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[Brandon Fugal @BrandonFugal]

Great discussions today with Governor Spencer Cox & former Secretary of Defense Chris Miller at the NEXUS Summit, hosted by Utah-based defense tech company CenCore in Payson. CEO Adam Fife masterfully orchestrated the launch of the Integrated Warfighter Ecosystem (IWE)…focused on strengthening national security & expanding collaboration across the defense industrial base.

[Kevin Jon @thekevinjon]

You can move to Warsaw.

Rent a penthouse in the city center for 1,800 dollars and have every Polish person you know tell you you're overpaying. For a penthouse.

Set up a company in 3 weeks and pay 12% tax on your income. Feel guilty about it constantly because you're used to governments taking half. You'll try to find ways to give money away. It's a real problem.

Hire 25 talented people for less than a 5 person team costs in London.

Develop a permanent suspicion that something is wrong because business shouldn't be this straightforward.

File your taxes in 20 minutes online and spend the rest of the afternoon wondering what German founders do with the 4 months of tax suffering you no longer have.

Walk home at 2am eating a zapiekanka with both hands. No plan. No awareness. No keys between your fingers. Just vibes and mustard.

Leave your laptop in a café and come back to find a stranger guarding it.

Expect this everywhere from now on. Get your laptop stolen in Berlin 3 months later because Poland has completely destroyed your survival instincts.

Get a full dental cleaning for 30 dollars. Go twice a year now because there's no financial punishment for taking care of yourself. Become the healthiest version of yourself against your will.

Speak one word of Polish at a restaurant and watch the entire staff treat you like a son who just came home from war. Everybody is so friendly when you try their language that it feels unprofessional. You'll get used to it. Then you'll miss it everywhere else.

Have a babcia in your building adopt you without your consent.

She brings you soup weekly, calls you "that handsome foreigner," and tells you you're too skinny despite your 17 inch arms. You did not ask for this relationship but you cannot leave it.
Spend your weekends browsing działka listings because a Polish friend took you to his garden plot once and now you understand. You don't even like gardening. It doesn't matter. Poland has changed you.

Tell your friends in Berlin and Frankfurt what you pay for rent, taxes, food, and a gym membership.
Watch them go silent.

Then watch them book a flight to Warsaw "just to visit."
They're not visiting. They're scouting. You know it. They know it. Poland always wins. It just takes one trip.

[Bob B @BobB15839439]

@AmericanAlphaX Agree 💯

[American Alpha @AmericanAlphaX]

Let’s see if I’ve got this right…

5 Democrat states are suing Trump to keep Somalians defrauding America.

19 states are suing him to allow forced sex change operations on kids.

22 states are suing him to hide voter data.

21 states are suing him to give SNAP benefits to illegal immigrants.

Stop calling them liberals and start calling them what they really are… traitors & communists. Let’s make that a trend.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

Beef prices aren't up becuase of tariffs you moron. They are up because:
1. 4 meatpackers have consolidated the entire industry and are currently under investigation for price fixing.
2. Cattle herds are at record lows because of leftist policy for the past 10 years intentionally trying to destroy the meat industry to prevent climate change.
3. We imported 40 million people in the past 4 years that are all subsudized by the government to buy beef from walmart.

This is all well known and the American left has been public about this for years. A temporary waver of tariffs on foreign beef to bring prices down during midterm elections is not proof that tariffs are bad or that the current situation is caused by tariffs.

[Tx Potpourri @rosales9664]

💥President @realDonaldTrump, @VP, @FinancialCmte, @GOPoversight & @GOP,

You have the AUTHORITY to enforce reconciliation. Your inaction speak volumes about your Character. It's a tragedy! The Left defrauded MMTLP and Right, won't lift a finger.

⚖

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans don’t see the point of eating out anymore, quality has plummeted and prices are outrageous

“I think I'm almost done with eating out. Every time we do, I feel like I'm just underwhelmed by the food, and I am overwhelmed by how much it costs”

She explains she just got 2 burgers, 2 fries and 2 shakes. It was $70…..

