OwnedByFizz

I am an equine massage therapist, I also teach others to become self supporting by learning equine massage. I say I teach people how to pet ponies for money.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».

J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.

Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.

Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.

Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.

Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.

Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.

Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.

C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.

L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that the man charged with m*rdering a pregnant mother and her unborn son in Atlanta...

...WAS RELEASED EARLY FROM PRISON FOR M*RDER JUST TWO YEARS AGO!!!!

He served just 11 MONTHS in prison for m*rder!!!!!!!

His name is Devin Anthony.

He was originally indicted in a 2024 case for, felony m*rder, aggravated assault, and a gun charge.

So what happened?

They let him plead it down to voluntary manslaughter.

They gave him "First Offender" status, meaning he wasn't even formally convicted.

He was ordered to serve just ELEVEN MONTHS behind bars and 19 years on probation.

Then, this February, he violated that probation. He skipped reporting. He failed a drug test. He blew off his anger management course. He didn't comply with the program.

They held him for 60 DAYS... AND THEN LET HIM GO!!!

...and then he used his probation to fire about a DOZEN shots through a bedroom window, into a home where 23-year-old Shakiya Pridgen was asleep in bed with her two babies.

She was hit.

So was her unborn son.

Shakiya was two weeks from giving birth.

She'd already had the baby shower.
She'd named him Kyren.

They are both gone.

Her two other children, ages 1 and 3, were in the bed beside her and they watched their mother pass away.

Shakiya's own mother said: "He got a second chance. Shakiya doesn't get a second chance. He should have never been let out."

Name the prosecutors. Name the judge. Name everyone who signed off on letting this man walk.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Caught at the border. Released.

Caught again in Chicago. Released again.

Arrest warrant issued. No one came.

Three years later
he put on a ski mask,
hid behind a lighthouse,
and shot an eighteen-year-old college girl in the back.

She was looking at the skyline with her friends.

She died on the concrete.

This was preventable.

Every. Single. Piece. Of this. Was preventable.

March 19, 2026. Chicago.

She's a freshman. Eighteen.
Flew in from a small town in New York
to chase a bigger life.

Just after midnight, she walks out of her dorm
with five friends. Laughing. Whispering.

Someone heard the northern lights might be out.
They want to see the skyline from the pier.

Just kids. Just a Thursday night.
The kind of stupid beautiful thing
you do when you're eighteen
and the world still feels safe.

She walks ahead of the group.
Reaches the lighthouse first.

Behind it,

in the dark,

a man is waiting.

Black clothes. Black ski mask. A handgun.

She turns.
Whispers to her friends —
someone's back there.

He steps out. Gun raised.

They run.

One shot.

It hits her in the back.

Her friends hear her drop.

They come back.
She's on the ground. Bleeding.
Eighteen years old and dying
on a concrete pier
because she wanted to see the city lights.

Now here's the timeline
that should make your blood boil.

May 2023.
He crosses the border illegally.
Border Patrol catches him.
Has him in custody.
Releases him into the country.

June 2023.
One month later. Chicago.
Arrested for shoplifting.
They have him. Again.
Release him. Again.

He's told to show up to court.
He never does.
A judge issues a warrant for his arrest.

And nobody comes.

Nobody knocks on his door.
Nobody runs his name.
Nobody picks him up.

For three years,
a man with an active arrest warrant
lives freely in Chicago.
One block from a college campus.

One. Block.

You want to know what makes this
more than just a tragedy?

The state of Illinois has a law.
The TRUST Act.

It tells local police:
Don't help ICE.
Don't hold anyone for them.
Don't even tell them
when you let someone go.

A man gets caught at the border —
released.

Gets caught committing a crime —
released.

Skips court, warrant goes active —
and the law says don't look for him.

That is not a broken system.

That is the system doing exactly what it was built to do.

Read that sentence one more time.

The system worked perfectly.

And an eighteen-year-old girl is dead.

Her parents flew in from New York.

Stood on the pier where their daughter was killed.

Threw flowers into Lake Michigan.

Stop for a second and picture that.

