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@dearsusanbranch @ewarren @vsansome Liberals can't do math. The rich already pay more than their fair share.

@ewarren @vsansome It’s more than fair. It’s payback time before these billions become 2nd generation.

The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act would generate over $6 trillion over the next decade—without raising taxes on 99.85% of American households. This wealth tax for millionaires and billionaires could pay for universal child care, free community college, Medicare expansion, and more.

@LimitlesCobz Blocking this guy for what is obviously BS.

Nobody is telling you how FUCKED the global pharmaceutical supply chain actually is right now. Iran hit TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL — the single largest generic drug manufacturer on EARTH. → Chemical leaks reported at the factory → Secondary explosions confirmed → The facility is BURNING Here's what happens when Teva goes offline: → Teva supplies generic medications to EVERY major country on Earth → They produce treatments for cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory conditions, neurological disorders → Hospitals in the US, Europe, Asia depend on Teva supply chains → There is NO substitute manufacturer at this scale → Generic drug shortages were ALREADY at crisis levels before the war Now watch the domino effect: → Teva factory burns → production stops → Drug shortages within WEEKS in hospitals worldwide → Prices for generic medications SURGE → Insurance systems buckle under cost increases → Patients in developing countries — where generics are the ONLY option — lose access entirely Iran didn't need to bomb a hospital. They bombed the factory that keeps hospitals running. One factory. One night. And the medicine that BILLIONS of people depend on just got a lot harder to find. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨

@DefiantLs He is so bought and owned.

John Thune under fire for leaving D.C. after the Senate passed a partial DHS funding bill that excludes funding for ICE and CBP

@EricLDaugh These people are bought and sold. They have no soul.

🚨 JUST IN: Leader Thune is being eviscerated by some House Republicans after "in the dead of night" passing a DHS funding deal without ICE and CBP REP. GREG STEUBE: "Of course Leader Thune and the Senate RINOs caved to Democrats who refuse to fund ICE and CBP. The American people gave us the House, Senate, and White House and we still can’t pass a bill to fund ALL of DHS." REP. KEITH SELF: "In the dead of night, with only five senators present on the floor and no one there to object, the Senate rushed through a DHS funding bill that deliberately left ICE and CBP unfunded." "Now, they are leaving town. No SAVE America Act. ICE and CBP unfunded. Senate Republicans just gave the Democrats everything they wanted and more."

@HyperAICapital I wouldn’t assume Larry tells the truth all the time

🚨 THE LARGEST INVESTOR ON EARTH JUST SILENCED THE AI BUBBLE CROWD BlackRock CEO Larry Fink controls $14 trillion in assets. Every Fortune 500 CEO reads his letter before breakfast He just said this in his latest BBC interview: 1. “This is not a bubble” Fink talks directly to hyperscaler CEOs. Their message: demand is outpacing supply. Not slowing. Accelerating. They can’t build fast enough. 2. One data centre = $50 billion A single 1GW AI data centre costs over $50 billion. One tech CEO told Fink he needs 23 gigawatts by 2030. That’s over $1 trillion. From one company. 3. China is building 100GW of nuclear. Right now. That’s 30+ nuclear power stations under construction. While Europe debates planning permission, China pours concrete. 4. The real bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s power. “The biggest issue that limits the West is the cost of power.” His words. Not mine. 5. AI will create a blue-collar boom Fewer analysts. More technicians (e.g. electricians, welders, plumbers). The people who build and maintain AI infrastructure will be in massive demand. 6. Energy pragmatism, not ideology Oil. Gas. Solar. Nuclear. Wind. Use everything. Cheap power = economic resilience. Expensive power = recession. The largest investor on Earth just told you exactly where the money is going. AI infrastructure demand is real and accelerating. Only constrained by power.

@LeoNaranjoIV @ChadBianco You should be scared. Light is coming.

