Ajit Pai
@AjitPai
Former @FCC Chairman, now President and CEO of @CTIA and Partner at Searchlight Capital Partners. American, Kansan, dad, Chiefs fan. I own a big mug.
Almost fifty years after my parents came to the U.S. from India, I’m looking forward to traveling to India along with @POTUS and other U.S. government officials, and participating in bilateral meetings aimed at deepening the friendship between our two nations! 🇺🇸🇮🇳
A Sherpa taking a cigarette break at 8,000 meters in the “death zone”, where oxygen is critically scarce
RIP, @OzzyOsbourne: he “shocked and awed with his heavy metal band Black Sabbath” and “survived decades of hard-living, … along with controversies such as the notorious moment he bit the head off a bat during a live concert.” H/T @andrewtlloyd the-independent.com/arts-entertain…
OTD in 1933, American aviator Wiley Post flew into New York, becoming the first person to fly solo around the world. He had left New York 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes prior, making stops in Berlin, Moscow, Fairbanks, and Edmonton. 50,000 people greeted him upon his return.
RIP, Malcolm Jamal-Warner: he played the memorable role of Theo, son of Cliff and Clair Huxtable, for the full run of the 1980s hit television series “The Cosby Show.” H/T @nagorsky variety.com/2025/tv/news/m…
Woah there, cowboy! 🤠 Cowboys in the American west are said to have used socks as coffee filters and added eggshells to their coffee grounds ☕. We hope the socks were clean!
OTD in 2002, Worldcom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Once the second-largest long-distance phone company with a peak market cap of $186B, Worldcom engaged in massive accounting fraud. Several company employees, including the CEO and CFO, ultimately went to prison.
Imagine fighting wars, organizing sieges based on maps like this. Better than no visuals but nothing compared to the intelligence that modern warfare has.
A 15th-century manuscript map depicting the city of Constantinople.
I don't need my rice cooker to connect to my wifi so it can automatically adjust the time after daylight savings or whatever, because I don't need my rice cooker to tell me the time. I need my rice cooker to cook rice. thank you for your attention to this matter!
OTD in 1969 came "one giant leap for mankind" as the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Moon (with 30 seconds of fuel left!). After announcing "The Eagle has landed," Neil Armstrong became the 1st human to set foot on a celestial body. Still get chills. nasa.gov/mission_pages/…
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES was released 13 years ago today. The closing part of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and featuring an all-star cast, the behind the scenes story is Gotham’s reckoning… 1/47
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Map of what Europeans think is the ‘South’ in the USA
Only in America do people escape totalitarian regimes, build a life from scratch, and then send their kids to elite colleges… …where they’re taught that America is evil and socialism just hasn’t been done right.
Where were you #OTD (in fact, on this exact day – Friday, July 18th, 1969) 56 years ago? I can tell you where I was…on the way to the Moon! Happy #Apollo11 Friday!
The main problem with “free” is that it costs too much.
Despite a recent $750k taxpayer subsidy, the shelves at Kansas City's government-run grocery store are "almost bare." It also lost $885k last year and is, unsurprisingly, hemorrhaging customers.
The Heritage Foundation released the following statement today from Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts and Board of Trustees Chairman Barb Van Andel-Gaby, lauding the legacy and mourning the loss of Heritage Founder Edwin J. Feulner: It is with great sorrow that we announce…
OTD in 1968, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore incorporated "NM Electronics," having left Fairchild Semiconductor. At the suggestion of Noyce's daughter, they renamed the company the Integrated Electronics Corporation—or, as we know it today, @Intel. intel.com/Assets/PDF/Gen…