Megan Baughman

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned.

“Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.”

Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s.

So, what happened?

Screens.

Dr. Jared Horvath explained:

“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.”

“So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).”

“If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school. And that’s across 80 countries.”

But screens aren’t just decimating learning and making new generations less intelligent than the ones before them.

They’re doing something far worse. THREAD🧵

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Jackson's spinal recovery stunned news stations & millions online. Doctors said he'd never walk, breathe, or move again.

His mom's secret? DMSO—a simple compound vets use on spine injuries the FDA won't approve

But that's not the only "incurable" neurological disorder it helps.

Approximately 2000 studies support DMSO's use for conditions ranging from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to strokes, MS, ALS, chronic pain, neuropathy, depression, epilepsy, and Down syndrome, and a physician who began treating his patients with it estimates roughly 80% of what people see neurologists for goes away with DMSO.🧵

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

ABSOLUTE GOOSEBUMPS AS THE ENTIRE STADIUM SINGS 'TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS' WITH THE USMNT PLAYERS AFTER THE WIN AGAINST AUSTRALIA

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❤️❤️❤️

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

I need to add, with the suit came a free tie, free shirt, and free socks. We just needed to find inexpensive shoes. That’s all I could afford. He was fine with that.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

This is why the supporters of @elonmusk work hard to "defend him."

Because it's not about Elon.

He's a symbol of progress.

[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.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon Musk is the most down-to-earth executive you will ever see.

Tesla gave stock options to every level of the workforce, including people on the line who had never heard the word "stock" before. Musk said it plainly: "We've made them millionaires."

He worked the line, walked it, slept in the factory, and built cars beside the people who still build them today. He said this himself at the NYT DealBook Summit in 2023: "I actually know the people on the line."

The structure at Tesla reflects that. Everyone parks in the same lot. Everyone eats at the same table. At GM, senior executives have a private elevator reserved only for them. Tesla has no such thing.

That isn't a talking point. It's a structural decision that only makes sense if you actually see the people building your product as equal stakeholders in what you're building.

When you sleep on the factory floor, eat at the same table, and park beside the people assembling your cars, giving them equity isn't charity. It's the logical conclusion of how you already operate.

Most executives manage from a distance and call it leadership. Elon built a company where the person on the line and the person running it have the same financial stake in its success.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.

“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.

There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.

At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.

We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.

And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”

New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023

[a16z @a16z]

Elon Musk on how he moves so fast: "I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor."

"I generally try to aim for a deadline that I at least think is at the 50th percentile. So, it's not like an impossible deadline, but it's the most aggressive deadline I can think of that could be achieved with 50% probability.  Which means that it'll be late half the time."

"A maniacal sense of urgency is a very big deal. You want to have an aggressive schedule. And then you want to figure out what the limiting factor is at any point in time and, and help the team address that limiting factor."

Source: @elonmusk with Stripe’s @collision and @dwarkesh_sp

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING: Elon Musk just reposted the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time to his 240 Million Followers

JESUS CHRIST IS KING 🙏

[Dr. Steve Turley @DrTurleyTalks]

The two presidencies in a single image.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION

100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯

"Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees. It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those."

"And while these are supposed to be high skilled employees during almost all of Biden's time in office, 83% got junior or entry level positions."

This is INSANE! SHUT DOWN THE H-1B SCAM!

@KenPaxtonTX is now going after this in Texas 🔥

@kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Fidelity has announced that it is making the SpaceX IPO available to any customer with a retail brokerage account with $2,000 or more in the account (down from up to $500k before).

"SpaceX has decided to reserve a much higher percentage of the offering (up to 30%), which means there should be more shares available to retail clients, which is why we have decided to reduce IPO eligibility for this offering."

[Susan Kokinda @sjkokinda]

Damn, don't take a knife to a gun fight, not when you tangle with Scott Bessent.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.

Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

1. Small Business creates ~60% of new jobs every year
2. AI makes it easier and faster for them to compete with larger companies.
3. The % of jobs created by Small biz every year will only increase.
4. Start your job search with small businesses

[Joey Prather @pratjoey]

Pulte in as interim DNI is a major positive development for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Admin is teeing up an announcement for eventual release, and putting the FHFA chief in such a pivotal role, while naming FNMA and FMCC in the announcement signals that Trump is serious about getting this done.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Meet Kamryn Penny, of Charlotte NC.

In January, he was shot in the back during a robbery, which paralyzed him from the waist down.

Doctors gave him less than a 1% chance of ever walking again in his life.

He just walked across the stage to receive his high school diploma! ❤️

[Zach Lahn @ZachLahn]

The full clip from the Obama town hall while I was in college in 2009.

Plus commentary from one of my heroes in the conservative movement.

Listened to him every day. I still remember hearing great Grandma say “Rush is on”.

God bless Rush Limbaugh. 🇺🇸🎙️

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

If you want more doctors doing house calls, not selling their practices and going to work for the big HC conglomerates, make public med school free.

A little gov intervention, so that rather than having 100s of thousands in debt guiding their decisions , they can do primary care or be a family physician and spend as much time with patients as they want.

They can take cash. They can take chickens.

If you had 250k after almost a decade of school, do you think that would impact your decisions ?

And if you own a big HC conglomerate, does knowing they are drowning in debt impact your decision and how you compete and contract with them ?

Fuck yeah it does.

You pressure them till they have to sell out to you in an acquihire. They can’t afford to survive on their own and every huge HC company takes advantage of them

About 32k students enter med school and DO school a year. 75k for a grant each. Thats 2.4b annually for each class.

That’s it.

You want better healthcare for everyone. That’s the place to start.