freespirit9

Amazon seller, crypto investor, full time badass

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

To me, its not even about Mitch McConnell anymore.

We have a real problem when a Senator can just disappear for six weeks with only the vaguest of explanations & the whole institution just kinda shrugs it off.

Every other job in America would fire you for this.

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

So the tariff costs were passed on to the consumers, but the refund went straight to the corporations.

Lol

[ceolawyer @ceolawyer]

Today, I saw a Palestinian child picking up the brain of another Palestinian child.

Yes the actual brain.

He used a small rag to pick it up.

I also saw an infant ejected from his mother’s womb, due to the sheer power of the explosives Israel used in Gaza last night.

But the most inhumane thing was witnessing someone open up a baby’s soft pink onesie - only to discover pieces of bones and diaper inside.

Israel evaporated her little body with chemical weapons that are internationally banned.

It’s August 2, 2026 ➡️

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”

Sir, your terms are acceptable.

[freespirit9 @Freespirit9life]

@dufferjones @SenSanders You voted for a pedophile. Dumb ass.

[That Nets Fan 🏀 @NetsGuy15]

@SenSanders Here they come

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu: I need $12 billion
Trump: Approved

Elon Musk: SpaceX needs $4.16 billion
Trump: Approved

Jeff Bezos: Amazon needs $17.5 billion
Trump: Approved

Top 1%: We need a $1 trillion tax cut
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife has cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🇺🇸 NEW: One hour after announcing his resignation, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff says: “A madman will drive the mighty U.S. military into ruin.”

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Wait, you're telling me that running $2 trillion deficits, introducing new taxes on goods, and starting a fresh war in the Middle East, has not been effective at getting the cost of living down?

[GPSTAR 🔥 @GP_oluwapelumi2]

Iman Shumpert said in a recent interview that he will never enter another marriage because marriage failed him and left him with nothing. 💔

🗣️ Iman Shumpert: "When I was married, I trusted my wife with everything. I loved her, so I put all my money into a joint account because I believed we were building a future together. I never imagined things would end the way they did."
"After our divorce was finalized, I had to give up a huge part of what I worked so hard for. She received over $25 million in cash and assets, including $10 million in cash, four houses worth around $10 million, a Maybach, a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and even a tour bus."
"On top of that, I pay $8,000 every month in child support, and I also cover our children's school fees and medical expenses. She also kept her own businesses."
"When everything was settled, I was left with about $2 million and no house. Looking back, I realize I made some financial decisions I probably shouldn't have. It's a hard lesson, but one I've had to live with."

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

61% of Americans say they are cutting back on groceries because they can’t afford rising costs of food.

Meanwhile:

[Francesca Hong For Governor @FrancescaHongWI]

I’m Francesca Hong, and I’m running for Governor of Wisconsin.

I’m a single mom juggling two jobs—and I bring my lived experience into every room I walk into. From the State Capitol to night shifts behind the bar, I know what working people are up against.

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

1000 Zohran’s have bloomed

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump’s Truth Social has just officially launched their $100,000 per month paid service offering faster access to President Trump's market manipulating posts.

Below is a taste of what you’re paying $100,000 per month for.

He’s manipulating the stock market and then charging people to have the ability to insider trade.

Things don’t get any more corrupt than this.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping
He approached her. She was standing still. That guy needs jail time.

If this goes viral, the city will seek charges.

[kamikaze @Kamikazeblue007]

@HunterBiden @LindstromCheryl

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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[Jonathan Goodman 🇨🇦 @itscoachgoodman]

$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.

My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.

This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:

Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.

This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.

I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.

"No way this affects me." I thought.

I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.

Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.

From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.

18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.

Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.

I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.

None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.

I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.

A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.

I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing thier gov has been illegally taxing them for over a year and billionaires are getting the refund instead of the customers

[Dr. Dave Genyáhdë:h 🏳️‍🌈🪶 @DaveAshelman]

I did a whole research project on this in grad school. Companies reap over $300 BILLION a year in free labor from customers using self-checkouts. If they’re not going to pay customers, they can shave some price.