Kelli Lee

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@DADiClementi @Cozytvcatlover @elsbethcbs @RKing618 I adored her on TGW and TGF but somehow haven’t gotten around to this. I’ll put it on my summer watch list!

@Cozytvcatlover @elsbethcbs @RKing618 Oh gurl! This is SUCH a fantastic show-not like everything else out there! CBS Thursday night and on streaming and demand. Start with S1 E1-although, the character got her start on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

Let’s talk about how I thought @elsbethcbs was over and watched 2 unexpected episodes! And Tracey Ullman as Cindy Adams was beyond amazing! Another great season @RKing618 !

@Miriam2626 @MollyJongFast Reading it right now!

@MollyJongFast Graham's autobiography is one of the best books ever written.

“Fifty-four years ago, in 1971, my grandmother Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, risked everything to stand up to a corrupt president. That president sought to destroy her newspaper’s autonomy. Today, faced with another such president, Jeff Bezos, the paper’s new owner, is tearing down the very newspaper she defended.”

@JohnDuresky4 @SarahLongwell25 @JVLast Listened to it on the pod tonight, good luck to you!!

@SarahLongwell25 @JVLast Thanks for kind words, it was April 2, 2025, The Next Level (What a stupid stupid day this is). Sarah said, "It's really driven when people feel personally like they cannot sit on the sidelines. Because things are so crazy they feel like they have to get in the game." Yeahp, that was the beginning of political career. Thanks, JVL; I needed this for my spirit. It's been great week.

Uhhh they’re just openly stealing billions of dollars

@DADiClementi Clocked that but I got it!!

@da62220 Lips oops LOL

Joan Collins at Cannes. 2026 2014 1977

@BeschlossDC We were better off when people wore tan suits

President Nixon and ex-President LBJ at opening of LBJ Library, Austin, fifty-five years ago next week. Did LBJ enjoy this side-by-side demonstration that he was taller than Nixon? Any comments from you about LBJ's tan suit?

@DADiClementi 👀

@da62220 I did my eyes AND kips yesterday! Woohoo

@sampson_dog So fascinating to know all of this, I’m sure she feels better with some answers. Science is a wonderful thing.

Twenty years later, science finally saw it! Mom is choosing throwback pictures of us working throughout this series of sharing since together we worked through the process of understanding her brain, the frustrations of having no answers, the years of doubt and barriers to finally getting concrete answers backed by medical science results. Twenty years after a concussion changed Mom’s life, advanced brain imaging is finally able to measure some of what she has been trying to explain for years. This week’s MRI with DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) did not show bleeding or tumors, did not show precursors for Alzheimer’s or Dementia — although some structural damage was visible. Many of Mom’s brain structures and overall brain volume were within normal ranges — something reassuring after years of living with Post-Concussive Syndrome. But the DTI portion told a more detailed story. DTI looks at the brain’s white matter pathways — the communication networks that allow different regions of the brain to talk to each other. The imaging showed measurable abnormalities in portions of those pathways, particularly involving areas associated with: -->language processing -->executive functioning -->sensory integration -->visual/vestibular processing -->cognitive fatigue The report specifically identified: -->severe left anterior shortening -->moderate to severe right posterior inferior propagation -->mild reduction in white matter integrity in anterior regions In plain language: some of the brain’s communication pathways are not connecting and propagating signals in the typical pattern expected. The scan found measurable abnormalities in some of the brain’s communication pathways, especially involving frontal-left and posterior-right regions that are important for language, executive functioning, sensory integration, and vestibular/visual processing. In plain language: some of the brain’s communication pathways are not connecting and propagating signals in the typical pattern expected. For Mom, this is both fascinating and validating. For years, symptoms like dizziness, photophobia, slowed processing, aphasia, sensory overload, vestibular dysfunction, and cognitive fatigue were often difficult to explain to others because standard imaging frequently appears “normal” after concussion and diffuse axonal injury. Today, technology is catching up. What is remarkable is that years ago — before DTI became more widely recognized and utilized — Mom believed diffuse axonal injury and network-level dysfunction were part of what had happened to her brain. She wanted to pursue neuroscience research focused on these very mechanisms, but barriers surrounding service dog access in laboratories changed the course of that path. Still, there is gratitude in this moment. Gratitude that science continues advancing. Gratitude that these tools now exist. And gratitude that the work Mom does today may help ensure future scientists with disabilities are not blocked from pursuing the discoveries they are capable of making. Mom is especially grateful for her service dog, who helped her survive and navigate those early years of education after injury — assisting through confusion, dizziness, cognitive fatigue, balance issues, overstimulation, and the daily unpredictability of a brain injury that few people could see or understand. Long before advanced imaging could validate these injuries, her service dog was already responding to them. That experience has only strengthened Mom’s determination to continue advocating for disabled scientists and students with service animals — so future researchers are not pushed out of science because institutions fail to understand disability, access, or possibility. Science needs diverse minds, including those who have lived through injury, adaptation, and resilience. Changing the landscape of science culture matters. And now, after years of questions, comes another chapter: Determining what recovery and treatment looks like moving forward. Not giving up. Not slowing down. Just continuing to learn, adapt, and move forward — with science finally beginning to provide some answers.

