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Cleveland, TX
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AMC why we HODL...words of encouragement from the original Ape President John F. Kennedy #AMC #AMCtothemoon youtu.be/g25G1M4EXrQ
Eric Mings retweeted
And she was not woman enough to debate Jenn Mack @IamtheGlitch_TX. She is not woman enough to be governor of Texas.
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Stairs leading to a standing podium... 👀
Someone didn't do their homework.
What an unserious gimmick from @GinaHinojosaTX
Eric Mings retweeted
Nice try Gina.
You’re not very “inclusive” for a Dem. If you really wanted to debate @GovHotWheels_TX you would have a podium at wheel chair height.
This is political theater.
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Gina’s security gets inches from Mack’s face and manhandles her off the stage while activists stay silent. Rules for thee, not for Gina. If Abbott’s security did this the picket lines would be up in minutes. Hypocrisy at its finest.
KEEPING UP WITH THE EMPTY PODIUM
Gina Hinojosa staged her empty podium debate outside the mansion. The second a candidate and mom stood up and said she came to debate both of them, Gina called security.
Classic former school board trustee move.
Candidates don’t get to script the competition out of the room.
@IamtheGlitch_TX good on you for forcing the issue.
@GovHotWheels_TX smart move not co-starring in the production.
Eric Mings retweeted
Inflation update:
1. US CPI Inflation: Up to 3.7%, nearly 2x Fed's target
2. US PPI Inflation: Up to 6.3%, over 3x Fed's target
3. US Core PPI Inflation: Up to 5.0%, 2.5x Fed's target
4. US PCE Inflation: Last at 3.4%, 1.7x Fed's target
5. Brent Crude Oil: Up to $106/bbl, up +73% YTD
6. Fuel Oil Inflation: Up +74% year-over-year
September officially marked the 67th-straight month with CPI inflation above the Fed's 2% target.
The US Dollar has lost nearly one-fourth of its value in 5 years.
The time to take action is now.
More on our view below:
Eric Mings retweeted
Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?
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My world changed forever today.
The woman whose hand I held for more than 28 years is no longer here for me to reach for.
My beautiful Yolanda passed away.
I have written thousands of words in my life, but I do not have words big enough for this.
For more than 28 years, Yolanda and I were almost never apart.
I don’t mean that figuratively.
We had lunch together every day. Dinner together every night. We worked together, traveled together, laughed together, fought battles together, made plans together, grew older together, and went to sleep knowing that whatever tomorrow brought, we would face it side by side.
She was not simply my wife.
She was the rhythm of my life.
My best friend.
My partner.
My conscience.
My sounding board.
My greatest defender.
My favorite person in the world.
There was never really a Tony without Yolanda.
There was just us.
We lived.
God, did we live.
We traveled. We laughed until it hurt. We built memories in ordinary restaurants and extraordinary places. We turned lunches into hours-long conversations and dinners into strategy sessions about life. We experienced victories, disasters, adventures, disappointments, and moments so beautiful I wish I could somehow climb back inside them.
We did not save life for later.
We lived the hell out of it.
And I am eternally grateful that we did.
Then cancer came.
And anyone who followed Yolanda’s journey knows exactly what happened next.
She fought.
She fought through treatments, surgeries, hospitals, pain, setbacks, and moments that would have crushed most human beings.
Again and again, her body would be knocked down.
Again and again, Yolanda got back up.
She fought like a champion.
And somehow, through all of it, she remained Yolanda.
Stubborn.
Funny.
Strong.
Beautiful.
Defiant.
A badass.
Right to the very end.
Cancer may have finally taken her body from us.
But it never defeated the woman.
It never touched the love between us.
And it will never get the final word on who Yolanda Seruga was.
Her LIFE gets that word.
Her courage gets that word.
Her family gets that word.
The thousands of people she touched get that word.
And our love gets that word.
To all of you who followed this journey, prayed for her, shared our updates, sent messages, contributed financially, checked on us, and carried us through days when I did not know how much more either of us could endure:
Thank you.
Please understand something very important.
