Elliott Schwartz

Finance, Research, Comms, Policy

Arcadia mayor Eileen Wang admits acting as foreign agent for China in plea deal trib.al/sEhGV17

The scene in the coming rescue movie at Skunk Works when the nerdy scientist explains quantum magnetometry to the military brass is going to be amazing 🇺🇸

Google meet recording.

The rescue mission did have one critical failure. When U.S. forces destroyed the aircraft, they missed the most sensitive material of all. Basij militiamen combing through the wreckage have recovered a pair of red, white, and blue American underwear. Expect a full reverse-engineering program. If we don't take immediate action, this technology transfer will cost us. We simply can't allow our cotton blends to encase the private parts of the enemy.

U.S. DECEPTION CAMPAIGN: The CIA leaked through multiple sources that they were trying to move a valuable package out of the country through a maritime exfil, I'm told by a senior U.S. official. This was meant to draw the Iranians away from the area where the U.S. crew member was located. The deception campaign worked.

Exclusive audio: Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad" via @alanagoodman @FreeBeacon - freebeacon.com/democrats/ther…

American history meets @INDYCAR horsepower. Introducing the 1.7-mile, seven-turn Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. street circuit.

“Who is going to reinforce the specific bias i have?”

The great @schoolofwarpod had the Iron Beam creator on in January getting deep on all the details and future implications of defense. Awesome to see it successfully zapping missiles now in real conflict at lower cost than the missiles it is taking out.

Women laughing on a rooftop in Tehran: “They hit the Supreme Leader compound.” 28 Feb 2026

Unbelievable 😂 Iranian high school students are THANKING president Trump for striking the regime in Iran. “I love Trump!” One student says

Holy smokes. This might be the most American thing I've ever seen. Congrats to these guys 🇺🇸

JACK HUGHES AMERICA HERO 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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John Ekdahl was my best friend. He died today of cancer, at 47. I know that some of you knew and loved John, so I thought I’d let you all know. I have set up a GoFundMe for his family, which is linked in this tweet. John and I “met” on Twitter about 13 years ago, and then, a couple of years later, met in person at the 2014 NRA Convention in Indianapolis. We quickly realized that we had a lot of the same interests—technology, amusement parks, baseball (we were both Yankees fans)—and soon started texting about everything and nothing. In 2015, when I published my book, the first stop on my promotional tour was in Jacksonville, where John lived. I asked him which hotel I should stay at, and he said that, instead, I should stay with him and his family. So I did. From that moment on, he and his wife (and their two kids—one of whom had just been born) became my closest friends. When, in 2017, my wife and I decided to move to Florida, John barraged me with propaganda about Jacksonville, and invited us to stay for a few days so that he and his wife could show us around. We were sold. John was like that. For the first few years after I moved to the United States, I wasn’t into the NFL. In 2016, this started to change, so John began a remote campaign to turn me into a Jaguars fan. “Jags are on,” he’d text apropos of nothing on a Sunday, even though he knew that, from Connecticut, the chance of my getting the game was close to zero. As part of this effort, I got weekly AFC South updates, a series of memes about Blake Bortles, and an introduction to the perfidious cabaret act that is the Tennessee Titans. John even invited me down to see a game against the Colts—which the Jaguars won 30-10. In my first real season as a fan, the Jaguars made the AFC Championship game, and were minutes away from making their first Super Bowl. After I moved down to Florida, John and I bought season tickets together, which we kept until the end. I had hoped devoutly that the Jaguars would make the Super Bowl this season—which was destined to be John’s last. During the pandemic, John and I started a business together that, relative to our expectations, did pretty well for a while. As is typical, most of our ideas didn’t pan out, but that didn’t matter. We had fun coming up with them at the bar, adding “just one more drink” to the tab to make sure that we hadn’t missed an angle or forgotten to write something crucial down on the back of an increasingly ragged napkin. I am 41-years-old and, with the exception of my wife, I’ve never met anyone who was easier to talk to than John. If we went for lunch, we’d go for hours, chatting about sports and rollercoasters and our kids and the new iPhone and the unforgivable changes that Disney made to Epcot in 1999. I shall miss that immensely. There was one thing we didn’t talk about: At no point since his diagnosis, did John and I ever acknowledge with each other how serious his condition was, or that, all things being equal, it was likely to take him before his time. From the start, it seemed that John silently picked me to be the person with whom he could pretend that everything was normal, and I fulfilled this role until the last. Even when things were clearly terrible, we’d make plans—to take a trip to New Hampshire with our families and friends; to ride the new rollercoaster at Epic Universe; to go to opening day at the new Jaguars Stadium in 2028; and more. The last time I saw him, I said the same thing as I said every time I'd chatted with him over the last 11 years: "Talk to you in a bit." gofund.me/20cbdce0f

Just told my 10yo daughter about JPow. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Jeromekanda forever" -- which is the sort of pop culture cross-over that I can celebrate.

OMAR COOPER UNREAL CATCH FOR THE TD 😱🤯 WHAT A GAME. WHAT A CATCH. @IndianaFootball

"Most robust ad market we have seen for some time" "Highest ad revenue quarter in @FoxNews history" -- Lachlan Murdoch $FOXA While the legacy media world is suffering from a secular decline in TV advertising, Fox is crushing it with their focus on sports and news. And remember, Fox had political ad spend last year!