PraetoRex

Pax Americana. Per aspera ad astra. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Mark Allen @MarkAllenMulti]

My close friend reached out two months ago and told me his wife, had a rare cancer and tumors throughout her organs, bones, and body. There is only 3 doctors across the U.S. that specialize in this cancer. My heart broke given they had 3 little boys under the age of 10. The doctor gave her WEEKS to live.

She started chemo and he added me in a small group text for prayer and updates.

He just sent an update that the cancer has been completely eradicated except for one small nodule left in her lung. The oncologist is shocked.

All glory to God.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.

Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.

This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The r/bald subreddit convinces men who are losing their hair to finally shave it off and the transformations are almost always incredible

[Matt RE @realmatt_re]

I just left Costco and I feel like an idiot...

The people in front of me bought $1,200 in top shelf alcohol, cases of redbull, and steaks.

They split it up and paid for the steaks and redbull with EBT, and then pulled out a giant wad of $100 bills to pay for the alcohol in cash.

WTF am I doing with my life??? I haven't bought steak in years - I haven't bought alcohol in decades. Too expensive. On the rare occasion we eat out, I buy the cheapest thing on the menu.

Yet these people can just casually drop thousands of dollars of my tax money on things I can't even afford?? Just to drive home to a taxpayer funded house nicer than I live in.

We are completely destroyed as a society.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Hello again.

We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip.

The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity.

I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool.

I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy.

I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know.

I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia.

A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia.

This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was.

And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks for reading.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Yeah…nah.

Here’s what I think is happening instead.

I haven’t wanted to say this, but there is a problem with organized Skepticism even more than conspiracy theories. My claim is that from hard evidence NOT ONE of the following is an extraordinary claim:

The CIA not only gathers intelligence but kills people, violates rights, gaslights and evades scrutiny and oversight.

The U.S. hides bioweapons programs.

The U.S. engages in regime change through charity and aid programs.

We in the U.S. medically experiment on our own citizens without consent.

We run drugs.

The DOJ and FBI are actively and flagrantly obstructing justice.

Putin easily kills people outside Russia.

We conspire and use academics for sheepskin washing our dirty work.

U.S. newspapers actively avoid reporting stories about which the U.S. population is desperate for information. They also carry extremely non neutral biases.

We actively conspired to hide open and obvious presidential dementia. And by extension, there are massive conspiracies at every level below that one. At a mind boggling level.

There are Special Access programs that are about real and/or fake NHI/UFOs

Etc.

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The last thing we need is skeptics telling us the bar for such conspiracies and/or governmental accountability requires extraordinary evidence.

Somehow the skeptics have it totally wrong.

After Watergate, Iran-Contra, COVID, Church/Pike committees, etc. these are no longer extraordinary claims to raise. They are ordinary claims.

I have no idea whether Lindsay Graham died of natural causes. But I can tell you the difference between a skeptic and a scientist looking at the claim.

A skeptic’s first move is to lurch for the budding conspiracy and try to pull the idea of foul play off the table first and then to require a mountain of evidence to consider such a thing.

A scientist firmly grabs the skeptic’s hand and forces him to put the hypothesis back on the table and says “Uh, you’re not in charge here. There’s a history…and I’m going to need to see something other than reference to null hypotheses, William of Occam and Carl Sagan…because that’s not how science and investigation works.”

Time for extra scientific skepticism to die I think. Covert operations and conspiracies are difficult enough to document as it is.

We don’t need skeptics as self appointed referees.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Hey, @elonmusk, we have a Tesla Model X but we can’t really fit both parents and five kids, and the new SUV only has six seats. On behalf of those who are doing our best to repopulate the West, any chance Tesla can make a minivan or SUV with 7 or 8 seats?

[Corby Davidson @corbydavidson]

Ok. I can’t believe this just happened. My kid is sitting in a beach chair with his hand casually in the sand, & suddenly goes “oh my god look.” He pulls up a girls wedding band. It says “April 16, 2016 I love you.” This was gone FOREVER until now. Seagrove, Fla…Find this lady!

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

protect her at all costs 🙏

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Shaq caught wind of this 7-foot-3 kid in Kemah, Texas who powered through the police academy only to fall one point short on the state exam. His whole dream of becoming an officer looked like it was slipping away right there.

Then Shaq jumped in and covered the guy’s living expenses for the next five months so he wouldn’t have to juggle a second job and could zero in on passing that test. Because of that extra push, Jordan Wilmore got back in, nailed it, and just got sworn in as a Kemah police officer.

