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[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@RepJeffries You

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

Everyone needs to wake up and fight this trend or we won’t have our country

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

BREAKING: The Constitutionality Index has now scored every law in the history of the United States. 48,000 laws dating back to 1789.

So far as I'm aware, I'm the first one to ever attempt such a thing.

And we've now ranked every president based on the percentage of laws they enacted were constitutional. The results largely track the overall historical trend: As we move from the founding to the modern era, the percentage of unconstitutional legislation increases.

In fact, 1937 is the tipping point. Pre-FDR's New Deal, every president — Federalist, Whig, Republican, Democrat — scores 98 to 100%. After the New Deal, the average percentage of constitutional laws (by page) drops to 31 percent.

As a result, presidents of the last few decades find themselves at the bottom of the rankings. @JoeBiden is officially the least constitutional president, although Trump isn't far behind. Only Thomas Jefferson scored a perfect 100 percent.

I've also scored congresses, & @SpeakerJohnson's current Congress is, from the perspective of the Constitution, the worst Congress in American history. Constitutional legislation stands at 56.3 by total count, & just 4.3% by total legislative pages.

Another important finding: The largest laws in American history are, every one of them, unconstitutional.

Check it out & let me know what you think. (Links below)

[Indiana Democratic Party @INDems]

The whole country should pay attention to what is happening in Clark County, Indiana.

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@marsrepublica Generates trillions in revenue from where?

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@RepJeffries We don’t want you as speaker.

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@bryan_johnson Congrats on getting much stronger! Lower the safety bars a couple notches and stay over them.

[Ron Nehring @RonNehring]

I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.

It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.

I also paid $155 in sales tax.

Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.

To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.

So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).

52% went to the government in taxes.

[Johnny Crust 4 @JohnnyCrust4]

18 yr old college student says Free Palestine and Bill runs a campaign to destroy their lives forever.

63 yr old CEO cheats on wife and mother of his children with a Chinese Spy:

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

This is a formal request for Susie Wiles and James Blair to stop harassing me with texts and calls.

If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.

If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.

I believe we are in an existential moment for the country, and Americans were owed an honest accounting of the past two years so we identify the problems we need to move on from.

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@TuckerCarlson @joekent16jan19 You forgot @JDVance

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

In publicly stating that he’s cutting off aid to Israel, President Trump is attempting to set a narrative: whatever action Israel takes against Iran has nothing to do with the U.S. It gives us a political “out” if Israel targets civilian infrastructure or uses a nuclear weapon on Iran.

Unfortunately, Iran will not see it this way. Just as they’ve hit us when Israel has initiated attacks in the past, Iran will retaliate against us & our gulf partners if Israel engages in further acts of aggression.

The reality is that it’s going take more than a public statement to meaningfully restrain Israel, especially when that statement highlights the still-heavy influence Netanyahu has on these decisions.

Bibi, Israeli officials, & their American surrogates have known for some time now that the days of unconditional support from the U.S. are reaching an end, and have resorted to misdirection: get everyone focused on Trump ending the cash funding & weaponry provisions, while in the background shifting their own efforts to push the far more lucrative— but harder to detect— “partnership” that’s on the cusp of being codified into law within the NDAA.

If POTUS is genuinely serious about cutting off aid to Israel, he must demand that Congress remove all proposed programs that will give the Israeli defense & intelligence apparatuses unfettered access to our own defense & intelligence R&D.

Protect American interests, put Americans first.

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

Welcome to hell

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is what the beginning of the surveillance state looks like in America

Americans in Connecticut received a bill for additional taxes on their car because cameras spotted it in a different city

A private company called Municipal Tax Service (MTS) is hired by cities to drive around and use automatic license plate readers on cars parked in different cities

It then makes connections if that car lives in that area and sends the owner a bill for new taxes on that vehicle for being in the city

The owner of this vehicle says she doesn’t live in that city, provided proof and says her car was only in a different city because her kid drives there for school

MTS didn’t care and said that the proof didn’t matter and they had to pay it. They appealed to the city, the city said they had to deal with MTS

But here’s the problem, MTS gets paid 38% commission on tax revenue they recover + $50 per vehicle billed to the owner. They made $9 million in commission in just one year from sending people additional tax bills

So this company has no incentive to ever help you and just deny you, which they did

Only after the mainstream media got involved would the city drop this one new tax bill which was false to begin with

In America we now literally have private companies driving around scamming our license plates to tax us more money

This is insanity and it needs to end

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If the new Iran war plans are “insane” — and I have no doubt that they are — it would logically hold that it would be utterly and completely insane for Democrats to follow a landslide in November by passing a continuing resolution in December that funds the war into February.

Yet bizarrely that is what Sen. Chris Murphy told reporters is the plan, even though they would have the votes to block it:

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@elonmusk What’s coming was avoidable, but Republicans in Congress let Trump start a war, increase spending, arm a genocide, betray MAHA, and cover up for Epstein’s coconspirators. I was ousted with over $30 million of foreign lobby money for refusing to go along, and here we are.

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@catalyst_ceo It’s most of them. Especially outside of SoCal

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

If you really want to harm someone, convince them that they "have time." That is the worst advice.

Some people do end up having time, but that generally results from living like you didn't have time.

The person who is still vital at 55 was living urgently at 21.

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@uncvoss This isn’t the math. They also have time to buy and prep supplies. The “labor” rate also covers gas, vehicle, insurance, marketing, accounting, etc…anyway. Feel free not to pay…and you magically aren’t “taken advantage of”

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@RandPaul D) I’ll show you fraud!!

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

*why

[Edwin Fowler @EdwinFowler]

@FlyFrontier what are you guys so bad at managing your gates and loading your planes? It’s chaos compared to other carriers.