Melissa Feilke

History Educator; mom to three amazing kids

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.

My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx

[Melissa Feilke @MFeilke]

@emilycompag627 Weird!! I literally thought the exact same thing!!’

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

A special scene ❤️💙

#MLBatFieldOfDreams

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

High school boys teams across the country are reaching out wanting to play the WNBA champ Las Vegas Aces. But the Aces are silent. Tells you everything. They know they would get smoked. But men should definitely be allowed to play in their league per coaches. Such a joke.

[Steve @SMS3504]

He’s making a point. Biological men have tremendous physical advantages. They can’t be allowed to play with women.

Case in point …. In 2026 (which isn’t over yet) 1000 high school boys (yes you read that right) ran a faster time in the 100 meter sprint than the all time women’s record set in 1988 by Florence Griffith Joyner.

A women’s record that has held up for almost 40 years is regularly beaten every year by thousands of high school boys.

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET!

Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell:

“In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.”

“And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.”

The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

[Robert 🇺🇸 @ziegler2u]

Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

I'm old enough to remember when everybody was MAGA.

Bill Clinton 1993: "We have to end welfare as a way of life and make it a path to independence and dignity."

Barack Obama 2005: "We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected undocumented unchecked and go around our communities without our knowledge of them."

Hillary Clinton 2008: "If they've committed a crime deport them. No questions asked. They're gone."

Chuck Schumer 2009: "Illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple."

Joe Biden 2006: "I voted for a fence. I voted for 700 miles of fence."

Harry Reid 1993: "No sane country would grant citizenship to children of illegal immigrants."

Bernie Sanders 2015: "Open borders is a Koch brothers proposal that would make everybody in America poorer."

The Secure Fence Act of 2006 had yes votes from Obama, Hillary, Schumer and Biden.

Don't you dare allow them to gaslight you into thinking your values are racist and radical. These used to be mainstream Democrat positions.

They only changed their minds once their party decided to use illegals to steal power from the American people.

[🇺🇸 M. Gadsden @MGadsden1776]

I am not, and never have been a country music fan, despite living in one of the few far northern states that embraces it.

This is generational talent on display, Taylor Swift couldn’t be this in her wildest dreams.

[Jota @jota_snchez]

En 1979, un presentador de TV le preguntó a Milton Friedman si no le daba vergüenza defender un sistema basado en la codicia.

La respuesta se estudia hasta hoy:

«—Cuando ves la mala distribución de la riqueza, tan pocos que tienen tanto y tantos que no tienen nada… ¿nunca has dudado del capitalismo, de si la codicia es una buena idea?

—Primero dime: ¿conoces alguna sociedad que NO funcione con codicia? ¿Crees que Rusia no funciona con codicia? ¿Que China no?

¿Y qué es la codicia? Ninguno de nosotros es codicioso, claro. El codicioso siempre es el otro.

Los grandes logros de la civilización no salieron de despachos del gobierno. Einstein no construyó su teoría por orden de un burócrata. Ford no revolucionó el automóvil así.

Los únicos casos en la historia en los que las masas escaparon de la pobreza son aquellos donde hubo capitalismo y libre comercio.

—Pero parece premiar la habilidad de manipular el sistema, no la virtud.

—¿Y qué premia la virtud? ¿Crees que un comisario comunista premia la virtud? ¿Un Hitler? ¿Crees que los presidentes americanos eligen sus cargos por virtud… o por peso político?

Dime: ¿dónde están esos ángeles que van a organizar la sociedad por nosotros?

Yo ni siquiera confío en ti para hacerlo.»

[Melissa Feilke @MFeilke]

@status_is_down What is happening??

[Melissa Feilke @MFeilke]

@FAFSA have been trying to login into https://t.co/1YIMwLNBc5 for 2 days now. What is happening?

[Luke Arcaini @ArcainiLuke]

This video is perfect. I can not get over the end with Schmidt and Utley making the 2026.

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

OMG

Jen Lima, a school board member at North Kingstown School Department in Rhode Island shared a letter to Austin Metcalf’s dad blaming him for his son’s murder because he “failed to teach him that black boys have boundaries.”

You can contact her here: [phone]

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Kayakestable @kayakestable]

Durante nueve meses, mi esposa, Brooklyn, llevó en su vientre a nuestro pequeño niño. Y durante nueve meses, vivimos en un lugar entre la esperanza y el desamor.

A principios del embarazo, supimos que algo estaba terriblemente mal. Alrededor del tercer o cuarto mes, los médicos nos dijeron que nuestro hijo tenía una hidrocefalia severa —líquido que se acumulaba tan rápidamente en su cerebro que lo empujaba todo a un lado. Antes lo llamaban “agua en el cerebro”, pero la simplicidad del nombre no suavizaba la realidad.

