Glenn Wortel

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters.

A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year.

We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left.

The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year.

Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

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[X Freeze @XFreeze]

If you enter the EU legally, your belt gets removed, your shoes come off, and your jacket is taken. You get interrogated like a criminal suspect over 101ml of shampoo. Authorities demand six months of bank statements, extensive background checks, and even your family history

But if you arrive illegally by boat, you receive express entry with zero ID checks. Absolutely no questions are asked. Processing is fast-tracked with no hassle at all. It does not matter if you are a terrorist, a murderer, or a career criminal

𝕏-ray machines for tourists, red carpets for chaos 🇪🇺🤡

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

10% of all the debt accumulated in the 250 year history of this country will be incurred in the first half of Trump’s second term, with Mike Johnson and John Thune leading Congress.

I’m unashamed to have been kicked off “team debt” for not going along with this.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

"Climate change" boils down to exporting your entire industrial base to Asia, where the emissions don't count.

NGO's get billions to promote the imaginary crisis. Blue-collars get unemployment.

[Darcie @Darcie1387]

Why Modern Concrete Can't Match Roman Concrete

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans are realizing Dental Insurance is also a scam

This American has been paying his dental insurance. He needed 2 teeth worked on, a crown and implant. Both were denied

He paid out of pocket. He did the math and found what he’s paid out of pocket for all his dental work was only 1/3 of the price with cash-pay than how much he’s spent paying his monthly premiums

“I done the math — I figured up my monthly payment at the end of the year for paying for my dental insurance, I could have paid for those things out of pocket and paid less than what I paid into my insurance”

“Look, I'm starting to really get pissed off about this game of insurance. It's a scam from the get-go. It's an absolute Ponzi scheme, and these fricking insurance companies, guess who owns them all? BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard”

He’s right,

BlackRock, Vanguard and State are the largest institutional shareholders in most major US health insurance companies

He says he had to pay over $4,000 out of pocket for his dental implant. His crown was over $2,200 out of pocket. All while paying monthly health insurance….

This is a scam

Having a big hole in your mouth where a tooth uses to be is not “cosmetic” in American society. It’s a necessity to get fixed

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

iatroslavery (n.) — the condition of medically induced bondage: a state in which a person, injured or made chronically ill by the medical system, is bound for life to that same system for management of the harms it caused, while the cost of maintaining that dependency is extracted from individuals, families, and taxpayers and redistributed to pharmaceutical and hospital executives, shareholders, and the owners of patents.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Every step was designed to inflict maximum harm:
• Splicing HIV into a coronavirus.
• Blocking access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
• Removing NAC from Amazon and supermarket shelves.
• No early treatment.
• Respirators that killed 90% of patients.
• Seeding nursing homes with Covid+ patients.
• Blanket DNR orders for the disabled.
• "15 days to flatten the curve" that slowed the rate of natural immunity.
• Closing schools for two years.
• Masks that reduced oxygen.
• Shutting down gyms.
• Keeping liquor stores open.
• Closing hiking trails and parks thus preventing people from getting vitamin D.
• Remdesivir and Paxlovid that are expensive, useless, and deadly.
• The most toxic and deadly vaccines in history on a new platform that will never work.
• Billions of dollars spent on propaganda to convince people to accept every step of this nefarious plan.
• Firings, censorship, and blacklisting of critical thinkers.

Covid is a world war, launched by the ruling class, against humanity.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Gatekeeping + Hindsight = Red Pill

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

July 2025: Trump announces a $200 million White House ballroom. Promises it “won’t interfere with the current building.”

October 2025: He demolishes the entire East Wing. Built 1902. Backhoes on the White House lawn became a tourist attraction. Melania’s offices — gone. Public tours — suspended.

The donors: Meta. Apple. Google. Amazon. Blackstone’s CEO. The Winklevoss twins. The Commerce Secretary’s family. 37 in all, every one of them regulated by, contracting with, or under investigation by his government.

March 2026: Cost hits $400M. Trump: “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.”

June 2026: Records show the real estimate is $600 million, and half of it is coming from taxpayers.

