We have 73 millionaires in the U.S. Senate. We don’t need a 74th. As the only non-millionaire in this race, I get what regular Michiganders are going through.

Every elected official in California needs to watch this. Every voter should also watch and then ask yourselves, who is responsible for California being unaffordable? Who's been in charge for the past decade and what can they do better? @CAgovernor

"Sound Transit’s failure is not an engineering failure. It is a governance failure. Sound Transit has become an unaccountable political machine: the same leaders who designed the failing plan, appointed the board, selected the executives, and normalized the overruns are now asking the public for more time, more money, and more trust. That is the status quo that must be broken." In a Special OpEd to the Seattle Times; Scott Kubly (Former Director of Seattle DOT) calls for the dissolving of the current 'Dow centric' Sound Transit Board, to be replaced by people who actually know how to run a $200 Billion transit agency. (What a concept) @skubly | @SeaTimesOpinion 'Sound Transit needs a massive reset. Here’s how that could work' Article: seattletimes.com/opinion/sou…

China began lifting millions out of poverty only after it began rejecting socialism. Before it did this, it was poorer than most of the countries in Africa. Now it's one of the world's two economic superpowers.

💥NEW: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria *DELIVERS BRUTAL TAKEDOWN* of California’s “FAILING MODEL OF GOVERNANCE”💥 “The frustration is real and JUSTIFIED… it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more — while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.”

This isn't hard: Condemn violence without equivocation. The reported planned violence and intimidation at the University of Michigan is wrong. This is simple and any leader should be able to say so. The fact my opponent cannot bring himself to say that is concerning.

The most crushing problem we have in blue cities is homelessness. It has negative cost to solve (build lots of market rate housing). Voters don’t want the problem solved, they prefer homeless suffering. It’s worse to pretend otherwise.

Rent control is the belief by a non-owner that they should have the right to a property owner’s apartment! This is a stunningly unaware inversion of reality!

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is bad policy that worsens the housing shortage and raises housing costs. I am glad to see smart legislators begin to dismantle it.

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Yes! I support new affordable homes in San Jose!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…

Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here. I think you missed the plot. Then again, that’s becoming a pattern. I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad. Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me. Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.” That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand. Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting. I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard. And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is. They care whether the pilot is qualified. Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

Only Nithya Raman wants to fix this. Karen Bass thinks it’s working as intended.

I quibble with this slightly because I think the number of Americans would have any meaningfully different experience based on the direction of this chart is tiny. I think 99% of the problem is vibes based: Dems frames immigration as charity that costs us money but makes up for our colonial sins. If Dems’ instead credibly staked a position, “we’ll only allow immigration to the extent it benefits Americans,” I think median voters wouldn’t care which way this graph goes. Of course, that would alienate huge slices of the faction.

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

RT @sapinker: Are you neither woke nor MAGA nor complacent about contemporary liberalism? Normies of the world unite! LibCon2026 | Liberal…

The key thing isn’t her socialism, it’s that Raman, like Mamdani, wants to pursue Public Excellence. She talks endlessly about how she wants government to be more efficient in approving housing, building transit, and enabling filming.

So-called "inclusionary zoning" is a tax on new less-expensive homes that lets urban elected Democrats NIMBY new housing on behalf of their homeowner constituents while posing as friends of the poor. The Supreme Court should throw it out as an unconstitutional taking.

the overwhelming economic evidence shows us that building housing, including market rate housing, reduces rents---if you oppose building new housing you are hurting tenants. period. full stop. arguing otherwise is the equivalent of climate denial at this point

Reporter: How do you feel about the Iranian Foreign Minister accusing the US and Israel of genocide? Marco Rubio: The Iranian? He's an expert in genocide. They've killed thousands. Every problem in the Middle East is Iran. Hezbollah? Iran. Shia militias destroying and threatening Iraq? Iran. Hamas? Iran. Houthis? Iran. Assad in Syria? Iran. Everywhere you turn, they're behind all of it.

Translation: Let's tax the developers who are building units for $400k and use the money to build "affordable" units for $900k. That way we can both disincentivize housing production AND waste a ton of resources producing fewer units than they would.