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• @Zerohedge 

• Hedge fund gross leverage maxed out at 100th percentile for all time horizons.
• NOW. Iran’s Fars News Agency reports an explosion near Kharg Island, Iran’s key oil export hub in the Persian Gulf.  
• Feds Launch Probe Into California's Elections. 
• Time to change the core AI mnemonic from “1 gig = 50 big” to 75 (AI infrastructure costs rising from $50BN per GW to $75BN).
• Watch: Leftists Are Crying Over Trump's Beautifully Restored Reflecting Pool.  
• "The Intensity Of This Market Remains Striking": Goldman's Pasquariello Reflects On A Rough Week. 
• Trump Says US Weighing Taking Stakes In AI Companies. 
• Second Flesh-Eating Screwworm Case Raises Beef Supply Fears As Goldman Warns Outbreak "Could Be Disruptive". 
• Whatever You Do, Don't Ignore Friday's Selloff. 
• US Intercepted Fresh Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks Overnight As Tehran Blasts 'Ceasefire Violations'. 
• UK Government Plots Digital ID Lockdown On Every Phone In Lockstep With Big Tech. 
• *IRAN ACCUSES US OF CONTINUED VIOLATION OF CEASEFIRE. *KUWAIT ARMY SAYS INTERCEPTED 7 MISSILES ON SATURDAY. 
• Israeli Ambassador To France Accused Of 'Foreign Interference' After Election Remarks. 
• Global Internet Traffic Has Doubled Since 2020. 
• Has Trump Opened Pandora's Box? 
• NASA Ends Mars Mission 6 Months After Losing Communication With Spacecraft. 
• IRAN GUARDS SAY TARGETED US BASES IN GULF: AFP. IRANIAN STATE TV CLAIMS MISSILE STRIKES ON U.S. BASES IN KUWAIT AND BAHRAIN. IRGC CLAIMS IT FIRED ON FOUR TANKERS IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ.  
• US Military Shoots Down Inbound Iranian Attack Drones Over Hormuz, Bombs Coastal Sites.
• The Market Is Starting To Price In Something Most People Still Don't See. 
• Stop Voter Fraud Or "Lose The Republic". 
• Climate Change: No. 1 Problem Of No Nation?
• SECOND US SCREWWORM CASE CONFIRMED IN TEXAS: USDA. 
• "No Longer Tolerate Radical Marxists": Rubio Sanctions Revolutionary Cuban Influence Network Tied To U.S. Left-Wing NGOs.
• "Thank You, Mr. President": Maryland Freedom Caucus Applauds Trump's Coal Power Plant Restart Plan.
• Lebanon's President Blasts Iran, Hezbollah For Using Country As Bargaining Chip.
• Trump Tells "Less Shackled" Pulte To Fire Intelligence Officials As Senate Blocks FISA Extension.
• Consumption, Concentration, Korea, & Copper: Here's The Charts That Goldman Traders Are Watching Into The Weekend. 
• Korea on Monday will be a bundle of joy. (graph)
• *MARVELL TECHNOLOGY AND FLEX SET TO JOIN S&P 500.
• WATCH: Following the lifting of the internet blockade in Iran, new footage from Operation Epic Fury has begun to emerge. In the footage here, internal security and rescue forces can be seen operating near the entrances of a tunnel, which was attacked by US / Israeli forces. The attack was carried out because missile launchers were found sheltering in the tunnels, and the only way to neutralize their activity was to block the entrances. These tunnels are located on the Barouj-Bard-Ramabad highway in western Iran.
• "Massive Fumble": Chicago Bears Leave Blue State Illinois For Indiana After Century Of Football.
• *GOLDMAN CEO ASKS TOP LAWYER TO STAY AT FIRM AFTER EPSTEIN FUROR.
• Historic Win-Streak Ends Abruptly As Strong Jobs Report Sparks Market Stampede.   

• @BarronsOnline

• Had bullish commentary on (TPR) and (OKTA).

