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The creep allegedly tried to hand the victim a note that said "you look beautiful when you are sleeping," after he was moved to coach.

Elmer Rodríguez had another memorable moment Saturday, as two of his cousins rode in the Kentucky Derby and finished first and second.

The Cavaliers defeated the Raptors in Game 7 to advance in the playoffs.

At least publicly, Mitchell Robinson isn’t holding a grudge against Joel Embiid.

Blue Cities Across The US Are Spiraling Into Financial Collapse

Many people are familiar with the "blue state exodus" over the past several years, but are they aware of the blue city business exodus? 

It might be one of the biggest economic stories in modern US history, and Democrats are trying to keep it as quiet as possible.  There is a blood letting going on in blue cities; a financial disaster in the making.  And, like most financial disasters, it will probably be ignored until the house of cards comes crashing down completely. 

For this examination let's look at three very different examples, all facing similar crises.  We start in New York City, where taxes have been consistently increased in order to offset the loss of billions in public revenues due to citizens leaving.  NYC has experienced a net loss of around 220,000 residents since 2021, but it's not the number of residents that is most important.  Rather, it is the wealth of those residents that matters.

In the past two years alone, NYC has lost around 6000 businesses to closure or relocation, and the region is suffering from significant wealth decline.  These losses represent tens of billions of dollars in tax revenues, erased from NYC coffers.  And what did New Yorkers do?  They elected Zohran Mamdani, doubling down on the far-left policies that caused the crisis in the first place. 

Today, Mamdani is launching his much hyped "wealth tax" with the intention of funding the many socialist programs he promised to implement during his campaign.  Sadly for the new Mayor, he is only now starting to realize that the more he taxes successful residents the more they will simply leave. 

Companies including Apollo Management, JP Morgan Chase, ARK Investment, Wells Fargo and Citadel are all establishing primary corporate offices in Texas and Florida with rumors swirling that many other corporations are planning to leave NYC entirely.  While Democrats deny this is a threat, the real test will be the wealth tax - Companies have been waiting to see if Mamdani will actually be stupid enough to follow through, and yes, we now know he is.

A microcosm of the blue city taxation problem is readily available in Seattle, where the business exodus is crushing city revenues and expanding the debt crisis. 

Washington State has one of the higher business failure rates nationally. Surveys show rising concern, with 17% of businesses considering leaving the state (up from 9% in 2025) due to taxes, costs, and regulations. Small businesses report worse conditions than during the pandemic peak.   

Seattle is leading the way, with a net loss of 13,000 jobs in 2025 in the downtown area alone.  Multiple corporation have reduced their footprint and moved HQ in recent years, including Amazon and Starbucks.  Coffee giant Starbucks, which got its start in Seattle, is now leaving.  They have recently announced a new corporate office in Nashville, TN and it is likely that they will relocate out of WA in the near future.

 

Voters in Seattle also elected a far-left activist mayor, Katie Wilson, who famously claimed she was going to "Trump-proof" Seattle.  She currently faces a budget crisis with a projected $250 million shortfall and tax revenues in decline.  Wilson (as of early 2026) directed departments to prepare 5% to10% budget cut plans for 2027.  Like Mamdani, she is also calling for her own brand of "wealth tax" as a means to cover deficits; this will only cause more businesses to leave the area.

Finally, we get to the most Democrat of all blue cities, Hollywood.  Tinsel Town is experiencing mass layoffs from Paramount, Warner Bros., Discovery, CNN, Disney, Sony, Bad Robot, etc.  Tens-of-thousands of jobs are on the chopping block going into 2027.  Productions plummeted by 16% in 2025 alone. 

In the case of Hollywood, tax incentives have actually been increased and the film industry is being protected by California, but it does not seem to matter.  The leftist hives in the greater Los Angeles area committed suicide by ideology, refusing to listen to the public and hammering the US with woke propaganda at the behest of Democrats.  

By extension, DEI initiatives have driven out top talent and replaced creative workhorses with mediocre minds in order to increase minority representation.  Hollywood apologists argue that "tech and AI" is the cause of their distress, but just like Seattle and New York, Hollywood's misery is of their own making.  

