Gotta be honest, this @ufc event at the White House looks spectacular. This is a big time show. I’m not there, and we all know all the complaints folks had about renovations at and around the White House, etc, but — to be fair — this is some impressive stuff I’m looking at. Props to UFC President @danawhite and the show they’ve put on. It’s Bigtime. Plain and simple!!!

The technology Hurricanes fans are using to watch their team play in Vegas 👀 (via @Canes)

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On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history. The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet. Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention. He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette. He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents. A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

The National Anthem at the White House was absolutely epic!!! 🇺🇸🔥 Wait for the flyover!!!!

The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

#BREAKING: There’s a new record at The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament: 919.9 pounds off the Marlin Fever.

So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off. … and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election. If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.

When I was the Air Force Military Aide to Bill Clinton (and again, that was not a political appointee position, it was a military assignment), I served daily with very young staffers who were appointed because of their efforts in the campaign or who their parents were. I really enjoyed interacting with most of them. Bright kids from Ivy League school. But their naïveté and lack of experience showed. Dramatically. One day I was walking across the White House “campus,” the “18 acres,” and I encountered one of the young female staffers. We chatted for a bit, and she asked me, “So, why did you join the military? Were your career options limited or were you forced to by a judge?” I wanted to throat punch her, but I said, “No, ma’am, I volunteered.” She asked, “But why? Lack of education? No other options?” “No, ma’am, I volunteered. Really. Not only do I have a Bachelor’s but also an MBA.” She asked again, “Then why?” I shook my head and walked away. They simply can’t understand a higher calling. They are incapable of understanding that another human who would selflessly serve. Therein lies much of the Democrat vs. military disconnect. They’re missing the patriotism chip.

“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

Lee Iacocca had everything. Then he lost it. Ford Motor Company. Thirty-two years of work. Countless promotions. The creation of the Ford Mustang. A reputation as one of the most successful executives in America. Then it ended. Henry Ford II called him into his office and fired him. No dramatic explanation. No public celebration of his achievements. Just out. The humiliation was enormous. Iacocca had spent decades helping build Ford into a powerhouse. Now he was unemployed. Many people assumed his career was over. Then the phone rang. Chrysler wanted him. Most executives would have run the other direction. The company was collapsing. Losses exceeded $1 billion. Factories were shutting down. Workers were losing jobs. Dealers were disappearing. Cash was running out. Some believed bankruptcy was only a matter of time. Lee Iacocca accepted anyway. When he arrived, the situation was worse than expected. The company was drowning. Bills were piling up. Money was disappearing. Time was running out. Desperate situations require desperate decisions. Iacocca went to Washington. He stood before Congress and asked for help. Critics attacked him. Some called Chrysler a lost cause. Others argued taxpayers should never help a private company. The criticism was relentless. Still, he kept pushing. Eventually, the government approved loan guarantees. The conditions were harsh. Workers took cuts. Executives took cuts. Iacocca reduced his own salary to one dollar a year. Most people expected Chrysler to fail anyway. They were wrong. New vehicles arrived. Sales improved. Factories reopened. Employees returned. The company slowly came back to life. Then came the moment nobody expected. August 15, 1983. Lee Iacocca walked into a room carrying a check. Eight hundred million dollars. The remaining government-backed debt. Paid in full. Seven years ahead of schedule. The executive who had been fired. Mocked. Written off. Had just completed one of the greatest business turnarounds in American history. Some people quit after humiliation. Lee Iacocca used it as fuel.

Did You Know? 🇺🇸 • Trump didn’t deliver a eulogy for a former Klan member — that was Joe Biden. • Trump didn’t have a relationship with a Chinese spy — that was Eric Swalwell. • Trump didn’t spy on an incoming president — that was Obama. • Trump didn’t store classified documents on a private server — that was Hillary Clinton. • Trump didn’t make millions trading stocks while in Congress — that was the Pelosi. Trump is one of the most transparent presidents in modern history, constantly fighting a system stacked against him — while the media labels every attack on him a “scandal.”

Republicans have the power to set a particular date as Election Day going forward. They have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. Common sense Voter ID and a mandatory Election Day would be the end of the Democrat Party. Why won’t they do it?

With a few more days of harvesting and printing fake ballots, Democrats will miraculously “come from behind” (pun intended), and win the governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayor’s race. It is bold-faced cheating, rubbed in the faces of California citizens with giddy glee. And it will keep happening until we stop taking it.

Man. Disappointed for the team. But glad to get another home game for Aidan

🔥🚨 JUST IN — Vanilla Ice RIPS CNN and the artists who decided to pull out of performances for America’s 250th anniversary celebration in Washington, DC. CNN: Why are you still planning on performing? VANILLA ICE: "I'm PROUD to be an American! I don't like ANYBODY telling me I can't be proud of it." "We're celebrating the birthday of our country, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL HERE?" "I think this is a huge honor." 🔥 "This whole world is like a snow globe, but it shouldn't be that, and music is here to bring people together, man. And, you know, it shouldn't be that this music is dragged into politics."

Spencer Pratt LAYS DOWN THE LAW to Pothead Bill Maher: “I care about safety, the lights being on potholes. What a mayor should care about.” Bill Maher: “Pot?” Spencer Pratt: “If it's legal… I'm going to be enforcing… I don't want you smoking in front of kids at the park. I'll be enforcing if you're smoking that in front of a kid at a swing.” “I’ll be getting you as mayor. No more drugs around kids at parks, in schools, in front of day cares, even if it's legal pot.” “We need to have a society of consequences again. I never thought growing up I could smoke a blunt in front of a kid at the park. Now that happens.” Common sense.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group.