Will Brown

I care way more about the 📦 than what's inside.

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@ritwikpavan how is a 120 gal on filter going to last for 6 months? I mean, who did the math on that? Is that for 1 person? what about a family of 3 lol

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@RajeevSharma00 this is sick and glad to discover it here 🎷

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@NikoMcCarty ...cont. well beyond what most can perceive w/ the naked eye. it makes gaining color approval before large productions almost impossible

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@NikoMcCarty I wonder how many of these women become graphic designers. I work in packaging, the tolerance for matching PMS colors in production is ~ 2 delta E (most people can't perceive a difference)...but many female designers I've worked with seem able to perceive these differences...

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@AutismCapital tbf, 2x in the last month LAPD have chased people in cars who have stopped for gas at a gas station and continue on

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@memeticsisyphus @vocalcry minus the mirin and adding in some coarse ground mustard this is the exact marinade I use for baked broccoli; make it 2x a week, crush our fiber intake and our 16 mos old loves it

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@yaboieljefe @lymanstoneky I mean in The Straussian Moment he said explicit that the 21st century began w 9/11…so what do we call the intervening 19 years ?

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@LeeKuanYimby A real letdown. Breaking Points was good from 2021 to early 2025 and then just went totally off the rails, mainly due to Saagar losing his rational perspectives

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@Donogathx @Noahpinion this is a good start: https://t.co/ii1fetwqMi

[Emeril Lagasse @Emeril]

I’m trending on the internet?

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

I really think we need to do something about the affordability crisis. If young people actually could own homes, they'd feel like they have more stake in the system and wouldn't be inclined to burn it all down and implement hardcore socialism.

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@MoreBirths that's why people should use enclomiphene which IIRC also improves sperm parameters

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@GavinNewsom you’re right - $125b for like a mile of subsidized fare (the original bill said that would never happen) HSR track is obviously the better trade. govt executed public works projects for the win! Keep crushing it Gav

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@cullend it’s a legitimately great product - some of the best cost to value of anything sub $1000 I’ve bought in the past 2 years

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

The bill for American action has arrived at the Saudi door. Last night, Donald Trump reportedly demanded that in exchange for finalizing the current ceasefire deal with Iran—the one desperately needed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—the Gulf states would have to pay a massive premium: immediate normalization with Israel. According to my sources, the ultimatum was met with literal silence. The Arab leaders were so thoroughly stunned by the audacity of the request that Trump actually had to break the silence with a follow-up: “Are you still there?”

For months, we have watched a narrative form: Israel deceived the United States into a disastrous war that only empowered Iran. This narrative ignores multiple factors, including but not limited to the fact that it was Trump’s choice, Trump did not follow the Israeli plan, and—perhaps most of all—the presence of another major player calling for war: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

In late February, The Washington Post reported that the decision to go to war had been reached after encouragement from two key allies: Israel and Saudi Arabia. Throughout the war, they reinforced this support. A few weeks later, when Trump was claiming that the war would be over in a few days, The New York Times reported that both nations heavily encouraged a continuation of the conflict. Prince Mohammed reportedly argued that the United States should consider putting troops in Iran to seize energy infrastructure and force the government out of power.

But things have changed.

The Saudis never expected to put their core energy infrastructure on the line for this conflict, assuming a covert nod to Washington would yield a painless destruction of the Iranian threat. Instead, the smoking ruins of the Ras Tanura refinery, a staggering $33.5 billion first-quarter deficit, and a hull-to-hull backup in the Strait of Hormuz served as a brutal awakening. With the United Arab Emirates stepping aggressively into the vacuum—gladly absorbing the role of America’s primary, hardline Gulf ally—Riyadh is executing a frantic tactical retreat. For the past month and a half, MBS has been beating a different drum: diplomacy. “Okay,” said Trump last night, but constantly shifting positions comes with a cost: normalization.

This is about far more than Trump extracting a quick return on investment. By demanding normalization as the price for a ceasefire, he is forcing the Saudis to grab Israel’s other arm to physically restrain Jerusalem from striking Iran alone.

It underscores a truth that Trump understood and Obama never did: the most effective way to control Israel isn’t to push them away, but to wrap them in a bear hug. By locking Jerusalem into a close alliance, Washington doesn’t just protect them—it places its hand directly over the Israeli trigger finger. Washington needs its hand over that trigger because Israel has little incentive to hold back when the current deal appears to leave Iran in a stronger position than before.

That is the Iranian impression as well. In The Art of the Deal, Trump writes: “The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.” Sensing American eagerness for a diplomatic off-ramp, Tehran has smelled exactly that, aggressively upping its demands before any Memorandum of Understanding can be printed.

Despite draft stipulations requiring a return to free transit, the IRGC is leveraging its tactical position to normalize a permanent, permission-based transit regime in the Strait of Hormuz—boasting that 33 commercial vessels were forced to register and coordinate with the IRGC Navy in a single 24-hour window. Meanwhile, Iran has flatly rejected a Pakistani compromise to defer unresolved issues, flipping the entire sequencing of the talks by refusing any nuclear-related commitments or stockpiling concessions at this stage. Instead, an emboldened Tehran is demanding immediate economic rewards, including the unfreezing of blocked assets, while conditioning the entire agreement on an “all fronts” ceasefire that would effectively force Washington to strip Israel of its freedom of action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

At the end of the devastating Iran-Iraq War, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously declared that accepting peace was like “drinking a poison chalice.” Today, his successor’s successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, is facing no such bitter brew. Instead, Benjamin Netanyahu is being asked to swallow the fatal mixture this time around. Much to his relief, Donald Trump is trying to mix in a Saudi sweetener to help the medicine go down.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.

[Van Spina @vanspina_]

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Please pass our message along to anyone in your life who we may be able to help.

Consultations begin this summer.

We're also hiring across clinical and laboratory roles.

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@vanspina_ @AmericanBabyHQ this is amazing!

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@thedarshakrana reality is dialectical in nature which is why these thinkers succeed

[Will Brown @WillBrownLA]

@jessegenet @LizWolfeReason @openclaw such an awesome project - and seeing authors like EL Konigsburg on brought me back to my childhood. way to go, Jesse!