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[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.

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

One thing that cannot be overstated is the damage caused by inner city policy being set by white liberals who live in the suburbs and get their idea of the world from progressive journalists and nobody else.

If you are a suburban white leftist, please indulge me in a little experiment.

First, read how The Intercept describes this event, and picture it in your mind based off this description.

Then, watch the videos of the event.

Then extrapolate that to everything you read about, rather than see.

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

I’ve been in this game for a long time. Experienced huge gains that I round tripped and plenty of catastrophic losses. But none of them compare to the feeling of being left behind - of sitting on the sidelines when the market turns upward and all you have to cope is being a negative bearish stick in the mud. It’s absolutely maddening. 0 out of 5 stars. Would not recommend.

[Pyrate @CEOLandshark]

You might have already realized that talk therapy almost never works & self-help stuff are mostly useless.

If you arrived at this place, you're ready to dive into the world of the body & nervous system. Real emotions & really feeling stuff. There's no other way out.

I find the Reich-Lowen-Pierrakos lineage to be highly, criminally underrated. First pic below is a good intro (getting denser from top to bottom) and the second pic is more experiential/actual stuff you can do. Theoria & praxis.

The main risk is going too fast or alone, which could actually cause real problems. I myself have always been not so cautious about these types of warnings, and went too fast, too deep & can honestly say, there's literally zero need to go too hard, too fast. It's just not smart. Don't do it. Take it easy. These are overpowered anyways, take your time & listen to your body.

Worst thing you could do would be to read/research these and not apply anything (or overindex on types/theory in general) - the whole point is to get out of your head & into the body! Terrifying, I know. Take it easy & focus on max enjoyment.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

@RoKhanna Then the price of College and trade schools will just explode. The more “free money” there is the more fraud and abuse there is too. America doesn’t have a money problem, it has a waste, fraud, and abuse problem.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Il faut avoir l'honnêteté de reconnaître le coup de génie de la gauche, parce que c'en est un. Le plus grand hold-up rhétorique du siècle tient en un seul mot : raciste.

Voici le mécanisme.

Après 1945, après les droits civiques, l'Occident a fait du racisme le mal absolu. À juste titre : c'est une de ses plus grandes conquêtes morales. « Raciste » est devenu le mot le plus radioactif de la langue, l'excommunication moderne, la mort sociale instantanée.

Le coup de génie a été de détourner ce capital moral. Pas pour protéger des personnes : pour protéger une idéologie.

L'égalitarisme des résultats ne gagne jamais un débat sur les faits. Il produit l'inverse de ce qu'il promet, partout, à chaque fois. Alors plutôt que de gagner le débat, on a rendu le débat impayable. Tu questionnes les résultats de l'immigration sans assimilation ? Raciste. Tu défends le mérite ? Raciste. Les maths avancées ? Racistes. Les frontières ? Racistes. Le mot a cessé de décrire un comportement pour décrire une position sur l'échiquier.

Et regardez la beauté technique du dispositif. Pas besoin d'arguments : l'accusation suffit. Pas besoin de procès : la dénégation aggrave le cas (votre défensivité prouve votre culpabilité). Pas besoin de police : la peur fait le travail, chacun se surveille lui-même et surveille son voisin gratuitement. Il suffit d'exécuter publiquement quelques exemples par an pour tenir des millions de gens. Une idéologie irréfutable, protégée par un mot imprononçable. Les deux pare-feux du même système : la French Theory avait aboli la vérité, l'accusation a aboli le débat.

Est-ce qu'un comité s'est réuni pour concevoir ça ? Pas besoin. Les idées subissent une sélection darwinienne : celles qui survivent sont celles qui se défendent le mieux. Marcuse avait quand même déposé le brevet dès 1965, noir sur blanc : tolérance pour les mouvements de gauche, intolérance pour ceux de droite. Le reste a évolué tout seul. Il faut l'avouer : c'était génial.

Mais ce dispositif génial avait un coût, et le coût a un bilan. À Rotherham, le rapport officiel Jay a établi que des fonctionnaires britanniques ont laissé plus de 1 400 gamines se faire exploiter pendant seize ans, en partie par peur d'être traités de racistes s'ils nommaient les faits. Relisez cette phrase. Des enfants ont été sacrifiées à un mot. Voilà ce que veut dire idéologie mortifère : pas une métaphore, un bilan.

Et maintenant, regardez ce qui s'effondre sous nos yeux.

