Andrew Hanscom 🇺🇸

Husband, Father, Founder 💦 Making America's Water Safe Again - What's in your tap water?

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Chamath: "Now, can I just say something else? You’re allowed to disagree with the guy… But as an adult living human being that’s responsible for taking care of your family, you have to get past the TDS."

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The American university system is the largest wealth transfer from the young to the old in human history and nobody frames it that way because the people who benefit from it control the framing.

Eighteen year olds who can’t legally buy a beer are signing six figure debt obligations to institutions that face zero accountability for outcomes. The loan is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. The university gets paid regardless of whether the student gets a job. The incentive structure is pure extraction. Get them in. Get the money. What happens after is their problem.

43% underemployment isn’t a failure of the students. These kids did exactly what they were told. Study hard. Get good grades. Go to college. Get the degree. They followed the script perfectly and the script was a lie. Not a lie that anyone intended maliciously at first. But a lie that became profitable enough that nobody corrected it even after the data made it obvious.

The people who designed this system, the administrators pulling $500k salaries, the tenured professors teaching subjects with zero market application, the loan servicers collecting interest on degrees in fields that haven’t produced a living wage in twenty years. None of them are underemployed. They’re doing fine. The 43% is subsidizing their comfort.

Now add AI. The entry level professional jobs that justified the debt are the first ones being compressed. Not blue collar work. Not trades. The exact white collar knowledge work positions that the degree was supposed to unlock. Legal research. Financial analysis. Consulting grunt work. Content production. The 43% who are already underemployed are about to be joined by a significant chunk of the 57% who thought they made it.

The people who will come through this are the ones who figured out early that the credential was a trap. The ones who built skills instead of collecting letters after their name. The ones who found asymmetric paths. The ones who created value directly instead of waiting for an institution to certify them as valuable.

The university system had a real function once. It produced genuine education and genuine opportunity. That function has been hollowed out by decades of misaligned incentives until what remains is mostly a financing operation that happens to have classrooms attached.

And 43% of its recent customers just confirmed with their own lives that the product doesn’t work.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 DAVID SACKS COMPLETES HIS 130 DAYS AS TRUMP'S AI AND CRYPTO CZAR

Sacks used up his full allocation as a special government employee and is now moving to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

In just over four months, Sacks helped shape Trump's AI framework, pushed for easier permitting and power generation for tech companies, and brought serious Silicon Valley credibility to an administration that needed it.

He sold over $200 million in crypto investments before taking the role.

No conflicts. Clean hands.

Now he gets an expanded portfolio.

PCAST covers AI plus a broader range of technology policy.

Less day-to-day operations, more strategic recommendations directly to the president.

Sacks:

"I think moving forward as co-chair of PCAST, I can now make recommendations on not just AI but an expanded range of technology topics."

One of the few people in Washington who actually understands how this technology works.

Good to see him staying involved.

Source: CNBC @DavidSacks

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt"

"People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union.

"$250 billion to $1 trillion short."

"This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension."

"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."

How we got here:
"California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in.

$250 billion to $1 trillion short.

If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits.

There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits.

It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California.

So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A city in Napa Valley, California has tap water that “smells like swamp” and is brown

City officials say they can’t replace all the pipes, so residents buy bottle water

“The water is too often discolored. It can be silty, it can be frothy, even sometimes smells like swamp. The discoloration comes from naturally occurring minerals like iron and manganese that builds up in old pipes”

“One Saint Helena resident told me the water sometimes stains the tub and it can be hard to wash it off.”

“City officials say it's not possible to replace all the pipes in the system — in 2023, they said they would spend about $55 million over 5 years improving water quality. But some Saint Helena residents remain unconvinced”

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Rep Tim Burchett exposes the price of gas increasing in America has nothing to do with the Iran war

He says we buy ZERO oil from Iran, our fuel companies just decided to take advantage of the situation and price gouge Americans

“How much oil does America get from Iran? Zero. That's how much this is a scam. And these oil companies, shame on 'em. They're using this opportunity to make record profits once again”

“Another thing that really ticks me off about it is that the price of oil, they say, well, it's whatever happens overseas is causing this to happen. — The price hasn't gone up — the whole thing is, is just ridiculous. It's greed”

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

"If I could take only 5 supplements for the rest of my life, this is exactly what I would take."

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American shows the chlorine used to treat our tap water in America is still very present in the water when you go to drink it

She tests the tap water with chemical detecting drops

She then shows how easily the chlorine transfers to human skin

“The chlorine is now on my hand. My hand absorbed the chlorine. And this is what happens every time you expose yourself to tap water. Chlorine is just one of the many contaminants found.

There's also heavy metals from pipes, rust, lead microplastics, and 200 plus unregulated chemicals. Because the EPA is super behind on regulations, no wonder why people have all these skin issues, hair shedding, even health issues from drinking tap water.”

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 DR. OZ: “The U.S. Attorney, the FBI, everyone's now focused on the fact that in this state [California], which has about $30 BILLION worth of home & community based services, most of it might be fraudulent.”

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨How did Ilhan Omar make millions from a 100% fake winery?

This is insane. We investigated. Check this out…

Illhan Omar lists a California winery on her financial disclosures. You can see them below. The winery name is ‘eStCru LLC.’