“$70 — and it wasn't even good. It literally was not even good — It wasn't good at all. Not at all. Never again”

This is something so many Americans are posting about before it’s true. Food in America is noticeably worse basically everywhere than it used to be

Everywhere you go it’s like $50-$100 bucks, there’s no escaping it and the quality is not there

[TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉 @CherokeeOwl]

He was born in poverty so deep his father never even lived to see him.

Red Skelton’s dad — a former circus clown — died two months before he was born in Vincennes, Indiana.

By age ten the red-headed kid was singing on street corners for spare change just to help feed his family. At fifteen he left home for traveling medicine shows, learning how to make strangers laugh while living out of a suitcase.

Twenty years later that same boy was on national television every week, watched by nearly 40 million Americans. He gave the country Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader, and a closing line that still softens hearts: “Good night… and God bless.”

He painted clowns, wrote music, and quietly gave away much of what he earned to children’s hospitals.

One night in 1969 he stopped the show, looked into the camera, and explained the Pledge of Allegiance word by word the way a teacher once explained it to a poor kid from Indiana.

What is it about growing up with almost nothing that teaches a man to give so much?

If this hit you, drop a 🇺🇸 or tag someone who still remembers real comedy.

(Story compiled from historical accounts of Red Skelton’s life.)

[Bob B @BobB15839439]

@FBIDirectorKash Wow! Way to go Kash & Team! You have done the American citizen & those that were visiting a tremendous amount of justice bringing DNA volume to zero. Unfortunately we know it does not stop, but that is a tremendous job! Keep up the great work. The FBI still has moles, fire them!

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

You asked for results, we made the changes necessary for this FBI to deliver- one example, DNA:

We are statutorily required under the “DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005” to receive and process collected DNA samples from federally convicted offenders, arrestees, and non-U.S. citizen detainees.

These samples are required to be sent to the FBI Laboratory Division (LD) for processing – we get around 50k a month. This literally solves crimes across the country, like unsolved homicides, mass shootings, sexual assaults, and other violent offenses.

There had been a massive backlog at the FBI Lab for decades. On August 1, 2024, the pending DNA backlog for these samples was over 1.81 million, literally breaking federal statutory requirements. A typical example of institutionalized bureaucracy from prior leadership that left crimes across America unsolved.

When we got here, we changed it. This FBI dedicated more resources, more equipment, improved IT systems, and used business analytics for DNA processing.

TODAY - that DNA backlog is officially at ZERO.

Just more evidence of the monumental and necessary changes made by this FBI. Thank you, FBI Lab Division.
-DKP🇺🇸

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In November 2022, Edwin Castro won the largest Powerball jackpot in history, worth USD 2.04 billion. The winning ticket came from a gas station in Altadena, California, a community where he had spent part of his childhood.

Then, in January 2025, the Eaton Fire tore through Altadena. Thousands of structures were destroyed, families were displaced, and burned properties began appearing for sale as some owners faced the difficult decision of whether they could afford to rebuild.

Castro started buying them.

He eventually purchased 15 fire-damaged lots for around USD 10 million.

But his plan wasn't to fill them with rental properties. Castro wanted to rebuild mostly single-family homes that fit the character of the old neighborhood and sell them to people who actually planned to live there.

He wasn't presenting it entirely as charity. The homes would be sold and the project could make money, but Castro said the profit should remain reasonable.

By May 2026, two of the homes were already under construction.

Three of the properties are also planned to be donated to Greenline Housing Foundation, an organization helping preserve homeownership and assist families rebuilding after the Eaton Fire.

For Castro, Altadena is also where an extraordinary chapter of his own life began. The gas station that sold him the USD 2.04 billion winning ticket survived the fire.

Years after that ticket changed his life, some of that fortune is now being invested back into the community where he bought it.

[Sann @san_x_m]

On 27th November 1981, a scientist at IBM brought his leftover Thanksgiving turkey to the laboratory and shot it with a laser.

More than 40 million people can see without glasses because of what happened next.

His name is Rangaswamy Srinivasan.