Yolanda knew.
She knew you were there.
She knew people she had never met were praying for her.
She knew thousands of strangers had somehow become friends standing beside her in this fight.
Your kindness mattered.
Your prayers mattered.
Your generosity mattered.
You gave us something priceless during some of the darkest days of our lives:
You reminded Yolanda that she was not fighting alone.
And neither was I.
I held her hand through this battle just as I had held it through our life together.
Now I am sitting here trying to understand something my heart simply refuses to understand:
For the first time in more than 28 years, my partner is not beside me.
No lunch together today.
No dinner together tonight.
No familiar voice from the other room.
No hand reaching for mine.
There is an emptiness where an entire human being—my entire world—used to be.
But if there is one thing Yolanda taught me, it is this:
Love does not disappear simply because someone dies.
Twenty-eight years does not vanish.
A lifetime of mornings, meals, laughter, arguments, adventures, whispered conversations, inside jokes, and holding hands does not suddenly become nothing.
She is stitched into me.
She helped make me who I am.
And whatever days I have left on this earth, part of Yolanda will be walking through them with me.
I would choose her again.
Every time.
Every life.
Knowing how this story ends, I would still walk straight toward her.
Because 28+ years with Yolanda were worth the unbearable price of missing her now.
For those asking how to help, the kindest thing you can do is remember her, say a prayer, and hold the people you love a little tighter.
And because this fight left thousands of dollars in medical, caregiving, and related bills still outstanding, anyone who feels moved to help me close out those final expenses in Yolanda’s memory can do so here:
givesendgo.com/yolandas
Please never feel obligated. The love, prayers, and support you already gave her meant more than I can possibly say.
Thank you for loving my wife.
Thank you for fighting alongside us.
Thank you for praying for my girl.
She fought like a champ.
She lived like a champ.
She loved fiercely.
And right to the very end, Yolanda Seruga remained exactly what she had always been:
One hell of a badass.
I love you with every piece of my heart, baby.
I loved you yesterday.
I love you today.
I will love you for the rest of my life.
And someday, wherever this road leads…
I will find your hand again.
Until then, my love. ❤️
Eric Mings retweeted
It seems most people don't understand how severe the energy situation is right now in the Middle East.
As of Friday, Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has officially been shut down after recent attacks, putting -4 million barrels of daily oil exports at risk.
Meanwhile, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is now at risk of being shut down, threatening up to -9 million barrels of daily oil supply.
All while the Strait of Hormuz is operating at ~20% of its pre-Iran War capacity, removing -15 million barrels of daily oil flows.
Combined, this represents nearly ~30 MILLION barrels per day of oil flows that are either offline or at risk.
Even after accounting for some overlap between these routes, the scale of the potential disruption is enormous relative to the ~100 million barrel per day global oil market.
This is one of the most severe energy supply situations in modern history.
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What is happening with the US job market?
US job openings for June were revised down by -177,000 vacancies, their largest monthly downward revision since November 2025.
This also marks the 3rd consecutive monthly downward revision.
Furthermore, the number of hires for June was revised down by -16,000, while the number of quits was revised lower by -19,000.
At the same time, the number of layoffs and discharges was revised up by +19,000.
As a result, job openings have now been revised down in 38 of the last 43 months.
US labor market data is becoming increasingly difficult to read with confidence.
Eric Mings retweeted
Take a deep breath
A job report that only a socialist on Wall St can cheer for.
78% of job growth: government, education & health and leisure & hospitality.
Have a nice day.
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70% of the jobs supposedly created in August were in food and beverage service, education, and healthcare, with better than one third of total jobs for the month going to waiters and bartenders. I wonder what percent have college degrees and how much they owe in student loans.
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What Doesn’t Make Sense To Me In Today’s Jobs Report
Before treating +162,000 as evidence that the economy suddenly reaccelerated these are the contradictions I would want explained.
1. If private employment genuinely surged +127,000, why did the unadjusted private payroll count actually fall 173,000? Seasonal adjustment is supposed to remove normal August weakness, but that means roughly a 300,000 job transformation occurred between the raw and adjusted series. How confident are we that 2026 still follows the historical seasonal pattern?
