Chris Costa

Data Science and Visualization

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

Watch this video to see the true cost of adding additional purchases to a credit card while maintaining a balance.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

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[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Demanding the killing and subjugation of nonbelievers and apostates especially should disqualify it in the United States from full constitutional religious protection. Religious protection in the United States is specifically a matter of freedom of conscience and coercion of beliefs. Threatening those directly lands it outside of what the United States should recognize as fully religious.

Religious liberty is the cornerstone of the American Experiment, and that means maintaining it, not just allowing things practiced as a religion to have the full protection the United States grants under that superordinate doctrine.

[Vice President JD Vance @VP]

Vice President JD Vance announces the suspension of the PERM Program for Microsoft:

"Thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, which means they will no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America. Now our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America. We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology sector. We’re the biggest boosters of your industry. We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is, you’re great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants."

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Redneck ingenuity is undefeated! Don’t hate, congratulate🇺🇸 @RedneckRiviera

[Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW]

The items from the Democratic Socialist Platform are things you can get outside of the political system by simply…having a family

In fact, the nuclear family functions as a mini-socialist system: Pooled resources, shared healthcare costs, reduced work hours, shared labor, more affordable housing

The goverment is not your family. They’re never going to provide resources and support you as efficiently as the family and friendships that you establish on your own can

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

@RichardGrenell I canceled my subscription months ago.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

@texasrunnerDFW Wait until the endless property tax & insurance hikes make your fixed seem like like an ARM that only goes up 🤢

[The Smashing Pumpkins @SmashingPumpkin]

What does a guitar tech actually do on tour? 🎸

Raul takes us behind the scenes with Billy Corgan + Jack Bates’ guitars.

What would you ask him?

[Tom Oliverson, M.D. @TomOliverson]

Not AI. This is real. That is me in the yellow tie. James believes in mutilating kids for gender ideology as long as doctors and parents agree to do it.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

Another failure moment for Amy.

[L A R R Y @LarryOConnor]

In this video Amy Klobucher, campaigning for Minnesota governor, speaks Somali, happily accepts an upside-down American flag, and brags about making it easier for Somalis in America to send money (much of it fraudulently acquired) to their home country.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Seeing the riots in France and the terrible state of the French economy made me think of this 🔥 speech by Lee Kuan Yew.

"Look at the buildings around you. Look at the stock market bouncing up.

Let me tell you how to bring it down. Have a couple of really good riots, shake political confidence."

On top of that, the French economy is collapsing. Only one in three French people works in the real economy. Two-thirds live off other people’s taxes. The entire system is completely unsustainable due to absurd pensions and runaway state spending.

At the end of the clip, Lee says:

"My political opponent says that we are 'obsessed with profits'

I say 'YES! That’s how Singapore survives.'

If you have no profit, who pays for all of this?

If you make profit into a dirty word.. Singapore dies!”

Beyond mass migration, this is how Western Europe is dying btw.

[Noa Tishby @noatishby]

Emily Hand was 8 years old when Hamas kidnapped her from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th.

In captivity, she was starved and threatened with a knife to stay quiet. When she came home, she was so afraid to speak that her dad had to put his ear to her lips just to hear her whisper.

Now, Emily is recovering by learning to surf with @HaGalSheli. HaGal Sheli, which means “My Wave” in Hebrew, uses surf therapy to help kids across Israel heal, build confidence, and find their footing again.

Emily says, “It’s unpredictable, just like life. You don’t know if you’re going to stand or fall. And when you manage to catch a wave, it’s a very good feeling of satisfaction. You are simply part of the sea.”

No matter how many times you fall, you get back on the board. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🌊

[Tom Oliverson, M.D. @TomOliverson]

It’s not AI. I was there. That’s me in the blue suit, yellow tie he was talking to. Talarico is a filthy liar. Vote for him and Texas will be “Spanbergered.” He is far left, they all are running D statewide this cycle. But they know you won’t support them if they are honest. So they lie, just like in Virginia.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

@AtelierMissor_ Great job!

