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In 1985, on my 17th birthday, my father took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the old Cinerama theater in Honolulu, the one with the big curved screen. On the way there, we passed the Temple Emanu-El in the Pali Valley. He tells me he regularly attends services there. What?

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated. I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy. But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay. First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories. Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living. Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment. I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.

Today, Ukrainian UAV operators are able to control FPV drones from thousands of kilometers away. It is extremely safe while still operating with zero signal delay. Ukraine is shaping a completely new standard of modern warfare right now — one that no other army in the world currently possesses. The video features excerpts from a report by @BILD journalist @JulianRoepcke (youtube.com/watch?v=YBPP_7…), explaining how this remote drone control system works and why it helps save pilots’ lives. Watch, share, and subscribe!

@USAMaritimeX The fact that "Idaho Potato Ship" is located in Idaho and in Florida is kind of interesting. I assume that the Florida dot is likely a mis-print and it should read #25: Eastern Shipbuilding.

If I was Under Secretary of the Navy, this would’ve been in the 2026 shipbuilding plan. This is why I can never be Under Secretary of the Navy. What did I miss?

Debt pay down ✅ @RonDeSantis

Ukraine continues to modify the already most advanced range of interceptor drones varieties on the planet. Now, like shooting fish in a barrel.

245 years ago today, a 35-year-old Spanish nobleman fired a single artillery shell that redrew the map of North America, broke British power in the Gulf of Mexico, and arguably saved the American Revolution. His name was Bernardo de Gálvez. He's not in your textbook. He should be. When Spain entered the war against Britain in June 1779, the American cause was bleeding out. Washington's army was unpaid and shrinking. The Continental dollar was worth pennies. The British had taken Savannah and were preparing to take Charleston. France was helping, but France alone couldn't bankrupt the British Empire. Spain could. And in New Orleans sat the man who would prove it. Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid was 33 years old, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, a battle-scarred career officer who had been wounded fighting Apaches in northern Mexico and Algerians in North Africa. The day he learned Spain had declared war, he didn't wait for orders from Madrid. He raised an army of Spanish regulars, Louisiana Creoles, free Black militia from New Orleans, Acadian refugees, German settlers, and Choctaw scouts, and he went on the attack. In three months he took Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. The next year he took Mobile. The British presence on the Gulf shrank to one last fortress. Pensacola, the capital of British West Florida, defended by Major General John Campbell with 1,500 redcoats, the 3rd Waldeck Regiment of German mercenaries, loyalist battalions from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a powerful alliance of Creek and Choctaw warriors led by the brilliant mixed-race chief Alexander McGillivray. Gálvez arrived off Pensacola in March 1781 with 7,000 men and a fleet. The Spanish naval commander, Admiral Calbo de Irazábal, refused to enter Pensacola Bay. The entrance was narrow, raked by British guns at Fort Barrancas Coloradas, and treacherous with sandbars. So Gálvez did something insane. He boarded his own little brig, the Galveztown, hoisted his personal pennant, and sailed her into the bay alone, in full view of the British batteries, daring the Royal Navy to sink him. The British fired and missed. The Spanish fleet, shamed, followed him in. For this he was awarded the right to put the words "Yo Solo," meaning "I alone," on his coat of arms by the King of Spain. The siege ground on for two months. Gálvez was shot in the abdomen and the finger directing artillery and refused to leave the field. The British defenses at the Queen's Redoubt, also called the Crescent, held against everything thrown at them. And then, on the morning of May 8, 1781, a Spanish howitzer crew lofted a shell over the parapet. It dropped, by pure luck or perfect skill, directly into the open powder magazine. The explosion killed roughly 100 defenders in a single instant. Waldeck grenadiers, British regulars, loyalists, all gone. The blast tore the redoubt's wall open like paper. Spanish grenadiers and Louisiana militia poured through the breach within minutes and turned the captured British guns on the inner works. Campbell knew it was over. The next morning, May 9, white flags went up. By May 10 the entire province of West Florida belonged to Spain. Over 1,100 British troops marched out as prisoners of war. The strategic consequences were catastrophic for Britain. The Gulf Coast was lost. The Mississippi was a Spanish river from source to sea. Britain could no longer reinforce its southern armies by sea from the Caribbean, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean squadron had to be redeployed. Five months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, in a siege funded in part by 500,000 silver pesos that Gálvez and the people of Havana raised in a matter of days to pay French Admiral de Grasse's fleet to come north. Without that money, no French fleet. Without the French fleet, no Yorktown. Without Yorktown, no independence on those terms. Gálvez was made Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galveztown. The bay he charted in Texas still bears his name, Galveston. His portrait hangs in the United States Capitol by act of Congress. In 2014, he was made an honorary citizen of the United States, an honor given to only eight people in American history, including Lafayette, Churchill, and Mother Teresa. He died of yellow fever in Mexico City at 40 years old, three years after the war ended. Most Americans have never heard his name.

