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Yeah pic.twitter.com/uS5LPqE7VW — Mr. IronMan (@TheMrIronMan) October 5, 2026 China reveals 670 banking entities disappeared in one year https://www.ft.com/content/8a8f5c97-f1d3-4d3d-a3bc-d5a2e5539177 China closed more than 670 banking entities in 2025, the highest annual total on record. Fitch’s analysis of regulatory data found China’s bank count had fallen to 3,139, down 23% from 2021. Financial Times Most were … Read more

Tawanda Hall missed $900 on her property taxes. The county took her $308,000 home and SOLD IT. Then took the entire $286,000 in profit. She never expected this could happen over $900. But the government took everything she owed, then everything she had. “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.” John Stossel also … Read more

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what … Read more

pic.twitter.com/ndVEADjoM7 — • forallbirdsongs • (@forallbirdsongs) October 5, 2026

If Republicans win the midterms they will continue toIncrease debt Protect pedophilesBow to IsraelNot mass deport anyone (only million deportations after work years. Thats 10% of what Biden let in)Not secure electionsContinue to be the least productive congress in history — Anonymouse (@MikeHubbs9) October 5, 2026 How Democrats get a single vote is beyond me. … Read more

Baltimore County is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs and support over 11,000 indirect jobs (totaling over 14,000 jobs). Why isn’t @GovWesMoore in Sparrows Point today in Baltimore meeting with Trump & Anduril to celebrate the technology firm Anduril’s multi-billion-dollar investment plan to redevelop the former Bethlehem Steel site into a massive shipyard for Virginia-class … Read more

CBS COUNTED every ICE DEATH under Trump. Then couldn’t NAME Biden’s number. Bo, I PULLED the TAPE. Border czar Tom Homan, CBS News exclusive. CBS: “57 people have DIED in the agency’s CUSTODY so far under this administration.” Homan: “How many PEOPLE have DIED in custody during the Biden administration? Do you know?” CBS: “I … Read more

India is the hardest one to pin down. Two surveys disagree, so I show a range. Depending on which one you trust, the top 10% account for 25% to 31% of household spending, up 3 to 7 points since 1990. Either way, a top-10% adult spends more than three times what a bottom-80% adult… pic.twitter.com/AhwVQG3ZHo … Read more

With Election Day less than a month away, President Donald Trump is touting two federal cash payment programs already underway while renewing a much larger $5,000 check promise contingent on Republicans retaining Congress. On Friday, Trump announced one-time $90 payments to 20.8 million Medicare beneficiaries. A day later, he revived an earlier promise to give … Read more

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay … let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." pic.twitter.com/iIelj5sPUt — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 5, 2026

OpenAI is discussing a financing round of at least $30 billion with investors including BlackRock and several United Arab Emirates investment funds, potentially lifting the ChatGPT developer’s valuation to about $1.4 trillion, according to Bloomberg. The UAE investors, including Abu Dhabi-based MGX, are considering forming a syndicate that could contribute up to $10 billion, Bloomberg … Read more

Bolsonaro gets endorsements from two former rivals before runoff https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-wins-endorsements-rightwing-rivals-brazil-election-runoff-2026-10-05/ Flávio Bolsonaro picked up endorsements from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, who together received about 2.45% of the first-round vote. That gives him an immediate bloc of additional political support heading into October 25. Brazil’s stock market jumps 7.7% to record high after Bolsonaro leads … Read more

The bond market blinked. Tech did not. The S&P 500 hit a record Tuesday, up about 0.6% in early trade. Fourth straight up day. The Nasdaq also opened at a record, up about 0.7%. Monday’s close was S&P 7,773.95, Nasdaq 27,477.31, Dow 51,267.90. The 10 year yield fell to about 5.26%. The 30 year touched … Read more

In Canada, with its single payer system, anyone who needs quick treatment and has money goes to the US. El-Sayed is lying about the time and the figures, but as he lies about pretty much everything, that's no surprise. pic.twitter.com/cisRWSimrS — Richard Klagsbrun (@ThisStrangePara) October 6, 2026 False, I made an appointment last week to … Read more

Michael Rosenfeld, a sociologist at Stanford University, found that women initiated 69% of all divorces, compared to 31% for men, using data from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey. Among college-educated women, that figure climbs to about 90%. At the same time, researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics estimate that 78% … Read more