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Recently I told you there are two kinds of people in this system: cynics and believers. Ursula von der Leyen, I put her with the believers. And that's exactly why you need to understand how the machine works. Because cynics are very rare. Soros, I put him in that category: he knows exactly what he's doing, and he has never hidden it. He read Popper, he has a theory of change, and he understood early on something the right still hasn't figured out: you don't change a society by winning an election. You change it by funding, for thirty years, the people who will write the reports, train the lawyers, and advise whoever wins the elections. $24 billion spent by Open Society since its creation. More than 50,000 grants. In 2015, he wrote in plain text that the EU must accept at least a million asylum seekers a year, and mobilize NGOs, churches and businesses to take them in. All of it is public. That's the most impressive part. Here's how the system got hacked, in three steps. Step one: selection. Nobody recruits idiots. No need. The money does the selecting on its own. A grant never goes to the person who doubts. It goes to the person who already believes. Repeat that over thirty years and tens of thousands of grants, and you get an entire ecosystem where the free thinker was filtered out at the door. He wasn't fired. He just never got funded. What's left: people who are sincere, credentialed, conformist, and whose paycheck depends on the cause. Step two: funding manufactures conviction. Try explaining something to someone whose paycheck depends on not getting it. The NGO produces a report. The report gets cited by an expert. The expert testifies before the Commission. The Commission turns it into a directive. And the NGO guy ends up in a cabinet, then goes back to a foundation. Everyone knows each other, cites each other, funds each other. It's an echo chamber with a budget. Step three: emotion. You never debate results. You debate intentions. One photo beats a thousand statistics. Every objection backed by numbers becomes a moral failing. And when reality contradicts the narrative, the dissonance always gets resolved the same way: "It's a necessary evil." "It's collateral damage." "The real problem is elsewhere." Immigration is never a problem. The problem is your perception. The result: the system doesn't produce corrupt people. It produces NPCs. People reciting a script while convinced they wrote it themselves. Ursula doesn't need to be bought. She has spent her entire career in an environment where every expert, every report, every "civil society" group tells her the same thing. She is convinced she's on the side of good. And that's what makes her immune to facts. And the best part of the story: Soros isn't even the system's biggest funder anymore. You are. Between 2021 and 2023, €7.4 billion in EU funds went to more than 12,000 NGOs. The European Court of Auditors itself says it can't get a reliable picture of who gets what. The hack worked so well that the machine now runs on your taxes. This is not a conspiracy. A conspiracy hides. Here, the amounts are public, the op-eds are public, the recipients are public. It's an incentive system. And you don't fight an incentive system by insulting the believers. You fight it by cutting off the tap and demanding total transparency: who funds whom, to say what. As long as it stays opaque, they'll keep shipping believers at scale.

This hits hard. The way he lays out how one person gets there first and just keeps telling the version of the story that makes them look good, over and over, while you're not in the room... yeah, that's how it actually goes. And then once the label sticks ("controlling," "unstable," whatever), everything you do after that gets twisted to prove the label was right the whole time. You defend yourself? Defensive. You set a boundary? There it is, controlling again. Your reaction becomes the new evidence. That's the part that feels especially unfair. The triangulation thing is real too. People stop talking to you and start talking about you, and the story gets passed around sibling to sibling, parent to kid, until it starts sounding like common knowledge even though half the people repeating it never saw anything firsthand. And nobody wants to be the one who questions it, because then they're the problem. So the whole group stays locked in. The line at the end stuck with me: consensus isn't the same thing as truth. An entire family agreeing about you doesn't automatically mean they're right. Healthy families can handle people asking questions or having different takes. A lot of families just treat any disagreement as disloyalty. Sounds exhausting to live through.

