Jacob Weindling
Editor at Large @splinternews.bsky.social
Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy.
Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later).
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- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingI wrote about the crypto crash and why this is the worst crypto winter in the industry's history. Sub to the Odd Lots newsletter here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
- God it's so funny seeing Bitcoin's anemic price action after Trump farted out a Friday tariff post he TACO'd on by Monday (red arrow). Trump genuinely killed the crypto bull run.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingIncredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingThe SpaceX/xAI merger situation is actually pretty important and, I think, very bad. "Data centers in space" is a bit of a pipe dream, but SpaceX now dominates low-Earth orbit in a highly concerning way. Starlink is real and could monopolize a lot of things.Not Good! www.404media.co/this-spacex-...
- If you're wondering how isolated the administration is on this one, I'm monitoring crypto twitter today and they're dogpiling binance for being a obvious fraud
- Here's a sampling of the last week of discourse over there
- Crypto bros take a lot of deserved shit, but they're actually savvier than people give them credit for. They know they're buying scams, this has actually made them pretty good at spotting them, like when they instantly called out Trump for his scam coin. www.jezebel.com/trump-proves...
- Stop me if you've heard this before, but crypto is getting annihilated again today
- When you're watching your entire business model melt in real time and there's nothing you can do about it
- Get all your 67 jokes in while you can, don't think Bitcoin is done testing the demand in this spring 2024 consolidation range between $55k and $70k
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View full threadI think the ETF volume for BTC probably will elevate this floor and we won't see an 80+% wipeout. But I also think shitcoins are in for a nuclear winter. They didn't really have a bull market, BTC did, and now everyone is in a bear market. It's over forever for a lot of coins.
- If you look closely enough at this clip, you can see his brain seeping out of his ears
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlingit’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingI know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.
- Cable news is the lowest form of human thought
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingSports coverage is more than scores. It’s about the people, politics and cultural factors that drive it. Sports journalism adds vivid color and context to these dynamics. Without it, every sports fan suffers. Some of the best sports journalism all-time came from WaPo. Inexcusable loss.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingIf you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
- Dressed like a man who just left his house for the first time in 6 months
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlingyou don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingKindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
- Reposted by Jacob Weindling"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
- You can have a civilized society, or you can have billionaires, but you can't have both
- Republicans not understanding the nature of linear time would explain a lot tbh
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingCrime headline of the day.
- Huh, I wonder why they were putting out calls for AUSAs on Twitter
- Crypto is getting annihilated again today
- Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana getting hit harder than most is a very bad sign imo. Crypto charts have looked like someone(s) are trapped ever since Trump nuked everyone's leverage on 10/10. Every bounce gets sold instantly. Big stuff selling off harder means there's no shitcoin liquidity
- Think this is a liquidation event, and people are selling whatever they can get for cash. Big firms can't sell shitcoins without driving the price to $0 thanks to no liquidity, so they're selling BTC, ETH and SOL, the only things that have any real big market. Crypto bull market is over.
- Bitcoin falling again, now it's under Michael Saylor's average price. Microstrategy's entire strategy is in the red.
- Gold line - BTC Blue line - MSTR MSTR is not just supposed to track BTC, but trade above it with a premium that creates (created?) a flywheel effect where Saylor can keep folding BTC and MSTR profits into the company. Now MSTR is underperforming BTC and the flywheel don't fly anymore.
- This matters because Michael Saylor is a lunatic and Microstrategy owns a ton of BTC, 713,502 of them to be exact, and if they ever become forced sellers for whatever reason, they can annihilate the crypto market.
- Which while hilarious, would probably be unfortunate for us given how much the AI trade is the crypto trade and as we learned last week, is also the precious metals trade. It's all just one big degenerate rotation trade around whatever has momentum.
- Love too pick a fight with high schoolers and lose then call myself the master race
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingMedia coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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It’s amazing to me that a regular thing happening these days with pathetic guys who can’t get laid is for them to alert the media about it. - Every time I write about UFOs some nice liberal without a security clearance comes out of the woodwork to tell me how my source with a security clearance has no idea what they're talking about.
