Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

Why is Zohran Mamdani polling higher than expected among Jewish voters? Josh Barro and Ross Douthat drop by to explain.

The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince

An English nobleman had to give up his diamonds and pearls when Epstein’s lady cab driver said he needed underage girls to get off when he used to partyup in 1999. But will this controversy be enough to make Donald the dove cry?

by Maureen Dowd

His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him. Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.

Andrew loses EVERYTHING -- title, styles, home.

He was born Prince Andrew, became the Duke of York, and is now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor

BTIG: “.. Yesterday saw nearly 9% of the S&P 500 make a 52wk low .. the most since April. While bull markets can persist with the majority of stocks lagging, it's quite difficult when you actually see stocks going down ..

“.. Remember to make a 52-week low it .. needs to get below its April lows.”

OLD HEADWIND: High mortgage rates.

NEW HEADWIND: Weak job market.

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Donald Trump: Best in Show

Uh huh

Chris Cillizza & @ChrisCillizza X.com [whispers] But doesn't our "heritage" also include lots of the monuments Democrats wanted to take down? The Hill - 30- @thehill • 5h Chelsea Clinton on East Wing demolition: "This is what happens when we take a wrecking ball to our heritage"

Chris Cillizza is one of the dumbest, most dishonest people on the planet

Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Bond yields reverse higher. 🇺🇸

#CPI
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A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

New York Times article reads: "Mr. Zhao had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023 and served four months in federal prison, after a yearslong investigation by financial regulators and U.S. prosecutors. “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Thursday. “The Biden administration’s war on crypto is over.” The pardon was the latest example of how high-profile business partners of Mr. Trump and his family have benefited from his rollback of the wide-ranging crypto crackdown orchestrated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. To seek the pardon, Mr. Zhao hired lawyers and lobbyists with ties to the Trump administration, while Binance struck a business deal with World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up."

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

Liberal purity tests are out of control. You can't even have Nazi tattoos now.

On this day in 1982, #CultureClub were at Number One in the UK singles chart with Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.
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If you live in Colo 3rd district, you might want to know that your rep, Tom Hurd, is on TV now, not simply avoiding comment on Trump's desecration of the White House. ("I haven't followed that news" etc, the Mike Johnson rope-a-dope)

Hurd is actively praising it as classy, public-spirited move. FYI

I think the laws need to be updated. It should be up to the Monarch to remove a Royal peerage.

Why Prince Andrew is still a prince – and how his remaining titles could be removed The law is not designed to easily allow someone to become an ex-royal.

A wise and factually-based article from @craigprescott.bsky.social. This is no mere opinion piece and the parliamentary facts stated within the piece are in layman’s terms so that even I understand it.
I highly endorse @craigprescott.bsky.social’s works.

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Deb's father, my father and uncles, everyone of that generation was off for years in teens/20s fighting AGAINST Nazis.

Living memory of "Nazis=ultimate evil" is fading. But for a candidate in an absolutely crucial Senate race? Against Susan "always 'concerned', but always caving" Collins? Nope.

I at least smell a Fetterman

Can’t have one standard for your opponent and a different one for your ally. Same standards, period.

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.

This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

I think not being a n@zi is not an impossible standard.

Ahh yes. The impossible standard of “don’t be a nazi.”

Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines Officials said they had discovered tens of thousands of Lego pieces at a California home and arrested a man who trafficked in the stolen collectibles.

I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER

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The metaphors write themselves

“.. the first glimpse at the economic fallout for Disney from the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ dispute.”

@nytimes.com $DIS
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You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
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Man, Soros is broke after today!