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Air Force Brat, Army Mom. It’s in the DNA. 🇺🇸❤️ Be selective when you retweet. Tired of junk clogging up my feed.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

The Iranian regime will lose the zero-sum game it is playing.

Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian Accounts.

Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts.

Every attack Iran launches will only deepen the economic and financial consequences it faces.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

This is absolutely insane:

The SpaceX IPO has now drawn more than $70 BILLION worth of retail orders alone.

SpaceX is raising $75 billion, making retail interest ALONE enough to nearly fill the entire sale.

To put this in perspective, the previous record IPO was Saudi Aramco in 2020 at $29.4 billion.

This means that retail interest in SpaceX is now 2.4 TIMES larger than the total amount raised in the previous largest IPO in history.

As a result, SpaceX has announced that 20% of their IPO will be allocated to retail investors, following through on @elonmusk's vision to democratize the record IPO.

Nothing even remotely near what SpaceX is about to do has ever happened.

Friday will be a historic day.

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

Good morning, and welcome to another opinion day at the Supreme Court. We will be live blogging beginning in about 30 minutes.

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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! The FBI has just ARRESTED Most Wanted Fraudster Said Abdullahi Ereg after he allegedly stole OVER $4 MILLION from the Federal Child Nutrition Program in Minneapolis

LFG @FBIDirectorKash! Keep the arrests flowing!

"Said Abdullahi Ereg – the FIRST EVER arrest of a “Most Wanted Fraudsters” since the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud released our Most Wanted Fraudsters list last week."

"Ereg just landed in Minneapolis and was taken into custody after turning himself in. He has been wanted on federal charges since 2024."

"Ereg allegedly stole over $4 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program in Minneapolis during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2021."

"He allegedly falsely claimed to have served meals to children in need, claiming fake reimbursements from the government, and then laundered the money through foreign accounts to fund a lavish lifestyle. He is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Money Laundering."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Former Dallas City Council candidate Davante Peters calls to dig up Austin Metcalf’s grave, stab him again, and free Karmelo Anthony

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@SecKennedy @DroppedmicAgain @nytimes Ouch, the pretend journalist got owned, BIG TIME! Embarrassing, Sheryl.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Elizabeth Warren hates Americans.

[Emira Kasem @emira_kasem]

1) They have NEVER acknowledged or apologized for the $344 million in wasteful spending.
2) They are making ZERO effort to cut out the wasteful spending; and
3) They are ONLY discussing cuts to essential services to influence the voters.

And, in their little slide show presentation at yesterday’s meeting, they exampled a home valued at $250,000 to calculate the projected increase in property taxes. The median home value in PBC is about $650,000.

Disignenuous pricks.

[DOL OIG @DOLOIG]

🚨PRESS RELEASE: 53,000 Fraudulent Unemployment Insurance Accounts Exposed in New Jersey Following OIG Intervention; Citing Governor Sherrill’s Negligence

Read:⤵️
https://t.co/FIB3Aq0bkf

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@niyetsel Content

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@Warghazm @SawyerMerritt @Fidelity My Robinhood $$ cleared in time, days ago. So did my @Fidelity $$. No problem placing a hopeful order on Robinhood. F-ing impossible on Fidelity and now, oops sorry too late. I am 😡. No way it should take days to clear a transfer on either, Fidelity or Robinhood. That is BS too

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@muskonomy I hope this wakes people the hell up. Stop voting for Democrats. They hate regular people.

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

JUST IN: Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the SEC to halt SpaceX’s upcoming IPO.

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@Fidelity @RiverParrish1 Call you, WTH. Not rocket science, yet so many have been unable to complete IOI. Not happy!

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@Warghazm @SawyerMerritt Same for me. I am so pissed at @Fidelity 😡

[Great time to be alive @TinaRevers]

@SawyerMerritt WTF @Fidelity been trying to complete the process on your website all day, several times in past days. Selected interest in SPCX, signed up for IPO notice, never got it, selected participate from calendar on website, transferred money that cleared days ago and now it’s too late!

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecretaryTurner on the Trump admin's push to cut costly regulation at the city level in homebuilding: "The median price of a home in America's about $426,000. $100,000 of that is in regulations and regulatory environment. If you take that away, it brings down the cost of a house so more Americans can afford to buy."