Bryan Bandes

Dad • Catholic • Liberty-minded • MBA + Biology • Anti-woke • Lord, I believe; help my unbelief (Mk 9:24) #SignalRestoration

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

The reason a lot of people don't like Israel now, aside from the propaganda campaign against them, is because they simply decided after October 7 to do what is necessary and what is right regardless of how the crowd perceives it. That is, they came back to reality.

[Bryan Bandes @BryanBandes]

Attention!

What Is the DSA Platform? https://t.co/DO1zi5SlME via @NewDiscourses

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

People need to understand what is happening around the phrase “the common good.” Postliberals are deliberately using language that is familiar to constitutional conservatives to make postliberalism sound like a restoration of the American founding rather than a rejection of its governing principles.

They argue that the founders cared about the public good. Of course they did. They use that truth to blur the difference between a constitutional government ordered toward the good of the people and a political ideology that gives those in power greater authority to define what the common good is and then to impose it.

This is the strategy, and it is unfolding in real time on social media. First, they insist that anyone criticizing postliberalism must oppose the common good itself. Then they flood the conversation with founding-era quotations containing those words, as though the existence of the phrase proves that the founders shared the postliberal understanding of state power. Finally, they portray constitutional conservatives as twentieth-century libertarians who corrupted the “real” founding by placing too much emphasis on individual rights and restraints on government.

But the founders never treated the common good as a free-floating justification for political power. They joined it to natural rights, consent of the governed, freedom of conscience, divided authority, constitutional limits, and the rule of law. Those restraints were not obstacles to the common good. They were part of its meaning, because the founders understood that rulers who claim the power to define and enforce the good without limitations will eventually use that power against the people.

That is the distinction postliberals need you not to notice. They are borrowing the language of the founding while quietly changing what the language authorizes. They want constitutional conservatives to hear familiar words and assume they are looking at a familiar political philosophy. They are not. Believing that government exists for the common good is American. Using the common good as a rhetorical weapon against individual rights, religious liberty, limited government, and constitutional restraints is something fundamentally different.

[Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸 @IsaiahLCarter]

He's right on all counts.

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

I talk with Michael Johnston @FreeKiwis about whether importing five million Islamists would destroy liberal democracy. In collaboration with @NZFreeSpeech.

[Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸 @IsaiahLCarter]

Fuck you, fuck troons, and FUCK this Gnostic Communist dogshit.

The whole idea of "trans" is Satanic anti-human nonsense.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

A terrifying yet exciting moment has arrived in the trainwreck called the Democratic Party.

[Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸 @IsaiahLCarter]

Going to make it my personal mission in life to make sure troons and their apologists within corporations, banks and media are given the EXACT same energy as they gave those of us grounded in objective reality years ago.

Transgenderism is the most evil thing ever devised by human minds.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Dear Caliph @ZohranKMamdani, you forgot the last sentence of your prepared notes: "And may this year be the last year that we have to coexist with the vermin Jews. May Allah curse Israel and its Jewish inhabitants. Death to the USA."

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Of all Wood Cricket Jews, few are as loathsome as @jonstewart. A lobotomized smug imbecile who should have spent 24 hours of my childhood in Lebanon.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Children, they are our future.

[Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸 @IsaiahLCarter]

Transgenderism is pure evil

[Michael Every @TheMichaelEvery]

2026, day 202

Good morning from Asia.

‘What Visuals Show About Recent Damage to U.S. Military Sites in the Middle East’ (NYT);

‘Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role’ (Reuters);

‘Iran’s Ghalibaf says there will be no safety if Iran’s security is not guaranteed’ (Al Arabiya) - “Iran’s top negotiator more or less declared war on the entire region Wednesday”;

‘Trump vows to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants for each ship attack’ (Axios);

‘IRGC says tanker on fire after explosion in Strait of Hormuz’ (AJ);

‘Houthis claim attacks on Saudi tankers in Red Sea, raising risk of new chokepoint in Iran war’ (Reuters);

‘Houthi Red Sea threat would challenge a stretched US military’ (Reuters);

‘Greek tycoon’s tanker towed into Iranian waters’ (FT);

‘Kuwait says it’s working to intercept ‘hostile drone threats’’ (AFP);

‘U.S. Surges Forces Toward Middle East, Giving Trump Options to Expand Iran War’ (WSJ);

‘Trump escalates threats to Iran’s infrastructure, as US said readying to use heavy bombers’ (ToI);

‘Mossad chief meets CIA director as US, Israel coordinate on Iran’ (JPost);

