Rafael Disla

[teo @teodorio]

It's incredible how fast the utility of money decreases after a certain level of wealth. You can get the exact same bag, clothes, personal trainer and almost the same flight experience with a good business class and only make a couple hundred k a year.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

JUST IN: 🇬🇧🇺🇸 BBC says the Trump administration is involved in insider trading.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump's EPA has added six chemical, fertilizer, and oil execs to its new Science Advisory Board:

— Shawn Gannon, Chemours (maker of forever chemicals)
— Gary Minsavage, ExxonMobil
— Matthew LeBaron, Dow Chemical (sued by Texas this year for pollution)
— Jessica LaRocca, Corteva Agriscience (maker of forever chemicals)
— Thomas Haren, AGPROfessional (fertilizer lobbying firm)

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That image looks almost exactly like a slice of your brain under a microscope. An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon spent years figuring out why. The numbers line up way too well to be a coincidence.

Their 2020 paper took an unusual approach. They put pictures of brain tissue next to pictures of the universe and measured everything they could: the shape, the connections, how densely things clumped together. Almost every number came back the same.

In the image above, each bright dot is a galaxy, and each dim strand is a filament pulling galaxies toward one another. Each galaxy sits inside a network, connected to about 4 others on average. Zoom into brain tissue with a microscope, and each neuron connects to about 5 others. The clustering pattern matches, and the overall shape of the network does too. One system fits inside your head. The other stretches across tens of billions of light-years, a size gap of roughly a billion billion billion.

And the parallels go deeper than structure. Your brain is 77% water, sitting there and taking up space. The universe is 70% dark energy, also sitting there and taking up space. In both, only about a quarter of the total stuff is doing any real work. Your whole life's worth of memories would take about 2.5 million gigabytes to store. The full complexity of the observable universe, every galaxy position across 90 billion light-years, would take roughly 4.3 million gigabytes. Not far apart.

The picture in this tweet is the new DESI map, a project from a telescope in Arizona that just finished cataloging 47 million galaxies over five years. That is six times every previous galaxy survey put together. And when you look at it, you are looking at something built like a brain.

Either the universe runs on the same playbook your head does, or there are only a handful of ways any complex network can organize itself.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Trump and Republicans raised taxes on 95% of Americans to cut taxes for the richest 5%.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

🚨 STUDY: 95% of Americans have paid more of their income in taxes as a result of Trump's tax policies.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

At least 88 of the largest corporations in America paid no federal corporate income taxes in their most recent fiscal year, per ITEP

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New economic analysis finds that nearly all Americans will pay more in taxes this year, with just the top 5% of earners getting a tax cut.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: The US has agreed to 'release Iranian frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks' and this is 'directly linked to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz', according to Reuters report.

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

That is 3 times as much as Obama lol

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New economic analysis finds that nearly all Americans will pay more in taxes this year, with just the top 5% of earners getting a tax cut.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.

[William A Goldsborough @WmAG_V]

Nasa is less than 1% of the budget, but has revolutionized diagnostic scanning for health prevention, lasik surgery, cancer treatments, health monitor wearables, memory foam products, cell phone sensors, power tools, etc.

People's lives have improved because of a space program.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Iran Deal By Obama:
•Strait of Hormuz open for free
•Iran limits Uranium enrichment
•Iran agrees to make no nuclear weapons
•Iran allows Int'l inspectors to ensure compliance
•Inspectors confirm Iran's full compliance

Iran Ceasefire By Trump:
•Strait of Hormuz closed, only open for $2M Per Ship
•Iran makes no guarantee of limit on uranium enrichment
•Iran makes no guarantee of no nuclear weapons
•Iran makes no guarantee to allow Int'l inspectors

MAGA: Trump Playing 5D Chess! Art Of The Deal!!

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

#NEWS 🚨: Netflix will live stream Artemis II’s lunar flyby tomorrow

Beginning at 1 pm ET

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell today:

“There is effectively zero net job creation in the private sector.”

Zero.

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

This is your daily reminder that billionaires wouldn't even notice a wealth tax.

If we passed @SenWarren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax:
—Musk would still have $817 billion
—Bezos would still have $247 billion
—Zuckerberg would still have $217 billion
—Ellison would have $201 billion