He knocked down part of the White House, let corporations with business before him buy the replacement, lied about who’s paying, and stuck you with $300 million of it.

For a ballroom.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Every time you hear legacy media defend Fauci, remember that this is who these people are

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Checkout Michigan’s lawmakers singing and dancing to “Long Live Israel”.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! Tucker Carlson went off and said "every American needs to watch this." He was right.

Trump just said Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are too expensive—the same programs he swore he'd protect. Meanwhile he's piled $4 trillion onto the debt, defense contractors are getting rich off his wars, and Elon Musk is laughing all the way to the bank.

But here's the kicker: Democrats have been screaming this for years. Trump built a bogeyman and Republicans lost their minds.

The government "can't afford" your healthcare or retirement—but it can always find money for trillions tax cuts, wars, stock market gambling, and insider trading.

They'll vote against their own future as long as they think it hurts us.

Open your eyes. The only people fighting for your Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare are the ones they've trained you to hate.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

THIS IS INSANE

National US debt just hit a record high of $40 TRILLION.

Out of 45 U.S. presidents in history, President Trump is now solely responsible for 28.6% of the national debt.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

For the socialists dreaming of the Scandinavian model, that means *cutting* taxes on the rich in half.

While hiking them *3 times* on everybody else until they pay half their salary 🙌

[Mark Mitchell, Honest Pollster @honestpollster]

There are no words to describe how generationally epic the Trump rug pull was for under 40 voters.

They were ecstatic about Doge and believed what Trump said about Golden ages, mass deportations, and no more wars. 60% job approval.

Then you started a war for israel, when these people already had turned on Israel and were wide awake to its outsized influence in the Republican Party.

They went from highest Trump approval to lowest Trump approval.

[Handre @Handre]

$17 billion for 3.4 miles of subway tunnel. That works out to roughly $5 billion per mile, making the Second Avenue Subway the most expensive transit construction project in human history, per mile, by a significant margin. Madrid built its entire metro expansion in the early 2000s at under $100 million per mile. You are not misreading those numbers.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority spent 86 years planning Phase 1 (the stretch from 96th Street to 63rd Street, opened in January 2017) before finally breaking ground in 2007. Decades of studies, committees, environmental reviews, and public hearings. Nobody personally paid for those delays. Nobody got fired. No executive absorbed the cost of a decade's worth of inflation, redesigns, and contractor overruns. When you insulate decision-makers from financial consequences, you get exactly this: paralysis followed by extravagance.

Free market economists have a term for what drives this: the calculation problem. Without real prices generated by voluntary exchange, planners cannot rationally allocate resources. The MTA doesn't discover the most efficient tunnel route through competition. It negotiates with unions whose contracts prohibit obvious efficiencies, hires consultants paid by the hour with zero incentive to finish, and answers to politicians who measure success in ribbon-cutting photos rather than cost per passenger mile.

The deeper issue is who pays. New York State taxpayers, federal taxpayers, and future riders through fare revenue all absorb the tab. The people who made the decisions that produced $5 billion-per-mile costs face no personal liability. A private developer whose budget overruns sees his equity evaporate. He has skin in the game. The MTA's leadership has a salary and a pension.

Phase 2 (96th Street to 125th Street, 1.5 miles) carries a projected price tag above $7.7 billion and has just broken ground. The political class will tell you this is what world-class infrastructure costs. What they won't tell you is that Tokyo, a city with arguably the most sophisticated rail network on earth, builds subway lines at roughly $250 million per mile, using private operators who survive only if they perform.

[Donald Trump Stock Tracker @DJTRadar]

Paul Walczak was ordered to pay $4.4 million in restitution for failing to pay over $10 million in employment taxes withheld from his nursing home and healthcare workers.

Sentenced to 18 months in prison.

His mother paid $1 million to attend a fundraiser dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

May 2025: full pardon. The remaining restitution was wiped clean.

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

PSA: Fauci didn’t get his ass handed to him by anybody. What you saw is him remaining above the law in an act of political theater. These hearings took place after the statute of limitations expired and he’s been pardoned. It’s a mistake to believe political theater is reality.