Everyone in Chicago needs to watch Local 1: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Teachers Union.
CTU didn’t become powerful by accident.
They became powerful by capturing school boards, elections, and budgets.
This documentary explains exactly why CPS is broken.
@CTULocal1 is a Criminal organization
https://t.co/60xWjLzgUa
#ChicagoFlipsRed
Heading into 2026 this marks a monster year ahead for Tesla/Musk as the autonomous and robotics chapter begins. We believe Tesla hits a $2 trillion market cap in 2026 and in a bull case scenario $3 trillion by end of 2026...as the AI chapter takes hold at TSLA🍿🔥🏆🐂 @elonmusk
EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech
in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax
Many of the key pillars of the Mamdani campaign are not possible as mayor. They need the state legislature and the Governor.
You can’t implement free buses, for example, at the city level. It is controlled by the MTA which is a state level organization. Nor can you implement a wealth tax.
But none of these facts mattered on election night nor were they duly interrogated by anyone: media, opponents, voters.
It’s like getting elected as a Governor promising to renegotiate NATO. The claim lacks basic authority but if everyone ignores it then…you get what you get: a perfect storm of unseriousness meeting vibes meeting discontent.
I also think Cuomo was a very flawed candidate who spent 11 years as governor of NY and isn’t known for anything except “killing grannies and grabbing fannies”.
How NYC had such a sad slate of choices is part of the problem.
The new Tesla AI5 chip
In-house design
40× faster
8× compute
9× memory
5× bandwidth
Code paths shrunk to ~5
10× cheaper per inference than Nvidia
3× more efficient per watt
Built by Samsung with lithography by TSMC all performed in Texas and Arizona.
Production 2026.
It is a big deal.
Wow.
The US just posted a massive surplus of +$198 Billion for the month of September.
🟢 Total Receipts: $544B
🔴 Total Outlays: $346B
$30 Billion in tariffs collected.
I think we can all agree on a few things:
We have $36 trillion of national debt growing at a rapid rate, that must be refinanced and issued at a materially higher interest rate as our bonds come due and as new funds are needed.
We had a $1.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2024.
There is an enormous amount of fraud, waste, and inappropriate spending in our government budget.
It is illegal and/or otherwise should not be permitted for our government to fund activities that it cannot do directly through NGOs and other non-profits.
@elonmusk has a proven ability to takeover dysfunctional organizations and turn them into highly functioning ones while massively reducing wasteful overhead and other spending. See Twitter.
@realDonaldTrump won the election with a mandate for eliminating wasteful government spending and ending regulations that interfere with our country’s progress.
President Trump announced during his campaign that Elon would be appointed to oversee @DOGE. In other words, the American people voted for and signed up for DOGE and Elon as its leader.
We are extremely fortunate to have one of our greatest business leaders and entrepreneurs devote a considerable amount of his limited time for free to help our country.
We are extremely fortunate that some of our most talented young people have signed on to help DOGE succeed.
DOGE is just getting started and has already identified a massive amount of waste and likely fraud, and has begun cutting a material amount of costs.
It is axiomatic that those who are beneficiaries of waste, fraud and unnecessary government spending will be the most threatened by the cuts that DOGE is making in these programs. These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed by DOGE.
The beneficiaries of government waste, fraud and inappropriate spending will protest loudly and state false reasons for why DOGE must be stopped because their careers and livelihoods are threatened and put at risk by DOGE’s success. I have seen this movie many times before, but in the corporate world.
The president has stated clearly that he is overseeing DOGE’s activities and that no important decisions will be made without his consent.
Our legal system will ensure that no laws are broken as DOGE executes on its important mission.
Other efforts over the last many decades to eliminate government waste and fraud have totally failed.
DOGE is our best hope for fixing our fundamentally flawed and highly ineffective bureaucratic system for running our country.
Elon and Trump will face enormous pressure and pushback from those who benefit from the current corrupt system.
All Americans must therefore make their voices heard loud and clear about how much they support DOGE, Elon and our president’s efforts to help our country. We cannot let DOGE fail as our country is rapidly on the path to insolvency.
Let’s not let our country down. Let’s do our part in making sure our Congressmen and Senators know that we are 100% behind the president, Elon and DOGE.
It’s the least we can do.
incompetent deeply unqualified mayor personifies all that is wrong with government and a system that prioritizes “safety” over progress, process over outcome, and institutional paternalism over self-determination.
given the opportunity, a wave of community volunteers would almost certainly clear that area of debris in an afternoon. instead, govt officials have found a moment to centralize control, delete liberties and property rights, ask state and federal taxpayers to give them extraordinary amounts of money, and allocate it in the most time and capital inefficient manner possible, marketing this disservice as “help”.
less government, not more, is your better option. time to delete.
Are you freaking kidding me?!... Chicago is thinking of issuing $830m in more debt? After S&P's downgrade this week? What is Mayor Johnson and his finance team thinking? Are they trying to get us downgraded to an actual junk rating? This should be dead on arrival in City Council.