Steve Oglesby

[Steve Oglesby @StevePrime7]

We've spent fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked: nuclear energy.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Marc Andreessen just explained how the United States assassinated its own future.

In the 1970s, the Nixon administration launched something called Project Independence.

The mandate was absolute.

Andreessen: “Build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000.”

One thousand reactors. Unlimited, carbon-free baseload power. Enough electricity to move the entire country to electric vehicles four decades ahead of everyone else.

But it went further than energy.

Andreessen: “It’s called Project Independence because it means the US won’t have to be involved in the Middle East anymore, because we won’t need the oil.”

No oil dependence. No Gulf Wars. No generations of soldiers stationed in deserts protecting supply chains that never needed to exist.

A complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. Permanent.

And none of this was hypothetical.

Andreessen: “France ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power. Japan ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power.”

Other nations proved it worked at scale. America had more capital, more engineers, and more ambition than all of them.

Andreessen: “How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand? Rounds to zero.”

Zero.

Not because the physics failed. Not because something superior replaced it.

Because the same administration that drafted the blueprint for unlimited energy also created the institution that killed it.

Andreessen: “They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which made it its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants from getting built.”

Same government. Same decade. Same pen.

One directive launching the most ambitious energy program in American history.

Another creating the bureaucracy that would quietly dismantle it from the inside.

Andreessen: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not approve a new nuclear plant design for 40 years.”

Forty years of zero approved designs. Not because no one submitted them. Because the institution built to regulate nuclear energy became the institution built to prevent it.

That’s not oversight.

That’s abolition dressed as due diligence.

We spent the next fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Steve Oglesby @StevePrime7]

We've spent fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked: nuclear energy.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Marc Andreessen just explained how the United States assassinated its own future.

In the 1970s, the Nixon administration launched something called Project Independence.

The mandate was absolute.

Andreessen: “Build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000.”

One thousand reactors. Unlimited, carbon-free baseload power. Enough electricity to move the entire country to electric vehicles four decades ahead of everyone else.

But it went further than energy.

Andreessen: “It’s called Project Independence because it means the US won’t have to be involved in the Middle East anymore, because we won’t need the oil.”

No oil dependence. No Gulf Wars. No generations of soldiers stationed in deserts protecting supply chains that never needed to exist.

A complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. Permanent.

And none of this was hypothetical.

Andreessen: “France ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power. Japan ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power.”

Other nations proved it worked at scale. America had more capital, more engineers, and more ambition than all of them.

Andreessen: “How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand? Rounds to zero.”

Zero.

Not because the physics failed. Not because something superior replaced it.

Because the same administration that drafted the blueprint for unlimited energy also created the institution that killed it.

Andreessen: “They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which made it its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants from getting built.”

Same government. Same decade. Same pen.

One directive launching the most ambitious energy program in American history.

Another creating the bureaucracy that would quietly dismantle it from the inside.

Andreessen: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not approve a new nuclear plant design for 40 years.”

Forty years of zero approved designs. Not because no one submitted them. Because the institution built to regulate nuclear energy became the institution built to prevent it.

That’s not oversight.

That’s abolition dressed as due diligence.

We spent the next fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

On our MAHA journey, we have introduced the following:

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100% beef tallow fries ✅

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Elimination of all microwaves ✅

And we are working on changing our buns!

We are committed to becoming seed-oil free, because we are committed to making fast food the best it can be.

[Steve Oglesby @StevePrime7]

@elonmusk: "In 36 months – probably closer to 30 – it will be cheaper to put AI datacenters in space."

[Grayson Conservatives @GraysonConserv]

👀 Early peek: Texas Data Center Watch — an interactive map of every data center project we can find in Texas. The power, water, schools & towns nearby, and your reps.

Beta + community‑powered. Please make sure data centers near you are shown. https://t.co/MQqxziLT0x

[Steve Oglesby @StevePrime7]

@brainmindlife Have you interviewed anyone associated with these studies?

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

An 80-year-old Japanese-American woman with advanced Alzheimer’s—bedbound, incontinent, and speaking only in single syllables for years—just shattered our understanding of neurodegeneration.

After a single supervised 5-gram dose of psilocybin mushrooms (Enigma strain), she woke up after 19 hours and did the impossible:
+ Regained full speech (forming complete, coherent sentences)
+ Recovered lost memories (recalling long-forgotten life events)
+ Regained mobility & continence (dressing herself and staying dry)
+ Restored eye contact and humor
A follow-up 3-gram dose one month later boosted her verbal fluency and agility even further. These gains lasted for weeks.

