Charles Simpson

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨NOW: Rep. Thomas Massie just stood on the House floor and named what every politician in DC has spent 58 years pretending did not happen

The USS Liberty. June 8, 1967.

34 dead American sailors. 174 wounded. Over 70% casualty rate on a virtually unarmed US ship.

25 minutes of Israeli jets, Israeli rockets, Israeli 30mm cannon fire, and ISRAELI NAPALM ON THE BRIDGE. Then Israeli torpedoes. Then Israel machine-gunned the lifeboats.

MASSIE: "They were intent on leaving no survivor."

Then the part nobody wants you to think about: the Saratoga and the America launched planes to help. The planes were RECALLED. The crew sat there bleeding for 17 hours.

Dean Rusk. Richard Helms. Admiral Moaner. The chief counsel of the Court of Inquiry himself. None of them believed the "mistaken identity" story.

And now you understand exactly why the entire DC machine and Israel lobby has spent the last year trying to primary this man out of existence.

You are not allowed to say the quiet part. He said it anyway.

Honor the crew. https://t.co/XuDLeFF4gJ.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Eternal Memri TV @EMTVmemes]

You absolutely 100% cannot make it up

[Real Country Music @real_kuntry]

Rest in peace to one of the most important people in the history of country music, the outlaw, David Allan Coe.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Democrat Senators are coming out against a proposal to make DC square again.

As a Virginian, let take on some of their concerns.

They say it would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of VA Democrat voters.

Silly… they aren’t being disenfranchised, they are just being redistricted. Calm down, Karen.

Further breaking down this concern, I (and most of the rest of the State) don’t consider these people Virginians.

They are a different people group with a different culture.

Making them DC citizens will put them where they are most comfortable.

Do the right thing and Make DC Square Again to preserve the real Virginia

[Ken Cuccinelli II @KenCuccinelli]

The "yes" vote has won Va's redistricting referendum — but the legal fight is just beginning. Four Va Constitutional challenges are now teed up:
THREE challenges to the amendment process itself:
1️⃣ First passage was invalid. The amendment was taken up during a special session convened in 2024 for budget purposes. The General Assembly's own call to the Governor (under Art. IV, §6 and Art. V, §5) and its governing resolution (HJR 6001) limited the session's scope. Expanding it to include a constitutional amendment on redistricting required a two-thirds vote that never occurred. A Tazewell County judge found this action "void, ab initio."
2️⃣ Art. XII, §1 requires that after first passage, a proposed amendment be "referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates." An election must intervene between first and second passage. Here, first passage occurred during an election cycle — not before an intervening one.
3️⃣ Art. XII, §1 requires the amendment be submitted to voters "not sooner than ninety days after final passage by the General Assembly." The timeline from second passage to the April 21 vote did not satisfy this requirement.
Plus ONE challenge to the proposed maps:
4️⃣ Art. II, §6 requires that "every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory." The proposed congressional maps violate this contiguity requirement (rather badly).

Next stop, court. Stay tuned.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Tyler Oliveira investigates the company Qubitz Tech Systems in Frisco, Texas that’s sponsored 16 H-1B Visas

The business is allegedly at this residential home

An Indian man answers, confirms the business isn’t there and gets combative, saying Tyler “lives in a toilet”

It’s very obviously fraud

The Indian man gives them the address of where the business really is

You’re never going to believe what happens next

They then visit the “office” address and find it’s empty

Again, it’s all fraud. Called “ghost offices.” Nothing more than an immigration scam to illegally being over more Indians into America

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I got a call tonight from a constituent whose son is in federal prison

He explained that he hasn’t heard from his son in several days (which is unusual for him), that his son suffers from multiple, potentially life-threatening health conditions that are going untreated in prison, and that he needed to know whether his son was still alive

He sent me the main switchboard number for the prison in question (which is on the east coast), and I called the number

