J.E. Dyer ☘️

Retired Naval officer deconstructing the shibboleths of modern left-progressivism. Standing athwart history yelling Bring it! POTUS 47's Irish Whisperer.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

CORRECTION, and a major one.
Modern schools aren't built for girls.
They're built for people who want to inculcate the most-compromised & vulnerable worst in girls, to make them easy to exploit.
*Modern schools ARE NOT good for girls.*
Get that through your heads.
Do it now.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls, not boys—and we’re paying a steep price.

Little boys (ages 3–6) surge with testosterone. They need to run, jump, play, burn energy.
Instead, we sit them in circle time, demand emotional regulation, and label normal boy behavior as ADHD or “behavioral problems.”

Result? Marginalized, stressed, diagnosed early, and tracked that way through school.

Her fix if she ran the world:
Separate boys and girls in the early years.
Boys get multiple recess periods, short focused bursts, and space to move.
Girls get a calmer environment where they feel safe taking STEM/math risks.
Both thrive when not forced into the opposite gender’s learning style.

Single-gender early education: Boys try art/music without teasing. Girls try science without self-consciousness.
Evidence already shows it works.

Parents/teachers: Do you see boys struggling more in today’s classrooms—or is this overblown?
What’s one change you’d make to education for boys right now?

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Predictably, a number of replies are taking this in a literal spirit as if it requires answering or correction.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Reporter: How do you define ceasefire?

Trump: In that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Spain, a NATO ally defended by the U.S. and host to a major U.S. Navy base, has now denied access to U.S. Merchant Marine ships not once, not twice, but THREE times for “ideological reasons”

Maybe it’s time to ask what exactly allies are for.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Hmm.

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

Did you know that federal employees can add anyone to their health insurance plan with NO accountability?

I requested a report on this and found out around ONE BILLION DOLLARS per YEAR went towards fraudulent coverage. Government employees NEVER had to verify if the person they were adding was family. I introduced the FEHB Protection Act, which became law, to fix this problem and stop the fraud.

Americans deserve a system with accountability, not a free-for-all funded by federal tax dollars.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

So Germany didn't get elected to one of the rotating UNSC seats, but Zimbabwe did.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Congratulations to Zimbabwe on being elected for a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council.

Zimbabwe's credentials:
🇿🇼 Torture
🇿🇼 Child labor
🇿🇼 Tainted elections
🇿🇼 Jails critics and journalists
🇿🇼 Authoritarian rule over decades

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Huh.
This vote is by secret ballot so we won't be told who didn't vote for Germany (i.e., abstained), or who voted against.
Not going to give a hot take.

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

Germany has failed to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) secured 104 votes in the General Assembly, falling 23 short of the required two-thirds majority. It is the first time Germany has missed out on a rotating seat.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Very cool, and definitely worth a PSA.

Some gals run outside to see the helicopter too. 🤠And hear the jet high above swooping and zooming, and know if they'll be quick about it, they'll get an eyeful of fighters from the nearby air reserve base.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY LIVES UNDER SFO'S TAKEOFF PATH SO HE BUILT A CEILING PROJECTOR THAT TRACKS EVERY PLANE FLYING OVER HIS HOUSE IN REAL TIME

he uses a cheap $30 radio receiver to pick up the signals that planes broadcast while flying.

then projects them onto his ceiling in real time

when a jet flies over his house you hear it outside and at the exact same moment a plane glides across his ceiling labeled with the airline, aircraft type, and destination

pure black background so the projector's rectangle disappears and only the aircraft are visible

but he didn't stop at planes

it also draws the real sky behind them. sun, moon, bright stars, constellations, and live satellites including the ISS. all at their true positions for his exact location and time in real time

so he's lying in bed watching the actual night sky projected onto his ceiling with real planes crossing through it as they take off from SFO

there is a huge market for every man alive that runs outside to see the helicopter

vibe coded the whole thing himself with a cheap radio, a projector, and some clever software

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

The cartels and Hamas have been exchanging trips and training visits for years on how to make quality tunnels.

The Buy 4 Less disguise is a nice touch.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: $45 million worth of cocaine seized after an underground tunnel between Mexico and San Diego, CA was discovered under a Buy 4 Less store.

