Kim

🇺🇸 Closing achievement gap today closes wage gap tomorrow. Charter schools do this. K-12 Cartels fight it. Make education great again. Patriot.

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[Kim @myspin4]

@TPCarney We all know he will. Say whatever needs to be said to get elected. And then do whatever the dem machine tells him to do once in office. We’ve seen this movie over and over again.

[Kim @myspin4]

@RoKhanna Or just stop the fraud, waste, and abuse of the current tax dollars collected.

[Kim @myspin4]

@MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine Jeff Bezos exists because Americans vote with their dollars. We apparently really love shopping online via Amazon. Here in the US, we don’t hate Jeff Bezos or any of the big guys. We want to be them, and here, in the US, we can.

[Kim @myspin4]

Great idea!

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

For America 250, the Right shouldn't try to replicate the Left's culture and end up with Vanilla Ice on stage. Instead, we should have Elon launch rockets with big American flags. Get NASCAR drivers to spin donuts in front of the White House. Own it.

[Kim @myspin4]

@JohnJHarwood But he was and still is.

[Kim @myspin4]

@grahamformaine @MarkHalperin This post is based on a bogus premise that no one likes fetterman. But to many of us, he is our favorite senator.

[Kim @myspin4]

@CynicalPublius And politicians.

[Kim @myspin4]

@McJuggerNuggets I can’t imagine how difficult it was to make this decision. I never walked a day in your shoes and I know many of the people commenting below did not either. Not ours to judge.

[Kim @myspin4]

@connichung1 It was about time.

[Kim @myspin4]

Interesting.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

I verified this and it’s true

“Germany can no longer raise an army, simply because of how many Muslims are now German citizens”

“Now, allegedly, and I will say allegedly here, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz has privately admitted that he's worried about the country's ability to raise an army, simply because Germany doesn't want to put weapons in the hands of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Germans.

And he'd be right in worrying, because a recent study of young Muslim Germans showed that nearly half expressed latent Islamist attitudes, which are, you know, the kind of attitudes that turn Muslims into terrorists, and more than half said that their religious commandments were more important to them than even German democracy.

And if you ask me, these don't sound like the attitudes of Germans. These sound like the attitudes of Germany's enemies”

Let’s get into the facts

A 2025–2026 German government-backed study by MOTRA, Radicalization Monitoring System, involving the Federal Criminal Police Office, found that 45.1% of Muslims under 40 in Germany hold either “manifest” (11.5%) or “latent” (33.6%) Islamist attitudes.

This includes preferences for Sharia over the constitution, antisemitic views, and Islamist leanings

Tucker Carlson also reported on this

When you have a significant population of Muslims who hold a pro-Sharia Law mindset, you can’t trust them in your military

[Kim @myspin4]

@omni_american You really can’t solve a problem until you identify its root cause. This essay is based on a bogus premise.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

After being fired from CBS, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley yesterday said that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.”

Those are remarkable claims for which Pelley presented no evidence. Indeed, it would be extraordinary for CBS to demand such things of a correspondent, either verbally or in writing, given the reputational risk to the network.

A more likely explanation is that Pelley disagreed with someone at CBS and then declared a difference of opinion to be a demand to lie. Support for this interpretation comes from the fact that he claimed Tuesday that CBS’s new management, led by Bari Weiss, was trying to kill “60 Minutes,” something for which he also did not provide evidence.

Moreover, the accusation makes no sense. CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss took the job to rebuild CBS News, not to wreck it, and a ruined “60 Minutes” would hurt her. Paramount’s owners did not pay billions for the network to burn its best asset for spite. So the simpler reading is that Pelley is the one stretching the truth.

Doing so appears to be a habit for Pelley. He told The New York Times, “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq,” but being in a combat zone as a journalist is not the same as being “in combat.” The remark is yet more evidence of Pelley’s propensity to exaggerate to the point of lying.

For decades, mainstream liberal journalists have displayed remarkable levels of arrogance, even as they get major stories wrong.

Consider the case of CBS News’ former anchor Dan Rather. In the fall of 2004, two months before the election, Rather presented documents purporting to show favoritism in George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Experts called them forgeries. CBS apologized: “We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry,” Rather said. On air, he added, “I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry.”

But then, a decade later, Rather told Variety he still stands “100 percent” behind the report and reframed the apology.

Or consider NBC’s Katie Couric. In her 2016 documentary “Under the Gun,” editors inserted roughly eight to nine seconds of silence after she asked Virginia gun owners how to keep guns from felons and terrorists without background checks, making them look stumped. The raw audio revealed that they answered immediately.

Couric’s first instinct was to defend what she did, saying she was “very proud of the film.” Only after sustained backlash did she apologize.

In her 2021 memoir “Going There,” Couric admitted she cut Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest anthem-kneeling comments from her 2016 interview. Ginsburg had said kneeling players showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in the spring of 2020, aired a clip of Attorney General Bill Barr that omitted part of his answer, misleading the public.

When Catherine Herridge interviewed Barr for CBS Evening News, she asked what history would say about his decision to drop the case against a former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn. The Obama administration’s FBI had illegally targeted Flynn for entrapment and prosecution. Barr replied that ”history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

"Meet the Press'" anchor at the time, Chuck Todd, said on air that Barr “didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.’” But “Meet the Press” had left out the second part of Barr’s answer to Herridge, in which he said, “But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law.”

The safeguards the journalism profession built against error did not work when it mattered. The corrections, the editors, the fact-checkers, and the standards desks all sat in place while the press got the border, trans medicine, climate, the sixth extinction, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, Covid and much else wrong. Gerth described how reporters sought to “shoot the messenger” rather than grapple with evidence contradicting the Russia collusion narrative...

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[Kim @myspin4]

A teacher’s pity will never lift anyone from poverty. But a solid education can.

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

This is a standard move that needs calling out.

Teachers care about poverty and they accept it affects learning. But poverty is not something they have much agency over. Instructional methods, in contrast, are something they can control.

Should we just wait around until someone else fixes poverty? Is that a good excuse for using less effective instructional methods.

No.

[Kim @myspin4]

@RepNancyMace Only graduated first because of those community college credits.

[Kim @myspin4]

@AdamKinzinger @RepNancyMace You are correct. She did not spend one day in military service to this country.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

We're all slaves to the bottom quintile and the collection of megacorporations that exploit the various subsidies lavished upon it

For example, the productive are taxed to fund SNAP, which the bottom quintile uses to buy carbonated corn syrup called soda, and SNAP is about a quarter of Coca-Cola/PepsiCo revenue. Soda is the number one item bought with SNAP. We then are taxed yet more to fund the Medicaid for the bottom quintile, so our tax dollars can pay for the diabetes treatments for the corn syrup enjoyers, so they can continue consuming more corn syrup while relying on SNAP and Medicaid.

So, those who are destroying the West's topsoil at a rapid rate to grow corn benefit (they're subsidized through other programs as well), Pepsi and Coca Cola benefit, and the bottom quintile benefits

The average net taxpayer, on the other hand, receives absolutely no benefits from this...unless he owns shares in those companies, the gains on and dividends of which are then taxed again to further keep the ridiculous cycle of yeast life subsidization going

[Kim @myspin4]

@AndrewKolvet @seanmdav Which is why this will ultimately be overturned.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

6/ What actually drove the turnaround?

1. Autonomy for schools to innovate.
2. Accountability — bad charters can be closed quickly.
3. Family choice instead of forced neighborhood attendance.
4. More instructional time: 16 extra days of reading and 6 extra days of math per year.

Leaders credit sustained focus on results over bureaucracy and excuses.

[Kim @myspin4]

❤️

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Happy Pride Month.