Eventualmente nos derivaron al Hospital Infantil de Cincinnati, donde algunos de los mejores especialistas en fetos del país se reunieron con nosotros. Y nos dieron ese tipo de noticia para la que ningún padre está jamás preparado.

Su condición era tan severa, tan extrema, que dejaron de medirla. No tenía sentido, dijeron. Las imágenes de la resonancia magnética eran devastadoras. Nos dijeron que había más del 90% de probabilidades de que nuestro hijo:

• Muriese poco después del nacimiento, o
• Sobreviviese con un deterioro cognitivo tan profundo que la vida —la vida real— no sería posible.

Nos sentamos en reuniones por las que ningún padre debería pasar. Conversaciones sobre tubos de respiración. Sobre cuánto tiempo intentar. Sobre el momento en que tendríamos que tomar la decisión de dejarlo ir.

Brooklyn se mudó a Cincinnati para estar cerca del hospital. Yo iba y venía —trabajando, cuidando a nuestras hijas Sophie y Lily, e intentando mantener nuestra casa en pie mientras nuestro mundo parecía derrumbarse.

Luego llegó el 8 de julio.

Quince minutos antes de la cesárea de Brooklyn, nos sentamos de nuevo con los médicos e discutimos cuándo —no si— tendríamos que retirar el soporte vital y dejar que nuestro hijo fuera al cielo.

No tengo palabras para ese tipo de dolor.

Y entonces —Charlie Edward Schnarr llegó a este mundo llorando.

Un llanto fuerte, alto, desafiante.

El sonido más hermoso que he escuchado en mi vida.

Se quedó en la UCIN hasta ayer… y ahora estamos en casa. Juntos. Abrazándolo. Queriéndolo. Viéndolo respirar. Viéndolo vivir.

Tiene una leve dilatación ventricular que vigilaremos —pero de lo contrario?

Está prosperando. Comiendo. Retorciéndose. Bostezando. Agarrando nuestros dedos. Mirando alrededor a un mundo que nunca se suponía que sería el suyo.

Los médicos no tienen explicación. Dijeron que su cerebro de alguna manera despejó el bloqueo por sí solo —algo que ninguno de ellos ha visto en un caso tan severo. La palabra que resonaba en la UCIN de enfermeras experimentadas y especialistas de primer nivel era la misma:

“Milagro.”

“Intervención divina.”

Ellos lo dijeron. No nosotros.

Sabemos que miles de personas —familia, amigos, compañeros de trabajo, extraños— estaban orando por nuestro hijo. Creo con todo mi ser que Dios escuchó esas oraciones. Que Él puso Su mano sobre Charlie. Que Él dijo, no a este.

Pasaré el resto de mi vida agradeciéndole.

A cada persona que oró por nosotros —cada mensaje de texto, cada nota, cada intención susurrada— gracias. Nos sostuvieron cuando estábamos demasiado exhaustos para sostenernos a nosotros mismos.

La oración es real.
Dios es real.
Y los milagros… todavía ocurren.

Con un corazón lleno y agradecido,

[Melissa Feilke @MFeilke]

@MikhailaFuller @grok what happened to Jordan Peterson

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."

Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.

One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.

Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.

The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.

500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.

The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.

You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.

"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.

Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.

Today his own party would call him a fascist.

The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.

The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.

The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.

Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:

Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.

Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.

Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.

State ideology forced on families. Democrats.

Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.

Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.

Cult of personality. Both sides.

Ultranationalism. Republicans.

Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.

You marched against kings on Saturday.

You marched FOR kings.

You just didn't know which was which.

Stop being gaslit.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

If Catholic schools in the US were a state they’d rank #1 in education. During COVID Catholic schools in Chicago were were so effective with remote learning and by quickly reopening campuses that there was no decline in academic performance nor spike in violence against their students.

By comparison public school test scores plummeted and youth violence skyrocketed. During the 2 years the two years in which public schools were closed approximately 78 straight weeks almost 900 public school children were shot and over 100 killed.

So how were Catholic school rewarded.

    •    The CTU led state teacher unions in pressuring the legislature not to extend the state private school scholarship program that benefited 15,000 overwhelmingly middle and low income Chicaho families.

    •    The sane unions are currently pressing the Governor not to participate in new federal scholarship program that provides 100% tax credit for donations to help parents pay for tuition, tutors and other education supports.

    •    City gave public schools $1.9 billion more in property tax revenues from annual TIF surplus since 2019 without giving a penny to parochial or private schools who educate 17% of city children.  

CTU’s is determined to deny poor families, overwhelmingly Black and Latino, alternatives to their failing CTU member neighborhood schools, despite CTU leader and 30-40% of their teacher members sending children to private schools.