Brian James

Let’s engineer a better future

[Kosh @KosherBruin]

Fun fact:

Cal's home stadium (Memorial Stadium) could be renamed UCLA North.

UCLA has a winning record against Cal on their own field. How embarrassing.

[National Debt Tweets @NationalDebt]

$39,986,657,878,071.92 (+) #NationalDebt

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

90% of Americans polled say groceries and food prices are a top cost concern, per CNBC

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Collectively, Americans pay more in total taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document ever produced by man. It’s no coincidence that it was the founding document of our nation and we went on to be the most prosperous civilization in human history. Any country founded on that document is worth loving and fighting to save.

It is also, undeniably, a radically libertarian document that clearly states the validity of natural God given rights and that the only legitimate role for government is the protection of liberty.

We have serious problems in our country today and we will be much better off if we follow the spirit of our founding document than the brain dead varying socialisms being promoted by both political parties.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

[Space Explained @SpacedExplained]

🚨: You’re closer in size to the entire observable universe than to the smallest possible scale of reality—the Planck length—by roughly 400 million times.

Let that sink in.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The President’s Big Beautiful Bill, the Iran War, and Republican spending bills will create a $2 trillion budget DEFICIT in 2026.

Financing just the new debt costs more than all federal road & bridge projects, and we will be making those new interest payments each year, forever.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.

He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.

RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

[Eric Matheny @ericmmatheny]

Fauci knew that COVID was an engineered virus that came from a Chinese lab he funded.

He knew therapeutics and early treatments saved lives. He knew cloth masks did nothing.

He knew lockdowns were ineffective. He is a war criminal, a pathological liar, and must be prosecuted.

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

EXCLUSIVE: NIH has removed virologist Ralph Baric from all his grants; UNC placed Baric on leave.

Senior HHS officials says UNC was complicit in starting the COVID pandemic.

“Baric designed the gun,” he said. “But the Chinese built it, and then they pulled the trigger.” https://t.co/VWcMkmkYuM

[Jon Fleischman @FlashReport]

This is not complicated. California is the least affordable state because it has the highest taxes and the biggest government spending. All of the Democrats running for governor are doubling down with more spending proposals. Look outside of this state, and see that the model is reducing the footprint of government, and free people to thrive.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

The President's threat against Iran is genocidal, even by the strictest definition. It may be bluster, but that does not change our obligation. To work, a threat must be credible, and we must act accordingly.

We attacked Iran. Any order to escalate our attack with nuclear weapons would clearly be immoral, and must therefore be rejected by every person in the chain of command. Anyone who carried such an order forward would become immediately complicit. That is the lesson of history, and those who fail it will be judged harshly by it--and by God.

We can't have a Commander in Chief who threatens civilians, idly or in earnest. The President must be removed from office, for the good of the Republic, and the world.

[Brian James @bjames585]

@trent_perry0 @UCLAMBB Yessss

[OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @OC_Scanner]

Incase you didn’t want to read here’s what the article says

55% of the costs associated with our gasoline are from California-specific policies, designed to steal money from motorists for Democrat pet projects/donors

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

1: I'm sorry. It's my responsibility to somehow stop these things but I suck at it.
2: It is wrong to start a war. They have already hit civilian targets, killed children.
3: The president starting a war without a declaration by the Congress is criminal.
4: Iran was not threatening the United States in any way.
5: Israel is not a state in the Union, nor even a treaty ally, nor even a faithful friend.
6: No one in power believes their own lies that Iran was making nukes or was about to start to try or anything of the sort. It's a completely fake pretext for war. Their program was nearly "obliterated" last June and they offered in recent days to refrain from enrichment for 3-5 years and then to limit it's purity to only 1.5% u-235, completely and totally nullifying that pretext. Perhaps that's why Trump attacked now, to prevent Witkoff from actually accomplishing something acceptable.
7: Iran does not have and is not anywhere near having missiles that can reach the U.S.
8: The fact that the president has to invoke the Beirut bombing of 1983 as a pretext just goes to show that he has nothing like a case for defensive or "pre-emptive" war of any kind. It's simple aggression.
9: They have no plan for who to install in power there. The monarchists and MEK cultists are a complete joke. Kurdish commies are no better.
10: They and the bin Ladenites in AQ and ISIS are certainly thrilled at their new opportunity to slaughter their enemies though. Enough bombs could destroy the state, but not replace it. A permanent Syria-style civil war would be just fine with Tel Aviv and therefore Washington.
11: Iran has already hit a US base in Bahrain and launched attacks at others across the region.
12: If the Ayatollahs Khamenei or Sistani announce a new religious obligation on the part of their followers to attack the West, they will have an army far greater than bin Laden or Baghdadi could have dreamed of. Most of our recent wars have benefited them, so they haven't had the need to. Now, who knows what might happen, but it is certainly not worth the risk.
13: Israel also played this sort of crucial role in America's invasion of Iraq 23 years ago, but way under the radar compared to now. Resent it.
14: Here's me refuting lies about Iran's nuclear program 16 years ago. For all the good it's ever done.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Has your lived experience in California gotten 3x better in the past 20 years? Because your taxes and borrowing have gone up to triple spending in that same time.

California Population:
2004: 35.6M
2024: 39.4M

California Spending:
2004: $155B ($4,350/person)
2025: $510B ($12,940/person)

[Brian James @bjames585]

@scooterjacksonn Glad to have you back! Go bruins!