Tim Kietzman

[Tim Kietzman @GilgitTim]

@elonmusk vowed to @jordanbpeterson he would kill the woke mind virus. Dr. James Lindsay spoke before the European Parliament - "Woke: A Culture War Against Europe". He defines our enemy and gives concrete ways to kill this virus. Take a listen!
https://t.co/eYCf3vTQxQ

[Jose Yepez @JoseYep18046593]

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Kaitlan,

I am a science teacher, so I grade what gets put in front of me. CNN put a statement in front of me, and I read it twice, once for content and once because I did not believe the first time.

"CNN's mission to report on the U.S. government will continue regardless of any attempts to restrict physical access." Wonderful. So the mission is not stopped, is it? Two sentences later the same statement calls the ban an "illegal assault." Assault is a big word for a deactivated badge. And "illegal" is a verdict, and verdicts come from judges. What is next? A network announces an illegal assault that left its operations running normally... wait, that is your statement!

Now look at the phrase you chose: "physical access." That matters. In Zemel v. Rusk, the Supreme Court said the right to speak and publish is not an unrestrained right to gather information. Houchins v. KQED says the press gets no special right of entry to government property beyond what the public gets. Nobody has jailed a reporter. Nobody has shut down a broadcast or pulled a license. You are on the air as we speak.

What Sherrill v. Knight gives you is smaller and real. Once the White House runs a press-pass system, it owes notice, stated reasons, and a chance to respond before a pass is denied. So take it to court, the way CNN did for Jim Acosta in 2018, when a Trump-appointed judge restored the pass on due process grounds. That is how a republic handles this. A press statement is not a filing. And if a judge finds this ban lacked process or was aimed at viewpoint, CNN wins, and I will say so in plain English. Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News, who runs the correspondents' association, has criticized the revocation, and she is entitled to her view. The judge gets the last word. I would like a network to pick up that habit.

Let me tell you about my Sunday, because I think it explains a lot. In one thread I was called stupid, told to stop being so emotional, called a crybaby, and informed that my students deserve pity because I am "incapable of critical thought." One fellow put a quotation in my mouth, "Who cares about the law? My feelings matter more!", words I never wrote, and then congratulated himself for proving me wrong. Another posted a civics infographic. A third posted a case card, Sherrill v. Knight, with no claim attached to it at all. A case with no argument. That is a lab report with no hypothesis.

As for my students: I am a medically retired Army medic. While I was a medic in Iraq, I opened a school, a fire station, and a hospital. I escorted little girls to school so nobody would kill them for wanting an education. I worked as a civilian paramedic. Now I teach in a high-need, high-risk district, where the public schools gave up on these kids and I did not. If that is what "incapable of critical thought" looks like, I will take it, and I will do it again tomorrow, with a smile and a red pen.

Here is what I taught them this week. The First Amendment is 45 words long, and it begins with the word Congress. Twitter is not Congress. A press secretary is not Congress. Somebody handing out seats in a briefing room is not Congress. Please read it before you tell anyone else to.

Now, fearless. Robert Reich wants the press to boycott the White House to protest being kept out of the White House. This weekend a segment on MS NOW hoped the networks would pull their pool coverage of the President next week. So the free press will defend its right to cover the President by refusing to cover the President. What is next? The networks decline to carry a presidential address... wait, on July 16, ABC and NBC declined to carry his primetime address on declassified election-security files on their main networks and pushed it to a stream. They already did it! I read every page of those files that night, by the way, and I wrote a piece correcting my own side where the evidence stopped. That is what a teacher does. Where is CNN's correction page for the last ten years?

Let us talk about the word "access." Joe Biden held 37 press conferences in four years, according to the White House Transition Project. He waited more than two months to hold the first one, the longest wait since Calvin Coolidge. Martha Joynt Kumar's count of press conferences and interviews put Biden at 164 by mid-2024. Trump's first term: 468. This June, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times, and nobody has ever accused those two of working for Turning Point, said Trump answers more questions than Biden did. The White House's own stenographers logged 433 open press events in his first year back, and yes, that figure comes from the White House, so weigh it accordingly. What is next? A press corps that complains about a president who takes more questions than the last one... wait, the Times reporters said it themselves!

