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Philadelphia, PA
Joined June 2012
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Smuggled children are still being welcomed into the U.S. The HHS Unaccompanied Alien Children program remains operational. Congress budgeted $4.2 for the program in FY 2026. HHS is seeking $3.4 billion for FY 2027. @camiloreports 😢
Replying to @KimWexlerMAJD
🧵 On July 31, 2014, Rep. Kay Granger, who led the speaker’s border task force, told the House that the “$6,000 their families spend to send their children to the United States goes into the bank account of the most powerful drug cartels in the world.”
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9 of America’s top 10 foreign aid recipients voted against us more than with us at the UN. Jordan takes $1.74 billion and votes against America 52-24. Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Kenya, same thing. Billions of our money, then they stab us in the back every chance they get. Literally funding our own opposition.
$329 BILLION in aid and they’re POORER than they were in 1960. The “not enough aid” politicians and NGOs have poured more than enough cash into places with rotten institutions, elite theft, and zero accountability. And instead of building prosperity, your taxes subsidized failure.
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Harvard Professor: “But as an institution, UNRWA is not biased. The investigation has cleared UNRWA.” Hillel Neuer: “Which investigation? Who was cleared?” Harvard Professor: “Look, I don't want to engage in litigation of all the numbers and facts...”
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Teaching profession is a literal disaster for the country.
The NYC board of regents got rid of its teacher literacy test in 2017 because too few black and brown teachers could pass. In 2022 it got rid of its edTPA examinations, a national assessment program which required submission of lessons plans and a portfolio of classroom instructional practices "that some have criticized as being a barrier to diversifying and growing the teacher workforce." In 2026, it got rid of the regents testing requirement for high school graduation. Less than half of black and brown students read at grade level in the 4th grade. Public school spending continues to spike upwards each year even as the school hemorrhage students.
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🚨 JUST IN: Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński STARES into the camera to drop this message for any American considering voting Democrat in 2026 "Socialism is DEATH, slavery and lack of any freedoms. PLEASE don't do it — don't go through 70 years of occupation like Poland did." "You know what socialism is? Everyone is equal...Equally HUNGRY. And that's what we went through. Please, don't do it. Do not vote socialist for your next generations for your children and grandchildren!" @D_Tarczynski 💯💯 Poles LIVED THIS: ration cards, empty shelves, lack of food and martial law by the commies Now Democrats are running open socialists like Mamdani and ABDUL EL SAYED Listen to the people who actually survived it! 🇺🇸🇵🇱 Everyone who fled communism does NOT want to go back. Americans must vote Republican.
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This holiday season just remember that trash raises trash. If your parents were garbage, then break the cycle.
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Replying to @scottmcnealy
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Mysterious ways. @DataRepublican told me I could use the Census Bureau to geolocate addresses. So I built that. Then she went and worked on her super secret DOGE-at-the-Pentagon job and went quiet. Then Nick Shirley. While she was quiet, I started ingesting the Medicaid and DOT data, and geolocating it. You can see the results here. grumpytechbro.com/fun/ I did the 990 addresses too. The Chinese Progressive Association, the Center for Empowered Politics, and the CEP Education Fund share a building. From 2020 through 2022 they are the only three filers on one San Francisco pin. In 2023 and 2024 they move to Oakland together. New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and the North Fund share one Washington pin. The names do not mention each other. Different paperwork, same door. Legally different people. Yeah, right. That is not even counting the nonprofit c3 with the political c4. That is just how the NGO world works, because a political c4 has to pay taxes, so you park the $ in the c3. I wouldn't have built the Sankey that helped connect me with Data if my mom wasn't in the hospital. I wouldn't have had this much time obsessing on the geolocation if Data hadn't gotten sucked into the DoW. Now I have a big pile of geolocated orgs I'm using to chase down fraud. Destiny. Mysterious ways. – at Oregon, USA
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Replying to @JoeSquawk
@JoeSquawk … unless the demographics betting align with the demographics voting it’s going to be way off!
