This sounds cool. But wait.
400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.
The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.
That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)
Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.
The Secretary of the Navy @SECNAV told the world Sgt. Kevin Lee Lloyd’s children would receive combat-related benefits and be guided through the process.
Today, those benefits were denied by the CRSC board.
Sgt. Kevin Lee Lloyd was poisoned during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007 while serving with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, Fox Company out of Kaneohe Bay—after being ordered into burn pits.
That exposure led to the cancer that killed him.
The Marine Corps took two years to process his paperwork—and didn’t approve his medical retirement until the day after he died.
Now the CRSC board says only he could apply.
He’s dead.
So our three children—including our son with Type 1 diabetes—have been denied the benefits he paid for with his life.
This is exactly why the Major Richard Star Act matters.
#StandWithSgtLloyd #Veteran #RichardStarAct #CRSC #BurnPits
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On Monday we connected Monica Reza to General McCasland. Over 25,000 of you read it.
Then you started sending us names.
Carl Grillmair. Caltech astronomer. Shot on his porch. His killer's charges were dismissed 11 days before.
Nuno Loureiro. MIT fusion scientist. Shot at his home. His killer planned it for three years.
Jacob Prichard. Jaymee Prichard. 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus. All three worked at Wright-Patterson. All three dead in one night. AFOSI investigating. No motive.
Melissa Casias. Los Alamos National Lab. Badged into a nuclear weapons facility, wiped her government phone, walked into the wilderness. Four days after Reza.
Nine names. One institution. Nine months.
Our full OSINT investigation is live. Every name sourced. Every connection documented.
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You're a real piece of shit.
How many Bronze Stars did you earn? Joe has 6.
How many years did you serve? Joe served 20.
How many tours in combat did you serve? Joe did 11 combat deployments.
Did your kids lose their mom in combat? Joe's did.
How many of these do you have: Army Commendation Medals, Combat Infantry Badge, Special Forces Tab, Ranger Tab, Military Freefall Parachutist Badge, Scuba Diver Badge etc, etc.
If you're so hot on fighting a war suit up and go, but you won't, you sit behind your computer in your air conditioned office and squeak like a little bitch. FO
The company behind POM juice, a juice marketed as a superfood antioxidant-rich drink, was just named California’s 2nd-largest user of paraquat — one of the most toxic herbicides still allowed in the U.S.
Over 56,000 pounds sprayed in a single year… on crops used to make this so called health drink.
Paraquat has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, cancer, and neurological damage. It drifts into nearby communities and lingers in soil for years.
More than 60 countries have already banned it.
So why is it still being used here?
Help us continue the work to get these chemicals out of our food supply.
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Forgive me for not sounding like a Senate candidate when I say this.
Lindsey, fuck all the way off.
Sincerely,
A mom of three South Carolinian children and the person who is going to end your career💙
Rep. Thomas Massie found the Alexander brothers in the Epstein files.
The DOJ redacted their last name.
Kash Patel said there was no sex trafficking evidence in the files.
All three brothers were just convicted of it.
BREAKING - KISS cofounder Gene Simmons says it is time for celebrities like Ben Stiller and Mark Ruffalo to “shut the f*ck up.”
“People work hard for a living, and they don’t want to be lectured by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls-Royces. It’s time to shut up.”
I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.
The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.
I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.
Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:
"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."
I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.
Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.
I meant it.
I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.
The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.
I am talking about the other companies.
Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.
The company that got the contract was OpenAI.
OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.
Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.
I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.
The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.
The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.
Here is the thing I want you to understand.
I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.
The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.
The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.
I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.
The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.
What I described is already happening.
So they’ve found dangerous levels of arsenic in baby food and candies like ‘Nerds.’ This isn’t even debated. But how is it possible that not one person has lost their job over this? How satanic do you have to be to poison actual babies? Wtf? (Sorry I know there is a lot of crazy stuff happening right now and this may not be the most important issue in the world atm, but I’m just so tired of food companies getting away with actually poisoning humans and then being like ‘ooops, sorry it was just a wittle bit of arsenic’ evil grin.)
You fuck a child, you get executed
You eat a baby, you get executed
You torture children, you get executed
You traffic children, you get executed
It’s so simple even a child can understand it
One of the most sad moments of your life happens when you realize that you have to become your own physician.
You can no longer trust doctors.
If you want to save your loved ones,
you have to do the research yourself.
The system never had your back