Jason Neas

American, Catholic, Optimist

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Now that the Supreme Court has given its blessing to birth tourism, it's probably worth revisiting this story from 2019.

A Chinese national named Dongyuan Li ran a company called You Win USA Vacation Services that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to give birth so their children would get citizenship. She advertised having served more than 500 customers, charged each between $40,000 and $80,000, used 20 apartments in Irvine to house the mothers, and took in $3 million in wire transfers from China in two years.

Customers were coached to lie on their visa applications and at the U.S. consulate interview in China, claiming they'd stay only two weeks when they actually planned to stay up to three months to give birth. They were told to come early in pregnancy and were coached on how to conceal their pregnancies from customs.

You Win's marketing pitch was that giving birth in the U.S. meant "13 years of free education," "less pollution," "an easier way for the whole family to immigrate to the United States," and "priority for jobs in U.S. government, public companies, and large corporations."

What could possibly go wrong by constitutionalizing the incentive driving these schemes?

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

@RoKhanna If you destroy the incentives to build wealth then don’t expect an economy that works for everyone. Worry not about the rocket and marketplace builders instead think of the damage that is done by those that are handed vast fortunes and think they’re easy to achieve.

[Jared Dillian @dailydirtnap]

I have many more issues with Ilhan Omar being worth $30 million than Elon being worth a trillion.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

A school district in Louisiana says some of its teachers will receive bonuses of more than $50,000 this year thanks to increased tax revenue linked to a Meta data center, per WSJ

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.

Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.

SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.

$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Current and former SpaceX employees are poised to hit it big when the rocket-and-satellite maker goes public next week. https://t.co/PHtSHkWnTq

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

Sounds like the American dream... Cool product, work hard, take care of your team.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

I started Oculus while I was living in a trailer working a minimum wage job. I spent years developing the technology and sold it less than 18 months after hiring my first employees. Most of the $2.3B purchase went to them on account of our shared ownership structure.

Wish all you want, but you just aren't correct on this. Individual people create billions of dollars in value all the time.

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

Catholic inspired architecture is still alive and well, even if it takes a long time to build. Happy Sunday!

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

@bscholl @SimoneSyed Radarcrosssectiondeceptionmaxing

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

Complexity can be engineered into any system to create false scarcity of understanding.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being ‘simplistic’ should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”

— Thomas Sowell

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.”

-G.K. Chesterton

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

The Teton Range is one of the youngest mountain ranges in North America. They have been uplifting for less than 10 million years, making them "adolescent" mountains, compared to the Rockies or the Appalachians.

With less time for erosion, their jagged peaks still stand sharp.

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

@bscholl I agree. This will be very exciting. It is already game changing and the progress with FSD has been rapid.

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

@BrandonLuuMD Incredibly interesting

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

Amazing progress

[Gwynne Shotwell @Gwynne_Shotwell]

Thanks to the incredible grit and determination of the SpaceX Starship team, our space future is soooooo close!

[Gwynne Shotwell @Gwynne_Shotwell]

Thanks to the incredible grit and determination of the SpaceX Starship team, our space future is soooooo close!

[Jason Neas @JasonANeas]

It should be a basic requirement of government to balance the budget.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

I've been the lone vote against runaway spending for years. It shouldn't be this hard to convince Washington to balance a checkbook. Every American does it. Washington should, too.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"In light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

A September 2025 YouGov poll found that 26% of liberals under 45 say political violence is acceptable.

7% of conservatives under 45 said the same.

The U.S. has a growing problem with violent left-wing extremism that corporate media largely ignores.

Recent examples include assassination attempts on Donald Trump, attacks on Tesla facilities, and the murder of Charlie Kirk.

It needs to stop, but it's only getting worse.