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Love this from #Illini head coach Brad Underwood - asked if he has any issue/finds it unfair to have to play Houston IN Houston in the Sweet 16. "I could care less... I'm an old JUCO ball coach. I drove on 16 passenger fans. I drove from Dodge City, Kansas to Mesa, Arizona for a basketball game... If you had told me back then that I'm getting to coach basketball in the Sweet 16 and play Houston - I would sign up for it, I would crawl to get there." Says regardless of where the game is, Illinois would/will need to play well to beat the Cougars. (Video from NCAA)

@Ric_RTP @grok is this true?

The US government admitted it deliberately CRASHED Iran's economy to trigger protests. Then bombed the country while pretending to negotiate peace. This is the most calculated regime change operation in history. Let me explain... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified before the Senate on February 5th and said word for word: "What we have done at Treasury is created a dollar shortage in the country." He explained how they deliberately crashed Iran's largest bank. Forced the central bank to print money. Sent the rial into freefall. At Davos he called it "economic statecraft" and said "no shots fired" with a smile on his face. The results: 40% inflation. 70% food price inflation. The rial went from 700,000 to 1.5 million per dollar in a single year. Iranians hit the streets in December because they couldn't afford bread. The regime responded by massacring over 7,000 people. Some estimates say 36,000. Including 150 children. Khamenei personally ordered forces to "crush the protests by any means necessary." Live ammunition, machine guns, and drones on civilians. Bessent's response to the thousands killed? Nothing. Zero acknowledgment. A Treasury spokesperson later said the regime chose to "murder its own people." Translation: We lit the match. They burned the house. Not our fault. Meanwhile the US sent Jared Kushner to "negotiate" with Iran in Oman. Three rounds of talks. February 6th, 20th, 26th. All while a senior Israeli defense official later confirmed the strikes had been PLANNED for months with the exact date set weeks ago. The negotiations were theater. The economic collapse was engineered. The protests were the predictable result. The massacre was the excuse. And the bombs were always coming. February 13: Trump says regime change is "the best thing that could happen." February 14: Officials tell Reuters they're preparing "weeks-long sustained operations." February 24: Trump uses the State of the Union to accuse Iran of building nukes. February 28: "Operation Epic Fury." Strikes across Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Kermanshah. Khamenei's compound destroyed. Reports say he's dead. Iran fired back at US bases in Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan. The Navy's Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain was hit. Dubai airport shut down. Now here's what this means for your money Monday morning: Oil closed at $72.87. Analysts expect $80+. Lombard Odier says $100+ if Iran threatens the Strait of Hormuz. 20 million barrels pass through that strait daily (20% of global supply). A former White House energy advisor called a prolonged closure "a guaranteed global recession." J.P. Morgan's research says regime change in oil nations has historically caused price spikes averaging 76%. That would put oil above $120. Bitcoin already dropped below $63,000. Gold past $5,464. US inflation already trending toward 3%. But here's the one thing that doesn't make sense... Trump wanted $50 oil. He campaigned on cheap gas. And he's literally heading into midterms. So why start a war that could double oil prices? UNLESS this was always the play. Crash the economy. Trigger protests. Let the regime massacre civilians. Use it as justification. Bomb the country. Remove the regime... Then lift sanctions on Iranian oil, flooding the market with 3+ million barrels per day. Iran has some of the cheapest production costs on Earth. $10 per barrel. A new regime opens the taps and oil drops below $50. Short-term chaos. Long-term cheap oil. The question is whether it works or whether this becomes Iraq 2.0. This is either the most calculated geopolitical move in modern history or the most expensive miscalculation since the Iraq War. What do you think?

Solomon, the wealthiest man in history, reached this conclusion: “I said in my heart, ‘Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.’ But behold, this also was vanity.” (Ecclesiastes 2:1, ESV)

Do you know who I guarantee is NOT in the Epstein files? @RepThomasMassie People hate the accountability he brings.

@TheWealthDr @grok Is this true or is this made up to illustrate a point?

