Miss.Sue.SA

SoCal GenX beach baby; 💍 my blind date; mom of 7, MuMu of 2; ✝️, Pepperdine 🌊, UNLV 👩‍🎓; Wellness Box Advocate 🌿

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

It's ZERO HOUR for L.A. and ELECTION FRAUD

Spencer Pratt just confirmed he has secret recordings to make Karen Bass and Nithya Raman resign in disgrace.

Pratt is about to light up L.A. and election fraud like you have never seen before!

[Miss.Sue.SA @MissSueSA]

@JosephMLombardo Do you know, in Nevada, adopted special needs foster children lose their fee for service Medicaid at age 18? 19 if they are still in high school, but only until graduation. Period. If they age out i.e. never adopted, or adopted after 16, they get to keep Medicaid until age 26 if in college. FAFSA does not recognize special needs foster-adoptees either if they were adopted before the age of 14 and therefore receive no independent financial aid to encourage academic success. This model discourages adoption and cuts a lifeline for them to receive crucial medical care while seeking a career. This needs to BE BETTER for adoptive foster families. Thank you.

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

AMERICA:
Foster Children are in all 50 states.

GOVERNORS:
Pledge to set up Fostering the Future Accounts in your State now.

This is not a political issue. This is a national moral obligation.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The cheapest, most effective wildfire crew in California has four legs and eats the problem.

Clearing flammable brush off a steep slope by hand is brutal, slow, expensive work. A herd of goats is none of those things.

Hand clearance:

- Around 28,000 dollars an acre
- People with tools on dangerous slopes
- Cuttings that then have to be hauled away

A herd of goats:

- Roughly 500 to 1,000 dollars an acre
- Climbs slopes no crew wants to touch
- Eats the brush to a firebreak and fertilises the ground on the way through
- Reaches branches several feet up
- Visibly thrilled to be at work

Calling the goat a quaint throwback has it backwards. On this job the goat is the superior technology by a factor of about fifty, and it runs on the very scrub everyone else is paying to remove.

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

The Strip 🤝 The Final

#ForgedInGold | @Vegas

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Director of the White House ballroom. Specifically, I am the Director of the list of people who paid for it.

People think the marble is the hard part. The marble arrives on a truck. The list is the hard part. The list is the product.

Here is the product.

We tore down the East Wing to build it. The First Lady's wing. The one with the gardens. We took it down in an afternoon, the first time anyone had touched the bones of that house since 1948, and we did it for a room she will never need to enter.

The room is ninety thousand square feet. The White House is fifty-five. I want you to sit in that. The People's House is now the smaller building on the lot.

It seats nine hundred ninety-nine. The room it replaces seated two hundred. We did not need more chairs. We needed a bigger door, and a shorter roster of who holds the key.

Three thousand dollars a square foot. You cannot get a school approved at that number. You cannot get a clinic. We got a ballroom, and we got it in a season.

The boss said it would be paid for, and I am quoting him exactly, "one hundred percent by me and some friends of mine." He was telling the truth. Every word of it. You are simply not one of his friends.

Here is how a friend gets made.

A company has a problem. An antitrust review. A labor case. Some unpleasantness with the SEC. The problem is large. The problem has its own floor of lawyers. The problem keeps the general counsel awake.

Then the company writes a check for the ballroom.

I do not connect these two events. I am not permitted to connect these two events. I simply observe that sixteen of our twenty-seven donors were under federal enforcement, and I simply observe that the cases have developed a way of going quiet. Dropped. Scaled back. Resolved on a Friday. I observe it the way a man observes weather. I carry an umbrella. I do not control the sky.

Amazon's antitrust review. Apple's. Meta's. Nvidia's. Coinbase and Ripple, with the SEC, who moved their whole operation from litigation to lobbying and saved a fortune on both.

