Jacob Weindling

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Editor at Large @splinternews.bsky.social Rabid Colorado sports partisan. Mildly rabid lefty partisan. Reluctant finance guy. Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later). Signal: JacobWeindling.16 Jacobweindling@proton.me

Daily chart of gold going back to August with a vertical line through the last day of trading before the Iran war on 2/27 showing gold steadily headed down ever since, with the last 4 days having 3 green candles (white in my setup) and just one red candle (blue in my setup) that was mostly flat
screenshot of Tradingview tracker of the 3 month through 30 year U.S. treasury yields all up today, with their current rates ranging from 3.838% to 5.135%
EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to waive prior nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for former government employees and contractors cooperating with unidentified anomalous phenomena investigations, Fox News Digital has learned. "President Trump recently directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to allow former government employees or contractors, that have relevant information about the disclosure of UAP, to come forward to meet with designated government representatives — AARO or the President’s UAP taskforce, ‘PURSUE’ — and have their prior NDAs abrogated," a senior administration official said, with AARO referring to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon office established to investigate UFOs and other unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Another senior administration official emphasized the move was not a "declassification directive" and only allowed employees to come forward through government channels.
Loomer post in full without the last two lines cut off: Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian. I feel like such an asshole for minimizing the struggle of Ukrainians for the last 5 years. I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say. There are people in Ukraine who have to run to a bomb shelter everyday and some of us had the audacity to say Russia wasn’t wrong because we believed the lie that Ukraine is a country full of Nazi sympathizers. We have been so propagandized by Russia and we don’t even realize it. (the OP ends here) Air sirens could very well be the future of America if we don’t start demanding our lawmakers crack down on communism and multipolarity. We won’t have Trump forever and the axis of evil is moving fast.
Sad and happy guy on a bus meme
Only seven per cent of Americans want Canada to become an American state—reaching 10 per cent in the South and 10 per cent among African Americans—while 15 per cent would convert Canada into a U.S. territory with similar regulations to the ones currently in place for Puerto Rico. This idea is slightly more popular among residents of the Midwest (19 per cent) and Trump voters in 2024 (22 per cent).
“No Kings” protests, any of three major rallies organized to protest the second term of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump. The first round of protests were held on June 14, 2025, to coincide with Pres. Trump’s birthday and a military parade in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. The second day of “No Kings” protests occurred on October 18, 2025, drawing even larger crowds, and the third day is scheduled for March 28, 2026. The first two demonstrations were some of the largest single-day protests to occur in U.S. history, with more than five million protesters attending in June and almost seven million protesters attending in October.
HR leaders by year showing the record at 12 three years before Ruth went back to back with 54 and 59 HR seasons
Muted by "blue annoyances" icon
A person who spoke with Graham shortly afterward said the senator complained that he was feeling unwell. When the person urged him to seek medical attention immediately, Graham said he would do so Sunday morning after his scheduled appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Graham then joked: "I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization." He passed away several hours later.
Connor McGregor with a missed kick in the air while his plant leg points to his right, definitely the direction it's supposed to face
Dr Phil: You're hearing this from me first. I was granted early access to newly released UAP documents, and one pattern jumps off the page: these objects have been showing up over our nuclear facilities for 77 years. Here's the record: • 1949, Los Alamos: After multiple "green fireball" sightings near nuclear facilities, the military convened a scientific conference to determine if they were meteors. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, the foremost expert, said no. They flew horizontally, silently, at constant velocity. The conference's greatest concern: they appeared most frequently over nuclear sites nationwide. • 2015, Amarillo, Texas: A UAP violated the sealed airspace over Pantex, the heavily guarded plant where America assembles and disassembles nuclear weapons. Seen by multiple personnel.
