Luke D. Russell, AIF®, AAMS®, LACP®

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[Luke D. Russell, AIF®, AAMS®, LACP® @ldrcat]

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[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has just stunned the nation, sitting down to SIGN this year’s SMALLER BUDGET THAN LAST YEAR for 4 straight years

Florida will now have a budget less than HALF the size of New York, despite being similar population

And the rainy day fund WILL BE FULL and more than TRIPLE THE SIZE from 7 years ago

FLORIDA DOES IT RIGHT!

No income tax, incoming property tax relief, every state should do this! 🇺🇸 ☀️

@FLVoiceNews

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

Hoping everyone had a safe trip home from @TeslaMaryland 50 State - 250th America Independence Light Show. See ya at another event.
Going to be in Michigan? Check out https://t.co/vbXZy3oLL0 for upcoming get-togethers.
Thanks @Teslalightshows for bring the community together! 💖

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

Getting close to show time!

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

2026 Summer Meetup - Rewind.

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

Hello to my new friend, Flo Da Gator!

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

Still working out the details, so stay tuned to:
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[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

A word from Volta... sort of.
@KelliBSloan63 @1776Smug @utahtemp @Teslalightshows @play_tediddle

[Simon Pollock (né Tesla Light Shows) @Teslalightshows]

The 🇺🇸 SUMMER MEET-UP 2026 🇺🇸 @Tesla Light Show EAGLE HAS LANDED 🦅🔥🥳

Play it LOUD as this EPIC COMMUNITY LIGHT SHOW FORMATION takes flight and CELEBRATE 250 YEAR'S of INDEPENDENCE with @teslaownersmi & @play_tediddle. Thank you to everyone who took part ❤️
@elonmusk @mayemusk @DirtyTesLa

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

So greatful! Thank you @Teslalightshows for ligthing up Muskegon and kickoff 2026 Summer Meetup!!

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

#1 NFL Draft pick Fernando Mendoza & fellow Raiders QB Kirk Cousins did a Step Brothers impression for the team’s schedule release 😂

One of the best releases I’ve seen so far

[Tennis Channel @TennisChannel]

Aryna Sabalenka reveals her 2026 Roland Garros kit 😍

We're obsessed. What do you think? 👀

#RolandGarros

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

[Tom Nash @iamtomnash]

The REAL Reason the U.S. Is at War with Iran (It's not the Epstein files and it's not Israel)

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Trump called Britain "uncooperative" from the Oval Office, then replaced Lloyd's of London as the insurer of the Strait of Hormuz — breaking 300 years of Crown control over global energy in one day.

@SJKokinda breaks it all down. Watch 👇🏻

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school:

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.

The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.

I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.

Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:

"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."

I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.

Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.

I meant it.

I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.

The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.

I am talking about the other companies.

Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.

The company that got the contract was OpenAI.

OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.

Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.

I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.

The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.

The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.

Here is the thing I want you to understand.

I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.

The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.

The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.

The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.

What I described is already happening.

[Angie Harmon @Angie_Harmon]

I grew up watching many of these exquisitely talented individuals & dreamed of being like them or even with them…. THANK YOU to all who made these stories & just to meet you or be in your presence was an incredible honor. @theactorawards 💔

[Tesla Owners of Michigan @teslaownersmi]

The time is now!!
@KelliBSloan63 @FutureAZA @Teslalightshows @TeslaMaryland

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

It’s not the start of World War 3.

It’s not Iraq 2.0.

It’s about the Islamic Republic and our chessmatch against China.

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Everytime I get mad at my sports team for losing, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.