When Donald Trump tells these outrageous lies keep in mind it’s because he had nothing to do with raising his kids. He didn’t hold his wife’s hand as she worked through contractions or a C-Section. He didn’t hold his child moments after birth. He never took any of them to a pediatrician appointment. He never had to distract his crying infant as they got shots. Have you ever seen a picture of him holding an infant? A candid photo of him smiling with his toddler playing games? All he knows is what liars tell him about the human experience. Thus, the idiotic belief newborns get “vats” of shots and not millimeters to help them survive.

Goode won.

@7awliet @NYMag What is your interest in NY12 from the UK

@NYMag "liberal-but-not-left Democrats" Alright so more of the same right-wing sh*t of Biden/Harris... Dems learnt nothing BECAUSE they're not there to learn anything - they just want to be anointed.

NY-12, which includes both the Upper West and Upper East Sides, is the smallest and most population-dense congressional district in the country, one that candidates can crisscross several times over in an afternoon. It is among the wealthiest and oldest districts in the United States and is also the district with the most college graduates. If you listen to the candidates, the battle for NY-12 is not just about who will be the next member of the city’s congressional delegation but a contest among factions of the island’s Democratic base: the old-money elite, the anti-Trump resisters, the tech-world crusaders, and the old-school party Establishment. While nearly a dozen candidates are vying for the district’s congressional seat, the primary is coming down to just four: Micah Lasher, a state assemblyman from the Upper West Side and a longtime political hand who is Jerry Nadler’s anointed successor; Alex Bores, an assemblyman from the Upper East Side whose calls for AI regulation have led to millions of dollars being spent both for and against him; George Conway, the onetime Republican lawyer who has achieved notoriety as a leader of the #Resistance; and a previously little-known social-media influencer who is trying to rewrite the rules of New York City politics. “It’s New York-sized,” that social-media influencer, Jack Schlossberg, said when asked why this campaign is different. Schlossberg’s presence in the race proves the point. For our Cover Story, David Freedlander reports on how four liberal-but-not-left Democrats are racing to be the face of Manhattan: nymag.visitlink.me/Os2_Oz

Four days ago, I wrote that after every Trump-Putin phone call, something deranged follows within weeks. I said mark the date. I said the clock is ticking. I was wrong. It took seventy-two hours. Allow me to recap what the leader of the free world has done to his closest allies since that cosy ninety-minute phone call with a man who poisons people in their driveways. Germany: 5,000 troops withdrawn. More promised. The Army’s Long Range Fires Battalion, scheduled to deploy to Europe, quietly cancelled. Germany, which actually met its NATO spending targets, which opened its bases and airspace to American operations, which did everything Trump asked, got punished anyway. Because its chancellor had the audacity to point out that Iran was humiliating Washington at the negotiating table. He was right. That was the problem. Italy: threatened with troop withdrawal because, in Trump’s words, Italy “has not been of any help.” Italy, a founding NATO member. Italy, which hosts tens of thousands of American troops and several critical US military installations. Useless, apparently. Spain: “horrible. Absolutely horrible.” Spain’s crime was refusing to let the United States use Spanish bases and airspace to bomb Iran. A sovereign decision by a sovereign ally. Described by the President of the United States as horrible. The European Union: 25% tariffs on cars and trucks, announced in the same week as the troop withdrawals. Germany builds cars. This was not a coincidence. And through all of this, Vladimir Putin got a ceasefire proposal endorsed, a nuclear diplomacy role handed to him on a plate, and not a single harsh word. Four days ago I predicted one unhinged announcement, one ally humiliated, and one idea so catastrophically stupid that the national security apparatus would spend a weekend trying to undo it. We got four allies humiliated, two economic attacks, and a full military retreat from the continent America spent eighty years promising to defend. I would say I am surprised. But I wrote it down in advance. Which makes this less a prediction and more a schedule. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@AshleyRParker Dog Tax!!

