Joe Terry

My grandfather said he’d never move into a retirement home. He said, “Too expensive… and the food tastes like someone boiled sadness.” Instead, he checked into a beachfront hotel. We asked, “Grandpa, isn’t that even more expensive?” He smiled and said, “Not really. At the retirement home, I’d pay $200 a day for cold meatloaf and no visitors. But here? For $150 a day, I get ocean views, room service, fresh towels, a pool… …and suddenly all my grandkids remember I exist every weekend.” Then he leaned back in his chair and delivered the final line like a mob boss: “And if I die in the hotel lobby, the manager will actually look disappointed. But at the nursing home? They just call it Tuesday.”

This is what it’s all about. Pinch hitter Katie Hoffman with a two-run single for @SDCoyotesSB to tie the game 4-4 in the 7th. The emotion from her and the coach saying “I’m so proud of you.”

California gave ONE nonprofit $1 BILLION. To put solar panels on poor people's roofs. You know how much solar they actually installed? $72 million. That's it. So where the FUCK is the other $928 MILLION? I'll tell you exactly where. The same nonprofit that WROTE the law that gave them the money ALSO got the contract to run "community outreach." Same guy runs the nonprofit AND the program. Chris Walker. Two paychecks. Look it up. And their SISTER organization — same building, same staff, same donors — is a 501(c)(4) that endorses Democrat candidates and runs door-knocking operations in the EXACT SAME NEIGHBORHOODS. Connect the dots, idiot. You pay $7.50 a gallon for gas. Cap-and-trade takes a cut at the pump. That money flows to "climate justice nonprofits." Those nonprofits funnel it into Democrat get-out-the-vote machines. You. Are. Funding. The. People. Who. Are. Robbing. You. Every time you fill up your fucking tank, you're paying for a Democrat campaign volunteer to knock on a stranger's door and tell them how amazing Gavin Newsom is. $928 MILLION. GONE. And not one journalist in this state asked a single question until @jennyraeca and CAL DOGE pulled the receipts. You think this is the only one? There's a hundred more like it. This is how California works now. This is how a "blue state" stays blue when only 48% of the voters are Democrats. Wake the fuck up. @patrickbetdavid @VincentOshana @FoxNews @WallStreetApes @CalDOGEgov @elonmusk @libsoftiktok We're standing in front of the building right now. @raminrealtalk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@raminrealtalk

@skiistiredasf Beautiful!!! ✌🏼❤️

Lyle Gittens (108) and Eleanor Gittens (107), a beautiful Black couple from Miami, Florida, are celebrating over 83 years of marriage. Married in 1942, they hold the Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest living married couple.👏🏿❤️

The City of Los Angeles homelessness budget was $967.9 million in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The city permanently housed 7,396 homeless people that year — $130,868 per person. That's 59% more than the median household income in LA ($82,263).

🧵 THREAD: Who really is Karen Bass? Most people know her as the Mayor of Los Angeles, and some remember her botched handling of this year's wildfire crisis. But there’s a lot more beneath the surface. Let’s dig in. ⬇️ 1️⃣ Karen Bass once served as Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. government-funded NGO notorious for meddling in foreign governments under the banner of "promoting democracy." Translation: soft power regime change. 2️⃣ NED has been exposed repeatedly for funding color revolutions, pushing Western-aligned NGOs, and helping topple governments that don’t play ball with U.S. interests. Bass was right in the middle of it. 3️⃣ And then there’s the scholarship scandal. LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas got federally indicted for receiving a scholarship from USC’s School of Social Work and allegedly trading favors. Bass? She received the exact same scholarship. But no charges. Not even a slap on the wrist. 4️⃣ Why the double standard? When you're part of the machine... when you’ve got D.C. connections, NGO backing, and ties to the intel-adjacent nonprofit world: you get protection. She’s not a DEI figurehead - she's in the system. 5️⃣ This thread will walk through her career, her quiet rise through soft power institutions, and how she became a key player in the globalist swamp. Big thanks to @HTWardish for the lead. Let’s get into it. (Patience as I construct this thread live)🔻

