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CEO of HealthyLabs. Co-founder @EasyHealth & @maticinsurance. Fantastic sense of humor. Poor comedic timing.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

“Oh Balogun is just playing for the U.S. because he couldn’t make the England squad”…Folks, that is the entire promise of our nation.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

And then we’ll beat your ass with them.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If you paint a swastika on a school, it’s a crime. You will be investigated, arrested, sentenced and fined.

If you put something similar on your chest, you can become a Democrat Senator and the D party will give you millions of dollars.

The modern-day D party is a disaster.

[Mike Fegelman @MikeFegelman]

For years, Israel has been vilified for “targeting journalists” in Gaza.

Now @pressfreedom has removed more names from its list after admitting said "journalist" participated in combat.

That should be a major media scandal.

Instead, the same outlets that helped spread the accusation against Israel will quietly move on to the next libel.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Josh Barro on Platner:

“Graham Platner doesn’t work for a living. As The New York Times reports, the bulk of his income comes from a military disability pension of approximately $60,000 a year. The pension doesn’t mean he’s too disabled to work — he is, after all, currently seeking the job of U.S. Senator — but his recent non-campaign endeavors seem more like hobbies than a career. He runs an oyster farm that principally sells oysters to his mother’s restaurant. He earned a small stipend as his town’s harbor master: $3,000 last year. He lives in a $205,000 house that he bought with a $200,000 loan from his father.”

What a resume.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A must watch from Jamie Dimon.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Seven properties, a Mercedes G-Wagon, sneakers worn by Kobe Bryant and a Mickey Mantle rookie card worth $1.5 million. All of these things were bought with taxpayer money.

Paul Randall pleaded guilty in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes in the California history – diverting more than $270 million in tax dollars.

[Julia 🇺🇸 @Jules31415]

Doug Ellin, creator of the hit show 'Entourage,' is disgusted by LA's decline in recent years and says he publicly supports Spencer Pratt in his campaign for LA mayor.

Ellin's Beverly Hills home was burglarized by masked intruders, and he shares that while 5 years ago he didn't have to lock his door, now he has "15 cameras," "2 German Shepherds," and "3 legal guns."

"I know they were animals because they invaded my house. I know I don't care what their excuses are, like a lot of you f*cking care. I know invaders of homes should get 20 years...Everyone in my neighborhood has got the same problem: they're f*cking all putting cameras and high-end security guards because we're all getting broken into. It's not made up, it's not false, and this city has collapsed in the last 5 years. There is no f*cking denying it unless you have an agenda, and I don't know what that is," Ellin says.

"But, you say, 'Oh, Spencer Pratt has no experience!'...What experience did Karen Bass have?...We want to fix this place because we don't want to be forced out. I'm one of the people who made this city look great! I did it for years. I glorified it. I meet people all the time that moved here because of the show that I f*cking created—and they hate it here now. HATE!"

Ellin's comments appear to be, at least in part, directed at the LA Times, who recently published an article, "L.A. is safer than it's been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor's race."

For his part, Pratt shared Ellin's video to his Instagram Story last week. Safety has been the central theme of Pratt's mayoral campaign.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Insane idea from Opus 4.8

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

This USMNT hype video has me ready to run through a brick wall ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup 😮‍💨🇺🇸

[Jay Martin 🏠 🏢🏚️🌇 @jaymart222]

People losing their minds over this are upset for the wrong reasons. The threat isn’t that it will be a government take over. This has already been happening. The threat is that it will be more of the same.

The Mayor says he is going to take buildings from “bad landlords” and hand them to “responsible stewards,” meaning community land trusts, nonprofits, or the tenants themselves. Fine. Except every one of those categories is already drowning in New York City right now, today.

In September the city and the Attorney General had to launch a $750,000 rescue pilot for HDFC co-ops, buildings literally owned by their tenant-shareholders, because the city has more than 1,000 HDFCs and admits “a high number” are at high risk of foreclosure. UHAB pegs distress at roughly 20% of the portfolio.

In October, ANHD reported that at least 63,700 NYC apartments operated by nonprofit community development corporations are losing money every month, and that about half of the all-affordable buildings ANHD studied (112,000 units) have operating costs exceeding revenue.

Enterprise Community Partners, the national affordable housing nonprofit, published a report saying more than half of all units in its own NY LIHTC portfolio have been in financial distress since 2022. Their own portfolio. Their own report.

So when the Mayor says he is going to transfer buildings to nonprofits and tenant co-ops, what he is actually doing is moving the bailout request from one agency line item to another. The rent still must be collected. The insurance premium still went up. The water bill still has to be paid. A regulatory change of ownership does not change any of that. It just changes who is standing at City Hall asking for emergency funds to keep the lights on.

And here is the part every renter should pay attention to: this plan makes their housing more dependent on scarce public dollars at exactly the moment those dollars are running out.
The city already has financial problems.

The city just spent four months begging Albany to commit roughly $8 billion in state aid over two years to plug the gap. Vital City called it what it is, “a state bailout of New York City.” TIME noted that the plan “relies heavily on state aid and delayed pension payments.”

The mayor himself could not balance his own budget without going to Albany for help. And now he wants to absorb thousands of additional rent-stabilized buildings into a public-subsidy pipeline that already cannot fund the buildings inside it.

This is not a housing plan. It is an epic cost kicking. Every nonprofit, every HDFC, every CLT that gets pulled into this system joins a line for emergency operating funds the city has already proven it cannot reliably cover. The renters in those buildings do not end up with safer or better-maintained housing. They end up with housing whose continued existence depends on the next state aid package, the next AG settlement, the next budget cycle breaking in their favor.

This “solution” has already failed and we have overwhelming proof.

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

We uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions.

I shared 90 pages of evidence with federal law enforcement and raised concerns directly with contacts at the White House. This isn’t speculation. The filings, funding records, dates, and connections are documented. There’s a coordinated PR war happening around energy infrastructure and data centers, and we’re not going to ignore it.

[Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WaldronLewis]

Jeff Bezos reveals why politicians never actually fix anything:

"There's this tale of two economies. People are struggling with pay rent, groceries. And politicians are using this age-old technique of picking a villain and pointing fingers. But the problem is that doesn't solve anything."

He says at Amazon they would never operate that way.

"If we have a problem at Amazon, the way we would fix it is we'd go in and do the five whys and try to get to a root cause. We try to find a root fix. And then when we fix it at the root, you're fixing it forever. It's a real solution."

"What we don't do, because it doesn't work, is just point fingers and blame people. It might feel good for 10 seconds but doesn't accomplish anything."

Most leaders blame, but the best ones diagnose.

— @JeffBezos

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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

AI turns water brown. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over? AI turns water brown.

[TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod]

Everyone should hear this at least once.

This is the best explanation of Western civilisation you’ll ever hear:

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

We spend more on all those categories than we did when top marginal rates were much higher.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

Fucking THANK YOU

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

A California mayor just pled guilty to being a literal foreign agent of the Chinese government. She ran a CCP propaganda website disguised as local news.

NBC's angle? The real problem is that reporting on it "reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination."

As an Asian American: accurately reporting that a foreign agent infiltrated local government is not anti-Asian. Framing it that way to suppress the story is.

Using "anti-Asian bias" as a shield to protect an actual CCP agent from scrutiny is the most anti-Asian thing I can think of. It implies that Chinese Americans are so fragile, or so suspect, that we can't handle the truth about foreign espionage in our own communities.

We can handle it. We're the ones most harmed by it.

https://t.co/bbODvOVmZG