Carol C.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Before @ElonMusk bought Twitter, you couldn't notice that foreigners committed most of the group rapes in Germany, despite being just 15% of the population. By lifting censorship, says @Pauline__Voss, Musk unleashed a “vibe shift” that led to @AfD's historic victory.

[Rick D @RickD_GK]

He is not wrong. There is a definite double standard in this world. ❤️

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They say we don't teach about socialism in schools. Yes we do: group projects. Where you do ALL the work because your 3 lazy teammates do nothing, but you have integrity and don't wanna fail, but they end up getting the same grade as you for nothing. That's socialism. It sucks.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Of course

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

This video is basically a masterclass in economics, free markets, globalization, and why communist central planning is doomed to fail. Enjoy the lesson.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Yes

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Total travesty. It’s the simplest case imaginable. She murdered three children. The end. The verdict shouldn’t even take 17 minutes, let alone 17 hours.

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

🚨 GLOBALISM JUST DIED IN DAVOS

Howard Lutnick just walked into the lion’s den — and told the World Economic Forum exactly what they didn’t want to hear.

“Globalism has failed.”

Not whispered.
Not softened.

Declared — on their own stage.

He dismantled the entire WEF doctrine in minutes:
• Offshoring hollowed out the West
• Cheap labor destroyed innovation
• Net Zero made Europe dependent on China
• Sovereignty begins with borders
• Nations must control their industry, energy, and medicine

Then came the line that shook the room:

“Why would Europe agree to Net Zero when they don’t even make a battery?”

That’s the truth globalists can’t answer.

Green agendas without industry.

Climate pledges without sovereignty.

Moral posturing while outsourcing power to Beijing.

America First isn’t isolation.

It’s independence.

And Lutnick made it crystal clear:

The old model is finished.

The globalist experiment has failed.
And the future belongs to nations that put their people first.

Davos just heard the obituary — live.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Probably the best explanation I have heard about this trial if she is found not guilty.

[ᴄʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ ᴀʀɴᴇʟʟ @MrChrisArnell]

@spencerpratt Might want to look into Orange-Head and Co.

[Melinda 🇺🇸🇺🇸♥️ @Melindaashx]

@MattWalshBlog

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

A woman admitting to strangling all of her children to death, being exonerated in court anyway, and then masses of women celebrating in the streets while the killer goes on to make millions in crowd funding and lawsuits, is a possibility so grim that I can’t bear to think about it. I don’t know how you move on from that with any faith in the court system or the basic sanity and moral decency of a large portion of the public. It’s a terrifying thought, truly. I don’t know what we’re supposed to do, if this is how it all turns out. Let’s pray that justice somehow still prevails. The alternative is a nightmare.

[Pirate Farmer @piratefarmer7]

@Handre One simple law could fix all of it.

As a condition of receiving welfare you give up your right to vote in any federal, state or local election for as long as you receive welfare.

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

Retired Wilmington Police Department K9 Karson passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, following a period of declining health. The beloved Belgian Malinois was humanely euthanized to prevent further pain and discomfort from age-related illnesses, including severe muscle loss, weak back legs, and failing eyesight and hearing.

The Wilmington Police Department honored Karson's dedication with a formal police escort for his final ride to the Suburban Veterinary Clinic in Centerville, Ohio.
Before crossing the Rainbow Bridge, his longtime handler and partner, former officer J.J. Popp, spoiled him with a final meal of a New York Strip steak and donut holes.

[Handre @Handre]

Here are the most important lessons from the Austrian School of Economics in one post:

The entire edifice of modern economic policy rests on a lie: that a group of planners can manage an economy better than the people living in it.

Start with value. Nothing has value in the abstract. You value a glass of water differently when you're drowning than when you're dying of thirst in the Sahara. Value lives inside individual human minds, not in objects, not in labor hours, not in government decree. Every price control, every subsidy, every centrally administered wage floor ignores this and produces predictable wreckage.

Money didn't come from a government committee. It emerged spontaneously from markets, as traders across centuries converged on commodities like gold and silver because they held value across time and space. Governments didn't invent money; they hijacked it.

Inflation is the expansion of the money supply itself. Rising prices are the symptom. When the Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet from roughly $4 trillion to nearly $9 trillion between 2020 and 2022, the price explosion that followed wasn't a mystery. It was the direct, mechanical consequence of that expansion. The Fed caused it.

Prices do something irreplaceable: they transmit information across millions of actors simultaneously. When lumber prices spiked in 2021, builders across North America cut waste and sought alternatives without a single bureaucrat issuing a memo. No central planner can replicate that signal, because no central planner possesses the knowledge embedded in it.

This connects directly to the knowledge problem. You know your neighborhood, your suppliers, your customers, your own tolerance for risk. Your competitor knows his. A bureaucrat in Washington knows none of it. The knowledge required to run an economy is dispersed, personal, and contextual. It cannot be extracted, aggregated, and fed into a planning model. The Soviet Union ran that experiment for seventy years and produced chronic shortages of basic goods.

Bad businesses must be allowed to fail. When they fail, they release labor, capital, and resources to producers who will use them more effectively. When Washington handed General Motors $49.5 billion in 2009 to prevent exactly that process, it kept misallocated capital locked inside a failing structure and punished every competitor who had managed their business responsibly.

Every function government performs, a voluntary market arrangement performs better: faster, cheaper, and responsive to actual human preferences rather than political incentives. Education, roads, security, dispute resolution, all of it. Government agencies face no profit and loss signal, no competition, and no mechanism to reward performance. They optimize for budget preservation and political survival, and the people using the service have no exit option.

The political class and the central banking apparatus that sustains it are the villains. Both benefit directly from the idea that expert management beats voluntary exchange. They will not surrender that idea willingly.

What would you add?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

@elonmusk The "bystander cops" were jailed too:

Officer Tou Thao - 4 years, 9 months
Officer J Kueng - 3 years, 6 months
Officer Thomas Lang - 3 years

Soviet-style show trial

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed.

The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer.

That is the truth.