Jay Wang

🚨So, this is what I meant last week when I warned that there is a campaign to demonize the datacenter industry based on the strategies deployed 15-20 years ago against #Fracking. - 15 years ago: Josh Fox pushed a fake narrative of Colorado residents lighting their faucets on fire, blaming it on Fracking. But those people had been doing that for years because their well water came from a formation right above a coal seam, which leached methane into the water formation. - Today: The video below blames a @Meta datacenter for low water pressure. Trouble is, Meta gets its water from a completely separate source than these people do. Same fake campaign, 15 years apart. Fact: There are plenty of real impacts and issues related to data centers for real people to be concerned about. We should all condemn: - Activists who raise false issues like this; and - Datacenter developers who fail to deal openly and effectively with those real issues raised by real people. That is all.

For those on X too much, this is hilarious.

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take. No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare. The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral. Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year. Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes. Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment. The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.” America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be. Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities. Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis. It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

From anonymous member of the Supreme Court bar: “I hope Neal knows he just announced his retirement in the form of a Ted talk bc he can never appear in front of the Court again.”

@inreGray Bellagio. I was just there this weekend.

As a former resident of Newport Beach, this hits home.

Shot...chaser.

We have been saying it for years. This budget does not add up. Now we find out Newsom's administration made a $2 billion accounting error, Democrats knew about it in February and hid it from the public, and when they got caught Newsom's office had the nerve to say it was not an error. The Legislative Analyst's Office says otherwise. California has a $35 billion deficit and the people in charge of the money cannot be trusted with it. #FixCalifornia kcra.com/article/califo…

@DavidBahnsen @NRO As a lawyer, I will have to read this.

The new issue of @NRO magazine features my extensively researched piece on legal reform. I consider it one of the most important things I have ever written. nationalreview.com/podcasts/capit…

Left behind in Kabul. Alone. He waited 47 days. K-9 Chaos was not a dog who did his job. He was a dog who had DECIDED, completely, permanently, without reservation, that Lieutenant Marcus Webb was coming back for him. No matter how long it took. At Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, on the morning of August 30th, 2021, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois sat in an empty aircraft hangar. The last American plane had left six hours ago. The evacuation was over. Chaos had been left behind. Not intentionally. The chaos of the withdrawal. The panic. The rush. Webb had been separated from Chaos during the final evacuation. Put on a different plane. Told Chaos would be on the next flight. There was no next flight. Chaos survived the first day alone. Waiting at the hangar where Webb had left him. Chaos survived the first week. Scavenging food from abandoned military supplies. Chaos survived 47 days in Taliban-controlled Kabul. Alone. Hiding. Waiting. Because Chaos survived on the belief that Webb wouldn't leave him forever. Back in the United States, Webb was losing his mind. Filed reports. Called congressmen. Contacted rescue organizations. Went on the news. "I left my dog in Afghanistan," he said on CNN, his voice breaking. "I left my brother. And I'm going to get him back." The military said it was impossible. Kabul had fallen. Taliban controlled the airport. No way to extract a dog. Webb didn't care about impossible. He contacted Pineapple Express, a veteran-run extraction operation. Gave them Chaos's last known location. Sent photos. Videos. Anything that could help. For 47 days, Webb didn't sleep. Didn't eat properly. Just waited for news. On October 16th, 2021, his phone rang. "We found him," the voice said. "We found Chaos." A rescue team had infiltrated Kabul. Used Webb's intel. Found Chaos still at the hangar. Still waiting. Forty-seven days later. Chaos was emaciated. Dehydrated. Traumatized. But alive. The extraction took three days. Smuggling Chaos out of Taliban-controlled territory. Through checkpoints. Through danger. But they got him out. On October 19th, 2021, Chaos landed at Dulles International Airport. Webb was waiting on the tarmac. When they opened the crate, Chaos didn't move. Stared at Webb like he was seeing a ghost. "It's me, brother," Webb said, kneeling down. "I came back. I promised I'd come back." Chaos stepped out slowly. Walked to Webb. Collapsed into his arms. The reunion video went viral. Seventeen million views in three days. But what people didn't see was what happened after. For six months, Chaos wouldn't sleep unless Webb was in the room. Wouldn't eat unless Webb fed him. Wouldn't go outside unless Webb went first. "He's terrified I'll leave him again," Webb said in an interview. "And I don't blame him. I left him once. In the worst place. At the worst time. He waited 47 days for me. And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure he knows I'm never leaving again." Three years later, Chaos still sleeps with his head on Webb's chest. Still follows him everywhere. Still making sure Webb doesn't disappear. K-9 Chaos. Survived 47 days alone in Kabul. Extracted by heroes. Reunited with his handler. Home. facebook.com/share/1HLX9dCv… #LostAndFound #doglover #seniordogs #animalwelfare #militarydog #k9hero #dogrescue #Kabul #47Days #LeftBehind #BroughtHome

