Bricks of Doak

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Under President Trump and Republicans, inflation saw its largest monthly decline in 6 years.

FOX BIZ: “This is the biggest decline in the all items index since April of 2020.”

[Dan The Zionist! @DanTheZionist]

Ro Khanna’s driver intentionally triggered a Security First Response Team.

Israeli Gedaliah Blum explains the tricks that Ro Khanna used to stage a performance.

Ro Khanna was traveling in Judea and Samaria, which are also known as the West Bank. The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have experienced many terrorist attacks. So, there are First Response Teams of community guards who monitor for suspicious activity. These teams are governed by laws and work with safety measures, and they coordinate with the Israeli army.

Shabbat is Saturday. On Shabbat, people living in Jewish communities do not drive. On Shabbat, Ro Khanna’s team drove off the road, which was already very suspicious. The strange activity of Ro Khanna’s vehicle triggered the First Response Team. So, the team checked the vehicles.

Ro Khanna did not tell anyone he was going to be in the area. He was not traveling in a way that identified him as a congressman, he was not in a government marked vehicle. The First Responder Team checked for his identity. Specifically, because Ro Khanna did not tell anyone he would be in the area, it took about ninety minutes to confirm his identity with the Israeli army.

After he was safely identified, he was allowed to continue on his way. Afterwards, Ro Khanna described this security check as being held hostage by wild settlers, which is total nonsense.

Ro Khanna is a liar.

@GedaliahBlum

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

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[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

. @Grok calculate the odds that Tyler Robinson NOT being Charlie Kirk's killer given the latest ballistics evidence, and all other new evidence in public record

[New York Post @nypost]

Biden's illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds https://t.co/c6gi29C736

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

In opposing the Billionaire's Tax, Gavin Newsom has a curious argument: "You may not be able to pick up and move to Texas or Florida to shelter your income from taxation, but I promise you that billionaires can, and do." In other words, most of us want to flee the state but can't

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨🇦🇷 Lionel Messi was asked which country he dreams of facing in his final FIFA World Cup after scoring a stunning brace in Argentina’s 2-0 victory over Austria:

🎙️ Reporter: “Leo, after your brilliant performance today, if you could choose one country to face before the end of your World Cup journey, who would it be?”

🗣️ Messi: “Portugal. Without a doubt, Portugal.

Not because it would be easy, actually the opposite. They have a fantastic team, world-class players, and they are always competitive. But for me, it would be special for another reason.

I have shared this era with Cristiano Ronaldo for almost two decades. We have pushed each other, competed against each other, and experienced so many incredible moments in football. Yet somehow, we have never faced each other on the biggest stage of all — the World Cup.

I think football fans around the world would love to see it, and honestly, I would too. Not because of the rivalry people always talk about, but because of the respect that exists between us after so many years.

When you spend your entire career being compared to one player, you understand the greatness of that player better than most people. Cristiano has had an extraordinary career, and sharing the pitch with him at a World Cup would be something very special.

If this is my last World Cup, then facing Portugal and Cristiano would be a beautiful way to close a chapter. Two players who defined an era, meeting on the biggest football stage in the world. That is something every football lover would remember forever.”

🎙️ Reporter: “So Portugal is your dream opponent?”

🗣️ Messi: “Yes. Portugal. Because some moments are bigger than football, and that would be one of them.”

{@beinsport}

[Paul Spacey ⚽️ @PaulSpacey]

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[Bricks of Doak @brinole]

This is it right here. I’m not Argentinian but been a USMNT fan, a “polite” one, always feeding respect to the countries that own the world stage. Friday night changed me. These boys showed they can, if only for one night, run it like the Brazilians, Germans, Frenchmen etc….

[Nic Agüero @ClawForThatInch]

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[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

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[Bricks of Doak @brinole]

Mega community note here!

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Bricks of Doak @brinole]

@settleml92 It’s a gap year for my Noles…

[Overton @overton_news]

Yesterday, the DOJ arrested three individuals in Kansas and California charged in a depraved plot to support ISIS.

The facts of the case are extremely disturbing.

MCENANY: “One said it was ‘sick’ if his name was on a drone that would kill American service members.”

“Another person said they always wanted to kill a female soldier by beheading.”

“I wish I could kill 300 million Americans.”

“These are bad guys and now they’re indicted.”

BLANCHE: “Yes. This is a very disturbing case.”

“You have young men, they’re in their 20s, completely indoctrinated by terrorism and terrorists and actually spending money to actually follow through on these attacks.”

“Like you just said, one wanted their name written on a drone to kill Americans. One fantasized about killing a female soldier by beheading her.”

“And, look, another great example of hard working FBI agents and our federal prosecutors in California and Kansas and working together and I’m glad we were able to interject here and stop these men.”

“But it’s a good reminder to the Americans that this fight is not over. There are still a lot of people that want to inject harm into this country and our citizens.”

[Heritage Foundation @Heritage]

Right-wing extremism is so uncommon that left-wing extremists have to fund it.

[Bricks of Doak @brinole]

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[Tyler O'Neil @Tyler2ONeil]

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The Justice Department just secured a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it reveals some new bombshells

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[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Brett Nevitt @brettpn]

Updated pitch usage chart for FSU:

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Here's what they've normalized and are trying to reinforce with the Jaxson Dart situation:

Black people can be offended by what white people believe. But white people can't be offended by what black people believe.

It's legal to love and worship Barack Obama. It's illegal to love and worship Donald Trump.

Unsustainable.