The Super Bowl is now real, and it took everything they had, plans executed and scrapped -- everything, I note to him after his press conference, except Rutgers Special. "We called it," he says. When? "Fourth-and-11." Wait -- what? Payton called Rutgers Special -- in overtime? On fourth-and-11? "We had the right look." The players vetoed it at the line of scrimmage, maybe saving Denver's season. "I was so pissed," Payton says. "It was perfect." He grabs my notebook and starts drawing up how it looked on the field, which is how he drew it up all week, and although he's certain and clear and resolute, my mind drifts off, stunned and amazed and impressed and mildly terrified at his gall, at his ego, even recklessness. Imagine his offseason if they'd lost in overtime because of a failed fake punt. Just then, Beau Lowery, the team's vice president
A big white Great Pyrenees off leash smiling and standing in a clearing of trees
The CIA Study Group also searched the Soviet press for UFO reports, but found none, causing the group to conclude that the absence of reports had to have been the result of deliberate Soviet Government policy. The group also envisioned the USSR's possible use of UFOs as a psychological warfare tool. In addition, they worried that, if the US air warning system should be deliberately overloaded by UFO sightings, the Soviets might gain a surprise advantage in any nuclear attack. (21) Because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet capabilities, the CIA Study Group saw serious national security concerns in the flying saucer situation. The group believed that the Soviets could use UFO reports to touch off mass hysteria and panic in the United States. The group also believed that the Soviets might use UFO sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from phantom UFOs. H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, added that he considered the problem of such importance "that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council, in order that a communitywide coordinated effort towards it solution may be initiated." (22) Chadwell briefed DCI Smith on the subject of UFOs in December 1952. He urged action because he was convinced that "something was going on that must have immediate attention" and that "sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles." He drafted a memorandum from the DCI to the National Security Council (NSC) and a proposed NSC Directive establishing the investigation of UFOs as a priority project throughout the intelligence and the defense research and development community. (23) Chadwell also urged Smith to establish an external research project of top-level scientists to study the problem…
Trump looming behind home plate as Carlos Beltran takes strike 3 to end the 2006 NLCS
Julie Gonzales with 47.1% of the vote vs 52.9% for Hickenlooper
“I have long believed that if there was an outlier team for LeBron…it was Denver.” 👀 - @WindhorstESPN (h/t @DNVR_Nuggets )
A cute lil shepherd mix pup sitting and being bribed with a treat behind the camera
Kiros extends her lead, 53k to 48k
Bernie with 25% of the 2020 NH primary vote, Pete with 24.28%, Klobuchar with 19.68%, Warren with 9.19%, Biden with 8.36%, Steyer with 3.6/, Tulsi with 3.27%, Yang with 2.79=, Bloomberg as a write in 1.57%, Deval Patrick 0.43% and Bennet in dead fuckin last with 952 sicko New Hampshire voters who listen to Matt Yglesias
Jeff Crank running unopposed for his CO-5 GOP primary
Manny Rutinel with 60.62% of the vote, Shannon Bird at 34.59%
Melat Kiros with 46,013 votes to Diana DeGette's 43,743 votes. NBC says this is 65% of the vote
In the horse race, Collins’ edge primarily comes from men (+10 points), voters without a college degree (+15), gunowner households (+21), and rural voters (+8). For the most part, she is matching her performance among these groups compared to her most recent re-election, according to the 2020 Maine Fox News Voter Analysis election survey. Platner is preferred among women (+5 points), voters with a college degree (+15), and suburban voters and moderates (+10 each). He is underperforming former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 support among those groups. The 2024 Maine FNVA finds she won women by 10 points, voters with a degree by 42, suburban voters by 27, and moderates by 24.
Brody yawning in the car with his long tongue sticking out
The Federal Government shall exercise eminent domain over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good
Way up, peak, come straight down crashing to earth
Political ideology results 84% woke, 16% chud 55% tech bro, 45% neo-luddite 36% hope pulled, 64% door. Er 78% davos, 22% Dubai
“The more these things happen, the more likely it is that people think, ‘Hey, this is a pattern, maybe I shouldn’t expect inflation to come back down,’” said Jón Steinsson, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Photo from only real elevated tee shot on this "mountain" course, with the green down below with a stream to the left and mountains off in the distance as pine trees bracket the course
Chotiner: it's hard to fathom Israeli anchor: I don't have a lot of moments like this. I don't remember someone in modern history who would go with you and do wonderful things, and then suddenly disappear and go against you. So now I am the bad guy? I supported you! I was the good guy! How did I become the bad guy and the Ayatollah is the good guy? Chotiner: This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump.
(chuckles) I'm in danger.
May 22 2026 headline: Kevin Warsh sworn in as Fed chair as Trump seeks interest rate cuts
Brody lying up against the tub with his whole body flat on the ground and his head propped up against the tub
SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon to become world's fifth-most valuable company Elon Musk's AI, rocket and satellite group also announces $60bn deal for AI coding app Cursor
FT poll of economists in March and June about whether they expect the Fed to cut, not change or raise interest rates. Most expected cuts in March and very little expected increases, and that has flipped in June to most expecting increases and few people expecting cuts. No change has seen a slight uptick
Shipowners will not resume transit through the Strait of Hormuz for weeks until they are confident that the US-Iran deal is “material”, the head of the world’s biggest tanker operator has warned. Jotaro Tamura, chief executive of Mitsui OSK Lines, told the FT that many operators would wait before restarting crossings despite the US-Iran deal to reopen the strait.
