Ryan Nadeau

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[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

I took my 6yr old son up to the @sundancefest & showed him the Park City Banksy & told him a bit about his art & other shenanigans. Fast forward…my son found out there’s a gallery at a local University & wanted his art displayed. I told him that wasn’t how it worked & his response was, “well, what would Banksy do?”

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@A24 Evolution of Dance and Leeeeeeroy Jenkins!

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@Aella_Girl @fragrancewife

[Farmer Bill's 🥩 @FarmerBills]

Giveaway 🥩 we will send this order to a random person who retweets this and another who leaves a comment

Do both and your chances double

For every 25k views this post gets, we'll add more sticks and select two additional winners

May the odds be in your favor!

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@MomaBera 👀 D.O.M.T.
New peptide?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If you were young in 2001, or weren’t even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.

But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.

Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.

[Everything Yankees @eyyankees]

Cannot believe it’s been 25 years.

Never forget when President George W. Bush delivered one of the most chilling moments in sports history just one month removed from the tragic attacks on 9/11/01. 🇺🇸

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@RyanJones Branding + Info Architecture + Web Performance + Audience Engagement (e.g. Content) = SEO/AEO/GEO/LMNOPO/etc

Branding is absolutely the most powerful driver of rankings…and always has been. I wish more SEOs focused on developing their branding expertise.

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@Sourceofboxing @SIChrisMannix Garcia’s going to miss weight by at least 4lbs. Benn should tax him $1M per pound.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the payments logistics officer at the United States Treasury Department who has personally touched every version of the free money this country has been promised since 2020, and I am the only person left in this building who remembers how the first one actually went, because the first one is the only one that was ever real.

Spring 2020. Economic Impact Payments, $1,200 a person, funded, appropriated, moving. Then Mnuchin's office ordered the president's name onto the memo line. Not a rubber stamp. A printed signature, the first time a president's name had ever gone on an IRS payment. Commissioner Rettig wasn't told until the request was already in motion. Our engineers had to reprogram the check-printing software and run it through testing before a single check could clear, because the system had never been built to hold a name that wasn't the Treasurer's. 70 million people waited an extra few days for their own emergency relief, during a pandemic, so a signature could finish QA. I sat in the room where someone asked if we could just skip the testing and was told no, we are not shipping the president's name with a rendering bug in it. The actual money moved slower so the branding could move faster. Every version since has been the branding moving faster and the money not moving at all.

Version one was the DOGE Dividend. It didn't come from this building. It came from a 30-year-old hedge fund manager named James Fishback, CEO of a firm called Azoria, who has said publicly that the number arrived to him in a dream. He posted it to Musk in February of 2025: take 20% of whatever DOGE saves and cut it into checks, math it out to roughly $5,000 a household if the savings hit $2 trillion. Musk replied that he'd check with the president. The president checked. Within days it was a line in a press briefing, no legislation, no appropriation, just a number that had been asleep in one man's head 12 hours earlier now sitting on the Resolute desk. By May, DOGE's own public savings tracker read $175 billion, not $2 trillion, which works out to $1,086.96 per taxpayer, not $5,000. Nobody issued a correction. The number just stopped being said out loud. And when Fishback later described himself as having advised DOGE, a former senior DOGE adviser went on the record to say, quote, you didn't advise DOGE. So the origin story of the $5,000 figure still being used today, 18 months and 2 rebrands later, is a dream, a tweet, and a denial. I have that DOGE savings tracker bookmarked. I check it the way other people check their portfolio.

Version two was the Tariff Dividend, announced that November. $2,000 a person this time, lower number, new funding source: tariff revenue instead of imaginary government savings. This one at least had a real number behind it: $195 billion collected in tariffs for the fiscal year. Economists ran the arithmetic before we did. Cato called it fiscal fantasy in print. A deputy chief economist at Oxford Economics warned that stacking a stimulus check on top of the existing tax cuts could overheat the economy. The math didn't work even before the legal problem showed up, and then the legal problem showed up: the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February, the ones the dividend was supposed to be funded from, and by May we were issuing refunds to importers faster than customs was collecting anything. I watched the ledger cross from positive to negative in the same spreadsheet tab we'd built to track the dividend. We didn't rename the tab. We just stopped opening it.

Version three is the Trump Dividend, the one I'm actually being asked to price this week. Same number as version one, $5,000, announced Tuesday night from the stage of the midterm convention. Quote: if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our tremendous economic success, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000. One condition attached, and it isn't a funding mechanism, it's a spending restriction: the money has to stay in the country, no Canada, no China, no Germany, his words. So the government has now, for the first time in three attempts, specified where the imaginary money is allowed to be imaginarily spent. Commentators started using the word bribe before the applause even finished. There's a real federal statute for this: 18 U.S.C. 597, expenditures to influence voting, a fine or up to 2 years if it's willful. Nobody in this building has said the statute's number out loud in a meeting, and I've listened for it, because there's a comfortable legal argument sitting right there in plain sight: you cannot criminally buy a vote with money that was never appropriated, never budgeted, and has no line item anywhere in the federal government. It isn't a bribe. A bribe requires a bribe.

I priced it anyway, because pricing a number has never once required the number to exist. 270 million adults, $5,000 each, $1.35 trillion, against a national debt that closed this week at $40.1 trillion. It costs 7 times what version two's tariffs brought in at their peak. I put the number in the deck. I did not put in a funding source, because there's a blank cell where that used to go, and I've started to think of that blank cell as the actual through-line of my career here.

Four checks. One real. One dreamed by a guy who isn't even employed by the government he says he advised. One that went negative by court order. One that costs a Senate seat instead of a tax dollar. And I'm still on the invite list for the pricing meeting, because I'm the only one left who was in the room in 2020 when we tested a signature before we tested the money.

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@trich_ What is fascinating/insane, is that their warnings are getting zero traction. The world needs to come together like we did for the ozone layer issue and/or treat this like we do nuclear weapons. Figure out the rules of engagement necessary for human survival, then compete.

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@jakozloski This is oddly profound

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@SahilpatelCA 🤣🤣🤣

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@TheInsiderPaper @grok is this video ai? These frames being so close together make no sense…

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@seanhannity Horrible tragedy, but the video at the very beginning is fake.

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@joel_toomer @todayyearsold

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@SupremeLeaderD3

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@kartiqueshah @BNODesk The flood is real. The video is not

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@BNODesk The flood is real. This video is not

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@BNODesk How can people not see that this video is 100% AI?

[Ryan Nadeau @ryannadeau]

@TMZ This video is AI