Yancey Foster

Husband, Father of 5, Firefighter, Amateur Homebrewer, Hack Golfer, Reader, Internet Addict, Gadget Geek

[Yancey Foster @Fire_Chief]

<Wild Speculation>
US leaves NATO.

The EU decends further into socialism, possibly full-blown communism.

NATO/EU antagonizes Turkey and they leave NATO. Possibly Italy and some Eastern European countries also depart NATO/EU.

NATO/EU are the new Warsaw Pact. Becomes more aggressive to Russia.

EU antagonizes Russia by letting Ukrane into NATO.

In the mean time, in a bid to strengthen the US position against China, Russia & US develop stronger trade & diplomatic relations.

NATO attacks Russia.

US winds up supporting Russia against the EU totalitarian regime.
<End Wild Speculation>

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

There will be "dumps" of "harvested votes" from all over LA County coming in over the next couple days. These were collected by Dem. Party operatives and delivered Tuesday.

Because they were only collecting ballots from registered Dems, they will be 90%+ for Bass or Ramen, and almost zero for Pratt.

That will happen over the next 2-3 days.

THEN we'll find out there are tens of thousands of mail-in ballots set aside by election officials because of some defect.

Those voters will be contacted and told they have 22 days to "cure" their ballot problem.

When cured, thousands of more votes will be added to the the totals.

Since the Dems have a much higher percentage o mail-in ballots, most of the ballots that need to be "cured" will be votes for Baas or Ramen -- not Pratt.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.

You were never taught his name.

June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.

They were wrong.

That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.

There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.

Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.

He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.

Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.

Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.

Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.

Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.

Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.

No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

My dad texted me this last night:

“I struggled to stay out of trouble as a teenager in the city. Then at age 16, a friend’s dad, a fireman, showed us around a fire station. I immediately enrolled in an after-school R.O.P. fire science class.

I was hooked.

I stayed with it for 3 more semesters and after graduating on my 18th birthday, I applied for every fire fighting job I could find.

No internet, just cold hard searching.

Lengthy paper applications, background checks, tough written exams, and even tougher physical fitness tests that lasted half a day. Seven different municipalities from Chino, Colton, West Covina, Montclair, San Bernardino, San Dimas, and Upland. Then came the “Oral Exams”…my interview.

All rejected.

Some simply went thru the motions and thanked me for applying. A couple made careful references to the real reason I was rejected. One panel of three men told me straight up, “You scored in the top 5 on everything and we’d love to hire you. But we can’t because we are required to fulfill a quota.”

7 fire departments, 7 rejections. Why?

Because in the mid 70’s a federal agency called the E.E.O.C. forced all public agencies to give preferential hiring to women and minorities…to atone for sins of the past.

Public outrage was smothered and no courts dared to oppose the actions of the EEOC. It was settled.

Anyone but white-men were hired.

While I’m certain I could have broke in someday, my passion soured. I rationalized the defeat with some deep wisdom I heard on the news from a disenfranchised fireman. It went like this, “I can’t risk my life to someone who got the job for being a black woman. She might leave me in a burning building.”

So I switched career paths into aviation, did well, and retired.

Some 50 years later it still cuts deep.

D.E.I. is a war on white men.”

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Federal prosecutors just charged an NIH virologist with smuggling biological materials into the United States.

His name is Vincent Munster. He's not a minor scientist. He runs the Virus Ecology Section at one of the government's premier BSL-4 labs.

This is bigger than a customs charge. Thread 🧵

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Time to get election results:

🇧🇷 Brazil: 2 hours (124M ballots)
🇫🇷 France: 4 hours (34M ballots)
🇮🇳 India: 24 hours (640M ballots)
🇩🇪 Germany: 8 hours (51M ballots)
🇦🇷 Argentina: 6 hours (25M ballots)
🇺🇸 California: 37 DAYS (10M ballots)

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: Shashank Joshi, a foreign think tank careerist, has a 16-year record of attacking US foreign policy... and now he's lecturing our military leadership on how to take the oath. Why does he still have a work visa?

He's an Indian national who arrived in April and is already the loudest critic of the Pentagon on social media.

The Economist's new Washington Bureau Chief — an Indian national on a visa who just arrived in April — went on a Canadian national security podcast literally titled "The Problem of America" and said this about US military operations:

"They have attacked scores of small boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean. They've killed dozens of people in a campaign that is, by most accounts, quite illegal and contrary to international law."