Investigators say they surveilled the store for months after noticing how little customer foot traffic it had.

Authorities found a nearly 2000-foot-long tunnel that was 55 feet deep and 4.5 feet high with electricity and ventilation.

2270 pounds of coke was seized from the store, and four people were arrested.

Gregorio Epifanio Hernandez Lopez, 29, Jose Jimenez, 32, Antonio Cortez, 18, and Brandon Escalante Sandoval, 26, were arrested.

They all face a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine.

"They thought they saw the light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, what they saw were our lights and sirens," said U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Good for her. Uganda is by no means the only place this happens, going by information I've seen.

In some places, families reportedly have to pay bribes to ensure hospital patients receive care and supplies (like painkillers) that are supposed to be standard, and are funded by public money.

[عقيًل بن محمد العقيًل( أبو أنس) @akiluno_a]

في حادثة لافتة حدثت في أوغندا، قررت وزيرة الصحة "سارة" أن تقوم بخطوة جريئة لكشف الفساد داخل أحد المستشفيات الحكومية. فقامت بالتنكر في زي امرأة منقبة حتى لا يتعرف عليها أحد، وتوجهت إلى أحد المستشفيات العامة بهدف إجراء فحص بسيط لمستوى السكر في الدم.

عند وصولها إلى قسم الاستقبال، طلب منها الموظفون دفع رشوة مالية مقابل إجراء الفحص، على الرغم من أن هذه الخدمات الصحية يجب أن تُقدَّم مجانًا للمواطنين، بحسب القوانين المعمول بها في المستشفيات الحكومية. وحينما رفضت الوزيرة، مؤكدّة أن العلاج في هذه المرافق من المفترض أن يكون بلا مقابل، رفض الموظفون تقديم أي خدمة لها، وتعاملوا معها بجفاء واستهتار.

في تلك اللحظة، كشفت الوزيرة عن هويتها الحقيقية، لتُفاجئ الجميع بأنها ليست مجرد مريضة، بل وزيرة الصحة نفسها. وعلى الفور، أصدرت أوامرها باعتقال جميع المتورطين في الواقعة، من موظفين وأطباء، لبدء تحقيق رسمي في قضايا الفساد والإهمال داخل القطاع الصحي.

تعد هذه الحادثة مثالًا صارخًا على الفساد الإداري، ولكنها في الوقت نفسه تُظهر حرص بعض المسؤولين النزيهين على التحقق بأنفسهم من واقع الخدمات التي تُقدم للمواطنين.
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[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

🚫CLAIM: Iran claimed today that it did not attack the passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport and damage was instead caused by a U.S. missile interceptor. Totally FALSE.

✅TRUTH: Iran struck the civilian airport with drones in a deliberate, calculated, and unjustified attack.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

@DaveEDanna I know you'll take lots of these.
Take your eye off the ball for 2 seconds, and little man will somehow, suddenly be 6 months older.
It goes so fast.🤠❤️

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

A reason to distinguish one from the other would be how the US treats visa requirements and vetting for refugee/asylum status.

We don't appear to waive visas for either Bhutan or Nepal.

But the US resettled about 100,000 people from Bhutan, may of whom were actually the aforesaid Nepalis, in the late 2000s to mid-2010s. Most apparently became lawful permanent residents of the US.

They didn't cross our border illegally, they just started illegally exploiting the Medicaid program after they got here.

Other Nepalis migrated to the US under temporary protected status, which resulted from Nepalis being kicked out of Bhutan in the 2010s. Noem's DHS ended TPS for Nepal in 2025.

https://t.co/onUcbHVgms

[~poldec-tonteg @poldectonteg]

@BrentScher @lukerosiak These people are not Bhutanese. They are nepalis who got booted out of Bhutan for being criminals. Very important distinction.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

My best assessment would be that land-grant settlement on the New Mexico side resulted in the 2-mile offset for the Oklahoma Panhandle.

At least some of the land-grant settlements predated US acquisition of the relevant territory (after the Mexican-American war in 1847). In the main, the US fed govt honored the Spanish land grants, turning them into US territorial titles for grantees who could make good on fees. (The same is true of California, for example. In my area, there are some old land grants that governed water rights into the early 20th century. The lake I get my water from, dammed by a private consortium about 120 years ago, was part of such a land grant, and still has federally-recognized prior rights.)

