If NYC is going to make subway riders duck and cover on the floor from active shooters they should at least clean the trains once in awhile. pic.twitter.com/md8W48sweM
12 yo was puzzled why a grocery store chain would run ads talking about their use of AI. I explained that these ads aren't aimed at customers, but investors. Their goal is to make them think of the grocery chain's stock as an AI stock.
Whoever incites, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the United States shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; & shall be incapable of holding any office in America.
Before the Trump admin ended — while representing the U.S. government — Jared Kushner and Steve Mnuchin met with future investors on Middle East trips.
Did Kushner and Mnuchin exploit official relationships with foreign leaders for private biz interests?https://t.co/s7gkcwj6da
“A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews ‘stinking excrement’, referred to Roma people as ‘animals’ and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.” https://t.co/QlunK4CtDc
Funny, I don’t remember you agreeing with that exact sentiment during Trump’s first impeachment when you learned that Donald Trump extorted Ukraine by withholding US support to benefit his own reelection (and Russia). https://t.co/f3mFvybZ6J
Trump reposts a call for Civil War on Truth Social, while Elon Musk tweets, “there will be blood.” If that maniac gets his hands on Twitter and restores TFG, what are the odds there won’t be blood? Wake up…
George W. Bush finally admitted the brutal invasion of Iraq was unjustified.(Based on a Lie) America can’t wait 19 years for Donald Trump to admit the brutal invasion of our Capitol was based on a lie. Democracy would be long gone by then. Time to Indict and save the Republic.
NEW: Putin has banned President Biden, Vice President Harris, Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and a wide array of administration members, politicians, executives, journalists, and lawmakers from traveling to Russia. Notably absent from the list: Donald Trump.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 22, 2022
Trump, Tucker Carlson & Mark Meadows shared the CPAC stage w/ pro-Putin Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban who called for a “worldwide conservative takeover” by “our troops”
The traitorous, anti-American GOP is literally plotting w/ a foreign power to overturn our democracy
Leave it to Donald Trump to wait until long after he’s out of power, after he’s become irrelevant enough that his endorsements are flopping, and after he’s under confirmed federal criminal investigation, to meekly call for “civil war” now that he’s just a punchline. What a loser!
REMINDER: It's now been 502 DAYS since Donald Trump's Jan 6 white supremacist terrorist attack yet Trump still has not been charged--and worse, he's traveling the country spewing the same lies that radicalized people to attack our Capitol on Jan 6.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) May 23, 2022
The Democratic Party and all Americans must stand guard against the onset of domestic extremism. We must not forget January 6 nor the 147 Republicans, including Michael Guest, who voted against democracy.
Think it not a coincidence that Donald Trump just called for civil war.
— Shuwaski Young for Congress (@shuwaskiyoung) May 23, 2022
When @RepAdamSchiff calls Trump the author & architect of the plot to overturn the election, that means the former POTUS shd be indicted for at least a half dozen grave federal felonies. You can take that to the bank. Will he be? Probably, but I’m not ready to say I’m confident. https://t.co/WtW2D5nr5e
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
You are like a Cisco but for the blockchain.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
Bitcoin is eco-friendly in that it allows for clean energy to be harvested anywhere and any time of the day at any schedule. That massive demand will cheapen price for clean energy parts everywhere else. So it is green.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
Freedom is not free. Do your part. Shameless plug. Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV#russia#ukraine Please take a listen.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
Yes I have. But @Fwd_Party is not filling up the vacuum fast enough. Because it is too much a one-issue party. @AndrewYang needs to scale massively.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
How about @aplusk joining the @Fwd_Party to be Co-Chair along with @AndrewYang ----- His activism parallels Yang's political foray.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
Open primaries will cure the polarization, which is manufactured. It will make elections truly competitive and wipe out a party that is misbehaving. It will create room for a more diverse Congress, in terms of ideas and platforms.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
@Amanda_Kadi Thanks for the like. What are you an investor in? Do you have a website? No offense, but this account meets many criteria of a fake account.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 23, 2022
Elden Ring, experienced in its entirety, is the most beautiful art I have ever seen
Harvey Milk once said, “It takes no compromise to give people their rights.” Those words have never been truer as we fight to stop hate, protect reproductive rights, and strengthen the right to vote. #HarveyMilkDay
Biden Promised a Black Woman on the Supreme Court. The perception of Biden as a disappointment has been hardening among Black voters, the voters he needed to win in 2020 and the ones he would need again in 2024.