- There's a kind of highly rational liberal reader who gets infuriated by my UFO writing where I largely refuse to say anything conclusive. There's something about that worldview that just can't take uncertainty for an answer.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingI'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
- Gold way down, stocks up, yields up, risk up the most The very broken market's nature is healing
- Not sure it's a good thing that the Japanese 40-year has 4% in range and the US 30-year can see the TACO Trump number of 5% over the horizon
- And while gold is selling off hard, so far, the price range where the US wasn't actively trying to take Greenland from NATO and where Japan didn't publicly announce a plan to blow out its deficit even more is a buy zone for the market.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingI feel like trump voters are beginning to realize there isn't some grand ending here. It's just national suicide and not everyone is down with that
- Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll. And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration. This is digging deep into Trump's base. We detail these numbers on today's pod: newrepublic.com/article/2059...
- Everywhere you look these days you can find a Republican who has been shamelessly violating Biggie's 4th Crack Commandment
- kind of striking how many main characters in Trump II are obviously and severely disturbed nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingGoalie fight, as called in American Sign Language:
- Bad Bunny is an American treasure
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlingthe Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingAny serious reckoning of Obama’s legacy is going to have to grapple with the fact that Summers held a position of influence in the administration for years.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingNGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
- Someone paying $55k for dinner with Bari Weiss is one of the clearest examples of how taxes on the wealthy are criminally low
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlingliam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlinga "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts
- The R candidate has apparently conceded, so that's a flip folks. Probably a 30-point swing vs 2024 per The Downballot, could be 35 vs the 2022 election in the seat docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Holy shit
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingAnd most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingEpstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
- The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingIn America the only way to retire from working is to let Gunther choke you to death
- Will never feel right watching an Avs-Red Wings game where it doesn't feel like a 12 man brawl could unfold at any moment
- RETVRN
- Blowing the doors off the Red Wings more than once or twice a year could fix me
- If this same 5-0 game had unfolded in 1998, both teams would have already combined for 200 penalty minutes by now
- Crypto is getting annihilated today
- There's a common technical term for what all the non-Bitcoin charts look like: absolute giga dogshit. They all want to race each other to $0 so bad. The only thing that's been propping crypto up is BTC looking like a normal bull run, but now that sure looks like it's over.
- Kind of think this wipeout is a continuation of metals yesterday. Lotta degenerates were longing silver cuz they got sick of BTC lagging, and the way you have to understand crypto is through leverage. The reason it goes up and down so much is because people take on debt to long Debts came due today
- Trump nuking everyone in crypto's leverage with a Friday post he TACO'd on by Sunday is what ended the crypto bull run. Charts look like a lot of bodies are floating up on beaches right now. www.jezebel.com/trump-bankru...
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingOne effect of the gendered split in the US political imagination, in which liberals are feminized and conservatives are masculinized, is that liberals’ opposition to the right is cast as disavowed sexual desire. Liberals secretly want fascism, in this view, the same way women secretly want rape.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingCross-posting this comment from Jeet Heer over on Twitter. It really is kind of funny that Musk is just totally unable to pick up on code and innuendo.
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlingall the people who thought it was for hedging fiat currency or buying heroin learning it's the pedophiles' secret handshake
- If this guy never sees the inside of a jail cell, rule of law in America is just a relic of the past
- Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingOn August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
- Nuggets going 10-6 without Jokic and integrating him back like nothing happened feels like a real "uh oh, Happy learned how to putt" situation
- 31-12-5 on 11 shots in 25 minutes lmfao
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- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingFull intro + video www.instagram.com/reel/DUJiilU...
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingElon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingSide note: The HHS appropriations bill that passed as part of the minibus has ZERO anti-trans riders in it. It will almost certainly pass the House.
- Reposted by Jacob WeindlingVery important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
- Reposted by Jacob Weindlingxbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
- The worst thing you can do in an elite pundit's eyes is be rude to other elite pundits
- Elon hasn't posted about Epstein since 9/27/25 I wonder why!
