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[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

‼️ This is Trump’s Watergate Moment.

For months the Vice President, White House Chief of Staff, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel and other top officials colluded in the Situation Room to break the law and BURY the Epstein investigation.

This is what went down ⬇️

[Adam @abetrade]

We had a pretty rough week in crypto and it seems like everyone is just waiting for Monday to see what Saylor has done.

With bitcoin:native at yearly lows, I saw some people bidding, but the overall issue is that the leverage is already gone, and had been mostly gone before this whole selloff even happened. We definitely did get some liquidations, but global open interest didn't make new lows and has been sitting at 5-year lows since February.

As funding across the board is mostly neutral, this once again drives the point that the move is solely ETF/spot driven. $IBIT skew is getting steeper on the put side but still not at panic levels.

This once again drives the point that I think the bottom will be formed either at complete capitulation or with price-sensitive demand coming in.

Neither of these I see yet.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy shit! Stephen Colbert is using one of his LAST shows to get even with Trump.

Colbert is responding to being taken off the air by giving ZERO f*cks.

This is one of the most brilliant takedowns of Trump and his America First bullsh*t I've ever seen.

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Territory vs. Democracy: How Land Area Distorts the U.S. Presidential Election Map

[tolks @_tolks]

these charts looking fucking insanely bullish man smh (and as a result bearish essentially everything else)

[Delta @deltaxbt]

here is the solution:

[moneyfetishist @moneyfetishist]

traveling is just compromises. the system doesn’t transfer 1:1 and pretending it does is delusional

what transfers: sunlight (free everywhere), water, supplements in a pill organiser, espresso not before 10 AM, sleep mask, cold dark room

what I substitute: I order the taste packs from the website in bulk and throw them in my bag. protein covered. protein shakes are also buyable at most gyms without a membership, just walk in and buy one. my actual problem when traveling is I don’t eat enough during the day because meetings run long and suddenly it’s 4 PM and I’ve had one shake. the taste packs bridge that gap

dinner I let go completely. local cuisine. whatever the city is known for. zero macros calculated. the system exists so this meal can happen without guilt. that’s the whole point

the one thing I can’t replace on the road is the sauerkraut. I grab kombucha wherever I find it as the closest substitute. it also tastes like shit but at this point I’m used to consuming things that taste like they were designed to punish me so whatever. it bridges the gap until I’m home

also most drugstores carry coconut water and beetroot juice now. DM, Rossmann, whatever the local equivalent is wherever you are. so the hydration and the nitric oxide are actually maintainable on the road if you spend 5 minutes in a drugstore instead of just buying redbull and gummy bears at the airport like a child( I do it also sometimes but still)

the routine at home is a machine. the routine traveling is a framework. same priorities, different execution. the people who fall apart traveling are the ones whose routine is so rigid that one airport croissant feels like failure so they eat garbage for the remaining 4 days. no. you ate a croissant. your microbiome will survive. eat protein at dinner and move on

it’s compromises. that’s it

[moneyfetishist @moneyfetishist]

HOW TO AVOID DECISION FATIGUE AND ACTUALLY BE HEALTHY WITHOUT MAKING IT YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY

I need to address something before we start because I can already see the replies forming

no I do not track the vaginal microbiome reports of my partners

no I am not Bryan Johnson

no I do not have a team of 30 doctors measuring the elasticity of my corneas every morning while I drink a smoothie that costs more than your rent and contains the ground-up hopes of a Peruvian shaman

I am a guy who eats well and has a system. that's it. the system is about to sound insane because I'm going to describe it in detail and anything described in detail sounds insane. if I described how you brush your teeth with the same specificity you would sound like a psychopath. "I apply 1.5cm of paste to the bristles at a 45-degree angle and work in small circular motions starting from the upper left molar." you do this every day. it takes 2 minutes. it is completely normal. it only sounds unhinged when you write it down. keep that in mind for everything that follows

my last post about this was topic extremely autistic. I am aware. I do in fact go outside. I have friends. I drink soft drinks sometimes. I have conversations that do not involve psyllium husk. I am a normal person who happens to have structured the boring parts of his life so that the interesting parts get his full attention. that is the entire thesis. the system runs in the background. the life happens in the foreground. if you finish this post and conclude I am a joyless machine you have confused the backstage for the show

