“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.“

We can’t keep telling kids that every conflict is a life or death situation. Austin Metcalf wasn’t beating up Karmelo Anthony. When leaders justify violence, young people hear permission slips. We need to start teaching accountability, self control, and conflict resolution again. The next generation is watching. 🇺🇸 #explore #fyp

🚨 Dr. Stacey Patton, a professor at Howard University, wrote an article in which she blamed Austin Metcalf – and his family – for Karmelo Anthony's decision to murder him. Titled "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries," the article argues that Jeff Metcalf failed to teach Austin that "black children have boundaries." In other words, Jeff should have taught Austin that black people will try to kill you if you ask them to stop violating social norms. While Patton falls short of outright defending Karmelo's decision, the entire purpose of the piece is to rationalize his behavior. Kind of like "Sure Karmelo shouldn't have stabbed him, but it was Austin's fault at the end of the day." She writes, "We have to talk about Austin's decision to approach and confront." As if Austin didn't have the right to tell someone from another school to leave his school's tent. As if somehow that minor confrontation justifies stabbing him in the heart. It is complete insanity. Patton ties Austin's behavior to "a long cultural tradition of policing black bodies and space." Right. Patton's Substack has nearly 50k followers. He has 300k followers on Facebook. She is an accomplished professor and journalist. The article received thousands of likes. We've all seen the low-class black people causing a scene outside of the courthouse. But it appears that even many educated blacks believe that people of their race have the right to murder anyone who asks them to stop playing music in public, respect physical boundaries, and so on. "Let us do what we want or we'll kill you" appears to be the message being broadcast by a sizable share of the black community. You don't have to be a far-right radical to recognize the many unsettling implications this holds for the future of American race relations.

In case the world made you forget... A $700 car payment is not normal. Eating out five nights a week is not normal. Upgrading your phone every year is not normal. Hiding purchases from your spouse is not normal. Working your entire life just to "enjoy" a 10 year retirement is not normal.

Let me get this straight… Apparently, an ICE agent being struck by a car is not enough to create reasonable fear of serious bodily harm. But Karmelo Anthony being shoved during a confrontation he allegedly escalated, going on to say, “touch me and see what happens,” where he was then pushed, is enough to justify pulling a knife and stabbing someone in the chest? That isn’t a consistent self-defense standard. That’s a tribal and political standard. Either imminent serious bodily harm matters, or it doesn’t. The logic isn’t logic’ing.

What's insane about the Karmelo Anthony case is that a large number of black people seem to think any kind of provocation is reason to murder someone, and that you should be acquitted because you were provoked.

Beautiful Patriot Here! This woman is 🔥! She is so right on everything about the supporters of Karmelo Anthony. When people can only resort to name calling, it’s because they don’t have anything intelligent to say. #karmelo #austinmetcalf #friscotexas

I would fight until my last drop of blood for Kaluđerica

How can these zealots pretend to protect women’s rights if they can’t even define what a woman is?

America doesn’t have a race problem it has a problem race

You 🥷's really irking me about this #KarmeloAnthony situation He deserves to rot. #TeamTrump #MAGA #Trump

During a severe national housing affordability crisis, US banks issued risky loans to foreign buyers moving to America on temporary work visas Then policy shifted and the tech job market turned The end result, detailed in the New York Post:

Crypto targeted by child really apply to certain IPOs and the frothy pay off the equity market. Except, there will be a market, just not for the price you want to sell it at.

Throwback of Jewish Israeli-Canadian Rapper Drake discussing his deep disdain for Black culture amongst his day-one White friends at a Kosher Deli restaurant 👀😳

Here you'll see an H-1B magician

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

🦔SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 a share today. $75 billion raise, $1.75 trillion valuation, largest IPO in history. Goldman Sachs, the lead underwriter, projects SpaceX AI revenue will go from $3.2 billion to $322 billion by 2030. Morningstar says the company is worth $780 billion, less than half that. Fidelity dropped the buy-in from $500,000 to $2,000 and SpaceX reserved 30% for retail. S&P just confirmed it won't fast-track mega-cap IPOs into the index. My Take SpaceX is a real company with a real business. Starlink prints revenue, the launch division has no serious US competitor, and the engineering is world class. None of that is in question. What's in question is whether a $1.75 trillion valuation built on a 100x AI revenue projection from the same bank collecting fees on the deal reflects reality or a sales target. Goldman needs this IPO to be massive because Goldman gets paid when it's massive. So they wrote a forecast where xAI and X, neither of which has proven sustainable economics, somehow produce $322 billion in AI revenue by 2030. Morningstar looked at the same company and came up with half the valuation. Meanwhile Fidelity dropped the minimum to $2,000 and SpaceX carved out 30% for retail, which starts to look a lot like exit liquidity when you consider that the S&P 500 won't fast-track the stock into the index and the institutional demand backstop everyone assumed was coming isn't there. Anthropic just filed its S-1, OpenAI is next, and every AI valuation in the pipeline leans on the same kind of projections Goldman used here. If this one doesn't hold, it pulls the floor out from under all of them. Hedgie🤗

Trapping retail investors. Insane.

NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag. This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook... In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose: Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue. Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs. But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself. Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue. It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion. But it gets MUCH worse: The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene. And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products. Follow the chain: Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe. The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years. Now look at what's happening inside Athene: $74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight. $103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price. These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets. And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage. If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be. Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood. Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product. The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels. And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America. Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal. But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing. I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this. And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers. In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities. In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities. Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.