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[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

I am banned from entering the United Kingdom because I have been deemed to be "not conducive to the public good".

The Sudanese migrant who literally was cutting a man's head off in the middle of the street in Belfast was given refugee status and full financial benefits by the same government that banned me.

I have never seen a more glaring example of stupidity.

[Nina Varsavsky @ninavars]

Son feministas hasta que Bad Bunny les baila pegado.

Son socialistas hasta que descubren lo cómoda que es volar en primera clase.

Son ecologistas hasta que toca un fin de semana en yate o un vuelo a las Maldivas.

Son tolerantes hasta que se enteran de que votas a la derecha.

Son pacifistas hasta que alguien discrepa de ellos.

Son partidarios de la libertad de expresión hasta que escuchan algo que no les gusta.

Son antielitistas hasta que los invitan a un reservado VIP.

Son ciudadanos del mundo hasta que les toca tenerlos de vecino.

Son partidarios de repartir la riqueza hasta que les toca repartir la suya.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens."

And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds.

Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before.

Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax.

A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program.

Simple.

They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why.

They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed.

They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak.

By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that...

And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren???

Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget.

NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K.

NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane.

The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol.

So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that.

A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical.

It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools

THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY.

Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough.

Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem.

That's the SCAM.

Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her.

Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal.

Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck.

Outrage is deflection.

They'd rather she pay.

Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

It’s funny to see people who don’t believe the actions of the U.S. Gov accurately represents the wants and desire of the American public…simultaneously believe the actions of the Iranian Gov accurately represents the wants and desires of the Iranian public…

[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

The biggest wealth transfer in American history isn’t happening on Wall Street. It’s happening on U-Hauls.

Over $2 trillion in income fled high-tax blue states for low-tax red states in just 11 years.

And blue states’ solution? Raise taxes again.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO JUST TRUTH NUKED THE WHOLE WORLD

"They could make our gas $8 a gallon and we wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING about it!"

"A nuclear-armed Iran could do whatever the HELL they want with the Straits — and there's NOTHING anyone would be able to do about it!"

"And that's one of the many reasons, apart from the massive loss of life and a nuclear strike, why Iran can never have a nuclear weapon."

"I mean, so this is an example of if they had a nuclear weapon, they closed the Straits and they would tell the world, what are you going to do about it?!"

"We have a nuclear weapon, we can attack you with it. That's the world NONE of us want to leave behind."

"It won't happen under this President's watch, but some future President and future Americans will have to deal with this. So just one more example by these guys can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon."

He said it perfectly.

[Mark Moss @1MarkMoss]

Elizabeth Warren won this one, stopped the merger, now 14k people out of a job, and higher fares for everyone

This is what Socialism looks like, this is what happens when politicians mess with markets.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Let's run an experiment: Divide a nation into two, make one of them socialist, and the other capitalist 🧐
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[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

I thought no one was leaving NY?

You know things are bad when your Governor is begging New Yorkers to go to Palm Beach & bring the wealthy back.

You wouldn’t have to BEG if you had better policies.

By the way, the mass exodus hasn’t started yet.

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

Yeah, averting a nuclear ☢️ armed state sponsor of Terror is a great place to spend this money. At least it’s not be funneled through illegal alien fraud schemes back into Democrat campaigns.

“The scale of fraud in Minnesota, particularly in state-administered social services and Medicaid-related programs, has been described by federal prosecutors as **"staggering, industrial-scale fraud"**. This stems from ongoing investigations, primarily into programs handling federal funds, with significant attention on pandemic-era and Medicaid programs.

Key estimates from federal authorities (U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota, as reported in late 2025):

- Prosecutors have indicated that fraud in 14 high-risk, state-run Medicaid programs could exceed **$9 billion**. Providers in these programs billed roughly **$18 billion** since 2018, and officials estimate **half or more** may be fraudulent (potentially $9+ billion in losses).
- Earlier reports (around December 2025) suggested the total could reach into the **billions**, with some sources citing preliminary figures around **$1 billion** tied to specific schemes before broader audits expanded the scope.
- Confirmed or charged fraud in major cases includes:
- **Feeding Our Future** (child nutrition/meal program during COVID): Approximately **$250–300 million** fraudulently obtained (largest pandemic relief fraud scheme charged in U.S. history, with over 90 people charged and many convicted).
- Housing Stabilization and autism therapy programs: Additional hundreds of millions (e.g., ~$220–300 million in some estimates), contributing to combined figures approaching **$800 million+** in documented schemes.
- Unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic was lower in comparison (federal estimates of ~$430 million in overpayments, with fraud rates among the lowest nationally), though it's under renewed review.