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 24409 -0.11%. #DOW 50656 -0.17%. #NASDAQ 28856 +0.24%. #FTSE 10289 -0.12%. #HANGSENG 24399 -0.39%. #EURUSD 11521 -0.02%. #GOLD 4315 -0.35%. #SILVER 6803 +0.18%. #USOIL 9034 +1.56%.
• Crypto update: #Bitcoin 60703.00 -1.57% #Ether 1559.30 -2.81% #Cardano 0.1576 -2.96% #BitcoinCash 215.23 -2.3% #Litecoin 42.03 -3.8% #Stellar 0.2053 +1.99% #Dogecoin 0.0812 -1.58% #Uniswap 2.4311 -1.85% #Chainlink 7.3394 -1.72% #Polkadot 0.9374 -1.69% #Solana 62.0700 -4.02% #Avalanche 6.6600 -3.62%. 

• @TheSCIF

• California steals another election as another mail-in ballot drop dumps 450,000 votes putting Xavier Becerra ahead of Trump endorsed Steve Hilton at 26.7%, calling the race for Becerra. Steve Hilton: 26.6% 1,639,335 votes. Xavier Becerra 26.7% 1,655,927 votes. Of course they keep you occupied and the race tight and then steal it at the end. How did Hilton lose so many votes when he was almost at 28% earlier today? FRAUD. (video)

• @itsharmanjot

• Holy sht.. Hackers are going to love this. Someone open sourced an all-in-one hacking toolkit that bundles every major pentesting tool into a Single CLI menu. You install it once and get instant access to tools across every category from anonymity, info gathering, wireless attacks, password cracking, web scanning, exploit frameworks, payload GENERATION, and more. It's called HackingTool.

• @MarioNawfal

• A highly controversial clause tucked inside the upcoming defense bill is pushing the Pentagon toward a radical transformation. Ret. Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar warns that Section 224 of the NDAA effectively establishes an unprecedented legal merger between the U.S. military and the Israeli IDF. From intelligence fusion to a joint checking account style budget, this legislation mandates that our $2 trillion defense apparatus becomes intrinsically combined with Israel. (video)
• Israel's Ministry of Defense officially announces formal talks with the U.S. to replace the expiring military aid MOU with what it calls "a completely reciprocal partnership." The framework, explicitly described as "reflecting the strategic vision of Israel's Prime Minister," expands joint investment in research, development, and co-production. Netanyahu's letter called this "my plan." Section 224 wrote it into the defense bill. Now the formal negotiations have begun. 

• @CENTCOM

• Moments ago, CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks. American forces remain vigilant and postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense.

• @GenXGirl1994

• Israel & its lobby are attempting a complete takeover of our gov thru a myriad of bills. One bill virtually no one is talking about is @SenTomCotton’s Section 622, of the FY27 Intelligence Authorization Act which locks US into permanent unbreakable intel entanglement with Israel. (video)

• @EthanforMD

• Earlier this week, I talked about how Congress is hiding the U.S.–Israel military relationship in the defense bill. There is a second bill that goes further. It makes it law that a president can't pull intelligence sharing back without clearing a legal hurdle, even if you elect one who wants to. (thread)

• @WallStreetApes

• There needs to be a federal audit into California elections. This is how Democrats steal elections in California. An election worker is seen running through the same huge stack of ballots 3 different times. The same batch is ran, taken out, ran again, and again, and again. Election Fraud Expert and Investigator Joe Hoft even confirmed when this happened in Orange County “The real shocker of this entire episode caught on video is that this all occurred after Orange County received received a bomb threat and before the workers were removed from the ballot counting facility." This happened right before a “bomb threat” was called in. Meaning they were rigging the election, then staged an incident to draw attention away, shift focus and cover it up. Now look at what’s happening in California this election. (video)

• @spaceandtech_

• Figure says it has increased humanoid robot production from one robot per day to one robot per hour in just 120 days. The robots undergo intensive testing, including repeated squats and jogging movements. Figure also demonstrated the robot's ability to climb stairs and navigate complex terrain using vision-based control. (video)

