Mario Nawfal

SCI-FI’S IMPOSSIBLE FUTURES ARE BECOMING TODAY’S REALITY From videophones in The Jetsons to touchscreen tablets in Star Trek, science fiction has an uncanny way of predicting the future. Self-driving cars, once seen only in movies like 'I, Robot,' are already being tested, and wearable devices like Apple Vision Pro bring us closer to augmented realities. Even concepts like space tourism are becoming real with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin. Oh, and of course, Elon will soon get us to Mars. The question is no longer if, but when. The gap between sci-fi dreams and our reality is closing fast—and it’s just the beginning. Source: EarthDay Image Source: Nautilus

🇺🇸 CHAMATH: BIG COMPANIES WILL ALWAYS WIN A CAPITAL WAR "In a capital war, the big companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and brands like Elon, will always be able to attract effectively infinite capital, and their cost of capital goes to 0, which means they'll be able to win this hardware war." Source: @TheAllInPod, @Chamath

🇺🇸 SENATE PASSES FUNDING BILL 85-11, DODGES GOV’T SHUTDOWN The US Senate followed the House in approving a funding bill for federal agencies through mid-March—just half an hour after the midnight deadline expired. In an 85-11 vote, lawmakers avoided sending 800,000 federal workers home without pay. Nothing like cutting it close to keep things exciting on Capitol Hill. Sources: AP, ACYN, AFP

🇺🇸$200K IN CAMPAIGN CASH—STRAIGHT TO THE SANDERS FAMILY NONPROFIT In 2023, the Sanders Institute, co-founded by Bernie Sanders’ wife and stepson, quietly reemerged—and not without controversy. The highlight? A $200,000 transfer from Sanders' campaign funds. Back in 2021, the nonprofit raised $716,000, with 40% spent on salaries, including $152,653 for his stepson. Promised projects fell flat, delivering recycled content and little original work. Transparency? Maybe. But it’s the kind that still raises eyebrows. Source: Fox News

🇺🇸 CHAMATH: ELON DOESN'T WANT OPENAI TO BECOME FOR PROFIT "Elon filing an injunction, which basically says: 'You should not allow this conversion to happen until we sort out all of these details, because if you allowed it to convert and then I win, it'll be very messy to go backwards.' I think that that's a pretty credible legal argument." Source: @Chamath, @TheAllInPod

🇺🇸 SPEAKER JOHNSON NAVIGATES PRESSURE TO PASS CRUCIAL FUNDING BILL With a shutdown hours away, Speaker Mike Johnson managed to pass a bipartisan funding bill after previous failed attempts. Under intense pressure from Trump to include a debt ceiling hike, Johnson worked around the demand, focusing instead on disaster relief and temporary funding through March. The Senate passed it 85-11 just past the deadline. At midnight, the White House announced it had halted shutdown preparations. Source: AP News

🚨 COMING SOON: “GROK ENHANCE” TO LEVEL UP YOUR POSTS Made a typo? Bad grammar? Weak arguments? Don’t worry—“Grok Enhance” is coming soon to clean up your mess and make you look smarter than you actually are. Perfect for when your hot takes are fire, but your spelling? Not so much. Source: 𝕏

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: SENATE GREENLIGHTS PLAN C TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT FUNDED—FINALLY After missing the midnight deadline and sparking a brief government shutdown, the Senate passed a stopgap bill early Saturday to keep federal operations running through March. Yes, it took three tries to get here. The bill includes disaster relief and farming aid but dodges Trump’s push to suspend the debt ceiling—because heaven forbid Congress tackles a big issue head-on. “Plan C” came after a bipartisan plan ignored GOP priorities and a Trump-backed proposal was torpedoed in the House. Looks like Washington chose the path of least resistance, leaving Trump’s call for a long-term fix on hold. I guess Congress is saying "Why solve a problem today when you can kick it down the road until March?" Biden says he’ll sign the bill, sending everyone home for the holidays—because who needs another political meltdown before Christmas? Source: CNN

🚨🇩🇪ALLEGED CHRISTMAS MARKET ATTACK SUSPECT’S 𝕏 ACCOUNT SUSPENDED 𝕏 has cited violations of its rules. Source: 𝕏

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 JUDGE SLAMS ISRAELI SPYWARE FIRM OVER WHATSAPP SPYWARE LAWSUIT A federal judge sanctioned Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for dodging court orders in WhatsApp’s lawsuit over Pegasus, the spyware that allegedly hacked 1,400 phones, including those of journalists and activists. NSO tried blaming Israeli law for refusing to share the full source code, offering access only in Israel. The judge called the excuse “simply impracticable” for a U.S. trial and hit NSO with sanctions, saying it broke U.S. computer fraud laws. Nice try, though. Pegasus lets hackers control your phone’s camera, mic, and location—even through a missed call. NSO insists it only sells to “vetted” governments, but the U.S. blacklisted it in 2021. WhatsApp Spokesperson: “After five years of litigation, we're grateful for today's decision. NSO can no longer avoid accountability for their unlawful attacks on WhatsApp, journalists, human rights activists and civil society." Source: Courthouse News