Someone answered almost immediately

I explained who I was and why I was calling, and in particular that I needed to know whether this particular inmate was alive and well

The guy scolded me three times for calling “too f***ing late” and refused to tell me anything

Only when I persisted did he agree to check his records to confirm that the inmate in question was alive and well

After checking a list briefly, he came back to the phone and said “he’s here, and he’s alive and receiving the treatment he needs”

(His parents assure me that that’s simply not true)

I asked politely if someone could leave the inmate a message asking him to call his parents in the morning

He said, “it’s too late”

I responded, “I don’t mean now, I mean in the morning”

He scolded me again for calling too late, and then told me I’d have to call tomorrow and track down the inmate’s counselor

I asked him if he could relay the note to the counselor for me

He scolded me again for calling too late and asked me to call back tomorrow to track down the inmate’s counselor

I asked for the guy’s name

He refused to answer

I asked for his name again

He hung up on me

That’s not okay

Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve had this experience when talking to people from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on behalf of constituents with an incarcerated family member suffering from a severe medical condition

And each occasion, I’ve been treated at best with dismissiveness and at worst with contempt and profanity

Has anyone else experienced this with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons?

[Charles Simpson @ChuckSneed1105]

@gregthesorcerer This is why I follow

[Charles Simpson @ChuckSneed1105]

@lordmiles Amazing

[Lord Miles @Lordmiles]

I’m giving away one Osama bin lighter for FREE!

Literally like this post, retweet and comment. I’ll pick a winner within 48 hours.

No Indians no Israelis

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Ketanji Brown Jackson is unfit for the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is supposed to be the one institution in America that isn't a stage.

Nine people. Lifetime appointments. No elections. No donors. No campaigns. Just the Constitution.

Yesterday the Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado's ban on talk therapy violated the First Amendment. Six conservatives agreed. Both liberal justices agreed.

Except Jackson.

She wrote a 35-page dissent. Eight justices needed fewer pages to explain the law than she needed to explain why they were all wrong.

And read it aloud from the bench. Turning the court into a spectacle.

Then Kagan, Obama's appointee, publicly corrected her. Called the case "textbook" viewpoint discrimination. Accused Jackson of "reimagining and collapsing well-settled legal distinctions."

Jackson fired back in a footnote. Accused Kagan and Sotomayor of being dupes for the conservative majority.

A Supreme Court justice calling her own colleagues political pawns. In a legal opinion. From the bench that exists to be above politics.

Every time she loses, she turns on whatever allies she has left.

Three separate 8-1 rulings across three years. Lone dissenter every time.

Barrett wrote that Jackson "decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."

She has two liberal allies sitting right next to her. They looked at her reasoning and chose the law over her activism.

Last term, every justice on the Court agreed with the majority more often than she did. Dead last of nine.

In contested cases: 51%. Kagan, same team: 70%.

One builds coalitions. One writes 35-page letters to nobody.

Majority opinions: 5. Fewest on the Court.

Dissents: 10. Most on the Court.

Words per oral argument: 1,350. Next closest justice: 900.

She talks the most. Writes the longest. Wins the least.

Before the Supreme Court she spent eight years on the DC District Court. More of her rulings were overturned than nearly two-thirds of her peers.

Reversed unanimously for exceeding her jurisdiction.

Tried to overrule Congress on immigration. The court above her said she had no authority.

And that court leaned left. Six of ten judges appointed by Democrats. Even they thought she went too far.

A judge is supposed to be consistent.

States can't ban gender procedures for minors. States have ABSOLUTE power to ban talk therapy for minors.

Same justice. Same year. The only variable is which side of the culture war the regulation falls on.

A judge is supposed to be honest.

Told law students in 2015 that critical race theory informs sentencing. Told the Senate in 2022 that CRT doesn't come up in her work as a judge. One of those was under oath.