A mother. At the exact spot
where her child bled out on a school night.
Throwing flowers into black water
because there's nothing left to do.

Her mother told the cameras:
"We've got to make changes."

Her father:
"There are definitely policies
that contributed to this happening."

They didn't scream. They didn't rage.
They stood on cold concrete
and asked this country, quietly,
to do better.

This country has not answered them.

She was studying business.
She was part of a Christian fellowship on campus.
Her family said she made people feel seen.
She made people feel valued.

She was someone's entire world.

And she was just trying to look at the skyline.

She should be packing up her dorm room right now.

She should be fighting with her roommate
about who gets the mini fridge.

She should be texting her mom
about what to bring home for summer.

She should be alive.

She should be alive.

She should be alive.

A border that held him would have saved her.
A jail that kept him would have saved her.
A warrant someone bothered to serve would have saved her.
A state that let its police do their damn jobs
would have saved her.

Four doors.
Four chances.
Every single one — left wide open.

And a girl who wanted to see the skyline
walked to the end of a pier
and never came back.

God bless every parent
who drops their kid off at college,
drives home with an empty back seat,
and has no choice but to trust
that this world will bring them back alive.

[OwnedByFizz @OwnedByFizz]

@OldHollowTree This picture is amazing. Framed and hanging on a wall it would be a masterpiece.

[OwnedByFizz @OwnedByFizz]

@japan_nobunaga The cities have it but mid state and rural areas require cars.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

There is hope.

I got on the phone with an insurance medical director to advocate for a 34 year old elementary school teacher who needed breast reconstruction after her mastectomy.

She had carefully planned her surgery during summer break so she could return to her students in the fall. But because Redbud Surgery Center remains out of network despite nearly two years of trying to become in network, she was facing thousands of dollars in additional costs.

So I made the call. I explained that this wasn't about reimbursement. It wasn't about me. It was about a patient who deserved access to safe, high quality care without unnecessary financial barriers.

And something remarkable happened.

He listened.

He understood why this mattered. He approved an exception for this patient. Then he acknowledged that Redbud Surgery Center being in network would be better for their members.

For all the frustration, all the barriers, and all the moments when healthcare feels broken, I want you to know this:

There are good people inside the system trying to do the right thing.

Healthcare doesn't change through outrage alone. It changes when people are willing to listen, understand, and act.

There is hope. And together, we are changing healthcare from the inside out.

One patient.
One doctor.
One decision.
One practice.
One conversation at a time.

My gratitude for the physician who listened and heard me is immense.

Now I need your help.

If you have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas insurance, please contact your employer's benefits manager or human resources department and tell them:

"I want Redbud Surgery Center in network."

Your employer has more influence than you may realize. Insurance companies listen when employers advocate for better access to care for their employees.

If you live in Texas, please also contact your state representative, state senator, and the Governor's office and tell them:

"I want Redbud Surgery Center in network for the people of Texas."

If enough patients, employers, physicians, and Texans speak up, change can happen.

[OwnedByFizz @OwnedByFizz]

@OldHollowTree Even your ditch flowers are pretty!!!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!

A mother is outraged after her 17-year-old son was sh0t and k*lled at work in Charlotte NC...

...and prosecutors just DROPPED the m*rder charge against one of the Black male suspects AND NOW HE WILL ONLY SPEND 5-7 YEARS IN PRISON!!!

His name was Fate Brannon. He was 17 years old.

He worked at a Jack in the Box in Charlotte, NC. He prayed with his mother the morning he died. He told her he'd call her after his shift.

He never got the chance. He was sh0t and k*lled during a robbery at that restaurant.

TWO people were charged with his first-degree m*rder.

In February, one of them, a 16 year old Black male, took a plea deal. Prosecutors dropped the m*rder charge. He pleaded guilty to robbery and conspiracy instead.

His sentence for a role in the k*lling of a 17-year-old boy?

5 to 7 years.

And now his mother is watching the SECOND suspect, a 28-year-old Black male who has been arrested MULTIPLE TIMES, fight to get his charges dismissed too.