also I've been doing some version of this since I was 14 or 15. this is not something a podcast taught me last year. the principle, remove decisions, keep it simple, make it sustainable, has been the same for over a long time . I just didn't have the vocabulary to explain why eating the same things every day made me feel better than standing in front of a fridge 3 times a day experiencing a philosophical crisis about yoghurt. the vocabulary is new. the habit is old

now

the average person makes roughly 35,000 decisions per day. 226 of those are about food. not strategy. not capital allocation. whether to eat the yoghurt or the toast

every one costs cognitive energy. your prefrontal cortex depletes across the day as decisions stack up. there's a famous observation about judges granting parole at 65% after a meal break and near 0% right before. same judges. same crimes. the only variable was how many decisions they'd made since they last ate. your brain physically degrades its decision quality as the day goes on and every meaningless choice you make before 9 AM accelerates the decline

the goal is not to build a routine

the goal is to remove decisions

here is how I do it

MORNING: ZERO DECISIONS

I don't eat breakfast. this is a decision I made once and never make again. thousands of decisions eliminated by deciding one time. done

instead I drink an iso clear protein drink. 25g protein. tastes good. this matters, everything in your system has to taste good or you'll abandon it. the gym bro drinking chalk mixed with regret quits in 2 months. the person who actually enjoys their shake does it for years. adherence runs on enjoyment not discipline. discipline depletes. enjoyment doesn't

the iso clear is made the night before. same time I make my gym shake. both in 3 minutes. morning: open fridge, take it. no blender. no measuring. no thinking. 4-5 minutes saved daily. 24 hours per year. a full day back because you made a drink 12 hours earlier

supplements at the same time every day. 20 grams of creatine. yes 20. most people take 5 and wonder why they don't feel anything. creatine is the most researched supplement in existence with the most consistent positive data on strength, cognitive function, and recovery. 20g is the loading protocol that most people do for a week and then drop to 5. I never dropped. my body tolerates it. talk to your doctor if you want but 20g is what I take and I'm telling you the difference between 5 and 20 is the difference between "I think it might be working" and actually feeling it. plus vitamins, whatever else. same spot. taken with the iso clear. one action. decisions were made on Sunday. done

SUNLIGHT FIRST 30 MINUTES

dead serious

your eyes have cells that talk directly to the clock in your brain that controls your entire hormonal day. cortisol, melatonin, energy, sleep, all of it gets set by when your eyes first see real light. morning sunlight produces a cortisol spike that makes you alert and focused. this is the good cortisol. you want it high in the morning and low at night

if the first light you see is your phone screen at 7 AM in a dark room you've set the clock wrong and no amount of coffee fixes it. the coffee masks the problem. it does not solve it

step outside. 10-15 minutes. costs nothing. does more than any supplement on this list

FOOD: SAME THINGS EVERY DAY

sounds miserable. it's freedom. no thinking about food 21 times a week. all decisions made once on Sunday. the rest is assembly

6 EGGS DAILY

boiled. cooked Sunday. 12 per batch, lasts 2 days. complete protein. all 9 essential amino acids. choline for brain function, your brain needs choline to make the neurotransmitter responsible for memory and focus and most people are deficient. the cholesterol thing was debunked years ago. your liver makes 1-2g daily regardless of what you eat. eggs don't move the needle. why 6? because of the six-pack obviously. the science is secondary. the joke is the reason

PROTEIN PORRIDGE

buckwheat or spelt flakes (Buchweizen/Dinkelflocken) or oat flakes (Haferflocken). mixed with protein shake, psyllium husk (Flohsamenschalen), chia seeds (Chiasamen)

buckwheat isn't wheat. it's a seed. lower glycemic than oats. slower energy release. no 11 AM crash. spelt has more protein than regular wheat and a broader mineral profile

psyllium husk is the fibre engine. one tablespoon = 5g soluble fibre. it forms a gel in your digestive tract that does three things simultaneously

first it slows glucose absorption which stabilises your blood sugar so you don't get the energy spike and crash that makes you useless at 11 AM and sends you looking for sugar to fix the problem that sugar caused