People wonder why I'm so obsessed with donkeys. I've looked into it, and my only finding is that the rest of you are underdoing it. The donkey was built for the ground where everything else gives up. It lives on thorn and scrub that a horse would starve beside, climbs rock on hooves like chisels, cools itself through those ears, and can lose nearly a third of its body weight in water, carry on eating, then drink 25 litres in three minutes and walk off as if nothing happened. We tamed it 7,000 years ago in the dry country of East Africa, and it has been the animal of the hard places ever since. So it was the donkey, long before the horse, that carried civilisation on its back. One of Egypt's first pharaohs was buried at Abydos with ten donkeys laid in graves beside him, every spine worn from a lifetime under loads. The grain, the salt, the copper and the news of the ancient world moved at a donkey's pace, and wherever a hill is still too steep for a wheel, they still do. The same animal fed our babies. Donkey milk is the closest milk on earth to a human mother's, Hippocrates prescribed it, and the foundling hospital in Paris kept a stable of jennies so the orphans could be put straight to the udder. A fair share of Europe's abandoned children owe their first month to a donkey, and most of those donkeys carry a dark cross down the back and across the shoulders, which the old story says was given to them on Good Friday. It carried our wounded too. On the beach at Gallipoli a stretcher-bearer from South Shields found a stray donkey, and for 24 days the two of them walked up and down Shrapnel Gully under fire bringing broken men down to the boats, until a machine gun got the man. The donkey went back up with the next one. Of everything the Anzacs brought home from that campaign, the thing they chose to remember was a donkey. Then there is the stubbornness, the one fact everybody is sure of, and it is the opposite of the truth. A horse meets danger by bolting, which is why horses die on cliff paths. A donkey stops, looks at the thing in front of it, and makes a decision, and it will refuse to step into water it cannot see the bottom of because it is right not to. For 7,000 years we have been calling a risk assessment an attitude. Put one in a field of ewes and it appoints itself. A fox or a loose dog comes through the hedge and the donkey goes at it, head down, front feet first, and keeps going until the thing has gone. Nobody trains that in. It decided they were its sheep. It remembers a face and a field after 25 years. It will stand over a dying companion for a day. It lives to 40 and outlasts half the people who ever owned it. There are about 50 million of them alive, carrying water, firewood and children for the poorest people on earth, and close to 6 million a year are now killed for their hides, boiled down into a gelatine sold as a tonic. The animal that did the most work for the least thanks is being melted into a wellness product. Seven thousand years of hauling us uphill, feeding our orphans and carrying our wounded, and the best we managed in return was to turn its name into an insult. So no. Not nearly obsessed enough.

🚨UPDATE🚨 “I'm gonna be the dirtiest fucking doctor ever. I'm gonna poison her slowly.” - Ahmet Kerem Körkaya Ahmet Körkaya is one of 12 University of Michigan students arrested by the FBI this past spring, and is currently facing charges for plotting to “kill, torture, and torment” university officials who refused to divest from Israel. He was released on bail and has now landed a job as a 5th grade TEACHER and soccer coach at Salam School, a private K–12 operated by the Islamic Society of Milwaukee. 🔼Read that twice🔼 This Turkish-born terror-supporter and former medical student faces 10 to 15 years in federal prison for leading a two-year campaign of violence, intimidation, death threats, and vandalism. This past week, one of Obama’s commie/jihadist-loving judges, Judith Levy (go figure), decided to remove his ankle monitor because it hinders his sex life and his young students are confused about why he’s wearing one. Here’s what Judge Judith Levy unleashed on society: Ahmet Körkaya discussed with another student about how he was going to plow his car through the front of a Jewish university official’s home while the official’s children were inside. He told another student that he wanted to poison a Jewish university board regent for her refusal to divest from Israel: “I’m gonna be the dirtiest fucking doctor ever. I’m gonna poison her slowly.” The FBI found jihadist literature, Hamas propaganda, and artwork depicting beheadings in Körkaya’s home. In text messages to his comrades, Körkaya said he believed bombings were in his “true nature” and went on to declare that he was “going to go militant because I hate it here.” This is what we’re up against, patriots. A two-front war: the terrorists and the judges who unleash them. The FBI needs to be all over this. Again. FAST. @FBI_Response @FBI @StephenM H/T @RAIRFoundation

