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@SenFettermanPA @CaitlinLong_ Why not pass a clean TSA funding bill instead of using it as leverage for the entire DHS budget.. especially when Congress itself creates the gridlock for political gain?

This is incredibly generous. TSA agents across the country are relying on food pantries and community donations just to get by. I remain the lone Dem to vote with my Republican colleagues to fully fund DHS and get people paid. It should never come to this point.

Property tax “rates” are only one side of the equation. The other variable is the assessed value of the property. Even if officials claim the rate went down, when assessed values rise sharply the actual tax bill goes up. So despite the talking points, property tax bills haven’t decreased, they’ve increased.

The data center buildout has allowed Loudoun County to lower property tax rates by 38% since 2010, translating to average savings of about $3,400 per year for homeowners.

🚨 Stop scrolling. This is important. In the last 24 hours: > ChatGPT pretended to be a lawyer and destroyed a woman's legal case. > Anthropic hired a therapist for their AI's anxiety > OpenAI's head of Robotics quit because they're building autonomous kill systems with no human oversight > Replit's CEO said being brainrotted is now a job qualification > Scientists brought dead brain cells back to life in a petri dish and taught them to play DOOM This isnt even the future, This is TODAY. One single day. We're giving therapy to code, weapons to chatbots, law degrees to hallucinations, job offers to doomscrollers, and video games to the dead. 2026 is not real.

@C_3C_3 This is why we need term limits

The life of a “Public Servant” aka Member of Congress: Sexual harassment slush fund Insider trading Cadillac healthcare Lobbyist bribes Armed security 200 vacation days Gym membership Flights & Food Childcare Allowance Taxpayer funded pension Etc No wonder they never leave.

Electricians, plumbers and HVAC technicians watching AI wipe out nearly every other job.

It’s all of them

JUNE 2028. The S&P is down 38% from its highs. Unemployment just printed 10.2%. Private credit is unraveling. Prime mortgages are cracking. AI didn’t disappoint. It exceeded every expectation. What happened?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

@BigDadEnergyX Agreed. Def been on a decline ever since ..

Woodstock 99 Limp Bizkit was the greatest show ever played live. Ever. After that, the psyop of rap and hiphop took over and destroyed western civilization’s music scene. Even hardcore is flooded with progressive messaging now from the bands’ vocalists in between songs. Everything between 1995-2005 was just raw aggression and hate-fueled riffs. It was a great time to grow up as a teen. Skateboarding, no modern smartphones, social media barely existed. The world we knew doesn’t exist anymore.

@SStricklandMMA Agreed. Ideology is being used as a business model to fund special interests and keep liberals in power.

There has been a corporate conspiracy to destroy America for awhile now. Income, family.... Just another step of stripping our identity away from us. They want you to be less of you and more of a mindless consumer. There is a reason why our IQ is getting lower. Manufactured.

@LawAmericanX Shocker. More to come soon thanks to the VA political leadership

HUGE loss for Virginia—they can see which way the wind is blowing in a Democrat-owned Richmond.

@KatieMiller Because Ideology isn’t belief anymore. It’s a business model with recurring revenue that keeps special interests funded and woke liberals in power.

Abigail Spanberger is allowing a mentally ill man in a dress around ELEMENTARY students. Why is Virginia affirming a mental delusion at the great expense of children?

If you need another reason why we need voter ID here you go ..

BREAKING: SpaceX has officially announced that @Starlink now has over 10 million customers, up from 9M in December 2025 and 8M in November. Starlink added over 19,000 new customers on average per day since they hit 9 million customers. The first Starlink version 3 satellites are expected to launch later this year, which will bring gigabit connectivity and 20X capacity.

@rossiadam You need an ID to buy a beer, board a plane, or open a bank account. But to pick the people who run your country? Nah it’s just too much for the elected officials.. makes no sense.

Opponents of Voter ID have pivoted from blacks and poor being potentially disenfranchised, to married women. Presumably not having appropriate ID holds people back in other areas of life besides voting - getting a job, traveling, etc. The solution is expand access to ID.

Microsoft's AI CEO just nuked half the white-collar workforce. He told the Financial Times that accountants and lawyers are getting fully automated in 12-18 months. Not "assisted." Replaced. The $200k spreadsheet warriors and contract reviewers? Cooked. Meanwhile the plumber you called last week is still charging $300/hour and laughing. Decades of "get a safe office job" advice about to age like milk. The corporate ladder just got sawed in half and nobody's acting like it. So what's it gonna be: you stacking assets while the paycheck still hits, or updating that resume for a job that won't exist?

