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CLE ▶️Cincy ▶️SF; UC, Cavs, Tribe, Browns till I die

[Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD]

Why should my taxes subsidize your grandma's spare rooms?

[Jesse Zwick @jessezwick]

I became a YIMBY because I realized that if Dems kept saying “housing solves homelessness” while blocking housing at every turn, it would only be a matter of time before someone came around saying “it’s not a housing crisis, it’s a drug crisis” and everyone would believe them.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?

We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:

The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.

That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

[greg @greg16676935420]

I think I just figured out why California has such a big problem with fires

[Marc Joffe @marcjoffe]

San Francisco used to have a nice high-end mall like this one in Singapore.

Encouraging anti-social behavior in public places prevents us from having elevated public spaces.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Part of what makes me so pessimistic about the future of the Democratic Party is that this Mahan guy isn’t consistently polling orders of magnitude higher than people like Porter or Becerra.

He’s quite obviously more articulate and vastly more competent than any of the other Democrats running, and yet, these California liberals seem highly unlikely to elect him.

Instead, they appear poised to go with someone even less capable than Newsom.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Hey guys, why don’t they wanna talk about why I need a hotel in the first place?

Karen Bass let my home burn down.

Also 6,000 of my neighbors. NBD.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

Here's @MattMahanSJ, on the lessons — both politics and policy — of trying to cut unsheltered homelessness in San Jose to zero

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

“California is the ultimate paradox of Democratic rule. A state of immense wealth, innovation and cultural power is increasingly unable to deliver the basics of housing, public safety and disaster response.” https://t.co/3en03MPLDD

[Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr]

There is no paradox. The Democrat party has had 20+ years of uncontested power in California. They have had the chance to do everything they want. They have failed. They either need to acknowledge their failures and fix them or California needs sweeping change.

[Lucythegreat @lucythegreat123]

Dear airlines far and wide, as long as you charge for checked bags while carryons fly free, people will continue to bring everything they own and the kitchen sink on board. We then are all treated to twenty minutes of watching the gate lice swarm the boarding area while a poor harassed underpaid employee begs the crowd to gate check for free. It is an epic failure of basic incentive structures and we are all embarrassed for having been here for this.

[j.m. kettle @jmkettle]

Giving a restaurant a three star review is illegal in Germany.

[ARROW @phresh_arrow]

Things that we’ve normalized that feel like robbery:
Ticketmaster Fees
4pm Check-In
11am Check-Out
Paying for Hospital Parking
$40+ Hotel Parking
$10 Mocktails
$8 Coffee
$5 Greeting Cards
$5 Bottled Water
$100 Bottles at the Club
$20 Tequila Shots
Tipping on To Go Orders
Astronomical Student Loan Interest
$2000 Daycare
$45 For A Seat on an Airplane
$75 For a Checked Bag
Insurance
WiFi

What did I forget?

[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

🚨 Spirit Airlines has decided to turn its planes into AI datacenters in a last minute effort to avoid bankruptcy

[Carl Paulus @CarlPaulus]

There has never been a better example for how the entire ideological movement has one weakness, the follow up question. The entire party just says things and then gets mad when you ask them to clarify.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

[Andrew Weiss @BayWestInvest]

LA politicians will look at this and say “we need more rent control”

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

Over the past 47 years, Iran Regime
has killed more Muslims than Israel
has in its 78 years of existence.😎

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I believe that regulations—such as health and sanitation codes for restaurants, etc.—should be relatively light and unburdensome but strictly and equally enforced.

Progressives believe the opposite: Codes should be oppressively harsh but completely unenforced on their clients.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Please bro just one more tax will fix it trust me bro