Shane 🌞

Polymath, vir universalis. Fitness, Politics, Veteran, Business & ATX Networking.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@TheInsiderPaper Thank god!

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

My timeline is full of Europeans that are discovering America 🇺🇸 isn’t the boogeyman they thought and instead a wonderful, massive and beautiful place full of interesting and friendly people. I love it.

[Eminent_minds @minds_eminent]

THINGS SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE SLAPPED INTO ME AT 30.
(The best thing you'll read in 2026)

1. Your parents have maybe 20 good years.

[Cav Senpai @cavannastan]

Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.

They did not accept.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

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[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

>Mexicans booed the USA flag at their World Cuo opening ceremony

>Canadians booed the USA flag at their World Cup opening ceremony

>Americans cheered both the Canada and Mexico flag at their opening ceremony

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 1963, New York City committed what one critic called an act of vandalism against its own soul. It tore down the most beautiful building it had ever built, and it has regretted it every day since.

The building was Pennsylvania Station, and for half a century it was one of the great rooms of the world...

It opened in 1910, designed by the architects McKim, Mead & White, and it covered eight acres in the heart of Manhattan. Its main waiting room was modeled on the Baths of Caracalla in ancient Rome, with ceilings that rose 150 feet into the air.

Sunlight poured down through vast steel-and-glass canopies onto the concourse below. To step off a train and walk up into that light was, for millions of arriving travelers, the moment New York announced itself.

A historian, Vincent Scully, famously wrote that, through it, one entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat...

Because in 1963, the railroad, losing money and sitting on immensely valuable land, sold the air rights above the station. The great building was condemned. Wave by wave, the pink granite columns were pulled down and dumped in a New Jersey swamp, and a low, windowless complex of Madison Square Garden and an office tower was built on top of the surviving tracks.

There was no law to stop it. At the time, nothing in New York protected a historic building from destruction, however beloved. Leading architects stood outside in protest as the demolition began. It made no difference...

But something came out of the loss. The destruction of Penn Station horrified the public so deeply that it gave birth to the modern preservation movement in America. New York passed its landmarks law in 1965, and that law would later save Grand Central Terminal from the very same fate.

In a way, Penn Station became more powerful in death than it had ever been in life.

It’s really true that we never truly know what we have until we lose it... the columns of Penn Station could not be saved. But every landmark that still stands in New York today stands partly because of what their loss awakened in the people who watched them fall.

Ada Louise Huxtable, the first architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote of the demolition in 1963: "The tragedy is that our own times not only could not produce such a building, but cannot even maintain it."

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[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@SarahisCensored @yoalexrapz Justice served.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@CClarkReport The GOAT

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s what it comes down to

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

That’s awesome when can we start redistributing his wealth specifically

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

Hell yea

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Antares Nuclear’s Mark-0 reactor has achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, what the U.S. Department of Energy is calling one of the most significant technological achievements in nuclear energy in over 40 years.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

The panic over AI data centers ‘stealing our water’ is wild.

Golf courses: over 2 billion gallons a day.

CA almonds: 1.3 trillion gallons a year (a ton shipped overseas, gone forever).

All US data centers: just ~17 billion total.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@thealepalombo There’s really no wrong answer here… nonetheless very tough

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@visegrad24 Mandatory listening for those who are anti-Bukele and his methodology.

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Problem solved.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@JeffBiesinger 💯

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@visegrad24 This should be THE standard procedure when escorting terror suspects all over the world. Walk out the flabby, pathetic, disgusting perp for the world to see.

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@visegrad24 Thank God

[Shane 🌞 @ShanePetitto]

@JoeB_Photos Dude… nice. Bad ass pic. 🇺🇸