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[Andrew Kerr @AndrewKerrNC]

NEW: @FreeBeacon has the receipts on Ro Khanna’s obscene, oligarchic wealth:

—his 2 kids (under 10yrs old) own 3 private golf courses in Ohio (not kidding)

—his wife drives a $190,000 luxury Range Rover

—his house has a 4-story indoor elevator

And more:https://t.co/Bk6nS7WRwT

[Doctor Jack @DoctorJack16]

My grandfather, communism, and the tremor that never left. A story I rarely share.

He was the principal of a private school; respected, steady, a man who believed in books and order. Then, one ordinary afternoon, his world ended.

A squad of communist troops stormed on to campus grounds. They herded the children out like cattle, set every book ablaze in the courtyard. “Less educated people are easier to control,” they believed.

They dragged my grandfather and his staff to the side of a dusty road, forced them to their knees, hands bound tight behind their backs. One by one, the executions began. The crack of pistols split the air. Each body fell with a heavy thud into the dirt. Each crack of the pistol meant it was getting closer to his demise.

My grandfather stared straight ahead as the man beside him collapsed. He felt the warm steel of the pistol press against the back of his skull. Time slowed. This was it, the final second of his life.

Then, fate intervened. He lifted his eyes and saw a column of troops marching down the road. At its head walked a general. A childhood friend.

With a scream of desperation, he called out his name. The general was startled but recognized my grandfather and immediately spared his life.

Tears streamed down his face. His entire body shook violently as he sprinted home. He grabbed his wife and children with nothing but the clothes on their backs and fled that very hour, leaving behind their home, their belongings, their entire life.

Everything was taken away by the regime in a single afternoon.
From that day forward, an uncontrollable tremor gripped his right hand. It was particularly noticeable whenever his emotions got the better of him.

The shaking never stopped. It followed him across oceans and time until the day he passed.

That is communism.

It is not theory, not idealism, but the pistol at the back of the head, the burning books, the shattered lives. Do not let anyone sell you a nightmare dressed up as a wonderful dream.

The people now sowing socialist and communist poison in America are exactly what President Trump warned: the greatest threat to our free world.

On this 250th birthday of the United States, let one survivor’s grandson say it plainly and without apology:

COMMUNISM MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO SPREAD IN THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 🇺🇸​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.

[StarbaseTX @StarbaseTX]

Earlier this month, the City of Starbase was excited to support residents, local fishermen, @SpaceX volunteers, and @SeaTurtleInc in rescuing 266-lb loggerhead Arlen from Boca Chica Beach jetties. She’s since laid 60+ eggs, been tagged, and released into the Gulf.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a "hurdle" for minority candidates.

Let that sink in.

The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic.

This isn’t diversity.

This is institutional self-sabotage.

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

🚨 BREAKING: A @FreeBeacon investigation reveals Rep. Ro Khanna—who rails against the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth"—lives in a $6M D.C. mansion with a four-story elevator while his family's $340M+ fortune sits in the exact trusts, hedge funds, and LLCs he condemns.

Those trusts made 4,100+ stock trades worth ~$53M in 2025—even as Khanna leads the push to BAN members of Congress from trading stocks—while he claims "zero knowledge" of the trades.

His kids (under 10) hold stakes in three private golf clubs, a $65B wealth firm, and a distressed-debt hedge fund—the same vehicles he attacks—while his wife drives a $190K Range Rover.

Bottom line: Khanna's fortune is built and shielded exactly the way he says the rich shouldn't do it.

https://t.co/zFjDVlKSSZ

[Danish Hussain @astrodanish]

This required:

- advanced optics solutions to be able to see vessels through an opaque layer of tissue

- precision manufacturing to machine micrometer scale features in our needles to make them reliably pierce through the tough dural membrane

- and rigorous testing to prove it would all work before we ever tried it in a human for the first time

Very proud of our whole team for executing on such a difficult and important problem- but there are many more challenges left to solve, and we're hiring brilliant engineers across the stack to help!

no biomed background needed!

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Neuralink 🧠✨

How it started v/s. How it's going

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“Sometimes I wonder, maybe everything is conscious, or nothing is conscious. I prefer the former; it just seems more fun.”

– Elon Musk

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Grok Build just got another workflow-focused update, bringing smarter controls, improved reliability, and better performance.

Release Notes: v0.2.80 — 2026-07-01

Features:
• Command timeouts can now be configured per session with a foreground-only ceiling.
• Background tasks and TODO lists now survive compaction and remain visible to the model.
• Contextual hints can now be toggled individually for undo, plan mode, and image input.

