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BREAKING: Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court just struck down the state ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion care.

Warren Buffet says they paid $5 billion dollars in taxes last year and if 8 other Companies did the same then no regular American taxpayer would have to pay any Federal taxes at all!

Alzheimer’s brain changes do not always equal dementia.
The way you think and write in your 20s matters for the rest of your life.
The key lesson is that vascular health matters more than plaques because strokes and infarcts plus plaques equals way worse outcomes but clean lifestyle plus cognitive reserve can protect you even if your brain has the disease.
Your writing at age 22 can predict Alzheimer’s risk 60 years later with 90% accuracy.
The Nun Study (678 nuns, identical lives, brain donations) proved that “idea density” in your early autobiographies literally built lifelong cognitive reserve.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2045519618421432763.html
https://x.com/LxngevityLab/status/2045519677468917834
Complex thinking + positive emotions in your 20s = protection into your 90s and 100s.
Start leveling up how you think and write now.
The researchers measured idea density in those same essays – the number of ideas expressed per sentence based on verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions.
Low idea density at age 22 predicted Alzheimer’s with 80 to 90% accuracy 60 years later.
80% of nuns with low idea density developed full Alzheimer’s pathology. Only 10% of nuns with high idea density developed it.

BITCOIN

On this day 13 years ago, a bitcoin was worth $100.

BREAKING: INDOPACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL PAPARO TELL SENATE ARMED SERVICES:
“BITCOIN IS A VALUABLE COMPUTER SCIENCE TOOL AS POWER PROJECTION” AND THAT “BITCOIN IS A REALITY, A PEER-TO-PEER, ZERO TRUST TRANSFER OF VALUE… THAT SUPPORTS INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

$1 BILLION LUXURY CRUISE LINE VIRGIN VOYAGES IS NOW ACCEPTING #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO
THE WORLD’S RICHEST PEOPLE DEMANDING BTC

$300 BILLION IBM ANNOUNCES LIVE ON BLOOMBERG IT WILL LAUNCH A #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO WALLET FOR INSTITUTIONS
IT WORKS WITH 97 OF THE TOP 100 BANKS
BTC IS GOING MAINSTREAM

$11 TRILLION CHARLES SCHWAB JUST TOLD 40 MILLION INVESTORS IT’S TIME TO START ADDING #BITCOIN TO PORTFOLIOS
THEY ARE RECOMMENDING UP TO 7% ALLOCATIONS
THE 60/40 PORTFOLIO IS OFFICIALLY OVER

EPSTEIN CLASS

President Trump will not enjoy media coverage of Lutnick’s sons earning $100 MM in tariff refunds while Sec Lutnick was pushing for more tariffs …
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights.
Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar.
The firm told clients it had “capacity to trade up to several hundred million” in these claims.

Paolo Zampoli was interviewed lastnight by the Italian equivalent of 60 minutes and he admitted that he knew Jeffrey Epstein had underage girls! Allegedly his lawyers tried to stop it from airing,but the news channel said no we’re going forward.

Les Wexner testified under oath: “I never met Jean-Luc Brunel.”
Photo from the DOJ files: Wexner, Epstein, Brunel, and Peter Mandelson together.
Perjury in a sworn deposition.

Tracking
One Year of Project 2025: 53% of Authoritarian Agenda’s Domestic Policy Recommendations Completed or Underway
Blueprint for presidential capture of government appears to be succeeding, latest findings from Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact show
WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration has already initiated or completed 53 percent of Project 2025’s domestic administrative policy agenda in the 12 months following the inauguration, new analysis from the Center for Progressive Reform (Center) and Governing for Impact (GFI) reveals. In all, 283 of the 532 recommended actions identified in the organizations’ Project 2025 Tracker have been put into action.

After being fired from Fox, Tucker was funded with $20M by the Mercers who have been bankrolling Peter Thiel for over a decade. JD Vance is Peter Thiel’s personal android. They’re trying to take Trump out.

–> Today at Kevin Warsh’s Fed Chair confirmation hearing:
Senator Warren: “Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?”

Warsh: “Those assets will be sold if I’m confirmed and before I take office.”

He did not say no.

Warsh’s name appears in the publicly released DOJ Epstein files. A 2010 dinner guest list reportedly included Epstein, Warsh, his wife Jane Lauder, Donald Trump, and Melania Trump.

Warren revealed that the FBI conducted zero investigation into Warsh’s financial holdings or his appearance in the Epstein files before clearing his nomination.

Warsh has over $100 million in undisclosed assets.

If confirmed, he would be the wealthiest Fed Chair in more than 100 years — installed by a president already being investigated by the BBC for trading tied to his market-moving statements. Never stop connecting the dots.

PETER THIEL

Peter Thiel was brought to the U.S. as a 1-year-old after his parents immigrated from Germany. Shortly after, Klaus Thiel got a job in Swakopmund, SW Africa—the most Nazi place on Earth in the 1970s & brought his family. Peter literally said “Heil Hitler” in school. Klaus built a secret uranium mine for the apartheid South African government’s illegal nuclear program while Peter grew up. Peter says now the experience taught him who should have power and who should not. Swakopmund was created from a genocide of Namibians by the colonial German government. There is nothing “neo” about these Nazis.
Thiel said this in 2010:
“The basic idea was we could never win an election… because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without constantly having to convince people… through a technological means.”
He must be stopped.

Epstein’s documents reveal his commercial ties with Peter Thiel, one of the founders of Palantir.

They’re feeling so confident nowadays to unapologetically promote their dystopia in the open and sell it to us as “salvation”.

