David Tsikman

Husband | Dad | Investor | Jewish Community Activist in Coachella Valley & Riverside County ✡️ Founder, Desert Jewish Voice Alliance. Views my own.

[David Tsikman @DavidTsikman]

@claritymovescap Very exciting ! Congratulations to @SimDesai and team! 👏

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@AsmWallis To a year of sweetness and goodness - Shana Tovah!

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Thank you @AsmWallis

[Assemblymember Greg Wallis @AsmWallis]

As Yom Kippur begins, we wish Jewish communities across our district and throughout California a meaningful day of reflection, prayer and renewal.

May the year ahead bring peace and blessings.

[David Tsikman @DavidTsikman]

@SenOchoaBogh May we all be inscribed for a sweet and good year 🍎 🍯

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Thank you @SenOchoaBogh

[Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh @SenOchoaBogh]

Today, many in our communities observe Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith. I extend my warm wishes to all who are observing this sacred day of reflection, prayer, forgiveness, and renewal. G'mar Chatimah Tovah. #YomKippur #SD19

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@TeamCalvert 👏👏👏👏

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Thank you @AsmWallis 🍯🍎 To a Sweet & Healthy year.

[Assemblymember Greg Wallis @AsmWallis]

Wishing everyone in our community celebrating a happy and healthy Rosh Hashanah. May the new year bring you sweetness, peace, and prosperity. Shanah Tovah!

[David Tsikman @DavidTsikman]

Jay is a good man and will be a great public servant for the people of AZ-1! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @jayfeely

[Jay Feely @jayfeely]

Years ago in Haiti, I met a young man named Delmonte who changed my life.

Today he and his brother Marc are my bonus kids, and their story is everything I believe about the American Dream.

Watch "Delmonte's Story." 👇

[David Tsikman @DavidTsikman]

@jayfeely 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova, friends ❤️

[David Tsikman @DavidTsikman]

@harleyf Leadership🫡 Wishing you and your mishpucha a sweet year @harleyf

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

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@DanielSLoeb1 @NYCMayor Amazing 👏👏👏

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@NWischoff You should stop by @airrowinc for a visit.

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@_Faraz You got to meet up with @airrowinc and @MnMFehler - Autonomous Drone Platform

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Scott Bessent just sent shivers down the spine of Iranian regime leaders. What a bad*ss...

"I will say it on worldwide TV: we KNOW WHERE in the British Virgin Islands your accounts are, at these trust companies. We know the hundred million dollar houses you have around the world. WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE ALL THAT DOWN."

🔥🔥🔥

"We are going after the regime's assets they have stolen from the Iranian people."

"They can go to the victims of terror."

"After 47 years — IT IS OVER."

"Either you are with us, or against us."

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

[David Tsikman @DavidTsikman]

“A citizen who reported that a group of individuals had loaded a cut-down Flock Safety Camera into a vehicle.”

@flocksafety

[Riverside County Sheriff @RSO]

Grand Theft & Vandalism of a Flock Camera System https://t.co/XPH9Le2NN1