Box score for a very normal 23-9 baseball game where the Rockies are on the plus side of that calamity over the A's
My Knicks JR Smith jersey
Just the most adorable German shepherd mix 5 and a half month old pup looking up at the camera and definitely not the treat behind the camera
Price (30 days) favorite icon 1 NVIDIA logo NVIDIA NVDA $4.960 T $204.80 0.03% USA favorite icon 2 Alphabet (Google) logo Alphabet (Google) GOOG $4.385 T $359.66 0.87% USA favorite icon 3 Apple logo Apple AAPL $4.277 T $291.22 1.49% USA favorite icon 4 Microsoft logo Microsoft MSFT $2.877 T $387.37 0.76% USA favorite icon 5 Amazon logo Amazon AMZN $2.545 T $236.62 2.02% USA favorite icon 16 SpaceX logo SpaceX SPCX $2.220 T $169.82 25.79% USA favorite icon 17 Broadcom logo Broadcom AVGO $1.810 T $380.61 1.29% USA favorite icon 8 Tesla logo Tesla TSLA $1.503 T $400.30 0.29% USA favorite icon 29 Meta Platforms (Facebook) logo Meta Platforms (Facebook) META $1.437 T $566.34 0.37% USA favorite icon 110 Micron Technology logo Micron Technology MU $1.126 T $999.13 0.33% USA
Coingecko chart of how many coins have died each year since 2021 (13.4 million) Nearly all of them (86%) came in 2025
All time NFT trade volume by chain chart showing a huge spike in 2021-22 and then it basically doesn't exist after that
BTC dominance chart from 2016-now showing 100% BTC dominance before Ethereum in 2017 brought it to around 60%, during the bull run it fell to 37%, then climbed back up towards 60% in the bar market leading up to 2020-21 In 2020-21, same thing, fell down to around 40%, then in the bear, slipped back up towards 50%-60%. But in the 2025 bull run, BTC stayed up at 60% the whole time and spiked higher, showing how this run was different, with people mainly just buying BTC and not buying shitcoins
Monthly median transaction fee per blockchain also showing a down only trend for everything since 2021, save for Solana and Polygon
Blockworks' daily network revenue for each crypto chain showing a huge spike in 2021-2022 and then it just dwindles down lower and lower, with a spike during the 2024 and 2025 bull market, but far lower than the 2021-22 bull run
FT chart of change in total no-farm employment from Jan 2023 to now showing a lot of growth under 100k jobs for most of 2025, even some negative job growth, but the last 3 reports have been strong, all between about 170k and 200k
"call me crazy, but it seems bad that a indie journalist is doing troll posting for engagement and that you think thats a good thing"
Yao Ming laughing
Brody chewing on a bone with one of his ears up and the other flat
Stancil: we don't reflect enough on how the revealed preference of the richest men in history, who can afford any material luxury or human experience, is often "being angry and resentful all the time." Righteous grievance turns out to be the absolute pinnacle of Maslow's pyramid. The ultimate luxury good
Two charts, the one on the left is the stunning one, it shows core goods inflation at 2.8%, but ex. tariff-driven relative price effects it's 0.1%
Chart of transaction account balances by race predictably showing white people at $12k, then other at $6k, then Black and Hispanic people around $2k
Three fingers meme from Inglourious Basterds
"Hamburgers are becoming a luxury item" - is this true? Is that real? Or is that just miasmatic doomerism you made up out of thin air?
Every price we track, compared to 2019 (pre-pandemic). Left: still above 2019. Right: at or below 2019. Still Above 2019 ↑ Inflation 254.41 → 326.59 (2026) +28% CPI Inflation Rate 1.8 → 2.4 (2026) +33% Egg $1.40 → $2.58 (2026) +84% Netflix $12.99 → $19.99 (2026) +54% Disney+ $6.99 → $18.99 (2026) +172% Gas Pump $2.60 → $3.22 (2025) +24% Ground Beef $3.82 → $6.75 (2026) +77% Auto Insurance $1,630 → $2,150 (2025) +32% Used Car $20,200 → $26,300 (2026) +30% Spotify $9.99 → $12.99 (2026) +30% Apple Music $9.99 → $10.99 (2026) +10% Electricity 13 → 19.2 (2026) +48% Water 560.1 → 745.5 (2026) +33% Restaurant $13.30 → $18.10 (2025) +36% Wages $28.00 → $35.80 (2025) +28% Rent $1,340 → $1,895 (2026) +41% Home Price $229,000 → $357,000 (2026) +56% Returned or Below 2019 ↓ Chicken Wing $1.53 → $1.10 (2025) -28%
View of Arrowhead Golf Course from the parking lot with the jagged red rocks shooting up from the ground
5 minute chart of BTC showing insider traders front-running BTC which spiked 1% on the post, then after it just goes sideways, has one move instantly sold off, rolled over, made a new low, and now is kind of grinding upwards. Entire range from top to bottom is just 3.79% in thin trading conditions.
No other low-alcohol macrobrew can fulfill Miller Lite’s role—it is sui generis. Michelob Ultra is for golfers. Corona Light is for vacation. Pabst Blue Ribbon is for ironists. Natty Light is for frat boys and people who use the phrase the war of northern aggression. Bud Light and Busch Light taste like raw dough. Coors Light has those childish mountains that turn blue and also tastes like raw dough. Narragansett Lager, Boston Lager, and Yuengling are good but not available everywhere. Guinness is good on draft but bad in any other format. Labatt Blue Light is Canadian. That leaves Miller Lite: humble, measured, available from sea to shining sea in cans, canisters, and bottles, in kegs and on tap. It is a beer for people who appreciate the sweetness in simplicity. Who need exactly six beers and have between $7 and $11. Whose fathers were, regrettably, right.