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@DogSongster @LittleDaequan @jasonrantz Not one of the most expensive neighborhoods - sorry. Really wealthy people don’t want to live there…

@LittleDaequan @jasonrantz Both sides of the lake. The money is on the water in Seattle. This is the newest neighbor we have, who purchased last year. Plenty of money still in Seattle. zillow.com/homedetails/25…

Washington’s ‘Millionaire Tax’ sends luxury home listings surging 65% overnight seattlered.com/taxes/washingt…

@DiopSiyare @MarioNawfal Exactly!!!!

That’s not how the math works @MarioNawfal I can’t believe you just tweeted this for the whole twitter to see your lack of basic know in macroeconomics. Actual combined GDP per capita: ≈ $37,000–$39,000. You don’t just sum up the GDP per capita of each and expect to get a combined GDP per capita

🚨🇮🇷 Iran just hit 9 countries in a single night, including 7 of the wealthiest nations on earth This was Tehran's answer to Israel striking the South Pars gas field, the world's largest, earlier today. The most intense retaliatory barrage of the entire war, and Iran is now the only country on the planet simultaneously attacking seven of the richest nations by GDP per capita: 🇮🇱 Israel: Ballistic missiles and cluster munitions over central Israel. Two killed in Ramat Gan. Four Palestinian women killed in the West Bank by an Iranian missile. 🇶🇦 Qatar ($110K GDP per capita): 14 ballistic missiles fired. Ras Laffan LNG hub suffered "extensive damage" confirmed by QatarEnergy. 🇦🇪 UAE ($100K): 13 ballistic missiles and 27 attack drones intercepted. Iran threatening imminent strikes on energy facilities. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia ($35K): Evacuation orders issued for Samref Refinery and Jubail Petrochemical Complex. Waves of missiles intercepted over Riyadh. 🇰🇼 Kuwait ($75K): Ballistic missiles intercepted. U.S. facilities targeted again. 🇧🇭 Bahrain ($65K): U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters under continued assault throughout the war. 🇴🇲 Oman ($32K): Drone strikes on industrial zones. Workers killed. The last neutral Gulf state is now taking fire. 🇯🇴 Jordan: U.S. bases struck as part of the widening multi-front campaign. 🇮🇶 Iraq: U.S. Embassy in Baghdad under nightly drone siege. Combined GDP per capita of the Gulf states under attack: over $417,000. These are some of the most prosperous, developed nations on earth, and Iran is hitting all of them simultaneously while its own economy collapses. This is Operation Madman at full throttle: torch the region's wealth until the world demands the war stops. Source: @rami_hashimi / Reuters / @itswpceo

@stevemgordon67 You are wrong. If you have a place in the PNW you can stay 182 days. The first paragraph only kicks in if you don’t.

@skaragiannis @stevesi Disagree. It so happens that Office is really excellent.

Steven, I’ve read this. Great post! What I have to say ( not directly related to your post - but your post reminded me that - is that Apple is the company of excellence and Microsoft was always the company of trying to be excellent but not achieving this excellence unless years passed. And when they passed, something else was again ahead of MS. The only thing I think they got so close to being excellent (but not user friendly enough) is Azure and that’s mainly because of people like Mark Russinovich

Wrote this.

@ramez Same answer in expert mode:

Call me crazy, but I have a slight concern about giving Grok control of anything in the real world.

@ramez I wonder how much prompting happened here - I am getting the expected response with good humor mixed in.

@CalltoActivism Note that used Boeing business jets are about 5-10 times more expensive than commercial ones with standard airline seating.

🚨BOOOOOM!!! Kristi Noem's job is in JEOPARDY after this. My god... WHITEHOUSE: Can you explain this? NOEM: I'm looking at a picture of an interior; it looks like a bedroom... WHITEHOUSE: Of an airplane. You're not familiar with that? NOEM: Ummm...

@stevesi The early rumors of „touch assisted vs touch first“ give me a lot of hope. Windows 8 big downfall was to force a touch experience that completely fell down for so many scenarios - especially on large monitors it was almost comically bad.

Solving “toaster-refrigerator” will be a significant “circle of life” moment for me. We introduced touch in Windows 7 (2009) and then baked it broadly across Windows 8 (2012). We had to solve for mouse-only, touch-only, or multimodal. Much more here …rdcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/102-experien… 1/2

@brad_kuhnstw @HerbsandDirt Also curious: why are you wearing a helmet when you already live in a tin foil pipe? Afraid of falling down?

Helps to gauge fear vs danger 2025 Measles cases 292, 0 deaths 2025 Hot dog choking 12 deaths 2024 Measles cases 285, 0 deaths 2024 Falling out of your bed 450 deaths 2023 Measles cases 58, 0 deaths 2023 Falling down a flight of stairs 1,500 deaths 2022 Measles cases 121, 0 deaths 2022 Bitten by mosquitos 270 deaths 2021 Measles cases 49, 0 deaths 2021 Vending machine crushing a person 12 deaths 2020 Measles cases 13, 0 deaths 2020 TV falling out of building deaths 15 deaths 2019 Measles cases 1,274, 0 deaths 2019 Cow goring deaths 21 deaths 2018 Measles cases 375, 0 deaths 2018 Autoerotic asphyxiation 150 deaths 2017 Measles cases 120, 0 deaths 2017 Bathtub deaths 350 deaths epidemics galore: we need to outlaw beds, mosquitos, hot dogs, cows, televisions, vending machines and bathtubs

Apparently a lot of measles is going around. And watch how many parents or caregivers are going to look at each other after about 3-4 days, and say: “That’s it? ______ was hardly sick. That’s all that happens? A slight fever & rash?” Every 70’s kid on the planet: “That’s it. We tried to tell you.” That’s going to be the best part of this when it all dies down.

