Jason Gray
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Jason Gray
@graytjason
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Washington, DC Katılım Temmuz 2015
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I’m really happy with how this came out. The unity of the committee was encouraging.
I hope the SBTC can be a leader among state conventions when it comes to clarity on this issue.
The Southern Baptist Texan@SBTexan
The proposed amendments include procedural and operational updates, as well as clarifying language. texanonline.net/articles/sbtc/…
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@oaksandlions My 17x great grandfather Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine fought and died at Agincourt, apparently in the hand to hand combat where Henry V and his household guard were protecting the king’s younger brother.
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In 1415, King Henry V led a tired, outnumbered English army deep into enemy territory.
Sick, exhausted, and cut off from home.
Ahead of them stood one of the most powerful armies in Europe.
What followed was one of the most extraordinary victories in English history.
The Battle of Agincourt 🧵 1/8
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I’ve done that myself. My nose has been broken multiple times. The first time was playing basketball at 16 and the pain from surgery was some of the worst pain I’ve ever had. I decided never to do that again. It hurts for a day or so when you do it yourself, and you may have to do it a few times to get it straight. And it sounds horrible. But overall it’s the way to go.
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@HamptonBoston my 18 year old daughter parked her car with you on 1/24 for pick up today. She called yesterday to confirm it would not be covered in snow when she arrived to pick it up and was told it would have been moved to a garage prior to the snow. When she got there today it had not been moved to a garage was completely covered in snow. Kevin Smith handed her a shovel and told her to dig it out herself. Then Kevin hung up on us when we called to follow up on it. Horrible service and unacceptable customer service for something y’all call “VIP Parking.”
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@RoKhanna “Economists”. Check out Norway, the UK or France who all died because of this dumb idea. And while you are at it every single economist was wrong on the Trump tariffs. Bunch of buffoons.
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Thanks for engaging. Show me the economic literature which says that a modest wealth tax on billionaires of 1-2 percent disincentivizes founders or VC investment? I know plenty of economists who argue the opposite. Id be happy to read papers that make your point.
NicholasGibbs@NickGibbsIAG
Sad to see @RoKhanna become another politician who has no economic literacy. Now hold my 🥃 Your case for a billionaire wealth tax falls apart on every key point. You say founders like Jensen Huang would not be deterred by a 1 to 2 percent annual tax on unrealized gains because he was not thinking about taxes in 1993. That is irrelevant. No one calculates distant taxes on day one. The issue is marginal incentives: slashing the ultimate reward after decades of risk forces stock sales to pay the tax and deters the next wave of founders. Pretending this has zero behavioral effect is economic nonsense. You brag the Bay Area has 37 times Austin’s VC and Florida “is not on the map.” That is stale data ignoring the exodus already underway. California loses high earners and companies yearly because of crushing taxes and rules. Tesla, Oracle, HPE did not relocate to Texas for the barbecue. Adding a federal wealth tax accelerates the bleed. Clusters are not immortal. You note public funding built foundational tech: NSF, DARPA, universities. True, but irrelevant to the conclusion. Public money funds research; private risk turns it into world changing companies. Capping rewards for that private step means fewer breakthroughs get commercialized. Basic incentive economics. You warn of revolutions from inequality, citing history. History says the opposite: Britain’s brutal industrial inequality drove the fastest living standard gains ever. Real wages soared eventually. 1848 and 1917 stemmed from tyranny and war, not rich people. America’s Gilded Age was far more unequal than today and built the 20th century prosperity engine. Punishing success slows the growth that lifts everyone. You claim a wealth tax boosts innovation. Reality: nearly every OECD country that tried one scrapped it (France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark) because it raised peanuts, sparked capital flight, and hurt growth. The track record is a total failure. And the mirror moment: Washington already hauls in record $5 trillion plus yearly yet runs trillion dollar deficits through waste, fraud, and bloat. Hundreds of billions vanish annually on duplication and improper payments. Before inventing new taxes on the tiny group creating real value, demand government live within its means. Jensen Huang and Elon Musk allocate capital with ruthless efficiency; government is the worst allocator on earth. Feeding its irresponsibility is not justice; it is complicity. Wealth is not a fixed pile to slice up; it is the return on risk that grows the entire economy. Taxing it punitively does not enlarge anyone’s share; it shrinks tomorrow’s pie for all. A billionaire tax would not save innovation or democracy. It would cripple both. Your position is not just wrong; it is upside down.
