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Months after a fund tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump put about $30 million into a nearly bankrupt spa company, the Trump administration awarded that company nearly $40 million in federal contracts to screen for Ebola.
The company made most of its money from airport spas and waxing salons.
It had never worked with Ebola.
It had never worked overseas.
Yet part of the money is for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people this year. The company's CEO said, "I'm not sure we can do it."
This keeps happening. The same Trump-linked fund invested in a drone company, and five months later that company got an Air Force contract worth up to $90 million. A startup linked to Trump Jr. got a $620 million Pentagon loan after a top White House aide stepped in.
Their fund buys in, and federal money follows. Taxpayers foot the bill, and with Ebola, our safety is on the line too.
This is all totally corrupt.
Americans deserve answers under oath, and our conflict of interest and procurement laws must be enforced.
propublica.org/article/trump…
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Soros: At some point every bubble will experience the big *test*, where the reflexive feedback loop flips from positive to negative. During the test, the market will try to take out the highly leveraged bulls. You do not want to own the asset during the test.
But if the market fails to push down prices enough to clear out all the bulls, then you have the greenlight to jump back in with even more size than before the test. The failure to clear out the bulls proves the broader trend is incredibility resilient.
After the test, the next phase of the bubble is the acceleration phase where it extends much higher and much longer than anyone expects.
In today's case with AI, perhaps if the market was to learn over the next few weeks/months that AI is resilient to the political cycle, then we could enter the acceleration phase?
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i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
-getting humiliated
-showing up terrified and doing it anyway
-admitting you might be the problem
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It’s actually crazy how you grow up thinking home-cooked meals every day are just normal, then get older and realise how much time and effort it took your Mom to make that happen and how lucky you were to have that.
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“However, after what was described as a “night of carnage” in Kyiv because of the blackout, a senior source said Mr Musk had been alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.” telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Public executions. Net energy exporter. Gilded palaces. Humiliation at the hands of the Houthis. We've finally done it. We're Saudi Arabia.
Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter to be public justthenews.com/node/192393?…
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In New York and many other cities, everybody knows that the zoning code is basically fake. It exists to be too restrictive. If you want to build anything of value, you need a zoning change. Why?
Because if you need a zoning change, the city can squeeze you for all you're worth.
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The world is freaking hard.
If you do not adapt to that, you will be absolutely trampled by it.
Whether you are raising boys or girls, give them resiliency, self-belief, and more confidence you think they'll ever need....because they will use it all.
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Pete Hegseth: We need our military to be more like the Spartans! *immediately loses fight with Persia over an important chokepoint*
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One thing you realize is that most ultimatums in life are binary, if you fall long enough, it's up or out.
Every man faces this demon on things he really cares about at least a few times in his life.
You have to stare into the abyss and really contemplate if you're willing to be out, if not, the only other option is up.
Then, you just have to make it work.
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The difference between the Vietnam War and the Iran War is that Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
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This is going to sound crazy.
But, one of the skills you must learn in the near future is how to cope with an increasingly illiterate society of emotionally dysregulated people.
If you continue to get frustrated on a daily basis over how everything seems dumb, stress is going to silently jeopardize your health.
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Hundreds of people with $3-5 million homes in the second most expensive city in the hemisphere gather to put a stop to “greedy developers” building a tower with hundreds of $1.5 million “luxury condos” that will each pay 5x more property tax than them.
Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront.
@sfchronicle
Without credit ratings you end up like Mexico where 60% of households are under or not banked at all.
As a result any credit that you can get costs a fortune.
Which is mostly irrelevant because chances are you just end up locked in the underclass with no chance of getting out.
"credit scores were only invented in the 70s - we can get rid of them and we should"
Many people have extremely bad intuition of understanding of what financial life was like pre-credit score - I do not think you want to go back to that
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