Shell is eyeing Venezuelan gas and routing it through Trinidad. Shell CEO Wael Sawan confirmed the company is in active talks with Venezuela's government to advance offshore gas projects. The plan: produce Venezuelan offshore gas and channel it through Trinidad and Tobago's Atlantic LNG facility for export. The logic is straightforward. Atlantic LNG already exists. The infrastructure, the offtake contracts, the export terminal all in place. Venezuelan offshore gas fields sit close enough to Trinidad to make a pipeline connection viable without building a greenfield LNG facility from scratch. Shell avoids the capital cost. Venezuela monetises stranded resources it has no way to develop alone. Trinidad gets throughput to keep its underutilised facility running. But the risk is real. Any Shell involvement would require either specific OFAC licences or a broader sanctions relief framework. Sawan flagging it publicly on an earnings call suggests Shell believes the political trajectory is moving in the right direction. Watch Washington's posture on Venezuela sanctions over the coming months. That is the actual gating factor.

🚨 ARGENTINA PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI says it absolutely PERFECTLY "I thought being on the left was a mental problem...what I discovered is that being on the left is a DISEASE of the SOUL." "The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, unequal treatment before the law. They are very violent." "And since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence." "Lefties always resort to physical violence and all kinds of violent manifestations because they are unable to refute the arguments!" 🇺🇸🇦🇷

@sot1977 @iowahawkblog Florida guy weighing in here. Our highest point is 345 feet above sea level. The highest/lowest points in Nebraska are: 5424 feet (over there by Wyoming/Colorado) and 840 feet down by the Missouri River. We have hills here in the Panhandle, but really, we're FLAT awesome!

@iowahawkblog I vote Nebraska because Florida starts getting hilly north of I-10.

The flattest state in the country is Florida and it's not even close

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🧵🇱🇧 The WSJ's reconstruction of Black Wednesday is a human document. One hundred targets in ninety seconds. Three hundred and fifty seven dead. A pharmacist buried under her own ceiling who lived because she happened to be three steps from where the blast hit. Under the reporting sits a doctrine. That doctrine is what deserves attention.👇🏻

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The Russians are mass producing basic UAVs to act as decoys and saturate Ukrainian air defenses. The “Gerbera” drone is described as the little sister of the Shahed drone, and is cheaply made of plywood and foam.

