Healy (HayLee) Baumgardner

Taliban and GDI threatening detention & hand cutting off. Me:

Matt is a manufactured personality. No substance. No accomplishments. No self-control. He’s proud he finished puberty and seems to brag about that with his obsession over age. At whatever age, he’ll always be a low IQ howler desperate for attention. Meanwhile, he’ll continue undermining our country and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. He’s eternally dimwitted. Big on slogans.

Anthropic is about to sell the public a trillion-dollar company controlled by 2 shares worth less than a penny. And the people buying it will have almost no way to change anything that happens next. I read the voting section of Anthropic's IPO filing, and I think it's the most one-sided deal ever offered to regular investors at this size: There is exactly ONE Class F share. It belongs to an LLC owned by 7 of Anthropic's co-founders, and it carries 50.1% of all the votes. There is exactly ONE Class T share. It belongs to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, and it elects a majority of the board. If Anthropic were ever liquidated, each of those 2 shares would get its par value of $0.00001. The public gets Class A shares instead. And Anthropic's own filing says this structure may effectively eliminate their ability to influence important decisions, including a sale of the company. So here's what that means for anyone who buys: - They can't replace the board if the company stumbles, because the trust picks the majority and the founders hold half the vote. - They can't push for a sale, even if someone offers a huge premium. - They can't stop the board from putting the mission ahead of their money. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, so the board has to weigh shareholders against the long-term benefit of humanity. - And they can't easily sue over it. Delaware law requires at least 2% of the shares or $2 million worth of stock to bring that kind of claim. This isn't some far-off hypothetical either. The filing warns that slowing AI development for safety may not maximize stockholder value. It also says Anthropic recently paused training a next-generation model for more than a month over safety and security concerns. A public shareholder would've had zero say in that pause. And here's the part I can't get past: Each co-founder has pledged to give 80% of their Anthropic equity to charity. The Class F vote stays at 50.1% no matter how much stock they still own. So the founders can give away most of their money and keep all of their control. Dario Amodei told 60 Minutes last year that he's deeply uncomfortable with AI decisions being made by a few companies and a few people. When he was asked who elected him, he said no one. Now his company's IPO hands 50.1% of the votes to 7 people, and he's one of them. And guess who's being lined up to buy it? Anthropic has weighed reserving 15% to 20% of the IPO for individual investors, according to Bloomberg. JPMorgan is leading the US retail push, and Citigroup is handling retail buyers in places like Japan, Britain and Canada. The same filing warns that AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. So regular people are being asked to buy a company that says its product could threaten humanity, with no real vote on how it's run. Anthropic's answer is that this is the whole point. The structure is built to keep Wall Street from pressuring it into cutting corners on safety. The trustees have no financial stake in the company. Google and Meta gave their founders control and still made shareholders rich. And every buyer gets all of this in writing before they buy. But Zuckerberg's control comes from shares he owns, so when Meta's stock falls, he loses money too. Anthropic's 2 control shares can't lose anything. Anyone buying this IPO is paying full price to hand control to 7 founders and 5 trustees. They're desperate for money and they don't care about your money.

Can we just start a class action lawsuit against the US government? US Citizens v United States. Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start. Who’s in?

A twice-deported illegal alien allegedly claimed he had a bomb and tried to storm the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Newark to New Orleans, prompting an in-flight hijacking alert. Authorities identified the suspect as Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, who was deported in 2011 and 2014 and released by an immigration judge in 2020. He was arrested after the plane landed and faces charges of terrorizing and false arson. ICE has placed a detainer as federal investigators consider additional charges.

A Tomb Guard from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, “The Old Guard” was forced to verbally reprimand Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and loudly talked in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Video of the incident, posted by CNN, shows Hegseth standing and taking photos in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver as well as senior adviser and deputy assistant Tami Radabaugh, following a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day.

This is the play. 🇺🇸

Mark Levin uses his nationally-syndicated radio show to whine about AOL's lack of customer service. "I've given you every security number and everything I have!" "Anybody who works at AOL, I just want you to know there's a reason why so many people have dropped you!"

Mark Levin uses his nationally-syndicated radio show to whine about AOL's lack of customer service. "I've given you every security number and everything I have!" "Anybody who works at AOL, I just want you to know there's a reason why so many people have dropped you!"

