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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
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down President Donald Trump’s request to reconsider the justices’ denial of review in a civil suit brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll, which yielded a $5 million verdict against the president. The announcement came as part of the second of three scheduled “summer order lists.” Consistent with its … Read more
You can buy a 1lb of ground beef n some tortillas for cheap or get these he isn't lying pic.twitter.com/J7x5uslzVv — Vel (@velletik) August 16, 2026
When the people who sold the story later admit a small group was running things the cover-up looks worse than the decline itself. Americans watched it happen in real time and got gaslit for noticing. Yet at the time he was telling CNN viewers the opposite https://t.co/aja8WkfVNp — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 17, 2026 ‘Politburo’ … Read more
Geopolitical and national security expert Brandon Weichert issued a bold prediction in response to reports on the cratering morale of U.S. service members deployed to the Middle East, one suggesting the Republican Party could pay for it for a generation. In recent weeks, a growing number of reports have shed light on the poor conditions … Read more
BREAKING: Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirmed to ABC News. She was 36 years old. Read more: https://t.co/29VIHB7FSm pic.twitter.com/3kGm9PMdrn — Good Morning America (@GMA) August 17, 2026 Family confirmed her death in a statement calling her an “incredible light.” She was found unresponsive at a Greenville apartment on August 16 after an acquaintance … Read more
AI deals now make up nearly 40% of all long-dated investment-grade bond supply. The AI boom is now a credit story. Bloomberg counts about $70B of AI backstops sitting off balance sheets, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to 25% of some chip-financing deals. They cost nothing in the boom and come due in the bust, right … Read more
by Michael For months, the U.S. has been getting pummeled by one major disaster after another, and the past few days have been absolutely insane. Hurricane Lala just dumped more than two feet of rain in some parts of Hawaii, we are witnessing the worst flooding in the entire modern history of Indiana, the endless … Read more
President Trump told Fox News on Monday that the U.S. would bomb Oman if the country “gets in the way” of U.S. efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with Iran, according to the network’s Trey Yingst. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s*** out of them,” Trump … Read more
Americans are filming their own breaking point, and nothing is affordable anymore. A thirty-dollar roast at Aldi. One bag of groceries that rings up at $91. Fifteen people turned their cameras on and did the math out loud, a man working 41 hours at his first job who still DoorDashes at night, a woman who … Read more