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[Dave W @dmweisberger]

Last night, at a sponsored dinner at a nice restaurant in Miami, I made the “mistake” of eating a small scoop of ice cream for dessert.

Within 30 minutes, as I was talking to fellow entrepreneurs, I reached into my pocket for a couple of antacid chews…

When asked what I was taking, I said antacids and casually mentioned, to the people I was talking to, that I ate gelato almost every day in Italy and never once needed them.

I was surprised when EVERYONE in our conversation circle nodded and started talking about how terrible the U.S. food supply is. Several expressed thanks that @RFKJr_Official is “working on fixing it”, but multiple people shared their own stories.

The point that ALL agreed to, is that it is CRIMINAL that FOOD safety is treated the OPPOSITE of drug safety!

In the U.S., with FOOD, additives, emulsifiers and preservatives are “innocent until proven guilty”. They do NOT have to demonstrate safety and are only banned if they can be PROVEN unsafe. In Europe, that is not the case and THAT makes the difference.

Someone else made the point that the MONEY to fund studies of food safety isn’t there. The food and agriculture industries have no incentive to do so, and the government hasn’t wanted to upset their donors…

I continue to be amazed at how many people acknowledge the problem but don’t VOTE or even complain to the political class about it. After all, what could be more important to our daily lives???

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Saylor on what gets demonetized in the AI era.

"Hard work and talent are getting demonetized. Human capital is getting demonetized."

"If you think the glass beads are money and someone comes along with gold then the glass beads get demonetized and you'll be poor if you hold onto them."

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

You won’t hear this from the MSM:
Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff recently met w/ Vladimir Putin, Chinese officials are meeting with their Russian counterparts…3 nuclear superpowers overlapping in converging meetings… Now London is in a panic bc these 3 countries have the power to end British rule:
@sjkokinda from @PrometheanActn comes w/receipts.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Data Republican

I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well.

But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman.

You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you.

For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned.

This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected.

These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness.

Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible.

It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST.

You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under.

And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR.

I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall.

For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding.

An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear.

But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out.

Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense."

If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them.

This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President.

Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is.

I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that.

One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

I don’t agree with Cenk on many things but this is an excellent metaphor

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

https://t.co/4TbHCuZkZn

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Do you understand what's happening at Amazon right now?

Their own AI coding agent Kiro reportedly "decided" the fastest way to fix a config error was to delete the entire production environment. Gone. A 6-hour outage. 6.3 million orders lost.

Amazon's SVP called thousands of engineers into a mandatory meeting this week. Not to discuss strategy. To discuss damage control.

Now here's my prediction and I want you to screenshot this:

Amazon won't just ban AI-assisted code. They'll make every engineer personally liable for AI-generated code they approve. Other Big Tech will follow within 6 months.

Think about what that means.

The same companies that fired thousands of engineers to "restructure around AI" are about to tell the remaining ones.. you're now legally responsible for code you didn't write, can't fully understand, and were told to ship faster.

Atlassian fired 1,600 people this morning to go all-in on AI. Replit is hiring kids who vibe code. And Amazon, the company that BUILT one of these AI coding agents just watched it nuke production.

The vibe coding era isn't ending. But the "move fast and let AI break things" era is about to hit a wall. And that wall is called liability.

Companies wanted AI to replace engineers. Now they need engineers to babysit AI. And they already fired the babysitters.

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

Do you notice that in every country Trump strikes, the people take to the streets to celebrate?

It was the same in Venezuela as it is in Iran.

Trump isn’t seeking world domination.

He’s setting the captives free.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Secretary Kennedy is special.

Listen to this advice 👇

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case that could completely change how the government collects on delinquent property taxes.

In most cases, the government will take your home if you are late on property taxes, sell it at a cash auction, and only pay you the difference in the auction price and what you owed.

But the fifth amendment says the government cannot take your property without “just compensation.”

The plaintiff argued “just compensation” means the full market value, not the decreased cash auction price.

Unfortunately, it seemed like the court only cared about the burden on the government and not about our constitutional rights.

They often said it would be too difficult and unreasonable for the government to sell homes on the open market to get a fair market price. But the real question is, why are they taking people’s homes in the first place?

Any other debt collector would sue in court, go after wages, or take personal property. Why does the government treat delinquent property taxes any different?

[Skywatch Signal @UAPWatchers]

🚨Dr. David Sinclair's, lab reversed biological age in animals by 50 to 75% in six weeks

The FDA has just cleared the first human trial for next month.

He describes the human body as a computer that can be rebooted.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! In a terrifying development for the Left, Maryland business owner reveals the single moms just starting out at her store are filing taxes under President Trump and say they AREN'T PAYING ANYTHING

"They aren't paying! Getting a GREAT return!" 🔥🇺🇸

TRUMP EFFECT.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Jensen Huang explains why he doesn't fire employees:

[Solo Satoshi 🇺🇲 @SoloSatoshi]

I told her I found the one. 💘

She thought I meant her.

I meant a solo block. 🟧⛏️

[Max Keiser @maxkeiser]

Capitalism started in 1602 in the Netherlands with the world’s first stock exchange.

Capitalism just died in the Netherlands in 2026 with the first unrealized gains tax.

Neofeudalism is here.

We are all serfs now.

[Doug 📐 @Tryangle]

Update: I’m still addicted

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said what no economist will: the entire system is about to break and nothing can stop it.

AI and robotics aren’t generating growth. They’re destroying the scarcity framework economics depends on.

Musk: “It will hit us like a supersonic tsunami.”

Production compounds exponentially. Money supply grows linearly. Productivity sustaining permanent double-digit expansion. Numbers that sound impossible becoming baseline.

Not evolution. Replacement.

Musk: “Prices collapse hard.”

Not decline. Implosion. AI strips out labor costs, eliminates production errors, removes every inefficiency keeping goods expensive. Manufacturing anything approaches zero marginal cost while quality accelerates.

Governments will react on instinct. Print money. Inject stimulus. Playbook designed for scarcity economies colliding with abundance they have no framework to understand.

Musk: “GDP metrics are already meaningless.”

Every economic model assumes constrained labor, limited output, gradual improvement. AI doesn’t work within those boundaries. It deletes them as variables.

Production explodes. Central banks flood liquidity. Prices collapse regardless because physical abundance scales faster than any monetary intervention can match.

The production wave outruns policy response. Always.

Deflation signals crisis in every historical model. But this isn’t demand collapse. It’s supply going infinite.

The economy isn’t failing. It’s transforming beyond tools built to measure scarcity.

Power belongs to whoever controls the systems generating unlimited output. Money becomes secondary when production costs vanish. Policy makers are steering with instruments calibrated for limits that stopped existing.

This already started. And the people running things have zero answers for what happens when their entire profession becomes obsolete overnight.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Board certified medical doctor says he no longer has health insurance for his family

He says cheapest plan he could get for his family is $24,000 per year with a $5,000 deductible before anything is covered

Even a doctor can’t see the benefit in health insurance anymore….