Byron Pelton

economics (math) {Boston Red Sox}

[Byron Pelton @ByronPelton]

Breaking a world record is like being the lovechild of William F. Buckley Jr. and Billy Mays— standing athwart history, yelling “But wait! There’s more!”

[Tahra Hoops @TahraHoops]

Austin delivered 81,000 apartments in four years. Now 73% of metro units are offering concessions and avg asking rent has dropped from $1,622 in 2022 to $1,366. Build enough housing and landlords start competing for tenants instead of the other way around!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

Ever wonder why America today is covered in sod huts with thatch roofs inhabited by illiterate peasants?

Import Ireland, become Ireland.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Reminds me of this classic cartoon

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

Not The Onion?

[YimbyAndy @yimbyandy]

Austin doesn't have any IZ requirements and built so much housing that rents are now down 20% from their peak. IZ makes housing more expensive, not less.

[Matt Jones @KySportsRadio]

Thank goodness for Birthright citizenship

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[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

A case study in how policy can be bad, even if it's not enacted.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

I wish a lot more people understood this incredibly simple concept

[Jon Hartley @Jon_Hartley_]

A thread 🧵 list of the most successful undergraduate theses/student papers of all time:
1. Fred Smith (Yale University, 1966). Proposal for an integrated air–ground delivery system. Became FedEx, a global logistics company.

[Jordan Chamberlain @jordylancaster]

Incredible stuff happening on this app

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.

In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:

- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors

This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

[Byron Pelton @ByronPelton]

@_Credible_Hulk And using it automatically relegates people to double digits

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

at long last, our nation's enemies have stolen the most dangerous technology in America's arsenal: the California Environmental Quality Act

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Weird, people say that ice cream helps you cool down, but it's clear that buying ice cream raises the temperature?

[Byron Pelton @ByronPelton]

I find it hard to believe that waiting 30 minutes for a burrito to arrive in a private taxi takes less time than a microwave meal

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is bc they do not have the time or capacity to create home cooked meals. It’s an issue countless ppl have tried to raise w leftists but big leftists online continue to shame/abuse poor ppl for being forced to rely on these services for meals, which act as a tax on the poor

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

It’s hard to have sympathy for striking LIRR workers when their demands include keeping policies like this:

[Byron Pelton @ByronPelton]

My “This is not a golden calf” tweet is raising a lot of questions answered by the tweet

[Pastor Mark Burns @pastormarkburns]

Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment with the dedication of the 22-foot statue honoring President Donald J. Trump.

Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone.

This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America.

It also stands as a reminder of the hand of God and His protection over President Trump’s life. Time and time again, when his life was threatened, God’s mercy prevailed.

Today was not just a ribbon cutting. It was the public display of a powerful movement that has spread across America and around the world.

I was deeply honored to serve as President Trump’s main point of contact throughout this process, and I do not take that assignment lightly.

I want to personally thank Ash, Dustin Stockton, Brock Pierce, Hershey Friedman, Yaakov Filitchkin, Sam, Jack, and the 6,000+ Patriots who donated, believed, sacrificed, and made this historic moment possible.

Thank you to the entire Trump Doral team for your incredible hospitality and excellence.

And thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for calling me today and speaking to the crowd. We are forever grateful.

God bless President Trump.
God bless every Patriot.
And God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸

#PresidentTrump #SpiritualDiplomats #TrumpDoral #TrumpStatueDedication #AmericaFirst #PatriotMovement #FaithFreedomPatriotism