🇺🇸 NICOLE SHANAHAN: THE U.S. GOVERNMET ISN'T IMPROVING OUR HEALTH "$15,000 per person a year in health care expenses, and yet we're 49th in life expectancy. Doesn't reconcile. Where is that money going?" Source: RSBN, @NicoleShanahan

🚨 EARLY-STAGE CANCER? THERE’S A FINGERPRINT FOR THAT Scientists in Barcelona have found a way to catch cancer early by reading ribosome “fingerprints.” Ribosomes, the cell’s protein factories, carry chemical marks that are like molecular name tags—and cancer cells can’t keep theirs intact. Using nanopore sequencing (think a portable lab in your hand), researchers scanned ribosomal RNA from lung cancer patients and spotted these messed-up marks with near-perfect accuracy. Even stage I cancers couldn’t hide. Talk about getting caught red-handed. Next goal? Turning this into a simple blood test. No cutting, no drama, just science kicking cancer where it hurts. Source: SciTech Daily

🇺🇸 NICOLE SHANAHAN: ELON WANTS US TO BE AN INTERPLANETARY SPECIES "I don't know anyone as obsessed with it as him, but, here's the thing. In order for us to be an interplanetary species, we have to meet our biological needs here on earth first." Source: RSBN, @NicoleShanahan, @ElonMusk

🚨 SCIENTISTS DISCOVER A NEW WEIRD, WIGGLY STATE OF MATTER?! Physicists found “quantum spin liquid” in a material called pyrochlore cerium stannate, where magnetic particles refuse to chill—even at -459.67°F. Using neutron scattering, they spotted “spinons,” particles that split a magnetic charge in half and act like they’re stuck in a never-ending game of quantum tag. These particles even swap light-like waves, defying normal physics in ways that scream, “Science is wild.” This breakthrough not only proves quantum spin liquids exist but might lead to quantum computers—or at least some mind-blowing new physics. Source: SciTech Daily

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 IRANIAN OFFICER CHARGED IN MURDER OF AMERICAN TEACHER Mohammad Reza Nouri, 36, an Iranian officer with the IRGC, allegedly masterminded the murder of Stephen Troell, a Tennessee teacher living in Baghdad. Prosecutors say Nouri spied on Troell’s daily routine, collected details like his address and even his kids’ names, and coordinated a hit squad. The squad ambushed Troell as he drove home with his wife. Nouri fled to Iran after the attack, where he gave the killers a warm welcome and called Troell a spy. Now Nouri’s facing charges for terrorism and murder. If convicted, it’s life in prison—or worse. Source: Department of Justice Media Source: @GLNoronha

🚨🇺🇸 FORMER BANK TELLER BUSTED FOR SWIPING $180K FROM CUSTOMERS Derek Aut, 28, of Saugus, MA, approximately 9 miles northeast of Boston, allegedly decided being a TD Bank teller wasn’t paying enough—so he “borrowed” $180K from two customers. When one noticed the missing cash, prosecutors say Aut panicked and tried covering it up by swiping from another account. Spoiler: It didn’t work. TD Bank fired him in April 2024 and called the cops. If convicted, he’s looking at 30 years in prison and a $1M fine. That’s a lot of overdraft fees. Source: NBC News Boston

ELON: D.O.G.E. WILL BE AN ATTACK ON THE MATRIX “I have discussed with Trump the idea of a government efficiency commission. I would be willing to be part of that commission.  The antibody reaction would be very strong. You're attacking the matrix at that point. The matrix will fight back.” Source: Lex Fridman Podcast, August 2024

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: NY AMAZON STRIKE HITS JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS Amazon workers at Staten Island are saying, “Ho, ho, no,” walking off the job as part of a massive strike hitting multiple facilities. Amazon Workers: "GET UP, GET DOWN, NEW YORK IS A UNION TOWN!" Thousands, including Teamsters union members, are demanding better pay and working conditions, with seven delivery hubs already caught in the chaos. Just what Jeff Bezos needed for Christmas, right? At midnight, even more workers from a unionized warehouse in New York are expected to join in. Guess Amazon’s holiday rush is looking more like a standstill. Source:@rawsalerts Media Source:@ScooterCasterNY

🇺🇸GROK TO REVEAL CONGRESS’S DIRTY SECRETS Lawmakers love cramming unrelated provisions into thousand-page bills, leaving citizens in the dark. Grok is here to blow that wide open. Elon: "Grok will summarize these mammoth laws before they are passed by Congress, so you know what their real purpose is." Maybe now we won’t have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. Source: MSN

