Russ Karlberg

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

What you’re actually doing is killing people, for the “greater good”. But communists never admit that do they?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is correct. I attended the Supreme Court arguments. Trump DOJ argued alongside Bayer/Monsanto that because the EPA had already blessed glyphosate, no state government could require labels disclosing cancer risk. The EPA & DOJ in this instance was only there to protect Bayer.

[Van Gogh Museum @vangoghmuseum]

A storm caught on canvas 🌪️ Van Gogh aimed to capture the essence of each object and the overall scene in his paintings. In this work Van Gogh depicted the sky turning a bold blue due to the Mistral, a strong wind in southern France, and showed leaves trembling in its gusts. To those who don't know the Mistral, his brushstrokes might seem like a visionary view of the landscape. However, he accurately depicts the strong winds of that day. (2)

‘A lane near Arles’, 1888 © Stiftung Pommersches Landesmuseum

[Mark Tilbury @marktilbury]

What if we stole Elon Musk's $1 Trillion?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Russ Karlberg @KarlbergRuss]

@midori_gt Hope to hear Wheels on Fire!!

[Jordan Rudess @Jcrudess]

I woke up feeling inspired and wrote this song for Father’s Day. Sending peace, love, and music to all the fathers around the world.

@strandbergGuit @LAVAMUSIC_LLC @SteinwayAndSons #NuxAudio #fathersday

[Jerry Pike @JerryPikePhoto]

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at the Space Coast! Carried inside NASA's Pegasus barge, this new telescope is set to launch on Falcon Heavy later this year.

[Robert P. Murphy @BobMurphyEcon]

@AezzieUwU First can you explain why the vast majority of people in the real world right now earn more than the minimum wage

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

⚠️ Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Governor Gavin Newsom, is now at the center of growing national attention as investigators examine allegations involving nonprofit finances and donor relationships.
But here's what has people talking: Is this simply a routine review—or the beginning of a much bigger story? The facts are still unfolding, but what investigators uncover next could have consequences nobody saw coming. A federal investigation. Powerful political connections. And questions that refuse to go away.

Stay tuned... because this story may be far from over.

Watch the full episode on my YT channel! Link is in the comments ⬇️

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

They don’t want Elon Musk to give his trillion to the poor.

They want Elon Musk to give his trillion to them so they can take their cut, split it with their comrades and causes, then look virtuous by throwing to the poor whatever scraps remain.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

• You and your friends would steal 80% of it
• you’d come in 300% over budget and still spend 3x what you taxed
• you’d start 2 useless departments that soak up billions yearly forever going forward
• the entire mess would be riddled with bribes, fraud, and fake daycares
• you’d be proposing a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and then permanent wealth tax to deal with the “gross underfunding” of your corrupt “childcare for everyone” empire.

The icing on the cake? Childcare costs in the US would increase by 40% in 2 years.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet.

The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.

[Elonogy @ElonogyX]

Elon Musk: "In the next 6 to 12 months, we’ll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody is completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex."

"Long term, you would have very high resolution and be able to see multispectral wavelengths... you could see in infrared, ultraviolet, radar. It's like a superpower situation."

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

This idea from some people that the government should heavily tax @elonmusk - the world's best capital allocator - and transfer a significant portion of that wealth to the government, one of the worst capital allocators, makes little sense, especially since much of his earned wealth exists because the companies he built have become far more valuable by creating products and services people value and are willingly to pay for.

Elon may have a high net worth, but virtually all of it is tied up in company stock. He doesn't have tens of billions of dollars in cash. Taxing his wealth would likely force him to sell significant amounts of that stock, putting downward pressure on the share price and negatively affecting millions of people who themselves own shares in those companies directly or through ETFs, mutual funds, pension funds, and 401(k)s.

I think I saw somewhere that Elon's companies have paid over $100 billion in salaries. Those salaries are taxed. Beyond that, his companies have already generated enormous economic value for America and the other regions that his companies operate in.

You want Elon Musk to do good for the world? Great, he already is:
• Tesla: Accelerating the transition to sustainable energy and developing safety technologies like FSD that saves lives.
• SpaceX: Expanding internet access through Starlink in underserved and low-income regions, saving the U.S. government $40 billion (according to the Pentagon), and restored America's ability to launch astronauts from American soil again.
• Neuralink: Giving paralyzed individuals new levels of independence with brain chips. Next, they aim to give blind people the ability to literally see.

Taking capital away from someone who has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to turn it into productive businesses, jobs, innovation, and economic growth, and handing it to a government with a far less effective track record of capital allocation - doesn't strike me as a good trade. Elon's wealth isn't a bug in our system, it's a feature of living in a country where entrepreneurs have the opportunity to build companies that create enormous value for society.

[Handre @Handre]

The moment someone tells you Elon Musk should solve world poverty with his wealth, you're listening to someone who fundamentally misunderstands both wealth and poverty. Musk's billions exist almost entirely as Tesla and SpaceX stock, not cash sitting in a vault waiting to be redistributed.

The real issue runs deeper than liquidity. Poverty is fundamentally a productivity problem, not a resource shortage. If throwing money at poverty solved it, the $4.3 trillion the US government has spent on welfare programs since 1965 would have eliminated American poverty decades ago. Instead, the poverty rate has remained virtually unchanged since the War on Poverty began.

You can't redistribute your way out of poverty because wealth isn't a fixed pie that rich people hoard. Musk created his fortune by building companies that produce electric vehicles, rockets, and satellite internet. His wealth represents the market's valuation of those productive assets. When politicians demand he liquidate those holdings to fund welfare programs, they're demanding he destroy the very capital that generates ongoing prosperity.

The countries with the lowest poverty rates didn't achieve that through foreign aid or wealth transfers. South Korea went from Third World to First World status in two generations through property rights, free markets, and rule of law. Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa has received over $1 trillion in foreign aid since 1960 and remains impoverished. Poverty reduction requires institutions that enable production, not redistribution schemes.

Real poverty reduction happens when entrepreneurs like Musk build productive enterprises that create jobs, generate tax revenue, and drive down costs through innovation. But that requires you to understand that capitalism creates wealth rather than just moving it around.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

I’ll take the trillionaire visionary who creates wealth for tens of millions of people, over the millionaire politicians who loot that wealth for themselves.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

If Elon Musk’s one trillion could do so much good, then why haven’t all our multiple trillions in tax solved all the world’s problems before now?

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.

Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.

The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.