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This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education. 46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today (IG: Erosbrousson)

On this day in 1844, Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber, the breakthrough that made tires, hoses, and modern life possible. He found it by accident, dropping a mix of rubber and sulfur onto a hot stove and noticing it turned tough instead of melting. Then his life turned tragic. He spent years in and out of debtors prison and died owing around 200,000 dollars, never profiting from the thing he invented. He once wrote that life should not be measured only in dollars and cents. The Goodyear Tire company that carries his name today? Founded in 1898, almost four decades after he died, by a man who simply admired him. He got the legacy. Someone else got the fortune.

Under 16 social media ban in the UK? Which means if you are over 16, you have to prove that you are over 16 before you can access social media. Which means you have to ID yourself to the government. Which means if you run a pseudonymous account the government will know who you are. Which means if you say something the government disapproves of, they can arrest you.

The zig-zag spillway of Pimburaththewa Wewa, also known as Pimburattewa Tank, is one of the most remarkable examples of ancient hydraulic engineering in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 The reservoir is believed to have been constructed during the era of the ancient Sinhalese kingdoms, when sophisticated irrigation systems were developed to support agriculture in the island’s dry zones. Unlike conventional straight spillways, the unique zig-zag design was engineered to slow the velocity of overflowing water, reducing erosion and protecting the earthen embankment. This innovative structure reflects the advanced understanding of water management possessed by Sri Lanka’s ancient engineers more than a thousand years ago. The spillway’s winding pattern increased its effective length, allowing large volumes of excess water to be discharged safely during periods of heavy rainfall. Pimburaththewa Wewa formed part of a wider network of reservoirs and canals that transformed seasonal rainfall into a reliable source of water for farming communities. The tank helped sustain rice cultivation and rural settlements, contributing to the prosperity of the region for centuries. Despite the passage of time, the zig-zag spillway continues to demonstrate the durability and ingenuity of ancient Sri Lankan irrigation technology. Historians and engineers regard the structure as a testament to a civilization that mastered the challenges of water conservation long before modern hydraulic science emerged. Today, the zig-zag spillway of Pimburaththewa Wewa stands as a rare and fascinating monument to Sri Lanka’s rich heritage of engineering, innovation, and environmental adaptation. #archaeohistories

This is hard, guys. Really hard! God Bless America! 💪🇺🇸

Democrats tell us who they are every day.

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He Lit the First Surgery With Kerosene. The Oil Field He Built Is Still Running. In 1846, a pharmacy apprentice named Ignacy Łukasiewicz was arrested in Austrian-occupied Poland for membership in an illegal independence organization. He spent nearly two years in prison. Upon release, he went back to work at a pharmacy in Lwów, the city now called Lviv, Ukraine. In the back room of the "Pod Gwiazdą" pharmacy in 1852, Łukasiewicz and a colleague named Jan Zeh obtained barrels of crude oil from traders in the Carpathian foothills, where it had seeped from the ground for centuries, used mainly as a veterinary ointment and wagon lubricant. Using pharmaceutical distillation methods they already knew, they purified it. What came out, cleanly, was kerosene. Łukasiewicz designed a lamp to burn it. The lamp lit the pharmacy window. Nobody had done this before. On July 31, 1853, kerosene lamps of his design were installed in the surgical ward of a hospital in the Łyczaków district of Lwów and used to illuminate a nighttime emergency operation, the first surgery in history performed under kerosene light. It was not a planned demonstration. The lamps were what was available, and a patient needed an operation in the dark. The following year, Łukasiewicz co-founded the world's first commercially operating oil well at Bóbrka, near Krosno. In 1856 he opened the world's first oil refinery. By 1863 he was one of the wealthiest men in Galicia. He spent the money building hospitals, roads, churches, and a workers' spa resort. He funded refugees from the Polish independence uprisings. He named oil wells after saints rather than himself. John D. Rockefeller launched Standard Oil in 1870. Łukasiewicz had been refining crude oil for fourteen years. The Bóbrka oil field, founded in 1854, has operated continuously without pause through two world wars, Nazi occupation, Soviet nationalization, and Polish independence. UNESCO's World Heritage tentative list designates it the only active oil field on Earth that has never stopped operating since the birth of the global oil industry. The oldest wells are still filled with oil. Łukasiewicz died in 1882, having never sought a monopoly, never tried to strangle a competitor, never moved to New York. He invented the kerosene lamp, lit the world's first kerosene surgery, and founded the oil industry. Someone else got the cartel.

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@GovNuclear Lots of small paper cups, indeed.

WATCH 👀: The world’s first self-sustaining, controlled nuclear chain reaction at Chicago Pile-1 explained brick by brick.