‘Britain evacuates its personnel from Iran: Unusual series of threats and preparations for escalation’ (Ynet);

‘Unfazed by Iran’s threats, Bulgaria moves to aid U.S. military operations’ (Defense News);

‘US, Saudi Arabia agree to civil nuclear deal: Energy Department’ (Al Arabiya);

‘Lebanon PM says Beirut working for ‘complete Israeli withdrawal’’ (AFP);

‘Trump administration weighing military options in Mali, officials say’ (WaPo);

‘EU launches mission to board Russian shadow fleet ships in Indian
Ocean’ (Kyiv Independent);

‘Russian gas cargoes to remain exempt as EU nears new sanctions deal’ (FT) - “Groups such as Greece’s Dynagas will be allowed to continue carrying Russian LNG”;

‘EU countries weigh fresh plan to salvage Russia sanctions package’ (Politico);

‘NATO seals €27B overhaul of Cold War-era fuel network’ (Politico);

‘Backed by France, Macron sees Germany as nuclear-deterrence ‘vanguard’ in Europe’ (Defense News);

‘Germany pushes to join UK fighter jet programme’ (Telegraph);

‘US lawmakers accuse China of using UN peacekeeping forces to spy on countries’ (SCMP);

‘Philippines protests South China Sea AI video to China's Wang Yi’ (Nikkei Asia);

In geoeconomics, ‘Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic’ (Axios);

‘OpenAI AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup’ (Reuters);

‘The tariffs that just won’t die’ (Economist);

‘US Congress explores new tariffs, sanctions to counter China’s shipbuilding dominance’ (SCMP);

‘Boeing asks U.S. to intervene over record EU loan to Airbus’ (Reuters);

‘Canadian industries set to be most affected by Trump's latest tariff threats’ (Globe & Mail);

‘EU says Trump’s new generic drug tariffs won’t hit its exports’ (Politico) - “Brussels argues its unbranded medicines are protected by last year’s EU-U.S. trade deal”;

‘Mercedes risks US sales ban under Senate China bill’ (FT);

‘US not getting enough critical minerals from China, Greer says as Xi-Trump meeting looms’ (SCMP);

‘’Unattainable dreamland’: Europe’s first-ever electrification target under fire’ (Euractiv);

‘AI-driven soaring memory costs force carmakers to weigh price hikes’ (Nikkei Asia);

‘EU tariffs accelerate Korean tire makers' China exit’ (Korea Times);

In politics, ‘US House advances Trump budget outline, election voting restrictions’ (Reuters);

‘NYC Landlords Sue City Over Mamdani-Backed Rent Freeze’ (WSJ);

‘Fedorov's trust rating soars by 30% amid protests, surpasses Zelensky's, poll shows’ (Kyiv Independent);

‘Swan’s warning: One Nation is Labor’s biggest electoral threat’ (Australian);

‘New Zealand’s Brain Drain to Australia Is Causing Societal Rifts’ (BBG);

In markets, ‘Trump Allies Eye SVB Review as New Path to Oust a Fed Governor’ (BBG)

[Bryan Bandes @BryanBandes]

💯. You take an oath to support this Constitution when you naturalize. Liberty, property rights, free enterprise. Mamdani took that oath in 2018. Then he stood up, called a sitting foreign head of state a war criminal, and called on the federal government to arrest him. If your politics are openly hostile to the system you swore loyalty to, that should disqualify you from public trust. James is right to say it, tbf. It's time we started enforcing what that oath actually means

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I am once again, with 100% sincerity and meaning it as fully as it can be meant, telling whoever has the power in the United States of America to do it, bar holding public office or any office in the public trust, along with naturalization, for all members of ideologies, including the DSA's, that are openly stated to be in conflict with the oaths required to hold those positions or to have been granted that citizenship.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Imagine writing such a comment in the 21st century and feeling emboldened to do so.

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇯🇵 After World War II, Japan had a choice.

Either we remain Japanese, protect our traditions and become a democracy or we turn into a third worldist socialist state. Thankfully, we chose freedom over socialism.

I'm glad we made the right choice.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Deneen is what you get when you blend Marxism with theocracy.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Who could have ever predicted that a "democratic socialist" would cancel democracy after coming into power.

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇨🇳 Historian Sarah Paine explains how Mao managed to kill tens of millions. This is more than the entire death toll of World War II.

When people like @hasanthehun tell you Mao did nothing wrong what they're saying is that they support this. If they ever gained power in the US, they would kill tens of millions.