I'm done. SCREW YOU, John Thune. And shame on every Republican who decided to keep him in power and make him the GOP Senate leader again. What exactly is he leading? He led us into one of the biggest losses. Seven seats gone, the Senate gone. John, you betrayed us. You betrayed every Republican voter. You betrayed President Donald Trump. You betrayed us by not passing the SAVE Act. He disgusts me. Im so close to being done with the Republican Party for good. I’m Disgusted

BREAKING: SoftBank reports unexpected $7,000,000,000.00 loss following a major writedown on its U.S. data center investments.

.@ComfortablySmug discusses on @RuthlessPodcast the need need for more domestic refining capacity to deliver affordable, reliable energy: “We can have an unlimited gushing amount of oil. We can process it…Gas prices are going up because we can't process oil in this country.”

Momentum is building for bipartisan permitting reform in Washington. The Senate's vote to advance consideration of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act marks an important step toward modernizing the permitting system and getting America back to building. America has the energy. Now we need the infrastructure to deliver it. Permitting reform is about more than pipelines. It's about helping keep energy affordable, meeting growing demand, creating American jobs and strengthening our nation's energy security and competitiveness. We applaud the bipartisan leadership that has brought us to this moment. Now it's time for Congress to finish the job and pass comprehensive permitting reform before the end of the year. Learn why permitting reform matters: eqt.com/permitting-reform-no…

Jim Jordan: Americans can live with higher gas prices

Senators have a generational opportunity this evening to advance legislation that will directly benefit American families. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act has broad, bipartisan support to get us back to building in our country again.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum blames the midterm results on selfish voters who were unwilling to "suffer financially for a higher good": "Nobody likes to do it, but we all suffer." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…

More data on what GOP voters actually cared about in the midterms

I’m sorry if this hurts some feelings but when people ask me how I feel about other countries… …I genuinely just don’t care I don’t care about Ukraine. I don’t care about Israel. I just don’t care. I’ve got 3 kids and everything is 10x more expensive than I was growing up, my grocery bill looks like a car payment and the car payment looks like a mortgage and my friends can't even get a mortgage because rent eats half their paycheck and now health insurance costs more than college used to and college costs more than a house used to, and a house costs more than a small private island used to, and utilities just keep going up they never go down, car insurance keeps going up, home insurance never goes down, every single freaking thing in life is now a subscription and you can't get rid of them, and every home repair now costs $5,000 for some reason and every company that does home repairs is one gigantic company so you either pay them what they want or your roof caves in, and I can't keep up with what AI is doing but I know it's important and that I should keep up because my friends keep getting laid off of their jobs "because of AI" but no one knows which jobs are safe from AI so everyone is panicking and side hustling just in case they are laid off, and telling their kids to skip college because there "won't be those jobs in the future" but everyone is still going to college like there will be and coming out with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and I'm terrified that my kids won't ever be able to afford a home of their own and thinking back to the days when my parents raised us on one income with a house and a yard and a vacation of some kind every summer, and everyone I know is working their butts off and then some just to stay afloat, and by the time the kids are in bed and the dishes are done and I finally sit down, I don’t have the energy left to care about anything happening on the other side of the world, because I’m barely keeping up with what’s happening on this side of my own front door… So no, I don’t have room in my heart for another country and their problems. I'm so sorry... I just don't anymore. And I wish, I WISH, our leaders would fight for us half as hard as they fight for everyone else.

Price Increases over last 7 years... New Cars: +24% Used Cars: +28% Groceries: +33% Shelter: +35% Family Health Insurance: +37% Restaurants: +40% Transportation: +43% Electricity: +45% Auto Insurance: +49% Gas Utilities: +57% Home Prices: +59% Gasoline: +62% Ground Beef: +76% Dozen Eggs: +81% Fuel Oil: +91% Coffee: +122%

Proud to stand alongside @SecWar as he works tirelessly to strengthen our military, defend our homeland, and put America’s security FIRST. At @USDA, we know that farm security is national security. Through our National Farm Security Action Plan, we’ve worked alongside @SecWar to protect American farmland from foreign adversaries, secure our food supply, and safeguard the farmers and ranchers who feed our nation. Because farm security IS national security. 🇺🇸