At the Oakland No Kings March the crowd skewed old but gay people were over-represented. What I took from that was that gay people know exactly what will happen to them in a dictatorship and that Gen Alpha is, at best, clueless and maybe is thinking it won’t be worse. The future may well suck.
We’ll know if Trumpy was telling the truth if Iran doesn’t blow something important up today.
If a Saudi oil field gets hit Dow drops $2000 in less than a minute. If a tanker not headed for China gets through Dow up $2000 (more) in about an hour.
Exciting times.
In addition to being a prominent member of the Iranian political elite for decades, Larijani was a unique character. Philosopher by training and author of several books, he was an expert in Kant on which he had written his doctoral thesis.
Though maybe not, it might just be colloquial. Google Translate is a lot better than Blue Sky’s built in version though less convenient.
I’m not a big believer in @bgrahamdisciple.bsky.social magic lines, but I make an exception for Tesla which is clearly a madness of crowds stonk. Anyway, it sure looks like $400 is now resistance.
Old Musky will have to be pretty imaginative to break through it
Let’s make this a thing (from threads)
As far as I can tell, Google Translate added the “which is pretty wild in itself”. AI is beginning to go over the wall, not that I disagree with it.
UConn was 12:1 to win the men’s National BB Championship last September. Now that they’re in the Sweet 16 they’re a 20:1 long shot.
The lesson here is that those early season betting lines are a big money maker for the casinos.
$200/bbl oil won’t help Russia if they can’t export any of it. Pretty easy to blow up pipelines as they’re typically above ground at rivers.
I follow @iugarte.bsky.social to get the European take on things. Here’s her take: Israel claims to have eliminated Ali Larijani—the conservative politician linked to the elder Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard—who could have served as a check on the regime's most radical factions.