If you could own any variant of the C-130, which one would it be?

Perhaps Elon Musk's best response I've ever heard. He is asked why Charlie Kirk was killed

As a new Farmer myself who bought our farm 4 years ago, I can’t tell you how accurate Clarkson’s Farm actually is! We spent £3.5m buying our farm and subsequently in the past 4 years we’ve had to spend at least £527,000 on farm machinery and much, much more on running the farm. We’ve lost money every year since so far, and have had challenges or refusal from local authorities everytime we’ve tried to diversity, or do something to generate extra income. I cannot stress how difficult it is for farmers who have to rely on farming for their only income. We don’t get any subsidies or BPS payments at all (because we’re new farmers) and the grant system might as well be in Greek! As a CEO and professional businessman of some note, I felt I could easily apply for the grants myself. I kid you not, you’ve never seen a more complicated form - for ANYTHING! The farm we bought had been in the same family for 3 generations, but it was sold because it was getting tougher to support the farmers growing family and now I’ve been in it for 4 years I can see why. It’s a crying shame that more and more food is going to be imported and more skills lost because, for some unknown reason, the government obviously don’t value farmers. Sad.

Bob Greene is the Board Chair for Rocky Mountain PBS He says he hopes Trump has a stroke for his birthday leaving him unable to walk or speak Any comment @PBS?

Artist Yazi Yolcusu creates remarkable calligraphy using ordinary metal forks as his writing tools.

Everyone knows John Hancock for his giant signature. Almost nobody knows the actual man, and his real life was wilder than the legend. He was an orphan. His father died when he was 7, and he was taken in by his uncle Thomas, the richest merchant in Boston. John was groomed to run the family shipping empire, inherited the whole thing in 1764, and became one of the wealthiest men in all of America before most people his age owned anything at all. He was also, by the crown's definition, a criminal. In 1768 the British seized his ship Liberty for smuggling, and Boston rioted in his defense. The man we now put on patriotic posters was, to London, a wealthy smuggler dodging customs. He didn't just resent the crown quietly. He bankrolled resistance and became such a thorn that the British wanted him gone. On the night of April 18, 1775, when Paul Revere made his famous ride, the warning was not vague. He rode to Lexington specifically to warn two men that the British were coming to arrest them: Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The opening night of the Revolutionary War was, in part, a manhunt for Hancock. Weeks later, General Gage offered a pardon to every rebel in Massachusetts who would lay down arms, with exactly two exceptions: Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Being left off that list was essentially a public death warrant. Here is the part nobody tells you. As president of the Continental Congress, Hancock actually wanted to be named commander of the army himself. He sat in the chair and watched as the Adams cousins instead rose to nominate George Washington. He was reportedly stung by it. Then he did the thing most people never manage. He swallowed his pride, signed Washington's commission, and spent the next eight years pouring his personal fortune into the war he could not lead. So when Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence first, big and bold across the top, it was not a cute flourish. He was already a hunted man with a price on his head, putting his name, his fortune, and his neck on the line before anyone else dared lift a pen. And that famous line about signing large "so King George can read it without his spectacles"? He almost certainly never said it. It is a myth stitched onto him generations later. The real story is better. He just signed first, as president, knowing exactly what it could cost him. The flamboyance was real, though. He lived in princely splendor in a granite mansion on Beacon Hill overlooking the harbor, with imported mahogany furniture and apricot trees shipped from Spain. In 1775 he married Dorothy Quincy, and the two became one of Massachusetts' first political celebrity couples, famous for endless lavish dinners that slowly drained his fortune. He went on to become the first Governor of Massachusetts, serving roughly eleven years, and died in office in 1793. His funeral was one of the grandest ever given to an American up to that point. Samuel Adams declared the day a state holiday. The orphaned smuggler with a target on his back had become the face of American defiance. That is why, 250 years later, we still say "put your John Hancock right here."

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Feminists love to call housewives "unpaid workers" as if we're being exploited. Let me tell you what my "unpaid" life looks like. I wake up without an alarm. I make breakfast for my children while my husband heads off to provide for us. I spend my mornings teaching my kids, playing with them, watching them grow. I cook meals from scratch. I keep our home beautiful and peaceful. Meanwhile, the "empowered" career woman wakes up to an alarm at 6am, drops her kids off with strangers, sits in traffic, spends 8 hours making someone else rich, sits in traffic again, picks up fast food because she's too exhausted to cook, and collapses into bed dreading tomorrow. And I'm the one being exploited?? The only thing I'm missing is a boss who doesn't care about me and a paycheck that mostly goes to daycare.