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@tommysantos14 Not far enough. They need to build new firewalls. New protections. News security against everything that has happened. Then they need to trace the money. Israel. Russia. China. All of it.

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

@EricLDaugh And I believe none of it.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump reveals Iranian regime leaders are calling him BEGGING for a "deal" "They're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal? I said, you're being A LITTLE BIT LATE!" 🤣🔥 "Their Navy is gone. 24 ships in 3 days. That's a lot of ships!" "Their anti-aircraft weapons are gone, so they have no Air Force. They have no air defense. All of their airplanes are gone." "Their communications are gone. Missiles are gone. Launchers are gone." "[We continue to] demolish the enemy FAR ahead of schedule." "We're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out like nobody thought was possible." "As soon as they set off a missile, within four minutes the launcher gets hit. They don't know what's happening. But we have the greatest military anywhere in the world!" "Other than that, they're doing quite well!" 😂

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked. I was reviewing their annual performance data. "Show me," I said. She pulled up the ratings. Diana: 2.8 out of 5. Below average on "collaboration." Low marks for "team player." "What's her actual performance?" I asked. "Exceeded every target. Landed our biggest client. Trained three new hires." "So why the low scores?" "Her peer reviews are dragging her down." I scanned the comments. "Too direct." "Challenges ideas too much." "Not supportive enough." "Let me talk to Diana," I said. "I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me. "Said our pricing model was broken. Got dinged for 'negativity.'" "What happened with the pricing?" "They finally fixed it six months later. After we lost two major accounts." "What else?" "I questioned why we needed eleven approvals for a simple contract change. Manager said I wasn't being collaborative." "Are you still giving feedback?" "No. I learned my lesson. Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great. My reviews are improving." "But nothing's actually improving?" "We're making the same mistakes. Just with better vibes." She chuckled. I went back to the boss. "Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said. "It measures compliance." "That's not true." "When was the last time someone got promoted for challenging bad ideas?" Silence. "When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?" More silence. "You've trained your best people to stay quiet. And your mediocre people to stay nice." A few months later, they redesigned the system. Added a category: "Constructive Challenge." Points for identifying problems early. Rewards for preventing costly mistakes. Diana got promoted. "What changed?" I asked the boss. "We stopped confusing agreement with alignment. Stopped mistaking silence for harmony." "And?" "Turns out our 'difficult' people were our most valuable. They actually cared enough to speak up." Here's the truth about performance reviews: Most companies don't reward performance. They reward performance theater. The person who says the meeting was great beats the person who says it wasted an hour. The person who agrees with bad ideas beats the person who prevents disasters. You think you're measuring contribution. You're measuring conformity. And your best people? They've already figured out the game. They're just deciding whether to play it or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

@wariocolosseum Board of Peace Headquarters

@elonmusk Can I buy it now and wait to activate it ?

Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter.

@GavinNewsom Better warm up the mapping in NJ NY and any other blue state.

Donald Trump is threatening Governors, demanding states rig their elections or there will be “consequences.” What the hell is going on in this country.

@TAMeltzer @OwenGregorian You need to build more. You need to regulate new construction with tax incentives to create a new class of rent stabilization for the next 20 years.

@FiDiKids @OwenGregorian What listeners don't realize is he can only appoint ppl to a board that votes on the already rent stabilized apartments... What's the solution for the housing crisis for the middle class?