"The system already failed us when he was out here. Is the system about to fail us again?"

Fate Brannon will never see 18.

And the people charged with taking his life are getting deals and dismissals.

I am so sick of this... North Carolina, will you ever FUCKING LEARN?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Say his name!!!!!!

Fate Brannon.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

EVEN EVEN MORE HILLARY

In the summer of 1997, Bill Clinton visited Denmark. We landed on AF-1 in Copenhagen, boarded Marine One for a night time tour of the coast en route to Kronborg Castle, for Shakespeare the “home of Hamlet.” We landed at around midnight and were welcomed with open arms by the queen and her staff.

Beautiful, historic castle. I was put up in the Scottish Military suite. Beautiful room with a fully appointed spread of meats, cheeses, breads, fruit, and a full bar. All served, of course, with fine china and crystal.

After a phone call with my wife, I made sure POTUS was down for the evening and went to bed.

The next morning, the queen had a breakfast spread for Clinton and the staff. Again, first class.

As we headed to the motorcade to leave for an event and the flight home, I was pulled aside by the Danish military aide.

“Buzz, we have a problem. Your staff stole the china and crystal from their rooms. And took other things as well.”

I was stunned and chagrined. I apologized profusely and told him I’d handle it.

I talked with Hillary and the White House chief of staff and told them what had happened.

They both shrugged their shoulders. No apology. Nobody held accountable. No repayment.

Just another day in the Clinton White House and a group of Ugly Americans.

I don’t want to hear a damn word from @HillaryClinton about White House decorum. Not a word.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If this works, I'm treating myself to a volcano lair. It's time.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

@HillaryClinton

Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years.

While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable.

You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off.

And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.”

The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls.

Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.

[Naval @naval]

Science is not a process, a credential, or an institution.

It is the unflinching pursuit of truth, carried out by the few, co-opted by the many.

[DeVory Darkins @devorydarkins]

A black father of 5 is going viral for....wait for it....his COMMON SENSE parenting approach in response to the delusional clip of the Karmelo Anthony supporter asking, "what do I tell my 5 boys?!"

"I also have 5 boys...I'm gonna try something: when you go to school, DON'T STAB ANY OTHER KIDS. You think you guys can do that?"

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.

Rotherham. A small town in northern England.

For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.

Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.

The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.

For sixteen years, not one of them moved.

Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.

That is the moment something in you breaks.

And here is the part that makes it worse.

The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.

This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.

Then Elon Musk bought X.

The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.

But it did.

And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.

Towns the country had been told to forget.

Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.

X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.

That is worth saying out loud.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have truly awful news...

A 17-year-old Black male allegedly m*rdered an elderly White couple in their own home in rural Mississippi...

...and then opened fire on 4 sheriff's deputies AND AN INFANT!!!!

He shot at a BABY!!!

Their names were Billy and Virginia Blair. He was 74. She was 71.

They were high-school sweethearts and owned a tire shop together, their pastor called them "the sweetest couple," people who "loved the Lord."

In broad daylight, a 17-year-old broke into their home and m*rdered them both.

Police say the suspect opened fire on FOUR officers... and an INFANT at the scene.

All of them were hit.

By the grace of God, all miraculously survived.

The 17-year-old now faces 13 felonies, including TWO counts of capital m*rder.

A judge denied him bond.

Billy and Virginia Blair survived everything life threw at them for over 70 years...

...only to be murdered in the one place they should have been safest.

Their own home.

Say their names.

Billy and Virginia Blair.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Jason Church @JasonChurch]

I lost both legs in Afghanistan. I later worked for Sen. Ron Johnson. Today I'm asking him, and Wisconsin, to help pass the Major Richard Star Act for 50,000+ combat-wounded vets. 79 senators, every veterans group, and the Pentagon back it. My column: https://t.co/EhpzBEz01K

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“I’m worried about the potential backlash against peaceful beheaders”

-Norm McDonald, probably

🙄

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Here's something many people don't know about me -

Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum.

Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public.

Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article.

Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation."

Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.