I've seen some pretty Boneheaded things in my days, but YOU sir, are taking the literal Cake. This isn't about 45,000 ballots being overcounted. This is about Grandstanding. Sad thing is, YOU sir, fail to grasp the damage YOU are doing to the entire process. YOU seized materials owned by the State, supposedly with a warrant signed by a Judge. Who signed the warrant. What Judge? What was your reasoning? Then, you raided a Registrar of Voters office? Forced your way in, or bluffed? You took said evidence, under warrant, from that establishment. And held them where again? YOUR office? How many Deputies involved? WHAT actions did/or have you taken on the so called, 2020 scams? Or all the other ones YOU say, happen in California all the time? ZERO. You seized ballots, but did you acquire the machines? That would be private property, that would also have legal issues in "company ownership of programing/intellectual property rights". In short, you LEGALLY just can't pry open those machines, that's been determined already. Yes, is it foul? Perhaps, but YOU just ensured their standings for "Intellectual Property". If you didn't SEIZE the machines, then WHAT are you doing? Your Deputies are counting? What? Can they? DO they know how? In order to work at an ROV, you have to go through instructions/classes. HAVE your Deputies gone thru that training? Hell sir, YOUR DEPUTIES can't even tell when an inmate is in Medical Distress, so how can they know what IS/ISN'T a good ballot?? If you catch any ILLEGALS voting, will you also SERVE justice?? Make an arrest, or play the BS game you do, about "I can't because....blah blah Sanctuary, blah blah". I don't like the "process" any more than you may. But there IS a process. Elections are the purveyance of the Secretary of State, NOT some Rogue Sheriff with misguided and personal agenda intentions. YOU feel there was a WRONG, get a Grand Jury started; work with the AG of your county and/or the State AG. Get a warrant, make arrests, have a trial, punish accordingly IF found guilty. But THIS??? Your fake ass "we seized evidence".....omg. There are 57 other County Sheriffs in California, besides YOU. Picture all of them, doing the same thing. Where does this leave, the voting process? In the Shitter. YOU don't like an outcome, so you use your Authority as Sheriff, to seize and recount using YOUR deputies to do it, until what.....the outcome is as YOU describe it to be? And if/when a DEMOCRAT uses/abuses this same method, then what? WHO do we as citizens, appeal to? You are so desperate for ratings, that you just EFFED up the entire process, and are too DOOFUS to grasp the impact. What you've done isn't justice, it's chaos. What you did, wasn't for the Citizens, it's for YOUR voter appeal for this election to hopefully win Votes. If you don't like the process, change it. VOTE differently. But instead, you're TRYING to alter an outcome, at the point of a Badge and a Gun, because YOU feel, YOU can do whatever you wish to do, whenever you wish to do it. Not how it works in America sir. But, I will say this, from the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU BIANCO!!! for screwing yourself over! For alienating the public to your actions. Oh, you may grab a point or two here or there? But in the overall impacts? You've just jumped started me 5-15 points, for being WISE enough to know, this isn't how you make changes within our System. By your own actions, 1 thing is truth: either, A) all the other 57 Sheriffs in California are braindead, and YOU are the only one who had "supposedly" found fraud in your county, or: B) This is all Theatrics to jump start a faltering candidacy. If the system is so untrustworthy, then WHY are we going thru these motions for an election?? If you felt the machines were SO BAD, weren't they acquired BY YOU, and their programing reviewed by YOUR office?? I may not like the processes, or the people in charge of them.......but I would NEVER have supported YOUR version of "lets get to the bottom of this" action, YOU started. I called you a Coward, for never wanting to stand on a stage opposite of myself, to have a formal debate. 30 year Sheriff vs 36 year Retired Military Veteran. At this point, I highly doubt you'll ever stand on a stage for a debate. (except the one on 24th March). If the DEM's don't fry you over this, then my theory is correct: You're being protected for the fool you are, to be crushed in the General IF you get that far. But if THIS is your version of fair elections? God help us. Yes, HAVE an investigation........the RIGHT way...not this way. You soon may be, the only candidate who gets arrested for "Voter intimidation, campaign interference, tampering with evidence, theft" and anything else THEY may want to throw at you over this. Cause if I were to be elected? That's exactly what I'd demand happen to you. This may seem GOOD TO DO, at present? It isn't. History will prove it in the end. BTW? What are the laws/costs associated for this so called, RECOUNT? Isn't that like a "recount" in a normal process? WHO pays for this? YOUR campaign? YOUR County? smh..........stupid, just stupid. If the DOMINION group doesn't sue you over this? Then yea....there probably IS a corruption to the process......YOU may be it. Leonaranjo4gov.com @CAGOP @CorrinRankin @realDonaldTrump @KTLA @kcranews @FoxNews @abc7newsbayarea @ABC @CBSNews @NBCNews

BREAKING: Attorney General Rob Bonta just filed an emergency writ with the court of appeals to stop ballots from being counted. For those not aware, we are investigating a reported discrepancy of 45,000 votes.

