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“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

[steve2bacon, CMT 🥓🍩 @steve2bacon]

the united states as soon as the stock market is closed for the weekend

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

[ConquerMindsetMoney | Self Mastery @TheConquerMM]

Matthew McConaughey reveals the difference between a nice guy and a good man

"A nice guy gets along. They don't necessarily have discernment or judgment, not sure what they stand for or stand against. It's like yes, yes, yes, sure"

"A good man has ideals that they stand for and they stand against. And when they're tested, a good man is not a nice guy"

"Being a good man is a lot harder for good reason. Not going to be the most popular. Not going to be always the most affable"

"It also doesn't mean you got to be a dick. It just means sometimes you got to go, I believe in this, this is for me, and that is not for me"

"A good man's not looking for trouble. But if it comes, and if something he cares about was trespassed on, a good man does what he can to stop that"

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Feel like the Bible is quite explicit on this one

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Just remember it took Congress 5 months to agree to $600 stimulus checks for Americans, and 8 hours to send $13.6 billion to another country and give themselves a 21% pay raise.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

This Tax Day and unfriendly reminder that some of America's biggest companies paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

Amazon
Citigroup
CVS
Haliburton
Hasbro
Kohl's
Palantir
PayPal
PG&E
Roku
Southwest Airlines
Tesla
United Airlines
Walt Disney

And dozens of others all avoided paying federal income tax in 2025, despite making billions.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Woman who lives only 1.6 miles from the META Data Center in Wisconsin speaks out

She says their water system has been completely destroyed

She says there is discharge that turns the entire river white like milk. She paid for testing and found extremely high heavy metal levels

“I live on a horse farm and I am an educator. I, for almost four 50 years, a natural creek has flowed through my property. It's 20 feet wide, up to four feet deep. It has persisted through drought, flood, seasonal change. It's part of a connected system. Groundwater, tributaries, watersheds, aquifers ultimately flowing into Beaver Dam Lake. Until construction began upstream on the data center, its behavior was stable and predictable

After construction started, all of that changed. Here in Beaver Dam, the creek began to stop flowing entirely without rainfall. It would abruptly return off in cloudy and opaque like milk, with enough force to cause drastic erosion and damage — Water testing on my property shows elevated strontium, a very dangerous metal, and other indicators consistent with deep groundwater influence”

[DJ Branham 🗽 @DJBranham]

This is terrible. This money could be used for Israel or corporate subsidies.

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

You really have to stop and wonder how the hell everything can be so expensive when all we’ve done for 40+ years is give corporations the tax breaks they swore they needed to hire workers, cut prices, and give everyone raises.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Sadio Mane, a Senegalese soccer star, earns approximately $10.2 million annually. He gave the world a rude awakenng after some fans were flabbergasted when they saw him carrying a cracked iPhone 11. His response was awesome:

"Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches, and two jet planes? I starved, I worked in the fields, played brefoot, and I didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools and a stadium, provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive some of what life has given me.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

USFS turned over to a logging CEO, HQ moved to anti-Fed Govt Salt Lake City, all 10 regional offices closed, all research labs shuttered, all the science lost, public lands handed over to corporations for logging, mining, fracking. Our country is being raped, looted, stolen.

[Stand Up For Truth 🇺🇸 @StandUpForFact]

D.O.G.E. confirms that USAID gave Chelsea Clinton $82,000,000 through the "Clinton Global Initiative" 3 million of that was spent on her wedding and 11 million on a mansion.

Thoughts......??👀

[Matt Strickland @MattForVA]

This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.

Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.

Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.

This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

I forgot about this stupid shit but imagine if they poured $80 billion into feeding the hungry instead of this failed cartoon universe that nobody wanted

[ESPN @espn]

Lou Holtz has died at the age of 89, his family announced Wednesday.

The legendary football coach and ESPN analyst led six college programs and won the 1988 national title at Notre Dame.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

I had 7 sixth-grade boys come in while I was working, and they wanted to order wings. They asked if they had enough money to cover 40 wings and pops. I looked around, confused — wondering where their parents were.

I asked if they were alone, and they said, 'Yes, and we’ve been looking forward to this for weeks!' They were so excited and were EXTREMELY polite the whole entire time, using please and thank you and trying to make it as easy as possible for me to get their order. They even told me they’d tip well 😂.

It was touching to see how much the children were trying to behave well, even when there were no parents around to scold them. One of the boys even asked his friend to get off the phone while I was talking to them.

They were so good that a neighboring customer ended up picking up their tab and telling them to pay it forward. I just wanted to give big props to the parents of these boys — keep doing what you’re doing!!

Pictured is how they left the table. Even grown adults (myself included) rarely leave the table this clean!

Credit to the respective owner

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

I feel like Bill Gates shouldn't be allowed to own 400k acres of farmland and should be in prison.

[keegan @FranziaMom]

Put the surveillance camera on your front door. Put the surveillance camera in your glasses. Put the surveillance camera in your headphones. Let us see what you’re doing in your house, in your bathroom. Carry this camera with you forever. Let us see.