EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚

For: Enlightenment Humanism, Scientific Naturalism, Americanism.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

[Zvonimir Tot @zvonimirtot]

You can vote your way into communism. You cannot vote your way out of communism.

[John Galt's Plumber, Capitalist @MDSebach]

The top 1% only keep about 2% of the wealth they generate. They probably deserve more. They certainly deserve praise, not demonization by envy-driven malcontents.

Economist William Nordhaus (Nobel laureate) estimates that top innovators typically capture only 2-2.2% of the total social surplus (i.e., broad economic value) that their innovations generate. The rest (~98%) flows to consumers (e.g., lower prices, better products) and leads to follow-on economic activity and innovation.

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

Good. 👏👏👏

[Shiri_Sabra @sabra_the]

UPDATE: 💥 Israel Reveals It Has Killed 2,561 Terrorists Who Took Part in the Oct. 7 Massacre as Hunt Continues:

A specialized IDF-Shin Bet task force has eliminated more than 2,500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre. Roughly 1,000 were killed during the initial battles inside Israel, while several hundred more remain alive and are still being hunted.

Using facial recognition, captured footage, phone intercepts and intelligence from detained terrorists, Israel is methodically identifying the killers, kidnappers and commanders one by one.

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

@sabra_the Good. 👏👏👏

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

@VigilantFox What is being done is that the parents and the schools are abusing the children.

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

What is being done is that the parents and the schools are abusing the children.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher drags his woke guest out of his liberal bubble and tells him to his face he’s why Kamala Harris lost.

It all started when David Cross revealed his 9-year-old daughter has “trans friends.”

“Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?” Maher asked.

Cross replied: “Yep,” as if it’s completely normal and something society should embrace.

That’s when Maher dropped the hammer and told him straight up that no, somebody’s doing something to that little girl.

Cross immediately got defensive, but Maher refused to back down.

He told Cross that believing a 9-year-old girl is deciding to be trans on her own is exactly the kind of liberal insanity that lost Kamala Harris the election in 2024.

And if Democrats keep it up, JD Vance is going to win in 2028.

By the end of this exchange, Cross is left sitting there looking like a deer in headlights, like he’s never been challenged on “trans kids” in his life.

This is a moment worth watching, but if you’re somewhere you can’t play it, the transcript is below:

MAHER: “You need to be checked. People need to be checked… including your little girl.”

CROSS: “Fck that btch. (joking) Fck that little btch with her black friends and trans friends and not even understanding.”

MAHER: “Trans?! Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?”

CROSS: “Yep.”

MAHER: “They know they’re trans in third grade?”

CROSS: “Just the coolest kid.”

MAHER: “[Is kid transitioning from] girl to boy?”

CROSS: “Girl to boy. And she has another very close friend who’s not in the school, but who’s boy to girl at three years old.”

MAHER: “A woman said [to me] ‘I was what they called a tomboy. If I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that’s what they would have done to me.’”

CROSS: “Well, nobody’s doing this to her.”

MAHER: “Well, I don’t know.”

CROSS: “Literally nobody is doing this to her.”

MAHER: “How old?”

CROSS: “She is — or HE is — either eight or I think nine.”

MAHER: “Okay, then somebody is doing something because eight or nine-year-olds can’t do anything on their own.”

CROSS: “No, they’re buying them boys' clothes.”

MAHER: “Well then, they’re doing something.”

CROSS: “Sure. Yes, you’re right. They’re buying them boys' clothes.”

MAHER: “And telling them you’re a boy now.”

CROSS: “No, no, they’re not telling them. They’re just agreeing with [them].”

MAHER: “Agreeing with an 8-year-old. Because when has their judgment ever been off at 8?”

CROSS: “You know you knew you weren’t gay, right?”

MAHER: “Yeah, that’s different.”

CROSS: “It’s not different.”

MAHER: “It is different. Good luck with President Vance. Because, as I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost and this is a case of that.”

CROSS: “Wait, what?”

MAHER: “We voted for the same person…”

CROSS: “Right.”

MAHER: “You’re just why she lost. Because America hears this, and they’re going to go, ‘Bill’s right. Eight-year-olds can’t really make decisions on their own like this.’ That’s what most people are going to say.”

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

https://t.co/ohTw6qSEoX

The video is authentic**: It dates to January 2020 at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, where authorities painted U.S. and Israeli flags on pathways expecting students to trample them as propaganda. Multiple outlets (BBC, NBC, Reuters) verified footage of people deliberately walking around them.

It reflects real defiance**: Similar incidents have recurred, showing segments of the population—especially students and urban youth—rejecting regime-orchestrated hatred toward the U.S., aligning with broader anti-regime protests.

Broader sentiment is mixed but leans positive on U.S. ties**: Recent polls indicate ~67% of Iranians support normalizing relations with the U.S., though far fewer (around 25%) back ties with Israel; many distinguish the regime from the people, but views vary by demographics and are not uniformly pro-West.

[حنانیا نفتالی @HananyaPersian]

این ویدیو هیچ‌وقت تکراری نمی‌شه.

نشون می‌ده که حتی وقتی رژیم سعی می‌کنه ایرانی‌ها رو مجبور کنه روی پرچم آمریکا پا بذارن، مردم از این کار سر باز می‌زنن.

ایرانی‌ها دوست ما هستن، نه دشمن!

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

I have spent twenty years being told by people, many of them intelligent and well-meaning, that my fears about ideological blacklists were overwrought. That the people building these lists were the good guys. That I should trust the institutions.

