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I commissioned artist MAIKEUL @MaikeulMaikeul to create for me a portrait of Julian Assange.
Assange symbolizes the fight for freedom against an unjust state. #FreeAssange
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
We all need a laugh at the moment.🤣🤣😭
Howling here 🤣🤣🤣😭😭
Own up. Who did this? 🤣😭👊🏽
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
Tomorrow California picks Gavin Newsom's replacement. Good.
I took this photograph of him almost 20 years ago. One night in February 2008 I ran into him in the Powell Street BART station. Mayor Newsom, a couple of staffers, no cameras, working the homeless panhandlers and selling them on his programs.
This was the guy who built his career on Care Not Cash. In 2004 SF cut homeless cash grants from $410 a month to $59 and promised shelter and services instead. He promised us back then a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.
It didn't last. Today San Francisco still loads cash onto EBT cards that homeless recipients pull out at ATMs. You only have to be here two weeks to qualify for it. Walk down Sixth Street at Market and see where the money goes. Straight into the pockets of the cartels.
Then he failed up to governor. He inherited a boom and ran it down.
California has 181,934 homeless people. That's more than any other state and nearly 1 in 4 homeless Americans.
1.7 million more people have left California for other states than moved here since 2020.
Only 19% of California households can afford a median-priced home. You need $228,000 a year just to qualify. The middle class isn't being squeezed. It's being evicted.
Gas: $3.16 a gallon when he took office. $6.06 last month, $1.75 above the national average. Our gas tax is the highest in America and goes up every single July.
PG&E: rates up 45% since 2021, double inflation.
Who knew back then how badly he'd mismanage homelessness, first in San Francisco and then across all of California?
I hope he never gets anywhere near the White House. If he mismanaged our country the way he's mismanaged our state, it would be an unmitigated disaster.
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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There are people who put a lot of effort into their home for Halloween and there is this guy.
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TJHS HAS GONE VIRAL! 🐾
3.1 MILLION VIEWS AND COUNTING!
TJHS senior Layla Clark and the TJHS Marching Band are taking the internet by storm! What an incredible spotlight on our Jaguars!
Watch the viral performance!
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
My mom was a hippie. My dad was a beatnik.
I was so poor that at one point I worked two jobs and shared a bed with a friend. I got home at 8 AM from a night shift at a bakery, got into his bed, and slept while he went to his day job.
I bought my first computer with my own credit card at age 20 and taught myself HTML. At the time, I worked nights in a giant, city block-sized printing plant in Queens, NY. I took the 7 train home at 2 AM most nights and was spit on and beaten up for being Irish on that train. Like GD Gangs of New York. I got up at 7 AM and coded websites until 11 AM and went to my printing plant job until the wee hours of the morning.
My first website was featured in a book from Japan in 1997 as one of the 100 best-designed websites in the world. That opened doors and eventually brought me to San Francisco in 2004. And you know the rest of the story. It's on my website.
I never begged for money, expected handouts, or called for government intervention in markets because of my difficult existence when I was young.
I worked so hard my eyeballs fell out. And then I worked even more.
And I succeeded well beyond anyone’s expectations because THIS IS AMERICA.
So yes, I have a problem with politicians looking at what someone earns today and deciding they deserve a bigger piece of it. They see a fattened pig ready for the slaughter. I see the decades of sacrifice it took to build it. Even if it's modest.
Calling it a so-called “millionaires tax” doesn't settle the argument. They already admitted it will apply to everyone. But I want the person cleaning the bakery at 4 AM to build something worth a fortune and keep the rewards. That is what America is about.
Besides, we all pay plenty of tax as it is.
I am voting YES on Initiative 645 to repeal Washington’s new income tax.
I will never apologize for believing everyone should keep more of what they worked for and earned
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
Malpractice case: lumbar spinal mass, $1M verdict.
Take a look at these MR images from a separate teaching case of the same pathology and site as the litigant.
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Imagine being a minor spanish businessman; maybe you have a small chain of successful auto repair centers, or inherited a small hotel in Mallorca that does bustling but inconsistent seasonal business with British tourists… sometime in the late 00s you have an brief affair with some girl, anonymous but beautiful, who discreetly and tastefully advertised online exactly what she was. You take her on a quiet vacation to get away from the monotony of your daily life, you use her for what she is, and she uses you; you get your money’s worth (and despite everything, you always felt she was worth it!), and you both develop an easy and comfortable relationship, an Understanding.
Afterwards you buy her some handbags and pay her rent for a couple months before it fizzles out; maybe your wife starts getting suspicious and you have to cut her off, or perhaps she just stops returning your calls.
Eight years later you see her on a billboard, for a huge American film… the shock! You’re older now, the years haven’t been kind, but your heart pumps away to exactly the same place it always did whenever you saw her, in the flesh… you have an aneurism right there on the street, you drop dead! Your kids clean up the messy detritus of your life, try to organize the badly run business, sort out the estate and bicker over the half planned out will… your daughter finds some saucy old polaroids stashed in a drawer of your desk at work; in fit of self righteous disgust, she throws them out without taking a second look, never recognizing what she’s found, totally uninterested in the majestic accomplishment you somehow achieved.
📸 | Ana de Armas com 21 anos em Ibiza ao lado de um homem bem mais velho, as fotos foram tiradas em julho de 2009.
Naquela época, Ana de Armas ainda não era uma estrela de Hollywood. Ela morava na Espanha e fazia sucesso na série de televisão 'El Internado'.
A identidade exata do homem e a natureza da relação nunca foram confirmadas.
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
GavinNewsom’s Dad retweeted
🚨French locals prefer to keep dancing while watching their country being fully destroyed… ⬇️
meanwhile! French President Macron joins a Celine Dion concert ..
🚨FRANCE IS DONE !🚨#France #Macron #NotreDame