And while Biden's Autopen kept signing, much of the press told us the videos of his decline were cheap fakes. Special Counsel Hur described a man with a poor memory in February 2024. Then came the debate on June 27, and suddenly everyone had always known. Jake Tapper wrote a book about what the room had been told to ignore. That is your fearless press.

Now the part where I will remind you what the left has actually done to the right, because "hindrance" is a word you picked.

Obama's aides, including David Axelrod, said Fox News was not a real news organization. Treasury offered a pool interview to every network except Fox. An email later released through a Judicial Watch request said they would prefer to skip Fox, and another said the White House had shown it was willing to exclude Fox from significant interviews. ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN refused to go along, and the White House backed down. This weekend Obama said it would have been "unimaginable" to tell Fox News "you're out of here." Unimaginable. I could not make that up in a classroom on my best day.

Two House Democrats, Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, wrote to cable and streaming companies asking whether they would keep carrying Fox, Newsmax, and OAN. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has since said Democrats pressed distributors to drop right-leaning outlets. What is next? The party that spent 2021 asking cable companies about carrying Fox files a brief for press freedom... wait, Eshoo already sent the letters!

2021 also. Trump was removed from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and the celebration was on television. Late-night hosts cheered a lifetime ban like a playoff win. Now a badge gets deactivated and the word is tyranny. Same people, same audience, opposite verdict. The only variable is whose ox is gored.

Newsom signed AB 2624 on August 22, a law that lets immigration-service workers demand removal of posted personal information, backed by civil penalties. Nick Shirley, an independent journalist with no hard pass to lose, has already sued on First Amendment grounds. The establishment's first move with him was the same as with Fox in 2009: label him an influencer so the footage does not count. What is next? A press corps that calls a badge sacred while Sacramento lets officials demand takedowns of a YouTuber's video... wait, Newsom signed that too!

So who exactly are we talking about, when we say journalists? The Society of Professional Journalists publishes a code. It says seek truth and report it. It says act independently. Let us grade the last decade against the profession's own standard, and I will use a red pen.

Politico ran the letter from 51 former intelligence officials under a headline calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, though the letter itself admitted it had no evidence. The New York Times authenticated that laptop in 2022, and prosecutors used it at Hunter's trial in 2024. Seventeen months of a real story called a smear.

Networks, CNN among them, aired "very fine people on both sides" without the part where Trump said, in the same answer, that neo-Nazis and white nationalists should be condemned totally. Cut one sentence and the meaning flips. My students would earn a zero for that citation.

"Bloodbath" became a threat of political violence. The sentences around it were about auto tariffs and Chinese cars. Same trick.

Kenosha. The CNN banner read "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" with a burning building behind the reporter. A picture of fire under a caption of peace.

Butler. Early on, CNN's headline said Trump was rushed off stage after he "falls," when he had been shot. Somebody wrote that headline while a man bled from the ear.

Covington. A short clip made a teenager a national villain. CNN settled with Nick Sandmann in 2020, and the settlement got a fraction of the airtime the accusation did.

Russia. In 2017 CNN retracted a story about Anthony Scaramucci and three journalists resigned. That December, CNN and MSNBC both misreported the date on an email tied to WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr. The Washington Post later removed portions of its dossier reporting it could no longer stand behind. Years of confidence and minutes of correction.

The lab leak. Cable news treated a Wuhan lab origin like a conspiracy theory. The FBI and the Department of Energy later judged it the likelier explanation, and the CIA followed in 2025, with low confidence. A hypothesis got treated as a moral offense because Trump mentioned it.

Smollett. Wall-to-wall sympathy for a MAGA-hat attack that never happened, and a fraction of the airtime for the verdict.

And CNN itself. Jeff Zucker resigned over an undisclosed relationship with Allison Gollust. Chris Cuomo was fired for helping his brother, the governor, manage sexual harassment allegations. A network that lectures the country about norms could not police its own studio.

MSNBC said openly, in 2024, that it would cut away from Trump speeches over false claims. Fine. Apply that rule to every politician, every night. It never was.

Mistakes run in random directions. These ran in one direction, and the corrections came after the election, or the news cycle, or the lawsuit. Quinn's Law: facts are the enemy of liberalism, and yours have been left out of the graphic for a decade.

