Chico Fuzz

Field Research

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Great thread on Chinese influence in academia.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

We are getting to the bottom of the international bio labs brought to light by @DNIGabbard. We know the intel community is trying to block my efforts to investigate, but I'm going to continue the fight.

120 biolabs in war-torn countries are outrageously unsafe & cannot remain.

[Chico Fuzz @chicofuzzz]

2 dimensional thinking?

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Hitting Iran’s nuclear and missile sites was the right move. This regime chants death to America, murders our troops, and attempts to assassinate Americans on U.S. soil. They believe they have an obligation to destroy us.

Now, we plan to unlock billions of dollars and lift sanctions, with the promise of even more money. They will use that money the way they always do— to further their nuclear ambitions and on terrorist proxies against us. It’s a huge mistake to pay to rebuild the threat we just destroyed.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

'Why is a flat-screen TV affordable and a college education not?...Because Congress has spent 60 years trying to make college affordable and has spent zero years trying to make TVs affordable.' By @reason's Aaron Brown, Michael Mendelson, @CliffordAsness https://t.co/ffQC5XQmIy

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

JPM: "solving the duration mismatch between 5-year chip lives and long-duration IG capital remains the billion-dollar unsolved question"

yes, it does

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

2-year inflation breakevens are collapsing, they typically lead CPI and PCE lower. The disinflation impulse is already in motion. Folly to assume that a temporary supply shock leads to an inflationary spiral, yes ECB and BOJ hiked.

It’s worth recalling how many pundits on Wall St were calling for renewed rate hikes on the back of an exogenous supply shock, one that has now clearly proven temporary. The market saw through it, policy commentary did not.

Trump secured the deal he had promised, removing yet another source of uncertainty from the outlook.

As often attributed to Mark Twain: never argue with fools; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

[Chico Fuzz @chicofuzzz]

https://t.co/Rh4YXiJ5j3

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

SpaceX, Hayek, and the Progressive War on Wealth Creation

The progressive left clings to the fantasy that wealth is manufactured by the state and its pet technocrats rather than by entrepreneurs who risk their own capital to create real value.

In their mythology, government planners are the heroic “designers” of prosperity, while the private sector is a problem to be taxed, regulated, and morally lectured. As Hayek warned, “the more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual,” and progressives are determined to make individual planning all but impossible.

Their entire project rests on a basic fraud, confusing redistribution with creation. Social-democratic and socialist progressives boast about “fairness” and “equity,” but their toolkit is nothing more than confiscation and reallocation, slicing the same pie thinner while pretending they’ve baked a new one.

Hayek’s point that “there is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal” goes straight over their heads, they weaponize the latter to justify endless expropriation from those who actually produce.

The manufactured outrage on the progressive left over the SpaceX IPO is not about fraud, abuse, or failure, it is about their ongoing indoctrination campaign to portray success, risk-taking, and genuine wealth creation as moral crimes. A private company goes from “10 percent chance of success” to one of the most valuable enterprises on earth, and their instinctive response is not admiration or curiosity, but rage that such achievement is even allowed to exist. They see Elon Musk’s trillionaire status not as the byproduct of extraordinary innovation and execution, but as a kind of cosmic theft that must be punished by the tax state.

This is entirely consistent with the broader progressive project, socialize resentment, demonize entrepreneurial gains, and condition the public to believe that any concentration of wealth outside the state is inherently illegitimate. Hayek saw this coming decades ago when he warned that central planning steadily erodes the scope for individual initiative, because the logical end of their ideology is a public that no longer dares to think in terms of independent ambition or long-term wealth building. Progressive leaders feed this mindset daily, insisting that “rigged” markets and “oligarchs” are the problem, while cleverly leaving the state, and its favored constituencies, as the only acceptable repositories of power and resources.

Their reaction to SpaceX is a case study in this pathology. A company that has slashed launch costs, expanded human access to space, and built critical strategic infrastructure is reduced in their rhetoric to a symbol of “inequality” and “greed,” precisely because it exposes how much more effective decentralized, risk-taking capital can be than bureaucratic planning. The message encoded in their fury is clear, do not build, do not risk, do not aspire, unless it is under the watchful, confiscatory eye of the state.

$SPCX

[Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 @BaldingsWorld]

All these America is losing pieces are coming from CCP straw man funders

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

Following intensive talks, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED. Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.

The official signing ceremony will be on Friday, 19 June in Switzerland.

We would like to thank the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran for their commitment to finding a diplomatic solution to the conflict. We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to our brothers in this mediation effort, the great leadership of State of Qatar, for their support in reaching this agreement. I would also especially thank the visionary leadership of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Republic of Türkiye for their immense contributions in this regard.

With the agreement now in place, mediators will facilitate a series of meetings this week. These pre-implementation discussions will lay the foundation for the technical talks and the official signing ceremony.

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

No friends for Comey; judge rules no amicus briefs https://t.co/BI3oyLsJyA

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@ItsYourGov Will the Iranian deal work? I don't know yet if it will, and nobody does. I pray it will.

But when Pompeo, Pence, and other Never-Trumpers start prematurely poo-poohing the deal - now you know to check and see if money is involved here.

THREAD END.

[HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse]

This is utterly false.

[Stella X @Stellaaa]

Riddle me this LA:

If it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote, why the Hell does the West LA Library have a display for non citizens that includes a VOTER REGISTRATION specifically for non citizens that allows them to “preregister” to vote.

They even have a special section on the registration that allows you to vote ANONYMOUSLY if you don’t feel “safe” putting your address.

Gee what could possibly go wrong?!

Seems it’s be pretty easy to send in that form and get a ballot even if you legally can’t vote in California and no one would ever know if you do it anonymously and the worst part is…LA has apparently made this “legal” despite it being against federal law.

Found at:

West Los Angeles Public Library
11360 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025

📷: @slicetweetz

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

There is a country that spends 24/7 begging President Trump to make a deal with Iran, and every time it does, America's plans seem to shift.The same country keeps feeding certain journalists at Axios, @business, and @Reuters FAKE stories attacking anyone who stood up to the Islamic regime's aggression, including the UAE. Money, not merit, now influences parts of the media. So, EXPECT MORE FAKE NEWS.

And since @X has often challenged misinformation, many of us are asking for @CommunityNotes to be added under the Bloomberg and Reuters reports alleging that the UAE transferred funds to Iran. The UAE has officially denied these claims.
This propaganda is an insult to the people targeted by the Islamic regime's missiles and drones, and to the countries that were brave enough to stand up and respond.

We are not just any country.

We are the United Arab Emirates. 🇦🇪

[Chico Fuzz @chicofuzzz]

@Helios_Movement trading places

[Amy Reichert @amyforsandiego]

It’s even worse than you thought in California.

The SEIU union pumps millions into political candidates, while their members are the ones counting the mail ballots.
What could possibly go wrong?

[Adam McCalvy @AdamMcCalvy]

Ahead of Jacob Misiorowski’s start against the Phillies tonight, here’s the great @castrovince to settle this once and for all:

It’s no Miz-take, Castro says. He is the hardest-throwing starting pitcher of all time. https://t.co/0OGWSH6xnR

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

Ice cream is actually one of the healthiest foods in existence, judging by a multitude of recent research articles.

There was a very highly publicized article that came out in 2018 out of Harvard.

It was for a student's dissertation, he found that ice cream was inversely associated with heart disease.

The nutrition department and the student himself tried repeatedly to "make the association go away" with different analysis, and checking his work.

But it didn't.

Not only was ice cream reported as beneficial,

it was actually one of the most beneficial dairy products analyzed.

With up to a 12% reduction in heart disease risk for having >2 servings of ice cream per week.

This wasn't the first study to find benefits of ice cream, and it also wasn't the last.

In a 2013 meta analysis of studies, they also found a protective effect of ice cream on diabetes.

You can see the bias against ice cream, as they don't even mention it in the main page.

That's despite ice cream showing one of the BEST results of any food studied for diabetes risk.

Another study from 2014 showed the same thing.

Again, this is a meta analysis, not just one study. They are pooling together all of the studies on ice cream and diabetes and still finding this.

The best result of any dairy food studied - here with a 32% reduction in diabetes risk.

The bias against ice cream is very strong in these studies.

A 2016 study once again showing the same benefit of ice cream for diabetes risk.

They say that the study above (Chen et al) showed "attenuated association" once diet collection information was stopped after hypertension or high cholesterol diagnosis.

They argue that this means that the association is invalid.

But not only did they not try to dismiss any other food studied like this, but this is just objectively not true (see above - there still was an association).

They also buried their results on ice cream in the supplementary tables so it didn't even make the paper.

That's probably because they didn't like the fact that once again, ice cream intake was inversely and strongly associated with diabetes risk.

So you really can't argue that there was some kind of agenda in favor of ice cream here.

More recent studies show the same thing.

A 2019 paper again showed a lower risk of diabetes with increased ice cream consumption.

And again, they put this information at the very end in the supplementary tables to try to hide it.

Finally, the most recent study in 2024 showed the STRONGEST association for ice cream's protective effect on diabetes.

There was a linear dose response.

That means more ice cream = less diabetes, straight up.

In fact, there was a 50% reduction in risk for having one serving per day.

Which, as you could guess by this point, was the greatest risk reduction of any dairy food studied.

Why would ice cream actually be good for you?

My main guess is the unique protective fats in dairy, that are abundant in ice cream.

◇ C15
◇ C17
◇ CLA
◇ TVA
◇ TPA

are fats almost exclusively in dairy fat, and all have unique effects.

◇ Mitochondrial enhancing
◇ Anti-inflammatory
◇ Anti-thrombotic
◇ Lipid lowering
◇ Fat burning
◇ Cancer preventing

I've covered these all at length in other content.

Of course, this is all observational.

This is simply seeing what people eat and then seeing what happens to them. It's not an experiment. That is definitely a limitation.

However, when you see the same association, consistently, across decades, regardless of analysis and confounding adjustment, you probably have something real.

This is not to say everyone should go and immediately pound gallons of ice cream for invincibility.

But... it does mean having reasonable amounts of ice cream is likely good for you.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

About 8 months ago, I warned that “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” This take was controversial at the time; now look how many people are saying it.