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An alleged "violent assault" sparked off the circumstances that ultimately resulted in Todd Snider's death, but few details have been given. What we know after investigating further, and why Snider's band left Salt Lake.
savingcountrymusic.com/further-detail…
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@ToddSnider One of the best to ever do it. To steal his own words, saying you want to be like TS is like saying you want to be like the guy who got struck by lightning.
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@chadwaytweety @NWcountrymusic1 My understanding is it’s assailants—like 20 of them.
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@NWcountrymusic1 If they catch the assailant we should bail him out so we can whoop the dog shit out of him
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LISTEN: A ground stop was issued at Reagan National Airport (DCA) for about an hour after an air-traffic control tower reportedly received a threatening phone call in a robotic voice, demanding $500,000 in cryptocurrency or else “they’d do something about it.”
TRANSCRIPT: “Threatening phone call, said there was fertilizer on board the aircraft.” (Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority [MWAA] Police dispatch at 11:30am)
Arlington County Police’s EOD bomb squad assisted with clearing the plane, which was United flight #UA512 and had just landed from the Houston airport.
In total, 31 flights were diverted to nine separate airports during the stoppage, and flights are now on the move again.
Authorities continue to investigate this incident… @FAANews @SecDuffy @mwaapd @MWAAHQ @sentdefender
Flightradar24@flightradar24
The current security hold at DCA is due to an UNCONFIRMED threat against an arriving aircraft, #UA512. The aircraft has been moved away from the terminal area and operations remain on hold. flightradar24.com/UAL512/3cf5892f
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@Geiger_Capital I’ve been in a similar wreck—read ended while at a complete stop by a semi that didn’t see that highway traffic had stopped because of construction. Driver was summarily fired for refusing a drug/alcohol test. Fortunately no deaths but it was horrible experience nonetheless.
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This is *another* illegal immigrant truck driver who has killed multiple Americans.
Not the one from a few weeks ago in Florida.
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per multiple ICE sources, Jashanpreet Singh, the semi-truck driver suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. DHS photo of him attached via federal sources. I’m told ICE is placing a detainer request on Singh with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, where he is in custody on suspicion of DUI causing great bodily injury and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He has not been formally charged yet. Police say Singh was speeding and under the influence, never hitting his breaks, when he crashed into slow moving traffic on the freeway, causing a devastating and deadly chain reaction crash that killed 3 people. The victims have not been identified yet.
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That’s a wrap from San Diego! 200+ #PublicPower professionals spent 4 days this week diving into comlex legal & regulatory challenges, sharing insights, and building connections. Next year: Oct. 11–14, 2026 in Amelia Island, FL. Let’s keep the momentum going!
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.@grok List prominent investment managers or strategists who called for a tactical "blow-off top" (or similar) in the stock market back in 2022 or 2023 and held that view through the market dips of 2024 & 2025--to be explicitly followed later by a crash. Include those not on X
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we focus too much on words like “capitalist” and “socialist.” the truth is much simpler. bernie sanders is a scrub.
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@jinacapital I agree. I’m just curious which part they mentioned. If it’s flights I’m curious if the numbers could be low.
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@graytjason They said it's not 100% accurate - which is true.
Use this as a data point.
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$TMDX did 28 flights and grossed an $1,904,000 (est) in the last 24 hours.
They are on track to do 1,965 flights and gross $133,620,000 (est) this quarter.
Estimates accuracy improves near quarter ending. Link - singularityresearchfund.com/tmdx-tracker
Disclaimer: These are estimates and not financial advice. Do your own diligence
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Gold stocks are surging , and I closed my $EGO position pre-earnings (small loss on 25% of position) before scooping it back up post-earnings as an "earnings pivot." Killer move today – sticking with names showing solid, constructive action and good earnings can pay off! #GoldStocks #Investing
Chart by @marketsurge
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What do protestors hope to accomplish by disrupting #FERC open meetings? If it is to influence decisions or effect change I have not seen any evidence that it works (and more effective avenues exist). Is that it, or is there another purpose?
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I have a new #4 position in my portfolio, and as recently as five months ago, it was ~2% starter position
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