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[Megan Basham @megbasham]

I need Christians to remember that everything Fauci knew, Collins knew. All of the same experts who were telling Fauci that the virus was likely man-made were telling Collins the same thing.

And yet not one Christian journalist or public figure who interviewed Collins during the Covid era offered even the slightest pushback on his obviously questionable claims about the origins of the virus.

It should embarrass Christians how gullible and naïve (at best) our leaders were when it came to this authoritarian government overreach. Rather than question it, they supported it.

Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, the Billy Graham Association at Wheaton, the ERLC, and more—all of them not only unquestioningly accepted Collins’ questionable narrative, they shamed other Christians who wisely questioned it. They even went so far as to tell us we were sinning for questioning it.

Yet to this day, NOT ONE has apologized or repented for this behavior. Not one has admitted they made a mistake and would do something different in the future. They have removed the articles they wrote at this time. They have ignored questions about these interviews and they have shaken pharisaical fingers at those asking for accountability.

They tell us we must simply move on from the Covid era and continue to respect their leadership despite their abuse of authority.

We are told that it is unloving to continue to mention how they discredited themselves and abused their authority or to expect them to ever address it.

Well, I’m sorry, but that’s not biblical justice. Brothers do need to forgive brothers, but when leaders abuse their positions of leadership in the church, they need to repent and acknowledge what they did. Because it hurt people in real and substantial ways.

The belligerent insistence that we sweep this past under the rug without ever having any real reckoning is arrogance and stiff neckness, pure and simple.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: When a virus began killing thousands, Fauci and other public-health leaders gaslit reporters, stonewalled congressional inquiries and evaded Freedom of Information Act requests, writes @jamesbmeigs
https://t.co/IGXwpzKIGu

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

David Friedberg: California is sitting on half a trillion dollars in bonds, staring at an $18B deficit that’s about to explode past $30B, and still plans to keep borrowing just to function. This is the world’s 4th largest economy, already financially cornered — and that’s before you even factor in the looming pension bomb. To meet existing pension promises alone, California may need to borrow another half a trillion dollars. Let that sink in. The bond market isn’t optional anymore — it’s life support. The real question is simple and terrifying: how does this end without collapse?

Chamath Palihapitiya: There is no way out for states like this. Federal bailouts aren’t coming — and even if they tried, the bond auctions would expose the truth instantly. Investors will look back and ask one question: why didn’t you cut waste when you had the chance? As Nick Shirley exposed, 20–30% of budgets could’ve been cut for a decade, freeing up $25–30 TRILLION to pay down debt. Instead, nothing was done. And now the same people want sympathy, bailouts, and trust.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

David Friedberg: It’s totally reasonable to say billionaires aren’t paying their fair share — but the uncomfortable truth is why. Ultra-wealthy individuals don’t live on income, they live by borrowing against assets. No sale, no capital gains, no tax. That’s the loophole nobody wants to say out loud.

The issue isn’t income tax — it’s asset-backed borrowing. When someone can live tax-free by borrowing against billions in untaxed assets, the system is broken. If policymakers were serious, the fix is simple: tax borrowed money tied to unrealized gains.

California has ~200 billionaires worth $2 TRILLION combined. A 5% one-time tax raises $100B — sounds big until you realize the state is staring at a $1.5 TRILLION liability hole. Taxing billionaires doesn’t solve the problem. Spending does.

Even if you confiscated billions from every billionaire, it wouldn’t fix government debt. This debate pretends revenue is the issue — it’s not. The real crisis is uncontrolled spending and liabilities already baked into the system.

[Lone @lonextrades]

Qullamaggie on Minervini, Zanger, and VCPs

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[Fortius @Hedged42]

@TomBuck @kevezell @NAMB_SBC It’s a shame when secular tech bros from different parts of the political spectrum are able to admit the truth about Charlie but this supposed Bible believing pastor is so compromised by leftist politics that he maligns a fellow brother in Christ in his death. Shameful indeed.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg: Charlie Kirk’s effectiveness made him a cultural threat to his opponents

“He was too smart, too open, too honest, too willing to engage in discourse, too willing to debate.”

“He was too effective in changing people's minds, and I think that's why he became such a cultural threat.”

“It wasn't his controversy, it was his effectiveness.”

“And it wasn't necessarily the things he said, because there are people out there who say far more controversial things than Charlie."

"It's that he sounded sensible and he changed people's minds through his discourse.”

“And as he changed people's minds, I think he became a real threat to the ideologies that he spoke up against.”

“One of the things that we've seen is the power of going direct. He went to college campuses, but he also recorded it and put it on the internet, and millions of people saw it.”

“And that new form of media, that new form of communication, where someone can actually have a town square, the internet, that they can stand out and speak their mind and be heard.”

“There's no longer these filters and these controlling powers of influence that decide what we get to know and not know and what our opinions need to be.”

“The media and the traditional kind of systems are being degraded.”

“I think it's important to continue that.”

“But since that time, I think it's been amazing to see the optimism, not just from one side, but from a lot of different people from different backgrounds standing up and saying discourse is so important and re-underwriting this American process.”

“So I'm very sad, but I'm very hopeful that people take this as a sign of how important this discourse is.”

[@jason @Jason]

Ok, I’ve watched 40 Charlie Kirk videos at this point… none of them were outrageous.

His opinions were the exact same as the Catholics I grew up with (and was one)

I disagree with many of those traditional beliefs, but none are shocking… in fact, they’re extremely predictable for a Catholic

[Market Rebellion @RebellioMarket]

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[Steven Goldstein @AlphaMind101]

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[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Let's just say this--if you are an evangelical leader tempted to put out some mealy-mouthed, both-sides statement about generic cultural "sickness" in regards to Charlie Kirk, who NEVER shrunk from being specific about destructive ideologies and who was promoting them, please reconsider.

It would be better to say nothing than to show you have no understanding of why he was so beloved and respected. That kind of thing is the antithesis of what he stood for.

[TraderLion @TraderLion]

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[Market Rebellion @RebellioMarket]

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[Fortius @Hedged42]

@GordonGChang Shameful

[Fortius @Hedged42]

김민수 "민주당, 尹 내란 확정범으로 몰아" https://t.co/3ENRMVvKXP

[Washington Times Opinion @WashTimesOpEd]

The Korean crisis of freedom and democracy https://t.co/GYdOwGrYee

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

Lee Jae-myung persecutes free people and protects monstrous totalitarians. What does that make him?

[Fortius @Hedged42]

@yonhaptweet 주사파 = 사이비 종교

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung will be coming to Washington at a time he is apparently trying to end his country’s alliance with the U.S. and hand over the South to China and North Korea. See: https://t.co/1h8bDR4cOc. @Deborahtodd @TheHillOpinion

[Morse H. Tan @MorseHTan]

Gordon Chang hits the nail on the head!https://t.co/nZWL2lgbix

[Fortius @Hedged42]

@yonhaptweet “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”