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[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Jillian Michaels: “What I find so funny is that Obama — who shamed all of the black men for not voting for Harris — then went to fricking Virginia and campaigned AGAINST the black woman who’s a Marine … FOR a WHITE liberal who worked for the CIA.”

[John son @johnsonj5os]

SHOCKING H-1B VISA INVESTIGATION 🔹 Nearly 7 million visas processed since 2015 ➡️ 70% from India ➡️ 12% from China 🔹 A former official told Newsweek 80-90% of applications from India involved fraudulent documents or unqualified applicants 🔹 A network of universities selling fake degr...

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Happy Birthday to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A relentless patriot who fights every day for the country he loves, the people he serves, and the American Dream. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

If MREs are good enough for our troops, why not for welfare?

What if EBT was replaced with monthly MRE deliveries,

8 cases per person. No misuse. No luxury. Just food.

Needs met. Problem solved!

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

TRUTH NUKE: Brad Todd: “You know what perplexes me about Elon Musk? Most liberals in America—they say [they care] about climate change more than almost anything. Before Elon Musk introduced the Model S and Tesla in 2012, there had been 17K electric cars sold in a country of 300M people. He LITERALLY INVENTED the electric car industry as accepted by the customers.”

“He saved the space program. Many Democrats say they love science. It’s CRAZY to me that he’s become the whipping boy when he’s single-handedly accomplished so many things that Democrats say [they care about].”

YEP!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!

[Genma_Jp @nymbusjp]

As RJ recently stated that Rivian will offer unsupervised self-driving next year, let me remind you of this article I posted earlier this year.
Rivian is using sensor fusion, and what they showed during their AI day shows that they have fundamentally misunderstood the problem.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

We are at **0.0115%** of our mission before Type I Civilization is completed.

On an astronomical scale, the bar chart barely registers against the Stone Age.

The mission continues.
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[Mr Ton @MrTon23]

@ChrisJBakke Why would he do that?

[Mr Ton @MrTon23]

@RandPaul Suggesting that the government stop treating SS funds like its own fund and invest it instead.

[Mr Ton @MrTon23]

@JohnOfOrion @DigitalSamIAm So stupid, go on.

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

@RoKhanna @neeratanden @elonmusk @JoeBiden each of those pieces of legislation was a total disaster. you can’t be serious right now

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Something miraculous is happening in the USA and the world thanks to the World Cup and the USA’s 250th.

I’m not quite sure yet what it is, I have to give it more thought.

I think it has something to do with the world realizing that managed decline is not necessary (with Trump’s America as the example), and I think it has something to do with more Americans not being afraid to be patriots about their nation and their culture.

It’s more than that though—I have to ponder.

Article coming when I figure it out. Any and all ideas welcome.

[@amuse @amuse]

SAVE ACT: Thom Tillis cosponsored the SAVE Act, then voted to kill it. He joined McConnell, Murkowski & Collins to sink the SAVE America Act 48-50. Joni Ernst skipped it. Utter betrayal of the American people.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

SpaceX's 11th employee just became a billionaire.

Gwynne Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002. She was employee number 11, joining as VP of Business Development before the company had proven a single rocket could fly.

She didn't even go there looking for a job. She had taken a colleague to lunch to celebrate him leaving for SpaceX, ran into Musk at the restaurant, and got interviewed on the spot. A week later, she joined him.

Her job: sell rocket launches for a company nobody had heard of. She built the Falcon vehicle manifest to over $5 billion in commercial contracts. She managed SpaceX's growth to 22,000 employees. She was the one who told NASA, the Air Force, and paying commercial customers why SpaceX could get to orbit cheaper and faster than anyone before it.

She was also the one who said no to going public for years. "I wasn't sure the company would go public," she said on CNBC yesterday. She resisted the pressure because she believed the public markets would force SpaceX into quarterly thinking, which would kill the mission.

She finally decided it was time. "I do not want to focus on quarterly earnings," she said on IPO day. "What we're doing is very futuristic."

Her stake is now worth north of $1.3 billion. She's SpaceX's fifth-largest Class A shareholder.

The 24 years of operational work that made yesterday possible have Gwynne Shotwell's fingerprints on them.

[Mr Ton @MrTon23]

@MichaelSLinden It's called choice, I chose to defend entrepreneurship and not the tax happy politician who just wasted US Tax payers money.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

The Stars and Stripes right in my living room.

An iconic and historic symbol of peace and strength—and a constant reminder of those who gave their all for our freedom.

Happy Flag Day, USA! 🇺🇸

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

"If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it."
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