Goals 20 and 21 of the 45 Communist Goals for America were read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 (Rep. Albert Herlong Jr., Appendix, pages A34-A35): infiltrate the press, control editorial writing and policy-making positions, and gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. I am not declaring mission accomplished. I am saying the outcome resembles the list, and the cheese has slid clean off your cracker if you cannot see it.

One more thing, and it is personal. CNN has covered a deactivated badge around the clock. Meanwhile about 54,000 combat-wounded, medically retired veterans, guys who got hit carrying out orders, have their earned retirement pay taken dollar for dollar by the government. I am one of them. The Major Richard Star Act, H.R. 2102, would fix it for about $10 billion over ten years. There is a discharge petition, H.Res. 1247, sitting right there. Where is the panel? Where is the chyron? We found the money for everything else. So please, spare me the lecture about who is being hindered.

Your statement is a press release written to sound like a constitutional brief. It uses "assault" to invite outrage, "hindrance" to blur access into speech, and "illegal" to skip the judge. There is a name for that kind of writing, and it is not journalism. It is one more of your stories pushing bad information, dressed up as a principle.

A few fries short of a Happy Meal, the lights on and nobody home, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as two short planks, one brick shy of a load, and half a bubble off plumb. That is the theory of the case if anyone at CNN honestly believes a badge is a constitutional amendment.

But what do I know, I am only a medically retired Army medic and a teacher who read the whole statement, and the record behind it, before I wrote one word.

@TPUSA @TPAction @atrupar #MAGA #Trump

[Tips&Tricks @_TipsTricks]

These knot-tying methods were left behind by ancient people

[Ravious101 🦅🇺🇸 @Ravious101]

That's a wrap on The Resurrection of the Christ — Mel Gibson's long-awaited sequel to The Passion of the Christ.
After a massive 134-day shoot across Italy, director Mel Gibson took a microphone on set to personally thank the cast and crew for completing principal photography on the film, which has been over 20 years in development.
The audio captured him saying:
"Since I'm all yours here and I've got a microphone... I just want to tell you all thank you so much for all your efforts, your support, your sacrifice, your love, the encouragements all through, the prayers and intercessions, thank you all for everything great and everything “small”, in the end it was all worth it.
Now it’s time to make sure the Lord gets glorified in all of this."

[Neo @Realneo101]

Muslims went crazy after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this:

"Radical Islam doesn’t want just a small caliphate in Iraq or Syria. They see the United States as the greatest evil on Earth and seek to dominate the entire West. Radical Islam is revolutionary, it wants endless expansion, terrorism, assassinations, and total control. They hate America, Europe, Israel, and every Muslim nation that partners with us. Orlando, Pensacola, and domestic attacks prove it.

Radical Islam is a clear and imminent threat to the world."

I agree with every single word he said.

[Tim Kietzman @GilgitTim]

@WHLeavitt They should be performing their act of worship in a house of worship, not in the street blocking traffic.

[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

Bringing the Shroud of Turin to life with AI ❤

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[Tim Kietzman @GilgitTim]

@WHLeavitt A. YES!

[Tim Kietzman @GilgitTim]

@Darkdarling00 A. 100%

[Dr. Sophia Carter @Darkdarling00]

Simple poll. Please be honest! As of today, how much do you still trust this team?

A. 100%
B. 75%
C. 50%
D. 25%
E. 0%

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.

- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.

He built a language that fit in kilobytes.

50 years later, it runs everything.

Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.

Every iPhone. Every Android.

NASA’s deep space probes.

The International Space Station.

> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.

If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.

He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.

This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cool

[Balaji @balajis]

Hollywood is over.
It's all Internet now.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Getting closer to Starship launch! 🚀

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: BEAUTIFUL moment as "Amazing Grace" is performed with President Trump and Angel Families in the audience — during a candle-lighting ceremony for Americans killed by illegals

Trump did all of it just for them.

It's not just words. He took decisive action 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Max Manners @maxven3]

GOP State Rep. Walter Hudson dismantles the Democrats’ rhetoric about ICE in Minnesota in a simple way—and by the end, you can see the Democrats go on the defensive once he exposes the truth.