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JT Cool

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Retired. Commentary. Humor. Photography. Dogs. Vegan. Walker. Traveler. Friend. Activist. Florida. Oregon.

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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Danger level heat
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
More than an hour before sunrise and the heat index in Central Florida is 87° On our way to projected heat index of 110° this afternoon
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Florida’s in a summer COVID wave driven by the highly contagious Nimbus variant. (per CDC) ER visits for COVID and respiratory illness are rising in the Orlando area, though hospitalizations remain low. A main symptom of this COVID wave is very sore throat.
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BonFire @bonfire25.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
HOT DAMN DENMARK-THIS IS THE WAY! #EconSky
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
TSLA + 4.7% on AI, Robotaxi Push TSLA hits $309+ on robotaxi expansion in Austin, San Francisco xAI’s Grok 4 integrated into vehicle next month Analyst ups target to $404 China sales ease Q2 delivery dip (-14%) 👉 if your vehicle is your AI assistant, what is your phone? #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Prime Week Mixed Day 3 intraday: KSS +4%, BBY +2.6%, BABA +2.5% AMZN, COST, TJX flat/slightly down Shoppers buying budget items (~$25.23 avg, ‑11% YoY), spending $126.26/household days 1–2 👉 AMZN fizzle, rivals sizzle #stocks #retail
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
CNBC story www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/p...
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
MP +43% on Pentagon Purchase Patriot missile crisis averted? DoD buys 15% of a mine: -No water for processing -Radioactive wastewater ponds -No expertise in terbium separation -America’s last lab exploded in 2019 👉 Ready by 2027! (trust us bro) #stocks #rareearth #REE
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Les Anglophones dominent l’etape 6 du Tour Victoire ecrasante de Ben Healy, suivi de Quinn Simmons et Michael Storer Les six premiers sont tous anglophones, peut-etre une premiere dans l’histoire du Tour ! 1. Healy 🇮🇪 2. Simmons 🇺🇸 3. Storer 🇦🇺 4. Dunbar 🇮🇪 5. Yates 🇬🇧 6. Barta 🇺🇸 #TDF2025 #Cyclisme
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So 10 companies eat 40% of the pie, 490 fight for crumbs 👉 concentration risk got renamed efficient markets #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
BTC Soars to Record High Bitcoin hit $112,152 (up 15% YTD) Companies hold 847k BTC in Q2, chasing higher yields over low-return treasuries Top holders: Strategy (597k), MARA (47.5k), Tesla (11.5k) 👉 Corporates bet big on BTC #Stocks #BTC #crypto
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Singapore Stocks Hit Record High, Vietnam Seals Trade Deal Singapore’s STI marks 4th straight record day, +0.3% Banking (half the index) gains on safe haven inflows. REITs strong Vietnam signs US deal, cuts export tariff to 20% from 46% VN-Index +0.3% post JPMorgan upgrade #Asia #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Airlines Soar in Premarket DAL +10%, AAL +7%, UAL +5%, JBLU +3% Delta Q2 beat ($1.99 EPS) + strong 2025 outlook lifts sector Premium seat sales strong despite soft demand & tariff concerns 👉 Temporary tailwind? #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Prime Week Sales Soar, Amazon Stumbles US day 1 online sales across all retailers reached $7.9 Billion, a 9.9% increase YoY Biggest e-commerce day of 2025, and surpassing Black Friday $6.1B But Amazon-only day 1 sales down 41% 👉 Shoppers hunting deals #Stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Premarket: KLG +50% on Italian Buyout Candy maker Ferrero Rocher nearing $3 billion deal to buy US cereal maker behind iconic brands like Froot Loops Nutella buys Kellogg. Mama Mia! 👉 Finally we can admit those cereals really are just candy #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Trade War on Brasil Trump wants to decide who can run Brasil. But his guy is banned until 2030, cuz he started a coup after he lost Trump demands Brazilian courts stop standing up to big tech & their AI-spewn disinfo Brasil leads the BRICS on de-dollarization 👉 US dominance fading, BRICS rising
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Means ICE stays north of Skeeters Last Chance Saloon 👇
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Kévin Vauquelin, le nouveau héros français ! 5ᵉ du contre-la-montre de Caen 3ᵉ au classement général du #TDF2025 Le Normand signe la meilleure performance tricolore depuis Alaphilippe en 2019 ! 💙🤍❤️ Chapeau pour ton chrono monstre contre Pogačar et Evenepoel 📷 Getty #ViveLeVélo #Cyclisme
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Why do folks think buyers weren’t buying?
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Amazon Prime Day Flop? Day 1 sales tanked 41% vs. 2024 (Bloomberg) Day 2 of the four-day summer sale, and the market is mostly up AMZN +1.5% | TGT +0.5% | WMT -0.2% | BBY -0.1% #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
AES +19.7% on Takeover Talk Brookfield and BlackRock circling AES helps power AI data centers for MSFT and AMZN AI boom is chips, server farms, cloud services, clean energy too 👉 power needs are massive #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Consumer sentiment now implies a 1-in-5 chance of a downturn in the next year, so 3x the usual odds 👉 trust the people buying groceries #econsky #recession
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Timeline: Grok blames Musk&Trump for Texas flood deaths (now 119+) Musk tinkers with AI to make Grok less woke Grok immediately goes full Nazi, praises Hitler Linda Yaccarino resigns as Twitter/X CEO 👉 Pattern: Musk breaks systems, someone else pays #AI
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
OpenAI just Absorbed io Products for $6.5B So hardware & UI will save OpenAI from its massive burn rate, and not be a flop like Humane/Rabbit 👉 Ive’s iPhone cred is legit, but AI gadgets again, really? #AI
openai.com
A letter from Sam & Jony
Building a family of AI products for everyone.