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They need to be banned from “betting” on real things such as elections, etc. Fine for sports…
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I've cut my positions in $LEU, used the capital to buy $ONDS It's not challenge portfolio, no obligations to update, but I'll do it anyways as always. First, I'll like to apologies. This year, hasn't been a good year. Feels like 2022. Tho I'm up YTD ( like 15% ), it's still sucks and you probably should stop listening to me. One thing I did good all these years consistently, I HAVE NEVER ONCE ASKED YOU TO TOP BLAST. But bottoms have a never ending pit zzz My style is high growth, trenching looking for gems. Not the typical buy mag 7, diversify 10 - 50 stocks shit, where in reality, their followers will still end up working a normie job sucking up to their bosses. NOT MY STYLE. Looking back, due to cycles in liquidity and simulation cycles. Every 3 good years comes with 1 shit year. Again my apologies. I'll update my challenge portfolio if there are any changes ( still full port spacex/echo till forever ) Till then I'll STFU unless we get another liquidity event.
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🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk just ERUPTED and confirmed Ukraine BROKE the terms of service of Starlink by using the civilian service to KlLL PEOPLE with offensive drone strikes — "That loophole was closed last week." THERE. IT. IS. ELON: "I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell. End of story." @ElonMusk just wants the war to end...and he's SICK AND TIRED of people POINTING FINGERS at him when it was Ukraine who violated publicly known terms of service 🙏🏻 "Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact." Elon notes that STARSHIELD is US-military controlled, while Starlink is controlled by his company. Starlink is the one Ukraine must NOT game for offensive purposes "SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR." Strike a deal and maybe this wouldn't be an issue, Zelensky!
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🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk says the main roadblock in shutting down NGOs via DOGE cuts was that "some Republicans were in on the crime."
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A wonderful life lesson from Charlie Munger: “Crooks, crazies, egomaniacs, people full of resentment, people full of self-pity, people who feel like victims … avoid them like the plague.”
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Oregon politician Nafisa Fai just held a rally in MN, speaking Somali, with an American flag UPSIDE DOWN. Enough with the pretending already. These are not Americans.
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🚨 A new grad with student loans shouldn't lose a job to a visa program that's supposed to protect American wages. When H-1B is used to undercut those wages, that's not a labor shortage. That's fraud. Hire Americans first. Prosecute the abusers. 🇺🇸
🚨AMERICAN WORKERS SHOULDN’T BE THE ONES GETTING REPLACED. Ken Paxton is right: “Abuse and fraud within these programs strip jobs and opportunities away from Texans.” Young Americans deserve careers, not a visa system abused to undercut their wages. Remember who stands up for them when you vote.
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INSANE 🚨 Assistant US Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division says fraudsters are stealing so much money every year in America, it’s more than the entire budget of the Departments of Energy, Justice Department and Department of Interior COMBINED Nobody in America should be paying an income tax For reference this is roughly $105 billion dollars+ stolen by fraudsters EVERY YEAR
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Replying to @JoeSquawk
@JoeSquawk … because they ushered in 20 million that we need to support… that what has broken the GDP/Income balance…..
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@JoeSquawk @BeckyQuick @andrewrsorkin … good conversation regarding GDP/taxation, etc… FYI… if spending at 19% of GDP is a target… and we are presently at 24% (unsustainable) … the illegal immigration crisis over the last 4 years accounts for approximately 0.65% of annual GDP… or almost 15% of the gap! The more liberal “open border” folks own this… (which ironically has hurt “affordability” a great deal) … adding new taxes to fund this or providing sweeping amnesty that locks these costs in structurally would not be taken well.
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Today I took a Waymo to work instead of letting my Tesla drive me. Took twice as long (not even counting the wait). The routing was insane and the driving soooo slow.
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My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step. Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing. What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation. College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices. Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode. Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no. So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same. That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion. In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row. If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation. If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government. Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has. Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France? Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
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🚨 BREAKING: Michele Tafoya just dropped her five point plan to tackle Somali gang violence in Minnesota. “We will do more in 8 weeks than Peggy Flanagan has done in 8 years.”
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