@FlashReport It's only socialism if it is from the Blue State region of America...otherwise it's sparkling capitalism.

Since when is “Spirit Airlines” too big to fail?

@senatorshoshana @AllTrails Since I don't have a Blue Check, I post to basically talk to myself....

You post so Elon Musk will see your tweet and give you attention. I post so @AllTrails will see my post and give me attention. We are not the same.

@senatorshoshana While this was clearly a hustle to get photos of cute pets...it's effective.

No, this does not do enough ot serve the common good. Some dogs are ugly. Some cats aren't friendly. Other dogs don't smile. Sales tax should be inversely proportional to the cuteness of your pet. Products for very cute pets should not have sales tax. Items for unfriendly, ugly pets should be taxed twice as much. And a varying scale in between. This isn't drastically sillier than the proposal I'm QTing

@Matt_Schulman1 😂 Appreciate the troll.

Heading to San Fran (as the locals call it). What local-hole-in-the-walls (other than California Pizza Kitchen and Philz Coffee) should I be sure to check out?

That Chinese food you can’t get enough of. The nail salon everyone in town loves. That insane Korean barbecue spot. Some of the best local businesses in America and operated by immigrant families. The unsung heroes? Their children. They show up at landlord meetings to translate starting in their early teens. They help their parents build websites, create a social media presence, and work out vendor disputes. Their parents wanted nothing more than for them to grow up with more opportunity than they had, and those kids often balance pressure of doing well in school and going to college with helping their parents out as much as possible. I’ve been lucky to meet many of you over the years. You’re becoming business leaders, doctors and lawyers. Your parents sacrificed a lot for you to succeed, but you sacrificed a lot for them as well. You may not think anyone notices all you do in the background. But many do. You’re taking your families to new heights, and inspiring the rest of us in the process. Here’s to you ❤️

@OldBeigeGuy @mookiealexander But I do appreciate the Oakland Invaders helmet!

@mookiealexander You're under the mistaken impression that I read the question before responding My high school chemistry teacher made me come in over Christmas break to retake the final exam because of too many stupid answers

How do you go 2 for 6 here.

I absolutely cannot top this

The entire argument in this release rests on the whistleblower's secondhand knowledge - and falls apart the moment you remember that firsthand witnesses testified under oath. Gordon Sondland: Trump's own ambassador, his own million-dollar donor. Testified that there was a quid pro quo. That is not a "deep state actor." That is the man Trump put in the job. Alexander Vindman was on the call. Firsthand. Testified to what he heard. Trump released the transcript. The transcript exists. It shows "do us a favor though" followed by a request to investigate Biden while the aid was frozen. None of these people appear in the ODNI document. A release about the absence of firsthand evidence... that omits every firsthand witness. That is not an oversight. That is a brief. The DNI's statutory job is intelligence oversight, not political opposition research. Gabbard just used the office's official news release infrastructure - ODNI News Release No. 06-26 - to produce a seven-year-old grievance document. The classification system exists to protect national security. Using declassification as a political weapon is its own form of institutional abuse - and a preview of how this office now operates.