⚡️💬 GM - Beginning of the day 351

⚡️💻 NEW - Microsoft promises it will upgrade Windows 11 with better performance for gamers in 2026. “We’re committed to making Windows the best place to play.”

⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇺 NEW - Trump says it's possible the U.S. may not consider most European nations allies if their demographics continue to change: "The people coming in have a totally different ideology."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - DoorDash driver accused of spraying pepper spray on Arby’s food after dropping it off at a home in Indiana. Mark Cardin says his wife started choking and gasping after she started eating the food. "I noticed my wife had started eating and she started choking and gasping, and after she had a couple bites of her food she actually threw up," he said, according to 14 News. "I had a look at the bag and seen that there was some kind of spray or something ... So I pulled up my doorbell camera and seen that the lady who dropped the food off had actually tampered with it on purpose for some reason." The incident is reportedly under investigation by the sheriff’s office, which could result in a charge of consumer product tampering, a level 6 felony.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Katie: "What's one invention that's made us worse, not better?" Elon Musk: "Maybe short form video. It's rotting people's brains."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump: “I don't want to give insurance companies any money. They've been ripping off the public for years. Obamacare was set up to take care of insurance companies, not to take care of Americans. I love the idea of money going directly to the people, not to insurance companies.”

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Elon Musk: "President Trump is the funniest person I know in real life. He's got a great sense of humor. He's naturally funny. It's effortless. When he had Mamdani in the office and he told Mamdani to call him a fascist, that was awesome."

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Elon Musk says the assassination of Charlie Kirk has made it even more impossible to go out in public "There are serious security issues. It's not that I don't want to. I simply can't." "[Charlie's assassination] has reinforced the severity of the situation - where, life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, you're dead. It only takes one mistake."

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Katie: “What's a conspiracy theory you believe in?” Elon Musk: “I mean, which conspiracy theories haven't come true at this point? We've run out of conspiracy theories.”

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Elon Musk: "American food is my favorite food. Cheeseburgers are my favorite. If I had to say, like, only one thing you can ever have for the rest of life, it would be a cheeseburger because cheeseburgers are amazing. It's a genius invention."

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Do you believe in God? Elon Musk: "God is the creator. I believe this universe came from something."

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Elon Musk: "Neil Armstrong, Neil A, spelled backwards is Alien. We went to the moon a few times. We didn't just go to the moon. We actually got a little bored and started playing golf on the moon. I literally did. Whacked golf ball on the moon."

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Elon Musk: “I try not to have irrational fears. If I find an irrational fear, I squelch it. Fear is the mind killer. I’m not somebody who feels fear strongly.”

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Elon Musk in new interview on if he would do DOGE again knowing what he knows now: "Instead of doing DOGE, I would have just worked at my companies, and they wouldn't have been burning the cars."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Candace Owens says her new “story” is so “unbelievable that you know it has to be the truth.” “You're just going to be amazed and your jaw is going to be on the floor like mine was when I learned this, and this kind of gets into that mysterious last trip to Asia that Charlie took.”

⚡️🇮🇪 NEW - Ireland's Deputy PM defends the Irish government's allocation of €100K to a school program teaching children about "white privilege."

⚡️💉 WATCH - Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky describes the moment the first limited supplies of remdesivir arrived during the pandemic, smiling as she recalls how officials decided who would be allowed to receive it. She goes on to describe patients who were completely alone, unconscious, and on ventilators, unable to give any form of consent. Why does she look so excited thinking back on this?

⚡️🇦🇺 ICYMI - Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins. Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and TikTok are expected to have taken steps from Wednesday to remove accounts held by users under 16 in Australia and prevent them from registering new accounts. Platforms that fail to comply risk fines of up to $49.5 million.

⚡️💬 NEW - Bruce Fenton on banks getting into Bitcoin: “They didn't come here for cypherpunk values. They came here to grift and make a buck. They don't care about our values. They're not a victory. They need us more than we need them.”

⚡️🚨 NEW - $150,000,000,000 added to the crypto market cap today.