@CuriosityonX @BretBaier If shit hole countries polluting, we wouldn’t have to worry about this problem

This is incredible. This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic. It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.

@SamaHoole I love your posts but nobody evolved. The fossil record shows species pop-up and die. There’s no proof of evolution. It’s a theory kind of like the old food pyramid

The gut-brain trade-off. Your brain is 2% of your body weight. It uses 20% of your calories. It runs best on fat and ketones. It grew from 400cc to 1,400cc over 2 million years. Something paid for that. Your digestive tract shrank by about 40% compared to what you'd expect for a primate your size. Gut tissue is metabolically expensive. You only lose it when you no longer need it. You stopped needing it when you stopped relying on a three-day fermentation process to extract anything useful from raw plant matter. You started eating food that arrived pre-assembled with fat, protein, and every micronutrient your expanding brain required. The brain grew. The gut shrank. These are not unrelated events. Your ancestors paid for the most expensive organ in the animal kingdom in animal fat. You are the receipt.

@wesbury Wait until people realize gold’s intrinsic value is a fraction of its current price (industrial + jewelry demand only). It’s a belief-based monetary asset, priced on what people think it’s worth, not what it does.

Read this headline, and tell me again why people are losing knowledge of financial markets and economics.

@wesbury @greg_ip @WSJ It's clear the Fed does not know what they are doing. The idea That you manage the global economy via interest rates obviously doesn't work well.

This, at this point, would be insane. You don’t raise rates into a war and higher oil prices. A Fed rate increase, once unthinkable, has become thinkable thanks to stubborn inflation, Iran and a resilient economy, @greg_ip writes wsj.com/economy/centra… via @WSJ

@alex_avoigt If this were true, the cost of energy in Germany would be a fraction of what it is.

To all who still don't get why renewable energy generation beats oil & gas hands down:

@TheRedPill01 @JakePearson303 Dosage, please?

@JakePearson303 I've taken Berberine 3x/day for over a year. My bodyfat went down and has remained under 15% since. Along with intermittent fasting, it's made the biggest difference I've found yet.

There's a reason your doctor never mentioned Berberine. It can't be patented, so there's no profit in it. For 3,500 years, this natural compound has been torching fat and optimizing hormones. They buried it. I'm bringing it back. Here's the truth: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TonySeruga Then kill them all.