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
BREAKING: NVDA Hit Record $4 Trillion Market Cap More than any company making computers, software, phones, cars, food, clothes, or providing energy, banking, homes It’s ~GDP of Germany or Japan Worth more than every nation’s output except China or US 👉 powers 92% of AI cloud #stocks #econsky
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Was Grok Programmed to go Nazi? New code told Musk’s X-affiliated AI chatbot to ignore restrictions & make politically incorrect claims So the Bot identified as MechaHitler & said Musk ‘built me this way’ xAI scrambled to fix it after public outrage 👉 algorithm showed its true face #AI
forbes.com
Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Responds As ‘MechaHitler’
The chatbot referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in a series of social media posts the Anti-Defamation League called “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic.”
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
No uptick in Large Cap Premarket, but risky small caps show some spark: +20% VRNA Merck buyout buzz around $10B deal +37% MBIO FDA orphan drug status for brain cancer therapy +72% PROK Positive Phase 2 results for kidney treatment 👉 biotech is back #Stocks #Biotech #premarket
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
That’s three historic rain & flood events in the past week 👇
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Germany Says Chinese Warship Laser-Attacked its Plane Happened during EU mission in Red Sea, crew aborted & landed Germany summons Chinese ambassador Latest in series of Chinese laser incidents; Beijing operates Djibouti naval base since 2017 👉 Tensions rise in key shipping lanes #shipping #oil
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Michael McKeon @grinch67.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Something that doesn’t seem to be commanding the attention of the American MSM is that both Germany and Italy are having their gold bullion reserves repatriated from storage in Manhattan.
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We’re in a post-truth era 👇
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Trump simultaneously claiming his policies are working perfectly while also screaming at Fed chair to fix everything Low mortgage makes it easier to overpay for houses that were $200k five years ago Problem isn’t cost of borrowing, stuff costs too much relative to what people actually earn #Fed
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
FSLR -6.25% on Solar Struggles GOP bill accelerates clean-energy tax credit phaseout 25-40% duties on 14 countries, targets FirstSolar’s Malaysia/Vietnam factories FSLR-10.4% in 2025; -50% from Sept ‘24 peak of $300 Q2 EPS est.-19% YoY, margin squeeze worsens 👉 solar darkens #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Was it Commerce or Treasury? 2024 tariff collections were $77 Billion right?
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Bank Stocks Dip BAC -2.8%, JPM -3.3%, C -1.5% Kuwait’s $3B exit from BAC Basel III +9% capital hits lending Fed cuts shrink net interest margins (NII) Citi’s $136M fine HSBC downgrade $3T CRE risks 👉 Investors rotate amid sector volatility #Stocks #banking
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The General Fund Over 99% of customs duties (tariffs) are deposited into the US Treasury's General Fund, so it finances US federal operations (defense, infrastructure, etc.) Theres NO earmarking In 2024, $77B was collected
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Breaking: Copper +9% as Trump announces 50% tariff on the metal
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Zelensky’s sanctions hit these 5 Chinese firms allegedly supplying Russia’s Shahed drones: Ningbo BLIN Machinery Suzhou ECOD Precision Shenzhen Royo Tech Shenzhen Jinduobang Tech China Silk Road Int’l Trade Components fueled July 4 Kiev attack 👉 China denies it #Ukraine #Sanctions #drones
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Yep. It’s long been my contention Trump will never give up tariffs that collect this kind of money
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Breaking: Zelensky Sanctions 5 Chinese Firms Says they supplied Shahed drone parts used in Russia’s July 4 Kyiv attack Major share of Russian weapon components linked to China 10-yr asset freezes, trade bans imposed Urges US/EU to match sanctions 👉 China calls claims groundless #Drones
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Was listening to the press conference. Happened rather early. May have been said by Bessent? And $300B expected to be collected by the end of the year. Trump interrupted the person who spoke
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
AMZN -1.5% on Early Prime Day Sales Dip First 4hrs ↓14% YoY Possible reasons: 4-day event dilutes urgency Fewer launch-day deals Macro spend caution #econsky #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Breaking: $100B in tariff income collected this year so far Said at cabinet meeting today at noon #econsky #stocks
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
John Hudson story here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Fake Rubio Contacts World Leaders AI spoofed the US Secretary of State, imitating his voice and messaging style to contact at least five diplomats via Signal The deception began in mid-June. Officials are investigating 👉 rising threat: AI-driven policy manipulation #AI
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Approximate Eternity C ship location in white, with and without traffic
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Houthis Kill 3 Sailors in 48-Hr Red Sea Escalation Eternity C: 2 dead, 2 injured, crew in peril, Houthi used speedboats/drones Magic Seas: Sunk by Yemen (Ends 7-month lull; ceasefire ignored) Traffic ↓50% since 2023 Israel retaliated: Ports + Galaxy Leader struck #Shipping #redsea #oil
lloydslist.com
Three dead and two injured as Houthi attacks continue
The remaining crew on board Eternity C have been unable to abandon ship due to the lifeboats being severely damaged by Houthi rockets
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Before the Bell Europe mixed US stocks futures mixed, S&P and Nasdaq up slightly, DOW down 10Y 4.42% DXY 97.6 Gold 3322 Oil 67 Bitcoin 108k VIX 17 Meanwhile Goldman raises S&P target 11% Trump extends trade deal deadline to August
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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The projections may be true. Boycotts weaker. Many options to choose competitors. More time is helpful. And consumers may shop ahead of tariffs, or may have held out for deals
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