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We've got ourselves a tie 👀 Min Woo Lee and Rico Hoey are your Kings of the Course for The Players Championship ⛳️

Ladder Challenge: Day 1 🪜 Never needed a winner more than now.

Hotel check-in and check-out should be backwards. Check in at 11 AM, check out by 3 or 4 PM. Because who wants to wake up on vacation at 9 AM rushing to pack and leave by 11? Let me sleep in and leave in the afternoon.

"FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, the new files show" per AP.

Donald Trump on home ownership: "People that own their homes — we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes, so that somebody that didn't work very hard can buy a home. [...] I don't want to drive housing prices down, I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes."

If you’re intentionally obstructing ICE from doing their job, you deserve to be shot. That’s where I’m at.

Most American patriots are convinced that if an authority figure points a weapon at you, your fate is sealed. No recourse to fight or fly for your life. Just take your bullet and rest forever. Any present-day patriot would describe the Boston Massacre as “FAFO 🤣”

Woman shot dead by ICE after trying to run over agents during operation in Minneapolis — DHS statement

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers. (Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates). More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.” Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. “Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China. This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness. That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Ted Cruz: "I think right now the 2 frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in 2028 are AOC and Mamdani. Now, he's not even eligible, but what do they care? Law doesn't mean anything to them. That's where their party is."

Top Trump adviser says president will focus on affordability next year — POLITICO