Brad Hebert

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@RealJimChanos If Elmo was smart, he’d give Mitch McConnell a Tesla right now…

[Taniel @Taniel]

NEW: After the Civil War, Congress readmitted southern states under a key condition: don't expand felony disenfranchisement. The states quickly violated their promise & weaponized criminal statutes.

It just caught up with one of them.

Fascinating read: https://t.co/BJCTZymkHC

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@JG_Nuke @MacroEdgeRes Please answer a question? How the hell can these guys need so much power, when they’ve got infernos of cash to ween from?!

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@AngelicaBool22

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@Wombat_Matt But did you call him, “Occifer?”

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@StanphylCap This is what happens when you negotiate with terrorists.

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@TweetLeni Does it deviate much from $XLP? What percentage of $XLP is it?

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@peterelkind Since we now negotiate with terrorists, can Iran pay for it??

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@JohnCassidy From your lips, to God’s ears… 🤞

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@DougKass @CNBC When CNBC stops acting like the ratings agencies in ‘08, or analysts chasing upgrades, then you can stop. Until then, why not continue good deeds?

[דרור בלאזאדה | Dror Balazada @DBalazada]

🚨 BREAKING | Exclusive Quotes from IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi to Senior Regime Officials

• “We brought President Trump to his knees. We got what we wanted. As usual, the foolish West believes it is getting something in return from us, which of course will never happen.”

• “Our goal right now is to keep the Americans on a short leash. Any violation, no matter how small, will allow us to threaten the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump and his people will agree to anything.”

• “Trump thinks we will spend the money he is giving us on buying American goods. That will never happen in our lifetime.”

• “Now we need to make the Americans understand that Israel is the bad actor in the Middle East. That is the goal.”

• “Do not give up anything. Threaten. And if necessary, walk away from the talks.”

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@FinanceLancelot @nikitabier Again with the emotional projection. Made my career punching powerful people in the face. It was fun.

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@FinanceLancelot @nikitabier Lol, your underestimation of “what can be done,” coupled with your overestimation of emotions involved, says we are not the same. Keep up the good work tough.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump The Peacemaker.
https://t.co/CHb4VKcq2E

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@KylePorterNS Bad timing for the Iran deal… WAIT, I mean the LIV deal to be languishing

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@VaidotasSegenis Unreal how many legends are biting, and recommending you do the same. There’s a reason we’re not seeing signs stateside during the cup that say, “I LOVE BEARISH TRENDS!! ❤️👍👏”

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@RpsAgainstTrump I like seeing Gulsi Tabbard’s reflection in the pool. Are u saying that’s the last time I’ll see her??

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

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@x2da4 satanic senses of humor tickle me