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🚨 YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: Democrat Congresswoman-elect LaKesha Womack heads to court Tuesday on a FELONY charge over a rental car. Court records allege she never returned a $20,000 Toyota Corolla to Budget in 2019. She beat Rep. Tim Moore in North Carolina's 14th by about two points. Her response is to call it "a political attack disguised as a legal issue." This is who Democrats are sending to Washington.

My wife's college friend Naoko spent three years in Kansas as an agricultural researcher. She came home with 3,000 photos. Four of them are the Grand Canyon. Two thousand one hundred are handwritten signs. I asked her why. "In Japan, signs tell you what you can't do. No parking. No entry. No food. No talking. In America, people take a piece of cardboard and a marker, and they write something kind to a stranger they will never meet. Then they tape it to a mailbox. I couldn't stop taking pictures." She let me go through them. These are her favorites, with her notes. "FRESH EGGS $3. HONOR SYSTEM. CASH BOX BELOW." (Ohio. No camera. No lock. There was $46 in the box. I counted. I put in $5 and felt watched by God.) "LOST CAT. His name is Moose. He is fat and mean. We love him. Please call." (I did not find Moose. I think about Moose often.) "FREE FIREWOOD. STAY WARM." (Vermont. Two words from a stranger. In Japan, a sign has never once told me to stay warm.) "CH__CH. WHAT'S MISSING? U R." (I read it three times. Then I understood. Then I went in.) "SNOW SHOVELING. FREE FOR SENIORS AND VETERANS. CALL TYLER (AGE 13)." (Tyler is 13. Tyler is in business. Tyler is not making any money. Tyler is a great businessman.) "SLOW DOWN. GRANDKIDS PLAYING. GRANDMA HAS YOUR LICENSE PLATE." (I drove 9 miles per hour. Grandma was on the porch. She waved. I do not think it was a friendly wave.) "WELCOME HOME DADDY. 287 DAYS." (Painted on a bedsheet, hanging from a garage in Kansas. Three different handwritings. One of them very small. I don't know this family. I pulled over and cried for a man I will never meet.) "FREE COFFEE FOR TRUCKERS. YOU KEEP THIS COUNTRY RUNNING." (A rest stop in Iowa. Two old men behind a folding table. One of them told me I was not a trucker. Then he gave me coffee anyway.) "CAN'T AFFORD TO WASH YOUR CLOTHES? ASK FOR LINDA. NO QUESTIONS." (A laundromat in Missouri. I didn't need Linda. I just stood there and loved her for a minute.) And then there's one photo that isn't very good. It's dark. It's blurry. She took it with shaking hands. A paper taped to the door of a closed gas station on a two-lane road in western Kansas. "CLOSED. IF YOU'RE STUCK, CALL EARL. I'M JUST UP THE ROAD." It was 11:40 at night. Naoko had a flat tire. No signal for most of the drive. One bar, right there by the door. She called. Earl was 81. He came in his truck in slippers and a bathrobe. His wife June came too, because, as Earl explained, "She don't let me go out at night alone anymore." Earl changed the tire with a flashlight in his mouth. June sat in the truck with the heater running, poured coffee from a thermos, and handed it through the window. "You're shaking, honey. Drink this." When it was done, Naoko tried to give him money. He wouldn't touch it. She said, "In Japan, I could never repay something like this." Earl said, "Then don't." "Just leave your porch light on for somebody." Naoko has been back in Japan for two years. In front of her house, there is a wooden box. Every week she fills it with tangerines from her garden. On the box is a handwritten sign, in Japanese and English. "FREE. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED." The first week, nobody touched it. The neighbors thought it was a trap. The second week, an old man took two and left a note. "Thank you." The third week, someone she has never met left a bag of persimmons. It has been two years. That box has never once been empty. America, the world watches your news and thinks it knows you. It doesn't. You're not in the headlines. You're on a piece of cardboard. In marker. Taped to a mailbox. Leaning on a fence post in the rain. "Stay warm." "Take what you need." "I'm just up the road." If you've been wondering where your country went, it didn't go anywhere. Go for a drive. It's still taped to the mailboxes.