That's Shashank Joshi, @shashj . Defence editor turned bureau chief. Two months in the country and he's already built a 16-year paper trail calling American power "malevolent," "predatory," and "quite illegal" — while sitting on the advisory board of a UK think tank funded by the European Commission, BAE Systems, and the US State Department.

And he's now lecturing our military leadership on what it means to take the oath.

I have the receipts.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

Two little kids are in a hospital, lying on gurneys next to each other, outside the operating room.

The first kid leans over and asks, What are you in here for?

The second kid says, "I'm in here to get my tonsils out and I'm a little nervous.

The first kid says, "You've got nothing to worry about. I had that done when I was four. They put you to sleep, and when you wake up they give you lots of Jell-o and ice cream. It's a breeze."

The second kid then asks,
"What are you here for?"

The first kid says, "A circumcision."

The second kid says, "Whoa, Good luck, buddy, I had that done when I was born...Couldn't walk for
a year."

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

I’m gonna simply say this: if you are at all interested in a Stargate show with ANY of the original creators/performers involved, now is the time to say something. Otherwise it really will be the end of that chapter forever. Let them know you are THERE

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

The quietest place on Earth is said to be the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota with a Guinness world record of NEGATIVE 24.9 dB - so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat.

Real ones know it's actually created in your average residential garage when you drop the only specialty socket you have of that particular size into the engine bay and you don't hear it hit the floor.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Joshi,

Let me clarify the origins of the “civilization destroyer” comment which I believe is what you are alleging is a racial slur.

@infantrydort , yesterday asked me if I knew anything about you.

I pulled up your biography, which shows that you’ve been a career NGO foreign policy wonk, starting by interning for the National Democratic Institute in Russia (of all places) and spending the majority of your career in London being a fellow for Royal United Services Institute.

RUSI is the OG foreign policy thinktank, and as a senior fellow there during the Middle Eastern fallout, you’ve been cheering for America’s downfall for years. And if that weren’t enough, your last job before going to the Economist was to work for “Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.” Tony Blair himself - the man the media named as ending the Westphalia age.

If you’ve spent five minutes researching @infantrydort’s page, this IS exactly what he’s been railing against for months. He doesn’t give a poop about your skin color. He’s certainly never treated me any differently based on gender or disability.

He called you a civilization destroyer because you have been working in the circles that have been pushing to end Americanism all your life.

Don’t flatter yourself thinking he’s ever seen a picture of you. The insult was ideological.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me ruin your June for a second.

Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.

So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.

In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.

Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.

But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.

Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.

ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.

I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.

Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?

There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.

Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.

Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.

When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.

There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.

No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.

Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.

I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.

I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.

You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.

But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.

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[Lena Miculek @LenaMiculek]

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[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Carolyn Davidson was a graphic design student at Portland State University when Phil Knight, who was then teaching accounting part-time, asked her to create a logo for his fledgling shoe company.

She billed the project at $2 per hour and received a total of $35 for her work. The design she produced would eventually become the iconic Nike swoosh.

Twelve years later, in 1983, Knight invited Davidson to a company event and surprised her with a special gift: a gold ring featuring the swoosh logo set with a diamond, along with an envelope containing 500 shares of Nike stock.

Over time, those shares grew in value and are now worth millions of dollars.

[Brigham's Burner @FiredUpCoug]

This is what I came up with.

Tell me what I got wrong, because I know you'll have opinions.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The U.S. military was the last redoubt the leftists needed to conquer to control our society.

They almost did it. Under Obama/Biden they turned the Pentagon into the Alamo. The DEI Marxists were swarming the walls, and a lot of them got inside the perimeter.

A LOT OF THEM.

But unlike the Alamo, this time reinforcements came in the nick of time.

The military was the last institution they needed to conquer to achieve total Marxist dominance over our entire nation.

THEY WERE SO CLOSE.

But then Pete Hegseth and his team came riding over the hill, defeated the attackers, and drove off the ones who got inside the walls.

The fact that they were so close to having it all, only to lose it all, is why we see so much wailing and gnashing of teeth today from the Pentagon “press.”

It’s glorious.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

These are ceremonial bins

[𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 @Arealmfngl]

If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

so this is what we would call a "chick magnet"

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Here’s Bernie six years ago claiming that humanity only had about six years left to stop the existential threat of climate change.

All we had to do to save the planet was pass his $30 trillion Green New Deal. 😂