Few startups have a smooth ascent. Many if not most have some setbacks initially. The good ones react by focusing on specific steps they can take. The bad ones are vaguely hopeful, or depressed, or in denial — and change nothing.

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children, about the untruthful conspiracy video President Trump shared yesterday:

This is a very sad sight to watch for so many reasons

ICE just shot and killed a woman Minneapolis. A US citizen. How long before we say "Enough is enough?"

Elon Musk No she didn't, and here's the evidence. She's turning the front wheels of her car to the right, away from the ICE officer on her left. If she was trying to run him over, why would she turn in the other direction?

‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent startribune.com/she-was-an-ama…

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis slammed Stephen Miller: “You know what makes me cranky? Stupid…You don’t speak on behalf of this U.S. senator or Congress. You can say it may be the position of the president that Greenland should be a part of the US, but it’s not the position of this

U.S. has withdrawn from UN agency aimed at ending violence against children

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

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I met today with the founder of Starcloud and I realized this is going to be one of the biggest engineering projects of our era. When you look at the tradeoffs, it seems inevitable that all the GPUs are going to live in space.

Claude Code is so good. I built a Pocket clone over the break and it kept adding new features (TTS read-alouds, video summaries, spaced repetition emails, Kindle sync, etc.) and now I have a perfect external brain? From like 12 prompts? How does any app developer survive this?

Let’s go with this Carolina Panthers

I love the NFL divisional round - 8 teams, 4 games, great drama. It's only missing one thing: Greg Olsen. Because Olsen was supplanted as FOX's top broadcaster by Tom Brady, his playoffs as a game analyst are over this year - even tho I'd argue he's #1 among all NFL analysts.

I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.

Denmark had the highest per capita death rate of all coalition countries fighting with America after 9/11. This is a shameful comment for the US Treasury Secretary to make. He should apologize to the family of the dead Danish soldiers who fought with us. afghanwarnews.info/countries/denm…

If could repost 1000 times would do so...

4 masked men menace a boy walking down the street to get a snack because he’s brown and not carrying his “papers”

🔥 Tennessee’s own Trae Crowder (to Rep. Tim Burchett Press Office): “These are NOT paid protesters… it should not need to be explained to you when regular people see gangs of masked thugs rampaging through neighborhoods inciting violence and harassing kids they want it to STOP.”

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