Dion's Daily Dose

Dion Bergeron. Former Trucker & CO.
I'm an American blue collar dad who's had enough PC Culture to last a lifetime. #WeThePeople #TruthSeeker #DionsDailyDose

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Who am I?
I'm a dad of 5 kids. Some biological, some not. All loved and wanted.
I'm a former trucker. I spent 10 years as a driver and trainer for one of the largest trucking companies in the USA.
I'm a former Correctional Officer. I was a C.O. at Indiana State Prison for 7 years

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

We have to become more informed voters.

Delegates: Please research the candidates FULLY and make a decision based on the best person for the job, not some political leverage or deal or favor system, and don't let these candidates sell you on "fixing" something they can't 🙄

[Randy Niemeyer @Niemeyer_Randy]

Again, here is an example of a candidate attempting to paint a confusing picture of his experience. I respect this candidate as a good person, but whoever is checking off on these comms is putting him in a difficult position. Elections are NOT secured nor administered at the Federal level. They are, in fact, a function of local government with the SOS serving an oversight and administrative roll. The attached picture shows what could likely lead one to believe that he was a member of congress who had influence in securing elections through the legislative process. This gentleman did not serve in Congress. He worked on the staff of Speaker McCarthy, which in itself is great experience. There is no need to mislead delegates with this kind of communication.

Here are the actual duties and authorities of the SOS office.

The Secretary of State's powers and responsibilities are codified across the Indiana Code (primarily in Title 23 for business entities, securities, etc., and election-related titles).

The office operates through four main divisions and serves as:

Chief Elections Officer: Oversees state elections, including candidate filings, certification of results, campaign finance reporting, and voter outreach. Chairs the State Recount Commission. The Election Division assists with these functions.

Business Registration and Chartering: Administers formation, registration, amendments, reports, and dissolution of business entities (corporations, LLCs, partnerships, nonprofits) via the Business Services Division. Maintains the state's business registry, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings, trademarks/service marks, and related records. Issues certificates of authority for foreign entities doing business in Indiana.

Securities Regulation: Heads the Securities Division, which enforces the Indiana Uniform Securities Act (IC 23-19). Regulates broker-dealers, investment advisers, securities offerings/sales, and collection agencies. Investigates violations, imposes fines, and can pursue criminal charges via the Attorney General. Protects investors through enforcement and education.

Auto Dealer Licensing: Oversees the Auto Dealer Services Division, which licenses and regulates automobile, watercraft, off-road vehicle, and salvage dealers.

Other Key Functions:
Commissions notaries public (including training, exams, and bonding requirements).
Registers trademarks.
Maintains official state records and the state seal (core historical duty).

Presides over the Indiana Assembly of Presidential Electors (in relevant years).
The Secretary has "reasonably necessary" powers to perform duties under relevant articles of the Indiana Code (e.g., IC 23-17-30-3 for nonprofits).

Structure and Operations
The office includes an Executive Office for policy/budgeting and the four divisions noted above (Business Services, Elections, Securities, and Auto Dealer Services). It emphasizes efficiency, election integrity, investor protection, and business facilitation.

This role is primarily administrative and regulatory rather than policy-making, with authority derived from statutes passed by the Indiana General Assembly.

Folks, let's make sure that candidates know what the office can and cannot do. If legislators are passionate about some of the legislative issues being used in this campaign, please draft some bills and make it happen. Be informed!

@Indy_reporter_ @NathanIndiana1 @jstewartIndy

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

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Joseph Lombardi - Ironhawk Financial- Protect Your Assets and Secure Your Future https://t.co/3GHVteyhke

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Tomorrow night!

There are lots of scams out there, and you worked hard for what you have. Protect it by investing and learning the ropes.

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Join us at 7PM Central on June 11th, 2026 to meet Joseph Lombardi and learn how to protect what you own!

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[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Pay attention to this 👇

[maybe danielle 💻🚛🇺🇸 @maybedanielleee]

@LauraLoomer @SOSDiegoMorales Here’s my thread on Indiana trucking things —

https://t.co/sJPh8hx9OV

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

About time someone national picked this up...

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

EXCLUSIVE:

Indiana Secretary Of State Diego Morales Took Campaign Cash From Crash-Plagued Trucking Firm Owned By Indian Born Ex-Business Partner Siddharth Mahant

@SOSDiegoMorales

https://t.co/9rOUACNgqf

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Primary Results, NIPSCO Rate Hike (Again), and IN Sec of State Situation https://t.co/M8KwBUWtuk

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Season Finale tonight at 7PM Central!
We're going to discuss the election results, the takeaways, the upcoming battle for Secretary of State, Is NIPSCO raising rates AGAIN? And much more.

