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I figured out how to cause myself a sleep paralysis. Go to bed at midnight, wake up at 4-5 am, try to scroll for 10-15 minutes and then fall asleep for another 1-3 hours. Prior to waking up I guarantee you having insane dreams. Slowly wait on your back rested.

I usually try to have my eyes shut as I’m simply afraid of all the demons I saw. Today, as I was laying flat, the sleep paralysis tried to manipulate me with sound.

I started hearing the footsteps approaching my room, very similar to my mothers from childhood, and as it came closer, it touched my hand trying to wake me up, then, it sat on my chest for a 10-15 seconds and I heard a low pitch frustrated male exhaling, like it didn’t succeed. A moment after, chest pain gone, and I heard the footsteps again. My younger brother runs similarly. Same attempt waking me up, chest pain and an even more annoyed frustration and short heavy exhale “hmmmmmm”.

It then tried to mimic my girlfriend by softly touching my arm, kissing me so I could open my eyes and be scared. It sat, waited, exhaled, left. Quiet, for a while. I knew it’s a trick

Eyes closed, I’m patiently trying to awaken my arms, legs. (Never trust that you’re moving until you make a particularly weird move, because our brains can convince that too. To me it’s pinching my opposite ears with opposite hands.) Usually, I get to lucid dream for a short time. But as I began reaching my ears through pain, I heard that frustration again next to my bed. Like it was waiting all the time. As soon as I pinched them, immediately woke up and it all disappeared.

Congress is moving H.R. 8870, the BUILD America 250 Act, a major transportation bill with language limiting liability for app-based transportation companies. For Uber, that language points straight at crashes, sexual-assault claims, insurance costs, and state-level lawsuits. Members of Congress are also disclosing UBER purchases, putting their portfolios next to legislation that could make Uber more valuable.

Every time an Uber ride goes wrong, a passenger or driver can try to bring legal claims over what happened inside the trip. If that trip ends in a crash, assault, serious injury, or death, the lawsuit can reach beyond the driver and toward the company that built the platform.

That is the legal risk Uber has been trying to narrow because legal claims, insurance reserves, and litigation costs sit directly inside the company's financial model. In June 2026, House members warned party leaders that the new transportation bill could shield rideshare companies from liability for crashes and sexual assaults. Their letter named Uber directly and said the company faces more than 3,000 sexual-assault claims in federal court.

The warning came after Rep. Vince Fong offered a May 21 amendment to H.R. 8870 with a section titled Vicarious liability for network companies. The language covered app-based drivers, digital networks, prearranged transportation, and on-demand delivery. House Transportation and Infrastructure adopted it 35-30, then ordered the full bill reported 62-2.

Uber's March 2026 lobbying registration put the ask in plain language: vicarious-liability protection tied to surface transportation reauthorization. In simple terms, Uber wanted Congress to handle liability rules inside the same legislative process that writes national transportation policy.

The April filings widened the pressure campaign.
Uber and outside lobbying firms disclosed roughly $1.5 million in Q1 federal lobbying expenses across transportation, auto insurance, litigation, Mobility on Demand, autonomous vehicles, non-emergency medical transportation, labor classification, tax, food delivery, data privacy, and artificial intelligence.
From the federal side, the reports listed the House, Senate, Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Department of Labor, Department of Energy, and other federal offices. The liability fight sat inside a much broader push over how app-based transportation gets regulated.

In this case, the names around UBER are hard to ignore: Nancy Pelosi, John Hickenlooper, Gilbert Cisneros, and Ro Khanna all appeared in the trade window. Nancy Pelosi just disclosed a purchase of $500k-1mln Call options in Uber Shares expiring next year.

A 5% reduction on a $4.9 billion annual insurance-reserve addition base is about $245 million before tax. A 10% reduction is about $490 million. A 20% reduction is about $980 million, close to a billion dollars. If the market capitalized those after-tax savings at 18.5 times earnings, the equity-value range would be roughly $3.6 billion, $7.1 billion, and $14.3 billion.

