Lee-Judy Bachand
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I love my @ybertruck but I really have to ask:
How on earth can it navigate me to my house where it knows it's my house because I have it marked as home. Then when it pulls in the driveway it opens the garage door. It knows that I'm at my house and that my garage door is open because it opened it. Yet it refuses to pull itself into the garage and actually park itself.
Make it make sense.
Especially knowing that it can drive me hundreds of miles in complex traffic and not skip a beat
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@mikepat711 Does the sharp right turn ahead sign have an effect?
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@mrmckee When he was on the PGA tour he remarked he didn't have any friends there.
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Serious. Has a spine. No wonder he’s leaving Congress.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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🇺🇸 Elon says Tesla robotaxis will be widespread across the U.S. by the end of this year, up from 3 cities in Texas where they're already running with no safety monitors and no one behind the wheel.
In April he said a dozen states or more. Now he's saying nationwide. The timeline is tightening.
Tesla's FSD already has 1.3 million subscribers at $99 a month.
FSD approval in China is pending, but when it comes through, the timeline Elon is already promising could move even faster.
Source: Barron's
Elon Musk@elonmusk
FSD V14.3.3 is a banger
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@SenatorSlama She wants other taxpayers to pay for her internet in the country. Just another politician. Former, at least.
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Generally, I love Starlink. It’s fast, reliable, and my husband and I run our law firm from home with it. HOWEVER- it’s monopolized internet in rural areas.
Today, we received notice our internet bill is going up another $500/year. Don’t like it? Too bad. You have no other options. Nebraska gave up $300 million in federal rural internet funding for fiber because “Starlink fixed it.”
This was a mistake that will cost Nebraskans dearly in the long run.

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@peterjkostis @david59duval My wife and I agree. David is good.
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For obvious reasons, I choose to not comment on golf announcing but I'm making an exception. Doing just a couple of events a year is, in itself, quite difficult but @david59duval impressed me this week. In an age where many announcers are either scripted or tend to do radio and tell you what you just saw, David did a very good job of letting the pictures tell you "what" and he explained the "why". Well done sir.....
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Uber is going to be bought by Google/Waymo, Amazon or Tesla/SpaceX in the next year.
For a “buy it now” price of $250b, one of those three companies gets a $12b a year free cash flow machine with $70b in revenue — and hundreds of millions of global customers
This is the most obvious M&A deal since Instagram, Android and YouTube transformed Meta and Google
Discuss
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@SaraEisen He took from the savers and gave to the borrowers. Wrecked some retirement plans.
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Jay Powell’s last day as Chair is tomorrow, wrapping up 8 years of leading the Federal Reserve. His legacy: a champion for Fed independence, saving the world economy from a deep depression during the COVID shutdown, and fighting 41-year high inflation without wrecking the economy or jobs, achieving the rare soft landing.
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@JeffSmithGolf No football, basketball, or baseball player has ever switched teams for more money. And no journalist has ever made a switch.
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Golf Channel drops another masterclass in serious sports journalism! 🙄
Want balanced analysis on the future of LIV Golf? Nah. Let’s wheel out the two biggest smear merchants in the game — Eamon Lynch and Brandel Chamblee — for another circle-jerk of hot takes and selective outrage.
Lynch, especially, rolling up with those painfully pre-written “one-liners” that land like a shank into the water — “picking one snowflake out of a blizzard,” “selling a deck on the Titanic”… bruh, we can hear the script in your head. Next-level cringe.
Peak professional coping.
Golf Channel: where credibility goes to die. 🤡
#LIVGolf #PGATOUR #PGAChampionship
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@SaraEisen Not to worry because when the D's control Washington all will be forgiven with a huge bailout for all the Blue cities. Just a matter of time.
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Congratulations on kicking the can down the road.
The Mayor’s deficit closing relies primarily on a huge bailout from Albany ($8b over 2 years) and delayed payments like pension costs which just get stretched farther into the future
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing and city infrastructure. When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.
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@greta He robbed the savers to help the borrowers. Don't as them about Powell.
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@TaraBull She is the ultimate channel changer, no matter the topic.
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@avoidstupidity @fivepointscap He went to JP Morgan but no inside on why.
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$BRK.B $BRK.A
Starting to think that Berkshire might be stronger with Abel as CEO. Buffett is the greatest investor of all time, and he’s my personal investing hero. I have the utmost respect for him.
But he’s 95 years old. Just imagine if a 95 year old was running a different trillion dollar company. It would be insane.
I know Abel was already in charge of the operating companies, but he might have more autonomy to make bigger decisions now that he’s CEO. I wouldn’t be surprised if we started seeing more growth in the OpCos due to better use of technology and other improvements Abel can now make.
On the investment side, unleashing Todd and Ted will expand Berkshire’s investable universe. Especially in a world where the S&P is increasingly dominated by tech companies, it’s necessary for Berkshire to expand their opportunity set if they ever want to actually put the $400B to work.
Abel could be Berkshire’s Tim Cook. Not the visionary, not the legendary talent. But an extremely efficient operator that will produce huge shareholder value.
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@KYRRadio I believe an actuary determined the overfunding. It was substantial.
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@TwitFormGolf What would you expect them to say when they’re raiding pensions? Sane government that passed a bill promising no income tax ever. Two years ago
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Wake up Washington. They’re raiding pensions of 70 yr old first responders. If you think they’re not coming for you you’re not paying attention
Jesse Proudman@jesseproudman
They'll take money from any one and every one... You can't possibly imagine they say "Millionaire's Tax" and only believe they intend to apply it to $1M a year in come.
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@shanerkidwell The pension is 100% funded so the firefighters get their promised pension. They would never get the overage if I understand correctly. This overfunding is a real rarity as most are underfunded. The politicians should look at an underfunded pensions as a use for the excess.
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Washington just became the first state in U.S. history to terminate a public employee pension plan.
The plan belongs to retired police officers and firefighters. LEOFF Plan 1 was 160% funded as of June 2024 per the state's own actuarial valuation. It had not required a single contribution in 25 years. By 2029 it was projected to reach 200% funded with a $4.3 billion surplus.
The legislature terminated the plan, swept $3.9 billion, and is using $880 million of it to refill a rainy day fund it already drained to cover a deficit it created.
Days ago, retired first responders including former Congressman Dave Reichert sued the state to stop it. The bill passed the House 55-39 and was advanced out of Appropriations without a public hearing. Every yes vote was a Democrat. The governor signed it in April.
I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive.
I sacrificed my body and a good chunk of my life for our state, they committed to providing a benefit for me and raided it.
@GovBobFerguson @komonews @KIRO7Seattle @KING5Seattle @fox13seattle @seattletimes

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