senate nominee Michele Tayofa on the Iran war: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further. Until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."

Step One: do a bunch of fraudy, related party loans Step Two: buy the Lakers! Step Three: get investigated by yhr SEC for the dodgy related part loans Step Four: Sell to a Kushner (profit!) and hope it makes Step Three go away good times

NVIDIA wants to boost its future revenues by convincing pension fund managers to buy an exotic new form of debt where its chips are the collateral. One problem: “Historically, that’s an asset that’s had the shelf life of lettuce.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-...

Why Wall Street and Nvidia Are Building an Exotic Money Pipeline for the AI Boom

Executives involved are hailing it as a new asset class, but critics have concerns about using chips as collateral.

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This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.
Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc.bsky.social · 17h ago

Read full story on @nytimes.com, with Maria Abi-Habib, @rileymellen.bsky.social, José María León Cabrera, @erschm.bsky.social and Gabriel Labrador: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/w...

If marginal tax increases were a slippery slope to authoritarian communism, wouldn’t it have happened by now? At least once? Many countries have had progressive taxation, business regulations, and welfare states for decades, yet not one went Soviet, or anything like it.

Running Dog@runningdog.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s a sad indictment of the media that a billionaire can compare a 5% wealth tax to the Soviet Union in an interview with the NYT and the NYT journalist does not laugh in their face and write it up as an insight into the mind of somebody who has lost touch with reality