Nick Dragan

Investment Specialist for select families. Huge Wings Fan!! Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member SIPC

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

When I was 12 years old I’d wake up on a Saturday morning, watch some cartoons and pro wrestling, go outside and throw a rubber ball off the side of the house, get the guys in the neighborhood together for Wiffle Ball, go inside for Atari and snacks, ride my bike to Dairy Queen for a Mr. Misty, listen to Casey Kasem, flip on ESPN and watch sports with no social commentary, flip it over to MTV, which showed actual music videos, go back outside for more Wiffle Ball, and then think “Hey, it’s almost 3 pm.” Living my best life and had no fucking idea how good I had it.

[Jim Costa @JimCosta_]

“I can’t stand what’s going on”

“I’ve had it”

“It’s self inflicted”

“I think 600,000 living alums better start rallying together”

[David Harns @DavidHarns]

Hard to argue with his conclusion.

[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.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Janko: "I recently just got into it with my dad."

Shaq: "What you need to do when you leave here, just call him and tell him you love him. It doesn't matter who's right or who's wrong. Dad, I love you and I respect you... I'll see you when I get home."

[Nick Dragan @redwingsonline]

@ClankoMedia No one knows what the issue was here. I dislike these videos. Yes it’s a terrible example to set and most likely totally uncalled for. But what if a referee or coach told your kid he sucks and should quit? Cause that happened to my son. What would you do? Just walk away…

[David Klein @CoachDavidKlein]

This game deserves your best.

When you give anything less than 100%, this game will get the best of you.

Not just in baseball. That’s goes for life as well.

Whatever you do, bring full passion, full energy, and full effort. No exceptions.

This umpire gets it.

He shows up for these kids and gives it everything he has! Legend!🔥 #umpire #littleleague #youthbaseball #baseballumpire

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Josh Brolin nailed sobriety in one powerful line.

He loved drinking — called it gasoline in his veins. But he made it his mission to make sobriety more fun than his wildest nights. He was even willing to lose his wife Kathryn to put sobriety first.

No more Jekyll and Hyde. No more getting banned from every bar. That version of him is gone.

This one hit me hard. Most people see sobriety as losing something. Brolin treated it like upgrading his entire life.

Real change happens when the new path feels more alive than the old one.

Have you found sobriety (or quitting any bad habit) can actually become more rewarding than before?

[Fox News @FoxNews]

“We gave up our yesterdays for your tomorrows.”

98-year-old World War II veteran David Yoho delivered an emotional message at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. as Americans gathered to honor the more than 400,000 U.S. service members who died during the war.

Standing before the crowd in the rain, Yoho urged younger generations to remember the sacrifices made by veterans and to keep telling their stories long after they’re gone.

“Tell them it was a 16-year-old boy in the hearts and mind and body of a 98-year-old veteran of World War II.”

[Litigating Literacy @LitigateLit]

We need to do better by our kids!

[Litigating Literacy @LitigateLit]

I’m tired of schools saying they are using research based programs when they know they are using a hodge podge of crap.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Hey, I’ve got an idea, let’s all watch Dr. J and Pistol Pete Maravich put on a basketball clinic at the 1977 NBA All-Star Game.

[David M. McIntosh @DavidMMcintosh]

"Despite receiving nearly a trillion dollars a year, public K-12 education in America produces abysmal results. 70% of eighth graders are not proficient in reading and more than 70% can't do basic math."

-@BenSasse

[Jennifer Weber @DrJenniferWeber]

A year ago, I argued that the decline in U.S. test scores was not a pandemic-related setback, but evidence of a decades-long structural crisis in American education.
Today’s @nytimes article finally points in the same direction: https://t.co/X5hWvUDeC5
I broke this down in my May 2025 @ManhattanInst brief on the Nation’s Report Card: https://t.co/AZe2HkYaUq

[Kyle Koenen @realkylekoenen]

Wisconsin ranks 33rd out of 38 states in math and 30th out of 35 in reading for post-pandemic recovery. This should be a five alarm fire for everyone.

If we want Wisconsin's future to be bright then we must raise expectations and get back to the basics.
https://t.co/AvUiwk7Fjo