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BREAKING MY BRAIN:
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
WHERE DID THE SERIOUS ADULTS GO?
Serious people in the 50’s and 60’s expanded our collective consciousness and felt it was their duty help make things more fair for people, animals and the planet. Nothing wrong with making money but everything is wrong with corporations getting away with killing people for profit.
THIS PHOTO ON JUNE 8, 1968 SHOWED OUR REVERERENCE AND RESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY FROM THE ORDINARY AMERICAN CITIZEN ON HIS RIDE HOME AFTER BEING ASSINATED.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/robert-kennedy-funeral-train-1968/
This photo was taken during the funeral procession (by train) of RFK.
The photos show Americans of all colors and classes. Catholic schoolgirls, field hands, firefighters, blue-collar workers and housewives in their bonnets create a tableau of those who came to say farewell to the man many knew simply as “Bobby.” Some climbed fence posts to get a better view. Some saluted. Others stood rock-ribbed straight. Some waved American flags or handmade posters: “So Long Bobby.” Everyone Dressed like this in a typical summer style.
Serious people in the 50’s and 60’s expanded our collective consciousness and felt it was their duty help make things more fair for people, animals and the planet. Nothing wrong with making money but everything is wrong with corporations getting away with killing people for profit.
WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY?
FORWARD TO THE MICHAEL MILKEN TRUMP Symbol of ’80s Greed IS GOOD
A swashbuckling financier, he was charged with playing a central role in a vast insider-trading scheme and was sent to prison for violating federal securities and tax laws. He was an inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the film “Wall Street.”
It is a vivid illustration of the power that Mr. Milken, who was barred from the securities industry and fined $600 million as part of his 1990 felony conviction, has amassed in President Trump’s Washington. In addition to the favorable tax-policy changes, some of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers — including Mr. Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and Rudolph W. Giuliani — have lobbied the president to pardon Mr. Milken for his crimes, or supported that effort, according to people familiar with the effort.
TO TRUMP PROFITS FROM
Tax Break for Poor Areas.
TAXING POOR PEOPLE
Americans need to earn about 70% more today than six years ago to comfortably afford a median-priced home, per Realtor com.
The rule of 55 is an IRS guideline that allows you to
avoid paying the 10% early withdrawal penalty on 401(k) and 403(b) retirement accounts if you leave your job during or after the calendar year you turn 55.
You Can Only Withdraw from Your Current 401(k)
Penalty-free early withdrawals are limited to funds held in your most recent company’s 401(k) or 403(b) under the rule of 55.
“Even if you’re 55 or older, you can’t reach back to old 401(k)s and use that money,” says Luber. “Additionally, this rule doesn’t apply to individual retirement accounts (IRAs), so you need to leave your IRA alone if you want to avoid the penalty.”
$880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.
House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s ” big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.
https://triblive.com/news/world/house-republicans-unveil-medicaid-cuts-that-democrats-warn-will-leave-millions-without-care/
76% of Trump’s budget goes to the military and police.
He’s gutting social safety nets while giving over $1T to the Pentagon — which hasn’t passed an audit in 6 years.
He never cared about fraud and waste.
He cares about having a militarized oligarchy.
https://popular.info/p/inside-trumps-1-trillion-military
So American importers continue for next 90 days pay 30% tariffs while China importers pay 10% on tariffs so United States could.
-Lose 10 trillion in stocks.
– Trillions in retirement.
– Negative GDP growth from quarter 4 of 2024 to 2.7% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Consumption dropped from 4%. quarter 4 of 2024 to 1.8% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Inflation quarter 4 of 2024 from 2.4% to 3.8% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Thousands of trucker and port jobs lost.
– Companies not shifting any manufacturing back to US. In fact Manufacturing jobs declined.
Art of the deal.
“The IRS can’t audit the wealthy and corporations without resources and manpower.
Take away the funding and staff?
25 billion-dollar corporations get away with cheating us out of $20 BILLION.
In case you were wondering, THIS is why Trump and Republicans are defunding the IRS.”
25 Corporations Could Save Over $20 Billion from Low Tax Enforcement
New uncertain tax benefits reported in 2024 for tax year 2024
Meta
Google
Apple
J.P. Morgan Chase & co.
Amazon.com
Nvidia
Gilead Sciences
Eli Lilly
International Business Machines
UnitedHealth Group
Visa
Broadcom
Pfizer
Merck
Comcast
Goldman Sachs Group
Salesforce.com
Exxon Mobil
AT&T
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Wayfair
Wells Fargo
Chevron
Tesla
Uber Technologies
How Apple helped China become America’s biggest tech rival
Apple relied on cheap Chinese labour as it become the world’s most valuable company. But there was an unforeseen consequence: the millions of workers it trained would go on to transform the Middle Kingdom into a tech superpower.
HEALTH
Trump announces he’ll sign executive order that aims to cut drug prices
His prior rule, called “Most Favored Nation,” was finalized in late 2020 but blocked by federal courts and rescinded by then-President Joe Biden in 2021. It would have applied to Medicare payments for certain drugs administered in doctors’ offices. However, it is unclear what payments or drugs the new directive would apply to. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%,” he wrote. “I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World.”