He was born on 28th February 1929 in Madras. He took his bachelor's and master's degrees in science from the University of Madras in 1949 and 1950.

In 1953 he went to America for graduate school, and finished a doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of Southern California in 1956. In 1961 he joined the IBM research centre at Yorktown Heights in New York, where he stayed for 30 years.

His work was on what ultraviolet light does to organic matter.

In 1981, using a new kind of laser called an excimer laser, he found he could etch fine designs into plastics.

Then he and 2 colleagues, James Wynne and Samuel Blum, asked a question. Human tissue has some properties in common with plastic. Could the same laser cut flesh.

At the time, lasers were already used in surgery. The problem was that they worked by burning. They left heat damage and scarring on everything around the cut.

They needed something to test on. The day after Thanksgiving, Srinivasan brought in cartilage from his family's turkey leg.

They fired the laser at it.

The cut was clean. Microscopically fine. No burning, no charring, no damage to the tissue underneath.

He named the effect ablative photodecomposition. The laser was not burning the tissue. It was breaking the molecular bonds and lifting off one thin layer at a time.

In 1983 an eye surgeon named Stephen Trokel came to the IBM laboratory to work with him on whether this could be used on the cornea.

It could.

That is the foundation of PRK and LASIK, the surgery that reshapes the front of the eye and removes the need for glasses.

More than 40 million people around the world have now had it.

He published over 130 scientific papers and holds at least 22 American patents. He was inducted into the United States National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2013 President Barack Obama gave him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

He is 97 years old.

A man from Madras worked out how to cut a human eye without burning it, using a piece of turkey left over from a holiday he did not grow up with.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

Please honor and remember Pfc. Lawrence Brooks, who passed away at 112 years old. 🕊️
He was our oldest surviving WWII U.S. Army Veteran in the country.
🇺🇸 https://t.co/Bl2gg9Qawi
#Military #RIP #Veteran
#WWII

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

People will gripe about this and say “he sold out the ranchers”… but this is a very stupid position to take.

It’s 90 days for Goodness sake. Trump has done more for our ranchers than any president in decades.

Our cattle numbers are in the green now, again, first time in almost a decade, and this will give us a chance to further recoup cattle numbers, AND, most importantly lower the cost of beef by 25%z We just went grocery shopping, and beef is expensive. So I welcome a 25% reduction.

Great job President Trump!

[JunkSavvy @JunkSavvy]

@laralogan knows???...
NOW YOU'RE REALLY F^K'D!!! #Relentless
Welcome to the MMTLP Army, Lara. We know how much you care about our veteren. Happy to have you aboard.

Government regulators and SROs conspired to protect the Market Cartel by weaponizing their power against retail investors who did nothing wrong. WE BOUGHT A STOCK. Assets frozen. 1349 DAYS!!! @SECGov @FINRA #DTCC

@POTUS, we know that you know. When is the fraud going to end??? MAKE IT SO...#IYKYK
@SecScottBessent @FBIDirectorKash @ODNIgov @pulte @timburchett

MMTLP MMAT TRCH NBH

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

De Gaules

Quand il était président, Charles de Gaulle estimait que l’argent public devait être strictement intouchable.

Au Palais de l’Élysée, il était impensable que l’État prenne en charge la moindre dépense personnelle.

Son épouse, Yvonne de Gaulle, tenait un petit carnet dans lequel elle notait avec rigueur toutes les dépenses du foyer : électricité, nourriture, vêtements, savon… rien n’était laissé au hasard.

Chaque mois, le couple envoyait un chèque au Trésor public afin de rembourser ces frais strictement privés.

Un jour, le comptable de l’Élysée lui fit remarquer que cela n’était « pas nécessaire ».
Elle répondit avec fermeté :
« Tout ce qui n’est pas public est privé, et ce qui est privé, c’est à nous de le payer. »

Leur exigence allait encore plus loin :
leurs enfants et petits-enfants n’avaient pas le droit d’utiliser les voitures officielles pour des déplacements personnels.
Charles de Gaulle refusait les privilèges liés à sa fonction.
Il réglait lui-même toutes ses dépenses à l’Élysée — jusqu’au savon ou aux repas de famille — et avait même choisi de renoncer à son salaire présidentiel, vivant uniquement de sa pension de général.

