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Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
What a fucking nightmare
For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
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Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
U.S. Demand Sends Dysprosium & Terbium Prices Parabolic $MP $USAR $UUUU $ALOY $AREC
We’re starting to see what happens when U.S. buyers are forced to compete for a very limited pool of non-Chinese heavy rare earth supply.
Ahead of the January 1st 2027 Pentagon sourcing restrictions, U.S. defense supply chains are preparing for rules that restrict the procurement of NdFeB and samarium-cobalt magnets containing certain materials mined, refined, separated, melted, or produced in China.
The result? Dysprosium and terbium prices outside China are surging…
According to Fastmarkets:
Terbium oxide: jumped 41% in one week, from $4,200–$5,000/kg to $5,000–$8,000/kg.
Dysprosium oxide: climbed from $1,910–$2,500/kg to $2,500–$3,500/kg in just one week.
Market participants say U.S. consumers are willing to pay significantly more than European buyers to secure material.
This is exactly why simply having a rare earth deposit isn’t enough.
The bottleneck is the ability to separate, refine and produce specification-grade material outside China.
Magnet manufacturers are reducing the amount of Dy and Tb required per magnet, but they haven’t eliminated them. These heavy rare earths remain critical for high-performance NdFeB magnets where resistance to demagnetization at elevated temperatures matters, especially for military applications.
Secure ex-China supply is beginning to command a serious premium… and January 1, 2027 hasn’t even arrived yet.
Source: fastmarkets.com/insights/us-…
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Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
Imagine if Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna ran for potus together on an independent ticket in 28. One person from the left and one from the right coming together, dropping all the culture war nonsense, and just doing a campaign entirely focused on the stuff everyone agrees on like being anti war, anti Israel, anti corruption, etc. Could really cut through the polarization and unite everyone. Was a beautiful moment watching them come together on the epstien stuff, there is hunger for more of that. A non partisan anti establishment populist ticket would be a banger.
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
It simply won't stop.
It is Sunday night and the US 10Y Note Yield just casually hit 4.63%, the highest since February 2025.
We are now ~4 basis points ABOVE the high that prompted President Trump's "90-day tariff pause" in April 2025.
This puts the 10Y Note Yield up +70 basis points since the Iran War, with US mortgage rates now nearing 7.00%+.
And, in a sudden turn of events, the odds of rate cuts have collapsed to 2% this year and US inflation is nearing 4%+.
The US bond market is collapsing in real-time.
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
I wonder if he regrets this comment now. xitter.cf/JayinKyiv/status/20378…
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
Genesis AI has stepped into the spotlight
The company is a SF Bay Area-based full-stack embodied AI startup.
The Stack
- Foundation model
- 20 DoF dexterous hand
- Tactile-sensing data-collection glove + Data engine
- Custom motor controllers
- In-house high-fidelity simulator
The Thesis: Manipulation is a system problem, not just an AI problem. The company’s first general-purpose robot is teased as the “ultimate culmination” of the stack.
Founders
Zhou Xian (CEO) and Théophile Gervet (President), formerly of Mistral, NVIDIA, Google, CMU, MIT, and Stanford.
$105 million raised in July 2025. Dual headquarters in San Carlos, CA and Paris.
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
Being a “Strong Democrat” or a “Strong Republican” in the last 10 years should in itself be considered a mental illness 🤣
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
“There is no longer a safe place in Lebanon.”
From Beirut, @UNICEFLebanon's Christophe Boulierac shares how the lives of children and families were shattered in mere minutes on 8 April 2026.
A wave of bombardments tore through communities, reportedly killing 33 children and injuring 153.
Watch and share to join us in calling for the protection of children and civilians in Lebanon.
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war-crime murder over the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012 reut.rs/4sZShn0
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
Ron DeSantis: If a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. If you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault.
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
.@ivehaditpodcast - 10/27/2025 - scolding the Democratic establishment for not supporting the @ZohranKMamdani / @AOC / @Bernie Rally
"The Democratic establishment is MAGA lite...they're pussies that's beholden to the same corporations that helped Donald Trump get elected"
Don Badinga🌹 retweeted
I am putting out an AI clone of myself to have unlimited conversations with everyone who cares to. I'm also doing it because building and having this AI clone and pushing the limits of what it can do is both exciting and practical for me.
If you want to try this V1 of my AI clone or want to know my thinking about AI clones in general, read on.
xitter.cf/RayDalio/status/198032…
