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Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Striking before-and-after images show extent of California’s snow drought
As California experiences its second-worst snow drought in 50 years,
new images show a stark comparison with last year’s snow levels.
This year, the Sierra snowpack peaked on Feb. 25.
It was only 73% of average, then rapidly dwindled from there.
Then, summerlike heat in March broke monthly records in many areas of the Western United States.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with U…

Striking before-and-after images show extent of California's snow drought
Before and after images of the Sierra Nevada snow show the early decline in California's snowpack. Statewide snowpack levels sit at 20% of their historical average.

Did the U.S. underestimate Iran’s drone threat? : NPR
#Trump #Iran

Was ist denn mit dem los? 🤔
In #Tiefenlauter graben #Biber unter dem Haus einer Eigentümerin und verursachen massive Schäden. Unter dem #Badezimmer entstand eine bis zu 1,5 Meter tiefe Höhle…

Biber gräbt unter Haus: Besitzerin hat Angst vor Einsturz
Seit Monaten sorgen Biber in Tiefenlauter im Landkreis Coburg für erhebliche Probleme. Die Tiere graben sich unter das Haus von Anja Jakob. Die Hausbesitzerin hat hohe Schäden zu beklagen – und fürchtet, dass Biber das Haus zum Einsturz bringen.

I saw the email about @… merging with MLH (never heard of it before today either). The collapse of legacy social media that began in 2022 has to be part of why that happened. I really liked their community behind them before they fell off of the internet.

LIVE: RFK Jr. testifies before House Ways and Means Committee
https://fllics.com/en/video/live-rfk-jr-testifies-before-house-committee/

LIVE: RFK Jr. testifies before House Committee
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to testify on President Donald Trump's budget request before the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. #us #robertfkennedyjr

Megyn Kelly is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the possibility of insider tradiing
Megyn Kelly turned to X to address concerns about insider trading.
Kelly was responding to a CNN panel where Josh Rogin made an alarming statement:
that somebody shorted the oil market by hundreds of millions of dollars, exactly 20 minutes before Donald Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great.

Megyn Kelly makes 4-word plea after suspicious market activity minutes before Trump announcement
Somebody shorted the oil markets before a big Trump announcement with Kelly is calling for an investigation, tagging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on X.

Donald Trump has a strange effect on others.
I’m not the first to note that it seems like half his cabinet and strongest allies were virulently against him before they fell in line behind him.
These kinds of flips have been known to happen in politics before,
but never anything approaching the scale of the Trump phenomenon.
And it doesn’t just happen with officials serving under him and prominent allies in his administration.
The effect extends to people in …

Monkeypaw wishes
People with illicit wishes think Trump will deliver what they want.

Donald Trump does not think strategically.
Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally.
He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later.
He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions.
He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong.
Instead, he acts on whim and …

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

A Bay Area startup that manufactures drones to tackle wildfires has just signed its first customer, the Aspen Fire Protection District.
The company, Seneca, recently announced that its fleet of five drones (dubbed a “strike team”) would be coming to the famed Colorado ski town this summer,
making Aspen the first wildfire agency in America to add these types of aircraft to its arsenal.

Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?
Seneca's drones carry foam, fly at night, and don't need an on-site pilot.