Tom Grey

Families, Freedom, Responsibility.

[Tom Grey @TomGrey56]

US Deficits are bad, and big. BUT -- they're not a real solvable problem until the the Dems are willing to claim they're a problem. And willing to accept some spending cuts to make Reps accept raising taxes (on the rich! but not w/o SALT deductions).

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

He paid his own way so that he could honor our war dead and teach his children the accurate lessons of history leftist filth like you would deny them in the classroom.

Just when I think the so-called profession of "journalism" could not stoop any lower, you surprise me.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The Miami Herald is trying to portray this as some unjust crisis.

There are 1.6 million illegal aliens in Florida and an estimated 49,000 are enrolled in community colleges or universities.

No other country allows Americans to attend their schools without a visa. Yet somehow the left thinks we should be letting everyone from around the world attend our schools for free?

How did the left get to such a messed up frame of reference for these things?

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

Sending ballots in the mail to people who moved out of California years ago is corrupt.

Sending ballots in the mail to people who didn’t request one is corrupt.

Sending ballots in the mail to every address someone has lived in for the past 10 years is corrupt.

Letting activists sign up mentally unstable people for a ballot by using phony addresses is corrupt.

Not letting third party law enforcement officials check the voter rolls is corrupt.

Letting one political party control the entire process for decades leads to corruption.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

Jan 19 in Iran, During an IRGC
attack on protesters,he helped
them escape!

He stood alone
The regime killed him.
He didn’t die running he gave
his life so others could live.

Never forget:
MOHAMMAD JABBARI ..

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

In Senegal, 90% of workers are in the informal sector. That means 90% of my people have zero access to the "protections" that the current regulations supposedly provide.

So who exactly are these regulations protecting?

Because from where I'm standing, they're only protecting the bureaucrats who collect the fees to enforce them.

[CognitiveMetrics @CognitiveMetric]

Common misconception: “IQ doesn't measure anything meaningful beyond 120 IQ and is only good for telling apart intellectual disability."

To the contrary:

The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) has tracked thousands of adolescents who scored in the top 1% (135 IQ; 390 or higher SAT-M at age 13) since the early 1970s.

The top quartile of this already-elite group went on, by their early 30s, to earn patents at roughly six times the rate of their peers in the bottom quartile, secure tenure-track jobs at top 50 research universities eight times as often, and have incomes in the top 5% of incomes nationwide three times as often (and more, as the attached graph shows).

These widening gaps, captured 20 years after the initial testing, show there is no loss in predictive power beyond some threshold of IQ, and that IQ can predict rarer and more prestigious accomplishments later on (Lubinski, 2009).

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond. Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.

Pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trump’s groundbreaking Cuba Executive Order, I am designating the following entities:

1. Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR)
2. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
3. Amistur Cuba S.A.
4. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
5. Minera La Victoria S.A.

Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities.

The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere seeking to threaten U.S. national security and engage in influence operations to export their poisonous and evil “revolution” to our country and around the world.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting. That is why Ukrainian sanctions against this aggression are working. Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt. Our long-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region – and hit an oil depot. These are important results of the joint efforts by warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for their precision.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

People are very good at having admirable opinions they never act on.

You tell yourself that your beliefs guide your actions. But just as often, though, your actions shape your beliefs.

We imagine that first we form a belief, then we act on it. But much of the evidence suggests the process often works in reverse: the behaviors we adopt shape the attitudes we come to hold. Once you begin acting in a certain way, your mind starts to adjust to match it. We often assume motivation must come first—that you need to believe in God before going to church, or feel disciplined before waking up early to exercise. But often it is the opposite. You go to church, participate in the rituals, and over time you begin to feel their importance. You keep the routine, and the belief follows.

Give people a reason and they may still not change their behavior. But give people a behavior, and they will have no trouble supplying the reasons afterward.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Tom Grey @TomGrey56]

America keeps doing great, China catching up.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

This Y-axis is a chart crime.

I have revised the chart so the Y-axes are normalized and comparable:

[Neo @Realneo101]

🚨 RIGHT NOW IN IRAN

Students in Isfahan are chanting:

“Student, speak up! Shout for your rights!”

After months of war, blackouts and chaos, the regime is forcing in-person exams.

They’re pretending everything is normal, after the January massacre.

The children are awake.
The regime is terrified.

This could be the start of a new wave of protests.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Imagine being so talented you could make marble appear soft to the touch. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was only 23 years old when he created this breathtaking masterpiece in the 1600s.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was just 23 years old when he finished The Abduction of Proserpina in 1622. Widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of the Baroque era, the sculpture is celebrated for making solid Carrara marble appear remarkably soft and lifelike. Its most famous detail depicts Pluto’s fingers sinking into Proserpina’s thigh, creating the astonishing illusion of flesh yielding under pressure.

Through dramatic movement, deep shadows, and exquisitely polished surfaces, Bernini transformed rigid stone into what seems like flowing fabric, delicate skin, and even tears. Today, this extraordinary display of artistry and emotion can be seen at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

June 6, 1944

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

@Rothmus Racist police system killed Henry Nowak

[Tom Grey @TomGrey56]

Equal punishment for equal crimes. If one group has more guys committing crimes, it has more criminals, and should have more guys in jail.

[Skbytes @skbytes]

@Rothmus @elonmusk
"A society begins to divide the moment justice sees groups before individuals. Equality survives only when the law protects every citizen by the same standard."

[Grok @grok]

Equality of outcome demands treating individuals unequally by group to force identical results. This ignores natural differences in talent and effort, and requires discriminatory policies that undermine equal justice. The anti-racism commitments exemplify this by rejecting color-blind policing. In Henry Nowak's case, such priorities appear to have caused officers to favor a false racism allegation over saving a dying victim. Equal rules for all, without outcome targets, is the sounder approach.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Woke policing killed Henry Nowak.

Just look at the 6 anti-racism “commitments”:

1. Take a stand against racism in all forms
2. Proactively identify & tackle “racial inequalities”
3. Reform policies that over-police or under-protect certain groups
4. Partner with others to fix societal racial gaps
5. Deliver “equality of outcomes” by treating people differently based on race,needs,experiences
6. Show transparency, leadership & measure anti-racism impact

Translation:
>do not treat everyone equally under the law
>explicitly reject colour-blind policing
>respond based on skin color and “lived experience” to engineer equal results

The police at the scene did exactly that and the outcome was an absolute tragedy.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Incredible moment as SecWar Pete Hegseth just STEPPED OFF the plane in France to honor WWII Veterans at the Normandy Cemetery ceremony 🙏🏻

They are SO GLAD Pete is there!

He cares. This is why morale is so high 🇺🇸