Boston Max

A human being that was given to fly

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

👏🏻 Inject this into my veins

I’m so sick of it becoming in easing my difficult to flip around sports games because you have to watch on a streaming platform. Never mind that the quality usually sucks because of internet speed

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

ALERT: 'OutKick' founder and Fox News contributor Clay Travis torches the NFL for gouging their fans while violating the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.

"Most of your constituents are frustrated. They don't know how to find games, and they are having to pay far too much when they have the opportunity to actually watch those games. I don't know how many of you remember back in the day when you can have one remote control in your hand, and you can easily flip to any different game... They just want to be able to watch their favorite team and not have to struggle to do so."

To watch all the NFL games in 2025 on streaming, you would have needed Sunday Ticket, Netflix, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN Unlimited, and NFL+, for a minimum price of $575, according to Fox News.

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

@elripalda @ChasinBase (Btw I LOVE your game. I just want it to be great!!!)

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

@elripalda @ChasinBase I feel like your H2H needs some debugging. Here I illustrate. I picked the same starting pitchers as my opponent. Why was I given an A+ and my opponent only an A? Moreover, how does a team strength of 87 lose to a 78?

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

@elripalda @ChasinBase Why does a higher strength team (82 vs. 81) lose 96-100?

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

@ChasinBase Did you update your algorithm? All of a sudden it just got easier. It used to be way harder - make it harder again!

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

Joe Mazzulla 🤝 Eddie Vedder

[DraftKings Sports @DKSports]

Has a coach ever won an award after publicly calling it stupid? 😭

Joe Mazzulla might be the first.

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

The "Is this true?" function of @grok on X is literally the killer AI app in all social media and will only get more important

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

Socialism. Doesn’t. Work. Period.

Can’t wait to leave this dumb city

[Steven Fiorillo @stevenfiorillo]

As a lifelong, taxpaying New Yorker, I am extremely worried about the ramifications of the estate tax proposal on New Yorkers if it gets signed into law. I want to be clear up front; this isn't about politics for me. I'm not fighting for the billionaire class, and I'm certainly not one of them. What I am is someone who understands basic math, economics, and business, who has watched what happens when states push tax policy past the breaking point.

Here's what's on the table right now: a proposal to reduce New York’s estate tax exemption from $7.1 million down to $750,000, an 89% cut while increasing the top rate from 16% all the way to 50%. This is embedded within a batch of revenue ideas sent up to Albany to try and plug a $5.4 billion hole in the city budget.

I want to discuss who this estate tax actually hits, because it’s certainly not the ultra-rich. The ultra-rich weren’t exempt as only the first $7.1 million avoided estate taxes. A $750,000 threshold in the New York metro area is not reasonable. The median home price in New York City hit roughly $809,000. In Nassau County you're looking at $820,000. Suffolk County sits around $675,000. Westchester is $754,000. If you bought a house in the city, Nassau, or Westchester and you spent 30 years paying off that mortgage like a responsible adult, congratulations, you're now above the estate tax threshold. What’s even better is that you hit the threshold before even factoring in your 401k, life insurance, savings, a family business, or other investments.

This isn't a tax on the wealthy it’s a tax on a retired couple in Bayside who paid off their split-level. It's a tax on the family that runs a deli in Astoria and owns the building. When you force those families to come up with 50% of the value above $750,000 after someone dies, what do you think happens? They sell. They liquidate. The house goes, the business goes, and the generational wealth that took a lifetime to build disappears in a single tax event. Family businesses which are the backbone of employment in neighborhoods all over this city get gutted.

According to the State Department of Taxation and Finance's own numbers New York's tax structure is incredibly top heavy as millionaires paid 44.6% of all personal income tax collected in 2024. The top 200,000 filers covered 51.9%. The bottom half of all earners paid 0.2%. Think about how fragile that makes us. You don't need a mass exodus. You need a few thousand people to change their mailing address to Palm Beach or Austin and the budget math falls apart.

Here's the part that really gets me though. The biggest victims of "tax the rich" policies aren't the rich. The rich utilize their resources and leave once they have had enough because their resources make them mobile. The people who get crushed are the ones who stay such as teachers, firefighters, nurses, and the small business owner. They can’t simply pick up and go. The harsh reality is that when the wealthy leave and the tax base shrinks, the city still needs the same amount of money to run the subways, pay the cops and keep the lights on. So where does it come from? It comes from everyone left behind as they are forced to pay higher taxes, and higher fees.