second it feeds your good gut bacteria. your microbiome runs on fibre the way your car runs on fuel. most people eat 10-15g of fibre daily. you need 30-40g. the bacteria that protect your immune system, produce serotonin, and regulate inflammation are starving in most people's guts because the modern diet is fibre-deficient at a level that would horrify any gastroenterologist who looked at it honestly

third and this is the one most people don't understand: it lowers LDL cholesterol

for all of you who get your health information from TikTok and need this in small words: LDL is the bad cholesterol. it's the stuff that builds up in your arteries and eventually blocks them. when your arteries block, blood can't reach your heart or brain. that's a heart attack or a stroke. you die or you wish you did. lowering LDL means less buildup. less buildup means your arteries stay open. open arteries mean you continue living. that is the entire thing in 4 sentences

here's how psyllium does it. your liver produces bile to digest fat. bile is made from cholesterol. normally bile gets reabsorbed in your intestine and recycled back to the liver so the liver doesn't need to make more. psyllium binds to that bile in your gut and carries it out of your body. gone. your liver now needs to pull cholesterol from your blood to make new bile. your blood LDL drops. not because you're blocking cholesterol production. because you're forcing your liver to use more of it. the mechanism is elegant. your body already knows how to lower its own cholesterol. the psyllium just forces the process by removing the bile your liver was going to recycle. average reduction is around 7% which doesn't sound dramatic until you understand that every 1% drop in LDL corresponds to a 1-2% reduction in cardiovascular event risk over time. 7% compounded over decades is the difference between a heart attack at 65 and not having one

it also keeps you full longer with fewer calories because the gel expands in your stomach and triggers satiety signals before you've overeaten. non-negotiable in the system

chia seeds, omega-3, fibre, protein. they absorb 12x their weight in water. they go in the porridge. you don't taste them. they do their job quietly. the ideal employee

base is prepackaged. add-ins portioned Sunday in 7 containers. during the week: grab one, mix fresh, done. 2 minutes. I tried cooking this in bulk. texture after 3 days is somewhere between wallpaper paste and regret. dry prep, mix fresh. solved

BERRIES

blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. rotate by season. the anthocyanins in berries cross the blood-brain barrier and accumulate in the regions responsible for memory and learning. people who eat berries regularly show measurably slower cognitive decline. they also just taste good which is why they're actually on the list. into the porridge or the shake

BROCCOLI

most nutrient-dense vegetable per calorie. contains sulforaphane which activates your body's master antioxidant defence system. anti-inflammatory. being studied for anti-cancer properties. plus vitamin C, K, folate, fibre. steamed or roasted with dinner. if you eat one vegetable make it broccoli. if you eat two make the second one also broccoli

GREEN TEA OVER COFFEE

good gunpowder green tea (Grüntee). green tea has L-theanine which is an amino acid that produces calm focus. caffeine alone gives you alertness plus anxiety plus crash. caffeine plus L-theanine gives you alertness plus calm plus sustained attention. it's measurably better on cognitive tasks than either compound alone

coffee spikes cortisol. first thing in the morning you're adding a cortisol spike on top of your natural awakening cortisol. that's the jittery anxious energy people mistake for productivity. green tea doesn't do this

also nettle tea (Brennnesseltee) and herbal tea (Kräutertee) throughout the day. hydration with benefits rather than plain water for 14 hours

and before someone asks: yes I do drink espresso. I'm not a monster. but my first espresso is around 10 AM. not 7. not the moment I open my eyes. your cortisol is naturally highest in the first 60-90 minutes after waking. drinking coffee during peak cortisol doesn't make the caffeine work better. it makes your body produce less natural cortisol over time because you're supplementing what it was already doing. you build tolerance faster and the coffee stops working. by 10 AM your natural cortisol has dipped and that's when the caffeine actually adds something instead of doubling what's already there. I delayed my first coffee by 3 hours and the same espresso that was doing nothing at 7 AM now actually works at 10. same coffee. different timing. completely different effect