My name is Wick. In 2000, at middle age, I walked away from a steady engineering job and bet everything on building a small aerospace manufacturing company. For six years I worked 18-hour days, seven days a week. My wife and I poured every dollar of profit back into the business—new machines, better inspection tools, more capacity. We were building a real American manufacturing operation from the ground up. We earned Preferred Vendor status with one of Boeing’s major hydraulic suppliers, a Fortune 200 company. For years the relationship felt like a partnership. We kept investing: latest CNC machines, advanced quality systems, a full ERP platform. We adopted every continuous-improvement method they asked for. By 2017 we had become a captive shop. They controlled the schedule, we jumped through every hoop, and almost all of our work was flight-critical high-pressure hydraulic landing-brake components. In July 2025 new management arrived. They canceled every long-term contract, told us our prices were “no longer competitive,” and said if we didn’t like it we could call their lawyers. We soon learned the real reason: they had moved the work to India. Not because of quality problems. Not because of late deliveries. Purely for an immediate price cut. Machinists and quality technicians in India were earning $2.50–$4 an hour. Our people were earning $25–$55. By September 2025 we had laid off more than 30 highly skilled American workers and closed the doors, buried in debt. We filed for bankruptcy. My wife, who had been CEO/COO of our company, took a production-management role at another manufacturer. She led the company-wide integration of a new SAP system, trained every department, and was then assigned to train the machine-shop manager. Three months later—on November 3—they eliminated her position. They no longer needed the “high-priced” person who had just built the system for them. She is now unemployed. I’m nearly 70 and effectively unemployable in the field I spent a quarter-century mastering. We are selling the house we fought to keep and moving, in two weeks, to a far more affordable town in another state. I’m looking for part-time work there. My wife is looking for another manufacturing-management role. We have also filed Chapter 13 personal bankruptcy. We are not voting for socialists or communists who promise “free everything”. We are not giving up. We will keep working. We will keep living. And we will keep believing that the American Dream is still worth fighting for—even when the people who benefit from it decide your work is no longer convenient. 🇺🇸

10 gentle questions that will make an avoidant fall deeper:1/7

How did Abdul El-Sayed win Michigan? Here’s @andie_valdes and I’s analysis after three days on the ground with Michiganders.

Making jokes about killing Charlie Kirk. This is how they act after winning. Noted.

Rep. Tim Burchett just confronted Senate Leader John Thune on national TV about a House bill that would stop U.S. taxpayer money from funding the Taliban. The bill has been sitting in the Senate for nearly 11 months with zero action. Thune admitted he hadn’t even read it. Every week of delay means another $40 million of your money flowing to terrorists in Afghanistan. This is what Senate leadership is doing while Americans fund our enemies.

Just a reminder: There is absolutely no known reason for this layer known to any working scientist outside this group. No one I know knows why "shepherding" is needed here. No one has explained why David Gross (85) and Arthur Jaffe (88) are in almost every scene like this and have been since the 1980s. If asked who the 5 member panel intercepting this result would be, I would have gotten both of those names as my first two guesses. No one has explained why Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell took control of this intercepting layer with Scientific Publishing and Permagon Press. No one has explained @pmarca and @bhorowitz's meeting at the Biden whitehouse where they were told that entire areas of theoretical physics were shutdown. Or why Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci were involved in "Swift and Devastating takedown(s)" of their colleauges. No one has explained why we couldn't figure out COVID's origins within a day or two. There is simply this layer since the Manhattan Project and its secret "Reference Committee" that makes sure that science doesn't proceed the way we are all taught in school. Simply put, this is as mysterious as it is outrageous. Who ordered this bizarre interception by Gross and Jaffe? Are we all supposed to pretend this isn't happening in science? "Oh yeah. This is all totally normal. Please take custody of this result and shepherd us like sheep with PhDs so we don't have any sudden violent advances. By all means, we need the octogenarians who have generously provided us leadership during this long four decade period of mysterious stagnation. Baaaaa." This does not add up. Unless it does. And it's mind-boggling.

