Vishal Mishra

CoFounder & CEO SITG @sitgdev. AI/ML/Security/Relevance. Founder Right Relevance & @cronycle. ex-@Microsoft @utaustin

[J. @PresentWitness_]

The US is the only country where you can still chase success.

Every other government does everything they possibly can to prevent independent value creators from accumulating power to challenge the status quo.

This is why the USA is the best country in the world. 🇺🇸

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’ve always found people who bristle at “American exceptionalism” kind of… weird. Not because I lack self-awareness — I’ve spent my career cataloging every way this country fails to live up to its own rules. But that’s exactly why I love it so damn much. We built a system designed to be shamed by its own founding documents, and it still delivered one of the most spectacular, world-altering runs in human history. A genuine force for human flourishing.

I also found the argument against American exceptionalism to be historically illiterate. Here’s a sample of what we were first at:

• The first large-scale democratic republic in human history — not a city-state, not a monarchy with a parliament bolted on, but a bold continental experiment in self-rule, popular sovereignty, and ordered liberty.

• A written Constitution (1789) with separation of powers and checks & balances — still the oldest national constitution in force anywhere.

• The Bill of Rights (1791): the first time a nation wrote “the government cannot touch these” into supreme law and actually meant it. A dare the world copied — from later rights charters to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Public land-grant universities and mass higher education (Morrill Act), opening college to ordinary people no aristocracy would have let near the gates. (but don’t get me started about what happened after we started. Massively federally funding it.)

• Kitty Hawk, 1903 — first controlled powered flight.

• The Moon, 1969 — still the only ones who’ve been there.

• The world’s largest economy since ~1890, powering unprecedented prosperity through grit and genius.

• The assembly line, skyscraper, transistor, personal computer, ARPANET — the backbone of the modern world.

• Telephone, phonograph, GPS — connecting and powering daily life.

• Surgical anesthesia, polio vaccine — saving and transforming millions of lives.

• Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll — brand new American art forms that conquered the globe.

• Hollywood’s dreams, blue jeans, bourbon, and a culture so open a kid like me could devour sushi, burritos, stuffed cabbage, and tabouli in the same week and rightfully think of it all as American.

That’s the part that fills me with genuine love and pride: not just the power or the wins, but the appetite for freedom, creativity, and reinvention. The audacity to say “We the People” and keep trying to live up to it.

What do you love most about this truly exceptional country? 🇺🇸

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

America has been the engine of the entire world's material and social progress since its founding.

It's inspired countless constitutions, spread freedom abroad, freed its own citizenry, lifted the world out of drudgery, and it's given life to billions.

Thank God for America!

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

In Oregon a man was convicted and sent to jail for collecting rain water falling on his own property.
He was found guilty of unlawful appropriation of state resources !
If you don’t own the rain that lands on your own land what do you own ?
Nothing ?

🙈

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

God bless America.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Ages of Founding Fathers in 1776:

James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
John Marshall, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
John Jay, 30
Thomas Jefferson, 33
Thomas Paine, 39
John Adams, 40
George Washington, 44

This nation was built by brilliant young men.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Americans grow more pessimistic about finances as rent and food cost fears surge, the Fed has said,

[Auguste Prompt @augusteprompt]

That’s genuinely insane. My “favourite” UK-China comparison is Hinkley Point C vs the city of Shenzhen.

> 1980 Shenzhen SEZ announced
> 1981 Hinkley Point C announced

Today Hinkley Point C is still incomplete with yet more delays. Unit 1 expected to come online in 2030 (I highly doubt it).

In comparison Shenzhen went from a network of fishing villages with a GDP of $37 million to a mega city with a GDP of $557 billion. It has two operational nuclear power plants.

It is genuinely hard to describe the state of Britain if you have not visited newly developed parts of the world. Practically nothing has been built in Britain in the last 50 years, it isn’t just stagnating, it’s dying.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

khanna's 'billionaire wealth tax,' which is not a tax but an asset seizure in which he tallies everything you own, then demands a percentage *on top* of what you're taxed — every single year — is already targeting anyone worth $50 million or more. this ends with your 401k.

