Nathan Phelps

Father. Veteran.

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

The first open session of the United States Senate was a vote to kick someone out for being a foreigner.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Trump wants a deal and a pivot to domestic issues

To do that he must restrain Israel

Most presidents would have just continued the war but he realized a bad situation and made the right call, he deserves credit

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

One of the fastest proven Republican conspiracy theories ever and only because we occupy the government and Elon owns Twitter

[Spike Brehm @spikebrehm]

they did it. the mad lads actually did it.

i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?)

early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem.

processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet.

each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago.

since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up.

to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it.

when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor.

the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned.

we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch.

it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it.

huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality.

while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together.

what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Brockton Mayor Rodriguez canceled the July 4th fireworks display for America's 250th.

A patriot just confronted him:

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

What the fuck

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

President Trump: “We’re not going to lose [America] to this group of losers. Can you imagine? Have you seen these people?… The press is just building them up. They’re losers. They’re nasty people… We’ll teach them. We’re going to teach them.”

“They’re not going to hurt our country.”

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Americans nationwide are livid after MULTIPLE CITIES are flying the SOMALI FLAG during America's 250th birthday

Buffalo, Boston and Minneapolis just went full SOMALI 3RD WORLD SAVAGE MODE over America.

Utterly DISGRACEFUL.

Columbus, Ohio was forced into RETREATING from flying the Somali flag, after a "firestorm" erupted against them

Move to Somalia if you love it so much!

[Jack @jackunheard]

Cut off all federal funding I’m not even kidding…

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

You’ll notice that every subversive retard making these bogus arguments just pretends that the Indian Citizenship Act, which wasn’t passed until 60 years after the Civil War and the 14th Amendment, just doesn’t exist.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

As they explained to us REPEATEDLY:
1) We shall conquer you through the womb of our women;
2) We shall conquer you via hijrah (Arabic word for migration);
3) We shall conquer you by using your miserable freedoms against you.

This Sharia-compliant judge is using the third point.

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

This is far more important than almost anyone understands.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A German soccer fan is brought to tears over how nice he’s been treated in America

He says he was afraid to come to America for the FIFA World Cup because European media portrays America as dangerous. He’s spent weeks in America and can’t believe how it’s the exact opposite

“I fall in love with this country, and this was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium”

“Following the German soccer team from Houston to Boston. Sebastian was afraid of coming over, saying that the news in Europe painted a picture of America being dangerous. But at every stop, from the moment he landed, he says everyone has treated him with kindness and respect and has not felt unsafe.”

“Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great things”

The media is the enemy of the people and it seems to be true everywhere

I looked into data and found the real problem

90%+ of the mainstream media in America is Left leaning

And in Europe, over 80%+ of their mainstream media is Left leaning

That’s the problem right there. Liberals are destroying societies with their control of the media

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

When I was a child, my grandfather would sometimes solemnly intone at the dinner table: "The purpose of socialism is to organize scarcity."

As a kid it sort-of didn't register in my brain as meaning anything beyond "socialism bad", but eventually when I was 12 or something, I did ask what he meant by those specific words.

And he said: socialists establish control of valuable resources and then create an artificial scarcity of these resources, so that they can then use them as a tool of control by deciding who gets and doesn't get those resources.

And I thought that was wrong. I mean, are socialists misguided? Sure. But to claim that they deliberately create scarcity as a means of political control? That seemed far-fetched.

But, of course, he was entirely correct.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Truly brain dead to provide welfare to foreigners and create a magnet for migration.

We used to insist that anyone coming to America could not be a public charge!

[Barstool Cleveland @BS_Cleveland]

USA fans finding that Refs hotel phone number

[Anthony - Happy 250th Birthday America! @Trump45and47_]

2-0 USA!!!! IT’S ABSOLUTELY CRAZY AT THE FIFA FAN ZONE ON THE NATIONAL MALL!!!!

[Prowler @derzum_]

This is outright untrue. The mass migration wave of 1865-1924 was so bad that we had to pass 20 different immigration laws trying to stop it. Entire cities were swamped by foreign languages. And there was welfare—almshouses and correctional facilities were 25-75% foreign-filled.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Exhibit A of how you can’t blindly believe whatever left-wing nonsense you read on social media. There has NEVER been any such thing as an EPA requirement for public water utilities to test for microplastics in drinking water. The claim is complete fiction. As a matter of fact, the technology to test and treat for microplastics in drinking water is still in development. Too much fake news out there trying to dumb down Americans. In the meantime, however, for the first time ever, the Trump Admin just added microplastics to the Contaminant Candidate List.