The GameStop Short Squeeze Shows an Ugly Side of the Investing World - WSJ

It is an ironic twist, or a sign of their lack of understanding, that they equate short sellers with the Wall Street establishment.

So true. While some trades may be unseemly, short sellers have a history of exposing corporate fraud before the general public or regulators are aware.

They often make bets based on deep research, sometimes exposing fraud. Recent successes include firms like Nikola Corp. , Wirecard AG and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.

Merriam-Webster Changes Definition Of ‘White Supremacist’ To ‘Anyone Who Wins In The Stock Market When They’re Not Supposed To’ - The Babylon Bee

WallStreetBets has been banned from Reddit and Discord after conspiring to make money on the stock market, even though they are unworthy of such riches.

“Unworthy of such riches.” Great writing!

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple’s Privacy Changes are Self-Serving and Anti-Competitive - MacRumors

Advertisers use the random advertising identifier to serve up personalized ads and to track ad campaigns, but the ad industry expects that many people will opt not to share this information.

Awww, don’t they want to be our friends?

Biden Freezes U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE - WSJ

The review, the officials said, includes the sale of precision-guided munitions to Riyadh as well as top-line F-35 fighters to Abu Dhabi

“Thanks!” - Iran

Twitter Releases New Community-Based Tool To Find Witches - The Babylon Bee

Participants in Witchwatch will receive a form on which they can write down suspected witches, supporting each accusation with evidence of witchcraft, such as unexplained illness or failing crops. If enough different individuals accuse the same person of witchcraft, that person will have a “suspected witch” warning accompanying everything he or she says.

Get off Twitter already!

My wife and I’s first apartment was $425/month.

The same unit, with literally no upgrades made in the past eight years, is now $1,000/month!

Biden to Lift Some Curbs on Abortion Funding, Reopen ACA Enrollment - WSJ

Mr. Biden will sign executive orders directing the reopening of enrollment on the ACA’s federal exchanges and rescinding a Trump administration policy that blocked federal funds to nongovernmental agencies that provide abortion counseling or referrals (emphasis added)

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church #2272:

Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.

In Stunning Reversal Of Previous Administration, New Biden COVID Plan Features Mask Wearing, Vaccinations, And Travel Bans - The Babylon Bee

According to sources, media outlets have already prepared their pieces declaring Joe Biden’s victory over the Coronavirus. They are set to release once the Chinese government gives the green light.

Interesting ideas. Let’s see if they work!

First trip to the zoo in a while.

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Maybe I should give up Internet consumption for Lent. Or life.

Trump creates Florida-based ‘Office of the Former President’ - Washington Examiner

The Office of the Former President “will be responsible for managing President Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities to advance the interests of the United States and to carry on the agenda of the Trump administration through advocacy, organizing, and public activism," the statement said.

Legitimate purpose, awful name. The United States has one President. Office of the Former President or Office of the President Elect waters down the Executive. It’s beneath them.

Trying Mr. Trump, Private Citizen - WSJ

Their goal is to banish Mr. Trump from running for office again. The result may instead be his acquittal and political revival.

Ain’t that the truth.

We’ve said Mr. Trump’s actions—and failure to act to stop the riot as it unfolded—were an impeachable offense and urged him to resign. But now he is out of office and no longer the “imminent threat” that House Democrats said justified their rushed impeachment.

America, It’s Time for ‘Unity’—or Else - WSJ

Then there was defending the larger truth about Mr. Biden’s plan to get 100 million doses into American arms in 100 days—a million a day. An ambitious goal, his team called it. An ambitious goal, the press repeated, helping to lower the expectations bar for the new president. Only in the small print did we learn that in the final week of the Trump administration, doses administered were already up to well over 900,000 a day, on a rapidly rising trajectory. Ambitious indeed.

It’s no longer a surprise that the major media operations have a political agenda that they relentlessly pursue. At this point, it’s only a national tragedy.

Biden Announces Rollback Of All Jobs Created By Trump - The Babylon Bee

Unfortunately, this measure is expected to eliminate most mainstream journalism jobs, since Trump created most of those too.

The finish line from our morning game.

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Celebrity is largely based on occupation. Singers, athletes, actors, journalists, and the like get on their digital soapboxes and tell us how to think, act, and feel. They promulgate their moral code, which changes like the season. They prescribe the perfect politics and ideology for you, while largely ignoring it for themselves.

To base your life and morality based solely on the opinions of people in these professions is as inane as doing so based on the social media accounts of your plumber, chimney sweep, and UPS driver.

Apple’s Jeff Williams and Jay Blahnik Discuss New ‘Time to Walk’ Feature - MacRumors

Apple Watch owners who are Apple Fitness+ subscribers to listen to audio stories from celebrities, musicians, athletes, and other influential people while they walk.

Obsession with celebrity is so dumb.

Day one, fresh start.