2. Why did private services fall 206,000 in the raw data yet become +86,000 after adjustment? That is a roughly 292,000 job swing produced by the seasonal baseline.
3. How did restaurants supposedly add 59,200 jobs when their actual payroll count fell by about 700? What changed in restaurant employment itself rather than relative to what the seasonal model expected?
4. Why call local government education +41,900 new growth when it fell roughly 57,500 in July? July and August combined still leave education employment down about 15,600.
5. If food services, local education and health care and social assistance supplied roughly 130,000 of the 162,000 jobs, doesn’t that leave only about 33,000 across virtually everything else?
6. Private services added 86,000, yet leisure and hospitality plus private education and health alone contributed about 91,000. Doesn’t that mean the rest of the enormous private-service economy collectively contracted?
7. If service sector employers were suddenly hiring aggressively, why was ISM Services Employment still contracting at 47.8 while Business Activity was 61.7 and New Orders 60.9? Isn’t that closer to companies producing more without expanding payrolls?
8. Why are people equating net payroll growth with a hiring boom at all? NFP measures jobs added minus jobs lost. A low hire, low fire economy can generate positive payroll growth simply because separations fall faster than hiring.
9. If manufacturing added 16,000 jobs, why did production and nonsupervisory manufacturing employment fall about 7,000? The workers closest to actual production moved opposite the headline manufacturing number.
10. Why did aggregate hours for all private workers rise 0.3% while aggregate hours for production and nonsupervisory workers, roughly four fifths of private employment, rose only 0.1%? Where exactly was the labor demand acceleration concentrated?
11. Why use the household survey’s +569,000 employment surge as confirmation when BLS itself says an approximately 650,000 monthly change is required for statistical significance at its usual confidence level?
12. More importantly, if household employment jumped 569,000, why was employment among prime age workers 25 to 54 essentially unchanged? Where did this supposed employment boom actually occur?
13. How can the labor market be described as surging when participation remains 61.6% versus 62.3% a year ago and the employment population ratio remains 59.1% versus 59.6%?
14. Why did long term unemployment jump 159,000 and average unemployment duration rise to 26.3 weeks during the same month supposedly demonstrating renewed labor market strength?
15. And how much conviction should anyone attach to exactly +162,000 when BLS places the 90% confidence interval at roughly ±122,000? The statistically plausible range is approximately +40,000 to +284,000 before two monthly revisions and the eventual administrative benchmark even arrive.
The headline may ultimately prove correct. What does not make sense is treating one unusually concentrated, heavily seasonally adjusted preliminary estimate as definitive proof that the underlying labor market suddenly shifted from late cycle stagnation into an economic boom.
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'Rich Dad Poor Dad' self-help author Robert Kiyosaki is $1.2 billion in debt, per NYP
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Kiyosaki does not hold $1.2 billion of debt. The debt is held collectively by a real estate investment partnership of which he is one member. Real estate investment groups routinely carry debt.
vanityfair.com/story/the-wild…
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JUST IN: 🇮🇹 Gyrocopter crashes after getting caught in a cable line near a dam in northern Italy
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What Actually Triggered the Nepal–Tibet Border Flash Flood?
A massive ice and rock avalanche from a glacier triggered a chain reaction near the Nepal–China border. The avalanche and debris blocked the river, forming a temporary barrier lake. When the blockage gave way, a powerful surge of water, mud and debris rushed downstream, causing devastating flash floods across Gyirong in Tibet and Nepal’s Rasuwa district.
GLACIAL COLLAPSE → DEBRIS BLOCKAGE → TEMPORARY BARRIER LAKE → BREACH → DEVASTATING FLASH FLOOD 🌊🏔️
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This is seriously scary. CCTV footage from Gyirong Port in Tibet, China, directly opposite Nepal’s Rasuwa district. This flash flood hit here first and later caused massive havoc in Nepal. Can’t even imagine someone surviving this. Prayers for everyone affected. 🙏
