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[Angel @AngelStudiosInc]

Before he led a nation, George Washington was a soldier. 🪖
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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Dont let go of the family at the center of yesterday's Supreme Court property tax ruling.

In 1991, Scott Pung bought a small three-bedroom home on half an acre for his wife and two children. It was their family home. When Scott died in 2004, his wife stayed there. When she died in 2008, their son and his family stayed. Same home, same family, more than two decades.

The whole time, it was their primary residence, taxed at the lower rate Michigan gives a family home. Then in 2010 an assessor decided, wrongly, that they should be taxed as if it were a second home. The family took it to court and won. The tribunal ruled they did not owe it.

The assessor's response, in her own words about the judge who ruled for the family: "I don't care what he says." She imposed the tax again. She left it off the original bill and added it later. When the family came in to pay, they brought a driver's license to prove it was their home, and paid what they actually owed.

It did not matter. Over roughly $2,242 that they did not owe and had already beaten in court, the county foreclosed. A trial court tried to give the home back over a notice failure. The county appealed to stop that. In 2018, after 27 years, the family permanently lost the home Scott Pung bought in 1991.

This is what the property tax can do. Not in theory. To a real family, over a bill that was never owed, because one official decided she did not care what the court said. And the Supreme Court said the Constitution will not make that family whole.

I reached out to the Pung family, and they gave me their blessing to share their story and this photo. My thanks to them, and my respect for the fight they carried all the way to the highest court in the land. It will help families they will never meet.

This is exactly why we are working to end the tax that made it possible.

Photo of Marc and Tia Pung at the U.S. Supreme Court, shared with their permission.

[Bitdefender @Bitdefender]

How does Lewis Hamilton handle pressure at the highest level? A conversation with @MKBHD

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[Scott Kenfield @s_kenfield]

@ZeekArkham

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These are all common sense!

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Kevin O’Leary reveals the simple daily rule that made Steve Jobs and Elon Musk so successful.

If your ratio falls below 70%, “you will fail.”

Steve Jobs woke up every day with 3 things he wanted to get done.

Anything that distracted him from his goals was noise. His rule was 80% signal (getting things done) and 20% noise.

“When somebody walks in the office and says, ‘Hey, I want to talk about the golf game or the football game or the cricket game,’ you say, ‘No, I’m busy,’” O’Leary explained.

“You’re finishing your three things. And you say, ‘No, I’m busy,’ until you finish the three things.”

“Now, if you do that, as you will find, you will become immensely successful.”

“And the only guy on earth that I’ve seen that has a higher signal-to-noise ratio is Elon Musk. I’ve only met him a few times, but he is 100% signal.”

“And so he’ll walk right away out of a conversation the minute you’re wasting his time. If he’s not getting any useful information towards his three things, he’s out of there. And look at how successful both these men are.”

“So if you’re listening to this, you better understand signal versus noise. It’s the most important thing in your life because you will fail if your ratio goes below 70%.”

“And when I look at people, and you ask me, why do so many fail? Because they can’t get past 70%.”

[Duane Henry @MangoBoy1844]

Interesting

[𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 👑 𝙳𝚒𝚟𝚊™ @1776Diva]

They expected AI to expose flaws in the Bible.

Instead @Grok discovered coherence, patterns, and structure across texts written centuries apart.

Does that surprise you or confirm what you already knew? @elonmusk

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[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

🚨You are in a PROPAGANDA WAR. Still don't believe me? Give me less than 10 minutes 👇

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Hey @billieeilish here’s a young lady

you could learn something from.

She brilliantly debunks the myth:

“No One is Illegal on Stolen Land”

(Bookmark it and share it with someone.)

[PammsyNow @NowPammsy]

I love this police 👮 officer! ❤️ 🇺🇸He is not woke and is spitting out common sense facts! 👊🏻MN Dem politicians would do well to follow his lead in their talking points! But they won’t! It doesn’t fit their agenda!

[Clyp Keeper @DGrayTexas45]

Have you ever watched the British show called Utopia?
It was released in 2013...Art imitating life?

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

🇻🇪Here’s what the legacy media refuses to show you.

Caracas wakes to the sound of Venezuelans shouting “freedom,” applauding, and celebrating a moment years in the making.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Hillary Clinton is downright EVIL!!
Look at the hate on her face and in her eyes.