Chris Barberich

I’m here for clean energy, tech innovation, and the NBA.

[Chris Barberich @cbarberich]

Democrats have become the party of well-intentioned policies that have the opposite outcome.

A thread 🧵

1. Under Biden, Democrats allocated $7.5 billion for EV charging infrastructure.

[Chris Barberich @cbarberich]

I was unable to find any @Tesla haters this morning at the Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area in Arizona.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Shame on the @nytimes for wording this headline today to make it sound like it's already an established fact that Autopilot was on. There is literally zero evidence thus far that Autopilot was on.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

[Tesla @Tesla]

FSD Supervised is life-changing for drivers with disabilities

[Chris Barberich @cbarberich]

@liorsela I charge from 10% to 70% or 80% and usually stop for less than 20 minutes.

And, yes, FSD makes Tesla the only choice for road trips.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I’m astonished more people aren’t raving about Tesla’s full self driving.

I no longer need to drive my car.

The only time I take control is to back into my garage because it’s down an awkward ramp.

[Chris Barberich @cbarberich]

@holliphant His entire administration and the Democratic leadership share the blame. Someone should have tried to talk him out of running.

[Ankit Gupta @agupta]

Dude, just try it for like 5 minutes. You live 20 mins from my house you can try mine

[Chris Barberich @cbarberich]

@holliphant It’s both refreshing to hear her say the truth now and also frustrating that she did not speak up when it could have made a difference.

[CG @cgtwts]

SpaceX just acquired Cursor for $60B

> be Cursor
> 4 MIT students start a side project in 2022
> build the AI coding tool developers love
> hit a $10B valuation
> decide copilots aren’t enough
> move into models
> need massive compute to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic & Google
> meanwhile xAI is losing the coding race
> realizes catching up could take years
> skips the line
> buys Cursor for $60B
> Cursor gets compute
> xAI gets the coding leader
> founders become multi-billionaires

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla is sending out this email to New Jersey Tesla owners, warning them that NJ could block autonomous vehicles, and to take action.

"Proposed legislation moving through Trenton right now would impose restrictions so severe that true driverless deployment would remain illegal. Your voice is critical to ensure New Jersey remains at the forefront of transportation innovation.

We urge you to contact your state legislators today and tell them to:
• Fix S. 1677 / A. 3968, and
• Support autonomous vehicle policy that encourages safety outcomes, open competition, and expanded access for every New Jersey resident.

Autonomous vehicles are no longer a futuristic concept. The driverless technology exists and it is already making roads measurably safer in states that have welcomed it. Instead of positioning itself as a leader in transportation innovation, New Jersey is about to go in the opposite direction."

You can take action here: https://t.co/99JQca3KQb

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Elon Musk is a trillionaire. I am not a trillionaire. This strikes me as unfair. Nobody should be allowed to have more than me. The amount of money a person should be allowed to have is exactly the amount I currently have, and no more. I am smart. I really am. I’m serious.

[Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong]

Do these fucking losers just not have jobs ?

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

This is truly one of the most dystopian things I have ever seen. 😔

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.