We just—somewhat confusingly and unexpectedly—adopted a dog 🐶, who humps everything and everyone. Or, as my 7-year-old excitedly describes it, “He even knows how to twerk!”

Trump’s DOJ just filed what may be the most deranged written Motion ever. It reads more like a Truth Social post dictated by Trump himself. What an embarrassment. The Motion is filled with inappropriate personal insults. It literally calls the National Trust for Historic Preservation name “FAKE” and says the group is “very bad for our Country.” It accuses them of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and frames their lawyer as “the lawyer for Barack Hussein Obama.” This is an actual line from the filing: “because it is DONALD J. TRUMP, a highly successful real estate developer, who has abilities that others don't, especially those who assume the Office of President, this frivolous and meritless lawsuit was filed.” This is how the Department of Justice is writing now? Then comes the opportunism. The filing leans heavily on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident and uses it to push Trump’s long-standing obsession with building a ballroom. Instead of addressing what went wrong, it argues that none of this would have happened if Trump’s project already existed. They claim “bipartisan support” because of support from…John Fetterman. The lawsuit also claims at multiple points the ballroom won’t cost taxpayers anything—something we now know to be false. Every DOJ lawyer who put their name on this should be ashamed. And it should be a major scandal that it appears that Donald Trump is the one who actually wrote this. So much for DOJ independence.

@DADiClementi I have one I feed grapes to every day. I just watched this interview on YouTube, excellent!

Hey, Fran! Squirrels are good and sweet!

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

The greatest problem in healthcare ? Hospitals, even market dominant hospitals, won’t walk away from the big ins companies that underpay, late pay, clawback, deny claims, waste their time in denial appeals, and require them to pay up to 8 pct of revenue to RCM consultants so they think they are getting what they are owed. Here is the crazy part. The ins companies ARE NOT THE ONES ACTUALLY PAYING THEM on commercial plans. Employers are. 60 pct of employees get their insurance from their self insured employers. The ins carrier is just a middleman that pretends to add value. All the clinical “value” they add, the hospital could do better, for both medical and pharmacy. Most hospitals have no idea whether they make or lose money with their big ins contracts. They are just afraid to lose patient flow. But. They actually know which companies their patients are coming from. They actually know or can find out, how much more the employers are paying the ins company, than what the ins company pays them (the spread, just like in pharmacy ) And to make it worse, those ins companies negotiate their rates as a discount from the “charge master “, which is like WAC in pharmacy. Just a made up list price. Because the hospitals are afraid or too uninformed to walk away from these deals, the hospitals use the inflated charge master prices as the basis to charge uninsured , or out of network , or insured but not covered for their care, at charge master rates. Which of course the patients can’t afford. And it crushes their finances or they go without care I’ll summarize. Employers , and their members , are paying far more than they should to companies they don’t like working with , that effectively rip off both the employer and hospital , and they could eliminate the middlemen if they went directly to to the employer. It’s so simple. Sell your services to the employers that use your services at a price that is less than what nine companies charge for your services and you will make MORE money and employers will save a ton And if they did this, they could dump the chargemaster and reduce the price they bill patients when they are at their most vulnerable But they don’t want to change. And don’t get me started on how much hospitals over pay for drugs and devices because of the GPO deals they do. It’s just stupid. Which in turn leads to the hospital being a bad actor with 340b , facilities fees and afraid of their doctors who demand they pay more for things like glue and implants so they can get vacations. If you are a politician and reading this. Now you know why this is so fucked up and it’s not about capping rates. The insurance companies are smarter than you. They will just move the money to other places. It’s not about giving money to patients. You can’t shop for care from hospitals that are too gutless to walk away from the ins companies that distort all of healthcare economics Go to your local hospitals , particularly those at risk of closing and ask for their profitability by carrier. Fully burdened. Ask how much they spend on RCM and consultants. In many cases they could survive if they ran like a real business and hired execs that could do the work rather than just manage consultants. They could work out contracts in their communities rather than with ins companies and benefit everyone. The middlemen are not needed. Get rid of them

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