After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed. He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself. So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends. Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight. Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant. Here's the part almost nobody sees. For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit. Robots break that asymmetry. When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible. And that changes everything politically. So there are two scenarios. Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse. Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built. That's the Western renaissance. The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice. The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.

After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed. He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself. So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends. Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight. Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant. Here's the part almost nobody sees. For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit. Robots break that asymmetry. When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible. And that changes everything politically. So there are two scenarios. Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse. Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built. That's the Western renaissance. The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice. The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.

As an Iranian who has been closely following US politics from the outside over the past two years, let me tell you what was the reason behind the midterm election results in my opinion. Many were blaming the Iran war. The war in Iran was essentially a proxy war whose battlefield happened to be in Iran, but behind the scenes, a complex network of global powers was involved. China, Russia, Arab nations, the Democrats, and most importantly, the UK and European liberals were the lifelines and supporters of this regime, they had no intention of ever letting the Islamic regime in Iran go. The Islamic regime functioned as their tool, their financial cash cow, and their asset in the region, to entangle the US in the region and weaken it. Trump confronted and stood against this entire network. He knew the regime was holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, but he had the courage to step up, take the risk, and push forward. In response, they had no tools left except the narrative war. A big sophisticated network started warmongering rhetoric and propaganda. Beyond the mainstream media, they even recruited right-wing podcasters like @TuckerCarlson , who suddenly flipped their positions and began spreading false narratives. One of their primary tactics was stoking antisemitism and exploiting societal sensitivities, repeating lies until they were accepted as absolute fact. They kept claiming this was Israel’s war, which it simply wasn’t. I grew up in Iran and was forced to chant "Death to America" every morning at school, but I never once said "Death to Israel." This regime was obsessed with US, you are just so lucky you got Israeli intelligence in keeping you updated on the threat. Without Israel, you may had learned about it after a nuclear 9/11. This was America’s war, a fight against a system that was being weaponized to undermine the United States. As for the necessity of this conflict, Trump had known for years (dating back to his first term) what needed to be done with this regime. Why this timing? Because the people of Iran rose up in January 2026. If you had paid attention, the military buildup started immediately afterward because any meaningful action had to tap into the energy and courage of the Iranian people. No one in the media tells you that the Islamic regime massacred 75,000 people in Iran, and suddenly that horrific atrocity became a non-issue, completely brushed aside by those who are obsessed with Gaza. The fearmongers constantly tried to claim that this is just another "forever war," when in reality, Trump was actively preventing a repeat of the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters. What happened back then was a sudden, uncalculated collapse with no plan for the aftermath, plunging those countries into chaos and trapping America in a quagmire. But this time, Trump was handling it in a very controlled manner, applying limited, gradual pressure to steadily weaken the regime so the people could take their country back themselves, without needing any American boots on the ground. They knew full well that there were no boots on the ground in Iran and that their claims were baseless, yet they intentionally made mountains out of molehills to distort public opinion and hence bail out the regime. But it changes nothing for @realDonaldTrump , he finishes what he starts, and this will become his lasting legacy. Sadly, by making these choices, Americans have deprived themselves of domestic progress Trump could have offered, and even worse, let the enemy within inside the Senate and the House. I truly hope this serves as a wake-up call so that by 2028, these lies won’t work on you anymore.