🧠 This Is Not A Cure. It’s Something More Profound.
The case report, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience (May 27, 2026), proves that functions we assumed were irreversibly destroyed by dementia are actually still there—they are simply trapped behind broken neural gates. Psilocybin bypassed the damage. How? Through explosive, rapid neuroplasticity:
+ The 5-HT2A Switch: Psilocybin floods 5-HT2A serotonin receptors, triggering a massive spike in BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor).
+ Neural Rewiring: BDNF acts like fertilizer for the brain, driving dendritic spine growth, synaptogenesis, and the repair of broken networks.
+ Circuit Restoration: It downregulates chronic neuroinflammation and re-establishes critical communication between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

🛑 The Tragedy of Our Delay: Johns Hopkins is already studying psilocybin for depression in early-stage cognitive decline. But for late-stage, severe patients? It is an absolute shame that we aren't taking these trials more seriously. Modern medicine has exactly zero treatments that restore lost function in advanced dementia. This single case demands immediate action.
We don't have time to wait for a 10-year bureaucratic pipeline while millions of minds fade into the fog.

⚡ The Directive for Compassionate Use: President Trump’s executive order accelerating psychedelic research gives us the exact legal framework we need. We must bypass the standard red tape and establish compassionate use protocols immediately for advanced patients. For millions of families watching their loved ones slip away, this case report is a thunderbolt of hope. The brain still holds secrets, and science moves fast when we get out of its way.

What if a single guided experience could give you back one last conversation with the person you love?

🔄 Share this if you want real hope for dementia. Access and research must accelerate NOW.

#Psilocybin #Alzheimers #Neuroplasticity #BDNF #MedicalBreakthrough #CompassionateUse #Dementia

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

His grandfather taught him to shoot.

That is the part that gets me every single time I think about this story. Not a range instructor. Not the military. Not a police academy. His grandfather. A man who probably grew up in a time when firearm skills were just something you passed down the same way you passed down a recipe or a work ethic. And on an otherwise ordinary Sunday evening in July of 2022, that grandfather's investment paid a return that no one can put a dollar figure on.

Let me tell you about Elisjsha Dicken. And I need you to read this slowly, because the media made absolutely sure you either forgot this story or never heard it at all.

July 17, 2022. Greenwood Park Mall. Greenwood, Indiana. A Sunday evening. Families out. Couples out. Kids eating in the food court. Normal American summer life.

At 4:55 that afternoon, a 20-year-old named Jonathan Douglas Sapirman walked a mile from his apartment to the mall. He was carrying two semi-automatic rifles, a pistol, and over 100 rounds of ammunition. He went into a restroom near the food court. He sat in there for one hour and two minutes.

Think about that. He sat in that bathroom for over an HOUR while families ate dinner twenty feet away. While kids argued about which pretzel shop to go to. While a young couple — Eli Dicken and his girlfriend — browsed the mall the way any two 22-year-olds do on a summer evening.

At 5:56 p.m., Sapirman walked out and opened fire.

Victor Gomez, 30, was standing near the restroom. He was killed. Pedro Pineda, 56, and his wife, Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, were sitting together eating. They were killed. A 22-year-old woman was shot in the leg. A 12-year-old girl was hit in the back by a bullet fragment as she ran for her life.

Fifteen seconds.

That is how long Elisjsha Dicken gave him. Fifteen seconds from the first shot, Eli drew his legally-carried handgun and opened fire from 40 yards away across the food court. FORTY YARDS. That is not a close quarters situation. That is a distance most trained shooters would consider a difficult shot under ideal conditions. These were not ideal conditions. There were people screaming and running in every direction.

Eli fired 10 rounds. He hit Sapirman 8 times. While Sapirman tried to retreat back into the bathroom, he collapsed. And it was over.

At the same time he was shooting — AT THE SAME TIME — he was waving innocent bystanders behind him toward the exits.

Greenwood Police Chief James Ison stood at the podium afterward and said the following. I want you to read every word of this: "I will say his actions were nothing short of heroic. He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun. He was very tactically sound as he moved to close in on the suspect. He was also motioning for people to exit behind him. He has no police training and no military background."

No police training. No military background. Just a young man who listened to his grandfather.

Greenwood's mayor, Mark Myers, named Eli the 2022 Citizen of the Year. His nomination letter said, simply, "there were countless numbers of innocent lives saved that day due to his quick and selfless thinking."

Now. Ask yourself. Why did you almost certainly forget this story or never hear it at all?

Eli's girlfriend's grandmother said it on a local news broadcast: "He's a superhero." The mother of the 12-year-old hit by the bullet fragment? She said the exact same thing. Not "lucky." Not "fortunate." SUPERHERO. Because that is what the people who were there understood happened.

The national media gave this story three days. Maybe four. And then it evaporated.