• @DataChaz

• Dario confirmed that Claude is currently designing the next version of itself. To test this, the company asks its new models to optimize the training code for smaller AIs. While Claude Opus 4 achieved a 3x speedup, Mythos Preview hit a staggering 52x. Recursive self-improvement is officially here, today's models are actively building tomorrow's. (video)

• @DerrickEvans4WV

• This is INSANE. AIPAC controls 76% of the members of Congress, regardless of which party they belong to. There’s def a uniparty, but it looks much different than I could have ever imagined. I NEVER looked or paid attention to any of this until they took out Thomas Massie. (video)

• @RealAlexJones

• South Carolina Is Preparing To FIRE Lindsey Graham Next Tuesday, Alex Jones Interviews Mark Lynch Who Is Set To Replace The Disgraced NeoCon Senator! Remember When Lindsey Graham Said You Can Make America Great Again By Telling "Donald Trump To Go To Hell," And That He Would Have Shot J6 Protestors In The Head After Celebrating Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential Election 'Victory?' (video)

• @DropSiteNews

• The House voted today on a new measure to fuse elements of the Israeli and US militaries, particularly on the cyberweapons front. Section 224, as its known, is included in the National Defense Authorization Act. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced an amendment to strip it from the bill. Watch as a stream of Republicans and Democrats stand up in support of the enhanced cooperation. Only Rep. Sarah Jacobs (D-Calif.) joined Khanna, and the measure failed in a voice vote. Watch: (video)

• @LibsofTikTok

• Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop. 0/24,000. A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000. Astronomically small probability of happening. Impossible. California no longer even hides it. Doors need to be kicked in. They aren’t even trying to hide it.

• @NicHulscher

• 10,000% RISE IN ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME DEMANDS IMMEDIATE FBI INVESTIGATION FOR POSSIBLE BIOTERRORISM: 1. Farmers reporting mysterious boxes of ticks and possible aircraft drops. 2. Peer-reviewed paper says it's “morally obligatory” to release GMO ticks that spread Alpha-Gal Syndrome. 3. Bill Gates is spending MILLIONS funding GMO tick technology. 4. Gates also funds lab-grown/fake meat that doesn’t contain alpha-gal. 5. The U.S. Army previously released 270,000+ ticks into the wild for bioweapons research. (video)

• @ZachCostello_

• Marco Rubio is asked here about Jared Kushner and his potential conflicts of interests having become a billionaire this year off of foreign investment from Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. Rubio says Kushner is a private citizen who works for the government for free "out of the goodness of his heart." (video)

• @saso_capital

• What is causing the selloff in the semi space today? Top three catalysts:

• @GeneralMCNews

• BREAKING: Jared Kushner’s $1.4 billion purchase of the abandoned island of Sazan includes 3,500 bunkers and a network of underground tunnels.

• @EricLDaugh

• JUST NOW: New York is set to OUTLAW the term "MOTHER" and "FATHER" on some documentation because it's "outdated" and should be called "gestating parent" instead. Father = "non-gestating person". WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH DEMOCRATS?! (video)

• @w_terrence

• No word from Black Lives Matter or Al Sharpton. Not one demand for answers. Not one national outrage campaign. Not even people saying her name. This is Margaret Swan, a great-grandmother who was stabbed to death 20 times in a random attack in the middle of the day on Atlanta’s public transit. Her murder was the second horrific attack on MARTA in just one week. I want answers from Atlanta. The number of assaults, robberies, and rapes on MARTA trains is more than three times the national average.

• @LightOnLiberty

• California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED! Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore. Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots. California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered. Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election! (video)

• @bennyjohnson

• How did Democrats make election fraud legal in California? We investigated. This is insane. Check this out… Election fraud is institutional and codified into law in California. According to the Secretary of State’s website:

OpenVAERS:  

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,033,460 Reports(+295 from prior report) Through April 24th, 2026.

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X