Judy Pittman

Wife, mother, grandmother who loves to travel with her precious husband of 50+ years. No DMs. I will unfollow you if you DM me.

[Dan Hill @dandinohill]

Turns out passing a simple law that says if you want to vote in the USA, you must be a citizen of the USA - is way too difficult for our Senators.

But they do have some accomplishments:
- Adding $2 Trillion a year to the national debt.
- Giving away taxpayer money to other countries.
- Using insider information to make themselves rich.
- Endlessly talking about legislation without passing it.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

Tom Mueller. SpaceX employee #1, the man who built the engines and his 0.06% stake is now worth approximately $1.11 billion (Save this).

But the number undersells the story.

Mueller grew up in St. Maries, Idaho, population 2,500, the son of a logger who wanted him to follow the same path.

He spent four summers cutting timber to pay his way through engineering school, then moved to California with nothing but a degree and a passion for rockets.

He spent 15 years at TRW, one of the biggest aerospace companies in the world, watching his ideas get diluted inside a bureaucracy so he started building engines in his garage at night as a hobby.

By early 2002 he had built the largest amateur liquid-fuel rocket engine in the world, 80 pounds, 13,000 lbs of thrust and moved it to a friend's warehouse.

That's where @elonmusk found him.

Fresh from selling PayPal for $1.5 billion, Musk walked into that warehouse and asked one question: "Can you build something bigger?"

Mueller never fired that original engine, he took it back to his garage, where it still sits today.

Instead, he joined Musk on May 1, 2002 becoming employee #1 on the SpaceX payroll.

What followed was 18 years of building what became the most reliable rocket engine ever flown.

The Merlin engine, designed from scratch powered Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Dragon.

The Merlin 1D holds the thrust to weight record for production rocket engines and it enabled the first ever propulsive landing of an orbital rocket booster, which is what made reusability possible, which is what made cheap access to space possible, which is what made Starlink possible, which is what made today's $2.1 trillion IPO possible.

Mueller also started the early development of what became the Raptor engine, the full flow staged combustion methane engine that powers Starship, which no American aerospace company had ever successfully built before.

He retired from SpaceX in November 2020 but he got bored within six months so he founded Impulse Space, building space tugs to move payloads around once they're in orbit, and planetary landers to deliver cargo to Mars.

What an incredible story!

[Judy Pittman @FarmpalJudy]

Good advice 👍

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

En 1938, des chercheurs de Harvard ont lancé l’étude la plus ambitieuse de l’histoire en suivant la vie de 724 personnes, de leur adolescence jusqu’à leur décès, afin de découvrir ce qui rend réellement une personne heureuse et accomplie.
Pendant des décennies, ils ont analysé leurs cerveaux, leurs salaires, leurs relations et leurs traumatismes. Après 85 années de données, ils ont mis en évidence une corrélation surprenante, à laquelle personne ne s’attendait.
La réussite professionnelle à l’âge adulte ne dépendait ni du quotient intellectuel, ni de la richesse des parents, ni des notes scolaires. L’un des prédicteurs les plus puissants du succès était quelque chose de très simple : faire des tâches ménagères durant l’enfance.
Sortir les poubelles ou faire la vaisselle n’est pas seulement une question de propreté ; c’est un entraînement du cerveau. L’étude, connue sous le nom de Grant Study, a révélé que les tâches domestiques enseignent une leçon qu’aucune école ne peut reproduire : « l’éthique de la contribution ».
Lorsqu’un enfant doit arrêter de jouer pour mettre la table, il apprend que le monde ne tourne pas autour de lui. Il comprend qu’il fait partie d’un écosystème et que son effort est nécessaire au bon fonctionnement du groupe.
Les chercheurs ont découvert que les enfants qui participaient aux tâches devenaient des adultes qui :
– savent reconnaître ce qui doit être fait et le font sans qu’on le leur demande (initiative) ;
– éprouvent davantage d’empathie pour le travail des autres ;
– gèrent mieux la frustration et le report de la gratification.
À l’ère de la « parentalité hélicoptère », où l’on évite que les enfants s’ennuient ou travaillent, Harvard nous avertit qu’en les protégeant des tâches ennuyeuses, nous leur retirons les fondations de leur future compétence professionnelle.
Si vous voulez que votre enfant devienne un adulte accompli, ne lui achetez pas plus de jouets éducatifs. Donnez-lui un balai.
Source : Harvard Study of Adult Development (Grant Study) et Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult).
Universo Sorprendente.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Judy Pittman @FarmpalJudy]

@ZakariaMDv3 @FarmpalSteve

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

I trust the guy who earned his $1 TRILLION over the 535 idiots who put us in debt $39 TRILLION.

