Phil Johnson

Ghost

[Briana Theroux @brianatheroux]

A huge part of my parenting philosophy is understanding that children literally do not have the cognition of adults.

And I think a lot of parents lose their fucking minds because they forget that.

They expect a 4 year old to think through a situation the way a 35 year old would. They assume that because a child technically “knows” a rule, they should be able to remember it in the moment, override an impulse, regulate their emotions, think about the future consequence, and then make the rational choice.

That is a lot of cognition. And little kiddos simply do not have all of that online yet.

So parents start assigning adult motives to developmentally immature behavior. They call it disrespectful, manipulative, selfish, lazy, defiant, or whatever. Sometimes it is just a tiny person with poor impulse control doing exactly what tiny people with poor impulse control do.

Your child is not a miniature adult who is inexplicably bad at being an adult. They literally do not have the capacity to do adult thinking yet.

And I’m not saying kids should have no boundaries or consequences. Obviously not. I’m probably stricter than a lot of people in that regard. But there is a massive difference between teaching a child the skills they are developing and becoming enraged because they do not already possess them.

The other major part of my parenting philosophy is that we cannot control other human beings. That includes our children.

We can guide them. We can teach them. We can set boundaries. We can create consequences. We can tell them what behavior is acceptable in our home and what is not. We can remove ourselves, remove privileges, or change the environment when a boundary is crossed.

What we cannot do is make another human being obey us.

And I think a lot of really ugly parenting comes from refusing to accept that fact. The parent decides the child must comply, and once compliance becomes the goal at all costs, coercion starts getting justified. Yelling, humiliation, intimidation, hitting, fear, whatever it takes to force the behavior they want.

I fundamentally reject that.

I do not think having more power than another human gives you the right to harm them into submission. And being their parent does not somehow make that less true.

My job is to raise a person who can eventually govern himself, not a person who behaves only because someone bigger than him might punish him.

Children need structure. They need limits. They need parents who are willing to say no and mean it. But they are still separate human beings with their own minds, temperaments, emotions, and eventually their own values.

I can influence that. I can shape the environment. I can teach. I can model. I can hold boundaries.

I cannot own another person’s will.

And I think parenting gets a lot healthier once you stop confusing guidance with control.

[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

• St. Padre Pio says:

"Blessed is the crisis that made you grow,
the fall that made you gaze up to heaven,
the problem that made you look for God!"

[Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz]

I don’t hate Jews.

Just you.

You notice how every time Levin gets called on his false predictions and outright lies he has to resort to calling people “Jew haters” and “Trump haters.”

It is the sign of a low IQ person who can’t defend his own arguments.

Mark wants to send Americans to die for Israel.

I don’t agree. Neither does Trump.

[Mel Gibson @_melgibson1_]

Jesus is King.

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Some of the documented timeline from the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war announcements—each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Oil fell around 15 percent.

On April 17, around $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil dropped.

On April 21, approximately $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire. Oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million. Iran called the report "the Americans' wish list."

Previously, a senior Iranian official told investigative outlet Drop Site News that Tehran privately warned JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations—"more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reporting and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

The documented timeline of the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of highly suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war and deal announcements, each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran, oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, oil fell 15 percent.

On April 17, approximately $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, oil dropped.

On April 21, around $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire, oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million in profit, while Iran called the May 6 Axios report "the Americans' wish list," and completely false.

A senior Iranian official previously told Drop Site News that Iran privately warned VP JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Kushner and Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations, being "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

[AntisepticHorse @AntisepticHorse]

They get so mad when you call them bolsheviks

This is why

[Brandon Herrera @TheAKGuy]

Look at all of these women and children, fleeing to seek a better life.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

We are living through a massive information crisis in which at least half the population is being systematically misinformed, making any sane national debate increasingly difficult. Without a shared factual foundation, there is nothing to discuss. People are not merely drawing different conclusions from the same evidence. They are living in entirely different realities.

That is what makes the Fauci story so tragic. He caused untold harm, yet millions of people know almost nothing about it. We can debate precisely how large a role Fauci played in the creation of Covid, but half the country does not even know that Covid came from a lab. We are therefore several steps removed from the basic conditions required to have an intelligent discussion.

Other facts are even more black and white. Fauci’s private diary contradicts what he told the public. His own words reveal a man of almost limitless narcissism. These are not matters of interpretation. They are documented facts. Yet we still cannot have a national conversation about them because the media either refuses to report them or actively lies about them. Anyone who is not on Twitter, which is most people, may never encounter the underlying evidence at all.

The result is that I increasingly find it almost impossible to discuss any of this with ordinary people, whether family members, acquaintances, or people at events or birthday parties. Unless someone has followed the evidence closely, there is no common starting point. Before you can debate what happened, you first have to dismantle at least ten years of falsehoods and omissions.

I do not know how this ends, but it is not sustainable. A country cannot function indefinitely when its people are no longer capable of discussing almost anything beyond sports on the basis of shared factual knowledge.

[James English @jamesenglish0]

Congratulations to the unvaccinated for not taking health advice from Satanic pedophiles.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

🚨Study involving 1.7 million children has found that Myocarditis & Pericarditis only appeared in children who had received COVID mRNA vaccines.

Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran.

This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs…

all for Israel.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Something is at war with us, “us” being regular citizens who want things to work and to be left alone. We’re slow to react because we think in terms of nations. Our enemies are mafias that wear our governments like a cloak to defeat our eyes, and fly our flags to disarm our minds

[Jules 🌱 @hyjules_]

You’re allowed to complain about the air quality because it is a health hazard. What you’re not allowed to do is blame Canada as if this is a targeted attack. Everyone should be blaming politicians from both countries who refuse to fund environmental and climate scientists

[Christy 💕 @Christy4Change]

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ARSON IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.

[Larry Cook @stopvaccinating]

An excellent analogy to explain how vaccines are “tested” for safety. Vax companies don’t use true placebos as the control. They use other vaccines or all vaccine ingredients minus the antigen. When a pro- vaxxer “trusts the science” - this is what they mean…

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

To the legends out there destroying flock cameras I just want you to know America salutes you 🫡

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

An Amercian member of congress is threatened by foreign terrorists carrying American rifles, backed by a foreign military paid for by American taxpayers, and the US ambassador to that country says not a word in defense of his own countryman, and instead uses his social media accounts to promote his own vapid cable news appearances, which amount to propaganda for that same foreign country. It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start. For the sake our nation, Mike Huckabee should be removed from his post immediately.