Poppy

In 1977, the Justice Department spent $27,000 studying why prisoners want to get out of jail. In 1979, the Pentagon spent $3,000 studying whether soldiers should carry umbrellas in the rain. Washington will study anything except how to stop wasting your money.

@benln Would love too!!!!

We're booking out a cafe on October 21st in Soho Grab coffee, Cursor credits, co-work, and meet the team Let me know if you'd like to come by

@TheOne_2014 @mcuban This is the norm for a small business. 2025 was 8K for ded/ 15K for max out of pocket for a family. The premium over 1K a month. This is devastating not only on employer but any individual who has serious health issues.

@mcuban $1,500/mo premium for fam of 4. $5.4k oop max indiv/$11k max for family. We'll ultimately pay nearly $30k in healthcare costs for having a child this year. Currently in a battle because they want to bill the baby for costs incurred for her before/during delivery.

All these “influencers “ and mainstream conservative media figures trying to play “gotcha” and just proving they don’t give a shit about the Americans who can’t afford healthcare for their families. They are fine with the biggest companies, insurers, PBMs, wholesalers , just crushing the futures of Hardworking Americans Healthcare costs are the greatest tax Americans face. They just keep going up and up. It’s fixable. But instead of even asking why and how we let it get to this point and what can be done , they put out rage bait for clicks My guess is that most of the influencers and media on here that don’t work for FoxNews have healthcare plans that are ass. Would love to know how they are dealing with their costs and what it does to their household budgets and what they have to give up ? If anyone wants to share their own premiums, deductibles , max OOP and issues , let these influencers know what is going on. Maybe they will realize playing gotcha isn’t the most important thing going on right now

@Reuters “Meta projects the data center will support 500 or more direct new jobs”

Meta's planned Louisiana AI data center to cost $50 billion, Trump says reut.rs/4mtWTOQ reut.rs/4mtWTOQ

@craignewmark Hi!!!!!

an update...

@0xnewton Bc the people who have the final approval on these contracts could not even modify a @GoDaddy website if they tried. @elonmusk could probably attest to this.

Unused website update! DOGE continues to partner with agencies to delete unused/obsolete websites. In the last few weeks, 69 sites have been deleted, including: -@NASA: deleted 26 sites for total savings of $500k/yr -@NSF: deleted 8 sites for total savings of $868k/yr -@Interior: deleted 5 sites for total savings of $4.1M/year See before/after images for a recently cut @Energy site which, until a few weeks ago, was advertising a science workshop that took place in 2004, over 20 years ago!

The Big Not-So-Beautiful Bill has officially passed both chambers. Despite a few conservative provisions, it explodes the deficit in the near term. This is Washington's MO: short-term politicking over long-term sustainability.