Amile Wilson

Producer, director, and philosophy junkie.
Political media and communications strategist.
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[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how Mississippi is kicking California’s ass in education, and Texas is “blowing them away” in green energy for “way less money.”

“Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California? Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We’re 37th in fourth-grade reading, they’re ninth.”

“Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months. About 1,000 days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to get my solar hooked up? It would have been quicker to build a windmill.”

“Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage. How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?”

“I’ll tell you why. Because you’re allowed to build there because every third person in Texas isn’t someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done.”

“Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment.”

“And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states.”

[Jim Kozlinksi @Jim_Kozlinski]

@Rothmus Here is the proof. Everything we have socialized has no price discovery. Most people will wave it away is a supply/demand issue, but this is Road to Serfdom in a single chart.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

LA has over 40K drug addicts holding Angelenos hostage. All it takes is one to make moms feel too nervous to let their kids just go be kids and explore the quiet streets of their beautiful neighborhood. ENOUGH. We are done being held hostage in our own homes. Vote PRATT today!

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

We were there front and center.

That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government.

After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.

[Mari Otsu @marisotsu]

As my colleagues and I walked toward the Hilton for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a man shouted “F*** you!” right at us — simply because we were attending.

Later that night, after the shooting, we were running to the White House for the briefing when we passed three teenage girls glued to their phones, reacting to the news. One of them said, “Aw man, I wish they got him,” and her two friends giggled.

That moment stopped me cold. When our young people casually cheer for violence like it’s a game, we have a serious problem. Radicalization isn’t some abstract issue — it’s showing up casually in everyday conversations and in our kids’ attitudes.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Skeptical Stoic @StoicSkeptic]

@DrunkRepub As many have suspected for a while now, the left’s entire existence is founded upon either exacerbating real problems (e.g., homelessness) or creating fake problems (e.g., white supremacy) so they can sell you a solution that achieves nothing other than ripping you off.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.

On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.

Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

The world stopped to watch Artemis II.

Moments like this remind us what is possible and inspire the next generation to dream bigger and take us even further.

We are just getting started on this grand adventure. It is time to start believing again.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Sen. Markwayne Mullin just PUMMELED Bernie Sanders to his FACE, Bernie was stunned!

"I ranted too long."

SANDERS: "Yes you did!"

MULLIN: "I'm sorry, I didn't ask your opinion. If I cared, I'd ask you, but I DON'T care about your opinion. YOU'RE part of the system! YOU'RE part of the problem!"

"You've been sitting here longer than I've EVEN BEEN ALIVE! This is YOUR problem! [Healthcare]"

"You should have fixed this a LONG time ago. You've been running on it so long, what have you been DOING your whole life?!"

Wow 🔥🔥🔥 @SenMullin

[Anduril Appreciator @A1Anduril]

Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey:

“A lot of people say: ‘I can’t believe Palmer named his company after something from the LOTR… Tolkien hated war.’”

“Tolkien was not someone who was pro-war by any means… but he did believe in good and evil. He did believe in wars that needed to be fought.”

“One of the interesting themes of [LOTR] is how the people who live far away from Mordor, they don’t believe that these monsters exist.”

“And I think that describes a lot of Americans. You’ll talk to people that say: ‘I think that nobody’s truly evil, that nobody deserves to die.’”

“There are a lot of people on the frontlines of conflicts who don’t have the luxury of that… Someone who’s looked evil in the eye can’t pretend it doesn’t exist.”

Anduril, Flame of the West 🔥⚔️

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher Delivers a Brutal Message to the COVID “Experts” Who Got It Wrong

“A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be CORRECT.”

This includes, but is not limited to:

• COVID came from a lab
• Ivermectin worked
• Masks offered no benefit and were harmful
• Should have never kept kids out of school
• Natural immunity is better than vaccinated immunity
• Long COVID is often a symptom of long vax
• Hospitals murdered COVID patients
• COVID fatality rate and death count were highly inflated
• Unvaccinated were scapegoated for the failure of the shots
• Early treatment was suppressed to make way for a “vaccine”
• Risks of the jab were intentionally hidden from the public
• Vaccine mandates are wrong
• More shots = more risk of infection
• COVID shots are neither safe nor effective

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

“We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for and died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born”
Roger Scruton

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Larry and Sergey can’t stay in California since the wealth tax as written would confiscate 50% of their Alphabet shares.

Each own ~3% of Alphabet's stock, worth about $120 billion each at today's ~$4 trillion market cap.

But because their shares have 10x voting power, the SEIU-UHW California billionaire tax would treat them as owning 30% of Alphabet (3% × 10 = 30%). That means each founder's taxable wealth would be $1.2 trillion.

A 5% wealth tax on $1.2 trillion = $60 billion tax bill, each.

That's 50% of their actual Alphabet holdings—wiped out by a "5%" tax.

Section 50303(c)(3)(C) of the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act states: "For any interests that confer voting or other direct control rights, the percentage of the business entity owned by the taxpayer shall be presumed to be not less than the taxpayer's percentage of the overall voting or other direct control rights."

This means if a founder holds shares representing only 3% of economic interest but 30% of voting control (through Class B supervoting shares), the tax would presume their ownership stake is at least 30% for valuation purposes, not 3%.

The wealth tax is poorly defined and designed to drive tech innovation out of California.

[Kat Timpf @KatTimpf]

Mamdani’s “solution” to housing is nonsensical and would make everything far worse. But many conservatives refuse to acknowledge that there even is a problem — or that it’s NOT one that can be solved by simply not buying lattes.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

On the “frigidity of rugged individualism” versus the “warmth of collectivism”: Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had this week compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in this week

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Ayn Rand called to ask for her villain’s speech back.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Back in May, it looked like murders might plunge to historic lows. Incredible to see it coming to fruition.

This isn’t just the largest one-year drop—it’s the *lowest murder rate ever recorded.* After the 2020 spike, that turnaround is nothing short of a miracle.