[Wendy Patterson @wendyp4545]

@johnrich It should be criminal how our government allowed car companies and everything else to be dependent on a damn CHIP.

[Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸 @billysandytodd]

Elon Musk isn’t stealing from me, Elizabeth Warren is stealing from me.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Ask yourself this…

If the rich are evil to the Democrats then why don’t the Democrats ever attack George Soros, Reid Hoffman or Neville Roy Singham?

Weird, right?

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Funny how we’re supposed to be outraged by a man becoming a trillionaire, but not by politicians who become millionaires on government salaries.

Wrong target.

#250_Revolution

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are furious that Elon is a trillionaire on paper.

But they are totally fine with:

1) $2 trillion annual budget deficits
2) $1.3 trillion in annual interest payments
3) $1 trillion in annual govt fraud
4) $39 trillion national debt

[Judy Pittman @FarmpalJudy]

@EshaAA33 I this sums it up very well:
https://t.co/IFl8SQ2M6I

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon created $1 trillion of value.

Congress created $39 trillion of debt.

Elon’s wealth is not the problem…

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon created $1 trillion of value.

Congress created $39 trillion of debt.

Elon’s wealth is not the problem…

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

The Democrat Party’s real structure:

Antifa = Military Wing
Media = Propaganda Wing
ActBlue = Laundering Wing
SPLC = Targeting Wing
Soros = Funding Wing
Colleges = Indoctrination Wing

This isn’t a political party.

It’s an organized crime syndicate.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

The most important story coming out of the SpaceX IPO this morning is not the $1.77 trillion valuation but it is about Juan Hernandez (Save this).

Juan is a welder who got a phone call from a friend about a job at a company he had never heard of.

He said yes anyway, showed up, worked there for ten years, rose from the factory floor to supervisor, and held on to 6,500 shares the entire time.

When CBS asked him this morning how much he stands to make at opening, he said approximately $880,000.

Tom Mueller, Musk's very first SpaceX employee, tells a version of the same story.

He met Musk through an amateur rocket club, was convinced to do something exciting, and says it was one of the best decisions he ever made.

In those early days, he says, the team simply believed they were going to change the world and then went ahead and did it.

Juan and Tom are not alone.

SpaceX has approximately 13,000 employees who hold equity and analysts estimate today's IPO will create somewhere between 600 and 1,000 instant millionaires across the workforce from engineers and software developers to machinists, welders, and operations staff.

The engineers and executives at the top of the stack are looking at life changing numbers of a different order entirely.

Senior vice presidents and long tenured rocket engineers with large equity grants are expected to walk away with $10 million to $50 million or more depending on their vesting history.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's President and COO who has been building this company alongside Musk for over two decades, is expected to become a billionaire on her equity stake alone.

All of that wealth from Juan's $880,000 to Musk's trillion came from the same source.

A group of people who believed that if nobody built a truly reusable rocket, humanity would never leave Earth, and decided that was an unacceptable outcome.

Thank you, @elonmusk for building a company where a welder who didn't know your name in 2016 is worth nearly a million dollars this morning.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello Senator....

This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say .

"Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary."

That is quite an achievement.

In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress.

It has been a long time since you held a private sector job.

AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot.

During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike.

And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector.

You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged.

But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are.

We would never know otherwise.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

This 60 Minutes clip seems most appropriate today:

"When you had that third failure in a row, did you think, 'I need to pack this in?'"

Elon Musk: "Never."

"Why not?"

"I don't ever give up."

"Elon Musk got kicked out of the company he founded, watched his rocket explode on live TV, and had every major investor tell him Tesla was going to fail. Most people would’ve quit after one of those. He went through all three. That’s the thing nobody talks about. Success doesn’t look like a straight line up. It looks like losing everything, rebuilding from zero, and showing up again anyway. Elon didn’t win because he was the smartest guy in the room. He won because he refused to stop."

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 When Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC spend all day demonizing billionaires, they’re following Karl Marx’s playbook to the letter: divide the classes and conquer.

Their nonstop attacks are just repackaged communism and socialism — the same failed ideologies that destroyed Cuba, Venezuela, and countless other nations.

History is screaming the warning. Don’t ignore it.
#SocialismFails #CommunismKills #MarxistPlaybook #ClassWarfare #VenezuelaWarning #CubaCollapse #WakeUpAmerica #CapitalismWorks #EconomicFreedom #StopTheDivide

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.