I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful. I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict. He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare. My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward. I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car. I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university. I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible… I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction. I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here. There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON. To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now. We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here. This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure. Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter. You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control. So what is in your control? Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved. I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride. You should too. I love you and thank you. ❤️ 🙏🏽🙏🏽

We now have evidence of how at least $7.7 billion for homelessness was spent on salaries. They created a jobs program that grows at the expense of the actual homeless who need help instead of helping the homeless. The waste is astounding. 🧵

CA lost net 2.8M people since 2010, while CA K-12 enrollment declined. Yet Cal Poly “CA” freshman applications surged 30k → 63k & SDSU: 46k → 85k, Only 10% are out of state or overseas applicants. So where did ~25 to 30k “CA” college applicants come from?!? If they are mostly illegals, how are the colleges paying for them?! College tuition is 4x higher than in 2000, exceeding 100k. Illegals get the cheap in-state price. Citizens pay the increase & subsidize kids that dont show up for class. That’s why the DoJ sued 21 states.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

BREAKING: Adam Guillette just confronted an administrator at Kansas Public Schools after the Department of Justice sued them for keeping secrets from parents. The administrator didn't want to talk about it.

This month we're launching the Garry's List California Dream campaign. We want to hear your story: what brought you to California, the life you've built here, and why you believe it's a place worth fighting for. Want to share your California Dream? DM us or send us an email at hello@garryslist.org.

Calling all state officials! If you knowingly allow non-citizens to vote in elections, you are committing a federal crime, & the @CivilRights Division @theJusticeDept will prosecute. One non-citizen vote is one too many! Voters deserve confidence in our elections.

All institutions of higher learning that receive federal funding must abide by federal law, but many are breaking the law by discriminating on the basis of race. One by one, this @CivilRights Division @TheJusticeDept is holding universities accountable. More lawsuits to come!

EXCLUSIVE: We obtained dozens of documents showing how UC Berkeley's flagship law review discriminates based on race. Members of the journal's admissions committee pledged to "uplift Native voices," weigh "diverse life experience" against "technical editing abilities," and "integrate anti-racist sentiment" into the selection process. One editor—a former deputy at Politico—boasted that she "did not consider grades" when evaluating journalists, instead using personal statements to grow her team "from just one person of color—me—to fifty percent hires from underrepresented backgrounds." Here's how one of the top law reviews in the country is bypassing bans on affirmative action: 🧵

Introducing Memory Stargraph, an AI memory Visualizer for GBrain 👏 Memory Stargraph is a local web service for exploring a GBrain knowledge base through an interactive star-cloud entity graph. I built it because my local agent clusters now share the same GBrain-backed memory infrastructure across multiple hosts and agent runtimes. Instead of each agent carrying more context forever, they can rely on a shared, evolving knowledge graph that stays compact, searchable, and useful over time. Memory Stargraph makes that shared memory visible. You can see what agents have created in GBrain, inspect entities, explore relationships, create new nodes, connect them, modify links, attach media, and follow the map as it loads new neighborhoods on demand. It is part debugging tool, part knowledge browser, and part “wait, the agents remembered all this?” moment. It’s also surprisingly mesmerizing. Many thanks to @garrytan for his GBrain work, and I am very happy to be among the serious users of #GBrain#! If you’re interested in setting it up for your own agents: #AI# #AIAgents# #KnowledgeGraph# #LocalAI# #OpenSource# #BuildInPublic# #Codex# #OpenClaw#