The immigrants defrauded all the autism money. No wonder I'm poor.
There is more than 1 religion that wants your land and DNA.
Infiltration, not invasion.
Honestly, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
'Will Make Deal Unfeasible': Rubio Draws Red Line As Iran Plans Hormuz Toll With Oman
US warns Iran against "normalising" control over the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran explores a permanent toll mechanism with Oman for ships using the key global energy route.
Amid reports that Iran is discussing a permanent toll arrangement with Oman for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Washington will not tolerate any attempt by Tehran to control or monetise access to the strategic waterway, calling such moves a threat to global trade and freedom of navigation.
In an interview with Fox News, Rubio criticised Iran's efforts to regulate vessel movement through the Strait, saying Tehran cannot “normalise” a system where ships require Iranian approval or payments to pass through the route.
“If what they mean by opening the Straits is ‘Yes, the straits are open as long as you coordinate with Iran. Get our permission, or we'll blow you up and pay us.' That's not opening the Strait. That is an international waterway,” Rubio said.
“They cannot normalise, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalise, a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have to pay them to use it,” he added.
The remarks come amid rising maritime tensions in the Gulf after Iran reportedly imposed transit fees on vessels using the Strait of Hormuz, a key energy corridor through which nearly one-fifth of global oil and LNG supplies pass.
According to Iranian state media, proceeds from the new fees have already been transferred to the country's central bank accounts.
Tehran is also said to be in talks with Oman to establish a formal toll mechanism aimed at institutionalising oversight of maritime traffic through the Strait.
Iranian ambassador to France Mohammad Amin-Nejad defended the proposal, telling Bloomberg that countries using the route “must also pay their share” for navigation and security services.
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump stressed the “urgent need” to restore normal shipping activity through the Strait, warning that prolonged disruptions could severely impact global energy markets and the wider economy.
https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/will-make-deal-unfeasible-marco-rubio-red-flags-irans-plan-for-hormuz-toll-with-oman-11529459
Dow adds nearly 300 points Friday for new record close; S&P 500 notches eighth winning week
Stocks rose Friday as Treasury yields eased, resulting in a winning week for Wall Street despite heightened volatility.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
gained 294.04 points, or 0.58%, to end at 50,579.70. The 30-stock index hit an intraday all-time high and posted another record close. The S&P 500
rose 0.37% to settle at 7,473.47. The Nasdaq Composite
climbed 0.19%, ending at 26,343.97.
Although all three indexes closed in the green on Friday, they finished off their highs reached earlier in the session.
“It’s the everything market,” Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, told CNBC. “The market [is] telling you today they’re much more concerned that they’re going to miss some sort of peace in the Middle East than they are about the risks of going home long over the weekend.”
It remains unclear whether the U.S. and Iran are inching toward a deal to end their war. On Friday, a Qatari team flew into Tehran in coordination with the U.S. to help secure an agreement to end the conflict, Reuters reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Oil settled modestly higher Friday, but was off the peaks reached earlier in the week, as traders hoped a resolution to the Iran war could be reached soon. International Brent crude futures
added 0.9% to close at $103.54 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude
inched up about 0.3% to settle at $96.60.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield
shed nearly 3 basis points to around 4.56% as of Friday afternoon. The 30-year bond yield also lost more than 4 basis points to trade around 5.06%.
Bond market volatility had weighed on stocks earlier in the week. The 30-year hit its highest level since 2007 before easing, while the 10-year touched its highest level in over a year, as traders feared a prolonged U.S.-Iran war would keep oil prices elevated and putting upward pressure on inflation.
Separately, Qualcomm
shares ripped almost 12% on Friday, posting a third straight winning session. The stock gained 18.2% on the week.
The S&P 500 advanced 0.9% over the week, marking its eighth straight winning week and its longest weekly win streak since late 2023. The Dow rose 2.1% and posted its third positive week in four. The Nasdaq added 0.5% and notched its seventh weekly advance in the past eight weeks.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Department of State
@StateDept
SECRETARY RUBIO on U.S. TROOP SHIFTS IN EUROPE: There is a growing acknowledgment that something needs to happen.
Even though NATO is an alliance, it’s still a collection of individual countries who all have different politics, budgets, and political considerations.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2057831343929610661
Year by year salary for Congress going back to 1789
https://www.legistorm.com/member_of_congress_salaries.html
Pentagon releases second batch of UFO files.
https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+02
Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We must end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.
https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2057508808067543268
I actually think their salary should go up, at least adjusted to inflation.
The highest-paying jobs in the US, according to federal data
https://thehill.com/business/5890914-highest-paying-jobs-usa-labor-department-statistics/amp/
40,000 citizens evacuated in California over chemical emergency
In what is being called an "unprecedented" situation, tens of thousands of people in Southern California were told to leave their homes Friday, with officials issuing a dire warning that a chemical tank at an aerospace facility is in "crisis" and will either fail or explode.
