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🇺🇦 Shelli Thompson 🇺🇸
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One week ago today I reluctantly said goodbye to my smart sassy companion of the last 14 years and 8 months. Thanks for sharing your love, your life and your kisses; you’ll never be forgotten Riley girl. 🐾
#rip #bordercollie #love #sayhellotoheaven #alldogsgotoheaven
Laura Loomer says anyone who reposts us should be banned from Twitter. 😂
Dear Kansas City, thank you & farewell.
None of us expected to love KC and its people as much as this, after only 48 hours here. The friendliness and hospitality, the food and drinks @ Joe's, The Peanut, McLain's, Tacos de Gallos, Varisty Bar & the iconic Johnnie's on Seventh.
Your enthusiasm for showing off your city has left a huge mark on us! Go Chiefs. Go Royals. We hope to return one day.
Time for Dallas. Time for England *finally* getting started at the World Cup. And time to compare Texas BBQ to Kansas City BBQ...
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
Republicans are in charge because we promised:
to Make America Healthy Again.
to start No New Wars,
to put people above corporations,
to put America above foreign countries,
to release the Epstein files,
to not spy on citizens,
to eliminate fraud,
what the hell happened?!
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.
Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.
Things most Americans agree on:
Groceries cost too much.
Tariffs suck and make no sense.
Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.
The debt is a mess.
The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.
Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.
Americans are exhausted.
AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.
Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.
Canadians are super fucking cool.
Mexicans are chill.
Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.
Good neighbors are a blessing.
Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.
We all question, are we alone in the universe?
We all fuck up along the way.
Epstein didn’t hang himself.
The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.
The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!
Things we’re told to fight about:
Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.
That’s the joke.
It’s not an antisemitic conspiracy theory when a foreign lobby openly brags that they bought two congressional seats with candidates who will be loyal to Israel.
This is a really big deal. Every state needs to do this.
For as long as I live, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t the end of Donald Trump.
I will never, ever understand it.
🎯
In 2007, a 26-year-old actor from New Delhi walked onto a Hollywood set with almost no experience.
His name was Kunal Nayyar.
He had only two acting credits to his name.
No major fame.
No guarantee of success.
Just a role in a new sitcom called The Big Bang Theory.
He played Rajesh Koothrappali — a painfully shy astrophysicist who could not speak to women without alcohol.
At first, almost nobody knew the show would become a cultural phenomenon.
Then it exploded.
Twelve seasons.
279 episodes.
Global syndication.
One of the most successful sitcoms in television history.
By the final seasons, Kunal and his original co-stars were reportedly earning around one million dollars per episode.
Forbes later ranked him among the highest-paid television actors in the world.
The kind of money most people cannot realistically imagine.
And with that kind of success usually comes a familiar transformation:
Bigger houses.
Luxury cars.
Public excess.
A life carefully curated for magazines and social media.
Kunal Nayyar went in a very different direction.
Years after The Big Bang Theory ended, he quietly revealed something unexpected during an interview.
Late at night, after dinner, when the world becomes quiet…
he opens GoFundMe.
He scrolls through fundraising pages posted by strangers.
Children needing surgery.
Families drowning in cancer bills.
Parents begging for help with treatments they cannot afford.
And sometimes, anonymously, he pays.
A chemotherapy bill disappears.
A surgery gets funded.
A debt vanishes from someone’s life overnight.
The families never know it was him.
He called it his “masked vigilante thing.”
The phrase sounded almost shy when he said it.
Like he was slightly embarrassed to even mention it publicly.
That detail matters.
Because genuine generosity rarely performs itself loudly.
And Kunal does not stop there.
Alongside his wife, Neha Kapur, he quietly funds scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Young people whose families could never afford university otherwise.
They also support animal charities because, as he once explained simply:
“We love dogs.”
No giant publicity campaigns.
No celebrity-branded foundation demanding attention.
No gala dinners centered around his own image.
Just quiet help.
Quietly given.
And perhaps the most revealing thing Kunal Nayyar ever said about kindness was this:
“Right now people are not happy because we are all expecting someone else to be kind.”
Then he continued:
“We are expecting a president or a politician, some leader, to come and bring us world peace. But there is no world peace if your neighbour comes to your door wanting some sugar for their tea and you lock it against them and say, get away.”
That may be the entire philosophy underneath his life.
Be the neighbor.
Open the door.
Hand over the sugar.
Because to Kunal Nayyar, money is not proof of superiority.
It is responsibility.
A tool.
A chance to reduce suffering quietly when you can.
And there is something deeply moving about the fact that he does it anonymously.
Because anonymous generosity removes ego from the equation entirely.
No applause.
No recognition.
No gratitude directed back toward him personally.
Only relief.
Somewhere tonight, a family may refresh a fundraising page and discover their child’s surgery has suddenly been paid for.
They may cry.
They may hold each other in disbelief.
They may whisper thank you into an empty room without knowing who heard them.
And somewhere else, Kunal Nayyar may already be asleep.
Not waiting for praise.
Not checking headlines.
Not needing credit.
Because for him, the point was never to be seen doing something good.
The point was simply that someone needed help…
and he could help them.
That is a very rare kind of wealth.
The kind that leaves the world lighter instead of louder.
Hey @Grok, if the US Constitution was a person, which current representative would it be? Very concise. Just the name.
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?
Dahl: Yes
Murray: And the rate for someone making $1,000,000?
Dahl: 2.2%
Murray: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184,000, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.
I just want to point out....
The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.
🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.
70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.
Oil dropped 12%.
The trade made $125 million in profit.
Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.
$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.
$920 million placed before this one.
Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.
What kind of war is this?
This is more like a trading desk with an army.
Never stop connecting the dots.
INCREDIBLE!
Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post.
Congrats!!
Spirit Airlines collapsed at 3AM on May 2nd. I just pledged to help build Spirit 2.0 — a people-owned airline. One member, one vote. Join us.
Ghislaine Maxwell abused young women and girls alongside Jeffrey Epstein for years. As young as 14 years old. In multiple states. In multiple jurisdictions. Convicted in a federal court.
She belongs behind bars.
I am beyond disgusted that any of our colleagues would suggest a pardon given what we know. The real question is why has no one else been convicted?
https://t.co/6ZfJpehjyq
I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.
On April 21st, the left screen moved first.
I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.
At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.
On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.
At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.
Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.
I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.
My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.
The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:
Reviewed.
That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.
Let me show you my flags.
March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.
March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.
April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.
April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.
April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.
That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.
The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.
Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.
Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.
Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.
The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.
I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.
The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.
One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.
One account is a coincidence. But there were six.
Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.
My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.
March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.
The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.
The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."
Then the White House sent the email again.
I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.
I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.
But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.
Zero prosecutions.
As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.
I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.
The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.
In my field, we call this price discovery.
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