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ABC News says "right-wing provacateurs," not "right-wing journalists," because they know how bad it sounds to say that liberals are prosecuting journalists because they're embarassed by what they undercovered.
Two right-wing provocateurs are facing election-related charges in Minnesota after posting videos of an undercover stunt intended to expose deficiencies in election security. abcnews.link/YSGOMWI
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He shot at a politician's home 13 TIMES.
Over war? Racism? No. He was mad that the pol supports data centers.
The hate makes no sense. Data centers power everything we do online, and now AI.
That's a good thing!
"It's going to find cures for diseases," says @paigelambermont.
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After watching this, I'm just amazed it took Microsoft so long to lay off 60,000 staff
Writer: Ian
More of this guy, please! 👇
Simon Dixon (@SimonDixonTwitt) says the real struggle is over who owns your money, your data & the technology you use.
He explains why he sees personal ownership as a way to resist a world of increasingly centralized power:
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Inconvenient truth bomb:
You cannot get your panties in a wad every time Southerners talk about the destruction of Southern culture and the erasure of Southern history, then turn around and demand that everybody stand up and fight for American culture and American history.
Why?
Because they are one and the same.
America isn’t one big, homogenous blob of people who all talk alike, eat alike, think alike, and come from the same place. We’re a nation made up of distinct regions, each with its own history, traditions, accents, music, food, and way of life. All of those regional cultures come together under one American flag.
Yankeedom has its Masshole accents, New York attitudes, bagels, Italian food, old money, and prep schools.
Appalachia has its hillbillies, moonshine, bluegrass, clogging, and fierce self-sufficiency.
The West has cowboys, tech culture, valley girls, Hispanic and Chinese influences, Hollywood, tofu, and cattle ranches.
The Midwest has its endless fields of grain, Motown, steel towns, German influences, and the Windy City.
And the South? We’ve got our drawls, African influences, mamas who raise their hands up high, country music, Southern rock, Gothic writers, Cajun and Lowcountry, and a rebellious spirit.
ALL OF IT IS AMERICAN. ALL OF IT MATTERS.
You cannot pick and choose which pieces of America’s cultural heritage deserve to survive based on whether you happen to belong to one of them.
You don’t get to demand respect for your region’s history while dismissing ours as backward, embarrassing, or something the country needs to outgrow.
You don’t get to wave the American flag with one hand while helping erase the very regional cultures that made this country what it is with the other.
If you want me to stand up and fight for what’s yours, then quit rolling your eyes when we fight for what’s ours.
You cannot preserve American culture by erasing Southern culture. You cannot protect American history by pretending Southern history doesn’t matter.
And you sure as hell cannot ask Southerners to defend a heritage you refuse to respect.
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SBA loans.
Their business model, up until March of this year, was literally to give loans to immigrants and buy real estate for them to start businesses. In 2023 alone, they gave out roughly $34 billion.
I have a foreigner from Venezuela (probably 35 years old) who bought the 10 acre field next to mine (for $240,000)
He started a concrete company and requests payment in cash. His wife started a tax service and he is her “customer”.
He speaks very little English. His wife and crew speak no English.
He drives a brand new F-350 dually and is building what looks like a 3,000 sq ft home on his $240,000 lot.
Imagine that. You drop yourself into a country totally foreign to you. You have whatever money you scraped together before leaving your 3rd world shithole. You don’t speak the language and know only the other foreigners from your clan who arrived before you.
You want to start a business? That requires capital, advertising, business licensing, employees, a reputation.
You cannot tell me these people are doing this without serious help: preferred loans, grants, subsidies, tax avoidance.
I’ve started 3 businesses. One thing I’ll tell you is it has been like pulling teeth over the years getting a loan for ANYTHING when you own a small business, unless you have YEARS of solid tax returns to show.
But this guy someone got financed for raw land, plus a construction loan, probably $750,000 in total?
And it’s not just him. It seems like every brand new truck at the gas station is being driven by a foreigner with no English.
This is not envy. We are very clearly being invaded and someone is helping the enemy army with my tax dollars.
2 years ago I lost a very lucrative contract to a crew of Hispanic foreigners who we outperformed by every metric (including pricing), all because the customer’s management was also Hispanic foreigners.
