Tom Alexander

Aaron Rodgers reveals what the NFL’s top doctor said to him after he started pressing him on whether the COVID shot really stopped people from getting sick. RODGERS: “When I asked him [Dr. Allen Sills]… if you get the vax, can you contract or spread the disease? He said, ‘No.’ “I said, ‘Well, tell me this then, doc. Day one I get here, five scouts are out with COVID, all fully vaxed. How’d that happen?’ And he called me a conspiracy theorist. And that was like the end of the [vaccination status] appeal at that point, when I'm like, you don't actually give a sh*t about this when literally so many guys on our team had fake vax cards. And rightfully so.” A few years later, Tony Fauci — who Rodgers called a CRIMINAL in this interview — admitted in August 2024 that he just got infected with COVID a THIRD TIME after he had been “vaccinated and boosted a total of six times.” Nothing like being called a conspiracy theorist, only to have the face of COVID prove that you were right all along. COVID had nothing to do with health. It was all about control.

120

16K

888

360K

AlexanderTrade retweeted

Sterling Snow

@sterlingmsnow

2 months ago

I reread this every year. I cry like a baby every year. Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero. Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked. Lisa: I understand. Can they see you? Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake. Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor. Lisa: Are you okay? Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again. Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true? Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan. Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call. Lisa: I promise. Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy. Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.) Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol. Todd: I understand. I’ll be back. Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot. Lisa: What are you going to do? Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out. Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

sterlingmsnow's tweet photo. I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

165K

28K

17K

Tom Alexander

@AlexanderTrade

2 months ago

Nope, by a factor of about 10.

Roan

@RohOnChain

2 months ago

THE MATH NEEDED FOR TRADING (COMPLETE ROADMAP): today I'll will break down the essential math you need for trading & this is the exact roadmap that helped me personally when i started, i thought math was for interviews, two months into live trading i realized every position i took was pure math running in production here's the complete map of what math actually fires on real trades: --------------- 1. statistics and probability every price move is signal plus randomness. statistics separates the two what you need: > mean, median, expected value = EV formula (win% × avg win) - (loss% × avg loss) is what you're actually maximizing > variance and standard deviation = foundation of every position sizing formula, becomes volatility when applied to returns > correlation from -1 to +1 = tells you if strategies are actually independent > correlation 0.9 across 3 strategies = you have one strategy dressed as three > conditional probability = the biggest edge upgrade retail misses. P(win) = 55% unconditionally, but 70% when VIX < 15 > Bayes' theorem = how you update beliefs when new information arrives. never work with static beliefs > central limit theorem = why portfolio-level statistics behave cleaner than individual trades > linear and logistic regression = building blocks for mean reversion and binary prediction --------------- 2. linear algebra the moment you hold multiple positions, you're doing linear algebra whether you know it or not what you need: > scalars, vectors, matrices = your portfolio is a weighted sum of vectors > portfolio variance = w^T Σ w. not the sum of individual variances. one matrix operation > eigenvalues and eigenvectors = reveal where risk actually lives. in a 500-stock universe, top 5 eigenvectors explain 70% of variance. the other 495 are noise > PCA and SVD = reduce 50 correlated indicators into 5 independent factors explaining 90% of variation --------------- 3. time series analysis markets have memory. today's price depends on yesterday's. volatility clusters. trends persist what you need: > stationarity = assumption most statistical tests make, but markets aren't stationary, this is why strategies decay when regime shifts > autocorrelation = positive means momentum, negative means mean reversion, zero means random walk > ARIMA = framework for forecasting returns and volatility > GARCH = formalizes what every trader knows, volatility clusters. after a big move expect more volatility > cointegration = the foundation of pairs trading. two assets can both trend but their spread stays stationary --------------- 4. risk management math edge doesn't matter if you size wrong what you need: > Value at Risk = 95% VaR of $5,000 means 95% of the time you won't lose more, but 5% of the time you might lose much more > Sharpe ratio = (return - risk-free rate) / volatility. institutional threshold is Sharpe > 1.5 before deployment > maximum drawdown = biggest peak-to-trough loss. more intuitive than volatility for most traders > Monte Carlo simulation = randomizes trade sequencing to show the range of possible outcomes > Kelly criterion = f* = (bp - q) / b. professionals use 0.25x to 0.5x fractional Kelly because your true edge is never certain --------------- 5. stochastic calculus (for options) if you trade options, every price on your screen came from a stochastic differential equation what you need: > Black-Scholes = dS = μS dt + σS dW. the underlying follows geometric Brownian motion > Ito's Lemma = why the σ² term exists. this is why gamma exists > Heston stochastic volatility = dv = κ(θ - v)dt + ξ√v dW. captures the volatility smile that Black-Scholes misses > delta hedging = stochastic calculus running in production. every rehedge is dictated by the SDE governing the underlying --------------- MINIMUM TO START you don't need everything above to start for your first backtest: > mean, median, standard deviation > correlation > basic probability > Sharpe ratio and max drawdown start with statistics, that alone separates you from 95% of retail traders --------------- every real trade is math executing in production: > entry = conditional probability > validation = statistics > portfolio = linear algebra > sizing = Kelly optimization > risk = VaR, Sharpe, max drawdown > options = stochastic calculus the traders who make consistent money see markets as continuous equations, everyone else guesses if you're a complete beginner shoot me a DM and I'll share the resources with you MATH IS EVERYTHING <3