In 2023 it was valued at $15k.
In 2024 it was valued at $5 Million (!!!)

This must be a very successful winery to grow that much in value over one year. Except… the winery does not even exist:

- No phone line
- No physical winery
- Social media gone dark
- A barely functional ‘website’
- No wine lol

What is this?!

It gets worse: Omar’s third husband, Tim Mynett, has been accused of defrauding investors through this FAKE winery. He was sued by the investors for millions because it’s all fraudulent. This is on brand. Minnesota AG Keith Ellison previously worked with Mynett, the same AG who has REFUSED to investigate widespread Somali fraud.

How does a nonexistent winery jump from $15k to $5 million in one year when the company is a ghost? How can Omar claim this fake company provides her millions in assets? Seems like a cover.

Ironically, one of the wine labels they made was literally called ‘The Devil‘s Lie’

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress MUST investigate this fraud further.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Are you sitting down?

California NGOs:
213,720
$593.4 billion/year

New York NGOs:
132,097
$445.8 billion/year

Minnesota NGOs:
41,267
$124.2 billion/year

New Jersey NGOs:
56,332
$113 billion/year

Washington NGOs:
44,332
$139.5 billion/year

Just a few.

Imagine the fraud…

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Nick Shirley on Nick Fuentes’ influence with Gen Z—starting with Fuentes’ post claiming public outrage over Somalians will lead to “no mass arrests” and “no mass deportations,” and what that says about political results versus online theater. Nick breaks down why figures like Fuentes gain traction with younger audiences—arguing it’s less about agreeing with everything said and more about entertainment, blunt delivery, and a “raw, real” style people feel is missing from mainstream media. The conversation expands into how Gen Z decides who to trust, why they’re exhausted by “opinion pieces” and want “actual factual information,” and how real-world pressures—student debt, affordability, and the difficulty of building a stable life—shape that demand for clarity and results.

@nickshirleyy
@NickJFuentes

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨 California Fraud Update: We have received over 1,000 messages from whistleblowers, public officials and State employees exposing California waste, fraud and abuse

Thank you.

We are headed to California next week to investigate.

What’s been brought to light already is mind-blowing:

- $24B on fake homelessness programs
- $18B on high-speed rail
- $32B in COVID relief stolen
- $2.5B lost to SNAP fraud
- Billions for Palisades fire rebuilding, zero homes built
- $250B in potential fraud (!!!)

Democrats are panicking because exposure like this ends political careers. We saw it with Tim Walz. Newsom is next.

It’s time for the theft of American taxpayer to end. You can be part of it, Message us at: [email protected]

This is how we save America. Get ready.

[Not Op Cue @NotOpCue]

@LeadingReport Full infographic released by Trump

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Here is the untold story about Venezuela that the media will never tell you.

This man breaks down exactly why it was absolutely CRITICAL for Dictator Nicolas Maduro to be taken down.

- Venezuela has been strangled by a narco-dictatorship for over 25 years
- The regime erased entire families’ lives. Jobs, savings, pensions, and investments gone
- Venezuela is now the second-largest mass displacement on Earth, after Syria
- The regime has imprisoned hundreds of political opponents
- Thousands have been murdered for opposing the government or speaking the truth
- One-third of the country has fled
- Iranian militias, Chinese corporations, and Russian intelligence operate freely inside the country
- Foreign powers looting Venezuela’s land, oil, gold, and institutions
- The country has become a forward operating base for authoritarian regimes
- It is a direct threat to the Western Hemisphere

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

I think this is the most asymmetric upside bet in the market now. Position yourself smartly and you can make 10-1000x with relative ease.

How?

Even if politicians try to bury the fraud, the bond market can’t ignore it. Their math will show that even if the fraud is only 10% of total state and municipal budgets, it’s already way too much and should go to paying back debt holders.

Right now spreads don’t reflect this and are too tight - ie look at California Credit Default Swaps - it doesn’t reflect any fraud, budget shortfalls or the billionaire exodus.

There is little chance these spreads don’t move as the bond market comes back to work and processes the events of the last few days.

Now, if instead of 10% fraud, they believe that fraud is 20-30% of all tax dollars, the cost of borrowing will escalate sharply until federal, state and local governments are forced to act.

This is when the CDS trade becomes the most asymmetric profit opportunity of our lifetime.

Buy the CDS -> wait for politicians to try and bury it -> ie in California -> see the bond market increase borrowing costs -> see the CDS blow out -> asymmetric bet pays off.

The takeaway here is that the bond market lives in an alternative and adjacent universe from the politicians and media. The latter group can try to bury an issue but when the former group is asked to fund it, a reckoning happens and the former group always wins.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[The General @1776General_]

The Federal Reserve is a SCAM.

Share this with everyone you know.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

If you watch one thing tonight, let it be this.

Stephen Miller drops a TRUTH NUKE, saying if we remove all immigrants from failed, third-world systems, everything improves:

– Take them out of test scores and they shoot upward.
– Take them out of health care and the strain plummets.
– Take them out of public-safety data and violent crime virtually disappears.

"If you bring failed societies into our country, you're going to replicate those conditions. If Somalians can't make Somalia successful, why would we think the track would be any different in the United States?"

"Go third world country by third world country. Libya keeps failing, Central African Republic keeps failing, Somalia keeps failing."