[CHIEF i k u k u 1 🇳🇴 @IEruona]

As Ødegaard was breaking up the scuffle, Haaland casually ran over and drank the Brazilian goalkeeper's water. 😂😂😂

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Ben Wilson has advanced cancer. He has 4 small children. Please watch this video and see if you can help with medicine, introductions, or donations. He’s a good guy and a close friend. Please help in any way you can.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A German soccer fan who flew to the USA but was fearful about coming because of news about criminals and people being mean...

...breaks down into TEARS, live on air saying he has FALLEN IN LOVE with America after a random man named "Bob" in Boston gave him a ride home after he was stuck at a game with no way back to his hotel

The German soccer fan's name is Sebastian, he said after meeting Bob, he extended his entire trip.

He said leaving America will hurt worse than watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup.

"I fall in love with America. I'm sorry, it's just so emotional. Americans are not rude... if we are together, we can achieve great things."

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Shawn Presser @theshawwn]

I’ll be actually-homeless soon (living out of my car) if I can’t land a job. Our house is being sold within two months if I don’t find work. I’ve been trying everywhere, but very few companies are answering. So please, email me or DM with literally anything involving computers, or ask a friend, or your business’s HR person. (I’d love to work with you.) I’ll do a good job, and I can learn and adapt to any working style you need.

I was employee #2 at Carmack’s AI lab, Keen. I worked at Groq helping to design and implement their LPU chips. I made Books3, a dataset trained on by LLaMA and Claude. I’ve been programming for 25 years.

Location: Lake Saint Louis MO
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, JAX, C++, JS/TypeScript, Objective C, Swift, Rails, Linux, Lisp, and anything else you give me a week to learn.
Résumé/CV: https://t.co/CmXUlOxyuT
Email: [email protected]

I wanted to avoid the humiliation of begging, but nothing is working. I need money or else our 3yo daughter loses her birth home. I’ve been through dozens of interviews from the companies that do answer, but the market is bad right now. You can have me for a steal.

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

【実話】
​「死なせて」と懇願する妻に毎日踊り続けた夫。
​脳腫瘍で麻痺が残った妻のため、貯金4,000万円をすべて治療に使い果たし、毎日ダンスで励まし続けた鄧さん。献身的な介護の末、妻は奇跡的に回復する。

[Hunter Morey ☢️ @Hunter_morey]

If we (the nuclear navy) can routinely train 18yo’s, college dropouts, and all the rest in between to be elite operators with high technical knowledge, then it’s doable across the board in all industries.
Have unwaveringly HIGH standards for level of knowledge and standards.

[terry schappert @terryschappert]

I guess in a way, I was a Dad.
This is me and the lads in 2011.
I was the Team Daddy and this was our first time really working together.
Absolute Studs.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have had a change of heart on the immigration issue.

I do not think we should be taking in any legal migrants, at all, until we have fully deported all illegal aliens.

Order has to come first, and right now... we are still cleaning house.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, I raised alarms about dangerous gain-of-function research being farmed out to foreign countries, and I was told it was a conspiracy theory. Now, declassified documents show that the U.S. funded over 120 biolabs across more than 30 countries. Some of this research was conducted overseas precisely because scientists knew it would face scrutiny on American soil.

I'm calling for a presidential commission of scientists to review all gain-of-function research going forward. We're going lab by lab and pathogen by pathogen until the American people know the full truth.

https://t.co/gtv6sZ7viR

[Blossom 🌸 @Suzzy0310]

“CHILD SUPPORT - $800”
52 quarters. $41,600 total.
I did the math at 2am and couldn’t breathe.

Called him. “Why didn’t you fight for me?”
He said “I did. Every month. With my paycheck.”
Said “Courts don’t let you buy time, son. Only groceries.”

That week I saw the rent. The light bill.
Saw shoes I outgrew in 3 months.
Saw Mom working double shifts.
$800 wasn’t disappearing.
It was becoming me.

He never missed a payment.
Missed every birthday. Every game.
Because the court gave him visitation.
But not a key to our house.

Child support isn’t an allowance.
It’s rent for the childhood you can’t be there for.
It’s apology money.
It’s “I’m sorry” with 4 zeros.

Dad, if you’re reading this: I see it now.
The checks weren’t to Mom.
They were to the kid you couldn’t raise.