🇺🇸NICOLE SHANAHAN: DEMOCRATS KEEP TRYING TO BLACKMAIL US "We see versions of this emotional blackmail all over America today, preying on our emotions and our vulnerabilities. We saw it this past week in Congress when the democrats held up disaster relief for hurricane victims and would only grant it if those funds were wrapped up with further measures for online censorship, bioweapons funding, and liability protections to companies that have hurt us." Source: RSBN, @NicoleShanahan

🚨🇺🇸🇸🇾 U.S. SCRAPS $10M BOUNTY ON HTS LEADER U.S. officials informed Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Syria’s de facto power broker, that the $10 million bounty on his head is now off the table. Guess Jolani’s officially been downgraded from “most wanted” to “not worth it.” The State Department even deleted his wanted poster from its website—because nothing says “you’re free to go” like hitting the delete key. Source: @sentdefender

🇺🇸 FRIEDBERG: THE FOUNDING FATHERS COMMITTED A CRUCIAL MISTAKE "The biggest mistake the founding fathers made was that they didn't create constitutional limits on spending and enrichment. This was because they had these deeply held philosophical beliefs that relied on the house of representatives to provide a check by the people. But in the federalist papers 10 and 51, James Madison emphasized that the structure of government was meant to ensure that both state and federal governments would limit each other's excesses, including their financial ones." Source: @TheAllInPod, @Friedberg

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM ANNOUNCED AS NEXT SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIR U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) announced the Senate Republican Conference committee assignments for the 119th Congress. These assignments have been ratified by the Senate Republican Conference and are expected to be formally approved by the full Senate early next Congress. Sen. Lindsey Graham will lead the Senate Budget Committee, tasked with overseeing the reconciliation process and pushing key legislative priorities. Graham: “I am honored to have been elected Senate Budget Committee Chairman by the Republican conference. The Senate Budget Committee – through the reconciliation process – will aggressively push the most transformational border security bill in American history and revitalize our military. We’re going to give President Trump and his team the resources they need to finish the wall, put technology on the border to obtain operational control, hire more ICE agents to deport gang members and criminals, and create more detention space so we don’t have to release illegal immigrants into the country. We will make the Navy bigger and more lethal. We are going to do all of this in weeks, not months.”

🇺🇸FRIEDBERG: WE'VE LOST SIGHT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S PURPOSE "The objective of the republic was to have the states make local decisions about how to take care of their infrastructure. It wasn't to have the federal government come in and employ people, provide insurance to people, provide energy markets to people, own football stadiums..." Source: @TheAllInPod, @Friedberg

🚨🇩🇪 WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE ALLEGED GERMAN CHRISTMAS MARKET ATTACKER Last night, a person drove through nearly 400 meters of Magdeburg’s Christmas Market, leaving two people dead and several others injured. Here’s everything we’ve learned about the alleged so far. A thread… 🧵

OPENAI o3: IMPRESSIVE CODEFORCES FEAT, WITH A CATCH OpenAI o3 achieved a Codeforces rating of 2727, putting it on par with the 175th best competitive coder worldwide. This is a groundbreaking moment, showcasing the potential of AI to tackle complex programming tasks. However, o3 operates without human constraints like time limits. Its superhuman rating is powered by immense compute resources, allowing it to test and refine solutions in ways humans simply can't. An incredible achievement, but not quite a level playing field—yet. Source: arcprize, @deedydas

🇺🇸 RILEY GAINES: CONSERVATIVES ARE THE MAJORITY NOW "Look at the silly little Trump dance that has become this viral sensation for people from all walks of life. It's a sign of patriotism, and it's proof that cancel culture doesn't hold the grip that it once did. You don't have to be a closeted conservative anymore. You are the majority." Source: RSBN, @Riley_Gaines_

🇺🇸RILEY GAINES: AMERICANS REJECT MEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS "The Wall Street Journal actually said that the whole national debate of allowing men into women's sports was the sleeper issue of the election. I could tell you thousands and thousands of stories from girls just like me. Girls who have lost out on opportunities, girls who have been exploited in locker rooms, girls who have been injured in their sports." Source: RSBN, @Riley_Gaines_

🚨🇾🇪🇮🇱 HOUTHI BALLISTIC MISSILE HITS TEL AVIV?! A missile launched from Yemen reportedly struck a playground between several high-rise apartment buildings in central Tel Aviv, causing minimal damage to nearby buildings and leaving three people with minor injuries. IDF Spokesperson in Arabic, Avichay Adraee: "Following the launch of a missile from Yemen and the activation of alarms in central Israel, unsuccessful interception attempts were made to determine the area of its impact. Details are still under investigation." Sources: Middle East Observer, Israel War Room, Avichay Adraee, @sentdefender

🇺🇸 RILEY GAINES: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT TRUMP "It was the red wave that I personally had expected in 2022, but we did not get. What we saw was a blowout on all accounts. I believe people turned out to the polls to reject absurdity. That is what the Democratic Party has become: entirely and thoroughly absurd." Source: RSBN, @Riley_Gaines_