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Wow pic.twitter.com/moGwnRazYi — Mr. Sausage (@MrSausageGet) August 17, 2026   h/t Inquire Within

Goldman Sachs says S&P 500 revenues grew 6.4% YoY in Q2, excluding energy — the fastest pace in five years. Big Tech led the growth, while median S&P 500 revenue excluding tech rose just 3%. Corporate earnings jumped nearly 50% YoY, partly driven by tech firms marking up private investments. Meanwhile, companies received over $100B … Read more

The FDA admits they have no idea about 10,000+ chemicals allowed into our foods introduced WITH NO SAFETY STUDIES because they were self approved by Big Food “The real issue here is that the FDA commissioner, as we sit here today, does not know what’s in our food. Most Americans, most moms would assume that … Read more

But he includes some rather odd comments. pic.twitter.com/2rQTKqFhwh — Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) August 16, 2026 Last time US reduced its military commitment to South Korea was in 1970s in aftermath of Vietnam Seoul began Project 890, a covert nuclear weapons program – ended only when US reversed course The Iran war is touching off … Read more

🇨🇳 Beijing is about to host the World Humanoid Robot Games! 650+ teams. 2,000+ robots. 16 countries. Long jump. Weightlifting. Tug of war. Table tennis. The robot Olympics are here. And yes, we’re about to watch a $100K machine faceplant into a sandpit. Writer: Claudio… — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 17, 2026

In March, two California families opened college admissions decisions that should make anyone who cares about higher education stop and think. One student — I’ll call him Elias — was admitted to a top University of California engineering program. His family was thrilled though surprised. Math had been his weakest subject in high school, but … Read more

🇺🇸🇮🇷IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL ODDS COLLAPSE Prediction markets are turning sharply more skeptical on a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. Kalshi now prices the odds at just 13% by March 2027, 16% by January 2028, and 15% by January 2029 — all falling sharply in recent weeks.… pic.twitter.com/SLijUwHgnt — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) August 17, 2026 After months of … Read more

Wu plans FOIA to ID property owners interested in leasing to ICE ICE posted that it was interested in gathering info about 249 contiguous parking spaces in Boston Mayor Michelle Wu plans on trying to prevent immigration enforcement officers from parking in Boston by trying to figure out who wants to lease spaces to them. … Read more

First, it was cyclospora, the parasite linked to contaminated lettuce. Now health officials are keeping a close eye on a drug-resistant fungus. While the two are very different, both have raised concerns about public health. The latest threat is Candida auris (C. auris), a type of yeast that can cause serious infections and is difficult … Read more

Alice Weidel has said multiple times that if AfD gets power, the first 100 days mean full border closure, cut migrant cash benefits, and the biggest deportations Germany has seen. They also want out of the EU asylum system like Hungary and the Netherlands. This is AfD policy, not current government policy. AfD leads national … Read more

BREAKING: Democrats now have an 84% chance of winning the House and Republicans have a 16 percent chance of retaining it less than 3 months before the midterms. What’s your immediate reaction? pic.twitter.com/KOxlFjlnP7 — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) August 16, 2026

You can ask all the questions you want and get a BS answer The real answer is they don't get rich off of you and don't care — er22 (@ers1522) August 16, 2026

HOLY SHIT!!! 🤯 NEVADA POLICE LEAKED A CRYPTO SEED PHRASE ON BODYCAM. The video went public. Shortly after, the wallet was drained of $1.1 MILLION+. No blockchain hack. No sophisticated exploit. Just a seed phrase appearing in police footage. One leaked video. $1.1M gone.… pic.twitter.com/76MLTWEYFt — Crypto Jargon (@Crypto_Jargon) August 17, 2026

Banks Cheer as Trump’s Regulatory Rollback Spreads to Europe (Bloomberg) — Slawomir Krupa, chief executive officer of France’s Societe Generale SA, keeps a magnet on his desk. “Stop Basel Endgame!” it proclaims, reminding him daily of the most effective bank lobbying campaign in history. Frustratingly for Krupa — also president of the European Banking Federation … Read more

If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta , California could determine the company’s fate when it comes to critical changes at Facebook and Instagram. Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the trial that California Attorney General Rob Bonta is co-leading against Meta, following a litany of allegations that the company fostered addictive behavior … Read more

A new report from Defending Education has identified at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools across 30 states that exposed their students to Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the Young Envoys Scholarship program. According to the report, titled “Little Red Classrooms: China’s Infiltration of American K-12 Schools,” the program is monitored by the China Education Association … Read more