SLEEP

while we're here: stop trying to sleep more. start trying to sleep better

everyone obsesses over 8 hours. 8 hours of bad sleep is worse than 6 hours of good sleep. the quality is the variable not the duration. if you're lying in bed for 8 hours but you're waking up 4 times, never hitting deep sleep properly, and staring at your phone until the second your eyes close, you're getting 8 hours of garbage and wondering why you're still tired

the single biggest improvement I made to my sleep was the pillow. I use a Blackroll recovery pillow. I am not affiliated with them. nobody is paying me to say this. I don't care about the brand. I care that it's the first pillow I've used where I wake up without neck tension and actually feel like I slept instead of like I spent 7 hours in a wrestling match with my own spine. the pillow supports your cervical spine in whatever position you sleep in and maintains the alignment that keeps your airways open and your muscles relaxed. most pillows are either too flat or too thick and your neck compensates all night which means your muscles are working while you're supposed to be recovering. bad pillow = 7 hours of low-grade muscle activation that you experience as "I slept 8 hours and I'm still tired"

the other basics: room completely dark. I mean completely. tape over the standby lights on electronics. blackout curtains. your skin has photoreceptors. even light hitting your arm can disrupt melatonin production. room cold. 16-18°C. your core temperature needs to drop for deep sleep to initiate. a warm room prevents the drop. no screen 30-60 minutes before bed. the blue light suppresses melatonin. everyone knows this. almost nobody does it. I am also guilty of this sometimes. I'm being honest not perfect

improve the quality of the 6-7 hours you're already getting before you try to add an 8th hour of the same bad sleep. the 8th hour of bad sleep is not helping. the first 6 hours done properly would be enough

THE JUICE STACK

beetroot juice (Rote Beete Saft), minimum 250ml daily. the nitrates convert to nitric oxide which dilates blood vessels, drops blood pressure, and increases oxygen delivery. professional cyclists use this as a legal performance enhancer. the improvement is measurable within hours of drinking it. 3% better endurance in trained athletes, up to 16% in untrained people. 3% sounds small until you realise Olympic medals are decided by less than 1%

sour cherry juice (Sauerkirschsaft), mixed with the beetroot so it doesn't taste like a garden accident. tart cherries have the highest natural melatonin of any food plus serious anti-inflammatory compounds. reduces muscle soreness after training. improves sleep quality. the combination of beetroot + cherry gives you vasodilation plus anti-inflammation plus recovery plus better sleep in one drink

pineapple juice (Ananassaft), small amount with protein-heavy meals. contains bromelain which breaks down protein in the stomach. helps digestion noticeably within a week. not a lot. just enough

coconut water (Kokoswasser), natural electrolytes in ratios closer to human blood plasma than any sports drink. post-training or when dehydrated. the rehydration solution that existed for thousands of years before Gatorade added blue food colouring to sugar water and called it science

THE STUFF THAT TASTES TERRIBLE

black seed oil, unfiltered, cold-pressed (Schwarzkümmelöl), one tablespoon daily. the anti-inflammatory and immune effects have been documented across dozens of clinical trials. there's a reason every traditional medicine system from the Middle East to South Asia has used this for centuries. it tastes like concentrated displeasure. I chase it with the cherry juice. the combination tastes like something a medieval apothecary would prescribe for a curse. it works

unpasteurised sauerkraut (nicht pasteurisiertes Sauerkraut), best probiotic source that exists. billions of live bacteria per serving. the key word is unpasteurised. pasteurised sauerkraut is dead bacteria. tastes the same. does nothing. your gut microbiome communicates with your brain through the vagus nerve. 90% of your serotonin is produced in your gut not your brain. the bacteria in fermented food directly affect your mood, immunity, and inflammation levels. I prepare it as coleslaw, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, seasoning, shredded carrot. side dish instead of punishment. gut thanks you within 2 weeks. my taste buds are the same ever since im 4 or so. my microbiome has better priorities

COOKING

coconut oil (Kokosöl). high smoke point. doesn't break down into toxic compounds at high heat the way seed oils do. seed oils heated past their smoke point produce aldehydes at concentrations that are genuinely alarming. coconut oil stays stable. eggs. vegetables. everything. I do not put it in coffee because I am not insane. cooking fat. use it as a cooking fat