Recent efforts to save the industry by catering to what audiences actually want might be too little to late.  Insiders are suggesting that people seeking jobs in film and TV will have to search outside Hollywood.  Like most blue towns, the economy is dying.     

Tyler Durden Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:45

It’s a real Montagues and Capulets situation as rumors continue to swirl around Eagles cornerback Cooper DeJean and Cowboys cheerleader Abby Summer.

Kennedy Burke is still adjusting to the slower-paced life of small-town Connecticut after signing with the Sun in the offseason.

Jasson Domínguez provided another glimpse Sunday of what’s tantalized the Yankees since they signed him as an international free agent nearly seven years ago.

Democrats have spent the last 10 years accusing Donald Trump of being the second coming of Hitler and melting down when Elon Musk or anyone else perceived as close to Trump made a hand gesture they pretended was a Nazi salute.

No, that's not Grace Van Patten playing Kitty, but it is her sister, Anna Van Patten.

Mark Vientos doubled to start a rally in the Mets loss Saturday. A day later, he became a one-man rally for the team.

Tesla Made $573 Million Selling To Musk’s Other Companies Last Year

Elon Musk’s business empire is becoming increasingly intertwined — and if SpaceX eventually goes public, Wall Street will likely take a much harder look at how money moves across his companies.

A newly disclosed filing shows Tesla booked more than $570 million last year from transactions with Musk-controlled companies, according to Insider. That included roughly $430 million from selling Megapack battery systems to xAI and another $143 million — primarily vehicle sales — to SpaceX. Some of those purchases included Cybertrucks, which have reportedly become a significant part of SpaceX’s vehicle fleet.

The relationship goes both ways. Insider writes that Tesla also disclosed that it put $2 billion into SpaceX and xAI last year and paid the companies a combined $15 million+ for various commercial and consulting services.

Taken together, the filings offer a clearer picture of how frequently Musk’s companies now rely on one another. xAI has been absorbed into SpaceX, engineers from Tesla have previously worked on projects at X, Grok is being built into Tesla products, and Musk has publicly discussed future collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX on the Roadster.

Tesla also disclosed last week that Elon Musk’s total 2025 compensation was valued at roughly $158 billion, based on the maximum fair value of stock options tied to his newly approved pay package. The figure immediately caught Wall Street’s attention because of its sheer scale...it’s nearly 40 times Tesla’s annual net income and roughly 1.5 times the company’s total revenue for the year.

For investors already uneasy about the growing overlap between Musk’s companies, the compensation number adds another layer of concern around governance and capital allocation. Between massive cross-company transactions, shared talent across SpaceX, xAI, and X, and now an unprecedented pay package, analysts are likely to keep a much closer watch on how Musk’s empire operates — especially if SpaceX eventually becomes a public company too.

Tyler Durden Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:10

Lazare's microchip was linked to the French pedigree dog register, which traced his birth date back to Dec 4, 1995 — making him approximately 31 years and 150 days old.

"The goal is simple. Get him to post a video of you looking hot."

Swanson is beginning a new chapter in her life.

On April 9, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Roman Amatitla would be charged with arson and eight counts of second-degree murder for allegedly setting a fire that killed four in a Flushing apartment building, including a 3-year-old girl.

ST. LOUIS — For the last two weeks, the Dodgers hadn’t felt good. Both at the plate and behind the scenes. Starting with last month’s trip to Denver, the club’s lineup had been in a rut, averaging barely four runs per game during a 5-9 skid that derailed their hot start to the season. Over...

Wild video captured by witnesses cruising along the turnpike showed the plane gliding precariously close to the road. One light pole appeared to have snapped in half.

An eerie doomsday music video depicting California as a dystopian state of corruption and failed political policies has gone viral on social media. 

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell's Anti-Communist Classic

George Orwell's prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee the creation of certain technologies which make the future look even more bleak.  The reason his books, like 1984 and Animal Farm, are considered classics of literature is because they are timeless. 

Their warnings and messages still apply today and will probably apply centuries from now. 

Animal Farm, first published in 1945, is a tale specifically written as an allegory for the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Soviet Communism.  Despite the characters being talking animals, the themes are dark and disturbing.  It is a story about the naivety of the "underclass", the exploitation of the "have-nots" by communists seeking to use gullible people as weapons against their "imperialist" and capitalist enemies. 