Mark Cuban @mcuban
Dunking on the pharma industry with @costplusdrugs.com, the lowest prices on meds anywhere. check it out !
costplusdrugs.com
If you are a CEO of a self insured companies and you want to know what the problem with pricing on medications do this:
Call your PBM and ask for
1. A list of all your pharmacy claims the last month and the net price for each
2. A price list of all net prices
3. Why a drug that is just a pill, is considered a specialty drug
4. Who pays for the rebates you get (hint, it’s your sickest employees)
5. Why they reimburse your local pharmacy less than their cost and charge them crazy fees
6. If you can discuss your PBM contract with anyone
7. Why you can’t add @costplusdrugs to your network, for when our prices are cheaper than theirs
8. Why you can’t call a manufacturer to discuss adherence or wellness programs with the company who created the drug
9. Why they don’t provide claims data to the manufacturer to help them improve the safety profile
10. Why they sell positioning on their formulary rather than using it exclusively for clinical value
11. Whether they calls doctors to get them to change scripts to the PBMs white label biosimilar
12. Why your consultant didn’t tell you any of this
The level of opacity that the big PBMs create is why the price of brand drugs are outrageous
Rare genetic mutation lets some people thrive on just 4 hours of shut-eye
Natural short sleepers seem to thrive on less shut-eye than the rest of the human population. Now, researchers have identified one of these mutations, named SIK3-N783Y, in a human super-sleeper. The team then studied the mutation in genetically modified mice and found that the mice carrying this mutation also got less shut-eye, according to a new study.
Trump official who is taking over DOGE from Elon Musk revealed
Elon Musk’s Grok AI was specifically instructed not to say he spread misinformation
Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it
SECURITY
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
Artificial Intelligence is like the Ford Model T
https://www.zaita.com/blog/ai-is-like-ford-model-t
You think ransomware is bad? Wait until it infects CPUs
@GummoXXX
“You don’t trade your image for pixels & call it innovation.
Every face uploaded trains the machine.
Every smile handed over fuels surveillance.
Every “just for fun” is one less piece of yourself you control.
Decentralize your identity. #AI #privacy”
@GummoXXX
“Darcula” PhaaS platform doesn’t merely spoof sites, it thinks like a criminal, with generative AI churning out phishing kits in 100+ languages… even amateurs can now launch pro grade cyberattacks.
Carole Cadwalladr – If you want to know what’s really going on, we’re going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions.
What on earth was Palantir’s top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal? Any why was that same Palantir executive, a company at the heart of the US’s illegal deportations, on the BBC being laundered *as a political pundit*?
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-us-uk-sweetheart-tech-deal
Peter Thiel is a legit bond villain. Why is any western leader letting this drug addicted psychotic TechnoNazi anywhere near government …For some reason it didn’t surprise me to learn that the head of Palantir is Oswald Mosley’s grandson.
New computer chips do math with light
The photonic devices could pave the way for cheaper AI processing
SCIENCE
There will always be more gold vs. bitcoin which is finite = 21 million Bitcoin.
This is what it looks like when an explosion creates gold in space
The first observation of a collision between neutron stars, detected in August 2017, created gravitational waves, light and heavy elements like gold and platinum. But astronomers have realized they also witnessed a kilanova, the kind of explosion that creates gold and platinum, the year before as well.
Sending Bitcoin over Ham Radio
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1817264133085044736/pu/vid/avc1/480×852/Ew_H4XHA3gMku_d2.mp4
Why Bell Labs Worked. Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
Hallowed is the name of Bell Labs. It falls from many an ambitious lip, seeking to conjure forth lost magic for their pet jar. Some zealots go further. They attempt the most venerated of summons — to materialize an Apollo.
The conjuring proceeds with hope. It is extremely exciting and hopeful to be a part of such an endeavor. Naked hope sparks the flame of conviction. Sponsors are found. Press releases are released. Social media is social-ed. Applications are announced… It’s real!
How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
And then there’s silence. Louder the start; quieter the end. Many an aspiring titan ends up wandering the plains of human endeavor with an open jar; forever searching for magic to bottle.
New computer chips do math with light
The photonic devices could pave the way for cheaper AI processing
BITCOIN
Missouri just voted 102-41 to scrap state capital-gains tax—stocks, real estate, and yes, #Bitcoin. Now it’s Gov. Mike Kehoe’s call: signing would make Missouri the first U.S. state where selling sats carries 0% state tax. Who’s next?
https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/income-tax-by-state
AND
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a-comparison-state-tax-rates.html
COINBASE JUST SAID #BITCOIN ETF INFLOWS WILL EXPLODE SOON WHEN ADVISORS CAN RECOMMEND THEM
BREAKING: Michael Saylor’s STRATEGY just bought 13,390 Bitcoin for $1.34 BILLION (Average price of $99,856 per $BTC)
Metaplanet acquires 1,241 $BTC for ~$126.7M, bringing their total holdings to 6,796 Bitcoin
BREAKING: $66 BILLION DELL OFFICIALLY REJECTS SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL TO ADD #BITCOIN TO TREASURY
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD CASH AND BONDS. THEY WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
David Bailey and holding company Nakamoto raises $710 million and announces merger with KindlyMD to establish #Bitcoin Treasury.
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In bit more than 8 years, block reward will be 0.7 BTC. Currently is 6.25 BTC You think you’re too late to buy BTC? Well in 8 years block reward will be only 0.7 BTC. Now its still great time to start DCA. Next 8 years will be brutal on a positive side. Currently there are 900 new bitcoins a day from miners,in 8 years it will be just 100 bitcoins a day. In 5 months there will be 450 btc a day.
Smartphones can be 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat