That's Infotainment™

No need to deny the obvious

[David Tangipa @DavidTangipa]

🚨WARNING: Massive tax increases coming for California families and businesses

If you’re a hard-working Californian or a small business owner, your taxes are going up because of a new California tax.

If you pay for private health insurance, your premiums are going up because of a new California tax.

If you run a business and use QuickBooks, Microsoft 365, Adobe, or any digital tools your costs are going up.

If you’re an employer, your payroll taxes are going up because California refuses to pay off the unemployment insurance loan.

So remember the next time you pay your bills the supermajority in Sacramento decided to raise your taxes when you asked for relief.

[Makayla | Real Estate Investor @REIMakayla]

There's a house in my neighborhood that has been empty for 3 years

The owner died. Her kids live in California. They have never visited. The lawn is overgrown. The mailbox is overflowing. The HOA sends violation letters to an address nobody checks

That house is worth $140,000 sitting there rotting

I'm going to buy it for $80,000. And the family is going to thank me for it

This is where 70% of my deals come from. Dead people's houses. I know how that sounds. Here's why it's the most ethical way to buy real estate

When someone dies and leaves a house to their kids, a few things happen almost immediately:

1. The kids don't want the house. They live somewhere else. They have their own homes, their own mortgages, their own lives. A house in a different state is not an inheritance. It's a problem. It needs insurance, property taxes, maintenance, lawn care, utilities to keep the pipes from freezing. Every month they don't sell it costs them $500-$800 in carrying costs they weren't expecting

2. The house is in probate. Probate is the legal process of transferring a dead person's assets to their heirs. It takes 6-18 months depending on the state. During that time the heirs can't easily sell through normal channels. Most realtors won't touch a probate property because the timeline is unpredictable and their commission might take a year to close

3. The house is deteriorating. Nobody is maintaining it. The lawn dies. The gutters fill up. A small roof leak becomes water damage and then mold. Every month the house sits empty it loses value. A house that was worth $150,000 when grandma died might be worth $130,000 by the time probate clears because nobody patched the leak in month 2

4. The heirs want cash. They don't want to renovate. They don't want to list it and wait 90 days for a buyer. They don't want to coordinate with a realtor from 2,000 miles away. They want someone to hand them a check so they can close the chapter and move on with their lives

That's where I come in

I find probate properties through public records at the county clerk's office. When someone dies, a probate case gets filed. It's public information. I can see the property address, the heirs' names, and the attorney handling the estate

I reach out to the attorney or the heirs directly. I say: "I buy houses for cash. I can close in 7-14 days. I'll handle the title work, the cleanout, everything. You don't have to visit the property or spend a dollar. Tell me what number works for you"

They almost always say yes. Because the alternative is paying $800/month in carrying costs for a house they'll never live in while they wait for a realtor to find a buyer who might back out after the inspection reveals the roof leak and the mold and the outdated electrical panel

I bought a 3-bedroom last year from a woman in San Diego whose mother had passed 8 months earlier. The house had been sitting empty the entire time. Property taxes were $3,200 behind. The lawn was knee-high. A pipe had burst during winter and there was water damage in the kitchen

She wanted $100,000. I offered $97,000 and she accepted within an hour because she needed the money to pay for her mother's funeral expenses that were still on a credit card

I put $31,000 into renovation. The house appraised at $205,000. I rent it to a Section 8 tenant for $1,375/month. The government pays all of it

"But you took advantage of her"

I took a rotting house off her hands that was costing her $800/month to not live in. I paid her $97,000 in cash in 7 days when no realtor in her market would even return her calls because the property was in probate and needed $30,000 in work. She called me after closing and thanked me because she'd been having anxiety attacks about the property taxes and the burst pipe and the HOA violations she was getting fined for

I made money on the deal. She solved a problem that was ruining her life. The neighborhood got a renovated house instead of a rotting one. The Section 8 tenant got a home they'd been waiting years for

Everyone involved is better off than they were before I showed up

Roughly 2.8 million people die in the US every year. Somewhere between 60-70% of them own real estate. A significant portion of those properties end up in limbo because the heirs don't know what to do, can't afford to maintain them, and don't have the time or money to renovate and sell at full market value

Those houses are in every city, in every state, on every street. Including yours

The house sitting empty in your neighborhood right now is someone's future rental property. Someone is going to buy it for 60 cents on the dollar, paint it, put in floors, and rent it to a government-funded tenant who pays $1,200/month

That someone should be you

You find probate properties at your county clerk's office. The records are public. The attorneys handling the estates are listed. The phone call takes 3 minutes

Or you can keep paying $1,800/month in rent to the guy who already figured this out

[Cassandra MacDonald @CassandraRules]

Im saying your Scofield Bible is heresy.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I’ve been looking into Teddy Roosevelt lately. He loses his wife and mother on the same day. That’s a trauma that could cause a man to end it all.

What does he do?

He leaves NYC and heads to the Badlands.

THE BADLANDS.

Reinvents himself. Finds his soul.

An absolute heroes journey if ever there was one.

Went from having nothing to live for to having everything to live for.

There is something nourishing about these uniquely American lands that cannot be put into words.

I remember feeling quite despondent myself once upon a time. Then I moved to the Mojave desert and it changed everything.

I found there’s nothing deserted about the desert at all. What it lacks in physical life, it makes up for in the spiritual. The esoteric.

I cannot explain what I’m trying to say about America. Don’t have the right words today. But I know this place can remake a man like no other on planet earth.

[That's Infotainment™ @Sam_Neira]

@infantrydort I found there’s nothing deserted about the desert at all. What it lacks in physical life, it makes up for in the spiritual. The esoteric.

That’s awesome 💪🏻✍🏻

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Great first World Cup game of the trip. Another 7-1 win for Germany at a World Cup and most importantly three points. Onwards we go!🇩🇪

[Trad West @trad_west_]

>Plot centers entirely around fighting extreme government taxation and overreach
>The Sheriff of Nottingham literally collects taxes from the church poor box
>Friar Tuck gets so fed up with the state disrespecting the Church that he physically throws hands with the Sheriff
>Casts the Crusades in a positive light
>Male protagonist who risks his life for his people
>Unapologetically traditional romance with Maid Marian without any modern subversion
>Climax is literally a raid to break political prisoners out of a corrupt jail
>Story resolves when the rightful, divinely-appointed monarch returns from the Holy Land to crush the corrupt politicians
>Ends with a beautiful church wedding and a happily ever after

We need to make Kid's stories based again

[Austin Franco @AustinFranco123]

If anyone is hiring I am looking for a job

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Omg this is insane

[David Allen @DavidAllen909]

1931 Zodiac ceiling at @pomonacollege's Bridges Auditorium to get $1 million in restoration. Also: more news from around Claremont, including the chocolate shop that closed after 50 years. A rare all-Claremont column. https://t.co/SHdMYVYJgF

[PNWGUERRILLA @pnwguerrilla]

Goodmorning.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

“Your incompetent customer service representative is Indian. Your daughter’s attacker is Pakistani. Your car was stolen by a Mexican. Your dog was killed by a Haitian. Your taxes were stolen by a Somali. These are the blessings of immigration!”

[Clay Martin ⚔️ @wayofftheres]

Look man, I’m a lot of things.

But squeamish about killing brown people isn’t one of them.

[New Orleans Pelicans @PelicansNBA]

We can confirm Freddy is real, is German and loves New Orleans 👏

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is not what we expected to happen when we boarded the plane to the USA last week😭

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

(1) If you are obsessed with another person's wealth, you are a loser.

(2) Do not spend time with people who think like that. Spend time with productive people whose brains never entertain such juvenile thoughts.

(3) Instead, you should have a feeling of gratitude for what you do have, which would have astonished literally everyone who ever lived in every other time and place.

(4) For one thing, for all the complaints we may have about our food supply, your diet is not limited to bread, porridge, cabbage, onions, and turnips, with very occasional meat. Instead, you have a varied and nourishing diet. You have citrus, too, and scurvy is unknown. You don't worry about seasonal starvation every year, or food spoilage. You can drink clean water instead of ale. You have fresh produce in winter.

(5) Likewise, your child's life is not at risk if he breaks his leg or has a tooth abscess. For that matter, you don't have to endure medieval dentistry.

(6) Transportation you can forget about. Before the market brought mass production to the population, you walked. You had no maps. Even our poorest people use modes of transportation that would have astonished people in previous ages.

(7) You probably like having toilets rather than chamber pots and outhouses, not to mention showers, clean water, soap that doesn't burn, deodorant, and toothpaste. Even the poor have eyeglasses, beds with mattresses, lighting at night, heat at the turn of a dial, and instant communication.

(8) You probably prefer not to have a single-room hut made of wattle and daub, with no insulation, no chimney (smoke escaped through a hole in the roof, slowly), an open hearth (which contributed to respiratory problems), a dirt floor, a thatched roof that often leaked and attracted vermin, and a shared sleeping space for everyone, often including livestock.

(9) In the old days -- in other words, all of human history -- you would have had at most two outfits, you would have dealt with course wool and linen that were itchy, heavy, and hard to clean: laundry would have been done by hand with lye, which destroyed fabric (and wasn't good for the skin, either). For footwear you may have had wooden clogs but would sometimes have gone barefoot.

(10) We can go on and on like this. Yes, of course we want even more wealth for everyone, and yes, we want to repeal everything the government and the Fed (socialists are weirdly quiet about the Fed, which is the actual exploiter they pretend capitalists are) are doing that makes housing and other things more expensive: economist Bryan Caplan says repeal of regulations alone would cut housing prices by half in many places.

(11) But for heaven's sake, how deranged and psychotic and ungrateful for our ancestors and their institutions would we have to be when, living in a way that literally every single person (even kings and queens, who had to shit in a pot) who ever lived would have envied and scarcely even believed, we're instead concerned about some people having more?

(12) The only thing -- the absolute only thing -- that makes this phenomenon possible, the only thing that allows us to live at this level and even conceive of improving it, is capital accumulation, the very thing "Diana Moreno" works day and night to undermine or destroy.

(13) "Diana Moreno" thinks we should liquidate Elon's holdings and send everyone a check for $12.

(14) She would look at a pile of seed corn and be furious that the capitalists didn't want to distribute it for consumption purposes. "I could feed lots of people with this seed corn," we can hear "Diana Moreno" saying as she destroys civilization.

(15) Richard Tawney's description of Luther is apt here: "Confronted with the complexities of foreign trade and financial organizations, he is like a savage introduced to a dynamo or a steam engine."

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

After 7 decades of "civil rights" activism, we have a huge black population that believes murder ought to be legal if against a white person.

Black students ought to pretend to be white on college applications, since we are said to live in a "white supremacist" society. Strangely, they do not.

That's because the truth is this: white people, in the 7 decades since the civil rights movement, crippled their own children with preferential policies that favored much less qualified black applicants in schooling and employment.

Any qualification that blacks couldn't meet at the same rate as whites had to be thrown out (or you bankrupt yourself in court by trying to show, with a team of vulture lawyers after you, that the requirement was absolutely necessary).

Countless jurisdictions have had to throw out entry exams entirely after no amount of dumbing them down could get enough black students to pass them.

The campaign against "gifted and talented" programs, meanwhile, has been driven partly by the "disparate impact" doctrine.

You've heard some of the news items. Seattle phased out its "highly capable cohort" (separate accelerated classes/schools) starting around 2021-2022, and aimed for full phase-out by 2027-2028 (with some delays). The rationale? Addressing "historical inequity" and overrepresentation of white and Asian students.

Your student can't have those programs because we've decided there are too many people in them who look like him.

Rockville Centre, New York, has long moved away from gifted tracking toward mixed-ability classes. San Francisco Unified delayed Algebra I and eliminated honors/gifted math tracks for "equity" purposes. We could go on and on.

Even though some of America's most politically "progressive" people are in education, and despite repeated and aggressive (and expensive) efforts across the country, no school district anywhere in America, no matter how progressive, has ever managed to eliminate the black-white educational achievement gap, which by 12th grade is estimated as a four-year difference.

And vastly fewer black students percentage-wise choose to take advanced-placement classes even in school systems in which such classes are open to anyone.

Given that nobody anywhere has been able to solve this problem, why, apart from hatred and spite, should bright students be singled out to be deprived of a program that benefits them?

The disparities are evident even at the very beginning of the educational process. The National Center for Educational Statistics found that blacks entering kindergarten we're already disproportionately testing in the bottom, quarter of students in reading, math, and general knowledge.

Behavioral differences are also evident that early, and they persist to the future. On average, black students are much less likely than whites to be described by kindergarten teachers as a tentative, eager to learn, and persistent in carrying out assigned tasks, and they are more likely to be described as argumentative, quick tempered, and violent.

These discipline disparities persist over time. Later in life blacks are 2 1/2 times as likely to be suspended or expelled from school as whites.

Faced with statistics, like these, so-called civil rights groups, typically accuse white teachers of arbitrarily, singling out blacks for punishment. To the contrary, black teachers have been found to be even more critical of black students than white teachers are.

Moreover, Asian students are less than half as likely as whites to be suspended or expelled, and it is unreasonable to ask us to believe that an anti-white, pro-Asian bias permeates the American educational system.

And educational disparities between the races persist even when social class is taken into account, so that comfortable explanation doesn't work.

The crime statistics tell us everything: if you based your opinions on TV or the movies, you would think the big problem in America is white-on-black violence. In fact, the reality is so overwhelmingly the opposite that most people would be shocked to learn the real numbers.

Per 10,000 whites, 3.4 violent crimes are committed against blacks. Per 10,000 blacks, 153 violent crimes are committed against whites.

As time has gone on, special accommodations for blacks, and disabilities placed on whites, have only grown more intense.

In 2023 the percentage of white men in tenure-track faculty positions at Harvard declined from 39 percent in 2014 to 18 percent. That doesn't happen by accident.

Oh, who cares about Harvard faculty, some will say.

But it reflects a society-wide problem. Here are some other numbers we now know, that also incorporate the anti-male bias in hiring:

TV/Hollywood Writers: White men comprised roughly 48% of lower-level TV writers in 2011, dropping to 11.9% by 2024.

Medical school matriculants: White men accounted for 31% in 2014, declining to 20.5% in 2025.

The Atlantic staff: In 2013: 53% male / 89% white; by 2024: 36% male / 66% white.

University faculty hiring (tenure-track): At UC Berkeley, white men comprised 52.7% of new tenure-track faculty hires in 2015, dropping to 21.5% in 2023.

Humanities/social sciences faculty hires: UC Irvine hired 64 tenure-track assistant professors in humanities and social sciences since 2020 — only 3 (4.7%) were white men.

At UC Santa Cruz, of 59 assistant professors in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2020–2024), only 2 (3%) were white men.

Law school matriculants: White men accounted for 31.2% of law school matriculants in 2016, falling to 25.7% in 2024.

Corporate/tech entry- and mid-level (specifically Amazon): Entry-level “professionals” (college graduates) were 42.3% white male in 2014. By 2024, mid-level managers had fallen from 55.8% white male in 2014 to 33.8% (nearly 40% decline).

Tech workforce (specifically Google): White men represented nearly 50% of the workforce in 2014, dropping to less than one-third by 2024 (a roughly 34% relative decline).

Four years ago a survey of a thousand hiring managers in the United States came out that showed 16 percent of such managers had been expressly told to stop hiring white men.

Further, 48 percent of hiring managers say they have been instructed to prioritize "diversity" over merit, and 53% believe they will lose their jobs if they don’t hire accordingly.

All across the country there are special programs, of every shape and size, for minority applicants. If you had any idea of the scale of it, you would be shocked -- no matter how much you think you know about the subject.

Instead of the kind of gratitude you might expect from people who have benefited from the most systematic effort in any society to assist a minority group -- I haven't even mentioned the literal trillions in wealth redistribution -- it is never enough, and the recipients will scream "RACIST" in your face even for pointing any of this out.

We can hope that the Karmelo Anthony case accelerates the coming of the day when whites say: we have done everything humanly possible for you, and received only hatred and ingratitude in return. You are on your own now.

[Alex Florescu @alexandrufl]

@bryan_johnson Full article here. I am following this story now. Thank you for sharing.

https://t.co/UXf0C7qVLF

[Stephen Jeung @stephen_jeung]

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