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting from parents in Maine after public schools are now RECONSIDERING allowing kids to READ WITH FOSTER DOGS... ...over the RELIGIOUS BELIEFS of Muslims who believe dogs are "unclean" Yes, a program where kids sit with puppies and read books is now being reviewed because of Islam. It started at Ocean Avenue Elementary. Students were offered the chance to step into a play pen and read alongside foster dogs. The thought was simple: the kids get to snuggle dogs and the foster dogs... but then came a Portland school committee meeting. Assistant Superintendent Dr. "Abdullahi Ahmed" raised how dogs are viewed in the Islamic faith. His words: “The dog saliva is considered impure.” Now the board is writing new policy language built around RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL considerations that could keep dogs out of the classroom all together. This is insane. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!!!!!!!!

Simon Leys, damn:

Meet Annautaq, an orphaned Pacific walrus calf whose unexpected discovery during USGS research in Alaska saved his life. Last month, USGS biologist Tony Fischbach and Violet Anniskett, an Illisavik College intern, were surveying a beach after a storm moved a walrus herd from the area. While sampling carcasses for a study on harmful algal toxin levels in Pacific walruses, Violet discovered a live, orphaned calf hiding between two adult carcasses. With approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the local Iñupiaq community, the pair cared for the calf for nearly four days. They dispersed the gulls scavenging him, walked a half mile to the nearest shelter (an abandoned building open to the elements), and protected him from polar bears until the storm passed and a local rescue team could boat him across the lagoon. From there, Alaska Sea Life Center (ASLC) vet techs crated him onto a small plane to rehabilitation. Violet joined the journey to ease his transition. Violet grew up near walrus herds and first joined USGS surveys on a high school class field trip. This September, she joined the USGS team to gain professional experience working with the wildlife central to Iñupiaq culture. Her community agreed to have the orphan saved with the condition that they name him to preserve their connection to him. Violet chose Annautaq, an Iñupiaq word meaning axe, in honor of her father’s Iñupiaq name. USGS scientists monitor Pacific walrus populations in support of Marine Mammal Protection Act reporting and management requirements. This work depends on partnerships with Alaska Native communities, whose generational knowledge shapes how we understand and protect these animals. After rehabilitation at the ASFC, Annautaq has moved to his long-term home, where he will serve as a species ambassador, helping people learn about walruses and their connection to Alaska's people and changing marine environments. All work was conducted under USFWS permit MA3376D. 📷1: Violet and Annautaq. 📷2: Annautaq gazes out the shelter window. 📷3: Tony and Annautaq. 📷4: Violet resting with Annautaq. Credit: Tony Fischbach, USGS

If you don’t vote Republican, these are all the things you are voting for in Michigan: National Popular Vote Ranked Choice Voting Medicaid for illegals Drivers license for illegals Voting for illegals Zero bail 45 cent gas tax increase End Medicaid work requirement Income tax increase 80 new Data Centers Legalized voter fraud 72 square miles of solar farms End 1099 self employed Speeding cams Construction cams Auto emissions testing Flock cams Stop light cams Illegal alien license Film credits Outlaw concealed carry Mandate firearm liability insurance No guns in cars Legalize sodomy Porn in schools Boys in girls sports Boys in girls locker rooms Condoms and the pill in schools Toll roads 6.5 cents a mile Mandatory union dues Mandatory vaccinations Bankrupt Charter Schools Release pedophiles Homeless bill rights 800 million housing tax Free water in all cities Double medial malpractice Museum tax 16% state budget increase 4,000 ghost employees Mandatory sewer hookup Landlords can’t say no or evict Felony hate crime expansion Free utilities for poor ppl Pronoun prosecution Insurance pays for contraception Concert ticket tax 200 million gambling tax Booking photo wearing Burqa Secret transitioning in schools 400 million nicotine tax Gun Manufacturer liability 500 million ammo tax