$RohOnChain's tweet photo. THE MATH NEEDED FOR TRADING (COMPLETE ROADMAP): today I'll will break down the essential math you need for trading & this is the exact roadmap that helped me personally when i started, i thought math was for interviews, two months into live trading i realized every position i took was pure math running in production here's the complete map of what math actually fires on real trades: --------------- 1. statistics and probability every price move is signal plus randomness. statistics separates the two what you need: > mean, median, expected value = EV formula (win% × avg win) - (loss% × avg loss) is what you're actually maximizing > variance and standard deviation = foundation of every position sizing formula, becomes volatility when applied to returns > correlation from -1 to +1 = tells you if strategies are actually independent > correlation 0.9 across 3 strategies = you have one strategy dressed as three > conditional probability = the biggest edge upgrade retail misses. P(win) = 55% unconditionally, but 70% when VIX < 15 > Bayes' theorem = how you update beliefs when new information arrives. never work with static beliefs > central limit theorem = why portfolio-level statistics behave cleaner than individual trades > linear and logistic regression = building blocks for mean reversion and binary prediction --------------- 2. linear algebra the moment you hold multiple positions, you're doing linear algebra whether you know it or not what you need: > scalars, vectors, matrices = your portfolio is a weighted sum of vectors > portfolio variance = w^T Σ w. not the sum of individual variances. one matrix operation > eigenvalues and eigenvectors = reveal where risk actually lives. in a 500-stock universe, top 5 eigenvectors explain 70% of variance. the other 495 are noise > PCA and SVD = reduce 50 correlated indicators into 5 independent factors explaining 90% of variation --------------- 3. time series analysis markets have memory. today's price depends on yesterday's. volatility clusters. trends persist what you need: > stationarity = assumption most statistical tests make, but markets aren't stationary, this is why strategies decay when regime shifts > autocorrelation = positive means momentum, negative means mean reversion, zero means random walk > ARIMA = framework for forecasting returns and volatility > GARCH = formalizes what every trader knows, volatility clusters. after a big move expect more volatility > cointegration = the foundation of pairs trading. two assets can both trend but their spread stays stationary --------------- 4. risk management math edge doesn't matter if you size wrong what you need: > Value at Risk = 95% VaR of $5,000 means 95% of the time you won't lose more, but 5% of the time you might lose much more > Sharpe ratio = (return - risk-free rate) / volatility. institutional threshold is Sharpe > 1.5 before deployment > maximum drawdown = biggest peak-to-trough loss. more intuitive than volatility for most traders > Monte Carlo simulation = randomizes trade sequencing to show the range of possible outcomes > Kelly criterion = f* = (bp - q) / b. professionals use 0.25x to 0.5x fractional Kelly because your true edge is never certain --------------- 5. stochastic calculus (for options) if you trade options, every price on your screen came from a stochastic differential equation what you need: > Black-Scholes = dS = μS dt + σS dW. the underlying follows geometric Brownian motion > Ito's Lemma = why the σ² term exists. this is why gamma exists > Heston stochastic volatility = dv = κ(θ - v)dt + ξ√v dW. captures the volatility smile that Black-Scholes misses > delta hedging = stochastic calculus running in production. every rehedge is dictated by the SDE governing the underlying --------------- MINIMUM TO START you don't need everything above to start for your first backtest: > mean, median, standard deviation > correlation > basic probability > Sharpe ratio and max drawdown start with statistics, that alone separates you from 95% of retail traders --------------- every real trade is math executing in production: > entry = conditional probability > validation = statistics > portfolio = linear algebra > sizing = Kelly optimization > risk = VaR, Sharpe, max drawdown > options = stochastic calculus the traders who make consistent money see markets as continuous equations, everyone else guesses if you're a complete beginner shoot me a DM and I'll share the resources with you MATH IS EVERYTHING <3$

862

161

42K

260

AlexanderTrade retweeted

Mike Binder

@MikeBinderjokes

2 months ago

As some of you know, Bobby Kennedy @RobertKennedyJr is one of my oldest and best friends. I am so proud to know him. I was involved in his Presidential compaign and it's one of the high points of my life. I truly have seen him deliver over well over two hundred speeches, including one of the best I ever saw in Boston as he announced his run. I have lost many of what I thought were friends for supporting him, and tonight I truly do not care. His speech tonight laid it all out as purely and cleanly as anyone could will ever do. Where were are, and what we are up against, in a way no other former Democrat has been able, or has had the courage to say. Please, if you didn't see it. Watch it. I am so proud of this great American and so glad we all have him in our camp and on our side. All of us Democrats and Republicans.

