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[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

Today the European Parliament voted 418-218 to pass the strictest migration law in EU history.

When the result was announced, MEPs started chanting.

"Send them back."

Inside the parliament chamber. On the floor. In 2026.

Here's what the law actually does:

— Deportation orders now apply across all EU member states. You can't evade removal by crossing a border.

— Detention before deportation extended from 6 months to 30 months. Unlimited for security threats.

— "Return hubs" in third countries. Migrants can be transferred outside the EU while awaiting deportation — including families with children.

— Automatic deportation stays while appeals are pending? Gone. Courts decide case by case.

— Entry bans double from 5 to 10 years. Lifetime bans for security risks.

Currently only about 20% of people ordered deported from the EU actually leave.

For years European leaders told voters that open borders and mass migration were non-negotiable — that wanting enforcement meant you were a fascist.

418 Members of the European Parliament just disagreed.

Trump proved his immigration policies were popular enough to win elections.

After a wave of right-wing electoral gains across the continent, Europe is following in his footsteps.

And the Overton Window is getting kicked off its hinges.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

There was a time when adult judgment was trusted to teach with proportional consequences. The silly “cigar affair” is on the bottom rung of no big deal. But canceling the team’s playoff run was ridiculous. That burns. https://t.co/T9NPiee3Lm

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Given the Education Department’s extraordinary failure of our students since its inception (see DOEd scores), it’s been nothing more than a boondoggle for unions and special interests. Pushing its budget back to States and parents makes it accountable. https://t.co/M8MCkKsBTB

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Can’t stop this train. Those who accept fraud or benefit by it will never stop a sure thing.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

You are the tool.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

There is a deliberate, relentless effort to vilify America and Americans, something every American should actively counter every single day.

This is what’s known as ideological subversion. It’s a long-term strategy backed by China and Russia to make people hate their own country and its values, so they can be used to tear it down from within.
Listen to the former KGB agent.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Nobody needs your stupid approval. America is great.
Go pay your 50% taxes and enjoy your "free" healthcare.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

David Friedberg says he’s fine letting LA run the socialist mayor experiment, just so the rest of the country can watch it fail and learn from it.

But there's just one problem in the latest election numbers: the voters never actually asked for this.

Sacks and Friedberg are calling out the weird gaps between early in-person voting and the late mail-in ballots that flipped things.

Friedberg straight-up says the math doesn't add up

@friedberg "The numbers on that election data show me that's not what the people wanted... the system itself has become a system of appointment, not a system of election."

@DavidSacks "Obviously. It’s statistically impossible."

LA isn't choosing a socialist experiment. It's getting assigned one.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

True.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Surprised?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!

[Merse7 @Merse7]

After the Vietnam War we endured the “Broken Veteran” myth portrayed in Rambo and other movies. The truth was just the opposite; veterans were (and are) more stable, successful and personally responsible. Unless they’re sporting a Nazi tattoo. https://t.co/bSpMN4Jrm4

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Time for a major reset in public education. Explosion in Admin burden correlates negatively with student performance.
Massive waste and failure.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Maybe we don't have a public school funding problem ...

Maybe we have too many administrative staff?

Clearly adding more admin staff hasn't improved the numbers, so maybe go back to the 1960s ratio.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

@DNIGabbard Poor man’s nuke - everyone wants one. You saw what the mild Covid freakout did in America.
Be interested.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Tell President Trump to exercise his pardon authority more carefully. A pardon for this obvious fraudster would benefit no one (CA aside). Charlie Javice Has Been Seeking a Pardon From Trump After Defrauding JPMorgan https://t.co/qGp6VFndx1

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Every day is a gift.
When traveling the world, it’s always striking to see how happiness correlates strongly with lack of material resources. Are these people stupid, or do they find happiness beyond the Gucci bag?

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

For decades, the 14th floor of GM's Detroit headquarters was its own separate world. Executives arrived through a private basement elevator. Meals were catered in a private dining room. No one else was invited. A 1993 Seattle Times investigation called it "the ultimate symbol of power at the world's largest company."

Tesla didn't just build a different culture. It built one inside GM's old factory. In 2010, Tesla bought the Fremont plant where GM and Toyota had jointly operated a car factory for 26 years, then ran it completely differently.

While every major automaker gave line workers wages and maybe a pension, Tesla gave them stock, shares that vest over time, across every level of the company, including people on the floor running assembly equipment. Electrek noted in 2020 that stock grants for all workers, factory staff included, were rare enough in auto that it was worth calling out.

The math starts in 2012. Tesla's stock sat at around $2.26 per share then, once you account for two stock splits since. Four years earlier, the company had nearly run out of money, and Musk funded it personally to keep it alive. Workers who took those early grants and held them saw the stock hit $410 at the 2021 peak. A dollar of Tesla stock from 2012 grew 181 times over in nine years. CNN confirmed Musk's account: some Fremont production workers became millionaires from those grants.

Musk wasn't running any of this from a separate floor. During Model 3 production hell in 2018, Tesla was fighting to hit 5,000 cars a week while barely managing 2,000. He moved to the factory and slept there for days. "I was wearing the same clothes for five days," he told Bloomberg Businessweek. "My credibility, the credibility of the whole team, was at stake."

Tesla paid out $2 billion in stock grants to its employees in 2024, from engineering to the factory floor, at every level. The 14th floor at GM was a monument to who owned the company. A Tesla stock grant in Fremont in 2012 was a monument to who built it.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

It’s either crazy or fraudulent based on the ever-reliable smell test.
Probably both.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Don’t stop talking about this

Voters in Los Angeles County were overwhelmingly rejecting the sales tax increase on the ballot

Then after election, late mail in ballots surged in and pushed through the sales tax increase

Again, voters who showed up in person and were all rejecting the tax increase. It was only late mail in ballots, that all came in overwhelming supporting Democrats that pushed through the tax

IT’S SO RIGGED

How can any of this stand, where is the federal audit into all this?? We need updates now

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

How the American system of capitalism works. Come legally, work hard and advance, earn an honest living for you and your family, and get a piece of our future. Legal immigrants are some of the best of America.
No one is waiting to take it away, other than the Socialists. Vote. Don’t let them destroy your dreams.

[ᴛʀᴀᴄᴇʀ @DeFiTracer]

🚨 BREAKING:

THIS GUY MIGRATED TO THE U.S. FROM MEXICO AND WORKED AS A WELDER AT SPACEX

HE RECEIVED $10,000 IN STOCK AND WAS PAID $28/HOUR FOR 10 YEARS

AFTER IPO HIS $SPCX STAKE IS WORTH AROUND $1,000,000

HE IS ONE OF 4,400 EMPLOYEES WHO BECAME MILLIONAIRES TODAY!!

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Restoring Black Fathers to the family will solve half of these problems. Manhood, Confidence, Discipline and Honor are learned early, exclusively from the father.
Rudderless young teen men prompted by their mothers to be violent is the cue. Death awaits.

Change the failed government incentives from the Great Society programs that broke up black families. Ditto for everyone else.

[Merse7 @Merse7]

Elon is creating millionaires. Lots of millionaires. Wow!

[Keith Ainsworth @AinsworthKeith]

While the left is screaming about Elon‘s net worth after today’s IPO approximately 1.14 trillion

They failed to mention that today 4400 SpaceX employees became millionaires 400 employees are worth 100 million or more and between 10,000 - 20,000 Tesla employees are millionaires.

How many millionaires has taxing the wealthy created?