Here is why — and this is not my opinion, this is a documented research finding. The FBI's own database of active shooter incidents, according to a study by Dr. John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center published in October of 2025, either misclassifies or completely omits multiple instances of armed citizens stopping active shooters. Between 2014 and 2024, the FBI recorded 374 active shooting incidents and credited armed citizens with stopping exactly 14. FOURTEEN. In ten years. Lott's research found the actual number is dramatically higher — the FBI is systematically underreporting how often legal gun carriers stop these attacks.

And when those cases are reported at all, they are buried. Joel Myrick stopped a school shooting in Pearl, Mississippi in 1997. He retrieved his permitted concealed handgun from his car and physically immobilized the shooter. 687 news articles were written about that attack. Nineteen mentioned Myrick. Barely half of those mentioned he used a gun to stop it. Some just said he "helped capture the boy." Helped capture. Like he offered him a granola bar and a stern word.

John Lott spent years running 13,312 statistically controlled regressions across every county in America and found that when states passed right-to-carry laws, the rate of multiple-victim public shootings fell by 60 percent. Deaths and injuries from those events fell on average by 78 percent. Not a rounding error. Seventy-eight percent. The remaining attacks — the ones that still happened — occurred almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned.

Gun-free zones.

Greenwood Park Mall had a posted firearm ban on the premises. Eli Dicken carried anyway under Indiana's constitutional carry law, which supersedes private property signage. That legal protection — the one the gun control crowd spent decades trying to prevent — is the reason the body count at Greenwood Park Mall was three instead of what it could have been with a man who sat in a bathroom for over an hour with two rifles and 100-plus rounds and an empty food court full of families.

Ask yourself one more time. If a killer were planning to attack a crowded place, does he choose the location where he might be stopped in 15 seconds by a 22-year-old who learned to shoot from his grandfather? Or does he choose the location where a sign on the door promises him no one inside can fight back?

That question is not rhetorical. It is the entire policy debate. And the answer is documented in the data of virtually every mass public shooting that has occurred in the last 40 years.

The gun-free zone sign does not stop killers. It selects for them.

Eli Dicken is 26 years old now. He lives a quiet life. He does not want to be a celebrity. He just wanted a normal Sunday evening at the mall with his girlfriend, the same as the Pineda family wanted a normal Sunday evening eating dinner together. The difference between how those two stories ended is a young man who was raised right, exercised his constitutional right, and had fifteen seconds of clarity that most people will never be tested to find.

His grandfather would be proud.

But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic, a science teacher, a father of four, and a man who has seen enough real violence to know that the only thing that reliably stops it is the immediate presence of someone willing and able to fight back.

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[Steve Oglesby @StevePrime7]

Heck of a racket, ain't it?

[Handre @Handre]

While Western intellectuals spent the 1970s and 80s gushing over Soviet "achievements," Ludwig von Mises had already written the empire's obituary decades earlier. In 1920, he published his devastating critique of socialist calculation, proving that rational economic planning becomes impossible without market prices. The academic establishment ignored him. The Soviets dismissed him as a capitalist propagandist.

You cannot allocate resources efficiently when you have destroyed the price mechanism. When the state owns all means of production, it eliminates the very market signals that coordinate human action. No central planner, regardless of intelligence or computing power, can substitute for the decentralized knowledge that emerges from voluntary exchange.

The proof arrived exactly as Mises predicted. By the 1980s, Soviet grocery stores sat empty while millions of bureaucrats shuffled paper in Moscow offices. Factory managers produced worthless goods because they responded to arbitrary quotas rather than consumer demand. The entire system collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions in 1991, stunning the same Western economists who had spent decades praising Soviet growth statistics.

Meanwhile, Paul Samuelson was still teaching students in 1989 that the Soviet economy might overtake America's. The New York Times continued publishing editorials about the resilience of socialist planning.

Mises got it right because he understood human action and the impossibility of calculation without private property. The establishment economists got it wrong because they confused mathematical models with economic reality. They treated human beings as equations instead of purposeful actors making choices under uncertainty.

[Steve Oglesby @StevePrime7]

"According to Dr. John Lott's October 2025 analysis, the FBI has been systematically undercounting armed citizen defensive stops by more than three times the actual rate — for over a decade."

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

DAY 5. National Gun Violence Awareness Month. And I am still here. Still at the chalkboard. Still with data. And today I have a story for you that I think about more than almost any other.

I want you to imagine what six seconds feels like when it matters.

Not six seconds waiting for a light to turn green. Not six seconds deciding which coffee to order. Six seconds in which two people you know — men you worshipped alongside, men whose handshakes you knew, whose kids you watched grow up in the same pews — are shot dead in front of you. And then the man who killed them turns toward the rest of the congregation with a loaded shotgun and there are two hundred and forty people in that room who have nowhere to go.

Six seconds.

That is the entire story of December 29, 2019, at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas. And I need you to know it, because the people who want your gun have been hoping you forgot it.

His name is Jack Wilson. He was 71 years old on the morning it happened. A firearms instructor. A volunteer — VOLUNTEER — security team member at his church. A man with a wife of 51 years who raised their family in Hood County and who, by all accounts, was just a steady, quiet, prepared man living a decent life.

Keith Thomas Kinnunen walked into that Sunday service in disguise. Fake beard. Fake wig. Long coat. He sat down in a pew like everyone else. He waited through communion. And then he stood up, walked toward a church official, pulled a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun from under that coat, and fired.

Richard White, 67, was a security volunteer. He was shot first. Tony Wallace, 64, was a deacon — he had just finished passing out communion to the people he loved, doing the most ordinary and sacred thing imaginable, when he was shot and killed.

And then Kinnunen started walking toward the front of the sanctuary.

Two hundred and forty people, Mike. Two hundred and forty.

Jack Wilson said afterward that he had "eyes" on Kinnunen from the moment he walked in. Something about him. A gut that comes from years of paying attention. He was standing at the rear of the church. He drew his SIG Sauer P229. He had people still standing, still panicking, still in his line of fire.

"I had to wait about half a second — or a second — to get my shot," he said. "I fired one round. The subject went down."

One round. Forty-five to forty-seven feet. To the head. In a room full of panicking civilians between him and the target.

The entire attack — from first shot to last — was over in SIX SECONDS.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said afterward: "This church responded in seconds and it saved the lives of potentially over 200 people. They are the model for what other churches and places of business should focus on."

Jack Wilson said something else. Something that has stayed with me since the first time I read it.

"God's hand was on mine when I pulled the trigger."

He called himself "no hero." He said he was placed in a position he did not want to be in but HAD to respond because — his exact words — "evil exists."

Evil exists.

Three words that every gun control bill in the history of this republic cannot address, refute, negotiate with, or legislate into submission. Evil exists. Jack Wilson knew it. He was ready for it. Two hundred and forty people went home to their families on a Sunday afternoon in December because one 71-year-old volunteer had the tool, the training, and the will to respond to it in under a second.

Now. Let us talk about the numbers behind why this story matters beyond White Settlement.

The FBI — the same FBI that is supposed to be tracking these things — reported just three new incidents of armed civilians stopping active shooters between 2022 and 2024. Three. In three years. The Crime Prevention Research Center, using the FBI's own definition, documented 78 such cases over the same period. The FBI missed 75 of them. Not miscounted. MISSED. According to Dr. John Lott's October 2025 analysis, the FBI has been systematically undercounting armed citizen defensive stops by more than three times the actual rate — for over a decade.

Why does that matter? Because policy gets written from those numbers. Laws get passed from those numbers. Senators cite those numbers in committee hearings while standing in front of the cameras in orange shirts and talking about awareness months.

Here is a number they will not put on a billboard: in locations where citizens are legally permitted to carry — meaning not gun-free zones — armed citizens stopped 51.5 PERCENT of active shooters. HALF. Not one in ten. Not one in twenty. HALF of active shootings in carry-permitted locations are stopped by a legally armed civilian.

Here is another one. Concealed carry permit holders in Florida committed violent crimes at a rate of 0.2 per 100,000. The general population rate? 4.0 per 100,000. The people the gun control crowd has been warning you about for thirty years are TWENTY TIMES SAFER than the average person walking the streets of your city.

And here is one more, because I am a science teacher and I do not stop at one data point. Since 1987, studies and surveys consistently show between 1.4 million and 4.3 million defensive gun uses in the United States every year. The floor estimate — the absolute most conservative number from the National Crime Victimization Survey — is 65,000 per year. 65,000 times every year, at a bare minimum, a law-abiding American uses a firearm to stop or deter a violent crime against them or someone they love. And the FBI reports 3 in a three-year period.

That is not a measurement gap. That is a deliberate editorial choice made at every level of the system, from the FBI to the nightly news to the June orange ribbon fundraising campaign, to make sure you see the cost of firearms and never see the benefit.

Jack Wilson is 77 years old now. He is a county commissioner in Hood County, Texas. He still attends West Freeway Church of Christ. He still goes to that building where two of his friends were murdered and where God's hand was on his that morning. He said he hopes he never has to do it again. But he would.

That is not a threat. That is the quiet, steady, uncelebrated reality of 102 million armed Americans who go about their lives every day prepared to be the last line between the people they love and the evil that exists in the world.

The awareness campaign wants you focused on the 4 people who died that Sunday. I want you focused on the 240 who did not.

Both facts are real. Only one of them justifies the policy the left is selling.

Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism. So every June, they make sure you only see half of them.

But what do I know — I am only a medically retired combat medic, a science teacher who has built his entire career on the idea that evidence matters more than emotion, and a father of four who sleeps better at night knowing that Jack Wilson's kind of person exists in this country.

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