SpaceX just landed a Falcon 9 booster, and Elon Musk's live reaction was more human than anyone expected. "It's standing up. It's coming in. It sounded like an explosion. Look at this. Look at this. It's just sitting there. Holy smokes, man."

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…

🎯 PRECISION SNIPER v1.4.0 — MAJOR UPDATE [MY FREE INDICATOR] The biggest update yet: scoring engine reworked, risk management upgraded, and a brand-new volatility filter. Here's what changed 👇 ⚡️ Scoring engine — fixed and smarter We found a duplicated MACD condition: one factor was silently counted twice, inflating every score. Removed and replaced with an independent factor — histogram acceleration. The confluence score is now built from 10 truly independent factors. Bonus: the scale is now adaptive. No volume data on your symbol? Daily timeframe where VWAP makes no sense? Those factors are auto-excluded and grades recalibrate to the real maximum — A means A everywhere. 🛡 Structure SL — done right The stop is now placed BEYOND the swing — outside the structure, not inside it where stop hunts live. Capped at 1.5× the ATR distance so it never runs away. 🏁 Full Exit at TP3 Trades now complete cleanly at the final target: "TP3 ✓ — Closed" status, instant stats. Prefer letting the runner trail? One toggle brings the legacy behavior back. 🌪 NEW: High Volatility Filter The volatility regime finally has teeth — it's no longer just a dashboard label. Three modes: Skip Signals — no new entries while the market is in chaos (default) Widen SL — enter anyway, but with a wider stop; all R:R ratios preserved Off — legacy behavior Configurable threshold live dashboard markers (⛔️ / ⚠️). 🔔 Smarter alerts Webhook JSON now carries the volatility regime in a new "vol" field — more context for your bots. Text alerts show it too. ⚙️ Also inside: reworked Auto-presets (strictness now grows with the timeframe), input validation that catches broken TP/HTF combos on load, and a lighter, faster codebase. ⚠️ Heads-up before updating: Signals WILL differ from v1.2.x — that's intentional (the scoring fix new defaults). Full Exit at TP3 is ON and the Vol Filter is set to Skip Signals by default. Full details in the release notes on TradingView. Free, as always. Update is live 👇 tradingview.com/script/IZj18… #TradingView #SmartMoney #SMC #forex #crypto #ict

Hey @JohnCornyn, 🫵🏼 are a POS.

If Jim Jordan is in charge of the ActBlue shitshow, don’t expect it to go anywhere. Jordan grandstands with zero follow thru. His committee is where issues go to die.

“They are stealing it without actually breaking the law” @LarryOConnor

In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist. 21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million. And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV. Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham. Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options. She married young during WWII. By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs. She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust. There was just one problem: She was a terrible typist. The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible. One typo could mean retyping an entire page. Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job. But Bette had another skill. She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money. One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization: “An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.” That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint. She poured it into a nail polish bottle. The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors. It worked. For five years, her boss never noticed. Other secretaries did. Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles. Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends. She called the product “Mistake Out.” Then came the twist. In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter. Her boss fired her immediately. It became the best thing that ever happened to her. She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time. Orders exploded. By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year. By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually. Then she did something even more unusual: She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America. Her company offered: • child care • continuing education • leadership roles for women • jobs for disabled workers • integrated staffing This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas. In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million. Six months later, she died at age 56. Half her fortune went to women-focused charities. The other half went to her son. That son was Michael Nesmith. Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees. And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips. It featured short films set to music. PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV. So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create: • a multimillion-dollar company • one of America’s most progressive workplaces • and the blueprint for the modern music video era Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood: The mistake wasn’t the failure. It was the opportunity.

Sometimes, I wonder why I do this work. I wonder why I work so hard to elect Republican majorities into office & — when we are in power — our very elected officials don’t wield or harness that power. I wonder why I lose sleep, miss family vacations, & put my personal life on hold, so wealthy Senators can go on paid vacations after not achieving the very promises they campaigned on. Sometimes, I wonder if they truly care about us & if they actually want to represent the will of the very people that elected them into positions of authority. I will tell you this: if the Senate ultimately does not pass the SAVE America Act, I will use all of the energy, hustle, & organizing efforts we used to elect these Senators into office as tools to peacefully & respectfully defeat them in their upcoming elections.

Happy Birthday Dad! You truly are “The King Of Cool” I love you and miss you very much. Deana

This is extremely unhelpful for people dealing with serious mental disorders or severe autoimmune disorders that appear to need to stay in ketosis to function. My thyroid is fine and it’s been 8 years of just meat. If I vary it, psych symptoms return. There are a lot of people in that boat who would prefer to eat some carbs, but can’t. A blanket statement like that is clickbait, and unhelpful.

26 year olds today: "my anxiety is high, I am overwhelmed by my email job" 26 year olds in 1944:

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921. They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year. Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move. They lost them for two reasons. The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs. In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack. Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet. That fight dragged on for years. The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois. Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting. So now it's all gone. The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything. Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize. Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up. But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works. Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team. And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago. Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes. Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team." There it is. "Billionaire-owned." That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line. Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it. Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return." When you run things this badly, you sell what's left. They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect. Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check. But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires." Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in. Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster. Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America. But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem. You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

Under @SecMullinDHS ICE has been demeaned and demoralized forced to retreat and now release pregnant noncitizens because rioters demand! @POTUS Mullin needs to be relieved of his duties - he is in way over his head! Kristi had more balls than this guy! He brings nothing to the table - he’s been either MIA or on Senate PTO! He has absolutely no presence - no grit - no guts! @SusieWiles47 @StephenM @Scavino47 @VP

🚨 BOMBSHELL A former Obama-era intelligence official says the Hunter Biden laptop letter wasn't sloppy analysis. It was a PROFESSIONAL DECEPTION OPERATION. 51 intel officials. FBI evidence ignored. Purposeful omissions. Election-year timing. "The tools we created to use against our enemies may have been turned against the American people." This is huge. 🔥 @jsolomonReports @AmandaHead

May God’s will be done. 🙏

The SE corner of Montana is closer to Texas than it is to the NW corner of Montana.

Imagine becoming Secretary of DHS and not knowing who @GregoryKBovino is. Mullin needs to be fired. He’s totally incompetent and nothing more than a talking head for FoxNews.

A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it. His name is Matt Ridley. He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics. Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book. For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought. For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded. The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed. It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it. What changed was that humans started trading with strangers. This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done. Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone. Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages. An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned. The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania. Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running. What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted. The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries. The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out. By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years. The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind. Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself. The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers. If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear. This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026. Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers. The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had. The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected. The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other. Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."