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You have less than a month to file your taxes. While you were working 60 hours a week to scrape by, California doubled Medi-Cal spending to $222 billion. Most of the facilities billing millions are completely empty. Nick shirley just dropped 40 minutes of footage proving it. https://www.tftc.io/california-medicaid-fraud-exposed-nic…

Nick Shirley just dropped 40 minutes of footage exposing fraud in California. His team went door to door in LA and San Diego, visiting daycares, hospice centers, and home health care facilities that bill the state millions. Most were empty. Here's everything he found: Medi-Cal spending has doubled since 2022, from $108 billion to a proposed $222 billion in 2026. There has been a 1,000% increase in hospice care in LA County. One out of every ten dollars spent on home health care in the entire United States goes to businesses in Los Angeles. His crew visited daycares that reported 14 children enrolled to the state. Zero were present when inspectors arrived. The state kept sending money anyway. At one daycare, they found children left completely alone with no adult on the premises. Then they hit Van Nuys. Entire strip malls converted into hospice centers. One building had over 15 hospice companies operating out of what used to be a motel. Empty offices. Locked doors. No patients. Miracle Healing Hospice billed $1.3 million from a completely empty unit. One adult daycare billed $19.8 million. Every parking lot: brand new Maybachs, M8 Competitions, Cybertrucks, Teslas. When Nick knocked on doors, people scattered. A medical industry professional explained the scheme: fraudsters collect Medicare beneficiary numbers from elderly people, enroll them in hospice without their knowledge, and bill the government. Getting someone's Medicare number is now more valuable than stealing their credit card. California even has consultants who will teach you how to open your own hospice. Nick visited one. They wouldn't let him in the lobby. As he was leaving, someone walked out the back door and got into a $200,000 Maybach. This is where your taxes go. Gavin Newsom is the current frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic nomination on Polymarket. This is what his state looks like under the hood.

Nick Shirley just dropped 40 minutes of footage exposing fraud in California. His team went door to door in LA and San Diego, visiting daycares, hospice centers, and home health care facilities that bill the state millions. Most were empty. Here's everything he found: Medi-Cal spending has doubled since 2022, from $108 billion to a proposed $222 billion in 2026. There has been a 1,000% increase in hospice care in LA County. One out of every ten dollars spent on home health care in the entire United States goes to businesses in Los Angeles. His crew visited daycares that reported 14 children enrolled to the state. Zero were present when inspectors arrived. The state kept sending money anyway. At one daycare, they found children left completely alone with no adult on the premises. Then they hit Van Nuys. Entire strip malls converted into hospice centers. One building had over 15 hospice companies operating out of what used to be a motel. Empty offices. Locked doors. No patients. Miracle Healing Hospice billed $1.3 million from a completely empty unit. One adult daycare billed $19.8 million. Every parking lot: brand new Maybachs, M8 Competitions, Cybertrucks, Teslas. When Nick knocked on doors, people scattered. A medical industry professional explained the scheme: fraudsters collect Medicare beneficiary numbers from elderly people, enroll them in hospice without their knowledge, and bill the government. Getting someone's Medicare number is now more valuable than stealing their credit card. California even has consultants who will teach you how to open your own hospice. Nick visited one. They wouldn't let him in the lobby. As he was leaving, someone walked out the back door and got into a $200,000 Maybach. This is where your taxes go. Gavin Newsom is the current frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic nomination on Polymarket. This is what his state looks like under the hood. ```

A bill just dropped in Congress to strip Pfizer and Moderna of their legal immunity for COVID vaccine injuries. The same week, a federal judge blocked the childhood vaccine schedule overhaul. Two fronts of the same fight, moving in opposite directions. Rep. Chip Roy introduced the LIABLE Act (H.R. 1432) with 11 cosponsors. It eliminates the PREP Act shield that has made COVID vaccine makers legally untouchable. It applies retroactively. Every injury that already happened becomes grounds for a lawsuit. The PREP Act was signed in 2005 after vaccine makers told Congress they wouldn't produce vaccines without legal immunity. That shield has held for 21 years. On the other side, Judge Brian Murphy shut down the reform that would have cut the childhood schedule from 17 vaccines to 11 and ended universal newborn Hepatitis B shots. The old schedule stays in effect. An appeal is expected. Nicolas Hulscher at the McCullough Foundation has been documenting the damage. His team's 300-study report found vaccination is the dominant risk factor for autism. They sent it to HHS. Weeks later, the CDC quietly admitted "vaccines don't cause autism" was not evidence-based. Pod with Nicolas dropping soon.

