SpaceX's 11th employee just became a billionaire. Gwynne Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002. She was employee number 11, joining as VP of Business Development before the company had proven a single rocket could fly. She didn't even go there looking for a job. She had taken a colleague to lunch to celebrate him leaving for SpaceX, ran into Musk at the restaurant, and got interviewed on the spot. A week later, she joined him. Her job: sell rocket launches for a company nobody had heard of. She built the Falcon vehicle manifest to over $5 billion in commercial contracts. She managed SpaceX's growth to 22,000 employees. She was the one who told NASA, the Air Force, and paying commercial customers why SpaceX could get to orbit cheaper and faster than anyone before it. She was also the one who said no to going public for years. "I wasn't sure the company would go public," she said on CNBC yesterday. She resisted the pressure because she believed the public markets would force SpaceX into quarterly thinking, which would kill the mission. She finally decided it was time. "I do not want to focus on quarterly earnings," she said on IPO day. "What we're doing is very futuristic." Her stake is now worth north of $1.3 billion. She's SpaceX's fifth-largest Class A shareholder. The 24 years of operational work that made yesterday possible have Gwynne Shotwell's fingerprints on them.

SpaceX should put some Starlinks around the moon, drop a Cybertruck on the surface with a retractable solar panel for charging, let the truck FSD literally anywhere it wants, and livestream it back to earth. $SPCX $TSLA

Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”

Jasmine Crockett says that Karmelo Anthony was justified in stabbing Austin Metcalf to death: "He decided to go under a tent and simply didn't want to be put out on the rain by some kid he didn't know... There was no mercy seen when this black boy said 'I was scared.'"

> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO   Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.   Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

I want to congratulate @DrindaRandall and @CoveyTX on their nomination as Chair and Vice Chair of our @TexasGOP. While this race has come to an end, our mission continues. Now is the time to come together, unite behind our Republican nominees, support the entire Republican ticket in November, advance our legislative priorities in the next session, and continue standing firmly for the conservative principles outlined in our platform. I am grateful to everyone who supported our campaign, and I remain committed to serving our party and fighting for the values that make Texas strong.

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SCOOP: The State Department has uncovered several "birth tourism networks" in West Africa, Europe, and North Africa, where embassies found evidence of plans to facilitate individuals traveling to the U.S. to give birth. dailywire.com/news/exclusive…

BREAKING: Rioters are breaking into migrant HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation, a form of taxpayer-funded housing for asylum seekers) in Belfast and setting them ablaze. It’s a difficult night for firefighters in Belfast with fires reported in several parts of the city.

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"SAY HIS NAME: KARMELO" Literally protesting at the courthouse for the killer as if he's the victim of a racist attack

A Texas court scheduled Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby's trial against the NCAA for Feb. 8, 2027, two weeks after the College Football Playoff National Championship is scheduled to be played. spr.ly/6014B8FJjE

.@SteveHiltonx may have just given us the Rosetta Stone to decipher the corruption in California’s election laws. A lot of the fraud is LEGAL. It’s a rigged system. Hilton highlighted that anyone can write in and BACKDATE their mail-in ballots. The state will accept ANY forms that have the election date on it, regardless of when it was turned in. Paired with the fact that California knows exactly how many votes they need to turn the tide, this is a perfect storm for “legal” fraud. Here's an idea: California should treat its elections as securely as the Academy Awards. Get PricewaterhouseCoopers on the phone, ask them to do the counting, and only release the results when it’s final.

🚨#BREAKING: Disturbing footage has emerged of a Black man wielding a knife and threatening passengers on the Charlotte NC Light Rail. This is the same train where Iryna Zarutska was m*rdered. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING?!!!!!!!!