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@RealCandaceO You are unwell

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@SandyEgoCali @MattWalshBlog Where do you live? I'm impressed by your resolve.

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

It is with deep gratitude for a life of service and sacrifice that Sharon and I mourn the passing of President Jeffrey R. Holland—a beloved leader, teacher, and unwavering witness of Jesus Christ. His powerful testimony, deep compassion, and tireless service blessed countless lives in Southern Utah, at BYU, throughout the United States, and around the world.

May his family, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and all who mourn his passing find comfort in the Savior and His amazing grace, about which President Holland so eloquently and sincerely testified.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

With apologies to @SenWarren, you can’t memory hole three of the largest US bank failures – Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank – which occurred in 2023, all under the Senator’s beloved and ill-conceived regulatory straitjacket as enforced by the Biden Administration.

Over-regulation is not the solution to what ails the American banking system. Rigorous, responsible supervision is.

The initial report on the 2023 debacle by former Vice Chairman for Supervision, Michael Barr, was an exercise in obfuscation and sophistry. The American people deserve supervisors who are not asleep at the wheel, and the incoming Chairman of the Federal Reserve should undertake a thorough investigation of the systemic and oversight failures that led to that disaster.

[TheMightyHobo @TheMightyHobo]

@OldeWorldOrder @MattWalshBlog But it's so expensive 😭

[Gummi @gummibear737]

There are currently three factions in what was the free speech coalition

1) Purists: They believe free speech is more important than any other consideration

2) Partisans: They believe in free speech for me, but not for thee. It’s OK when we do it, but not when you do it.

3) Game Theoreticians: Free speech as a stable equilibrium…advocate for "tit-for-tat" reciprocity to deter abuses, recognizing that without symmetric consequences, the powerful will always suppress the powerless, eroding norms for all

The Game Theoretician isn't a fencesitter; they're a strategist playing the long game. They champion free speech as the optimal Nash equilibrium in a polarized democracy, where everyone benefits from open discourse, but they know ideals alone don't enforce it

Once the norms have been broken, history shows that without credible threats of retaliation, the dominant side will always tilt the board: think the left's deplatforming waves post-2016 (e.g. Alex Jones' bans) or the right's current pushback after Charlie Kirk's assassination last week, like calls for Kimmel’s suspension

The key insight? Asymmetry breeds abuse. If the right now abstains from "taste of their own medicine" tactics (boycotts, firings, or regulatory nudges) the left learns zero cost for future censorship when they regain power

Enter deterrence: a calibrated tit-for-tat, where violations trigger proportional responses. This isn't vengeance; it's vaccination. It forces empathy through experience, making both sides internalize that free speech should be sacrosanct

And so it is possible to still be on the side of free speech, while also using this opportunity to call out the hypocrisy of the left because they are the ones who broke the system

In other words: I want free speech for all, but I also don’t wanna be a sucker and have to face censorship again when the left comes into power. Therefore, I’m going to take this moment in time to criticize the left and call out their hypocrisy, while taking my time in coming around to criticizing the right for doing the same because I’m approaching this problem in terms of game theory and while I share the purist’s objective, I think this is a better way to achieve it. Because shaming the left or appealing to morality or principles sure didn’t work one bit!

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Iranian Jew here. Lived in Iran until I was an adult.

All 9000 (not 15k) Jews in Iran are forced to do performative anti-zionism and blaspheme inside of Synagogues with portraits of Khomeini to "prove loyalty" to the regime. Jews are forced to attend pro-regime marches and involuntarily shout "Death to Israel", a country most of us have relatives in.

90% of Iran's Jews had to flee when Khomeini came to power and began executing prominent Jewish figures left and right. The rest of us live in a state of constant paranoia. Our holy sites such as the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai are routinely vandalised, and regime thugs harass and interrogate us endlessly.

Does the name Arvin Ghahramani ring a bell for you? Probably not. He was a young Jewish man who defended himself against a gang of muslims who tried to murder him, because one of them owed him money. In the fight, Arvin killed one of the attackers in self defence. He was executed last year without a fair trial because despite what the regime claims, Jews are grossly discriminated against in islamic courts.

Please tell me more about his equal rights, Robin.

Yes, there are some corrupt sellout Jews who work with the regime. So what? They don't represent us. They're traitors.

And yes, we love Iran. We are proud Iranian nationalists. But none of us have called ourselves "Jewish second", that's a lie. We are Iranian and Jewish EQUALLY. And loving Iran sure as hell doesn't mean we approve of the islamic regime.

Now shut the fuck up about my community.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Iran couldn’t down an F-35, so it conjured one with AI. A “destroyed jet,” a “leveled airport,” even a Star Wars Star Destroyer hidden under Tel Aviv—all fabricated and pushed out as proof of victory. ⬇️

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Twelve days ago, I had dinner with President Trump, a dinner that my friend @KidRock set up because we share the belief that there has to be something better than hurling insults from 3000 miles away.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

WATCH IN FULL: All 46 minutes of the Oval Office meeting between President Donald J. Trump and President Zelenskyy

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@hooeem @thedefiedge @cookie3 Who's Sammy and Jeff?

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@Dynamo_Patrick @DynamoDeFi

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@valtterikujala @DOGE Asking for receipts and responsibility is important.

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@ZssBecker For the lolz

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

EXCLUSIVE: Internal messages obtained by The Daily Wire show a FEMA official ordered relief workers in Florida not to help houses with Trump signs

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@Dynamo_Patrick It's because you're a unicorn

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

It may seem like what's happening in Brazil has nothing to do with us, but it does. Brazil is a test case for the kind of censorship Kamala Harris wants to impose in the U.S. How do we know? Because we've caught her and Biden funding it.