Yes! Islam does not force itself on anyone. There is no proof over the past 1,400 years of that other than the 56 countries that it has conquered and hundreds of millions of people that it has peacefully erased.
My director texted me about missing my in-office badge swipe yesterday. I answered with my resignation.
Director:
Hey. HR flagged that you did not swipe into the downtown office yesterday. Corporate policy is three days in-person. We need to discuss this Monday morning.
Me:
My team lead already signed off on that. My kid had a 103 fever and daycare sent him home at noon, so I worked from my kitchen table until 8 PM to finish the client deck.
For the record, I closed two renewal contracts yesterday and cleared 100% of our Q4 backlog. You even shouted out my numbers in the company Slack channel at 6 PM.
So my output was the highest on the entire team, and the problem is that I was not sitting in an empty cubicle while I did it?
Director:
I do not appreciate the pushback. You could have just led with the childcare excuse instead of getting defensive. That attitude is not going to help you during review season.
Me:
Appreciate you ruining my Saturday morning over something you could have checked with my lead in ten seconds.
You praised my work last night, and now you are threatening my performance review because a badge reader did not see me walk past a turnstile. Maybe the issue is not my attitude. Maybe it is a company that measures chair time instead of results.
I am not worried about review season anymore. Consider this my two weeks notice. Actually, make it effective immediately.
Director:
Let's not make a rash decision over text. Jump on a quick call with me and we can smooth this over.
Me:
No thanks. Have a great weekend.
Shut my work laptop down ten minutes ago. First Saturday morning in two years without checking work email. On to the next chapter.
“You are poor because they are rich” is the old Communist tactic for inciting class struggle.
Under Mao, the CCP erased the landed class and private property owners. The result? Everyone became poorer—and up to 50 million people starved to death.
“Instead, Buttigieg bragged about steering more than $80 billion toward projects that fit within the Biden administration’s DEI-inspired Justice40 initiative. The Biden White House said Justice40 would direct 40 percent of certain benefits to “disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.” Mr. Buttigieg bragged that his agency hit 55 percent, not 40 percent.”
In March 2026, during his confirmation hearing, Markwayne Mullin fought back tears in front of the chamber as he shared a story about his 15-year-old son, Jim, and a side of Donald Trump rarely seen in the headlines.
Jim was a strong, gifted wrestler—his father’s whole world—until a severe brain injury changed everything in an instant. When Jim opened his eyes, he didn't recognize his own parents. To the boy Markwayne had watched grow up every single day, his own father looked like a complete stranger.
According to Mullin’s testimony, the only thing Jim still remembered was that Donald Trump was President.
When Trump found out, he didn't issue a press release or send a standard card. Mullin recounted how Trump personally called, sent his private plane to fly Jim to a rehabilitation center in California, and called the teenager every single day for two weeks while in the middle of a campaign.
When it came time for Trump to depart during a visit, his staff repeatedly told him they needed to leave. Twice, Trump told them, "Not yet." The third time, he looked at his team and said, "I guarantee you that plane isn't leaving for at least 15 more minutes."
He walked inside, sat beside Jim, took his hand, and said: "Do you know why I love your dad? Because he loves you."
Mullin credited that visit and those words with helping spark the return of his son's memory. Speaking through tears before the committee, Mullin summed it up simply: "He did not do it for publicity. He did it because he cared."
No cameras. No press conference. Just someone choosing to pause a schedule and sit beside a 15-year-old boy when he had every reason to keep moving.
Keeping Jim Mullin and his continued recovery in our prayers tonight. 🙏🇺🇸
#MarkwayneMullin #JimMullin #Inspiration #Fatherhood
Three former government lawyers wrote the plan to prosecute Pete Hegseth. Their timing: WAIT until Trump leaves office.
It ran in May on Just Security, a national security law site. Two of the authors worked for Barack Obama, one as counselor to his Homeland Security secretary, one as adviser to his Guantanamo closure envoy. The third served in the State Department's war crimes office.