PALANTIR JUST CALLED FOR MANDATORY MILITARY SERVICE FOR EVERY AMERICAN — THIS IS HOW THEY TAKE CONTROL
Palantir, a surveillance company wired into U.S. intelligence and sitting on $2B+ in government contracts, just published a 22-point manifesto.
Alex Karp, on an investor call: “Some people are going to get their heads cut off.” He jokes about drone-striking business rivals. He proposes sending campus protesters to North Korea. He watches a protester removed and says he hasn’t had so much fun in years. His PhD dissertation is titled “Aggression in the Life-World.” Its opening line: irrational statements relieve unconscious aggressive drives. He studied the mechanism. He is now performing it.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” – Frank Wilhoit

Palantir CEO Alex Karp was paid $6.8 BILLION in 2025. Palantir itself only made $1bn in profit. What is he being paid for? It’s certainly not for making money.

Software is dead

Yann LeCun says the AI industry is completely LLM pilled.
https://x.com/HinataMotivates/status/2046235910409466042

Tim Cook STEPS DOWN and did not build the world’s greatest technology company. He built the world’s greatest chokepoint. And he just formalized his exit from the booth into a job description that says the booth is all that remains.

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

Mark Cuban will run for President

Mark Cuban @mcuban costplusdrugs
https://costplusdrugs.com

Mark Cuban on AI:
“The two types of approaches to AI, some people who use it so they don’t have to learn anything, and some people who use it so they have the opportunity to learn everything.”

Democrats Believe Kamala Harris Is Less ‘Electable’ Than Mark Cuban

ESSAY Armaan Sidhu @realarmaansidhu
https://x.com/realarmaansidhu/status/2044669506216194440

Mark Cuban just proposed replacing health insurance with a bank account.
$2,100/month deposit.
$300 for catastrophic stop-loss insurance.
$200 for direct primary care.
The remaining $1,600 stays in YOUR account.

If you never use it, you keep it at 65. If you have a big expense, the bank loans you up to $30k to cover it, and you repay from the monthly deposits.

The simplest part of the proposal is the most radical: insurance premiums are the only debt Americans pay for life. You will pay health insurance premiums every month until you die, and you will never own anything at the end of it. Every other debt has a payoff date. Health insurance has an expiration date only when you do.

Let’s run the math on Cuban’s proposal for a family of 5.

Current reality:
$2,100/month in ACA Silver premiums = $25,200/year.
Over 40 years of working adulthood (25-65): $1,008,000.
Plus copays, deductibles, out-of-network charges, surprise bills.
Estimated lifetime healthcare spending for a typical American family: $1.5-2 million.
Most of that going to insurance companies who take a cut at every step.

Cuban’s proposal:
$300/month for stop-loss insurance (catastrophic only).
$200/month for direct primary care (a doctor who sees you for a flat fee, no insurance billing).
$1,600/month into your own HSA-style account.
Over 40 years at even modest interest, that $1,600/month compounds to approximately $1.5-2 million — roughly the same amount families currently spend on insurance, but sitting in the family’s bank account instead of an insurance company’s reserve.

The structural shift: instead of pooling risk with strangers through an insurance company’s underwriting, you pool risk with your own future self. Every dollar you don’t spend on medical care today is a dollar you have for medical care later, or for retirement, or for your kids’ inheritance.

The insurance industry’s entire business model depends on the gap between premiums collected and claims paid.
That gap funded $550+ billion in combined market cap across UnitedHealth, Anthem, Cigna, Humana, and CVS/Aetna. The money is real. It’s just not flowing to healthcare.
It’s flowing to shareholders.

Cuban’s proposal doesn’t eliminate healthcare costs.
Medical care still costs whatever it costs. What it eliminates is the insurance middleman extracting value at every transaction. Direct primary care doctors already operate on this model and charge $50-150/month for unlimited primary care visits. Stop-loss insurance already exists for catastrophic expenses. Both are currently available. What Cuban proposed is combining them into a structure most Americans can access.

The objections are predictable and real:

Objection 1: What about chronic conditions requiring ongoing expensive treatment?
Answer: stop-loss insurance covers anything above $30k. If a chronic condition triggers the stop-loss repeatedly, the system handles it the same way insurance does — catastrophic coverage kicks in.

Objection 2: What about people who can’t afford $2,100/month?
Answer: they can’t afford ACA Silver premiums either. The proposal doesn’t solve affordability for the uninsured. It restructures the system for the 160M+ Americans currently paying for employer or ACA insurance who would be financially better off under this model.

Objection 3: What prevents people from skimping on preventive care to save money?
Answer: direct primary care is included. Unlimited primary visits at a flat fee. The structure incentivizes using primary care — it’s already paid for.

Objection 4: Regulatory barriers. ERISA, ACA employer mandates, state insurance commissioners, HSA rules.
All real. All why this is a “lots of work and issues to be addressed” proposal rather than a turnkey solution.

But strip away the implementation challenges and look at the core insight:
Americans are paying lifetime insurance premiums on the assumption that they need insurance companies to manage healthcare risk. They don’t. They need catastrophic coverage for the worst-case scenarios and direct access to doctors for everything else. Everything between those two is insurance industry rent extraction.

Cuban is a billionaire who started a low-cost pharmacy because he noticed that drug pricing was broken. Now he’s noticing that insurance pricing is broken the same way. The man doesn’t need this to work for him — he’s wealthy enough to pay cash for any medical expense. He’s proposing it because the current system extracts $550 billion in market cap from sick Americans and their employers while producing worse health outcomes than every peer country.

657,000 views on an X post from a billionaire proposing to eliminate the need for private health insurance. That’s the engagement of an idea whose time might be arriving. Not because Cuban is a policy expert. Because the math is so obvious that even people who don’t follow healthcare policy can see it.

The one debt Americans can never pay off is the one they’ve never been invited to think of as a debt. Cuban just invited them. 657,000 Americans are starting to do the math.

The insurance industry’s business model depends on them never finishing.

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