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@WalkerAmerica 🙏

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

@thevivafrei I thought you were smarter than this. You speak like an 8th grade term paper. Also, learn poker.

Making a threat that you cannot follow through on without it being a war crime is not a smart strategy. Following through on a threat that would be a war crime is also not a smart strategy. Even if you believe Trump has no intention of following through on a post in which he says “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”, the post is indefensible. Even operating at the most charitable basis that Trump is attempting to implement the “madman theory”.

@JeremyDBoreing And all at once, the entire X platform forgot about the game of poker.

Donald Trump has been a national politician for a decade. Anyone still reacting to the guy’s negotiating tactics and hyperbole with this sort of hysteria ten years in should be disqualified from political commentary. If he nukes Tehran at 8pm, I’ll admit I’m the crazy one. When he doesn’t, this crew will admit nothing and find some other comment to be scandalized by.

@jameslavish Add Martin Armstrong to this camp.

Translated: “I could have bought Bitcoin ‘long ago’, but I didn’t. And now I am going to fabricate a reason Bitcoin is bad and must fail, so I can feel better about not buying any.”

@benjamincowen Poker. Look it up.

Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight" How can anyone defend this?

@scottmelker And all at once, the entire X platform forgot strategy and the game of poker.

Absolutely disgusting.

@TFL1728 @ThomKolbe Does the City of London have one of those Men in Black memory erasers, because everyone all at once today forgot the game of poker.

@ThomKolbe Yes. This is the crescendo. Trump is crazy. He’s unfit to rule. Military coup, After last weekend’s rescue op. Hilarious. I’ve said before, when it’s go time, the military beats spooks every.single.time.

Yo, Tom, what do you think? Basically, everything seems to be heading toward a major showdown, and at least now we can see who your traitors are. Here in Europe, it should be obvious even to a blind person who betrayed us. @TFL1728

@dotkrueger Outside of @TFL1728, nobody on X today understands poker.

"A whole civilization will die tonight" -- DJT

@NakedHedgie Or, a power tactic to hasten a peace deal. Do you play poker?

And yet... zero arrests. Instead, Trump is threatening to annihilate a whole civilization because they won't submit to him.

@Rothmus Don’t forget the jello ambrosia.

@NakedHedgie Do your sources confirm these aren’t paid citizen protestors?

We could all learn a thing or two from the Iranians' courageous defiance

@DaveHcontrarian @gavin_gruesome @simple_setups @notArealDr65 @MoussaAnthony @crae_ @noahpeachey11 @OliverNessa2 @phVbD2rDMjJBVgX @theandymillette Is this the result of the dollar falling or a supply & demand situation.

@gavin_gruesome @simple_setups @notArealDr65 @MoussaAnthony @crae_ @noahpeachey11 @OliverNessa2 @phVbD2rDMjJBVgX @theandymillette Maybe even higher. If mortgage rates go there, it is hard to imagine home prices remaining up here. People assume real estate always goes higher but just like the equity indexes, I don't think that will prove true in the next decade.

Here is my latest interview, recorded 3/18/26 with @theandymillette.Lots of discussion about geopolitics,Iran,oil,the metals,the stock market,a potential top later this year & the global bust. youtube.com/watch?v=_y2qE6…

@morganwarstler @willchamberlain And if, I mean when, hospitals refuse in blue states, what then?

Based on SCOTUS today, Trump should drop some new EOs tomorrow.... 1) Designate Birth-Tourism Facilitators as Foreign Exploitation Networks Under the Immigration and Nationality Act. 2) Every hospital must report within 2 hours (via the new ICE portal) any birth where the mother is non-LPR/temporary/illegal. A public Birth Tourism Dashboard on DHS.gov listing aggregated numbers by country. 3) Directs SSA, State, and DHS to presume that any child born to a mother who is either unlawfully present or on a temporary non-immigrant visa (B-1/B-2, student, tourist, etc.) lacks parental domicile and therefore is not “subject to the jurisdiction” under the 1868 original meaning. Parents get 90 days to rebut with sworn evidence of permanent domicile + intent to remain (green-card application in process, U.S. home ownership, etc.). Failure = “provisional non-citizen” notation on birth certificate, SSN starting with “9,” and no automatic passport. $50,000 civil penalty per unrebutted birth on hospitals that don’t flag the presumption in real time.

@ashebabes @coookwithchris @oasishealthapp Getting harder to find this brand in glass versus plastic bottles.

@coookwithchris @oasishealthapp no such thing as clean water a polar bear peed in that

The CLEANEST tested water sold in stores @oasishealthapp

@Koast80sMixTape It’s a shame we can’t get these original releases and artwork on music streaming platforms. We ought to have both offered to us.

My featured album tonight

@ericjackson I read your post and interpreted that you went from 14 engineers down to 11, while gaining 10-20x in productivity. Is that correct?

Two weeks ago I had 14 engineers. This week I have 3 core ones, 8 on the broader team + Claude Code. Last night, in a single session: set up a Mac Mini from unboxing, deployed 15 AI agents, connected 3 servers across 2 continents, built a Telegram bot that answers stock questions in 25 seconds using local AI, and created a governance system where the AI publicly debates itself. This is not celebrating layoffs. Those were real people who already have great leads of where to go next. But I'd be lying if I said the math still worked. The gap between what a handful of people can build with AI tooling and what a small team used to ship without it is no longer 2x. It's 10-20x. That's uncomfortable. It's also true. And anyone using the tools knows it.

@cvpayne @ericjackson Rosebud

I still dream about this commercial

@mikealfred For me, sushi goes best with top-notch ice cold sake. 😌

@sleepybaysalmon What is the 8/2 Copper River salmon? How is it different from King salmon?

Wild Copper River sockeye are preparing to swim 300+ miles upstream like they’re auditioning for the salmon Olympics… and about to win gold in omega-3s. Result? My heart’s happier than a fat kid in a cake store, inflammation’s on mute, brain’s firing on all cylinders, and my vitamin D levels are basically pure midnight sun vibes. Meanwhile, farmed salmon’s still chilling in a pen scrolling TikTok. Who’s upgrading their dinner game?

@CinemaTweets1 Both great movies. I’m happy with the decision. Shakespeare was the best movie that year imho. Can we for a moment think about the golden days when there such movies as these to choose from in a given year?

Saving Private Ryan’s loss to Shakespeare in Love for the #Oscar for Best Picture is still a decision by the Academy that perplexes me but speaks to the voting body’s unpredictably. I like both movies but Ryan deserved the award more. Spielberg did some amazing things with this.