John Meyers

@Timmyjaysee123 @otter401 google.com

@cogmeyer @otter401 What’s the median income in AZ?

The slow approval process for CA Forever wasn't the driver of Saronic's decision to choose the Port of Brownsville location in spite of claims to the contrary. The real pivot point in the negotiations was the union requirement (both constructing the shipyard and building the ships) attached to California Forever vs complete non-union in Texas The son of one my best friends is on Gov Abbott's staff and was part of the TX process. His words: -California Forever was never a serious choice for Saronic and was only used as leverage to negotiate the the best deal in TX. Saronic never really considered doing their shipyard in CA. TX knew CA Forever was a bluff card. -Port of Brownsville shipyard will be built with non-union construction labor at a much lower cost than a union shipyard at CA Forever -Actual ship building at the Port of Brownsville will be done with non-union labor at a far lower cost whereas California Forever would have required a union ship builder workforce At the end of the day there was a massive difference in construction and ship building costs between Port of Brownsville and CA Forever and it made TX the clear choice for Saronic Had CA gotten the approvals in place timely it would not have changed Saronic's ultimate decision. CA Forever is/was significantly non-competitive from a cost perspective and that drove the decision.

Yeah we've seen mfr's absorb cost of union construction. And admittedly unions may bring some benefits for this kind of large scale, time critical, complex construction. But no unions for AZ fab manufacturing, like every other US fab. The one exception, I think Micron may have screwed themselves with labor in NY. I dont think they have the political influence to force a non union factory into a historically pro-union state.

@cogmeyer @otter401 All the chip fabs in AZ are being built using union labor….

@GunnelsWarren Newsom already increased Medi-Cal spending over 3X. Zero need for new taxes on anybody, including gazillionaires.

If California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax wins, Sergey Brin, worth $276 billion, would owe $13.8 billion. He’d still be worth $262 billion & healthcare would be saved for millions. Instead, he says he fled to NV & is spending $82 million against it. Brin is the face of greed.

@Kjadams1961 @moseskagan I think ive been tested on this for ESA pets, another popular scam.

@moseskagan I get this all the time. Always respond yes, never hear from them again. They pay Law school students to make these calls. Won’t be long before Claude is doing it If not already.

In Los Angeles, if your leasing agent responds to "Do you accept Section 8?" with anything besides "Yes we do", he/she is putting you at *enormous* risk of being sued.

@AdamNMayer True. But in cities where they cower in fear over datacenters, imagine how apoplectic they would be over giant chip fabs.

I know my California urbanist/YIMBY friends don’t want to hear this: the problem is organized labor.

@SenSanders DSA so wacked even Bernie won't join the party. Think about how effed up that is.

Sergey Brin is worth $276 billion. He could save healthcare for 3 million people. Instead, he’s spending $82 million against California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax. He’d rather see low-income Americans die & suffer than pay his fair share of taxes. That is a moral obscenity.

I am a lifelong Democrat. I served on President Clinton’s National Security Council and in the State Department under Madeleine Albright. I am also a lifelong human rights and civil rights advocate. But every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA represents a fundamental threat to our party and our country. This is not a story about a few idealists seeking to reduce healthcare costs. It is about a small group of radical extremists pursuing a strategy to take over the Democratic Party and ultimately our country in order to impose an agenda that would devastate our economy and fundamentally dismantle our system of government. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the full conversation between Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and New York City DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo and judge for yourself.

In a parallel world with better California governance, the San Francisco Bay Area or Greater Los Angeles would have been obvious candidates for the high-tech manufacturing boom. Instead, the American Pearl River Delta seems to be happening here.

I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas. I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life. But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE. If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas. On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas. They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters. Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas. Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice. But we see you. Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes. They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates says school choice "will destroy any mention of public schools." She sends her kid to a private school.

@mattdorsey @VanJones68 Good luck, your gonna need it.

THIS! 👇 Thank you, @VanJones68!

@JoshMeyer Its not raw iron. Would need to apply some energy to break the existing bonds and attach an oxide. Here's the iron bisglycinate molecule, (assuming that the type of iron supplement your taking)

Why don't iron tablets rust though?

@ggreenwald Learned from the best

I'll admit to having struggled to find coherence or consistency in liberal rules of identity politics. But even given this "complexity,", I will never understand why AOC has license to use a fake black preacher accent when speaking to black audiences:

@BjornLomborg Can we claim less global fire this year is also due to climate change? Or can we only claim climate change in years with more global fire?

Less Global Fire Halfway through 2026, the world has burned at record-low levels for more than three months Every continent is below average, and Africa, Americas, and Europe are at record lows Media only showing stuff burning leaves us badly informed gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/gwis.stat… You can see all the references in my Twitter thread: x.com/BjornLomborg/s…

@gov_fails Remember, its only climate change when something unusually bad happens.

“But obviously climate change will lead to more wildfires.” - The Climate Science™️

@Slav636 @HistoryBoomer How about you start in Australia first, we'll watch.

@HistoryBoomer Of course not. Sweden is corrupt capitalist society. True people’s Democratic Republican socialism has never been achieved yet, and the United State of America has the best chance to lead all peoples to it.

The new DSA platform is something. The government will take over food production and sales, ditto energy, medicine, airlines, and housing. Universal rent control, the end of capitalism, and a classless society (stated elsewhere in the platform). This doesn't sound like Sweden!

@96hoya For decades Malaysia wouldn't allow visitors who had an Israel stamp in their passport. My company had factories in both countries, so this was a real issue. Think about the level of Malaysian antisemitism to deny entry for people jusy because they visited Israel.

If the United States was smart they would offer citizenship to any of these people who are deported.

It's remarkable that the US is only experiencing peak 18-year-old now. Likely the US will not see as many people aged 18 again. Aging in action. Source: linkedin.com/posts/ericfinn…

@simongerman600 Is there data for the US w/ corresponding criteria (top 3 globally or #1 in N America)?

Germany’s industrial strength isn’t just BMW, Siemens or Volkswagen. It is built on thousands of “hidden champions”: highly specialised, mid-sized firms that quietly dominate niche global markets and keep the world’s supply chains running.

@leevalueroach @MarcumLloyd And he would have to deal with perhaps the worst union labor forces in the country. These guys would rather see their towns disappear off the map than give up a concession.

@MarcumLloyd It needs to be done. $CLF has a $5 billion market cap. If Elon bought CLF, it would be like spending $20 bucks. Then he could control one of the most important chokepoints in American industry. Imagine the chaos you could cause.

If I were Elon Musk, I'd roll up the entire steel industry. Step 1: Buy Cleveland-Cliffs. Instantly control ~60% of US blast furnace capacity. Step 2: Vertically integrate — feed cheap steel straight into Tesla. Step 3: Use my bottomless bank account to sell steel below cost to everyone else. Nippon just paid $15B for US Steel? Bleed them dry. I can run at a loss forever. They can't. Step 4: When they go bankrupt, buy the scraps. Now I'm Andrew Carnegie with a Twitter account. Step 5: Jack prices 20x for Ford and GM while supplying myself at cost. Their cars get more expensive. Mine don't. Endgame: 100% of steel. 100% of autos. One rollup, two monopolies.