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Retired after 32 years with INS/DHS (CBP). Native Californian. Birder. BA Political Science/Criminal Justice. Conservative and registered Republican. No DMs.

[Accipiter striatus @PeterGordon_CBP]

From @writebrainmedia. I tried to get @grok to do this, but it didn't come up with anything close. From another simultaneous sipper. Charles Schultz and Scott Adams are together again.

[Lewis Miles @Maga4liberty]

Germany banned a film because Muslim migrants found it offensive. The director released it anyway and it got over 10 million views in 6 hours.
How long is Europe going to keep bending over backwards for this? 😡🔥
#EuropeIsLost

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I warned you: "We shall use your miserable freedoms against you."

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Cuban man almost has a stroke when he is told a congresswoman said Cuba’s healthcare is better than the United States.

“In Cuba we don't have medicine like here, we don't have pharmacy like here. In Cuba my mom asking me for medicine, buy here and send it to Cuba. The hospital in Cuba, we don't, they don't have a lounge for kids.

They don't have bedsheets, they don't have toilet. One toilet for five people. “They never clean it?” No, clean, no, no, no, no, no. Clean it? No. That's another, that's a, that's worse.

“And what do you say to people that think it's the embargo?” Oh, that's funny because the politician hospital in Havana is for dollar. Do you know who go there? The boss, the important people, the luxury politician people.And they have everything.

That's embargo? You don't know nothing about the hospital in Cuba.”

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: John Bolton is now a FELON after pleading GUILTY to unlawful retention of national defense information

He and his mustache have agreed to pay a $2.25 MILLION fine, face up to 60 MONTHS in prison, and forfeit his pension.

“As Mr. Bolton just admitted, he put our national security at grave risk in violation of the law,” the DOJ said

Give him all 60 months!

Bolton is scheduled to be sentenced in October.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

San Francisco (June 24) — Leftist lawmaker @Scott_Wiener was aggressively accosted in the Mission district by a far-left extremist demanding he chant “Free Palestine.” The demand mirrors how leftists and liberals hounded people to support BLM in 2020, or to wear masks.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A 9-year-old girl cries as she is being sold by her own family and forced into an arranged marriage with a 60-year-old man. This is Islam.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Lets go over this video. A black teenager gets into a fight with a white kid and his first instinct is to pick up the kid and try to drop his head on the concrete to kill him. The guy behind the camera urges him to do it.

He ends up suplexing himself into unconsciousness and the white kid is stunned but unharmed. The black teen's friends then point guns at the white kid when its clear that their friend's attempt to murder him failed.

The replies to the original video and to others that posted it are full of sympathizers who jump to the conclusion that the white kid deserved it somehow. It's the Austen Metcalf situation all over again and it happens every damn day.

You cannot fix this culture.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment.

While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately.

You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public.

Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election.

The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason.

Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative.

I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets.

If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners.

While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate.

All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something?

Why am I wrong?

For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.

[California Assembly Republicans @AsmRepublicans]

While Newsom pretends to shop at Best Buy, small businesses are bracing for new costs thanks to the Democrats' new software tax. Small businesses are now being taxed on essential tools to serve their customers, while the Supermajority acts like its no big deal.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Not sure I'd call it "charity"

Her so-called philanthropy was basically funneling $26 billion into radical NGOs, activist networks with million-dollar paychecks, paid protests and left-wing politics

Worse is, the money was routed to groups tied to Hamas like literal terrorism...organizations now under congressional investigation for coordinating with terrorists

She probably did more damage than any real philanthropic act

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

> Why did you push a woman into a moving train?
> Because I wanted to

Sometimes criminals are just bad people.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨Jemele Hill is pushing a straight-up evil lie on national TV.🚨

“Listen, anybody who studied any small bit of history knows Jemele Hill is flat-out lying. The Electoral College is NOT rooted in slavery as its ‘entire reason.’ That’s pure propaganda designed to divide America and tear down our Constitution.

The Founders created the Electoral College as a brilliant safeguard for our republic—to protect small states from being steamrolled by big ones, stop corrupt politicians in Congress from picking presidents, and ensure candidates actually care about the whole country, not just coastal elites and big cities. It forces national unity. That’s why it has worked for over 200 years.

Hill’s attack isn’t about history—it’s about rigging the game because her side keeps losing. Two women lost fair and square under the rules. Stop the lies, Jemele. The Electoral College protects all Americans’ voices.
Keep your hands off our Constitution!”
#JemeleHillLies #ElectoralCollege #DefendTheConstitution #FoundersVision #AmericaFirst #StopTheLies #ConservativeAmerica #TrumpWon #Viral #Trending

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Jennifer Welch: “The Republican Party has exposed itself for being the pathological, anti-family, pro-pedophilia death cult that they are... They have to cheat in order to win. These are the most morally depraved people out there”

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

Doris Reina-Landaverde of the National TPS Alliance blames America for "destroying" her home, El Salvador, by financially backing its govt's fight against a Communist insurrection.

The Salvadoran Civil War ended in 1992. She moved here in 2000 via TPS. And she is still speaking broken English.

"TPS holders are fighting for the democracy of this country."

"As a TPS holder, a immigrant, that I survive a civil war in El Salvador where United States invest one million dollar per day to destroy my country and make me to leave my country because I need a medical treatment. This is the reason I'm here. But they made me get out from my country because they destroyed my country. And now they blame us, and we bring hope to this country, because the only hope this country in this moment have is the immigrant community."

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

On what fucking planet is this ok?

I swear if I saw that in front of me he would not be getting up for a month. And if some stupid leftist said to me there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just their “beautiful” culture, the leftist would be lying out-cold right next to him.

So done with this sick shit.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Verena Brunschweiger in new interview: Proudly says 'My bloodline ends with me' is a responsible choice.

Calls for fewer 'white babies' in the West. Attacks Elon Musk & right wingers for wanting more 'white babies' to preserve majorities.

Says White/Western people have a 'moral duty' to have fewer kids & take more refugees because 'we ruined the world.'

[@amuse @amuse]

LAWFARE: Dozens of House Republicans voted against a measure that removed staff funding from Judge James Boasberg and reduce DC Circuit Court funding by 20%. Why are Republicans refusing to check judicial actions viewed as obstructing the President? ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Jammles @jammles9]

I didn’t realize Caitlin Clark was not only struck in the neck, but also kneed in the groin, pinched under the arm, and nearly stomped on.

The fact that she received only a one-day suspension is absolutely sickening.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Joy Reid is warning America that MAGA wants to take the country back to when:

"there were no income taxes, no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you want and leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes."

She says that’s the world we want back.

And she said it like it's a bad thing!!

Are these people really this stupid?😂

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

The talking filibuster will work

Pass it on