Heidi Jones 🇺🇸

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[🌟🇺🇸Nancy Hamm🇺🇸🌟 @nancy_hamm1]

Gen X does not care if you don’t like us. You think cancel culture scares a generation raised by neglect, nicotine, secondhand smoke, and ‘figure it out’? We were left in the car with the windows cracked. Try again. 😂

[Maryam @hell_line0]

if a doctor who graduated medical school says you need something, it should be illegal for someone sitting behind an insurance desk with absolutely zero medical training to deny you coverage...

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

NO VAX FOR HIV AFTER 40 YRS OF RESEARCH

NO VAX FOR CANCER AFTER MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF RESEARCH

NO VAX FOR THE COMMON COLD

YET A VIRUS MYSTERIOUSLY APPEARS & WITHIN 12 MONTHS A "VAX" IS FOUND BY 4 PHARMA COMPANIES ALL WITHIN 1 WEEK

BUT YEAH NOTHING WAS PLANNED

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

While Karen Bass is worried about getting meth-heads new grills, the LAFD has 3 dozen LESS firefighters than we had when the Palisades Fire hit. Folks, you need to vote like your life depends on it, because it does.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

Spencer Pratt: I will clean up homeless encampments, address drug addicts, & prevent fires from burning down people's homes.

Karen Bass: I will spend your money on teeth for meth addicts.

Nithya Raman: I will ban grilling burgers in the backyard.

Your choice, Los Angeles.

[Heidi Jones 🇺🇸 @hmjaz]

@elonmusk Will this work on Democrats 🤷‍♀️

[Heidi Jones 🇺🇸 @hmjaz]

@TiffMoodNukes Yes! I've been saying this. Thank you for saying the quiet thing outloud.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Happy Tax Day! May we all fund learing centers across the country with our hard earned tax dollars 🙏🏼

[Kritter @KritterKS]

Live shot of a NASA tech working on the toilet issue aboard the Artemis II

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

WHAT A NEWS CYCLE: Pam Bondi gets fired, Kristi Noem’s husband turns out to be a transvestite and Matt Gaetz says the government is forcing illegals to breed with space aliens. Anyone else need a Dr Pepper?

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Since the HOA post went viral I've had a lot of people ask me what I actually think about HOAs

So I did what I do

I ran the numbers

There are 373,000 HOAs in the United States

77 million Americans live in one

That's 1 in 4 people

Collectively they pay $106 billion a year in assessments

$106 billion

That's more than the GDP of over 100 countries

For an organization run by your neighbor who hasn't mowed his lawn

The average HOA fee is $243 a month

That's $2,916 a year

For a household earning the median income of $80,000 that's 3.6% of gross income

Going to an organization with no earnings report, no audited financials, and no fiduciary duty in most states

If this were a company it would never survive diligence

Here's why

The board of directors is unpaid

They're volunteers

97.6 million hours of volunteer labor annually

Valued at $2.9 billion

So the people making the rules, setting the budgets, and enforcing fines on your trash can are doing it for free

In private equity we would never invest in a company where the entire leadership team works for nothing

Because when people aren't paid they aren't accountable

And when they aren't accountable they fine you $50 for 11 minutes of trash can visibility while their Christmas lights have been up for 97 days

70% of HOAs are underfunded on reserves by 70% or more

That means the money you pay every month isn't being saved for future repairs

It's being spent

On what

60-70% of HOAs hire third-party management companies

These companies collect your dues, manage your vendors, and enforce your rules

For a fee

Off the top

Before a single dollar goes to the landscaper or the reserve fund

So your $243 a month goes to a management company that hires a vendor that hires a landscaper that mows the common area you could mow yourself

That's not a value chain

That's a fee chain

And landscaping alone can eat up to 50% of the operating budget

For grass

71% of HOAs plan to raise fees this year

71% of those plan to raise them up to 10%

So the cost goes up every year

The reserves stay underfunded

The board stays unpaid

The bylaws stay unread

And you get a letter in an envelope with a stamp in 2026 because your trash can was visible for 11 minutes

If someone brought me this deal I'd pass in the first meeting

No audited financials

No professional management required by law in most states

No fiduciary standard

Unpaid leadership

70% underfunded reserves

Rising costs with no margin improvement

And a customer base that can't leave without selling their house

That last part is the only reason it works

You can't cancel your HOA membership

You can cancel a gym membership

You can cancel a home warranty

You can cancel a streaming service

But you cannot cancel the organization that fines you for your trash can

The only exit is selling your home

In PE we call that a captive customer base

It's the only business model where the product gets worse, the price goes up, and the customer can't leave

And the board enforcing the rules hasn't read them

I have

All 47 pages

Make common sense common again

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie]

Back in my day, we didn’t have urgent care.

We had Mercurochrome, a Band-Aid, and a mom who said, ‘You’ll live.’

And somehow, we did.

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

Virginia just banned gun
possession under 21 unless supervised by an "adult."

Virginia defines adult as 18.

So you can't have a gun if you're 20. Unless you're with an 18-year-old. Then it's fine!

Democrats are stupid!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Karoline Leavitt: “If you heard it from Trump, obviously it’s true.”

Okay, then where is…

• $2,000 tariff checks
• $5,000 DOGE checks
• 10% APR on credit cards
• 1,500% cheaper prescriptions
• Gas under $2
• Groceries getting cheaper
• No more new wars
• The Epstein files
• The Greenland hospital ship

[Louie @reallouiehuey]

We were promised -
Mass deportations
$2 gas
No new wars
DOGE refunds
Tariff refunds
Abolish Department of Education
Epstein arrests
Deep state arrests
Biden auto pen arrests
Election integrity
Fort Knox audits
No inflation
Cheaper groceries

We have been lied to again.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

The Wizard of Oz is 86 years old. Today, if Dorothy were to encounter men with no heart, no brains, and no courage, she wouldn’t be in Oz.

She would be in DC.

[The San Andreas Fault @sanandreafault]

Like you could do anything hoe