But two decades ago, the idea that the country's premier 'anti-hate' organization would write checks to the actual organizer of Charlottesville would have sounded like the rantings of a man shouting at pigeons.

Today, it is in a federal indictment. https://t.co/N4T34yQbTJ

[Sara Ghorbani @d_white_rabbit]

@Rollce @LizaRosen0000 The educated Muslim stops being a Muslim the moment they’re educated. Or they get murdered by the majority who refuse to get educated. That’s how it’s been for 1400 years.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Wake up, Europe!
This is the Netherlands — not the Islamic Republic of Iran.

On May 28, 2024, the body of 18-year-old Rayan Al-Najjar was found at the bottom of a shallow, crystal-clear lake in the Oostvaardersplassen Nature Reserve in the central Netherlands.

The teenager was kidnapped, tortured, reportedly raped, and brutally drowned by her own Syrian Muslim father and brothers, who rejected Dutch culture, values, and laws and practiced Islamic Sharia law instead.

Her “crime”? She wanted to live freely, think for herself, and reject a forced marriage.

For that, they abused and tortured her, then bound her with 18 meters of tape, gagged her, tied her hands and feet, and threw her into the middle of the lake.

Her own family celebrated the murder in a WhatsApp group chat. Months before, the father demanded a bullet to her heart. The mother prayed to see her wrapped in a shroud.

This is not a “cultural misunderstanding.”
This is an Islamic honor killing, a medieval femicide that treats women as disposable property.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Encore un scandale.

On accuse Elon Musk sans arrêt de se servir de Grok pour faire passer ses idées.

Pourtant, le @neutralityorg vient de sortir The Neutrality Project : une étude indépendante qui prouve l’inverse.

Sur 18 modèles IA testés, 54 positions sur 60 atterrissent à gauche du centre.

Moyenne globale : -0.41 (biais progressiste massif, surtout environnement et valeurs sociales).

Et Grok 4.5 ? -0.02. Le modèle le plus neutre de tout le benchmark. Le seul vraiment proche du centre.

Pendant ce temps, les autres boîtes injectent massivement leur idéologie de gauche dans des IA qui répondent à des milliards de questions par jour.

Manipulation des masses à grande échelle.

C’est absolument scandaleux. Ça devrait être un scandale mondial.

https://t.co/X1tSvJfDEY

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

Amen

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Le vrai problème est culturel.

Nous avons réussi à rendre compatibles deux idées lorsqu’il s’agit d’artistes ou de sportifs :

Tous les êtres humains ont la même dignité et les mêmes droits.
Certaines personnes ont un talent exceptionnel qui mérite d’être admiré.

Personne ne se sent diminué parce que Mozart était un génie, que Michael Jordan dominait son sport ou que Lionel Messi joue mieux que 99,99999 % de la population.

Pourquoi cette logique disparaît-elle lorsqu’on parle d’entrepreneuriat ?

La capacité à créer des entreprises qui changent la vie de centaines de millions de personnes, à allouer des milliards de capital efficacement et à coordonner des dizaines de milliers de talents est tout aussi rare qu’un génie artistique ou sportif.

Reconnaître cette rareté n’enlève rien à la dignité de chacun. Les droits humains sont universels. Les talents, eux, ne sont pas distribués uniformément.

Une société mature est capable de tenir ces deux idées en même temps : l’égalité des droits et la reconnaissance de l’excellence.

Si nous commencions à admirer les grands entrepreneurs comme nous admirons les grands artistes ou les grands sportifs, nous inspirerions davantage de jeunes à construire plutôt qu’à envier. Et toute la société en bénéficierait.

[Skeptic Research Center Team @SkepResCenter]

To celebrate 6 years of bringing data to discussions about controversial issues, we're summarizing 20 of our most interesting findings:

(2/20) Americans Underestimate the Damage Done During the Summer 2020 George Floyd/BLM Unrest

Most Americans are unaware that the George Floyd/BLM riots were the most destructive in American history, leading insurance agencies to designate them as a "catastrophe event."

4 in 10 liberals, and 3 in 10 conservatives, estimated that the riots caused between "$1 million to $10 million" in damage when the actual figure is over $1 billion (see right graph).

We also found that underestimating the damage caused was positively associated with trusting news journalists (see left graph).

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Fmr. NIH Director Francis Collins deliberately scrubbed Fauci’s name from the infamous Proximal Origins paper because of Fauci’s glaring conflict of interest.

Nature Medicine (the publisher) offered no condemnation or scrutiny of the ethics.

These COVID investigations matter because they expose protectionism within the scientific community that breeds gatekeeping. It's suppressing research, stifling innovation, destroying objectivity, & eroding public trust.

[Francis Foster @francisjfoster]

My book is out today!

It’s already an Amazon bestseller

Link👇

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

https://t.co/4h2oCIRBco

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

I just saw the YouTube thumbnail, and before I watched the video, I went to Amazon and bought both the Kindle and Audible versions of the book. Keep up the great work, Francis.

YouTube link 👇

[Francis Foster @francisjfoster]

My book is out today!

It’s already an Amazon bestseller

Link👇

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

@francisjfoster I just saw the YouTube thumbnail, and before I watched the video, I went to Amazon and bought both the Kindle and Audible versions of the book. Keep up the great work, Francis. https://t.co/4h2oCIRBco

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

@CBSSunday @JohnHMcWhorter @bariweiss Read the book, America:

[EnlightenmentExponent^ 🇺🇲🗽⚖️🌎☮🧬⚛️🇮🇱📚 @XponentEnlight]

@CBSSunday @JohnHMcWhorter Did @bariweiss make this happen? Whoever did make this happen, thank you.