BlockFills just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. $50-100 million in assets against $100-500 million in liabilities. BlockFills was a Chicago-based institutional crypto trading and lending firm backed by Susquehanna, CME Ventures, and Nexo. They processed over $60 billion in trading volume in 2025 and served around 2,000 institutional clients including hedge funds, asset managers, and mining companies. Here's the timeline of how it unraveled: February 11 - BlockFills halts all customer withdrawals and deposits, citing "market and financial conditions." Late February - CoinDesk reports the firm lost approximately $75 million. CEO and co-founder Nicholas Hammer steps down. Early March - Dominion Capital sues, alleging BlockFills misappropriated customer crypto assets, commingled client funds with operational funds, and concealed significant losses. A federal judge issues an emergency order freezing BlockFills' bitcoin holdings. March 15 - Chapter 11 filed in Delaware. Reliz Ltd. and three affiliated entities enter bankruptcy. The pattern is identical to every crypto lending blowup we've seen. Aggressive leverage in derivatives, counterparty risk exposure to other struggling firms, client funds not properly segregated, and losses hidden until they couldn't be hidden anymore. This is what happens when you hand your bitcoin to a third party and trust them to manage the risk. Not your keys, not your coins isn't a meme. It's a risk management framework. The firm's own backers include some of the biggest names in traditional finance. Susquehanna and CME Ventures did their due diligence and still got it wrong. If they can't assess counterparty risk in this market, what chance does a retail investor have? The answer is simple. Stop trusting intermediaries with your bitcoin.

Trump: “I do believe I’ll have the honor of taking Cuba. Free it. Take it. I can do anything I want with it to tell you the truth.”

Paraguay is requiring all bitcoin transactions over $5,000 to be reported to the government. The country's tax authority just issued Resolution 47/26, mandating disclosure of wallet addresses, transaction hashes, and network details for every qualifying transaction. It covers purchases, sales, mining, staking, airdrops, lending, payments, and even transfers between your own wallets. Exchanges are required to hand over user data. Paraguay was one of the most Bitcoin-friendly countries in Latin America. Cheap hydroelectric energy, light regulation, a growing mining community. That's changing fast. No new taxes yet. But this is exactly how financial surveillance starts. You build the reporting infrastructure first, then the taxes come later. Every time. The justification is "FATF compliance" and "transparency." The same language every government uses before it tightens the screws. This is the playbook. Country welcomes bitcoin when it needs the investment. Then once the infrastructure is built, the reporting requirements show up.

Jensen Huang announces NVIDIA is partnering with BYD, Geely, Nissan, and Hyundai to make their vehicles Robotaxi-Ready on DRIVE Hyperion. Adds major Uber collaboration for global L4 fleet rollout.

The SEC just proposed excluding crypto assets from OTC market rules that govern broker-dealer quotations. These are regulations originally designed for penny stocks and thinly traded equities. This is a quiet but meaningful shift. Instead of forcing Bitcoin and crypto into existing securities frameworks, the SEC is explicitly carving it out. The rules being amended (Rule 15c2-11) dictate how broker-dealers can publish quotes for securities. By clarifying that crypto doesn't fall under these requirements, the SEC is signaling it doesn't view these assets through the same lens as traditional equities. Under Gensler, the approach was the opposite, force everything into existing rules, then sue when companies couldn't comply. This is the regulatory posture flipping from "prove you're not a security" to "these rules weren't built for you." It's incremental. It's boring. And it matters more than most of the headlines.

$40B software debt bomb set to explode in 2028. Largest maturity wall ever. Mostly junk-rated (B- or lower).

We compared the six most popular AI agent platforms side by side. Here's what we found. Claude Cowork has the most polished UX. If you're non-technical, it just works. But it starts at $100/mo, only runs Claude models, and your data lives on Anthropic's servers. ChatGPT Operator is the most capable browser agent, it can navigate the web and complete tasks autonomously. But at $200/mo it's the most expensive option, and everything runs through OpenAI's cloud. Perplexity Computer is the only one that orchestrates multiple AI models at once. Powerful for complex projects, but $200/mo and fully cloud-based. Manus strikes a balance, it runs commands locally on your machine but still needs a cloud connection for the AI brain. Affordable, but limited ecosystem. Replit Agent is in a category of its own, it builds and deploys entire apps from a text prompt. Great for creators, but it's a builder, not a daily assistant. OpenClaw is the only one that's free, open-source, model-agnostic, and runs 24/7 in the background. It also lives inside your existing messaging apps instead of a separate interface. The tradeoff is real though, setup is technical and there's no polished GUI. Every platform has a tradeoff. The question is which one matters most to you: convenience, power, privacy, or sovereignty.

Top 10% of US earners now account for nearly 50% of all consumer spending.