548

12K

275K

AlexanderTrade retweeted

Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱

@Kristof_Poland

2 months ago

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century. Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions. Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935. 1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first. 2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another. 3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own. 4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections. 5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked. 6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to. 7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march. Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

Kristof_Poland's tweet photo. Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.

Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.

1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.

2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.

4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.

5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.

6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.

7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

21K

19K

13M

Tom Alexander

@AlexanderTrade

2 months ago

US Stock Market Weekend Update 2026_09_05 https://t.co/UH9m14cpCL via @YouTube

168

Tom Alexander

@AlexanderTrade

2 months ago

US Stock Market Weekend Update 2026_08_30 https://t.co/8uV5u21ip8 via @YouTube

176

AlexanderTrade retweeted

John Wright

@johncwright2001

2 months ago

For those of you keeping track: 1. 1958 New York Times: Ice-free Arctic within 70 years. 2. 1967 Salt Lake City Tribute, quoting Paul Ehrlich: Global famine by AD 1975. Involuntary mass sterilization needed to curtail population growth. 3. 1970 Boston Globe, quoting James Lodge: Ice Age by the 21st Century. 4. 1971 Washington Post, quoting NASA: Ice Age within 50 years. 5. 1972 Brown University: Global climate deterioration due to Global Cooling. 6. 1974 Guardian: Ice Age coming fast. 7. 1974 Time Magazine: New Ice Age. 8. 1978 New York Times: No end in sight to cooling trend. A year later, the same paper with the same somber urgency, was reporting the opposite. 9. 1979 New York Times: Global climate catastrophe. Ice-free Arctic within 70 years. 10. 1982 New York Times, quoting UN: Environmental catastrophe by AD 2000. 11. 1988 AP: Global Warming: Maldives drowned by rising sealevel within 30 years (AD 2019). 12. 1989 San Jose Mercury, quoting UN: Global Warming: nations drowned AD 2000. 13. 2000 Independent: Snowfalls a ‘thing of the past’ in England within ‘a few years’. 14. 2001 Albuquerque Journal, quoting George Hurt: Climate-change to kill New England maple syrup industry. 15. 2004 Guardian, quoting secret Pentagon report: Climate change will trigger nuclear war, submerge major European cities, Britain ‘Siberian’ by AD 2020. 16. 2006 AP, quoting Al Gore: Greenhouse gas. Point of no return in 10 years (AD 2016). 17. 2007 New York Times, quoting UN: Point of no return by 2012. 18. 2007 Canwest News: Ice-free Arctic by AD 2010 or 2015. 19. 2007 AP, quoting NASA: Ice-free Arctic by AD 2012. 20. 2007 BBC: Ice-free Arctic before AD 2013. 21. 2008 Xinhua (Chinese News), quoting Norwegian official: Ice-free Arctic. 22. 2008 New Scientist Magazine, quoting director National Snow and Ice Data Center: Ice-Free Artic by AD 2008 (that year). 23. 2008 National Geographic, quoting scientist: Ice-Free Artic by AD 2008 (that year). 24. 2008 AP, quoting NASA: Ice-Free Artic by AD 2013 to 2018. 25. 2009 USA Today, quoting Al Gore: Ice-Free Artic by AD 2014. Note that on or about this time, circa 2010, the Glacial National Park erected signs warning that all glaciers would be melted entirely away by AD 2020 26. 2012 Australian: Snow gone by AD 2020. 27. 2013 Guardian: Ice-Free Artic by 2015, will trigger methane catastrophe. 28. 2017 Sydney Morning Herald: Climate Changes to curtail Australia’s ski industry. 29. 2018 Forbes, quoting Harvard University: Ice-Free Artic by AD 2022. Chance of any permanent ice remaining is “essentially zero.” (Despite these odds, 5.6 million square miles remain.) 30. 2018 Greta Thunberg, autistic schoolgirl, quoting ‘Top Climate Scientist’: Humans to go extinct if Climate Change not fixed by AD 2023. All humanity to perish unless fossil fuel use stopped within five years. 31. 2021 LA Times: No Snow in California by “sooner than you think.” 32. 2022 Bloomberg: End of Snow threatens to upend 76 million American lives. Please note that in AD 2020, Glacial National Park (see above) removed the signs predicting the glaciers clearly looming above the sightseers were to have had vanished by now.

198

685K

Tom Alexander

@AlexanderTrade

Who to follow

Last Seen Users on Sotwe

Trends for you

Most Popular Users