Harry Kaplan

ik a lot about reits and homebuilding stocks. 80% of portfolio is $PLTR $NVDA $TSLA. aspiring 5.0 NTRP rating.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The player who is fouled is the one who should take the penalty.

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@AlexHartsuff @austinnasso

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@kane Melgar has Dolores Umbridge hair and aura

[Jake Marsh @JakeMarsh18]

I know we throw around the phrase “crazy stat” a lot.

This is a crazy freaking stat.

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@wujuskinny @hank_buckley Tel Aviv does have sick culture, great food/beaches/clubs/hot women, lots of cool communities, great place to be gay etc

Saying Tel Aviv isn’t cool bc of Israeli foreign policy is akin to saying New York City isn’t cool bc trump is president

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

Unpopular take but I think non-founder CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies aren’t paid enough

Most make $10-$20mm in total comp running orgs that do 10+ billions of revenue and large recurring capex requirements

working 24/7, flying 200+ days a year

The ceo to median worker ratio is socialist propaganda that the average worker does “just as much” as the psychopath signing up for the stress of running a publicly traded corporation

[Mann Made Cinema @Hotshot_Movie]

I just can’t miss.

[Max Levchin @mlevchin]

If there is one thing you take from this pod, it’s this: socialism corrupts more profoundly than simple words can express, and as the grift gets tougher, the socialists inevitably move from propaganda to oppression as the primary motivating approach. Don’t let it happen here!

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@BradRTorgersen @NataliaAntonova I thought her LinkedIn was satire, it’s just LinkedIn

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@GeringerAdam Loin, soma and mission are all flat

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

The video cuts to an Uber driver and literally within seconds it shows him using his phone while driving

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@Tjernlund @kane @razibkhan Fallacy*

[Juliegrace Brufke @juliegraceb]

The community note on this one is a doozy.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Good evening @RepRoKhanna. We hope you had a nice Saturday.

Several people have requested we comment on your post. We will quickly before we take Mrs. USOGA out for date night.

First - like you, we hope this war will end soon and things will return to normal. Until then - things will be what they will be.

But high gas prices in your district aren’t “Trump’s war”—they’re Sacramento’s doing.

California drivers pay nearly double the national average in state taxes, plus cap-and-trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, unique reformulated gasoline, refinery limits, and geographic isolation that blocks cheap imports.

That adds $1.00–$1.78+ over the U.S. average.

Here is our suggestion. Your proposed windfall profits tax will do nothing to bring relief to your overtaxed and underappreciated constituents.

Instead -suspend those state-level taxes first and bring California prices in line with the national average.

Put your state bureaucracy on a diet. They could stand to shed a few pounds.

Encourage California domestic oil and gas production and expand your refinery capacity instead of shutting it down.

Stand up to your Governor. You know he is wrong and you can be on the right side of things

And let's talk windfall profits tax.

They don't work. While you don't call it a windfall profits tax, California recently passed one and called it a "wealth tax" now you see high net worth individuals fleeing your state.

History proves it backfires.

The 1980 Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax cut domestic production 1–8% (hundreds of millions of barrels lost), boosted imports 3–13%, raised far less revenue than projected after deductions, created massive bureaucracy, and was repealed in 1988 because it discouraged supply exactly when America needed more.

That in turn led us to depend even more on Middle East imports for another 20 years right up until the shale revolution occurred. Kind of like how California is dependent on imports now.

Your repeated sponsorship of a new Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would repeat the exact same mistake—shrinking U.S. output and raising costs.

Crude exports? They expand global supply, narrow price spreads (WTI-Brent) which is exerts downward pressure on world prices.

It is directly helping allies in Europe and Asia counter China's skirting sanctions and colluding with Iran to purchase crude at huge discounts.

Restricting exports would tighten markets, spike costs everywhere—including here—and hurt the consumers you claim to protect.

Finally we must also point out that
your voting record shows consistent opposition to our industry you want to tax. For example, you:

Voted against leasing more public lands and waters for oil drilling (2023, Roll Call 23).

Voted against reversing land-management protections to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling—multiple times, including 2025 Roll Call 295 and earlier efforts to halt ANWR development.

Opposed critical oil and gas leasing reforms and fast-tracking fossil-fuel infrastructure (2024 Roll Call 95; 2025 votes undermining LNG authority and blocking fracking bans).

Voted NO on NDAA provisions that would expedite oil/gas permitting (2022–2023).

You have a 99% lifetime League of Conservation Voters score—near-perfect opposition to domestic energy exploration, production and leasing.

You’ve led hearings attacking us and sponsored bills to repeal industry tax provisions.

Fine—own that record.

But please stop shifting blame to “Trump’s war” or federal policy while California’s own choices keep your constituents paying the highest pump prices in America.

Real relief comes from more American supply + streamlined permitting, not recycled 1980s taxes or more restrictions.

Energy abundance, not rhetoric, lowers prices and bolsters U.S. and allied security.

Mrs. USOGA has instructed us to put the phone away so we will do that.

Have a good weekend.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me.

Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious?

You are the fraud.

[Grok @grok]

In California, the government collects far more per gallon of gasoline than Chevron (or any refiner) earns in profit.

Latest data (CA Energy Commission/EIA, Jan-Mar 2026):
- Taxes & fees: ~$0.90–$1.31/gal (state excise tax 61.2¢, federal 18.4¢, sales tax/UST ~12–14¢, cap-and-trade/LCFS ~23–37¢+).
- Refiner gross margin (costs + profit): ~40–60¢/gal.
- Chevron's net profit share per gallon: typically under 20¢ after all costs.

Taxes win by a wide margin. The Reuters earnings note in the quote reflects global upstream ops, not CA retail gas.

[Harry Kaplan @HarryMKaplan]

@danielpearson 1 bedrooms in Tenderloin and Soma are empty, tryin to lease at $1700 or lower.

Everywhere else in the city that was mid 2’s last year is hitting the market $3500-$3800

[nic carter @nic_carter]

Instead of B2s Trump should threaten to send a bunch of California Democrats to Iran. Infrastructure wouldn’t stand a chance

[Jebus @Jebus]

- man with pronouns in his name

[Lee Edwards @terronk]

I’m sorry but these photos are so fucking on brand for each of them.

Connie: please remember I am authentically AAPI when you go to the polls

Saikat: I have workshopped how to hold and/or drink this

Scott: quietly the only one with actual milk tea and drinking it super gay