You aren't going to want to miss this one.

#DDD #DionsDailyDose #INGOP #election2026

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Interesting 🤔
Would you sign up for this?

The electricity savings, along with whole-house backup are tempting.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨BREAKING: NVIDIA WILL NOW PAY YOU OVER $22,000 A YEAR TO HOST A MINI AI DATA CENTER IN YOUR HOME.

Here's how it works:

A startup called Span (with NVIDIA GPUs + homebuilder Pulte) just launched a program that installs a "node" outside your house, the size of an AC unit.

What's inside one box:

→ 16x NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs
→ 4x AMD EPYC server CPUs
→ 3TB of memory
→ a 15kWh whole-home backup battery

That's $200k+ of hardware sitting next to your air conditioner. You own none of it.

The deal for homeowners:

→ Free install (new builds first)
→ Span pays your electricity AND internet bills
→ You pay them one flat fee (~$150/mo)
→ Net savings can hit thousands a year

It runs on the "stranded power" your home never uses. The average 200-amp house wastes ~40% of its capacity. They're turning that into compute.

The vision is wild: Span says 8,000 of these nodes = a 100MW data center, but 5x cheaper and 6x faster to deploy. No new power plants. No 4-7 year grid delays.

AI demand is breaking the grid. Their fix? Skip the mega data center. Build it across thousands of suburban garages instead.

100-home pilot drops Fall 2026. Full rollout 2027.

The AI buildout just moved into your backyard.

[Felipe Demartini @namcios]

O Google acabou de transformar mais de 1 bilhão de computadores em depósito de IA.

Inclusive o seu.

Sem pedir. Sem avisar. Sem um único popup.

O Chrome baixou 4GB de modelo de inteligência artificial no seu disco. O arquivo se chama weights.bin, são os pesos do Gemini Nano. Fica numa pasta chamada OptGuideOnDeviceModel dentro do seu perfil do Chrome.

Você não autorizou nada. Até existe uma configuração para impedir, mas tá enterrada em submenus que ninguém encontra. E as AI features vêm ligadas por padrão.

Se você deletar o arquivo, o Chrome baixa de novo. Sozinho. Em silêncio. Você decide o que fica no seu disco e o navegador simplesmente ignora.

Funciona assim em Windows, macOS e Ubuntu. Logs forenses no macOS mostram que o arquivo foi instalado dia 24 de abril de 2026, misturado com patches de segurança. Desenvolvedores dizem que isso já rola há mais de um ano.

E tem um detalhe que deixa tudo mais ridículo:

O Chrome 147 coloca um botão "AI Mode" na barra de endereço. Você vê aquilo, sabe que tem modelo de IA no seu computador, e assume que suas buscas rodam localmente.

Não rodam. O AI Mode é 100% cloud. Tudo vai para os servidores do Google. O modelo de 4GB no seu disco não tem nada a ver com aquele botão.

Ele serve para quê? "Help me write" e detecção de scam. Coisas que vivem em submenus de clique-direito que você provavelmente nunca abriu.

O Google ocupou 4GB do seu disco sem pedir, para rodar coisas que quase ninguém usa, enquanto a IA que você de fato vê manda tudo para a nuvem.

Na Europa, pesquisadores já apontam violação do Artigo 5(3) da Diretiva ePrivacy, que exige consentimento antes de armazenar software no dispositivo do usuário.

Como desativar:

→ chrome://flags
→ Busque "Optimization Guide On Device Model"
→ Desative
→ Reinicie o Chrome
→ Delete a pasta OptGuideOnDeviceModel

Seu computador só é seu se você ficar de olho.

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Some pretty major shake ups in LaPorte County this election!
The results are in (unofficially) and it was quite an upset up and down the ballot.

Despite the fact that around 95% of incumbents win reelection, that was NOT the case here.

Commissioner (District 1), Prosecutor, County Council (District 4), Michigan Township Trustee, and Center Township Advisory Board all saw upsets, with normally safe incumbent positions being ousted for new blood.

Turnout was still low, but higher than we've seen in the past! Yay! People have indeed made their voices heard.

Any open slots with no candidate can be filled by the respective party before the deadline in July.

Stay tuned for candidate interviews (hopefully from all sides!) as we gear up for the general election in November.

