Michael Bryant

[Michael Bryant @S550Mb]

@rose_stabler Love this detour— that house is a time capsule of Mobile magic! 🌹 It’s evolved into the Harris-Bryant House these days, but the stained glass rose (and all the Stabler spirit) is very much intact if you ever swing by for a peek. Beach vibes await—safe trip!

[Michael Bryant @S550Mb]

100 pages in. Great read. And that is only from MOB to DFW. @andrewrsorkin

[Joe Kernen @JoeSquawk]

“job creation down to almost record levels”. Unemployment rate is 4.2%.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Fuck it. Josh Brown reading the J.P Morgan research note on the US Stock Market set to the Battle Hymn of the Republic

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Every time

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Literally exactly what @DOGE is saying!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

[Jim Cramer @jimcramer]

One thing is certain. If i put Deepseek on my cellphone i won't have to worry about privacy because i am sure the PRC will protect and defend me just like Jensen or Tim would !!!

[Kira @Kiradavis]

I mean…let’s just have one more conversation about what freaking class act @carrieunderwood was today. Not only did she wing it flawlessly, she invited the crowd, and she didn’t run away with the song or add anything crazy. It was a group project and she sounded like an angel

[Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine]

The quicker Trump’s picks get confirmed, the quicker they can get started on implementing the America First agenda‼️

[Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine]

It's up to Trump to make sure that Hamas plays no part in Gaza and I have no doubt that he will‼️

[Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine]

I'm so proud of Pete Hegseth's performance on Capitol Hill today‼️‼️

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Everybody ready?

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Alejandro Mayorkas appears to throw Biden's inner circle under the bus for not allowing him to secure the border, says "decisions are made" and people just carry them out.

4 years of irreversible damage and he decides to speak up now.

"People have different views on what the correct policies should be, what the correct operational measures should be. Those disagreements, those different views are voiced."

"Decisions are made, and then everyone marches in unity together. That is the nature of a large organization, and the government is no different."

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Scott Bessent speaks to legends like Druckenmiller many times a week, and is one of the smartest men alive about how our economy and global finance work.

He’s a patriot and legend in his own right; very lucky to have him joining this admin. Trump 2.0 coming out of the gate A+.

[Joe Kernen @JoeSquawk]

Fact: if every Republican had taken Ryan’s route we’d be talking about President Kamala Harris.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