It is a grotesque tragedy composed like a children's novel, which makes it all the more effective.  It destroys the notion of "equity" and exposes the truth:  There is no such thing as a socialist Utopia, there can only ever be socialist dystopia.  And to get it, leftists are happy to sacrifice you and everything you love.  Not only that, but they expect you to applaud them for it.

The message is made iconic in the book's famous phrase:  "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others..."

This is the epitome of woke ideology and how progressives behave today.  It's no surprise that Hollywood is incapable of telling this story properly.  In order to do that, they would have to put their own warped beliefs under a microscope, and that's simply not going to happen.  

The new animated adaptation of Animal Farm is being billed as a kid-friendly foray into concepts of "authoritarianism"; but it perverts Orwell's message about communism and demonizes capitalism instead.  

Audiences across the board are not happy.  The movie is distributed by Angel Studios, which bills itself as a Christian and conservative leaning company.  However, the makers of the film (director Andy Serkis and The Imaginarium Studios) are entirely left wing.  Given the people involved, Angel Studios should have know what kind of disaster they would have on their hands.

Andy Serkis is a former member of the Socialist Workers Party, a Troskyist Group in England in the 1990s.  Though he is no longer involved, he still considers himself left wing, and his exit from political provocation was largely because of conflicts with his acting career.  Enlisting a hardcore socialist to direct Animal Farm feels like a deliberate middle finger to conservatives who see the story as a cautionary battle cry against leftist movements. 

The film was even released on May Day (International Workers Day), which is a communist holiday.

In developing the film as far back as 2013, Serkis (still riding the high of his successful role as "Gollum" in the Lord Of The Rings movies) admitted that he had no intention of sticking to the critique of communism.  Rather, he believed that if Orwell wrote Animal Farm today, he would obviously compose a takedown of capitalism. 

“First and foremost, we are not making a film about Communism and Stalinism because if Orwell was writing the story today, he would be talking about other relevant topics like globalisation and corporate greed...”

In other words, Andy Serkis, like most communists, wants to rewrite history in favor of his ideology. 

This is exactly what he did in the new Angel Studios film.  Many of the characters from the book are the same, and some of the plot points remain.  The animals revolt against the farmers and seek to build their Utopia of fairness.  But, the pigs (who represent the communist manipulators in the book) are not evil in the film.  Rather, they are corrupted into doing bad things by a new character - Ruthless billionaire Frieda Pilkington and her corporation.

Frieda is the typical evil rich white person common in leftist mythology.  Some critics have argued that the character looks strikingly similar to Elon Musk's mother, May Musk, and she even drives a vehicle that looks like a pink Cybertruck. 

Rather than the pigs being conniving and malicious from the beginning, Frieda corrupts them into evil with the promise of riches.  Her plan is to use the pigs as a means to get control of the farm.  In the end, the animals realize their mistake and their solution is yet another communist revolution. 

The message being, communism only goes wrong when evil capitalists influence the outcome.  Collectivist ideology is inherently good.  Leftists are not psychotic ideologues thirsting for power and control.  They are just led astray sometimes.   

There are numerous hatchet job films denigrating capitalism out of Hollywood.  There are few if any that explore the nightmares of communism and left-wing collectivism.  Orwell's Animal Farm is one of the few stories that captures the insidious nature of "equity" and suicidal empathy that permeate communist societies.  It is about the tools that communists use to lead the population astray, not about capitalism leading communists astray.  

Even worse is the marketing strategy of Angel Studios, which has tapped into the pockets of conservative and libertarian influencers (including Tucker Carlson) to sell the movie.  It is likely that most of these influencers never watched the film before they promoted it, and if they did, it might be time to question their motives. 

Critics and audiences alike have given Animal Farm a thunderous thumbs down.  Angel Studios is the same company that put Sound Of Freedom in theaters; a movie which was relentlessly (and suspiciously) attacked by the political left for putting a spotlight on child trafficking and pedophile rings.  It is unfortunate that they made placed this project in the hands of the same left wing community that tried to tear them down only a couple years ago.   

Tyler Durden Sun, 05/03/2026 - 21:35