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LANSING – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will propose in her Tuesday budget a 45-cent-per-gallon increase in the fuel tax — phased in over a one-year period — to raise more than $2 billion to fix the state’s crumbling roads, a spokeswoman said Monday. Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Whitmer, said the first 15-cent increase would take … Read more

Stock price: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla Article: https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/05/17/why-tesla-stock-was-slipping-today/?source=djc&utm_source=djc&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article&mod=mw_quote_news Shares of Tesla were falling today after Michael Burry revealed that he had a heavy short position on the electric vehicle maker in a filing this morning.     h/t mark000

by DontMicrowaveCats The market today is deja-vous to 2017. Everybody and their mothers pumping 30 different shitcoins to the moon. Scamcoins left and right. Graphics cards impossible to obtain People defending coins like a cult, calling anybody who even questions “HODL”-ing. Businesses starting to advertise they accept crypto to get on the hype train. High … Read more

4 rockets were just fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, 1 of which was intercepted by the Iron Dome. In response, IDF artillery forces are striking a number of targets in Lebanon. We are prepared for any scenario on any front. — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 19, 2021 🚨 Sirens sounding in northern Israel … Read more

President Joe Biden, while touting his $174 billion electric vehicle (EV) plan, ignored his record of allowing Chinese investors with ties to the Chinese Communist Party to buy up key parts of the American EV industry. During a speech at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, Biden touted his record as vice … Read more

The expert frequently invited on British news shows to criticize easing of lockdowns has been revealed to have absolutely no medical, clinical, virological or epidemiological qualifications. Dr @Zubhaque is a specialist in diversity & equity. https://t.co/Y6e2nOA9HH — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 19, 2021

Being a lifeguard isn’t easy, but in Los Angeles it can be lucrative. Auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found 82 county lifeguards earning at least $200,000 including benefits and seven making between $300,000 and $392,000. Thirty-one lifeguards made between $50,000 and $131,000 in overtime alone. After 30 years of service, they can retire as young as 55 … Read more

Inside, Apple was preparing to store the personal data of its Chinese customers on computer servers run by a state-owned Chinese firm. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe. But at the data center in Guiyang, which Apple hoped would be completed by next month, and another in the Inner Mongolia … Read more

“But what is true — and I’m actually being serious here — is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” he said of growing reports of unidentified flying objects. “We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory … they did not have an easily … Read more

There’s no way. There are 54 countries in Africa, so each county has on average, 34 languages! That’s 34 DIFFERENT languages per country…not buying it. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-languages-are-spoken-in-africa.html Linguists estimate that nearly 2,000 native languages are spoken in Africa. One of the countries with the highest number of indigenous languages is Nigeria as some estimates indicate that … Read more

“Scamcoins everywhere. These scam coins are getting crazy. Someone just shilled me: – 27 trillion in circulation – unlimited supply cap – only 1 node – 25% of supply minted in the last 6 months – 1% of holders own 30% ” Link to the SCAM coin (SAFE to click): View post on imgur.com h/t dr0id

This just in: Margin debt reached a new record high in April: pic.twitter.com/EKYKrfobfb — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) May 18, 2021 Fund managers are shedding their Tech holdings rather quickly @SoberLook @BankofAmerica pic.twitter.com/JENLl41uhI — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) May 18, 2021 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1394702054350901253 to the older generation who bought the dot-com top, now is the time to unload … Read more

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1394914704070516737 #Bitcoin in free fall. Plunges to $37,000 as Elon Musk-fueled rally collapses. pic.twitter.com/pYFtSshmEm — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) May 19, 2021 #Bitcoin dips to lowest since #Feb amid #China crypto warning. People’s Bank of China reiterated that the digital tokens cannot be used as a form of payment. pic.twitter.com/ztXbNixSNT — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) May 18, … Read more