Their line on Colombia and Ecuador, verbatim: officials there could "gather evidence of the crimes and wait to issue indictments until Trump is out of office." The crimes they mean are the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Ninety-nine countries, they count, have laws that let them charge a foreigner with crimes against humanity.
They don't stop at the Secretary. The essay names Admiral Frank Bradley, who runs Special Operations Command, and General Francis Donovan, who runs Southern Command, as "potential perpetrators."
Tuesday, the same day the House shelved his impeachment, Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said what was coming: "Put the secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow."
I read the essay. He wasn't guessing. The admiral and the general were already on the page.
That isn't justice. That's waiting for the guard to change. 💎
America has spent nearly $6 Trillion on illegal aliens and foreign aid in the past 50 years and only $50 Billion on updating critical FAA systems.
The cost of failing to put America First is real.
Insane.
Haiti just ran the cleanest A/B test of the century.
Option A: the international system. Thirteen years of UN peacekeeping, billions in aid, an army of NGOs. Result: a president assassinated in his own bedroom, a capital run by gangs, more than a million people displaced. The peacekeepers themselves brought cholera to the island and killed nearly 10,000 Haitians. After the 2010 earthquake, the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and built six permanent homes. Six. Oxfam staff were caught paying for sex workers in the ruins.
Option B: Bukele. A few weeks, 2,000 soldiers, armored vehicles, one clear objective. Result: the gangs are now writing letters to the UN asking for "mediation."
Read that again. The gangs are asking the UN to protect them. They know exactly who is a threat to them and who isn't.
This isn't about Haiti. It's about the operating system the West has been running since the 60s, and it is dying in front of us. Its axioms were wrong.
Axiom one: everyone can be reinserted, the criminal is a victim of the system, punishment is oppression. El Salvador tried truces and soft approaches and became the murder capital of the world. Then it stopped believing it.
Axiom two: force is always illegitimate. But order isn't natural. It's built and maintained, sometimes by force. A state that refuses to use legitimate violence doesn't abolish violence. It hands the monopoly to whoever is willing to use it. In Haiti, that's the gangs.
Axiom three: everything can be steered from the top. Central banks, planners, aid agencies, "development" programs. Decades of money pushed down from above, and the result is always the same: a class that lives off the problem and has zero incentive to solve it. An NGO that fixes Haiti loses its budget. Think about that.
Axiom four: morality is relative and the old norms were just oppression. This one was built by a very specific elite in the 60s and 70s. In 1977, Sartre, Beauvoir, Barthes, Deleuze and others signed a petition in Le Monde defending sex between adults and minors. Those people are the intellectual grandparents of today's ruling class. Epstein isn't an anomaly. He's the tail of that comet: a network of untouchables who believed rules were for other people.
Now the system is cornered, and it has two exits.
Exit one: lock everything down. Digital IDs, programmable money, censorship sold as safety, a technological control state more total than anything Orwell imagined. Keep the bureaucracy, add the surveillance.
Exit two: let it collapse and rebuild on what actually works. Individual responsibility. Freedom. Consent. Clear rules, actually enforced. Decentralized systems that emerge from the bottom instead of central planners who are never accountable for their failures.
Haiti just showed us which one delivers.
The 20th century bet on the bureaucrat. The 21st belongs to builders, and to states that do what they say.
Everyone is forced and expected to believe a lie.
That the Nigerian government, with the biggest army in West Africa, with drones, with satellites, with billions in the security budget, cannot stop teenage village boys turned into Islamist fighters.
Boys from poor families. No education. No shoes. No food. Boys with rusty guns.
We are told they are too powerful. Too hidden. Too many. That the forest is too big. That the north is too far.
That is a lie.
The same Nigerian government can track a coup attempt in hours. It can tap your phone, follow your WhatsApp, and arrest a journalist before he finishes typing.