Only 5% of New Yorkers Voted for Mamdani | Daniel Greenfield After Zohran Mamdani secured the Democrat nomination for mayor, millions of people around the country are wondering how the city that lived through 9/11 could have done this? The answer is it didn’t. Less than 30% of Democrats voted in the mayoral primary. Of those, supposedly, 43.5% voted for Mamdani. So some 12.9% of New York Democrats voted for Mamdani. 56% of registered voters in the city are Democrats so some 7.2% of city residents voted for him. New York City has a population of 8.2 million. Of those 432,305 or 5% voted for Mamdani. This isn’t a mandate. It’s a city that tuned out the election because it saw no one worth voting for and ceded the playing field to radicals and extremists. The media is doing its best to hype those numbers as a stunning mandate when what they really represent are high levels of turnout by Mamadani’s base and low turnout by everyone else. Who are those 5%? They aren’t New Yorkers because polls showed us Mamdani performing poorly with anyone over 50, with African-American, Latino and working class white voters. What’s left? White hipsters and Muslim immigrants. Mamdani’s base isn’t New Yorkers, it’s a coalition of white hipsters and Muslim immigrants, most of them weren’t even in the city during 9/11, like Mamdani, have no roots in the city, and no connection to its history. The quintessential New Yorker, as envisioned by a thousand Hollywood movies, TV shows and Broadway musicals, still exists, but is harder to find than ever. The city of those movies and shows can be glimpsed as a palimpsest under layers of chain stores, illegal migrants, social justice projects and vegan eateries before it vanishes again in the rain. What happened to New York is what happened to legendary cities across the country and around the world, from Philly to London, which is that the revival of the 90s was the final act in driving out its working class and middle class population. Rents soared until the only young people who could afford to live there were white hipsters and third world immigrants. And their politics became based on coalitions between the hipsters and the new arrivals. In New York City, as in London, it produced a Jihadist coalition that paved the way for a Muslim mayor. Even by 9/11, New York City already wasn’t ‘that city’. The Giuliani revolution that swept out bums and criminals was a victim of its own success. Much of the middle class had already left which was why so many of the victims of 9/11 were commuters. Those who didn’t were soon completely priced out. The working class, the Irish, Jewish and Italian men and women who appear as comic characters in countless shows, were soon priced out of everything except projects. Even as the world mourned for New York, the New Yorkers were disappearing. New York’s political system became a contest between establishment crooks from the old Democrat political machine and radicals from the new leftist insurgencies. Selecting Cuomo, an old crook with a venerable political lineage, to go up against a young hip radical was a political death wish. New Yorkers, with enough standards not to vote for Mamdani, were expected to go out and vote for a man they were almost certainly bound to hate and resent. The sudden unity behind Cuomo smacked of hypocrisy and made Mamdani seem like a genuine revolutionary. Most New Yorkers didn’t vote. They stayed home and allowed the 5% to have their way. Given a choice between two terrible candidates, in a city that has long since proven to be utterly corrupt, they opted out. They may have failed to protect the city, but the political establishment failed them badly by putting up Cuomo and seems likely to fail all over again as it now has to revert to holding up Mayor Eric Adams as the last best hope for New York City. In the 1991 Louisiana governor’s race between corrupt politicians Edwin Edwards and Neo-Nazi leader David Duke, bumper stickers read, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.” Voting for the crook may be important once more in New York City, but it’s not an ideal choice you want to give voters. Not unless you want below 30% turnout with the numbers favoring those who are most enthusiastic about their Neo-Neo-Nazi candidate and his plans to destroy the city. New Yorkers needed a real choice and instead they got a choice between eating a dead rat and committing suicide. Only 5% chose to commit suicide, but most didn’t want to eat a dead rat either. And the dead rat strategy is going to be a longshot in any political campaign. The best way to beat an evil candidate is with a better choice, not with a lesser evil. New York’s political system, without meaningful Republican participation, has decayed into a one-party system. Its already corrupt rules were further rejiggered to favor radicals with ranked choice voting, and whose elections are as shady as those of Chicago, Philly and Los Angeles. There’s no particular reason to trust the Mamdani election results than there is to trust the similar shady mayoral elections in Chicago and Los Angeles that gave their respective cities two radical destroyers in the form of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Mayor Karen Bass. It is all too possible that they will have a third candidate elected in a dubious election by a radical minority. Read more: danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/only-5…

@TAMeltzer @OwenGregorian Freeze the rent. Free this. Free that. He’s well spoken. Doesn’t have a grandfather’s vibe. That’s why he won. Didn’t matter much after you say freeze the rent.

@OwenGregorian And this is why the Democrats cannot get it together, instead of figuring out why he is attractive to younger people, getting people together and listening to find consensus...it's all about tearing each other apart... sad

@ryanobles @frankthorp Vote her out.

NEW: Sen. Lisa Murkowski stares me down for more than 10 secs after I ask her to respond to Sen. Rand Paul’s critique of the deal she struck to get her to a YES and pass the OBBB. “Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests.” w/ @frankthorp

@elonmusk No shit. Thanks for doge-ing and running.

Yes. A massive strategic error is being made right now to damage solar/battery that will leave America extremely vulnerable in the future.

@Ronxyz00 I’m paying 3.19 in Jersey right now.

@kirawontmiss 0.01

what would you do in this situation?

@RepJackKimble So much for freedom of speech.

Wow! This is devastating. When I worked at Mugs-n-Such, we sold so many World's Greatest Boss mugs. Now, they will all be confiscated.

"This is arguably the biggest grift in modern history": Scott Galloway, host of "The Prof G Pod" and "Pivot" podcasts, weighs in on new questions about the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures.

Deeply unserious times = Generational quote cards

Wow @GovKathyHochul takes a bus ride on a Friday when most of the working world is now working from home and say look no traffic. Stop it. The media praises her but that’s not reality. Let her do that same ride on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

@njburkett7 @lizzynyc89 @MTA @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY Now show the none A-list restaurants and ask them how business is? Or a parking garage or two about the reality of are cars coming in or is it just locals?

@lizzynyc89 @MTA @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY I never said it was a positive or a negative thing. I’m a journalist, that’s not up to me.

So we made it through the Lincoln Tunnel and into Manhattan in under four minutes. This was at 5PM on a Saturday night. #congestionpricing @mta @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY

@TAMeltzer @GovKathyHochul @AsAmNews What a scam. We all knew this was political hold fire til after the election. There should be a carve out for residents. Free entry in overnight entry too.

Glad for thoughts to the negative affects on Small Businesses. If @GovKathyHochul really cared to not hurting businesses there would be NO fees after rush hour 9p to 6a = new delivery hours New Yorkers go to court to halt congestion pricing asamnews.com/2024/12/21/nyc… via @AsAmNews

@bluhue123 Nope. It wasn’t a great campaign. It was star studded nothing ness. She didn’t put forth one solid policy. She didn’t combat Rumpers at his levels. She chose poorly for VP too. He didn’t deliver a state, he’s a nice guy but didn’t bring a base.

Kamala Harris ran a great campaign in a short time We're proud of VP Harris Drop a 💙 if you agree