“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation....
I would surmise that Jeff Yass, Ken Griffin, Donald himself and the other big money behind this stock all took short positions before running it into the ground.
Fleecing the Trump supporters like shearing a sheep bare skin.
Meanwhile in America, convicted assholes like Steve Cohen and Michael Milken walk free; and pieces of shit like Ken Griffin and Doug Cifu are free to literally counterfeit shares in the name of “LiQuiDitY” while naked shorting and fucking retail investors— for decades on end.
Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right...
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain…”
“I know what I’m doing, and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people, and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are,” Trump said.
“But I speak to a lot of people, but my primary consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff”
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning— because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
77-Year-Old Man Is Dozing Off in Court & His Supporters Think It's a Masterful Gambit (www.jezebel.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14413039...
Billions more in overseas aid needed to avert climate disaster, say economists | Pressure piles on World Bank and IMF to steer countries to low-carbon transition at spring summit (www.theguardian.com)
Trump rails against wind energy in fundraising pitch to oil executives | At a Mar-a-Lago dinner, Donald Trump doubles down on promises to derail a key form of clean energy (wapo.st)
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation....
GOP Rep. Desperately Begs New York to Acquit Trump in Hush Money Case (newrepublic.com)
Representative Byron Donalds pleaded with potential jurors in Trump’s hush-money trial to vote “not guilty.”...
Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse (wapo.st)
Some Trump supporters who invested in his social media company have seen their share values plunge -— and see it as a test of faith
Vietnam tycoon given death for $12.5bn fraud (www.bangkokpost.com)
Athletes in retirement from Greyhound Rescue of Atlanta (lemmy.world)
Trump assails Jewish voters who back Biden: 'Should have their head examined' (apnews.com)
Shouts of ‘Shame! Shame!’ erupt in Arizona House as fight over abortion ban engulfs lawmakers (apnews.com)
Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel (english.elpais.com)
Trump loses bid to delay hush money trial while he fights gag order (www.cnbc.com)
Capitalism says keep working! (lemmy.world)
Musk Admits He Doesn't Fact-Check Himself and Has Two Burner Accounts on Twitter (www.rollingstone.com)
Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right...
Happy Eclipse Day (nypost.com)
Don’t stare directly at the sun....
RFK Jr.’s New York state director says her ‘No. 1 priority’ is preventing a Biden victory | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. (lebowski.social)
Never forget (lemmy.world)
Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio’s general election ballot, state’s top election official warns (www.nbcnews.com)
RFK Jr. can't win. But he and Cornel West could put Trump back in the White House. (www.usatoday.com)
Trump says going to jail for gag order violation would be a 'great honor,’ compares himself to Mandela (www.cnbc.com)
Jim Jordan Demands Major Ad Companies Explain Why They Won’t Advertise On Truth Social (www.techdirt.com)
Fire at Bernie Sanders' Vermont office investigated as arson (www.nbcnews.com)
A fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office is being investigated as arson, the Burlington Fire Department said Friday.
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...