Dear r/uber community

I investigate congressional lobbying and write articles about it. Recently, what accidentally spiked my interest was the lobbying Uber is trying to put through congress to strip away our rights. Basically, uber is trying to make it impossible for drivers and riders to sue them for any injuries, sexual assault, accidents, etc by lobbying $millions into Congress. And politicians support it through BUILD America 250 Act

Not sure where to share to raise concerns, but we do need to call our politicians to ban this bill or start talking about it… and in the future, it’s not just Uber. It’s Lyft, Musk’s Tesla or Waymo. Wild

Matt Van Epps disclosed the sale of META alongside 11 other June 16 sales in a PTR filed June 17. The same month, his official record moved through Homeland Security counter-drone authority, TSA airport security questions, and H.R. 9232, a $250M private-infrastructure counter-UAS grant bill that puts AXON's Dedrone lane into view.

Full article: https://politraders.com/blog/van-epps-counter-uas-critical-infrastructure

This one is really interesting holy. Could be the next biggest stocks to watch. Cross post

Not sure if it's even worth sharing, but in the beginning of January I started working on a Chrome Extension - Politraders - that automatically scans through House/Senate websites everyday and categorizes a data set in a more readable format. It took me a lot of restless nights building it. Pretty much what Capitol Trades and Quiver Quant are doing, but, directly providing a link to the official filing.

https://preview.redd.it/kncs8655qw6h1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d955f03f22763b5d0abace5b0b62bd479f0a1ac

If you click directly on the stock purchase, you'll navigate to the official filing from Congress websites.

https://preview.redd.it/ems9grtwsw6h1.png?width=463&format=png&auto=webp&s=d274ce74247accddf25297835ae579421ed52d6a

https://preview.redd.it/fstueau2tw6h1.png?width=982&format=png&auto=webp&s=29d9245414723915ea9d6bebd15f8462770e39f3

My goal is to bring more awareness about the congress trading. I never plan to monetize it and think about open sourcing the project, just don't want to expose my personal information it took to build this tool. I am a single person developer/designer.

Additionally, you can search for a specific company or politician, and find the lobbying information, and individual trades.

The extension only shows the stocks and companies traded on NYSE/NASDAQ and arranges by the trade volume.

https://preview.redd.it/oupr02rwqw6h1.png?width=443&format=png&auto=webp&s=ebe72e9cf280711dd81f47a36cc879322c9e39ba

Additionally, a "New Trade Alert" chronologically alerts the trades. You can also use it alongside Robinhood/Webull/Schwab/TradingView websites and it will automatically pick up the stock your page is on currently.

https://preview.redd.it/o6g0dgohrw6h1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ee5128a2ba482f0a4377813d9c8dfde51a857ab

I am not posting any links here, just search google for Politraders extension and install officially from chrome web store.

I also write blogs and investigations as to why politicians are purchasing stocks. Currently working on Gary Peters and Kraft Heinz story.

Pretty self-intuitive, but let me know if you got questions.

Joined a chat to hold people accountable recently, very small, only 7-10 folks. 5 of them committed suicide, confirmed… 3 other folks are silent.

Please, don’t gamble. I’ve quit this January, finally, after the long turmoil of wanting to relapse and feeling afraid I’ll never recover, and I’m slowly paying off my debts. Suicide is never and should never be an option. It’s shameful, but your life matters.

Cut everything reminding of gambling: apps, subreddits, reels, shorts, friends and family. Anything talking about short term gains. Life isn’t worth donating your soul to casinos and prediction markets. Go to a park, volunteer there, it helped me to feel heard and seen. I collected trash and cleaned a park area. Only after a month I saw the fruits of my labor.

And talk. Keep talking. There’s nothing to be ashamed about.

I’ve been $40k in debt. Now it’s $30k. Still tough, and I let myself cry instead of relapsing. I let all my feelings to go through.