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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

Trump canning Powell and bringing about the hyperinflation people hallucinated during the Biden administration is a sort of fitting end to all of this.

There's just no good bull case for US equities rn, there just isn't. The Mad King collapsing isn't an investment thesis

Get the rope

According to the whistleblower, cyber security specialist Daniel Berulis at the NLRB, a person using a Russian IP address had the correct login credentials just minutes after they were created by DOGE to access the government system in March. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Naga dude bidding stonks cause "trump will fix this mess"

ES tryin to hold 420 today, what a joke

no criminal record no gang ties no tattoos active pending asylum case **19 years old** sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

Serious point: This might be the most interventionist American government in my lifetime. The price of just about every good reflects the good thinking of the Commissars in Washington DC implementing their 5-year plan for National Greatness, rather than market forces.

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

Market rallies on WH report: "dick slammed in car door only once a week from now on"

Alas, the btfd era comes to a close

Bears stronk today

🚨NEW: The head of the US military base in Greenland has been FIRED for an email to base personnel distancing herself from JD Vance’s attack on Denmark. Col. Susannah Meyers’s email was aimed at ensuring unity between the Danish, Greenlander & US staff on the base. The Pentagon fired her for it.