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Wow! This unearthed video of Trump from 2008 will absolutely make your head spin.
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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.
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If this kind of video is already circulating in May, the campaign ads heading into November are going to be absolutely brutal.
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Guy is speaking my love language
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Truckers should avoid taking loads to Southern California until further notice. Trucking freight out of Southern California is already running at multi-year lows, and mid-week is when the tariff volume collapse will first be felt at the ports. Container volumes at the S Cal ports are on track to decline by a third compared to last year. Your chances of staying loaded are far greater east of I-35.
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Year-over-year trucking activity out of Los Angeles down 23%. It will likely drop to 50% in the coming weeks if there isn't trade war resolution. Massive layoffs coming to the West Coast trucking sector
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This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but right now, I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.
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When I was governor in SC our unemployment went from 11% to 4%. How? Not by hiring foreign workers. We recruited foreign companies to invest in SC but not their workers. We retrained South Carolinians in our tech schools for these new jobs. The companies started apprentice programs for high school and college students. You know who paid for them? The companies, not govt. Today South Carolinians are building planes, automobiles, tires, etc. And building them well. What is lazy is for the tech industry to automatically go to foreign workers for their needs. If the tech industry needs workers, invest in our education system. Invest in our American workforce. We must invest in Americans first before looking elsewhere. Don’t ever underestimate the talent of Americans or the American spirit.
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1/20 Over 400 licensed medical and mental health professionals have agreed Trump shows clear signs of "probable dementia." But even more persuasive than their signatures on our petition are what they had to say. Only in this long Tweet can you read their words verbatim. Please hear their voices! (RT)
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One component of Malignant Narcissism is Sadism. People don’t fathom how deeply Trump is driven by it. In normal people, those types of impulses are offset by caring emotion. Trump has none. He enjoys chaos, actually takes glee from others' suffering. He defames women he's raped. He makes fun of others' disabilities. And he didn't just foment an insurrection, he savored it - even more so as it grew violent. He is The Joker.
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Trump talked a lot about bring manufacturing back to America. But under Biden, manufacturing investment has grown faster than any time in recent history. And it's not even close. During Trump's presidency, manufacturing spending grew by 5%. Under Biden it has grown by 279%.
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There’s a disturbing trend going on in America these days with rewriting science to fit ideology. We’ve gone from fat acceptance to fat celebration.
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Want to know the real story behind the EU’s epic fight to rein in Big Tech that culminates TODAY? 🧵👇 It’s a real ‘David-and-Goliath’ story - a story of how Avaaz and other civil society organizations took on big Tech….and won
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Understanding what is behind the painfully high CPI inflation is key to understanding where it is headed and when. This table should help with this. The Russian invasion and spike in oil and other commodity prices is the #1 reason, followed by the pandemic & the housing shortage.
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In June, coronavirus was responsible for 337 deaths a day in the U.S. Deaths from gunshots, car crashes and the flu add up to 306 a day, historically bloom.bg/3wLp8Oc
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🎆 Happy #FourthOfJuly from Hubble! 🎆 The spiral galaxy Caldwell 12 is nicknamed the “Fireworks Galaxy” since an unprecedented 10 supernovae have been observed in this galaxy since 1917! Find out more: go.nasa.gov/2V5xd3v
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Fireworks in space.🎆 We hope your #FourthOfJuly celebration is as beautiful as this @NASAHubble image of a supernova remnant found in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that lies close to our galaxy. More on this image: go.nasa.gov/3gwZENb
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COVID PILL: Drugmakers are looking to add to the arsenal of potential Covid-19 therapies — and Merck’s molnupiravir is among the furthest along. Its developers hope the pills can be prescribed widely to anyone who gets sick. @rileyraygriffin has more trib.al/VvW9szx
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BREAKING: The House just passed the #ForthePeopleAct! The bill would end gerrymandering, shine a light on dark money, secure our elections, and expand voting rights. This is a pivotal moment for our democracy! Let's keep up the momentum & demand the #Senate passes this bill.
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