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[Beau Laskey @beaulaskey]

Happy 4th of July! Today we celebrate the bold independence our forefathers secured with such remarkable prescience. Grateful for the enduring freedom it grants us all—and mindful of Benjamin Franklin’s timeless warning: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Here’s to liberty, and to keeping it strong. Go America! 🇺🇸

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Beau Laskey @beaulaskey]

@shervin Does she work for mamdani now or did she? I cant find it. Curious the connection. Regardless terrible

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

. @SECWAR took a visit to the @NavyFB locker room AFTER defeating Air Force 34-31.

It was ELECTRIC…

[Tami Radabaugh @TRadabaughDOW]

. @SecWar @PeteHegseth gave a postgame locker room speech after Navy’s 34-31 victory over Air Force

[Beau Laskey @beaulaskey]

@shaunmmaguire Yes

[Beau Laskey @beaulaskey]

@afsaalumni Apply to UATX!

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The new University of Austin (@uaustinorg) has released a "statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is the Declaration of Independence.

Well played, gentlemen.

[Shervin @shervin]

This was my longer quote:

This is the Second American Revolution. We are fighting ingrained corruption. This is our Tea Party. The Tea Party wasn’t about tea, it was about tryanny. The institutions of the old world won’t save us—they are the disease, not the cure.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk and are two different storms backed by a majority of Americans- one political, one technological- but both are tearing through the same rotting structures.

They underestimated Elon. They underestimated Trump. They always underestimate the ones rewriting the script.

What Washington often perceives as a liability—their refusal to conform to conventional political and business norms—is actually a defining strength. Both Elon Musk and Donald Trump operate outside the established frameworks of power, often defying bureaucratic inertia, corporate groupthink, and legacy institutions that thrive on predictability and control.

For Elon, this means pushing humanity toward multi-planetary survival while dismantling entrenched inefficiencies—whether in aerospace, energy, AI, or finance. His engagement with DOGE isn’t just whimsical; it’s part of a broader decentralization movement, weakening centralized bureaucratic gatekeepers that slow down innovation. Corruption, in his view, is friction—a drag on the velocity of progress.

For Trump, his rise to power was driven by the same anti-establishment force. The political class misread him, assuming his rejection of traditional norms was recklessness rather than strategy. But Trump understood something they didn’t: that the institutions meant to uphold democracy had been co-opted by career bureaucrats, media conglomerates, and global interests that profited from stagnation.

What they perceived was a bug is an actually a feature- being anti-establishment fuels their ability to bypass these forces, speaking directly to the people in ways that broke every conventional rule of politics.

Both men were underestimated because they operate outside the matrix; where legacy institutions expect compliance, they introduce radical change. But radical change is often the birthplace of new orders, new systems, and new paradigms.

Washington doesn’t know how to deal with people who refuse to play the game by their rules. And that’s precisely why they always get it wrong.

They mock what they cannot understand, resist what they cannot control, and fear what they cannot stop. These are men that cannot be bought. They are immune to the tricks of the corrupt. That is their power.

@realDonaldTrump @elonmusk

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[Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd]

How to pick the best beer to drink?

Some people do it based on taste,

Others based on alcohol content,

And some do it based on

glyphosate (weed killer) content.

Take your pick.

(I now skip all beers
for a number of reasons.)

[Beau Laskey @beaulaskey]

2) @Thermador the Best Appliances tech (who was awesome) even changed out the circuit board yesterday and charged me $800 as I’m being told the product is 1 month out of warranty. We’ve been trying to get this fixed for a year. Now turkey and trimmings just wait. Sad face!

[Beau Laskey @beaulaskey]

1) Kitchen full of @Thermador and after more than a year of problems and multiple attempts to get our stove and oven fixed, we’re stymied on again on Thanksgiving Day! 6.50am this morn and still not working! Clicking and making noises

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If you rule out all dissent on the basis that it's hate speech and misinformation, you will detach entirely from reality.

[Pennsylvanians for McCormick @PAforMcCormick]

🚨IT’S OVER!

@DaveMcCormickPA has beaten Bob Casey as the Democrat's rubber stamp finally runs dry after 30 years in elected office.

A new day for Pennsylvania is dawning! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[🇺🇸 David J. Urban 🇺🇸 @DavidJUrban]

CONGRATULATIONS TO MY FRIEND AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF #PENNSYLVANIA'S NEWEST SENATOR!🎉

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

They told you that Elon overpaid for twitter, but he bought the country back for a measly $44 billion.

We just witnessed the greatest M&A deal of all time.

[doug leone @dougleone]

THE END OF LUNACY AND THE RETURN OF COMMON SENSE!!