Bug Fixes:
• Subagent dialogs now reliably show full transcripts on open and reopen.
• Recap blocks now copy only the summary body, not the header label.
• Vim navigation keys now type into dashboard prompts, and modals properly handle Esc/Left.

Performance:
• Network connections are now more resilient to proxy/load balancer drops.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Creating AI voice agents has become ridiculously easy

xAI’s Grok Voice Agent Builder lets you deploy a human-like voice agent in under 2 minutes - no coding required

It is currently in beta, but the stack is already powerful:
• Natural real-time conversations
• Sub-second latency
• 25+ languages
• Free phone number or bring your own
• Build and deploy directly from your browser

Combined with Grok’s industry-leading voice models, we are getting closer to AI voice agents that actually sound and respond like real humans

Try it here: https://t.co/mwJm6GCTFz⁠

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book:

1. There are two ways to exist: create from your own vision, or live by reflecting and pleasing others – Rand calls them the first-handers and the second-handers.

2. Howard Roark is an architect who will only build what he actually believes in. He starves rather than compromise the design. The world resists him constantly.

3. Peter Keating is the opposite – talented enough, but builds his entire career on flattering clients, copying styles, and climbing socially. He succeeds, but remains hollow.

4. The villain, Ellsworth Toohey, is the system made conscious: he deliberately promotes mediocrity, knowing that a world of second-handers needs a critic to tell them what to think – and that gives him total power.

5. Roark’s crime, in the eyes of that world, isn’t failure – it’s that he doesn’t need their approval. That independence is experienced as an affront.

6. The novel’s argument: civilization’s actual source is the rare individual who originates rather than imitates. Everyone else — including people who despise him — lives downstream of what he creates.

7. The Fountainhead is Roark himself. Not a fountain – a fountainhead: the original source, where the water actually comes from. Before the river, before the tributaries, before anyone else draws from it. The title says: find that person, and you’ve found where everything real begins.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk explains one of the most optimistic futures imaginable: Neuralink and Optimus restoring lost human abilities through real-world cyborg technology

And the first people this could help are the ones who need it most:
People who are paralyzed. People who are locked in. People who lost the ability to move, speak, or interact with the world normally like Stephen Hawking

Neuralink is already helping patients control computers and robots with their thoughts

"They can now communicate almost as quickly as we are communicating right now"

“That’s going to continue to accelerate”

But Elon’s next vision is even bigger:
Use Neuralink to read motor-cortex signals from the brain, combine that with sensory feedback from the somatosensory cortex, and connect it to Optimus-style robotic limbs

In simple terms:
A person who lost their legs could one day control robotic legs with their mind - just pure thought. No buttons or joysticks

Elon called it a real-life “Six Million Dollar Man” concept… but instead of being science fiction or insanely expensive, it could cost around $60,000

Neuralink gives the brain a digital output. Optimus gives the body robotic capability

Together, they could create a path for people to walk again, move again, communicate again, and regain independence they thought was gone forever

This is the future worth building

[Governor Tate Reeves @tatereeves]

One of the reasons we brought @xAIMemphis to Mississippi wasn’t just its record-breaking $20 billion investment.

It was also because the company is a great corporate partner that’s committed to giving back to Mississippi communities.

This is a great example of that.

Thank you, @elonmusk and @xai!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Orwell was a genius

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:

1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur…

2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer.

3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs.

4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back.
When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds.
The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product.

5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave.

6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object.

7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it.
The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The truth about Ellis Islanders.

- Around 2% were denied entry due to poor health or for holding anti-Christian ideology.

- 33% voluntarily returned home, because there wasn't welfare in the U.S. back then.

https://t.co/p0vno0AofR

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Tesla’s Supercharger network just delivered a monster Q2

In Q2 2026, Tesla Superchargers delivered 2 terawatt-hours of electricity globally

That is enough electricity to power roughly 180,000+ U.S. homes for an entire year

The scale is getting insane:
• 2 TWh delivered
• 60 million charging sessions in 3 months
• 266 kWh sold per plug per day
• Wait-time percentage dropped below 0.5%
• 5,000 site maps now live
• +17% YoY growth

Tesla's EV charging network is becoming global energy infrastructure

Tesla’s charging infrastructure is getting bigger, faster, more efficient, and less congested at the same time

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Peter: "I heard you say you might want a mini woolly mammoth. Is that true?"

Elon: "Yeah, I think it would be really cool to have a pet miniature woolly mammoth. That'd be pretty epic."

Peter: "I'll put a word in with you for you with with with Ben [Lamm]."

Elon: "That'd be adorable. Little things just running around trumpeting away and it's like look at the be a great little pet."

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

I think ending welfare for immigrants would solve most of our immigrant problem