Can't define the word "woman" in front of the Senate. Celebrates being "the first Black woman" on the Supreme Court on The View. Under oath she's not a biologist. On daytime TV she's making history.

A judge is supposed to protect the vulnerable.

Federal sentencing guidelines called for 10 years in a child pornography case. She gave 3 months. Her sentencing averaged 57% below national for possession. 47% below for distribution. Every. Single. Case. Below guidelines.

A judge is supposed to defend the Constitution. Not treat it as a document to be corrected.

She praised the 1619 Project, which argues America's true founding wasn't liberty in 1776 but slavery in 1619.

She wrote from the bench that "Our country has never been colorblind." Rejecting the plain meaning of the Equal Protection Clause.

She accused the Court itself of enabling "our collective demise."

"Let-them-eat-cake obliviousness." "Five-alarm fire." "Moneyed interests."

These aren't legal opinions. These are campaign speeches from a chair that's supposed to be above campaigns.

Harvard Law. A Supreme Court clerkship. Eight years on the federal bench. She told the Senate she doesn't have "a judicial philosophy per se."

But she told the country she's "not afraid to use her voice."

She's an activist. Weakest judge of the highest court.

Biden had judges with more cases argued before the Court and bipartisan support. He passed over them for the nominee endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Demand Justice.

She doesn't want to be a justice. She wants to be a politician.

She just skipped the election.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Myron Gaines Updates @WyronGaines]

♦️j*wish chick tried to press Myron about the H*Iocaust and he hit her with the UNO reverse card!😭✡️🔁

“Do you think that lsraeI did a genocide?”

“That’s a complicated question..”

[Kenny Burchard @KennyBurchard]

I've seen a couple of Catholic men I respect say on social media that they found the Bad Bunny halftime show "beautiful" (the word one of them used). This morning I watched it three different ways (since I didn't watch either the game or the show because I was busy with other things).

First - Audio only (eyes closed): I speak Spanish, so I caught some of it, but there's heavy slang throughout. Several colloquialisms for sex—equivalents to our F-word—sailed right past U.S. TV censors. This isn't content any Catholic parent would want their children hearing or absorbing.

Second - Video only (sound off): The performance featured extensive twerking, crotch-grabbing, and sexually explicit choreography.

Third - I simply watched it with sound and video to get the whole experience with an English transcript I was able to generate: The lyrics glorify refusing commitment to one woman (including marriage), serial sexual partners, explicit drug use, getting drunk, and using fame to exploit women who previously rejected him.

I suspect some Catholics praised it as a gesture toward cultural diversity. But cultural appreciation doesn't require endorsing pornographic content. The explicit nature was simply hidden from most Americans by the language barrier—and even from Spanish speakers unfamiliar with the slang and rap dialect. What looked on the surface like a multicultural celebration was actually public debauchery broadcast around the world on television.

[Charles Simpson @ChuckSneed1105]

@ShamashAran thanks for the reminder, my license expired a few months ago and i just renewed it :)

[Charles Simpson @ChuckSneed1105]

@Havoc_Six any games like CFS but a more recent release? the ww2 air combat was peak

[Foundring 🇺🇸 @foundring1]

You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down (1895) was by the Father of Ragtime, Ben Harney (1872-1938).

Published in January, 1895, this was the first true "ragtime" song. Harney's place in history has been marginalized because he was White.
https://t.co/qrBicNv9MO

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The LGBTQ+ community is trying to cancel the upcoming medieval RPG Knight's Path (@Knights_Path).

After the developers introduced a heterosexual female romance option, a user asked about LGBTQ+ representation and received the reply: "We care about fun, not modern agendas."

Since then, critics have been spreading manipulated images from Steam claiming the game was made with AI, among other things.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

HEARTBREAKING: Charles Foehner, a 67-year-old retiree with NO criminal record, is now in PRISON for the next 4 years after using a gun to defend himself from a 15-time career criminal in NYC

He and his wife have lost their home trying to pay legal fees: