pete mackey

husband. father. son. brother. trial lawyer. Tide/Braves fan.

[The Orchard Keeper @keeper_orchard]

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[pete mackey @psmackey]

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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.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

This may sound counterintuitive, but the best place to start a path to Universal Healthcare is with big companies.

Our biggest companies are really bad dealing with the economics of their healthcare benefits. They get ripped off. A lot. They are not functionally set up to address both cost and quality of outcomes.

They take on all the cost risk. But. They hire companies affiliated with huge HC conglomerates to manage it all for them.

Those conglomerates keep the huge companies as much in the dark about actual costs as they do the 20 person start up

I can’t tell you how many times I have talked to companies with tens and hundreds of thousands of lives who had no idea whether the price the company administering their medical benefits paid a hospital for a surgery and in patient stay, was the same price they billed the company. They have no idea at all.

In many cases, they only receive a weekly invoice for millions of dollars for their medical and pharmacy benefits and they have no idea if it accurately reflects their contract, or, if they got the best price , or if there is a spread and more

Some try to audit, but the claims data doesn’t incorporate the actual amount paid to the care provider. Nor does it have all the fields necessary. Or even worse, sometimes they only get their weekly invoice and don’t have full claims available to them

Still, despite this they “ trust” these big conglomerates to act as middlemen and rip them off.

Why don’t they switch ? This is the conundrum they find themselves in.

They have tens or hundreds of thousands of employees and their families they cover. The law of big numbers say a lot of those folks are in very messy situations. They dont want to go through the pain, fear and uncertainty of moving from their current source of care. And the HR department knows the emotional switching cost of moving away from the incumbent is incredibly high. They don’t have enough people working in HR to deal with it.

Those same big companies rarely have more than one person acting as a “HealthCare CFO “, responsive for making sure all the pricing is accurate or negotiated.

And of course, no big company wants to admit they are getting ripped off. And none will violate their confidentiality clause of their contracts. I literally tell them to put a pdf of their HC contracts into their LLMs and just ask it “where am I getting ripped off “. Not perfect. But the list is always very long and eye opening

So what should they do. The word of the week is “Carve Out”.

These companies are big enough they can ask to Carve Out anything they want. I tell them to use their Carve Out to direct contract with transparent surgery centers and providers. Maybe just hop or knee replacements to start. Hopefully https://t.co/xY30tR9MWn too :)

This is the starting point

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

The bottom line: The federal judges have ruled more than 13,300 times — the overwhelming majority of the 15,100 rulings — that ICE had detained people in violation of the law or their due process rights.

https://t.co/3LIALFX6sP

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Current number of data centers, by country:

👉🏻 https://t.co/KaBgQoSEvP

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

This is like how Trump called NAFTA “the worst Trade Deal ever made,” rebranded it as USMCA, and then called it “the best and most important trade deal ever made.”

[Josh R @jjroach3]

When Eisenhower’s armies came across the Nazi death camps as they overrode Nazi Germany, Eisenhower made many of the local German residents march past and sometimes into those camps to see the horrors that they had tried to ignore. They were complicit in evil by looking the other way. Maybe we should do the same thing with every Russian once Putin is defeated. March them all to the cities and fields in Ukraine where Russian troops committed mass genocide, rape and torture. We will never forget the evil Russia perpetrated. NEVER.

[pete mackey @psmackey]

Stuff like this is why patriots speak truth to power.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

President Trump says a deal with Iran is set to be signed tomorrow (Sunday, June 14th), which also will be his 80th birthday:

“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL.”

[pete mackey @psmackey]

But I thought that the 1950s were the Good Old Days???

[Today In History @historigins]

A crowd gathers outside the Myers family home, trying to scare away the first black family in Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1957.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[pete mackey @psmackey]

Says the son who seeks mercy for killing his parents because now he’s an orphan …

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Today we filed a motion asking the First Circuit to expedite our appeal of the district court's order in the AAP lawsuit that left ACIP—the nation's vaccine advisory committee—without a quorum. AAP opposes our motion.

I've been consistent from day one: I do not want to take vaccines away from anyone. Our policy changes preserved access and coverage.

But the court's order has left ACIP unable to carry out its core responsibilities. As a result, the committee cannot issue new recommendations, review newly approved vaccines, or complete important work ahead of the fall flu season.

A functioning ACIP is essential to ensuring that vaccine recommendations remain grounded in evidence and available to the families and providers who rely on them.

Families, physicians, insurers, and public health programs deserve certainty—not paralysis.

That's why we're asking for expedited review. Our appeal seeks to restore a functioning ACIP so the vaccine recommendation process can continue, and families, physicians, and public health programs have the guidance they need.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The US can just congratulate Russia on continuing to slaughter Ukrainian civilians with advanced military weaponry every day.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.

China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Loyal to the end. To Putin.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.

His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.

Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Charles Schulz was so good.