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Just like that, no longer a billionaires tax.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Neither the spirit of this Declaration nor due respect for the red lines contained therein resides in our nation’s capital.

On this 250th anniversary of our Founders’ bold assertion of these principles, let’s honor them by keeping this flame burning within us.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

UPDATE: The free nectarine giveaway in California is a success

This nectarine farmer is opting to give away his entire 125,000 lbs of ripe nectarines to the public for free

Reminder, he says this is because Big Agriculture in California made it impossible for him to harvest and sell his nectarines

A handful of large marketers and packers control the market and when smaller farmers get deals, the large corporations severely undercut these smaller farmers to drive them out of business

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Just like Obama was the perfect person to dissipate the Occupy Wall St Protests & bail out the banks cuz he silenced the natural “left” opposition to those things, Trump is the perfect person to dissipate the natural right wing opposition to a surveillance state:

[Naval @naval]

Happy Birthday America, Land of the Free.

Don’t give up on the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments.

They’re unique, and your freedom - and the worlds’ - depends on them.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Q: "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?"

El-Sayed: "Nobody's ever asked me whether Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether we want our money sent to Israel for genocide and apartheid - or invested in our own kids."

El-Sayed just flipped the script. The entire media apparatus is built on that double standard. He just tore it down in two sentences

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It became obligatory in left-Dem politics to call what Israel did a "genocide." Many who clearly don't really believe that complied.

AOC is an example. The point of "genocide" is that it's the worst crime against humanity. Yet she endorses Hakeem Jeffries: one of the House's most stalwart Israel loyalists who financed, armed and defended genocide. Nobody who actually believes it's a "genocide" would work to empower those who perpetrated it:

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Congress just passed a bill that could force you to upload your ID or scan your face to use the internet.

It is called the KIDS Act, and almost nobody wants to vote against protecting children online.

That is exactly the problem.

Last week the House passed it 267 to 117. It bundles 14 digital safety bills together, anchored by a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act.

The bill says it does not require age verification. It even includes a disclaimer saying so.

The catch is one clause away. Platforms get held liable if they "knew or should have known" a user was a minor.

That is a low bar. It means a regulator decides after the fact whether a company should have figured out someone was 15. No platform wants to gamble on that, so the safe move is to just verify everyone.

Here is where "protect the kids" quietly flips. To prove you are not a minor, you have to prove you are an adult. Driver's licenses, passports, or a facial scan to log on.

The net does not catch children. It catches all of us.

Then there is the security problem. Force millions of people to upload IDs everywhere, and somebody ends up sitting on a giant pile of passport scans and face data.

The Tea app showed how it goes. It required a selfie and a government ID, promised to delete them right after, and did not. In July 2025, about 13,000 of those IDs and selfies leaked onto 4chan, some still carrying GPS data that let someone map where users lived.

The KIDS Act would mandate that exact collection across the whole internet.

Kids do run into real harm online, and wanting to fix that is fair. But this fix builds a surveillance system that touches every adult. Rep. Thomas Massie called it a Trojan horse bill.

It now heads to the Senate. The real question is simple. Is protecting kids online worth building an internet where everyone has to prove who they are just to log on?

Source: EFF, ACLU, R Street Institute, NBC News, The Hill / Writer: Julie

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Concern and anger about barbaric industrial torture of billions of animals by factory farms is no longer a fringe issue or confined to one faction.

And why are his personal dietary choices a concern? It's honorable to align personal behavior with professed conviction.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Trump has registered trademarks in Venezuela for branded items such as: toothbrush holders, soap dispensers, trash cans, drinking glasses, pool towels, shower curtains, candlesticks, among many others. Recall, he also claims to be personally "running" Venezuela since January 2026