Firefighters initially responded to a leak at the GKN Aerospace manufacturing company in Garden Grove on Thursday, for vapor releasing from a 34,000-gallon tank containing methyl methacrylate, which is used in plastic manufacturing, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.
On Friday, the situation in the city, about 30 miles south of Los Angeles, had grown more dire, with officials warning that, though there was no active gas leak or plume, the tank was "actively in crisis" and unable to be secured.
"There are literally two options left remaining: one, the tank fails and spills a total of about 6- to 7,000 gallons of very bad chemicals into the parking lot in that area. Or two, the tank goes into a thermal runaway and blows up, affecting the tanks that are around them that have fuel or the chemicals in them as well," Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Craig Covey said in a video update Friday.
He added, "We are setting up these evacuations in preparation for these two options – it fails or it blows up," he said.
Authorities issued evacuation orders for the surrounding area impacting around 40,000 people. Over a dozen schools have temporarily closed, and those adjacent to the evacuation area canceled outdoor activities "out of an abundance of caution," the Garden Grove Unified School District said.
Authorities initially issued an evacuation order on Thursday that was lifted when vapor conditions improved. However, the evacuation orders were reissued and expanded on Friday due to what police called an "unprecedented" event.
As of Friday evening, Covey said crews had been able to lower the temperature of the damaged tank one of three tanks at the facility with a curtain of water being directed at it. That is "buying us time to continue to sort out: How do we fix this?" Covey said in a video update.
In a follow-up video, Covey said the efforts to keep the tank cool were continuing to work, and that crews were working through the night to figure out how to resolve the situation.
"It is not OK with me just to sit back and watch this thing blow up or fail," Covey said. "That is not acceptable to me."
He said another update would be provided Saturday morning.
Officials have said it is unclear when residents will be able to return to their homes.
"This is highly volatile, it's highly toxic, it's highly flammable," Covey said during an earlier press briefing, while urging people to evacuate. "This is not precautionary. This is gonna happen unless some brilliant guy behind me here figures out how we can mitigate this incident. This thing is gonna fail – we don't know when."
Methyl methacrylate is an industrial chemical used in plastics and manufacturing and is primarily a respiratory irritant, authorities said. Around 7,000 gallons are estimated to be left in the tank that's in crisis, Covey said.
Short-term exposure to the chemical can cause skin and eye irritation, as well as breathing problems, according to the EPA.
Orange County Health Officer Regina Chinsio-Kwong said in a video update Friday evening that an explosion could cause the chemical to be released as a vapor, which, if inhaled, could cause "severe respiratory issues." Other symptoms include a sore throat, runny nose, itchy and burning eyes, and potentially nausea and headache, she said.
GKN Aerospace builds engines and landing gear for both commercial and military aircraft. ABC News has reached out for comment.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been briefed on the incident, his office said.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services said it is "closely monitoring the incident in Garden Grove and has deployed personnel to work alongside local partners."
"Please heed all orders from local authorities – evacuation orders have expanded," it said Friday.
https://abcnews.com/amp/US/story?id=133234846
Congress people shouldn't be able to stock trade though. They get way too much classified information for that to be fair.
Latest Starship 12 lifts off.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057952539417461045
Bangladesh wants to sacrifice the albino bull named ‘Donald Trump’
An albino buffalo nicknamed “Donald Trump” because it has flowing golden hair is to be sacrificed in Bangladesh within days.
The 1,500lb bull, with a blond comb-over has become a star and receives a constant stream of curious visitors.
Zia Uddin Mridha, 38, the animal’s owner, said his brother named the buffalo after Mr Trump because of its “extraordinary hair”.
He said people had flocked to his farm in Narayanganj, near Dhaka, throughout May to meet the animal.
One fan, arriving with five friends and relatives, said: “Truly, the features are similar between the buffalo and President Donald Trump. My nephew took a one-hour boat journey to see Donald Trump.”
But the buffalo will be slaughtered, alongside about 12 million livestock, as Bangladesh prepares for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha later this month.
“I am going to miss Donald Trump. But that is the core spirit of Eid al-Adha – making a sacrifice,” said Mr Mridha who has cared for the four-year-old animal for the past year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bangladesh-sacrifice-donald-trump-albino-171521916.html
Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2057969484879528267
The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use otherwise banned substances
https://www.enhanced.com/
Bolt CEO, Ryan Breslow, Says He Fired Entire HR Team for ‘Creating Problems That Didn't Exist’
-Ryan Breslow, the CEO of fintech company Bolt, spoke at a Fortune magazine conference on May 19 about firing his human resources team, alleging they "created problems that didn't exist"
-“We need a group of people who are very oriented around getting things done, and there is just a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot,” Breslow said
-The fintech company had seen its valuation decline dramatically in recent years
The CEO of a fintech company defended the dismissal of its human resources team, claiming those employees were responsible for issues that later went away following their departures.
