@elonmusk Backdoor deals, insider trading, and pay-to-play schemes keep them rich while taxpayers get screwed. Funny how they never get arrested for it… but if we did it? We’d be in jail. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Today, @Ripple announced the acquisition of Hidden Road for $1.25B, one of the largest deals ever in the crypto space. But the price tag isn’t what’s most important – it’s that this deal marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for crypto to access the largest and most trusted traditional markets, and vice versa. Prime brokers (along with other key functions historically managed by banks for the most part) like Hidden Road have proven themselves as *the* trusted intermediary for the largest hedge funds, market makers, OTC desks, quant traders and more. Ripple has been a customer of Hidden Road for years, and we know their breadth of expertise firsthand, clearing $3 TRILLION annually for 300+ of the top financial institutions globally. This is the capital and activity that will tap into XRP and the XRP Ledger’s bread-and-butter – instant, efficient, scalable and low cost movement of value. Instead of waiting for <24 hours to settle trades through fiat rails, Hidden Road will be using XRPL for clearing a portion of trades, and most consequentially, using RLUSD as collateral across its prime brokerage services, including cross-asset (crypto and traditional instrument) trades. With this deal and the backing of Ripple’s significant balance sheet, Hidden Road will exponentially expand its capacity to service its pipeline and become the largest non-bank prime broker globally. Ripple and Hidden Road combined are a generational leap forward, ready to truly bring the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance together. https://t.co/UYOOyQ21dG

Chelsea sources have revealed the club intend to do the majority of their in’s and out’s by the end of June, including a striker and right footed winger. Chelsea have been working on these deals for months. (@SJohnsonSport) #CFC# 🤔

Up to 45% off Haas Tooling AND our Winner’s Circle membership for $10? We can’t believe it either! Don’t miss this. Jump on these epic deals now! 🔗 https://t.co/cL24ZBvsBL #haascnc# #haasautomation# #haastooling# #haas# https://t.co/DUee83Pies

Do you still believe that the #ChristWay# is a matter of #religion#?? Not at all! it #deals# with the #future# of our #vibrational# #plan#. #Open# your ears to the @RitornaCristo music! https://t.co/OEyexdpzhE

FROM PIXELS TO PRIMETIME: GAMING'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION Video games have become the new comic books—once dismissed as juvenile entertainment before evolving into Hollywood's premier content pipeline. Just as Marvel and DC transformed from "funny books" to billion-dollar franchises, gaming has completed a similar cultural journey. The critical acclaim for HBO's "The Last of Us" and Amazon's "Fallout" validate gaming narratives as sophisticated storytelling vehicles, while prestigious studios like A24 pursue Death Stranding adaptations and auteurs like Sam Lake secure creator-driven deals once reserved for elite filmmakers. Unlike early comic adaptations that merely borrowed characters, today's gaming adaptations embrace the medium's unique storytelling techniques—proving video games have evolved from simple distractions to legitimate art commanding Hollywood's respect and resources. Sources: The Hollywood Reporter, Variety @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN

Holy fuck. Vietnam, our best growing trade partner in SEA, who invested in helping us diversify away from Chinese supply chains, offered the US a zero tariff deal. And Trump's team ***REJECTED*** it. Wtf?! How are countries even supposed to respond here. Does the Trump admin even want deals?!

“Everything off the table, if Afghan Taliban do not cooperate on TTP” Pakistan’s special representative on Afghanistan Ambassador Sadiq Khan @AmbassadorSadiq while speaking at a seminar organised by @IPRI_Pak said that TTP is a big challenge for us, it cannot be tolerated, because our young boys are being martyred every day, it has become so common in certain areas. It would be criminal to ignore that. Afghanistan has to work with us on this, if they are not working with us then all deals are off, and there can be no further progress on anything. Pakistan can be very helpful to Afghanistan, if we could stop terrorism coming from the other side of the border. I will be honest and pragmatic about it, we have an issue in Pakistan, that is one part. But people coming from Afghanistan is also an issue that has to be stopped. The solution is not necessarily killing people, the solution is not necessarily arresting people and handing them over to Pakistan. The solution is restraining it, the solution is containing them on which I think no one should have any objection.