A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million.
He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz.
His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY.
Bipartisan capture in full bloom.
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I took one look at that man’s hair and decided to trust everything he had to say about pool and pool related products
This is insane.
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
I’m so dark about everything in this moment but the algae green of it all cheers me up. Metaphors in novels *do* have basis in reality, kids!
Sam Stein points out to Rep. Mike Turner that his line on Iran has completely shifted from 2021 (when he was saying Biden negotiating with Iran was bad) and now (when he's saying Trump negotiating with Iran is good), but instead of acknowledging his hypocrisy, Turner has a performative crash out
This is…awful.
The Israeli military censored more than 5,000 reports from Israeli journalists in 2025 because the revelations would be too damaging to its image.
The western media doesn't need a censor. It chooses not to publish the really critical stuff about Israel.
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Again, the SoH isn’t opened, Iran is still in charge:
In light of the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and the issuance of instructions by the relevant authorities, applicants for passage through the Strait of Hormuz are hereby informed that,
pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military
Also appears one person died.
Aaron Rupar
As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.
Honestly kind of speechless. Of all the things to make common cause on. I suspect this will age as well as various other endorsements of Trump foreign policy (he's anti war! he's gonna liberate Iran!) have aged.
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Jonathan Cook
Jen Bendery
If even I, an implacable opponent of the president, can accept this as the best option, then surely others can too?
