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[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives.

In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households.

By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled.

Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague ��legacy.”
The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage.

The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.

[Andrew Milich @milichab]

Use your SuperGrok or X @premium subscription inside Warp

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”

[Jason Ginsberg @JasonBud]

if you tried the Grok Build beta at launch a month ago but found the experience too early, check out the changelog: https://t.co/KWwIv2NRL1

we’ve shipped 177 improvements since launch. if the issues you encountered still aren’t fixed, let us know. we’d love to keep improving

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink is delivering faster download speeds than other terrestrial ISPs in 22 out of 23 markets in Africa, per Ookla.

• Upload speeds doubled in Central & East Africa and nearly tripled in Southern Africa.

• Now serving ~500,000 users across rapidly expanding markets.

• Latency reduced by over 80% in Southern & Eastern Africa since 2024.

• 5 to 6 times faster than local providers in Botswana and Guinea Bissau

Starlink is helping connect schools, businesses, homes and remote communities that were ignored for decades. It is becoming Africa’s internet lifeline.

Meanwhile, South Africa continues to block it because of its racist BEE laws, denying its own citizens access to fast reliable internet.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In the ancient world, the way many people gained great wealth was by forming gangs of strong men, beating up their neighbors, and taking their stuff.

People still speak with admiration of men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, but they were little better than gangsters who enriched themselves through armed robbery.

This was a negative sum game, and assured that people remained poor and unhappy for thousands of years.

Eventually, however, we figured out that respecting each other’s rights, building things, and trading meant that we could play positive sum games instead. We could increase the amount of wealth, and all would benefit. As a result, we moved from living in unheated shacks to living in what our ancestors would’ve thought of as paradise in only a few hundred years.

However, there are still people out there who think that beating someone up and taking their stuff is a really great idea.

It is the great task of our civilization to shun such people, as they are not fit to be part of society.

[Anna Schneider @a_nnaschneider]

Das ZDF hat reagiert, in der Beschreibung der Sendung steht nun, die Formulierung zu Beginn (Musk habe zur Jagd auf Migranten aufgerufen) sei "unpräzise und deshalb missverständlich". Immer diese Missverständnisse, kennt man ja noch von Charlie Kirk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They always use defensible excuses for the indefensible

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Aged like wine 🍷

[Tesla @Tesla]

Not sure who needs to hear this but your Tesla can parallel park for you

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Tesla Robotaxi has recorded zero at-fault incidents since February, according to newly released NHTSA data.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[jimmah @jamesdouma]

This is the best general article that I’ve read on the topic of SpaceX.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink has now partnered with 41 airlines worldwide, covering more than 7,000 aircraft under installation or contract.

[Russ Vought @russvought]

The freakout by those on the Left subsidized by taxpayer funds over OMB’s update of the regulation governing federal grant making tells you how important it is to keep the bureaucracies from leaking out spending that is woke, wasteful, and contra to the policies of the Trump Administration thru the NGOs.

https://t.co/xpBYVleOo5

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

After 30 days docked to the @Space_Station, the Dragon spacecraft supporting SpaceX’s 34th Commercial Resupply Services mission for @NASA will undock from the orbiting lab on Tuesday, June 16 → https://t.co/2AmF6GjvNP