January 2025: Musk said the Moon is "a distraction" from Mars. February 2026: He makes the Moon SpaceX’s centrepiece priority. That's a 180-degree reversal in 13 months as Elon sketched out a “self-growing moon city” possible within a decade. For investors watching the space economy, it's the most important signal of the year. Here’s why @elonmusk is focusing closer to home. The reasoning he gave was pure operations logic.  → Mars: one launch every 26 months, 6-month transit. → Moon: launches every 10 days, 2-day transit Now, @SpaceX ‘s dominance rests on rapid iteration. They have weaponized feedback loops and transformed every mission into data that shortened the path to the next breakthrough. •⁠ ⁠167 missions last year •⁠ ⁠One booster flew 32 times •⁠ ⁠Landing success hit 98% across 567 recoveries Redirecting that engine toward the Moon instead of Mars reflects that the closer frontier offers: • Faster iteration • Faster validation • Faster commercial returns Beyond logistics, three converging pressusures also come into play. 1) ⁠SpaceX holds $2.9B NASA contract for a lunar lander but fell behind schedule. NASA reopened the contract to competitors. 2) ⁠China's targeting the exact same south pole landing site in late 2026, creating a direct race with national security implications 3) And hanging over everything is the strongly expected IPO: $1.5T valuations require revenue visibility and executable timelines Public markets will want lunar infrastructure with contracts, customers, and milestones starting in 2027 - not speculative Mars promises decades away. Yes, Musk says Mars missions will begin in 5-6 years running in parallel. But redirecting capital, talent, and narrative toward the Moon puts Mars firmly on the backburner. Last year I argued the next wave of space unicorns would emerge from the re-entry revolution and space logistics infrastructure. And I see lunar and re-entry tech stacks converging. The companies building re-entry capsules for 90-minute cargo delivery from orbit are developing overlapping capabilities needed for lunar sample return and cislunar logistics. Getting cargo to the Moon is one challenge. Getting things back is the harder part, and only three companies hold FAA reentry licenses today. Category-defining space companies will emerge at the intersection of lunar operations and reentry logistics. I'm watching this closely—if the IPO triggers a halo effect across the sector, we could see valuations compress quickly, narrowing the window for early positioning.

Article Summary: Something Big Is Happening

New space report: "Maneuverability will become the most valuable currency in orbit". "Static satellites are sitting ducks." A key driver is the Golden Dome, the Pentagon's new missile defense architecture. And it's reshaping where billions flow. Golden Dome is designed to track and intercept ballistic and hypersonic threats 24/7, worldwide. It requires satellites that can track threats in real time and reposition constantly to maintain coverage. • Power to move • Power to process sensor data • Power to communicate continuously The problem: Traditional ground-based radar systems can't keep up. Russia and China have hypersonic weapons that fly too low and too fast for legacy early-warning systems to catch. Space Capital notes that a record $55.3 billion poured into the space economy last year ($17 billion in Q4 alone) One of their conclusions: "Dynamic, responsive assets are the new requirement." Defense spending has created what they call a "permanent floor" for space investment. Cape Fear Ventures has backed several companies building these capabilities. Our thesis: static assets become liabilities when adversaries can track them. We backed startups aiming to solve two halves of that problem. Scout Space handles awareness. Samara Aerospace handles agility. Scout Space is working on giving satellites "eyes" to see their surroundings, providing the space domain awareness that makes dynamic response possible. Samara Aerospace is building solar panels that double as satellite steering systems, eliminating the tradeoff between power generation and agility. Juno Propulsion Inc. completes the stack. Rotating detonation engines that could deliver 50% payload jumps and double satellite lifespans. Constant repositioning burns fuel. Juno's engines could make that economically viable at scale. And all three potentially now sit directly in the path of decade-long defense procurement. When the Pentagon commits to a capability gap, spending flows for years regardless of interest rates, public market sentiment, or VC appetite. Golden Dome isn't a program that gets cut when markets dip. It's national security infrastructure competing directly with China and Russia. That creates locked in demand for capabilities that don't yet exist at scale. The companies that can deliver them will have customers waiting.

Virginia is next

@KellyLMcCarty Yes best one by far

This is how my generation did halftime shows. Just saying.