The same government can crush a protest in hours. It can bring out water cannons, tear gas, and soldiers, and clear Lekki Toll Gate before sunrise. It can shut down the internet in a whole state overnight.
It can find a separatist leader in Kenya and fly him back in a private jet. It can find a critic in London and threaten his family in Lagos.
But when it comes to protecting women and children in Zamfara, Borno, Kaduna, and Plateau, suddenly it is blind. Deaf. Helpless. Nowhere to be found.
The politicians are clearly complicit.
Either they are protecting the terrorists because they share the same Islamist ideology: the same dream of a Sharia-ruled north, the same hatred for Christians, for Western education, for girls going to school.
Or they are protecting them because it is profitable. War is business. Security votes disappear. Contracts are awarded for guns that never arrive. Ransom money is shared. Villages are emptied so land can be taken for grazing, for mining, for politics.
Either way, the boys are not the problem. The boys are the product.
You take a 14 year old boy who has never been to school, whose father is dead and whose mother is begging. You give him a gun, a motorbike, and 50,000 naira, and you tell him God wants him to kill. That boy is not a mastermind. He is a victim turned into a weapon by men in suits in Abuja.
The real terrorists are not in the bush. They are in the Senate. In the governors' lodges. In the mosques where hate is preached with protection. In the ministries where security money is looted.
If Nigeria wanted to end this tomorrow, it would end tomorrow. It has the men. It has the weapons. It has the intelligence.
It just doesn't have the will, because the blood of the poor is paying for someone's power.
Don't tell us the government can't stop them.
Tell us why the government won't stop them.
https://t.co/VF6hQhHqmE
They said you cannot fix El Salvador because the gangs were too powerful and the cartels were too rich.
The human rights NGOs said you cannot just arrest criminals, you must "understand" them.
Bukele didn't listen to the NGOs, he listened to the mothers who were burying their sons, the shop owners paying protection money just to stay alive, and the little girls who couldn't walk to school without being raped.
He locked them up, all 70,000 of them, with no apologies, no workshops, and no "rehabilitation retreats" in 5-star hotels.
And look what happened, the most extreme fall in homicide ever recorded in human history, not just in Latin America but in the whole world, from the murder capital of the world to one of the safest countries in the Americas in just 3 years.
Meanwhile, in America, in South Africa, and in Europe, politicians are still holding conferences about crime and still talking about "root causes" while people are dying in the streets.
Bukele proved that crime is not complicated, criminals are not victims, you arrest them, you lock them up, and you protect the innocent.
The NGOs hate him because he proved their whole industry is a lie, you don't need billions in aid workshops to stop murder, you just need a leader with guts.
El Salvador is free today because one man chose his people over the applause of Washington, and every president must be a Nayib Bukele who hates crime and is tough on criminals to achieve peace on the streets and safety in society.
— Chart by @cremieuxrecueil
Hakeem Jeffries said a top U.S. government priority is bringing back people who were here illegally and deported, then compensating them for their deportation. Read that again: bring them back and pay them. That’s a priority for the American government?
American taxpayers are on planes with a 50 year old FAA system while Congress sends $50 billion in American taxpayer dollars per year to other countries.
Insane.
🚨: Evrenin derinliklerinde, binlerce galaksiye ev sahipliği yapması gerekirken neredeyse tamamen boş olan 330 milyon ışık yılı genişliğinde devasa bir karanlık var. Adı ise Boötes Boşluğu.
Dünyadan 700 milyon ışık yılı uzaktaki bu bölgede, istatistiksel olarak yaklaşık 2.000 galaksi bulunması gerekirken sadece 60 tanesi gözlemlenebildi. Eğer Samanyolu bu "Büyük Hiçlik"in merkezinde yer alsaydı, insanlık 1960'lara kadar evrende başka galaksilerin var olduğunu bile keşfedemeyecekti.
Kozmik bir karanlığın ortasında doğsaydık, evrenin yalnızca kendi galaksimizden ibaret olduğunu sanardık.