Deirdre Hussey

News junkie, Bruuuuce devotee, storyteller, runner, NYC native – SF convert.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, just said we lost 200,000 people in Vietnam.

This is profound stupidity, and one more indication of why he's an incompetent Commander in Chief.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “We’re living under a dictatorship right now. It’s less Adolf Hitler because he’s not as concentrated as that. It’s more Idi Amin. It’s buffoonery, complete and utter incompetence. On top of a giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen”

[Golden State Valkyries @valkyries]

Longest W streak in Valks history continues.

SAY IT WITH US, VALKS WIN 🗣️

@harvey

[Bret Taylor @btaylor]

I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop

[Golden State Valkyries @valkyries]

This angle of Kaitlyn Chen’s RIDICULOUS drive 🤯

@Waymo | Drive of the Game

[Golden State Valkyries @valkyries]

SEVEN STRAIGHT. Road trip rolls on 😮‍💨

[Brian Carniello 🇺🇸 @BrianCarniello1]

#TrumpIsAFailedPresident

[Bruce Springsteen! (Blogness) @blogness]

Some Springsteen words of wisdom this Independence Day.

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn
a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

This Sunday, July 5th at 6:30PM, join me for a conversation with Bruce Springsteen about his music and the American story as the nation marks its 250th anniversary.

Streaming and on your local PBS station.
@springsteen @NewsHour

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

Founders step on every rake in the garden trying to figure out the Valley. I know, because my forehead is full of rake marks. I decided to interview some of the best investors about where the rakes are hidden in a new series called First Principles, starting with @saranormous.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

This is so good

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too https://t.co/2F9WoEzutO

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

This is the biggest product payload of my career. Data Cloud morphed from a BI platform into an insane AI data machine over the last 2.5 years.

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

https://t.co/OPrGjFcocj

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

We launched Rippling Data Cloud today - an all-in-one rebuild of the modern data stack, with AI deeply integrated throughout.

Why would you want an org-and-employee-centric data stack? Well, here’s how I used Rippling Data Cloud to help with token burn and cut AI slop. 1/

https://t.co/2rhp8x3KVn

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

We just launched Business Banking* at @Rippling ... it’s going to simplify the daily lives of a lot of people in finance and HR.🧵

[Rippling @Rippling]

We just launched Business Banking* — earn up to 32x** more on your operating cash, enable same-day payroll, and unlock AI-native finance capabilities all in one. Learn more & open your free account in minutes: https://t.co/InLT2EKY4w

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

What a night at the @thestonepony ! Brian Fallon rocked Asbury with a solo show with the Painkillers. Then he stayed on stage and went into Here's Looking at you Kid. In mid song all the members of @gaslightanthem joined him and they literally blew the roof of the Pony smoldering through 3 more songs. Great Expectations, 45, and The 59 Sound. One of my favorite experiences at the Pony! Like I always say: There is absolutely no music scene in the world like the Asbury Park music scene!!