But we’ve all held our nose because we were told they were all going home. What a crock of bullshit that was.
So yeah people are about to snap, and when they do it’s going to be biblical.
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As a licensed attorney there for the last 20 years, I can confirm Alabama’s legal system sucks — and I say that as someone who has a strong record in the courts; but it is constantly an uphill battle, when you have a system with elected judges who just had their campaigns funded by powerbrokers in the State like … Alabama Power. And that’s not to even mention the big law firms who back those election campaigns of judges.
You have to not just beat the other side but beat them to the point that it would make national news if they ruled any other way.
It’s not only our federal government who does this. Private companies have even more leeway to do this. Denver the scene from The Firm when they stage the beach scene to blackmail Tom Cruise? That was way before Google, Microsoft, etc.
Next time a stranger at a bar asks if you're a patriot, do not say yes.
Chase Hughes walks through a hypothetical recruitment, and it starts with someone telling you he loves your podcast and then asking whether you'd consider yourself a patriot. That first yes is what he builds everything else on - your identity.
Next he asks if you'd be willing to look at something that might be uncomfortable. Then he shows you your browsing history and webcam captures from your phones and computers, offers to keep it all out of the public eye, and puts $20,000 a month on the table. All you have to do is keep a few people off the show and leave a few things out, for your country.
What gets me is that the protection covers more than your reputation. It also hands you a story you can live with, where every concession counts as service.
"They don't build influencers. They find the ones who are already successful and recruit them."
Apparently the benefits package includes getting to keep calling yourself independent.
So be honest, has anybody here ever been approached with an indecent proposal?
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🧵In 2019, California billionaire tax crusader Gabriel Zucman made an astonishing claim to the NY Times: billionaires pay a lower avg tax rate than poor people in the US.
I noticed something fishy though: Zucman's NYT chart did not match his own published data from a 2018 paper
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The US presidency is the most dangerous office in the world.
Here are the top 3 best and worst presidents ever:
Let's start with the best:
1. Grover Cleveland vetoed 414 bills in his first term alone, including congressional handouts to drought-stricken Texas farmers in 1887, on the grounds that the Constitution authorized no such charity. He was right.
2. Warren Harding inherited the sharp 1920-21 depression and did almost nothing, cutting federal spending from $6.4 billion to $3.3 billion and slashing tax rates. The economy recovered within eighteen months, precisely because Washington stepped aside.
3. John Tyler, largely forgotten today, vetoed a national bank bill twice, endured expulsion from the Whig Party, and refused to let Henry Clay transform the Treasury into a political instrument.
These three men share a rare quality: they treated the federal government as a cage, not a tool.
Now the worst.
3. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, imprisoned 14,000 political opponents without trial, shut down opposition newspapers, and conscripted men at gunpoint. The war's financing required the Legal Tender Acts of 1862, which forced irredeemable paper greenbacks on US citizens regardless of what contracts previously specified. Centralization of federal power over the states never fully reversed after 1865. The constitutional republic that emerged was a different animal from the one that entered.
2. Woodrow Wilson delivered the Federal Reserve in 1913, the income tax through the Sixteenth Amendment, the military draft, and the Espionage Act, which could imprison anyone for criticizing the war. He segregated the federal civil service. He took the country into a European slaughter with a propaganda apparatus, the Committee on Public Information, designed to manufacture consent. Every major expansion of state power in the twentieth century traces a direct line back to Wilson's two terms.
1. Franklin Roosevelt gets the top prize for catastrophe. He criminalized gold ownership via Executive Order 6102 in 1933, forcing Americans to surrender their gold at $20.67 per ounce, then immediately revalued it to $35, confiscating roughly 41 percent of savings held in the hardest monetary form available. He extended a cyclical recession into a decade-long depression through the National Industrial Recovery Act, agricultural price controls, and relentless uncertainty about property rights. Businesses do not invest when the rules change by executive whim every quarter. Real unemployment never fell below 14 percent throughout the 1930s. He packed the Supreme Court when it resisted. The regulatory state you live inside today, with its 188,000 pages of federal rules, grew from seeds Roosevelt planted between 1933 and 1945.
Power corrupts budgets, currencies, and constitutions with equal efficiency. The best presidents understood their job was to leave you alone.