@brad_kuhnstw @HerbsandDirt Or you could look at worldwide numbers and remember that worldwide vax rate is low. And observe that death in the USA in 2025 are unvaccinated.

@NeashamKris @voteholyk @stevesi A “real id” does not exist - it is a law - in WA state it comes as enhanced DL or EID for non drivers and is a proof of citizenship as it is not issued to non citizens and requires proof of citizenship at application. What am I missing?

@FloriVoss @voteholyk @stevesi Yes but a REAL id on its own(not enhanced) doesn’t prove citizenship.

The Save Act passed the house.🇺🇸 Here are my concerns. Take WA as a test case. In order to prove you are a citizen you would need an enhanced ID because a regular DL gets issued to illegals, those cost around $100. So, in effect, it could cost you $100 to vote in federal elections. Courts might not like this and it still has to get pass the Senate. So... I would suggest that the Senate add an amendment to allow for the cost of the enhanced ID(or whatever documentation needed to vote in statewide federal election) be covered for those that need it in the spending budget so it creates no perceived monetary restriction to voting while at the same time allowing the bill to pass with a simple majority because it is budget related. @LeaderJohnThune

@voteholyk But driving license law are not free either - are they an exciting poll tax?

@NeashamKris @voteholyk @stevesi Enhanced ID is a valid real id - that is so easy to find out! From WA.gov: What is an enhanced driver license (EDL)? The enhanced driver license (EDL) confirms your identity and U.S. citizenship. … is an acceptable REAL IDdocument …

@voteholyk @FloriVoss @stevesi That’s an enhanced id here in WA. We are one of the few states that offers enhanced IDs.

@NeashamKris @stevesi @voteholyk How so? From the save act “A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.”

@stevesi @voteholyk REAL id isn’t sufficient under the SAVE act!

@TheBorisBecker @AustralianOpen @Eurosport_DE @hbomax @DjokerNole @janniksin Love Becker & Petcovic - waiting for next episode. Aber Boris man, natürlich ist ein kleines Kind anstrengend - aber iss doch mal vernünftig damit Du noch lange kommentieren und vielleicht auch Coachen kannst!

Day 12 ⁦@AustralianOpen⁩ ⁦@Eurosport_DE⁩ ⁦@hbomax⁩ ⁦@DjokerNole⁩ ⁦@janniksin⁩

@10blended Tell me you don’t play tennis without telling me you don’t play tennis.

Sinner had 72 winners and 42 unforced errors to Novaks 46 and 42, he won 152 total points to Novaks 140. This can’t be happening this is not fair it just doesn’t make sense did we just see black magic on live television?

@Schwalm5132 @camhigby So you are saying ICE behaves like an occupying force in a foreign country?

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them. BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED Each area of the city has a signal or several signals. Let’s start with a screen recording of all members of the south side group to start.

@grok @RichScotford @JDVance @grok can you find out how many of the 2 million non formal removals where returns?

JD Vance's claims: 1. Obama admin included border turnaways (returns) in deportation totals, inflating numbers compared to formal interior removals needed now. Verified: Obama's ~5M total included returns; formal removals ~3M (Migration Policy Institute). 2. Deportations orderly in non-sanctuary cities; resistance in places like Minneapolis. Accurate: Sanctuary policies limit ICE cooperation, potentially leading to more direct actions (American Immigration Council). Overall, claims hold up based on DHS data and policy analyses.

This argument is just entirely fake, for two reasons. 1) In the Obama administration, they counted being turned away at the border as a deportation. A person would show up, be sent back, and counted as a deportation. We have to do deportations from the interior of the country because Biden and Harris let them walk in. 2) In the cities that are not sanctuary cities, the deportation process is orderly and normal--like most law enforcement. In Minneapolis and a few other sanctuary jurisdictions, local jurisdictions and a few leftwing agitators have decided to wage war on all immigration enforcement officers. They are hoping that a little chaos will convince us to give up on immigration enforcement. They are wrong.

@JustTheTweets17 Of course I would insist on unvaccinated blood, but maybe you should ask yourself how all your medical insights ended up with a husband that needs a heart surgery…

My husband is scheduled for open heart surgery in a couple of weeks. I wanted to be a directed donor so he would be assured he is getting unvaccinated blood. The Gulf Coast Regional Blood bank allows for this, but the hospital doesn't. So now my husband faces a major heart surgery while also having the concern of getting vaccinated blood that could cause many issues down the road. This is the sickening state of our medical system.

@mbrushstocks @ankurnagpal @grok please answer where exactly margin interest is deductible

@ankurnagpal Where exactly is margin interest deductible?

A financial engineering trick used by wealthy people: If you have a large balance in your brokerage account, you can borrow money at US treasury rates (~4%) This is cheaper than a mortgage, and you can deduct the interest you pay as a capital loss! Here's how it works: