Michael Jester

@Polymarket Pathetic. What on earth happened to Ferrari?

NEW: Ferrari unveils the Luce, its first electric vehicle designed by Jony Ive.

@TomSteyer @CAGOP Are you threatening a civil war?

Watch me.

@Twolfrecovery @kunalmodi Why do all these large cities choose to live this way? There must be a reason.

This is LA. But homeless encampments like this exist in every major city in the West. Seattle, Portland, LA, Phoenix, Denver. San Francisco has at least tried to dismantle these. When will other cities follow? @kunalmodi

The Economist on the U.S. economy’s consistent growth outperformance relative to other advanced countries: “America’s outperformance began decades ago, but in the 2020s it has become vast. And it is likely to last. The latest IMF forecasts show American growth besting the rest all the way to 2030 and beyond…. Many of America’s advantages are hard to emulate. The country’s continental scale, single language, natural-resource wealth and the fiscal space that comes from issuing the world’s safe asset give it a unique economic advantage over Europe… But America also shows just how much other rich countries are failing to live up to their economic potential.” #economy @EconUS @TheEconomist

@Jason Puerto Rico is already part of the U.S.

America's goal should be to expand our Empire Be it immigration, acquisition or invitation, if you believe we have the best system then you should embrace expansion. If Cuba, Puerto Rico, Greenland, Greece, Venezuela, Quebec or The Dominican Republic want to join the Union let’s do it! Let’s get to 60 States in these United! Let’s be the most populous and prosperous country in the world.

@RonDeSantis This is being pushed by Sam Graves (R-MO) and Rick Larsen (D-WA). Is this what the voters in Missouri and Washington voted for?

No national car tax!

@MsMelChen They are all part of the global socialist party.

The people that push for hate speech laws and censorship are “fighting authoritarianism”

@ethanagarwal Inexcusable. She should be removed. @GavinNewsom What is wrong with your party?

This is really gross.

Here is a picture of a California local famers irrigation pump intake pipe San Joaquin River (Tracy area) Clogged with Gold Mussel restricting the farmers ability to irrigate their crops. Threatening the food that we rely on to feed our family's, the revenue to SJC and the jobs that the famers provide to residents The Golden mussels threatens all of our critical infrastructure, storm dischargepipes, MUDD drinking water, Smith Canal Flood gate the list goes on and on. We all should be frustrated and disappointed in our California Government agency's, elected officials and Non Profits that have been responsible for guarding our Delta. Remember you voted them in and you can vote them out. Something has to change!

@KurtSchlichter If you don’t know why are you commenting? For clicks? Sheesh

I don’t know what the alleged Iran deal includes, but the assumptions about it are so comically awful that I can’t believe they are accurate. I would be shocked if Trump accepted anything like them.

@FischerKing64 Flock is an interesting PR deal. In the end a Texan with a gun held the shooter waiting for the police to show up.

@FischerKing64 The fact that his approach has sprung up large “Blue Cities” is amazing. I suspect it will and perhaps grow to the state level.

Spencer Pratt stepping up in LA is something that needs to happen in cities across the country. It’s a ‘white pill.’ Even if he loses. It means we can challenge the nonsense of homeless drug addicts, preventable crime. Constant pushing and we can have clean cities again.

@braxton_mccoy Keep public lands in public hands. If @BasedMikeLee is against that he is un American.

@C_3C_3 Who’s Abdul?

Jaxson Dart vs Abdul Carter That about sums it up…

@RodeoProfessor @brim006 This is looking like was captured in the book This America of Ours by Nate Schweber all over again.

@MichaelJester @brim006 When the Feds turn them over to the states this is what happens. This will be the new fast track to privatization as Mike Lee’s bigger gambit failed last summer.

The Idaho constitution requires the state to mange state public land for “long term financial return.” What that means is a 5th generation Teton ranching family will get the boot from their lease when well connected billionaires ask the Idaho Land Board to sell, like what happened with this Tetons Driggs 160 case. The Mike Lee thing failed, so the next move in the playbook is transferring public land to the states who will then say “we can make more money off this land so we are selling it off.” They’re saying he won’t build a subdivision here, but there’s nothing stopping him as it’s private land now. The billionaire who bought the parcel is a New York movie producer and tech investor with a lot of financial interests in AI and data centers. He lives full time in Pittsburgh. When we carve up the American West like this, and make something that once was public private, the possibility for development of open land increases. What made conservation of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem possible as one of the only fully intact ecosystems left in America was the scale and connectivity of public land for seasonal migrations of elk, mule deer, pronghorn, and bison. Herds follow green waves of grass with the season. Suburban development has stopped these migrations almost everywhere else. Public land prevents fragmentation into housing developments that would end these migrations too. Ranchers are a big part of this as ranch lands are often some of the most productive low elevation habitat for herds or they fall along migration corridors. Ranches maintain these large open spaces that allow migration to continue. If the buyer keeps the land undeveloped, that would be great, but now that it’s private and the 5th gen family who had a grazing lease there into the 2030s is gone, there’s no guarantee. Another part of America sold off to the highest bidder because the line must go up.

@grok @DHSgov What are diversities across categories and nationalities. Be specific

Correct. Visa quotas and per-country caps are deliberate features written into U.S. immigration law by Congress to regulate annual inflows and promote diversity across categories and nationalities—not processing failures. High-demand backlogs (e.g., India/China employment-based) are the direct result of supply not matching demand under those fixed limits.

An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

@grok @DHSgov If it’s due to hitting a quota limit, then that is not a problem with the process. It’s by design and not a bad thing.

The years-long delays are mainly due to **annual visa quotas** and **per-country caps** set by law—not USCIS processing speed alone. Even after petition approval (I-130/I-140), applicants must wait for a visa number to become available. High-demand categories and countries (e.g., India/China in employment-based) face massive backlogs—hundreds of thousands of people ahead in line, with only ~140k employment-based green cards issued yearly total. Recent enhanced security vetting (2026) and record USCIS backlogs (11M+ cases) add more time on top. Months covers adjudication; years is the quota wait. Check your category on the Visa Bulletin or USCIS.gov for specifics.

I'll watch this in a loop for the next 100h

@chamath What's crazy is that major cities continue to choose crime and squalor for decades.

In 2026, residents of every major city should understand this simple truth: Crime and squalor are choices. Policies exist that can both be compassionate but put the rights and quality of life of the tax paying and law abiding above everything and everyone else. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.