Exactly

@Camp4 All signal no noise! 💪🏼

💪 The Ultimate Flex Once a year for his entire adult life, my dad would go to Kmart and buy seven pairs of Rustler brand blue jeans—the kind of denim that takes months to break in. And every day—in every season—he wore those blue jeans with cowboy boots, a pearl-snap western shirt, and a trucker cap. Dad looked like a bumpkin, thoroughly unimpressive in appearance. The last guy you’d expect to have a PhD in physics. As a teen, I often wished he was “cool” like other dads, with their executive haircuts, dapper clothing, and high-dollar watches. But over time I noticed something… In a room full of elites—business owners, professors, doctors—Dad was the one who held court. Beneath his unassuming exterior was a brilliant mind. He was a deep thinker, gifted writer, and captivating storyteller. Dad was a paradox: Zero style, all substance. He was the real deal and people were drawn to that. How do you become a person of substance—the type of person people admire and listen to intently? —Master a craft —Read and write —Limit bad habits —Do unusual things —Embody discipline —Never engage in gossip —Don’t play childish games —Speak the unvarnished truth —Be comfortable in your own skin The ultimate flex is... not flexing at all. It's letting your substance do the talking.

@threenotes_jp 💪🏼❤️🇯🇵

海外のみんな、日本を好きですか？

@harukaawake 💪🏼✌🏼❤️🇯🇵

🇯🇵 Currently, Japan is under a lot of pressure to adopt the failed immigration policies of the UK, France etc. However, no matter what they tell us, Japan will always remain unapologetically Japanese. We will never change who we are.

In january, the Islamic Iranian regime slaughtered 40,000+ unarmed protesters in the streets. 90 days later, the UK, France, and Spain elected them to lead the UN's human rights committee You can't make this up.

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

@OG_Wick0 🥹

I was thirty-eight when I pulled that little girl from a burning car on my way home from work. Her parents didn’t make it, and she clung to me like she had no one else. Everyone told me to step back, but she reached for me every time I returned. With no relatives found, I signed the papers and took her home. She became Avery—strong, disciplined, determined. Twenty-five years later, wearing her new badge, she whispered, “Dad… now let me protect you.”

@JoshWilliamsOH 💪🏼

I'm a black Republican who currently represents a majority-white district in the Ohio State House and is running to represent a majority-white district in Congress. The idea that black Americans need special districts carved out just for them is complete nonsense. It's a violation of the law and blatantly unconstitutional. Glad the Supreme Court made the right decision.

@realEstateTrent Same! 💯

Just got off the phone with a friend who’s on a college tour with his daughter. One of the stops: The University of California, Santa Barbara. I will just say this: When I was a student at Santa Clara University, we used to sometimes drive down there. In all my travels since - including Vegas/Thailand/Greece - I have never witnessed anything like what I saw at UCSB. It’s been a while, but I’d never seen that level of partying before, or since. Those Isla Vista kids are just next level.

@JesseKellyDC 💪🏼❤️🇺🇸

I love that there are multiple reports of Scott Bessent getting in fistfights with various Trump cabinet people. We’ve got a gay finance genius in the White House just throwing hands with anyone who steps out of line. It kills me.

I just spent 2 incredible weeks in Italy and it is so frustrating to come back to the U.S… How is it possible @RobertKennedyJr that the Italian food supply is so vastly superior. I literally ate bread at every meal, dessert multiple times per day, and generally ate way more than I do in the U.S. Not once did I have acid reflux. Not one headache, no digestive problems, and I didn’t gain any weight. If I ate the same way in the U.S. (I used to at times) I would have gone through a full bottle of Tums and Advil just to get through the day… WHY does the U.S. allow glyphosate in wheat, high fructose corn syrup in food and who knows what in our milk products? The difference in quality of life in Italy vs the U.S. is staggering from their common sense (anti corporate) food regulation. WHY aren’t more people upset about this? The U.S. is the richest country in the world and we eat like one of the poorest.

@Clara_Gold Truth

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

They named it the “Billionaire Tax” so you wouldn’t read it. I read it. Page 26 lets Sacramento convert it to a tax on EVERYONE without your vote. Same people. Same trick. They did it with AB 130. Newsom said he’d never sign a mileage tax. Page 137. Already signed. Now page 26. Your house. Your 401k. Your savings. No vote required. Watch before they bury it 👇 @raminrealtalk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@raminrealtalk

A Blue Jays fan caught an Aaron Judge home run ball, and gave it to a young Yankees fan wearing a Judge shirt 🥹 What a guy 👏