Slaying The Hydra – What If Cutting Off The Head Doesn’t Kill Iran? —Sam Faddis is a former clandestine CIA operations officer in Iran and the Middle East One of the dangers in war is assuming the enemy thinks like you, is organized like you, and responds like you. Since the outset of this Iran war, we appear to have assumed that the Iranians will respond in what we consider a “rational” manner and are “built” like us. What if that is not true at all? In Greek mythology, the Hydra was a gigantic, nine-headed water serpent. If you cut off one of those heads, two more grew back in its place. Ultimately, it took Heracles and some help from the gods to defeat it. In the real world, the Hydra is a water creature that looks a lot like a jellyfish. It is effectively immortal. Hydra just clone themselves. They have no brain or central nervous system. If you cut a hydra in half, each piece grows into a new, fully functional intact hydra. There’s a lesson in there somewhere. The Iranian military operates on the principle of mosaic defense, designed explicitly in response to their observations of how we wage war. It works like this. The Iranian defense structure is organized into 31 regional and largely independent commands. These commands incorporate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Basij, regular army units, missile forces, and naval assets. If one command goes down, the others keep functioning. If senior leaders are killed, each of the 31 commands continues to fight. If communications go down, each command moves ahead on its own. On March 1, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi described Iran’s mosaic defense strategy this way: “We’ve had two decades to study defeats of the U.S. military to our immediate east and west. We’ve incorporated lessons accordingly. Bombings in our capital have no impact on our ability to conduct war. Decentralized Mosaic Defense enables us to decide when—and how—war will end.” This doctrine includes planning for a nationwide insurgency in the event of an American ground invasion. Dr. Michael Connall, an Iranian military culture expert, has written that this doctrine was derived from careful observation of the limits of U.S. military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans. The Iranians saw that we began offensive operations with decapitation strikes to disorient our enemies. They planned accordingly. Since each one of the 31 commands has a range of units at its disposal, it is effectively able to stand alone and continue to fight. This doesn’t just mean it can engage in combat with invading forces. It means it can continue to build and fire drones. It means it can hunt down dissidents. It means it can confront protesters in the street and, if necessary, eliminate them. Evidence of the activation of mosaic defense was apparent in the Iranian response to an attack on Oman by Iranian forces. The Iranian government said openly that the attack was carried out by autonomous units that were not in communication with higher headquarters. When coupled with Iran’s asymmetric warfare capabilities, this mosaic defense strategy becomes especially dangerous. Iran went into this war with thousands of missiles and drones. The missiles require a significant manufacturing base to produce. The drones are another matter. A Shahed drone costs roughly $20,000 to $50,000 to produce. It can be built in a wide variety of locations. The airframes are made using essentially the same techniques used in making small boats. The production process is “flat” and modular, meaning parts like the wings, fuselage, and engines can be manufactured in separate, small workshops and then quickly assembled elsewhere. The key components are largely off-the-shelf and commercial, and widely available. The Houthis have demonstrated how this plays out. The United States spent billions intercepting relatively cheap missiles that disrupted global trade for months. In some sense, the mosaic defense doctrine also extends outside Iran’s borders. Iran has long used its proxies as a method of warfare. Its so-called “Axis of Resistance,” consisting of Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and other Palestinian groups, as well as Iraqi militant groups, allows it to wage warfare without having to deploy its own troops in any significant numbers. Hezbollah, in particular, has already involved itself in this conflict, opening up what amounts to a second front against Israel. We can assume that Iran also has already prepared itself to activate “sleeper cells” in the U.S. and across the world. A Hezbollah operative arrested on U.S. soil in 2017 admitted to being a part of Hezbollah’s external operations unit and claimed that he was part of a “sleeper cell” that was instructed to take action if the United States went to war with Iran. These cells may, in fact, be operating under the same mosaic defense principles. In short, they may be self-activating and authorized to initiate operations even in the absence of specific direction from higher headquarters. It took Heracles and some divine intervention to kill the original Hydra. We may want to start thinking about what it will take to kill the Iranian version. It may not be more of the same and a continuation of the approach we have employed so far. Follow Sam Faddis @RealSamFaddis and read his Substack: andmagazine.substack.com/p/slaying-the-…

@mifiberoptic @JacobKinge I'm sure you're a fucking genius.

@JacobKinge The only thing Ackman knows is how to receive American taxpayer funds funneled through Israel. Guy is a hack with countless horrible stock picks

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school:

I get why people are shocked that new drugs like Patrick Soon-Shiong’s IL-15 therapy (Anktiva) can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. But there’s a basic economic reality most people ignore. Developing a new drug typically costs $1–3 billion, takes 10–15 years, and most attempts fail. Investors only fund that risk because there’s a chance of very high prices early on. In a functioning market, wealthy patients and insurers pay those early prices. That money funds research, competition, and manufacturing scale. Over time, more companies enter, production improves, patents expire, and prices fall dramatically. That’s why technologies like MRIs, genome sequencing, LASIK, and many biologic drugs started extremely expensive and later became far more affordable. If governments cap prices too early, you don’t get cheap drugs. You get fewer drugs. The uncomfortable truth is that early adopters effectively subsidize the breakthroughs that eventually become accessible to everyone.

Ok Patrick Shoon Shiong has developed il-15 Anktiva a potential cancer cure, that’s amazing but one dose costs $35k and bulk treatment is around half a million?!?!? I’m sorry but chat gpt this. There’s absolutely no justification. The US needs to regulate drug pricing.

@PerspectiveMtrs Over time, more companies enter, production improves, patents expire, and prices fall dramatically. That’s why technologies like MRIs, genome sequencing, LASIK, and many biologic drugs started extremely expensive and later became far more affordable.

@TuckerGoodrich @DrEades It also helps you communicate better.

I have no trouble at all believing this. @DrEades

@Nittan53910768 @JM_speakss It’s his fantasy to get rich hustling shitcoin.