When land was apportioned to Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and the Public Land Strip (the OK Panhandle), New Mexico kept the land-grant land, as suggested by this summary from the OK Historical Society.

https://t.co/OMtjI9XHWs

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

This is hilarious.

More people seem to care about the matter, just in this X thread, than give a hoot in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

It's wonderful country there, now usefully but sadly being traversed by an incessant stream of oil trucks, and outfitted even in Boise City (the Coast Guard's finest hour, and bonus! bombed in WWII) with chain franchises.

Don't try to stand up straight if you have to gas up in Guymon. Just crouch over in the delicate, ever-present 45 mph breeze and get through it.

Or gas up in Slapout. Same breeze, more fun.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The Oklahoma Panhandle exists because Texas chose to preserve its status as a slave state.

Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery was banned in territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. When Texas joined the United States as a slave state in 1845, its northern border was set at that line. Although Texas claimed land farther north based on earlier Spanish and Mexican boundaries, keeping that territory would have created a conflict over slavery restrictions. As part of the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered the strip of land north of 36°30′—the area that would eventually become the Oklahoma Panhandle.

The cession left the region outside the borders of any organized state or territory. Since it belonged to neither Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, nor Colorado, it remained a patch of unorganized federal land.

For roughly four decades, from 1850 to 1890, the area was widely known as “No Man’s Land,” a place with no formal territorial government, limited law enforcement, and an uncertain legal status. It was eventually attached to Oklahoma Territory and became part of the state of Oklahoma when Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Fatality and dozens of injuries.

Iran has been attacking civilian targets with the evident intent of sapping the will of GCC nations.

[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

NEW: Video shows full extent of the damage to Terminal 1 at Kuwait International Airport caused by the brutal Iranian drone and missile attacks that struck the facility earlier today.

One person was killed and more than 60 injured in Iranian drone strikes on the airport, local officials have said.

Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad directed authorities to immediately begin all required procedures to repair the damage and rehabilitate the affected sections of the terminal to ensure the safe and efficient resumption of operations.

Sheikh Ahmad also expressed his appreciation to airport staff and emergency response teams for their swift handling of the incident, praising their rapid implementation of the necessary measures and their effective management of the situation.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Is this a move to gain leverage for negotiating Russia's (probable) nukes out of Kaliningrad? (Or, if you prefer, to prevent the deployment of Russian nukes there, and in Belarus.)

Back in the 1980s, one of Reagan's reasons for moving ahead on the Pershing II deployment to Europe (along with GLCMs and Tomahawks on US subs offshore), after years of foot-dragging, was to gain leverage for the INF Treaty (1987) between US and USSR, zeroing out theater nukes in Europe.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

BREAKING: Lithuania is in talks with Washington to potentially host U.S. nuclear weapons on its territory, said the country's defense minister - Politico

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

@jenvanlaar Enjoy! Looks wonderful.
Say hi to the Montagues and Capulets for us.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

What he said.

There's no excuse for running California elections in the most risky way possible.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: It's been over 12 HOURS since poll close in California and not even 60% PERCENT of the votes have been counted

Entire NATIONS count nearly 90-100% of their ballots in less time.

Florida takes just a FEW HOURS to count over 90% PERCENT of votes

California's election system is broken. Letting mail-ins FLOOD after election day is a horrible way to do it.

It needs to be overhauled MASSIVELY!

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

The narrative on these apparitions is that the guys coming out of the sewer have been searching for items of value to resell.

I hope NYC is taking this seriously, as this is a bad pattern to get conditioned to, until it seems like there's no threat from it. It very obviously poses a potential threat.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Groups entering and emerging from NYC sewers at strange hours of night; police investigate https://t.co/UytrXuVio7

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Yes, someone is.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "There's no doubt that when you have people showing up with pre-printed signs 24 hours after Nicolás Maduro was arrested and extradited to the United States, that's not an organic movement. Someone's paying for that."

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Great news.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Parasitic, flesh-eating flies moving close to U.S.-Mexico border, sparking fears in Texas https://t.co/5HoyfEIlkd