"Season finale" coming soon.

Next "season premiere" will start before fair time.

As always, thanks to everyone that voted, and to those that took the time and energy to put their name on the ballot, help candidates, and educate the public.

It is hard to run for office, especially as a newcomer. There's a lot to learn.

For those that won their election, congratulations! Take a breath, take a break, and rest. Spend time with family and friends.

For those that came up short, don't give up! We desperately need passionate people to run for many more offices up and down the ballot. Kick the sheets for a few days, pout, and then help your primary opponent win in November.

Ladies and gentlemen, LaPorte County primary is done. The people have spoken. It's all over but the crying at this point.

#DDD #DionsDailyDose #LaPorteCounty #Primary2026

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Who TF Is Randy? Spouse Letter Drama In IN HD20 Race Raises Eyebrows https://t.co/lF5C2BPZlc

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Spouse Letter Scandal (Update)

Who is Randy Retter and how many husbands does Becky have? 🤔

A fairly routine tool of campaigning is to have the spouse of a candidate write a heartfelt letter explaining how someone is personally as opposed to how they appear publicly.

Days before the May 5th primary, a letter was received by District 20 voters. What at first appeared to be the regular spouse letter turned out to be anything but...

The first page starts off well enough, until voters get to the husband's name. Randy...
Who the heck is Randy??
Bear in mind that the envelope return address said Becky Pressel.
Becky Pressel is married to Jim Pressel (District 20 State Rep), not Randy.
Further reading reveals the name Randy Retter and mentions of cancer treatments...
Okay, weird.

Page 2 throws EVERYTHING off however because then suddenly it talks about Jim and is signed Becky Pressel.

Luckily, we were able to get the intended 1st page, and are including it here.

Video breakdown on this tonight at 7.

So, what happened? Obviously pages got mixed up.
District 56 candidate and Wayne County Sheriff Randy Retter is who was mentioned on page 1, but page 2 is Jim Pressel.

How could this happen?
We have not received any further statement beyond being provided with the intended 1st page of the letter, so draw your own conclusions, dear reader.

Dion's Daily Dose video on this and other shenanigans tonight at 7. It was supposed to go out last night but mistakes were made...😒

The intended letter is included, as well as what people actually got in the mail. 1st image is intended page 1, other images are what people actually got.

#DDD #Election2026 #GOPPrimary #Primary2026 #LaPorteCounty #StarkeCounty

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Do you believe in NRA endorsements and ratings these days?

Political hit piece mailers are going out with the primary voting day less than a week away and it made us here at #DDD realize that we lost faith in the NRA quite some time ago (especially during the LaPierre years of runaway lavish spending on parties, etc).

What about you?
Do you still support the NRA or have you moved on to other organizations?
We love the GOA personally, but what organization is YOUR pick?

Let us know below!

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

LaPorte County Commissioner Consuelo "Connie" Gramarossa is now claiming to be a victim.

Let's set the record straight.

I don't dislike Connie because of her demographics, I dislike her because she targeted me and my wife with vile lies.

Vote on or before May 5th.

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

LaPorte County Republican Primary- From Lincoln Day to Election Day- Truth and Consequences https://t.co/zXY3VAJ430

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Currently working on tonight's video. It will not be on time at 7, so look for an upload later this evening.
Subject- Last night's Lincoln Day Dinner was a unique experience, to say the least.
We're gonna cover that, the entertainment (a bit divided is the general consensus) and some takeaways.
We'll also discuss local news, local races and what we know about the candidates in them.

As always, we here at #DDD will never tell you whom to vote for. We will tell you what we know, and sometimes Dion will reveal his ballot choices, but ultimately the choice of whom to vote for is one of the the last REAL freedoms we have. Use it.

If you're a fan of the #DionsPicks let us know, otherwise we might drop that. We do try to present information as unbiased as possible, and that can swing the needle.

Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you later this evening.

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Meet Liz Bergeron - Candidate for Center Twp Advisory Board - Candidate Conversations https://t.co/YB3LPFjRt3

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Everyone needs to take a minute and read this.
Digest it. Understand it.

I don't care which party it is. It needs to stop and someone needs to do their job and hold people accountable.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Dion's Daily Dose @DionsDailyDose]

Join us tonight at 7 PM Central where a VERY special guest will be joining us.

Elizabeth "Liz" Bergeron is running for Center Township Advisory Board, as well as Delegate At-Large for the Republican Convention to choose the next Secretary of State.

She has graciously agreed to join us.