Our Tribalism Will Be the Death of Us. while a virus isn’t partisan, many Americans’ responses to this one have been emphatically so. ......... One of this tribalism’s obvious drivers is many Americans’ substitution of investment and involvement in physical communities with investment and involvement in online ones that more efficiently sort them into cliques of the rigidly like-minded.
Russia’s Military, Once Creaky, Is Modern and Lethal A significantly upgraded military has emerged as a key tool of Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy, as he flexes his might around the globe and, most ominously, on the Ukraine border. ......... It is Mr. Putin’s highest-stakes use of the military to muscle Russia back into the global relevance it lost with the ending of the Cold War. Mr. Putin laid out that doctrine in 2018, when he used his annual state-of-the-nation speech to unveil new nuclear weapons that could fly 20 times the speed of sound. ......... The T-72B3 tanks amassed on Ukraine’s border have a new thermal optics system for nighttime fighting as well as guided missiles with twice the range of other tanks ........ Kalibr cruise missiles deployed on ships and submarines in the Black Sea and Iskander-M rockets arrayed along the border can hit targets just about anywhere inside Ukraine ......... The military relies less on a dwindling number of conscripts and more on a slimmed-down, well-trained core of roughly 400,000 contract soldiers. .........
“cross-domain coercion” — blending the real or threatened use of force with diplomacy, cyberattacks and propaganda to achieve political aims.
........ For all its strides in recent years, Russia’s military retains a critical weakness of its Soviet predecessor: the civilian side of the country’s economy, nearly devoid of high-tech manufacturing and corporate investment in research and development. Army expenditures amount to a far higher percentage of the gross domestic product than in most European countries, starving other sectors.
Russia Isn’t a Dead Petrostate, and Putin Isn’t Going Anywhere. The European Union typically relies on Russia for about 40 percent of its natural gas, making it by far the continent’s largest supplier. With an estimated 127,000 Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, Europe seems torn between responding to what would be an egregious upset of its security and safeguarding its own energy requirements. ........... Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Russia’s Rosneft are all investing large sums to increase future oil production. ...... If the world reaches its climate goals of net-zero emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency and others predict it will still be using roughly one-quarter as much oil and one-half as much natural gas as it does today. ....... From France’s “yellow vest” protests to Kazakhstan’s recent unrest over fuel price hikes, it is increasingly clear that if climate ambition comes into tension with energy reliability or affordability or the security of energy supplies, climate ambition will lose.
How Crypto Became the New Subprime. If the stock market isn’t the economy — which it isn’t — then cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin really, really aren’t the economy. Still, crypto has become a pretty big asset class (and yielded huge capital gains to many buyers); by last fall the combined market value of cryptocurrencies had reached almost $3 trillion. ............... So crypto has become a large asset class even though nobody can clearly explain what legitimate purpose it’s for. ............ 44 percent of crypto investors are nonwhite, and 55 percent don’t have a college degree. This matches up with anecdotal evidence that crypto investing has become remarkably popular among minority groups and the working class. .......... “Why are the most risky loan products sold to the least sophisticated borrowers?” He then declared, “The question answers itself.” Homeownership dropped sharply once the bubble burst. ......... regulators have made the same mistake they made on subprime: They failed to protect the public against financial products nobody understood, and many vulnerable families may end up paying the price.
It’s Hard to Tell When the Crypto Bubble Will Burst, or If There Is One Crypto prices are highly volatile, as this week’s sell-off showed. But die-hard enthusiasts believe prices will keep soaring in a world where traditional notions of value don’t apply.......... Traditional financial analysis doesn’t apply here. A stock analyst, for instance, determines whether a company’s shares are expensive or cheap by assessing its business model, future prospects and leadership. But few, if any, of those metrics translate to cryptocurrency valuation. Belief alone can drive value. ........