À sa mort, il ne laissa aucune fortune, seulement sa maison à Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, acquise avant la guerre.
On raconte même qu’il envoyait spontanément des chèques au Trésor public dès qu’un doute existait sur une dépense privée réglée par l’État.

Un sens de l’intégrité et du devoir qui force encore aujourd’hui le respect…
et qui rappelle que le véritable prestige ne réside pas dans les privilèges, mais dans l’exemplarité. 🇫🇷

[Bob B @BobB15839439]

@SamaHoole If it works so good all this time, why haven't the Democrats done anything to all of the other california hillsides? They could be doing wonders for the residents and businesses avoiding tremendous losses every year. The Dems are the ones that have ruled Calif for decades. Do it!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Five hundred goats saved the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and they charged a thousand dollars an acre, which is the best value the American taxpayer has had in a generation.

Simi Valley, California. Every spring the library and the Ventura County Fire Department hire a herd to eat the hillside. In May 2019 the contract went to a firm called 805 Goats, run by Scott Morris and his wife, and the animals went up to clear thirteen acres of chaparral.

They were moved round the slope in shifts behind a bit of electric netting and they took it to the dirt. Nothing was left standing that could be persuaded to burn. The Morris children name the herd, which is why the strategic fire defence of a presidential archive was executed by animals called Vincent Van Goat, Goatzart and Selena Goatmez.

None of them were briefed. Goats do not require a briefing. Put a goat on a hillside covered in flammable woody scrub and it forms its own view of the situation, usually from the top of something it should not be on top of, chewing, watching you.

The arrangement predates that herd. Ventura County Fire has been sending goats up there since 2012, when J.O. Goat Co of Bakersfield delivered 900 of them, and the annual tender is now competitive, which is a sentence about goats.

In October the Easy Fire came over the ridge and went at the complex. It split and burned round both sides. Flames got within thirty yards of the buildings. Seven hundred personnel were on it, aircraft were dropping water, and what bought them the time was a belt of ground where five hundred goats had eaten the fire's supper in May.

The buildings the fire never reached contained Air Force One and a section of the Berlin Wall.

A library spokeswoman said the firefighters told them afterwards that the break made their job easier. Scorched outside. Untouched within.

Fire needs fuel. Goats climb what a mower cannot reach and a tractor cannot hold, they carry no spark, they need no diesel, and they leave the ground dunged rather than scraped. The oldest fuel management system on earth, and California pays the market rate because nothing else works up there.

Which sits oddly beside the other thing California holds to be true, that ruminant livestock is a climate liability requiring reduction.

Same animal. Same gut. Same gas.

Hired by the fire department in May, indicted by the air resources board in June, back up the hill the following spring, and never once mentioned it.

[Bob B @BobB15839439]

@Leonajardinho Nothing new there. Its been going on for decades. Wait until insurance decides to cancel you and not provide coverage for the county or state. Then the bank takes out insurance at an astronomical price until you find your own coverage. Insurance has always been a ripoff.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

My cousin bought a $320,000 house in 2019. Mortgage was $1,400 a month. Life was simple.

Fast forward to this week. He hasn't missed a single payment, hasn't refinanced, and hasn't added a single square foot to the property.

His monthly payment just jumped to $2,100.

Why?

Because local property tax assessments skyrocketed 40%, and his homeowner's insurance premium doubled after two regional storms hit the state….even though his own house suffered zero damage.

The bank sent a letter saying his escrow account had a $4,800 shortage, and they increased his monthly bill by $700 overnight to cover it.

They tell you a fixed-rate mortgage locks in your housing costs for 30 years.

What they don't tell you:

The principal and interest are fixed, but the property taxes and insurance aren't.

You never truly own your home…..you're just renting it from the city and insurance companies at a rate they can hike whenever they want.