Une insulte ne fonctionne que si elle fait peur, et une monnaie ne fonctionne que si elle est rare. Ils ont imprimé le mot comme Weimar imprimait le mark. Quand tout est raciste, plus rien ne l'est. Résultat : des tweets qui commencent par « traitez-moi de raciste si vous voulez » récoltent des dizaines de milliers de likes et l'approbation de l'homme le plus riche du monde. Il y a dix ans, cette phrase était un suicide professionnel. Aujourd'hui, c'est un haussement d'épaules. L'hyperinflation a tué la monnaie.

Et voilà la vraie tragédie, que les faussaires devront porter : en imprimant le mot sans limite, ils l'ont brûlé pour tout le monde. Y compris pour nommer le vrai racisme quand il existe, car il existe. Les faux-monnayeurs ne détruisent pas que leur arme. Ils détruisent le mot dont une société honnête a besoin.

Privée de son mot magique, l'idéologie va maintenant devoir faire ce qu'elle n'a jamais su faire : gagner un débat sur les faits.

Elle ne le gagnera pas. Au travail.

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why nobody goes to Five Guys anymore

Five Guys grew into a burger powerhouse, generating more than $1.3 billion in revenue. It was named America’s best burger by Zagat, and even the President of the United States was known to stop by for lunch. At its peak, the chain seemed unstoppable.

But today, sales are down more than 10% from their peak. Stores are closing, and the brand has become the target of endless jokes online, mostly centered around one thing: the price.

It’s easy to blame inflation and the post-pandemic economy for Five Guys’ struggles. But the real story is more complicated than that.

This is the rise and fall of Five Guys.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The magnitude & brazen nature of the government payment fraud is staggering

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

@KillaXBT I’m with you. And glad to see so many people hating on this decision.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

here are some facts about California. some of this is hard to believe.

first of all, it's important to understand the concept of "ballot harvesting," which is perfectly legal in CA. this refers to a situation where someone completely unaffiliated with the voter can collect and submit their ballot for them.

this flow is completely legal:

- a homeless person arrives in LA, where they are eligible for cash assistance, SSI, food stamps, healthcare through medical, and an array of other taxpayer-funded services
- they are registered to vote by an NGO (many such NGOs exist and explicitly do this).
- they do not have to provide a residential address or any proof of residency to vote. they only have to provide a mailing address, which can be anywhere (church, NGO HQ, homeless shelter). their home address can be "a park" or "an underpass".
- their ballot is mailed to the homeless shelter (or whatever address the NGO elects for them)
- the only verification done for the mail-in ballot is "signature verification" and uniqueness (only one vote per person is counted theoretically).
- the signature can be an X. if they register with an X, they can sign with an X. that is sufficient to pass verification. signature verification is also deliberately loose. the signature does not have to be a perfect match.

now consider the hypothetical scenario, which is fraudulent, but virtually impossible to detect:

- a homeless person cycles through the LA system. they get registered with their mailing address listed as the NGO HQ or homeless shelter
- they "sign" their registration with an X or nondescript, easily replicable signature
- they disappear. never seen again. or they exist, but it doesn't matter. they don't get purged from the voter rolls for 4-8 years typically.
- the address where they registered receives their ballot for several cycles
- operatives are aware that they have X amount of votes to make up. they fill in X many thousand mail-in ballots themselves. the ballots are manually postmarked (permitted). they forge the signature to match whatever signature (could be an X) was submitted upon registration
- ballots can be accepted even if they are postmarked at 11.59 pm. polls closed at 8 pm. (you would need an accomplice who is a USPS employee)
- the only fraud checks are de-duplication (if the homeless person through some miracle voted in person, only one of their ballots would be counted) and signature verification
- because very few of the homeless people in question would have voted in person, this gives NGO operatives tens of thousands of possible mail-in ballots to submit unilaterally.

the big problem is that there is NO way to detect this type of fraud. NGOs that register homeless people to vote exist. that isn't a secret. ballot harvesting is fully legal. voting by mail is encouraged. signature verification is as loose as possible. de-duplication doesn't solve anything, since few homeless people vote in person. and no one in power locally is going to spend political capital on rooting out such fraud, since they are all wholeheartedly committed to "voting rights".

in a situation where fraud is undetectable, the absence of hard proof of fraud is not evidence that no fraud exists.

Raman has gained around 20k votes since election night. She is around 3k votes ahead of Pratt now.

there are over 72 thousand homeless people in LA county.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The truth is that there are VASTLY more hate crimes, especially aggravated rape and murder, per person by Blacks against Whites than the other way around.

The is not remotely debatable, as the numbers are so extremely lopsided!