@JM_speakss Good read. But no. This is no master plan. You really think all those dominos are going to fall into place perfectly ?! 🙄 This is a panic move to distract from the E*^’*in files. Convince me otherwise. I’ll wait

Ok, here’s my honest take. Every piece snapping into place like clockwork. China has spent years dodging Western oil sanctions by quietly sourcing from Venezuela and Iran, keeping its economy insulated from USD pressure. Trump’s non-negotiable mission is to obliterate BRICS, bury de dollarization for good, and reinstall the USD as the unchallenged global reserve currency for the next century. To refinance America’s towering debt load he needs interest rates driven into the ground. To steamroll the 2026 midterms he needs stock markets in full blown euphoria. The cleanest, fastest way to deliver both at once? Precision geopolitical conflict that spikes energy prices, supercharges defence and industrial stocks, floods the system with liquidity, and forces every player back onto America’s chessboard. Connect the dots because they’re not random: - The US moves decisively on Venezuela, securing its enormous oil reserves, lithium, gold, and rare earth minerals. - Canada now fully aligned and openly supporting the US steps up with comprehensive diplomatic cover, logistical bases, intelligence sharing, and even limited expeditionary support. Ottawa’s move instantly locks down the entire Western Hemisphere energy corridor, creates a seamless North American fortress, and sends an unmistakable signal to every ally and adversary: “The West is unified, and America is back in charge.” China’s first major lifeline is severed overnight. - Beijing, panicked, doubles down on its Iranian supplies. - Then, literally last night, Trump green-lights “Operation Epic Fury” devastating precision strikes (with Israeli support) that target the Iranian regime’s command centers, nuclear sites, and oil infrastructure while broadcasting direct calls for the Iranian people to rise up. China’s second critical lifeline is gone in hours. That leaves only Russia. But here’s the masterstroke that’s still flying under the radar…Russia and the US I think are already in back channel talks for a historic deal on energy, trade, and security that brings Russian oil and gas flooding into Western markets. Canada’s rock solid alignment gives Trump the perfect geopolitical bridge…a bulletproof North American energy bloc plus Russian resources creating an unbreakable alliance that completely isolates China. BRICS is dead in one decisive stroke. Once China is totally cut off it has zero leverage left. Beijing will be forced to come crawling back to the United States for everything…oil, minerals, technology, and market access. Trump’s response? “Hold our debt.” America sets the terms. China is handed massive tranches of US debt at favorable rates, the dollar undergoes a controlled, orderly reset, and the entire global financial system realigns under Washington’s leadership. Central banks worldwide have been stockpiling physical gold for exactly this moment as the ultimate backstop and hedge against the transition. And here’s what happens to Bitcoin in the next phase because crypto is the missing piece that turns this from dominance into total supremacy: As the conflict premium hits energy markets and defense budgets explode, liquidity floods risk assets. Bitcoin, already positioned as digital gold and the ultimate inflation hedge, breaks out violently first surging past $200k on pure market momentum and institutional FOMO. Then, once the Russia deal is signed and the dollar reset is underway, Trump drops the bombshell…an executive order establishing a strategic US Bitcoin Reserve. Using seized Venezuelan assets and windfall revenues from the new energy alliance, America becomes the world’s largest sovereign Bitcoin holder overnight. This single move does three things at once: 1. It legitimizes Bitcoin under American control, pulling it away from Chinese mining dominance forever; 2. It gives retail and institutional investors the green light to pile in without regulatory fear; 3. It supercharges the market rally needed for midterm victories.

@JM_speakss Nice fantasy

@george__mack The percentage-of-life explanation is catchy but not scientifically solid. “Janet’s Law” isn’t a recognized law in psychology or neuroscience. It’s more of a viral metaphor.

When you’re 5 years old, a year is 20% of your life. And when you’re 50 years old, a year is 2% of your life. This is an explanation given why time speeds up as you age. It's called Janet's law. It states you’ve experienced roughly half of your perceived by life by 20 years old. Or to put it another way: A summer holiday for a 5 year old feels as long as the 10 years from 40 to 50 years old. But Janet's law can be broken with high agency. You have agency over the speed time. You're not a passive victim. A better explanation of why time speeds up as you age is because you have fewer new experiences as an adult, so your brain deletes the memories. If you take agency over your life, do new things and create memory dividends, time slows down. If you live your life on autopilot, you may die at 80, but feel like you died at 20 years old. If you take agency over your life, you may diet at 80, but feel like you died at 200 years old.