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Faith is belief in what is not yet seen🙏🏾

[🐺🇭🇹 @Wolf_Bitee]

Head down but my spirit 🆙

[RealTimBlack @RealTimBlack]

Let me be clear about what just happened in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Because the celebration is traveling and the discrepancies aren't.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years.

FACT: The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours.

FACT: There were zero Black jurors on this jury.

FACT: The prosecution used peremptory strikes to remove 100% of eligible Black jurors while keeping a white educator after claiming they didn't want educators on the jury.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony never stood up. The confrontation happened while he was seated. Austin Metcalf was standing over him.

FACT: The jury had the option to choose manslaughter. They chose murder.

FACT: The "sudden passion" defense which would have capped the sentence at 2 to 20 years was rejected.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony's mother was the only witness called during the punishment phase. She asked for mercy. The prosecutor responded: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

FACT: Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence, roughly 17.5 years. He is 19 years old.

Now ask yourself, if the races and sizes were reversed, if Karmelo was 6'1" standing over a seated smaller white teenager who reached up with a knife, does this even go to trial?

You already know the answer.

Say his name. Karmelo Anthony.

Stay Dangerous.

[Clit Dempsey 🦅 @thotzekage]

Black people should take jury duty more seriously.

[The Don Dada 🤴🏾 @RickCode]

This Karmelo Anthony verdict being found guilty right after a Chinese man was found innocent after chasing a black kid down and killing him should tell you everything you need to know about what our priorities should be in these United States

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

My greatest disappointment as an adult was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Different salaries should only affect how luxurious your life is, not your food quality or ability to afford rent. If you work 40 hours at any job, your income should be enough to live in the town you work in. Thinking otherwise is an abysmal indicator of your humanity.

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

They act like the biggest threat to society is a single mom buying soda with food stamps instead of a billionaire buying his 13th senator.

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

8 hrs at work go by quick when you call off 😭😭

[ඞ @lifeinchaos_]

these erasers ain’t do shit but make the spot darker

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

Hotel ACs are the McDonalds sprite of air conditioning

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Dudes who recently made it into the middle class but inflation so high push them back into the lower class again, reading this

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You can literally feel Monday breathing down your neck by 4pm on a Sunday evening.

[George Noble @gnoble79]

NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE

And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag.

This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook...

In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:

Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.

Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.

Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.

It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.

And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe.

The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what's happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.

$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.

These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.

And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.

If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.

Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.

The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels.

And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.

Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers.

In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.

In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities.

Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

When Walmart never went back to 24 hours nation wide after Covid I knew that was the end of America.

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

The most exhausting part of adulthood is realizing how much of life revolves around money.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Trump is graded on such a big curve. I’ve never seen anything like it. Dude is incoherent, racist, has numerous visible health problems including being so old that he falls asleep on camera all the time, and started a war that has made everything worse for everyone. And yet.

[umi @binobratz]

u miss gym for 2 weeks and it’s like you’ve never lifted a day in your life omg

[Mr.Karlous @KarlousM]

You need about 4 different incomes right now to be aiight.

[Jay @ThisIsJay216]

They did this shit on purpose

[reyrey♈️ @missshrey_]

This is always funny because women think it’s a switch that goes off when a ring is present lol if you’re not doing it now you won’t do it later

[eliza ˙⋆✮ @enchantedflms]

bold of u to assume i ever stopped calling it twitter