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In life, we are each afforded a few extraordinary moments, that leave an indelible imprint on our hearts. Christmas Eve, was such a time for me. On its own, this present from my granddaughter moved me greatly. ...but it was the consideration behind it that made me sob. What a gift of wonder it has been to watch her grow and flourish into a beautiful, thoughtful, young adult. I am so grateful for her and so thankful for this extraordinary, ordinary life.

Pretty much explains who is holding up the save act and why.

In 2023 Newsom was given a bill to sign that would have required private insurers to cover hearing aids for children. Many other states require insurers to cover them. According to NY Post, Newsom vetoed the bill and decided instead to have the state provide the hearing aids. The result was $23 million spent on hearing aids for 300 people. About $76,000 a person. About 20,000 children in CA still need hearing aids. Well done Gavin.

This is an IQ test. If you think the *Biden administration* helped cover up for Trump being involved with Epstein’s sex trafficking, your lack of intellect is unfathomable.

@LouWestin I don’t have to But this seemed so outlandish and is so verifiable that I decided to send an email and then post it on X Not a lot of work

You used to sell stuff on eBay. Maybe an old camera. Maybe Beanie Babies. Maybe a coat that didn't fit. You paid a small fee. The buyer got the thing. Everyone went home. That eBay is gone. The website looks the same. The logo is the same. The 135 million buyers are still there. But the company isn't really a marketplace anymore. It is an advertising business with a marketplace attached for distribution. Last year, sellers paid eBay $2 billion just to make sure their own listings showed up. Read that again. The board calls this growth. A Canadian who runs a video game store called it something else. Here is what actually happened. In 2020 the board hired a new CEO. His name is Jamie Iannone. He arrived with a strategy called focused categories. In plain English, that means leaning into the stuff people pay extra for. Sneakers. Watches. Trading cards. Auto parts. The everyday seller, the person with the camera and the coat, was no longer the customer. The customer was now the seller who would pay to be seen. In 2025 eBay did $80 billion in transactions. They kept $11 billion of that as revenue. Of that $11 billion, $2 billion came from advertising. Sellers paid them $2 billion to promote listings on a website those sellers already pay fees to use. That is the growth story. In the same year, the number of enthusiast buyers, eBay's own term for their best customers, was 16 million. It was also 16 million the year before. And the year before that. And the year before that. Four years. Zero growth. They mention this on every earnings call without mentioning it. So what does a company do when growth stops? It buys back its own stock. In 2025, eBay returned over $3 billion to shareholders. Most of that was buybacks. In February the board authorized another $2 billion on top. Buybacks shrink the share count. Earnings per share goes up even when earnings stay flat. The stock price follows. The stock was $68 a year ago. It is $108 today. The company did not improve. The denominator got smaller. Then a man from Canada noticed. His name is Ryan Cohen. He runs GameStop. He started his career selling pet food online and sold it to PetSmart for $3.35 billion. He looked at eBay. 135 million buyers. $80 billion in transactions. Real margins. Real cash flow. A board harvesting the business instead of running it. He bought 5% of the company through derivatives and stock. Then on May 4, he offered to buy the rest. $125 per share. $56 billion total. On May 12, the eBay board rejected the bid. They called it not credible. The math is credible. What the board means by not credible is we would have to explain why we sold. Then Cohen went on Piers Morgan. He said eBay is run by a bunch of losers with perverse financial incentives. He pointed out that eBay's CEO has been paid $144 million over six years. He pointed out that he personally takes no salary and has put $128 million of his own money into the company he runs. You do not have to like Ryan Cohen to notice he is making a point that is hard to argue with. eBay used to be a place where regular people sold things to other regular people. Now it is a $48 billion company whose largest growth driver is charging its own sellers to advertise to a buyer base that stopped growing four years ago, while spending billions a year buying its own stock to make the chart go up. The board calls this strategy. A video game CEO from Canada called it what it is. The market is now waiting to see who else agrees. Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

THANKS TOD! Retired fire captain stands up for Pratt “Who cares where he is staying , la is a shithole . He’s going to make a change and we need to keep supporting him”