Google had a grievance. Twenty-four and a half million dollars of grievance, over a YouTube ban. Google paid that settlement to us. Twenty-two million of it, straight into the room. The penalty became the donation. The grievance became the gift. I had the wire confirmation framed and hung by the door, so I see it on my way out.

Lockheed gave us more than ten million. Lockheed has since collected forty-three billion in new federal funding. I am assured these numbers are unrelated. I am the man who assures me.

Fifty billion dollars to our donors in six months. Three hundred thirty-eight billion over five and a half years. They spent a billion and a half on lobbying to arrange it, and most of them used the same three firms to do the arranging, so the list of donors and the list of lobbyists fit on a single page if you turn it sideways.

I did not award one contract. I merely curate the room. The room where the people who sign the deals stand under a chandelier the people who receive the deals paid for, inside a house our spokesman says, and I am quoting him exactly, we are making "better for generations to come."

The People's House. He said it out loud. I had it engraved.

The money runs through a charity for the national mall, because a gift to a park is not a gift to a president, and a clause I drafted myself lets six of our donors give without ever being named. A federal judge had to be sued before anyone outside the room could read that clause. He is still reading.

He ruled the construction had to stop. He wrote that the President is "the steward" of the house, "not the owner." A careful man. A Bush appointee, even. We filed the appeal in ninety minutes and poured concrete on his ruling by the afternoon. He stewards. We pour.

There will be a donor wall. Founders' Tier at the top, in gilt, and I set the spacing myself with a level and my own two hands. Six of the plaques will be polished brass with nothing on them. The anonymous ones. School groups will ask who they honor, and the docent is trained to answer: "Patrons who wished to give without recognition." I wrote that line too. I write the sentences other people have to stand inside.

The families pay for this. Not for the ballroom. The ballroom was free, donated, that was always the genius of it. They pay in the cases that got dropped. The fine no one collects. The merger no one blocks. The settlement that became a chandelier instead of a refund. They pay slowly, in a current they cannot feel, and not one of them will ever set foot in the room, and the room will carry the names of the people who did it to them.

I will be retired before the doors open. There is a chair reserved for me at the first gala. Front table. Under the lights I sourced.

You asked what pay-to-play looks like when it stops hiding and starts winning.

It looks like a ballroom bigger than the White House.

You're just not on the list.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

Who felt the earthquake?

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

THE VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS TOOK GAME 1 OF THE STANLEY CUP FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!

[Miss.Sue.SA @MissSueSA]

@FLOTUS pssssst…please tell him this ⬇️

[Keli Rabon @KeliRabon]

Every time I hear the “r” word tossed around, it hurts. In the last year, Trump used the word dozens of times.

Maybe you don’t have anyone in your life w/ a mental challenge. Cool. For those of us that do, we’ll again ask nicely: please do better.🙏

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
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[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

If this doesn’t get you hyped for the Stanley Cup Final, we don’t know what will…

#ForgedInGold

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

Tilman Fertitta — the guy who owns the Golden Nugget, the Houston Rockets, and 600 restaurants — is buying Caesars Entertainment for $17.6 billion and taking the company private.

Fertitta is the sitting U.S. Ambassador to Italy, a major Trump donor, and apparently not that busy.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I follow with concern the war in #Ukraine, which is experiencing a sharp intensification in these days. I wish to express my closeness to all those suffering due to recent attacks carried out even against civilians. War does not solve problems but worsens them. It does not create security but multiplies suffering and hatred. Where missiles and drones fall, hopes also fall; homes and places of prayer are destroyed, and innocent lives are broken. I entrust all peoples wounded by war to the protection of the Virgin Mary, Queen of #Peace.

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

HOW ABOUT THOSE WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS THE VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS

#ForgedInGold | @BWWings

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[Chris Maathuis @sports8]

Check this out. Hoover Dam launches ‘Road To America 250’
This flag is the length of a football field and it will be on display every day through July 4th #RoadToAmerica250 #HooverDam

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

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