> from Florida > boss is a real estate developer > works multiple odd jobs > DJs on the side Rubio is the most Cuban-American person in human history

JetBlue just pulled the ultimate power move. Hours after Spirit Airlines went dark, JetBlue swooped into South Florida with a full-blown rescue mission—and they're not playing small. Here's the breakdown: $99 rescue fares for anyone holding a valid Spirit ticket. Same route, same dates, just call 1-800-JETBLUE. Flying Fort Lauderdale to San Juan? Blue Basic is capped at $299 through May 8. But that's just the warm-up. JetBlue is exploding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International—adding 11 brand new cities, extra flights on existing routes, and pushing nearly 130 daily departures this summer. That's a 75%+ jump from last year and their biggest FLL operation EVER. CEO Joanna Geraghty put it plainly: "South Florida is a key market... we're stepping up, adding service, and keeping fares competitive." (Translation: we're taking over.) Fun fact? Fort Lauderdale was JetBlue's very first destination back in 2000. Now they're reclaiming it after Spirit held 27% of that market. Oh, and they're not leaving Spirit's crew behind either—jumpseat access for two weeks and job interviews for qualified staff. This is how you turn a market collapse into a masterclass. 👇

The retired gigolo took me by surprise. I thought I had an ok grasp on the craziness that is the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) but, while looking into the devastating effects of Super Typhoon Sinlaku on CNMI, up popped Vin Armani. (I cover some of the below on the @batchelorshow with @GordonGChang : fdd.org/in_the_news/20… ) The route that took me there started with trying to find out what happened to David Karsh, the fired Assistant Attorney General of CNMI. Through a series of legally peculiar twists, Karsh had been brought in from outside CNMI to prosecute the case against former CNMI Governor Ralph Torres (2015 -2023). Under Torres, the Chinese casino in Saipan went gangbusters, including running billions of dollars from Chinese high rollers through the US economy. Torres' relatives made good money from those tied to the casino. bloomberg.com/news/features/… And the Chinese company itself illegally funded Torres’ political campaigns. kanditnews.com/evidence-shows… Also, a massive amount of federal covid support was poorly accounted for. In a small but indicative example, a company (owned by the brother of the ex-wife of Governor Torres’ brother) billed CNMI $31,567 for four men, each working under two hours, to clean Department of Corrections locations. That’s around $4,300 an hour for sanitation services. kanditnews.com/wp-content/upl… When the next Governor, Arnold Palacios, came in and saw the (lack of) books, he repeatedly requested federal government investigations to find out what happened to US taxpayer money. He estimated as much as $1.6 billion had not been properly accounted for. Given CNMI has a population of around 50,000, that would make Minnesota fraudsters look like pikers. Torres was charged in CNMI, but he cut a deal with Karsh that amounted to a tickle on the wrist. Then Karsh was fired. The question was, what happened to Karsh? Someone in CNMI told me had stayed in CNMI and had been seen recently with Vin Armani. Then added, in passing, “don’t pay attention to the P Diddy thing about Vin”. Pardon me? Turns out Vin was not just any retired gigolo, he was a star of the tv series Gigolos. He retired and moved to CNMI with his Russian wife and kids. And converted to Orthodox Christianity. youtube.com/watch?v=mly7hY… And started the US’ first stablecoin. marianaspress.com/news/article/c… Another person involved in the crypto venture is the Vice President of the Senate of CNMI, who is also the brother CNMI’s representative to US Congress (herself a staunch defender of China's visa-free access to CNMI). This really needs a flow chart. Why is all this relevant now? Torres is running for governor again – and is leading. And he’s getting involved in the resource flows for the recovery effort. Bottom line? CNMI desperately needs federal Treasury/DOGE/Fraud investigations. Any federal money sent there needs, at the least, to have an Inspector General or Comptroller attached (and possibly something more). And the Inspector General of the @Interior should immediately investigate conflict of interest issues within Insular affairs. Not only is this a national security issues, the honest Americans of CNMI deserve better than this. And so do other US taxpayers.

And it appears that a really great company from Holt, Florida did some of the work on that truck Yota Mafia. (Where I got my lift and ARB bumper installed.) If you need top-quality work done on your off-road Toyota near the FL panhandle, these guys: yotamafia.com

My son has taken the Tacoma out to the Texas Toyota Jamboree this weekend and he seems to be having fun. Also: facebook.com/share/r/1ChwXe…