In today’s episode of “The More You Know” we address the hyperventilating over @kevinolearytv 's data center project. You know the one. The "THIS DATA CENTER WILL SET OFF 23 ATOM BOMBS A DAY!!! " clickbait outrage. (see post below) Here are some actual facts about Phase 1 that 99.9% of people whose teats in a wringer over now, but last week, couldn't have found Box Elder County on a map if it were highlighted and had fire ants crawling all over it. GET THIS: The source of energy behind Phase 1 is an old friend of ours - natural gas - that arrives via the Ruby Pipeline. Ruby runs 680 miles from the Opal Hub in Wyoming to Malin, Oregon crossing northern Utah into Nevada and Oregon. The 42-inch-diameter pipeline is operated by Tallgrass Energy. It has a capacity of 1.5 billion cubic feet per day and has been in service since 2011. While utilization has historically been around 50% leaving room for additional capacity. The Stratos project can fill up that pipeline up to capacity with Phase 1. AND GET THIS - Ruby runs directly through the project site, which was deliberately chosen for this reason. Stratos will generate 100% of its own electricity on-site, behind-the-meter from a direct tap into the Ruby Pipeline using natural gas produced in Utah and Wyoming. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE: The first phase will likely use VoltaGrid’s Jenbacher-powered systems for Stratos Phase 1 These are portable, scalable engines that use Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology which cuts NOx by 85–97% and delivers CO₂e emissions that are 30 to 40% lower than typical. AND GET THIS: Closed-loop cooling systems minimize waste heat. The combination of these two technologies provide clean, low-heat, efficient power cleaner than regional grid power itself. No its not 23 atom bombs going off day after day. Yes it is the same source of energy that people will use to cook dinner tonight and then will log into an Instagram data center to post about how bad data centers are. There you have it. The more you know….

🚨SECRETARY RUBIO: The Cuban people should know there’s $100 million of food and medicine available for them right now and the only reason it’s not reaching them is because of the Cuban regime.

For what it's worth, Charlie has not appeared to me in any dreams. But I did actually talk to him daily in real life.

🚨 Today the FBI and our partners extradited the highest ranking member of Tren de Aragua (TdA) ever brought to justice - Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, aka "Chuqui. Flores just arrived in Houston from Colombia this evening. This is the first time ever that a TdA member has been charged with terrorism-related crimes and been extradited to the U.S. - history made pursuant to President Trump’s executive order last summer designating Tren de Aragua as an FTO. Flores is charged with providing material support to TdA, a designated foreign terrorist organization, as well as with international drug distribution conspiracy. He is scheduled to make his federal court appearance Friday morning. Well done @FBIHouston and our partners at @TheJusticeDept @DAGToddBlanche. Outstanding work.

No one knew Buckley Carlson existed until about a year ago. He’s not “original MAGA.” Likewise, Megyn Kelly was busy promoting transgenderism in kids back then. All the people claiming to be “original MAGA” weren’t.

The America-hating Left is not attacking Tucker, Megyn, Fuentes, or Candace. They’re attacking Ben. Understand what’s going on here.

It's strange how Marjorie Traitor Greene was talking about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein 24/7 for the last year, but she's been completely silent about the victims of Eric Swalwell and Thomas Massie. Do you think she may have had ulterior motives? 🤔

Voters: "Insurance should cover hearing aids" Newsom: "No. Instead let's send $23,000,000 of taxpayer money to a nonprofit connected to my wife. They'll only provide 300 hearing aids, even though 20,000 kids need them. That's about $76k per hearing aid. Fuck the deaf kids."

Or… JD Vance graduated Ohio State following his enrollment in the Marines by graduating summa cum laude, which requires a 3.9 GPA or higher.

Surely someone on Candace’s team told her that this post was bonkers, right? So, to be clear: She obtained a leaked White House email, and instead of just showing us the email, she instead … Retyped a portion of the email and then took a screenshot of what she just typed? That makes literally no sense. Unless she doesn’t want to show us the alleged leaked email. Which begs the question: why? Probably because her leaked White House email hasn’t been verified, and maybe one of her fans dropped it in her email tip box—and she can’t show us the actual email because either it doesn’t exist … or she knows it will be debunked if she publishes it. Smells … fishy.

Call me crazy but I think attacking Erika Kirk after Charlie was brutally murdered makes you a bad person.

If Massie wins, he will vote with the democrats to impeach President Trump. If Ed Gallrein wins, he will vote to help Kentuckians. This vote is easy. Vote Ed Gallrein.

All Democrats have to do is be normal and focus on the cost of living. And they just can’t do it.