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Spencer Pratt on LA’s drastic NGO problem: “They will take $100M and steal it right in your face.” David Friedberg: “Can you explain what goes on with these NGOs? Like, how do NGOs create a system that the more we spend, and in the last 10 years, the City of Los Angeles, I think, has increased homeless spending by 10X, and the homeless population has doubled, and clearly it's gotten a lot worse. What's the role that the NGOs actually play in this?” Spencer Pratt: “First off, when you said homeless is 2x, homeless is 200x. When Mayor Bass in the debate was like, “It's down 17%,” these are the most cooked numbers. Even the RAND Corporation says it's a 30% increase. But they just drive around and they go, “One, two, three, four, five, six.” They're not going in under these encampments, and bridges, and bushes, and unzipping these tents, and going into the sewers. So we don't even know the count. But let me tell you my first experience with NGOs. After the Palisades fire, FireAid, $100 million raised. Every single person I talked to messaging me, “No one's getting this money. No one's seeing a dollar.” I go to Washington, I ask senators to investigate this. We open up a case. Now all of a sudden, FireAid puts out a legal letter to defend themselves. In their own legal letter from the law firm, they say, “Several of these NGOs gave directly to fire victims.” The list for the $100 million is 200+ (NGOs). Google “several.” It's under 10. So even in their defense, they're telling you, and again, I don't believe one of those, 10 gave directly. The people that they said did, they're like, “We gave gift cards.” Who'd you give gift cards to? You don’t think one fire victim, they're messaging me all day long, said, “Hey, I got a $500 gift card.” So that's when I learned firsthand that these NGOs will take, right in your face, $100 million and just steal it.” @friedberg @spencerpratt --------------------------------------- Thanks to our partner Axon.ai for making this possible Most advertisers have never heard of the platform with an $11B annual run rate in ad spend. Axon.ai by AppLovin — 1B+ daily active users, full-screen video ads watched for a median of 35 seconds, and businesses are profitably spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on it. Advertiser access is in closed beta. The window is open at axon.ai/allin @AxonAdsManager

@basichumanstf The Austin Texas version of the "Manhattanhenge"

Me and a bunch of people at the park were going absolutely nuts at this full moon over the Austin skyline. It was such a beautiful, communal moment being in complete awe with people I’ve never met before.

How does LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt feel about being compared to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani? While acknowledging that Mamdani's promise of free buses bears some similarities to his own pledge of cleaner and safer public transportation if elected, Pratt says the socialist message would never work in LA. "I think he connected with people because they felt like change. They wanted change," he told CBS News' @adamyamaguchi. "That message would never connect here because we've already been doing the socialist experiment, pretty much, for six plus years, and it's failed here in Los Angeles."

Got my hands on a Field Report by @brenniepell. Cannot wait to dig in Enjoy my three American flags on the patio

@CaitlinCloud9 That makes two of us…

can confirm i am unfortunately not one of them

@JTLonsdale @Jason_A_Scharf @johnrea The beauty of Austin is that a lot of this riff raff is silo’ed into downtown, East Cesar Chavez, and South Congress with some bleeding into Riverside. East Austin is a gem that isn’t terribly expensive and mostly quiet of the cesspool that is downtown

@johnrea It’s not time to give up on Austin. The state can crack down on it to fix it, and the electorate can wake up as they did on the homeless camping policy. This is a boomtown seat of the capitol of Texas - it’s worth fighting for. That said, we do live outside of downtown for now!

It's incredibly sad to see what the 'easy on crime' policies have done to Austin. My wife and I have decided to move, and a huge part of that is that the people running this city care more about violent criminals than the safety of our children. For shame to every one of you who voted for and supported these policies. Have fun with your cesspool once the rest of the productive economic base leaves too.

@SoniaBaschez On a national scale, no, but locally? We’ve watched it already happen with Tesla moving here due to tax and gov reasons. Now we have drastically increased our ecosystem since.

@Tam3ron lol yeah we’ve seen time and again that trickle down polices don’t work

How much is Texas gonna get from this?

@SoniaBaschez SpaceX still has a decent presence in El Segundo I believe. I wonder if they’ll figure out a way to get those folks to Texas residents before completing the deal

@SoniaBaschez Does it though? This will find itself being utilized for the next gen of companies here, new facilities (prop taxes), and new homes (more prop taxes)

@YIMBYLAND Stop making sense

Apparently some insane dude was chunking massive rocks off of an overpass at cars on the highway that I drive to/from from work. This dude clearly belongs in an institution. And likely should never come out. It’s the humane thing for him and for society.

GET ALL OF THESE WHITE HONKIES OFF THE COURT FOR THE LAKERS

We are about to produce such an incredible amount of electricity

Lately, mine has been that we can’t build the cities that we want to build without law and order. And that includes the everpresent issues that plague our cities caused by heavily drugged and/or severely mentally disabled homeless populations. Involuntary rehabilitation and/or institutionalization are going to have to be a part of solving this. I find it abhorrent that our society has decided that it’s ok to just watch these people rot in the streets instead of getting them the help they deserve as HUMAN BEINGS.

@noah_schochet Hell yeah

Looking for help filling a key role! Job title: Factory Dog Role: Seeking a super cute, super chill pupper to hang out in our factory and make people happy Qualifications: - must be chill - must be a good boy (or girl) - hypoallergenic preferred - previous factory experience is a plus

@YIMBYLAND @americanhousing +1 here for sure

Obviously @americanhousing 🇺🇸🫡

@Austen Same

After graduation from my high school more people went to prison than to top 20 schools

@ylanrich You just earned a follow. How can I help and where are you based? May I suggest Texas?

Today I’m excited to unveil Eridale! Eridale is my master plan to use AI and Robotics to make great food universally accessible. Poor diets drive a total annual cost of $10 trillion worldwide.

@mhp_guy Stop trying to sell me on Dallas

"Living in Dallas is the worst." I moved my business here 12 years ago: My kids are in a 10/10 school district. I live on 3 acres with no HOA and I'm only 30 mins from downtown Dallas and 35 mins from DFW airport. I'm within 45 minutes of a 6 different pro sports teams. Every band and touring musical travels here. Countless amazing restaurants. My property has appreciated by over $1m in a decade I'm buying more land 30 mins away in the path of growth for only $12k/acre I can fly direct to Dubai, Bozeman, basically anywhere. No state income taxes. The more you make, the more you save. Strong Christian/LDS family values. Tons of Indians (awesome people BTW). Cheap contractors. VERY pro business. Pretty freaking hot weather but ice cold A/C. :) Youth sports culture is kinda out of control. Property taxes will murder you NGL. Don't like it? Don't move here. I've lived in Houston, too and boy let me tell you...We've got it good here.

Why do I think of @YIMBYLAND when I see this old version of Austin