The richest people in the world are quietly switching to flip phones. Not because they’re old. Not because they hate technology. But because smartphones are destroying something far more valuable than money. Most people won’t realize it until it’s too late. At a private dinner, a banker friend of mine noticed something strange. Every billionaire at the table pulled out a button phone. No apps. No notifications. No glowing screens. It felt less like coincidence and more like a silent agreement. He finally asked: “Why don’t any of you use smartphones?” The room went quiet. Then someone said: “Because every notification is someone else controlling my mind.” To them, smartphones aren’t tools anymore. They’re attention leaks. Every buzz pulls focus. Every scroll fragments thinking. Every algorithm trains reaction instead of intention. And attention is the rarest currency on Earth. One billionaire said something chilling: “Money is easy to make again. Focus is not.” He explained that once attention breaks, decision quality collapses. And bad decisions destroy fortunes faster than bad markets. So they simplified. Old phones. One function. Call. Message. Off. No feeds competing for dopamine. No endless mental noise. No invisible manipulation. Just silence, on command. Ironically, the wealthier they became, the less technology they personally touched. Their assistants manage screens. They manage thinking. Because power isn’t access to information—it’s control over your inner world. One investor admitted: “Quitting my smartphone lowered my anxiety more than therapy.” Not because life became easier, but because his mind finally stopped being pulled in 100 directions. He could hear his own thoughts again. Meanwhile… Most people wake up and touch their phone before touching their own awareness. News. Fear. Comparison. Noise. The mind gets hijacked before the day even begins. The elite understand something most never learn: If you don’t decide how your attention is used, someone else will decide for you. And they will profit from it. This is why flip phones became a status symbol. Not because they’re cheaper, but because they signal independence. “I choose when I connect.” “I choose when I consume.” “I choose when I disappear.” Real luxury isn’t faster internet. It isn’t the newest device. It isn’t constant access. Real luxury is mental silence. Undisturbed thinking. And time with yourself. That’s the upgrade money can’t buy—unless you protect it. That’s why 2 Rules of Michael Saylor’s (@saylor) 10 Rules for Life hit so hard: Focus your energy Guard your time [see the full 10 + 2 pinned to my profile] Assuming you’re not ready to ditch the smartphone yet, here’s how to reclaim focus and turn X into your superpower: • No more doom scrolling or rage bait—mute, block, curate Lists for signal only. • Use search intentionally: Dive into inflation, taxes, Bitcoin strategies instead of reactive feeds. • Set strict notification rules and time blocks. Reading the right things catapults you toward financial independence. Grab “The Millionaire Next Door” and “The Bitcoin Standard” (free audiobook on YouTube). Want to dig deeper on why digital minimalism is the real power move? Ever heard of Cal Newport’s 2019 book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World? This builds on his earlier ideas from Deep Work (focused, high-value effort) and tackles how constant digital noise—smartphones, apps, notifications, social media—fragments attention, spikes anxiety, and erodes meaningful living. Core Definition of Digital Minimalism Newport defines it as: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else. Thread 🧵

He plays with so much heart. Fun to watch!

Mari ain't scared

If only he and the Boozers could have played together at Duke

TRE WHITE AT THE BUZZER 😤

Affordability: Everyone is talking about it. It’s entirely understandable and easy to fix…just no one wants to really fix it. #1 - Governments (Fed, State and Local) + Regulation eat up 51% of our GDP (everything we produce). If government takes that much from us no wonder we can’t afford things. #2 - The Fed has tripled the money supply in 18 years. Who wins when that happens? People with assets. People without assets end up with higher prices, but no more resources to pay for things. The Fed has caused one of the largest increases in inequality in the history of America. And guess what? For those with lower incomes, things are less affordable. So, what happens when big government and dumb Fed policy combine to cause inequality and un-affordabilty? Younger generations (who can’t afford assets) start blaming older generations (who have accumulated assets). Younger generations start gambling on single day options and meme coins. And voters start looking for even more government redistribution, which will only make things worse. The only way to fix this is to dramatically cut the size of government (both overall spending and the size of the Fed). But DC won’t do this, and voters who have learned to live off of government will resent it. So, either we bite the bullet and fix our deficits and broke governments, or things will just get worse. Your choice. Which way will you vote?

Trump just signed a bill I forced through Congress to realize his campaign promise of releasing the Epstein files! But then he said of MTG, “She started backing perhaps the worst republican congressman in our history. You know stupid person named Massie”

One person make decisions based on logic. The other person on emotion.

Much, much harder to be a quarterback than an armchair quarterback

Imagine two grown men prioritizing a game of memorializing someone’s life...

Marco Rubio summoned his inner Father Mike Schmitz and explained the entire story of salvation history in under 90 seconds. 🙌❤️🔥✝️

Coach Self is inspirational!

Revelation 19:6 – “…Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.”

Revelation 19:6 reminds us that no matter how chaotic life feels, the Lord Almighty still reigns. His sovereignty brings peace in our trials, freedom from anxiety, and hope for the future. Because He reigns, we can worship with confidence, knowing He is in control of every detail

What produces inflation? Milton Friedman had the answer decades ago: “Too much government spending and too much government creation of money - and nothing else.”

Carpentar found a really interesting note from 1975 while he was working on this house....