Gia Pauldine

[Gia Pauldine @blessedchick1]

@13WHAM This desperate and flaccid stunt by the City Council is a clear distraction from the issues that matter most to Rochester voters,” residents muttered, while the council spent Friday renaming a lake that was never going to listen to them anyway.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@KrisRuggieroWx @13WHAM PS:

[Gia Pauldine @blessedchick1]

@real_Caroline_K Like my vote and I are valued and being protected in the choosing of rightfully elected officials to uphold the Constitution- representing me and my citizenship in the USA.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Gia Pauldine @blessedchick1]

@GodandCountryy Heck yeah!

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

We’re bringing the America: Love It or Leave It Tour to a campus near you this fall 🔥

Be there: https://t.co/hXwTfEXWFj 🇺🇸

[Steve McLaughlin @SteveMcNY]

See you in court @GovKathyHochul @tishjames. Do yourselves a favor….stop lying.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Butter did not live in the fridge in this country until the mid eighties.

It lived on the table. Under a little lid, or a bell of frosted glass, and it stayed put from breakfast to supper. It got a top-up, never a wash and a fresh pack. When it ran low, more went in. It was there the way the salt was there and the teapot was there, and nobody in that house gave it a second thought.

And it was soft. You pulled it straight across warm toast without tearing a hole in the middle, without the wait, without the cold shrapnel that comes off a fridge-hard block.

It sat out through a July afternoon and nothing happened. It sat out through Christmas week beside the cake and nothing happened. Your grandmother kept butter on the side for fifty years and buried nobody.

Butter is around eighty per cent fat, and the water in it is locked in droplets inside that fat with the salt dissolved in them. Bacteria need free water and there is almost none to be had. The fat is the thing keeping it safe.

The fat. The exact property they spent forty years telling your mother would kill her is the property that lets butter sit on a table all summer and behave itself.

She knew none of that and she was right anyway.

Then the government's committee on nutrition reported in 1984, the country was told to cut the fat out, and inside about three years the dish was in a cupboard and there was a tub in the fridge door with a sunflower on the lid.

Butter out of a fridge cannot be spread. It tears the bread and sits on the knife in a lump. The tub beat butter on exactly one thing, which was that it came out already soft, and it only had that advantage because the competition had just been sent somewhere cold on doctor's orders.

Clover launched in September 1983, made by Dairy Crest, which was the processing arm of the Milk Marketing Board. The dairy industry's own company sold Britain the tub.

Then it sold the fix. Spreadable butter is butter with rapeseed oil blended through it so it comes out of the fridge soft, and the market leader runs at sixty four per cent butter to twenty three per cent oil. It costs more than the block it is diluting.

There is a generation now that flinches at a fat left out at room temperature, and the same people will eat mayonnaise out of a jar that has been sat on a warehouse shelf since March.

Leave a dish of it out tomorrow. Watch it sit there all day doing absolutely nothing, then spread it without a fight.

Your fridge is full of things that would have you on the floor by Thursday. The butter was never one of them.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

I’m not a career politician. I’m here to pay my debt to America and New York. I’ve spent my career raising capital, taking companies public, overseeing audits, and being accountable to investors.

Managing New York’s pension fund requires real fiduciary duty: putting retirees and taxpayers first, exercising sound judgment, and never allowing politics or personal interests to interfere.

I have a track record of performance, accountability, and integrity. And I want to bring my experience to the Comptroller’s office to better serve New Yorkers.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

Antisemitism is on the rise across New York, and our Jewish communities deserve leaders who will stand with them, not embolden those who spread hate.

Mayor @ZohranKMamdani’s radical agenda has only made a growing crisis worse.

When I’m elected Comptroller, New York’s Jewish community will have a strong ally in Albany. I will always stand against antisemitism and stand with our Jewish neighbors.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

Of the total energy being generated in New York State this afternoon, wind power - via the 1,200 turbines in the state, is contributing 0 (ZERO) percent. Solar generation is less than 2 percent.) Data from New York ISO.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

I came to America as an immigrant kid with little more than a family that believed in hard work, education, and the promise of this country.

My parents taught my siblings and me three simple things: work hard, get educated, and love America.

They also taught us that freedom and opportunity come with an obligation, to give something back to the country that gave us so much.

America gave me the freedom to dream. It gave me the opportunity to get an education, build businesses, raise a family, and pursue a life my parents could only imagine when we arrived here.

That is why I am running for New York State Comptroller.

This campaign isn’t just about politics for me. It’s about gratitude and service. It’s about paying back a debt to a country that took in an immigrant kid and told him his dreams were possible.

Thank you, America. Thank you, New York. I am here to serve.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

Great to see Speaker @MikeJohnson today and talk with him about our race for New York State Comptroller.

The Speaker told me he’s particularly excited about this race and what we can accomplish by taking on the waste, fraud, and abuse that has gone unchecked in New York for far too long.

I’m grateful for his support and his leadership in Washington. Thank you, Mr. Speaker!

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

New York’s $277B budget is the second-largest state budget in the nation. And our $122.6B Medicaid program bleeds an estimated $10B+ a year to fraud. NYCHA and the MTA burn cash because no one’s watching.

My Fraud Strike Team starts January 1, 2027. If you stole from the NY tax payers, don’t go far.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

Albany is not an honest place, and New Yorkers are paying the price.

For nearly 20 years, @TomDiNapoli has been part of the same Albany system that has given us exploding spending, rampant waste, and billions lost to fraud and abuse.

I didn’t build 12 companies, bring 5 public, and spend my career managing capital to go to Albany and play nice with the political establishment.

As Comptroller, I’ll aggressively pursue fraud, audit where your money is going, and hold Albany accountable for every taxpayer dollar.

I meant what I said in Orleans County: I will bring a blowtorch to Albany.

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Double amputee Marine saves American flag from the interstate

No hesitation. No waiting for someone else. Just a man with two prosthetic legs walking into the grass, picking it up, and treating it with the respect it deserves while traffic flies by.

This is America 🇺🇸🙏🏼

[VICTORIA FOREVER MAGA 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @VictoriaSask]

Bikers in Dearborn, Michigan. ✝️

Not a Muslim in sight. ❤️

[Gia Pauldine @blessedchick1]

@GovKathyHochul It’s the evil minds that fire guns at innocent people. So what is it you’re doing to strengthen our laws against the criminals to protect New Yorkers from them? You’re putting them and keeping them in prison????

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

Across the state it's been a lovely sun-filled morning with bright skies and gentle winds. As we near noon, however, we find energy production from wind is 0 (zero) and energy production from solar (lumped in with methane and wood) is <4%. The kicker: we're all paying for this.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

NO ONE has the right to force, coerce, or compel you to take a vaccine — not the government, not your employer, not a school, not a doctor, and not “public health” authorities.

Not even in an emergency.

Informed consent is not optional.
It is absolute.

The Nuremberg Code (1947) is crystal clear:
“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”

No exceptions.
No “emergency” loophole.
No “greater good” override.

You have the right to be fully informed of every risk and benefit — without pressure, threats, job loss, school exclusion, travel bans, or social punishment.

Any attempt to force medical treatment on a free human being is a direct violation of fundamental human rights.

They can recommend.
They can educate.
They can persuade.

They cannot compel.

Stand firm.
Know your rights.
Refuse coercion.

Your body is not state property.