PJ Pesce

It’s satisifying to call out wealthy influencers for hypocrisy, but “influencers in Cuba” isn’t just ordinary luxury tourism. These trips are typically organized with involvement from the Cuban government. They often include structured interactions... some participants meet with government officials, while others take part revolutionary training. They should all be questioned on return.

If you look into California's budget surplus and deficit, it enters a deficit after 2022. What happened? Medi-Cal budgets have increased exponentially year by year. California went from a $47 billion surplus in 2021 to a $55 billion deficit in 2024. This is one of the major factors why the fraud is in the billions and why the hospice and home health fraud schemes have run rampant and unchecked for so long. Imagine all the other fraud taking place inside Medi-Cal… Like and share this to show others the mismanagement of our tax dollars!

I'm watching the Harry potter movies with my son, and I can't express to you the degree to which this woman is the perfect embodiment of the spirit which has infected our culture.

@KNEECAPCEOL So you're supporting Gaza at a concert in Cuba for invited guests and regime figures only, to show solidarity with the Cuban people who weren't allowed to attend? Pretty much sums up your demented political views. x.com/i/status/20356…

@yungchomsky Meanwhile my people under repressive force and starvation due to the communist regime that Hasan defend. Free Cuba from the Castro Regime!

Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.

Average Annual Salary in Cuba: $156 USD Hasan Pikers Cartier Glasses: $1380 USD It would take the average Cuban 9 years to purchase Hasan Pikers glasses

Did you know the City of LA is raising your trash & parking fees to make up for their mismanagement of your tax dollars?

Any self-respecting civilization needs to reach at least Kardashev II

Formal announcement of the TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by @SpaceX and @Tesla, tonight around 8pm CT. Livestream on 𝕏. The goal is to produce over a TERAWATT of compute per year (logic, memory & packaging) with ~80% for space and ~20% for the ground.

@hyres_william @PyramidSongGirl How much $ would be, in your opinion, too much?

@PyramidSongGirl You look really bad whining about a bridge to save the lives of countless animals. Most human beings don't enjoy having to hit animals, and certainly dont' like the damage caused. Have you ever hit a deer? Yeah. A bridge is expensive to build, but we do this for a good reason.

im sorry but there is literally no way this costs $114 million dollars, even $2 million is stretching it, its a small concrete bridge with dirt on top

The bridge does not cost $114 million. The corruption costs $114 million. An almost-identical bridge in Colorado (The Greenland Wildlife Bridge) cost $15 million because it only had Colorado levels of corruption, instead of preternaturally Goku-level corruption of California.

There’s a lot of handwringing about @CBSNews shutting down CBS Radio. No one listens to the radio. To not shut it down would be like keeping a typewriter store open. Yes it’s sad people are losing their jobs. They’ll have to retire or learn a new skill like the rest of us. Be mad at @bariweiss all you want, she’s right. Radio is obsolete. It had to go.

Optimus+PV will be the first Von Neumann probe, a machine fully capable of replicating itself using raw materials found in space

Tesla’s TeraFab officially begins TODAY 🏭 This is make or break for possibly the whole AI industry Elon’s trying to build a 2nm chip fab from scratch. The most advanced process node on Earth. Only 3 companies can do this. TSMC spent $165 billion on their Arizona cluster alone. It took decades of institutional knowledge. Tesla has manufactured zero semiconductors. Ever. But they don’t really have a choice choice: Even in the best-case scenario where TSMC, Samsung, and Micron all max out production for Tesla, it’s still not enough chips for the Optimus and Cybercab roadmap…let alone the rest of the industry The AI5 chip this fab is designed to produce has 50x the compute of AI4. They need 100-200 billion of them per year. No foundry on the planet can commit to that volume on Tesla’s timeline. If it works, Tesla becomes one of maybe 4 entities on Earth that can produce frontier AI silicon in-house, and the only one that also builds the robots and cars. It would be game over

🚨BREAKING: Code Pink leftist activists are heading to Cuba to tell people living under communism how terrible Trump and America are. I wish Cuba would keep them.

Try to get a pothole fixed, crickets.