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

There was a clip floating around when Shawn was on Tucker about the Apple logo with the bite mark. He alluded to Eve taking a bite of the apple in the garden of Eden. There is no reference to that in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. However for the Apple II release there was this:

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

James Talarico is raising money in New York City tonight at an event hosted by Robert de Niro.

Two weeks ago, he raised money in Los Angeles at the home of the creator of Grey's Anatomy.

He raises money with California and New York elites because he's running to be their third Senator.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

@BarryAndrewsMEP @Google @fiannafailparty Hipefully Palestinians read your post and hold Hamas accountable for doing this to Gaza.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

Wow!

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

After my reporting on Ericka Lomick, who later suspended her campaign for Texas House District 93, I started digging into another candidate currently asking Texans to send her to Austin.

Meet Brittany Black.

Black is the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 61 in Collin County. She is running against Republican incumbent State Rep. Keresa Richardson and Green Party candidate Anissa Chilmeran in the November 3 general election.

Black describes herself as a senior software engineer and business owner whose work has supported the Department of Defense, NASA and the State Department. She campaigns on what she calls “accountability, affordability and action.”

But campaign websites are designed to tell voters the best version of a candidate’s story. Police reports, court records and arrest records sometimes tell a much more… different one.

Her records go back at least to 2005, when court paperwork later recovered by police showed that Black had been placed on conditional discharge for driving while her license was suspended.

Then came April 16, 2006.

According to a Johnson County Sheriff’s report, a deputy clocked Black traveling approximately 86 mph in a 65-mph zone on I-57. When law enforcement attempted to stop her, police say Black did not pull over. Instead, she continued onto I-24 and accelerated.

The pursuit reportedly reached approximately 120 MPH.

Police said Black passed vehicles while fleeing before ultimately losing control of the vehicle and crashing into a ditch. She was cited for aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude police, driving while her license was suspended and speeding 120 mph in a 65-mph zone.

According to the deputy’s report, officers discovered a small straw containing white residue inside Black’s wallet. The deputy wrote that when he questioned her about illegal drugs, Black referenced the straw and reportedly stated that she had not used “coke” for approximately nine months.

The straw was submitted for forensic testing. Illinois State Police laboratory testing identified the residue as cocaine.

Black ultimately pleaded guilty to felony possession of a controlled substance.

lack entered Illinois’ first-offender probation program, meaning the court withheld a final judgment while she completed probation. After successfully completing that program, the cocaine case did NOT result in a final felony conviction. The aggravated-fleeing charge was also dismissed. (Weird IMO)

But this part is STILL true, regardless of how much she pushes back… Black pleaded guilty to felony cocaine possession after a police pursuit that officers said reached approximately 120 mph.

And according to the police report, Black told the deputy she fled because she did not have a valid driver’s license and knew it was suspended. Police then found paperwork inside her vehicle documenting the earlier suspended-license matter.

Less than TWO MONTHS later, Black was dealing with law enforcement again.

Court records allege that on June 7, 2006, Black slapped her then-boyfriend in the face. She was charged with domestic battery. A second count alleged that Black slapped another woman, identified in reporting as her boyfriend’s mother, in the face as well.

Those charges were ultimately dismissed after prosecutors were unable to subpoena the alleged victims and witnesses.

Then came 2008.

On June 11, 2008, Black was booked for disorderly conduct in Champaign County. Police records cited in subsequent reporting describe the incident as a drunken fight in the street.

Roughly six weeks later, Black was arrested again, this time for criminal damage to property.

Continue on for part 2 in thread 👇 Yes… there’s more.

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

@BreannaMorello I did a little job hunting this past week. My area of expertise is building custom apps for civil engineers to manage projects. There were a lot of firms making it clear they will not sponsor work visas.

[The Buy American Movement - BuyDirectUSA ❤️🇺🇸 @BuyDirectUSA]

In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.

A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.

Two men refused to let that happen.

Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.

Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.

They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.

At first they kept making product for Oneida.

Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.

That should have been the end.

It wasn’t.

They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.

They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.

Then they did the thing that saved the company.

They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.

They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.

Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.

Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.

They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.

What they saved was the last line.

If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.

Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸

[Chris Costa @chris_costa01]

@texasrunnerDFW How many people are going to vote based on their possible payout? To bet on elections is crazy.