WATER

drink more. you are dehydrated right now. your performance is degraded 10-15% and you think this is your baseline because you've been dehydrated so consistently you forgot what hydrated feels like. bottle at desk. bottle in car. bottle by bed. if you have to think about where water is you won't drink enough

SUGAR AND SWEETENERS

I use artificial sweeteners for most things. I don't move enough daily to justify pure sugar everywhere. construction worker burning 4,000 calories? go ahead. I sit in meetings and stare at spreadsheets. the cherry juice has real beet sugar (Rübenzucker) and that's fine. one drink. small dose. the dose makes the poison. Paracelsus said this 500 years ago

CALORIES

I don't track them daily. track during cut or bulk phases when precision matters because you're pushing your body in a direction it doesn't want to go. outside those phases: the system does the work. I eat the same things. I know the ballpark. scale plus pattern recognition. not MyFitnessPal and 15 minutes of data entry that makes you want to throw your phone into the ocean. the person who tracks religiously for 90 days then eats pizza for 2 weeks has a worse annual average than the person eating the same things daily and adjusting by trend. consistency over precision. always

GET A TRAINER

if you have the means. in person. a real human who watches your form and adjusts your programme based on YOUR body. the trainer is the equivalent of hiring an accountant instead of doing your own taxes. technically you can do it yourself. practically you'll make mistakes that cost more than the accountant. a good trainer fixed more in 3 months than I fixed in 3 years alone. if your trainer can't explain why you're doing what you're doing find a different trainer

THE SYSTEM

everything bought weekly. portioned Sunday. same spots. during the week I assemble. I don't decide. the decisions happened once. execution is automatic

same clothes. same order. same spots for keys, wallet, phone. the 4 minutes looking for keys is not 4 minutes lost. it's 4 minutes of cognitive disruption that takes 10 more to recover from because your brain switched modes

never follow this like a nazi. wake up late? skip the extra sunlight just go for a walk later in the day. the world doesn't end. the routine serves you. you don't serve the routine. the moment it's a source of stress you've defeated the purpose

the goal is not an optimised morning

the goal is an empty mind when the real work starts

and then when you go out just have fun tbh

because the system ran in the background

and the foreground is where you actually live

that's the point

Your welcome

[Dentoshi @Dentoshi]

don't wanna be pessimistic, BUT....

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[Alliance for Justice @AFJustice]

John Marck refused to answer Senator @ChrisCoons's question of whether President Trump is eligible to run for president in 2028.

This isn’t a trick question – it's in the Constitution. If you can’t say a president can’t serve a third term, you shouldn’t be a federal judge. 🚩

[Chris Meloni @Chris_Meloni]

“Oh do you think he was referring to you”

BRILLIANT

[Chase @Crypto_Chase]

Stocks doing their entire V-reversal and breakout to new highs over the course of a single month. Pretty insane to see. I think these gap ups will gap right back down in the not so distant future. Gut says something is off.

[tolks @_tolks]

gold puking, dxy & yields look wildly bullish, oil & vix green, new tradfi highs tested & failed again while you've been able to do some wildly silly stuff & print in tradfi land

warsh confirmation day and ceasefire deadline looming, it's not looking good bruv

[ant @ThisIsNuse]

Thoughts and prayers

[Michael Bento @MichaelPBento]

I may have to go 10% of my book long oil today. This seems too good to be true. I never trade commodities but this is too good an opportunity to pass up.

Everyone acting like things are solved, nothing is solved.
Everyone acting like we are back to normal supply, we’re not.
Everyone acting like regular summer demand increases aren’t going to alter the current calculus.

The risk/reward here is skewed to the upside play

[Rekt Capital @rektcapital]

#BTC

For Bitcoin to build renewed and sustained macro bullish momentum it would need to reclaim not just $82500 but also break its multi-month series of Lower Highs (Macro Downtrend)

History suggests neither of these technical milestones will happen and that the Bear Market still has ~6 months to go

$BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin

[Michael Bento @MichaelPBento]

This is your reminder that the Nasdaq has only had a 12 day winning streak 3 times in its entire history. There has never been a 13 day streak.

Today is day 12.

[Michael Bento @MichaelPBento]

Many people will ask how we could have known we were putting in a major top, just know there were signs