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[Atticus @redl3tters]

Filming people like this, with the intent of harming them, should be illegal. These people should be able to sue and win significant damages.

Enough Gen Z purity bullshit, I want a world with more park make-outs, not less

[Dan Cluchey @dancluchey]

When Donald Trump brags that his aimless, insane, idiotic war has 'only' cost us eighteen American lives, never forget what each one means. Every life is a world entire.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: https://t.co/TVEoFX8gzj

[Adam Friedland @AdamFriedland]

.@HunterBiden I’m a talk show host in New York City. I’d love to hear your story.

[lions 2026 NFC North champs @bigbrian80]

@vivian39_ Go Nuts!

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@RiniSampath for mayor!!

[Yung Lean Brasil @yungleanbrasil]

This is already being considered the music video of the year

[Missileman @MinuteofZombie]

Laying people off and cutting costs at DoD actually makes weapons systems and defense acquisitions cost more money and take more time.

Laying people off and cutting staff doesn’t automatically reduce requirements or regulations. It just hobbles the DoD’s ability to enforce them and exercise them quickly or efficiently.

The communication pipeline between USG and contractor is the single most common point of failure I’ve ever seen in defense. The amount of time that passes and the amount of labor hours spent churning because a straightforward question-and-answer mechanism can’t function property is STAGGERING.

To make weapons cheaper, employ more civil servants and experts at DoD. Everything will move so much faster.

[Austin E Gray @AustinEGray]

⚓ 🇺🇸 Amidst the chaos of SECNAV’s ouster and Sea Air Space - you missed the real news in Navy unmanned last week.

PAE RAS and N96 went up to the Hill to testify before Seapower - and faced off with some of the sharpest shipbuilding leaders in Congress.

On the same day - the Navy’s next 5 years of budget dropped.

Here’s what I learned about USV markets from Tuesday’s hearing and budget release. I’ve structured the below points to show the tension between Navy leaders, senior senators, and the cold hard reality of the budget’s numbers.

❌ Small USVs Getting Zero’d Out

- Senators Scott and Wicker both criticized Navy for killing the sUSV budget after a one-time buy "what happened there?"
- The budget agrees ⏩ this budget goes to $0 in 2027 and never comes back.

🚀 MUSV Budget is Hot

- Ms. Gassler (PAE RAS): We’re buying 30 MUSVs with $2B this year
- And we have $6B to spend over five years on 70 MUSVs
- Sen. Scott asked a few questions that seemed focused on long division techniques for $6B, but failed to ask the real question: $6B or $5B?

📊 The Budget’s reality:

- Top line Navy budget points to:
➡️ 36 MUSVs this year, 47 more over the next 5 years
➡️$4.4B over the next 5 years (+$2.1B this year)
- But the J-Books only show $3.1B over the next 5 years (+$2.1B)
➡️ 171+691+682+757+812 = 3,113 or $3.1B

On top of this, RADM Trinque pointed to $1.5B of spend on containerized payloads for MUSV and FF(X) over 5 years.

❤️‍🔥 Everyone Loves Continuous Leadership of Consolidated Portfolios
- Sen. Scott seemed skeptical that 2 years as N96 is long enough - could it be 3 years?
- Ms. Gassler comforted the Senator saying that her tenure of 4-6 years would provide a steady hand at the wheel. Navy is the ONLY service with a RAS-focused PAE

💸 🤖 What is a “Marketplace” for a MUSV and Why Did You Cancel MASC?

- Sen. Kaine asked about the program name and reset
- RADM Trinque: MASC requirements were more focused, MUSV opens it up (https://t.co/Zkmyl09d3w solicitations show MASC had 3 ship requirements while MUSV narrowed it to just 1)
- Ms. Gassler jumped in and focused the cancellation logic on urgency - MASC would have taken 18 months to prototype and the fleet wouldn’t get real capability fielded until 2029
- Sen. Kaine also asked what a “Marketplace” actually means
- Ms. Gassler explained that it’s not like Amazon. Right now we’re going after a specific mission —> “and as we add missions, we will add to that family of vessels as well.”
- This is the first public acknowledgement of more MUSVs and explains RADM Trinque's unfinished thought

➡️ The hearing had more hot takes - from whether MUSVs will count as ships to what will happen with the $55B DAWG budget - but overall it added to the market clarity for our industry.

🇺🇸 As Senator Wicker summarized to Ms. Gassler: “you’ve been presented with a unique opportunity to be a game changer”

[Streetsblog New York City @StreetsblogNYC]

We went to Staten Island to track down New York City's second-worst driver:

He's an @NYPDnews officer who has been caught blasting through school zones or running red lights in his truck more than 547 times since 2022.

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

Bring Your Child to Work Day at the Pentagon was a tremendous success.

The future is incredibly bright.

[Zach Vasquez @zach_vasquez]

He was right and the continued reading habits of millennials and younger generations have borne him out.

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

The DC Council just passed legislation to allow single-stair apartment buildings up to six stories.

Allowing single-stair buildings:
✅ Reduces housing construction costs
✅ Enables housing on narrow city lots
✅ Facilitates more family-sized units

The bill passed unanimously.

[Connor O’Brien @cojobrien]

Just fixed DC zoning:

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Go be a pussy in someone else’s party. We’re not doing that anymore.

[Depressed Oracle Red Bull F1 Fan Account @FlyoutChase]

Yup…biggest wealth creator for black Americans are federal jobs...its not tech, sports, music, etc....u go to Maryland...dad works at the pentagon, mom work for the IRS...300K+ household, then replicate that over years

[Andrew DeFrank @andrewdefrank]

The problem with bike lanes is that we're so close to unlocking SO MANY MORE benefits. Only when you have a truly protected network will people who would otherwise never bike give it a try.

There's nothing "responsible" about getting cold feet on the one yard line.

[Rini Sampath @RiniSampath]

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