What may bother me more is the double taxation piece. The money in someone's estate didn't just appear from thin air. They earned it and paid income tax. They invested it and paid capital gains. They bought property with it and paid property taxes every single year. They bought things and paid sales tax. Every dollar in that estate has already been taxed multiple times over the course of a lifetime. Now when they die the state wants to take half of everything above $750,000? At what point does it stop being a tax and start being confiscation? That's a genuine question I have because if you work your whole life, play by every rule, pay every tax along the way, and the government still takes half when you die what exactly was the point of saving any of it?

A $750,000 threshold doesn't catch billionaires it catches the middle class. It catches people who were never wealthy, they were just disciplined. They bought a house, they didn't sell it, they put money away for retirement, and they wanted to leave something for their kids. Punishing that with a 50% tax rate sends a very specific message: the state believes your assets belong to it first and your family second. I don't care where you fall politically that should bother you.

I'll say this very simply. When you tax people to the point where they feel targeted, they leave. When they leave the burden falls on everyone who can't. When that burden gets heavy enough, more people figure out a way to go. That's not theory, that's exactly what IRS data and Census numbers have been showing us for half a decade straight.

New York is standing at a fork in the road right now. One direction is more punitive taxation with an increasing dependence on a shrinking pool of high earners who increasingly have one foot out the door. The other direction is putting forward competitive tax policy, fiscal discipline, and creating an environment where building wealth and creating jobs isn't treated like something the government needs to punish. I know which path leads somewhere good. I just hope the people making the decisions figure it out before there's nobody left to tax.

@amitisinvesting @BillAckman @chamath @patrickbetdavid @PBDsPodcast

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

Only Green teamers and Swifties

[☘️ @JrueLFG]

The length of the Jayson Tatum documentary is 3:14

Jayson Tatum was eligible for a 315M supermax…but signed for 314

St Louis area code is 314

Celtics play the Wizards on 3/14

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

I mean it was either that or McLovin

[Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA]

Is Europe entirely fucked?

[Chris Palmer, MD @ChrisPalmerMD]

When people hear “diet,” they often think of wellness influencers. When they hear "cure," they're even more skeptical.

Ketogenic therapies are not a wellness trend. They are medical interventions that alter core biology, including mitochondrial function, neurotransmitter activity, insulin signaling, inflammation, the gut microbiome, and brain energy metabolism.

The ketogenic diet has long been established as an effective treatment for epilepsy, capable of stopping seizures even when medications fail.

A growing body of research suggests that ketogenic therapies may also benefit some individuals with serious mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia—sometimes resulting in sustained remission of symptoms.

I personally do not describe this as a “cure”; the word "remission" is fine with me.

For those who achieve remission after years of suffering, it can feel like nothing short of a miracle—regardless of the underlying mechanism.

Let's work together to reduce the suffering and improve the lives of people living with mental illness.

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

This is brutal, devastating news. I have so many found memories of touring the CCPCF many times as a kid

[Martha MacCallum @marthamaccallum]

When the Chips are down….:/ Beloved Cape Cod Potato Chips factory to close in Hyannis https://t.co/kQ0WdqY6do

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

Children on food stamps consume 43% more sugary drinks compared to kids at same income level who don’t use SNAP.

We are paying billions of dollars to poison our kids, and then going bankrupt from healthcare costs from that poisoning.

One party is trying to fix this.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

There is nothing fun about playoff football. Every game is a trip to the dentist

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Trad media was holding onto “some alcohol might be good for you” (despite the better evidence that 0 is better than any) but now that @HHSGov removed the cancer warning (a fail IMO) trad media flipped to attacking them for it. 100% proof it’s about being anti not accurate.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The 10 most dangerous Logical Fallacies:

(bookmark this)

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

@ZekeEmanuel They call out fermented foods right here…

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

@RealLoriSpencer @HHSResponse @InformedPatriot $5/lb grass fed beef at Costco

[Boston Max @BostonMaxG]

Absolutely incredible. Proper human diet

[Nina Teicholz, PhD @bigfatsurprise]

Here is the actual document of the new Dietary Guidelines:
https://t.co/ENFAjdGGrR

[Chris Palmer, MD @ChrisPalmerMD]

New research!

Pilot trial of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for moderate to severe depression.

Bottom line: 8 of 11 enrolled participants completed the study, and 87% achieved remission!

There's much more to "diets" than calories.
https://t.co/hVmolN6u2m