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

@Truecrypto @saylor You answered your own question. He did it to spook everyone, and was able to get a much better price on this last big purchase

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

@DonAlt @CredibleCrypto What if he sold on purpose bc he knew what the message would do? Now he’s buying more for a lot cheaper

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

the Henry Nowak murder sounds like a completely outrageous parody of the british criminal justice system. it's hard to believe it's real.

- native Britons can't legally carry a breadknife
- for some reason Sikhs get a special carveout and can carry "religious use" knives of any length. even over 50 cm
- 18 year old boy Henry Nowak is walking home peacefully, is fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa with his "ceremonial" kirpan
- Digwa claims to the police that he was racially abused and the responding police immediately believe him and shackle the dying Nowak, ignoring Digwa and his co-conspirators
- Nowak informs the officers that he has been stabbed and the officer says "You've been stabbed? Whereabouts? I don't think you have, mate."
- the officers do not check on his condition, cuffing him roughly as he bleeds out. as they read him his rights, he dies.
- Digwa's mother, Kiran Kaur arrives at the scene and takes the knife with her, attempting to conceal it
- Digwa's brother Gurpreet Digwa made the 999 call and attempted to concoct a defense for his brother, claiming he had been the victim of a racial attack
- Despite the "life sentence" the court meted out, Digwa will be eligible for parole at age 43
- there have been no consequences whatsoever for the police officers that shackled Nowak and left him to drown in his own blood while his killers watched. none of the officers have even been named

each fact is more radicalizing than the last.

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

My kids are 11 and 8 now. They are 10/10 well mannered and doing fantastic academically and socially.

I SPANKED THEM when they were little. Didn’t need to past the age of 4.

But here’s the deal, there’s so rules when you do have to lay down a spanking:

1) Don’t spank for EVERYTHING. You’ll know when you should. One thing I never put up with was blatant disobedience/disrespect.

2) Never spank while your emotions are high. You need to be IN CONTROL, not in a reactive state.

Once the situation has escalated to a spanking, you gotta stay calm, don’t yell. Tell them to go to their rooms and let them know that a spanking is coming their way. But you have to be ready to FOLLOW THROUGH.

Let them sweat it out for a couple of minutes. They will be replaying what just happened. Then you enter, you get down on eye level with them and calmly explain why they are about to get a spanking. There’s no anger. You are in control. It’s simply cause and effect and this is what happens.

Before striking them, ask them if they understand why this is about to happen. They may beg and plead for you not to follow through, you must stay firm (at least the first couple of times) but you can leave a “just this once” in your pocket and spare them another day, they won’t forget it.

The moment of truth - the spanking HAS TO HURT. You can’t wuss out here. You don’t need a belt, your hand to bare ass is all it takes, but you gotta give them 3 good calculated pops.

LASTLY, when it’s over and they are sobbing uncontrollably and your heart feels like it’s gonna fall out of your chest bc it’s not an easy thing to do to your child, you look them in the eye and tell them you love them and that you hope you never have to do this again and give them a really big hug. And that’s it.

Where people go wrong is when they themselves show no self control and respond emotionally with instant yelling and violence. The whole point is to teach your kids self control so that they can make better decisions, but from this exercise your kids will always know that your words carry weight. You follow through. You are not to be fucked with.

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

This could be good if you were able to get longer contracts, such as providing a mobile gym to film productions. I work in film and many actors like to work out when they’re not on set. You could rent this set up to a production company for $1200/week and let their one Transpo department move it around for you.

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

@CollinRugg “Getting Waymo traffic than usual.” Sounds like someone from Atlanta typed that

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

Send an email to yourself with the Subject line “Bitcoin seed phrase.”

In the body of the email, ask yourself a personal question that only you would know. Like “what was your favorite cereal as a kid?”

Don’t actually answer this question. Just hit send.

Now in the future you can just search your inbox for “Bitcoin seed phrase” and find that email (if you even need it)

Part 2: Answer the question

Let’s the answer is “Fruit Loops.”

Now send an email to yourself with the subject line “Fruit Loops.”

This will be easy to search for later.

Now ask ChatGPT to tell you everything about fruit loops. The more the better. Copy and paste it into the body of the email.

Someone in the middle of this long text about fruit loops, paste your seed phrase, or at the end of this email, ask another random question and repeat this until you think it’s layered enough.

Nobody will ever find it. Hide your wallet address in there too if you need to. You really want to be able to access this info anywhere in the world. If it’s in your Gmail box you’ll never lose it. People will hate on this, but this is one example of dozens of other things you can do like this

[Powdered Toast Man @Toast4all]

@hantengri Bullfuckinshityoudid