These figures come from federal probes (DOJ, FBI), which began with the 2022 Feeding Our Future case and expanded significantly. The issue has drawn national attention, including criticism of state oversight under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, with descriptions of networks exploiting lax controls (often tied to nonprofit entities submitting false claims for services never performed).

[America @america]

Chairman Jim Jordan to Tim Walz on Somali fraud in Minnesota:

“98 people have been indicted. Do you happen to know how many are Somalian...?”

“85%... a key voting bloc—and I think that's what drove this whole thing.”

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Breaking: House Oversight Committee concludes Tim Walz' administration knew of fraud, failed to act https://t.co/3QymKkayJm

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Breaking: House Oversight votes to subpoena Pam Bondi in Epstein probe https://t.co/8LfUefUOpU

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Burger King’s CEO takes a huge bite of a Whopper after a McDonald’s CEO video went viral over how he ate the Big Arch burger

[Rose Celine Investments 🌹 @realroseceline]

If you want to be a better investor, read this 👇

Compounding is one of those ideas that sounds simple when you say it out loud, yet the way most people behave almost guarantees they never experience its full power and massive virtually certain potential. We all understand doubling in theory. We all like the idea of turning one into two, two into four, and so on. The problem is not the math, the problem is the interruption.

On the surface, the active approach feels intelligent. You buy something, it doubles, you sell, you pay the tax, and you repeat. You feel disciplined and rational as are locking in gains and proving to yourself that you were right. It feels great because something happened and you predicted and you reaped the results of your prediction.

But there is another path that feels almost uncomfortable in comparison. You buy a truly exceptional business and you sit with it for years while it compounds internally or as Buffett would say, “intrinsically”. No annual reset, no redeployment of capital, no constant urge to optimize, just ownership and time working together in the background for a long time.

Both paths involve doubling, require risk and some level of judgment. Yet the outcomes are dramatically different, and the gap does not come from brilliance but from temperament and a fundamentally understanding of a superior investment strategy that will deliver highly superior results.

Every sale introduces “drag! into the system and also the probability of making a mistake. Taxes are the obvious piece, but they are only one layer. There is the obvious opportunity cost from being temporarily out of the market, and the very real risk of reinvesting into something inferior simply because you feel the need to stay active. Over decades, that friction compounds negatively just as powerfully as a great business compounds positively. You can think of it like an anchor on your investment performance. One good in ment theme to follow is to look for tailwinds, not headwinds.

The deeper issue is behavioral it’s not about your brilliance but instead about identity and self control. Are you an owner who thinks in decades, or are you a trader who needs regular validation. Are you trying to preserve a long chain of compounding, or are you breaking the chain every time you want to feel smart?

Most investors do not underperform because they lack intelligence. They underperform because they cannot tolerate deferred gratification. Realizing gains feels good because it provides closure and a sense of accomplishment. Holding through long stretches where nothing dramatic happens feels boring, and boredom is something most people interpret as risk when it is often the opposite.

When you defer taxes, you are effectively allowing money that would have left your account to continue compounding on your behalf. That capital stays embedded in the asset and works for you year after year. Over long periods, that uninterrupted base becomes enormous, and the difference between paying along the way and paying at the end becomes almost absurd.

I have experienced both sides of this. I have sold too early, congratulated myself on discipline, paid the bill, and then watched the business continue to grow without me while I searched for the next opportunity. I have also held through noise and temporary drawdowns, resisted the urge to act, and later realized that it was a no brainer in hindsight.

The market constantly tempts you to move. It rewards commentary, celebrates activity, and makes patience look like passivity. In reality, patience is often the most active decision you can make because it requires restraint in the face of constant stimulation.

The real advantage in investing is not finding a single double. It is protecting the chain of doubles from unnecessary interruption. Compounding does not need brilliance as much as it needs time and the humility to leave it alone.

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[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday.

For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Imagine refusing to stand for:

- Americans over illegals
- Voter ID
- Lowest murder rate in 125 years
- Ending fraud & waste
- Angel families
- Tough-on-crime policies
- No tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security
- Crushing fentanyl
- A Secure border

That’s exactly what Democrats refused to stand for. Tells you everything.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Truly insane to watch…

Trump asks Congress to stand up if they believe it’s the duty of the US government to prioritize American citizens over illegal aliens…

Not one Democrat stood up.