July 2026, this highly publicized incident occurred in Francisco Beltrão, Paraná, Brazil, where security cameras captured a father kicking his 3-year-old daughter in the face.
The incident unfolded on a public sidewalk as the family returned from a grocery market. The father claimed he "lost his head" and kicked the little girl in the face knocking her violently to the ground. A bystander witnessed the assault and attempted to intervene, but was met with threats & insults from the father.
Following the viral spread of the security footage on messaging apps and social platforms, the mother filed a police report.
The father was arrested. Authorities ultimately indicted him on charges of domestic violence, bodily injury, and torture.
The torture charges stem from evidence indicating the abuse was not an isolated incident; investigators discovered the father regularly subjected the victim and her 5-year-old brother to humiliating physical punishments, such as forcing them to kneel on bottle caps, corn kernels, and beans. Urgent protective orders were issued, and the children and mother remain under the care of protective services.
🚨 SHOTS FIRED NEAR JEWISH SUMMER CAMP: Nathan Hewett, 36, fired roughly 20 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle near Camp Modin in Maine, sending 400+ campers and staff into lockdown.
Shell casings suggested shots may have been fired toward the camp’s basketball court.
Deputies seized 23 firearms from Hewett, who was suspected of antisemitic bias.
He was arrested but is shockingly already out on bail.
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.
Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.
What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.
The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.
@TheLeoTerrell I listen to @PrometheanActn and Updates on youtube.
Patience everyone! You don't create a new economy overnight! You don't re-industrialize a country in 26 months either.
The man is a genius and no one alive now could have started the revolution.
🙏🙏 for @potus et al!
@TheLeoTerrell I listen to @PrometheanActn and Updates on youtube.
Patience everyone! You don't create a new economy overnight! You don't re-industrialize a country in 26 months either.
The man is a genius and no one alive now could have started the revolution.
🙏🙏 for @potus et al!
https://t.co/Mu0WQtdrds
I have an idea. A new law.
If you kill your kids without killing yourself, you get LIPWOP or death.
You don't get to live free if they're dead. PERIOD.
@hrkbenowen I never had it. Could see he was a smarmy, BS artist from the get-go. And was confirmed with all the stuff I read - and especially COULDN'T read - about him.