“We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn't exist,” Ryan Breslow, the head of Bolt, said at Fortune's Workforce Innovation Summit in Atlanta on Tuesday, May 19, the magazine reported. “Those problems disappeared when I let them go.”
Breslow, who co-founded Bolt in 2014, said that the move, which was part of a 30% reduction of its workforce in April, was to help revive his struggling company.
“Going forward, Bolt will be operating as a much leaner organization and leveraging AI at our core,” Breslow told his employees about the job cuts at the time, Payments Dive reported.
Bolt, whose valuation was worth $11 billion in 2022, had seen a dramatic decline in its fortunes, Fortune reported. In 2024, the valuation dropped to about $300 million. That same year, Breslow stepped down as Bolt CEO but then returned in 2025.
“We're back in startup mode again, and those HR professionals have really important insights when you're in a peacetime and when you're at a larger company,” Breslow, 31, stated at Tuesday's summit, according to the magazine.
He also said the company now has a reduced people operations team for training and to function as an employee resource.
“We need a group of people who are very oriented around getting things done, and there is just a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot,” Breslow said at the event.
Instead, the CEO argued that his employees had grown complacent while Bolt was thriving.
“There's a sense of entitlement that had festered across the company, and people who felt empowered, felt entitled— but weren't actually working hard. And this is the number one thing that I had to battle,” he said. “Ultimately, most of those people just had to be let go.”
Breslow added that the change in strategy following his return to the company last year has worked. The company has streamlined itself to about 100 employees, Fortune reported.
“We have a team a quarter of the size, who are much more junior, who work a lot harder, who have better energy,” Breslow said during the appearance. “And our customers are telling us, ‘We haven't had this type of attention in four years.' ”
Founded 12 years ago with a mission to “democratize commerce,” Bolt developed a SuperApp that enables users to send and receive money, earn rewards, and buy and sell cryptocurrency.
PEOPLE contacted Bolt on Wednesday, May 20, but did not receive an immediate comment.
https://people.com/ceo-says-he-fired-entire-hr-team-for-creating-problems-that-didnt-exist-11979483
It would help invite more talent because the private sector wage for the same kind of job requiring those skills pays 20x more.
No Indian Company In World's Top 100 By Market Cap For First Time In Years
Something important has shifted to global market rankings. India, which had three companies sitting inside the world's top 100 by market capitalisation just eighteen months ago, now has none. The selloff in domestic equities has been deep enough and long enough to push every Indian firm out of that bracket entirely.
At the start of 2025, Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank and Tata Consultancy Services were part of that group.
Where India's Biggest Companies Stand Now:
-Reliance Industries: 106th globally, down from 57th at the start of 2025 and 73rd at the start of 2026.
-HDFC Bank: 190th, down from 97th at the start of 2025.
-Bharti Airtel: 202nd, down from 164th at the start of 2026.
-ICICI Bank: 274th, down from 215th at the start of 2026.
-State Bank of India: 276th, down from 231st at the start of 2026.
-Tata Consultancy Services: 314th, down from 84th at the start of 2025 and 171st at the start of 2026.
-Infosys: 590th, down from 198th at the start of 2025 and 330th at the start of 2026.
-ITC: 702nd, down from 296th at the start of 2025 and 466th at the start of 2026.
The steepest fall belongs to the technology sector. Tata Consultancy Services has dropped over 230 places since the start of 2025. Infosys has fallen nearly 400 places over the same period.
India had 15 companies in the global top 500 at the start of 2025. That fell to 13 at the start of 2026 and now sits at nine. The number of Indian companies with a market cap above $100 billion has gone from roughly six at the beginning of this year to three today.
Only Reliance Industries at around $198 billion, HDFC Bank at $124 billion and Bharti Airtel at $113 billion are still above that mark.
The slide started building in mid-2024. Foreign investors began selling systematically into a market that had run hard and was priced for near-perfection. Valuations were stretched, earnings were coming in soft and the rupee was weakening. None of that was fatal on its own. Then the West Asian conflict arrived and crude oil crossed $100 a barrel.
India imports nearly 90% of its crude requirements. Higher oil prices mean wider current account deficits, faster inflation and squeezed corporate margins. Additionally, US bond yields have added another layer of pressure.
Global markets remain largely driven by big technology companies, even as India shows some pullback.
Nvidia sits at the top as the world’s most valuable company, with a market cap of about $5.33 trillion.
Alphabet follows at roughly $4.7 trillion, while Apple stands near $4.3 trillion. Microsoft and Amazon complete the top five in global market value.
https://www.kotakneo.com/news/market-news/india-no-company-world-top-100-market-cap-equity-crash-2026/