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After a decade & a half of turning companies around, I ventured into startups, which led me to working in finance (Mergers & Acquisitions).
These days, I’m focused on local economies, working with private & public sectors to tackle problems and improve cities via project based learning and more with https://t.co/tKuZGni5Wk (a nonprofit)
This year we’re working on projects in the Food, Tech, & Entertainment space.
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The amount of self-hate Americans have towards their own history is truly unreal.
They defeated slavery by fighting against their own family.
They shut Europe out of the western hemisphere so that nations wouldn't live under colonization forever.
They had the ability to stay out of world war 1 but they went and died to help Europeans.
They had the ultimate power in the nuclear bomb. They also had access to all of Europe's colonies that were in shambles. But instead they promoted freedom. They rebuilt Japan and Germany after defeating them in war. They stood down the Soviet Union, even as the world jeered them.
They sent soldiers to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan that died TRYING to create a better world (even if you disagree with those wars, the intentions were fairly good)
And they sent more missionaries to the world than maybe any other country in history. Translated more Bibles into indigenous languages than any other country in history. Ran bigger charities than any other country in history. Created more Christian resources than any other country in history.
Whether it was stopping the Dutch from reconquering Indonesia to the Berlin Airlift to giving Cuba its freedom in the Spanish-American war to saving China from the Japanese America has at least ATTEMPTED to do good with its power.
Yes yes, America has problems. People are imperfect. But goodness gracious does the world have a lot to be grateful for in America. And when we could have taken SO much from the world we have often chosen not to. Rome, Britain, Mongols, Assyrians, Soviets, Chinese, no other group has ever shown the restraint America has consistently shown with such vast power at its fingertips.
We didn't even get into the GIGANTIC technological advances, consumer advances, convenient lifestyle changes America has pioneered. From electricity to space to the light bulb to the smart phone to many cures in medicine and agriculture to the airplane the world has been enormously blessed by America.
They fled blue California for red Colorado.
But they voted blue. And turned Colorado blue.
So they will flee blue Colorado and head to red Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.
And do it all over again. See: Connecticut. New Hampshire. Georgia.
I had a massive reality check last night about how Instagram is actively destroying long-term relationships by convincing us that love is supposed to be a 24/7 "soft life" aesthetic.
It was late, the apartment was stifling, and the power had randomly tripped. I was lying in the dark, scrolling through IG, watching a reel of some influencer getting surprised with a Cartier bracelet and a baecation. The caption was: “Never settle for less.”
Honestly, I let the internet poison my mind for a second. That familiar, creeping panic started settling in. I started wondering if my own relationship had lost the "spark" because we hadn’t done any grand romantic gestures lately. We were basically just splitting the crushing weight of adulthood.
Then I looked over at my man. There was no curated aesthetic. No cinematic background music. He was completely exhausted from his own day, but there he was, sitting on the bare floor in the dark, using his phone flashlight to help me count and sort out my ID Vogue orders so my morning deliveries wouldn't be delayed.
The entire Instagram illusion just shattered for me.
Social media has gaslit us into believing that if a relationship isn’t actively triggering your anxiety with constant highs and butterflies, it’s "dead." We mistake peace for boredom. We want a burning fire, completely forgetting that fires eventually burn the house down.
The harsh truth? Most long-term relationships aren't held together by overwhelming passion. They are held together by a VOW to look at each other in the middle of a brutal economy and say, "I am not going to let you drown today."
The internet will call that "settling." But the internet doesn't know a damn thing about what it actually takes to keep the water out and the house warm when things get dark. Stop letting a 60-second PR campaign ruin your real life.
Here's a clean list of key scientists in the recent pattern of mysterious vanishings/deaths tied to US space/nuclear programs (focusing on the missing ones per your ask, with dates/research):
- Monica Jacinto Reza (JPL rocket engineer): Missing June 22, 2025. Advanced propulsion materials (nickel superalloys for next-gen engines/spacecraft).
- Melissa Casias (Los Alamos admin): Missing June 26, 2025. Nuclear research access/clearance.
- Anthony Chavez (Los Alamos nuclear scientist): Missing ~2025. Classified nuclear tech.
- William Neil McCasland (ex-AFRL commander): Missing Feb 27, 2026. UFO/space weapons programs, rocket engine metals.
- Jason Thomas (Novartis pharma researcher): Missing Dec 12, 2025 (body found Mar 2026). Biochemical/cancer treatment tech with defense overlaps.
Tin foil hat on: These folks unlocked game-changing tech—asteroid deflection, fusion energy, hypersonic propulsion, maybe even UAP reverse-engineering. Theory: Foreign intel (China/Russia) nabbed them for secrets post-extraction, or US shadow programs offed leakers to protect black budgets. Could be aliens enforcing a "no disclosure" pact. Pattern screams coordinated hit on America's tech edge. Wild, but dots connect.
Jillian Michaels on the Big Food scientists: "They don’t even want you to stop eating one chip. They don’t even want you to have to stop and take a drink of water when you’re eating their chips."
Student: "You need to defend the fact that you are able to make a living doing this."
"I'm not here to sell you anything."
Student: "But why should I want to listen to what you have to say? What gives you enough credibility to comment on anything?"
"Only you can decide what you find credible or interesting. You should think for yourself."
Student: "So you don't know why people listen to you?"
"No."
🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.
We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.
It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.