JC

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

A $300M yacht isn't money set on fire. It's a vast act of production. Those vessels take 3 to 4 years to build and employ hundreds: naval architects, marine engineers, welders, electricians, carpenters, interior craftsmen, plus the shipyard and the entire supply chain feeding it. Then a permanent crew of dozens, dockworkers, mechanics, and provisioners for the life of the ship. The "obscene" yacht is a payroll for hundreds of skilled workers who chose that trade freely.

But notice the con you're really running. You don't want those workers employed. You want the Meta workers envious. The yacht and the layoffs have nothing to do with each other, except in the resentment you're trying to manufacture.

Now the layoffs themselves. A company cuts staff when it must reduce costs or correct over-hiring, which is exactly how a business stays alive to employ anyone at all. And what drives costs up? The taxes, mandates, and regulations you demand every single day. You spend your career making it more expensive to employ Americans, then feign shock when employing Americans gets more expensive.

You don't grasp that wealth is produced, not seized from a pile. So you treat one man's success as another's loss. It isn't. The yacht builder, the Meta engineer, and Zuckerberg can all prosper at once, in a system you'd dismantle for the pleasure of watching the rich brought low.

Envy is not an economic policy but it is apparently all @SenWarren and her socialist allies know.

[JC @chluski]

@RobertKennedyJr Uh oh!

Secretary Rubio is going to be upset you scooped him on a new Snake Charmer position within the administration.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

So much for "no kings", right?

CA Governor Newsom was asked about the possibility of ending up with two Republican candidates for governor and no Democrats. His response?

"We all have agencies. We can shape the future… I don’t anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a ‘break the glass scenario.’

There’s many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out, and we’re going to do everything to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’ll leave it there.”

This is the guy who claims Republicans are a "threat to democracy". Let that sink in.

REPOST this absolutely everywhere.

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

OMGAWD- going to the Met Gala as a contractor 🤣

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

@RepRashida Have some decency and stop attacking the integrity of the highest court just because the law isn’t what you want it to be.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Charlie Kirk: “When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence.”

[JC @chluski]

@nytimes The article is a jaw dropping example of corporate financial illiteracy! How embarrassing and amazing this stupidity made it past the editorial staff!!! I’m so glad I canceled my subscription years ago.

[JC @chluski]

@ChrisMurphyCT You’re such a cowardly POS!!! Enjoy the ratio!

[JC @chluski]

@elonmusk To think it would be approved without allowing the SA government the ability to censor the content? No way they would approve it.

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - let’s talk a bit about her.

She is one of the most courageous voices of our time.

She was born in 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia, into a strict Muslim family. As a young girl, she was subjected to female genital mutilation. She grew up between Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya under a strict Islamic upbringing.

In 1992, she fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage - she jumped off a train in Europe and applied for asylum.

There, she learned Dutch, earned a degree in political science, and began working with integration.

She lost her faith in Islam. She became an atheist, and later converted to Christianity in 2023.

She saw clearly how Islam oppresses women - forced marriages, honor killings, female genital mutilation, polygamy, and the total lack of freedom.

In 2004, she made the short film Submission together with Theo van Gogh. The film showed violence against women in Islam.

Shortly after, Theo van Gogh was murdered in broad daylight in Amsterdam by a radical Muslim. A threat against Ayaan was left pinned to his chest: she was next.

She received death threats for years. She had to live under police protection.

She was elected to the Dutch parliament for the Liberal Party, where she fought for Muslim women’s rights and against the illusions of multiculturalism.

She has written books such as Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic, where she directly criticizes the core of Islam - not just “extremism,” but the ideology itself.

Today, she lives in the United States, married to historian Niall Ferguson, and continues her work, among other things through her foundation (AHA Foundation).

She warns the West about mass immigration from Muslim countries, parallel societies, and the self-deception that claims Islam can be reformed without confronting its texts and history.

Like Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has paid a high price for speaking the truth. Rushdie was hunted for a book. She was hunted for showing the reality of her own life and the lives of millions of Muslim women.

She is not “Islamophobic.” She is a former Muslim who has seen the system from the inside and refuses to stay silent. She points to the uncomfortable truth: that Western values such as freedom of speech, gender equality, and individual liberty are incompatible with classical sharia Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a living example of why the Enlightenment is still worth defending.

She risked her life to say what most people don’t dare: that the problem is not only “extremists,” but a religion that, at its core, oppresses women and rejects criticism.

She deserves respect from all of us - not because she is “controversial,” but because she refuses to lie in order to be politically correct. In a time where many bow to threats, she continues to speak the truth.

These are the kind of people who keep the soul of the West alive. Thank you Ayaan.❤️‍🔥🪽✝️

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Penny Noyes set a national record in the 100 IM in a masters swimming event in New England this week.

She wore one of our @xx_xyathletics t-shirts for a photo after.

It was posted by New England Masters Swimming. Then swiftly taken down, allegedly at the behest of the organization's Chairperson, Jason Weis.

Penny swam at UMass in the 70s and was the first Title IX scholarship recipient at the school.

Ironically, she's fighting for fairness and opportunity 50 years later in the masters.

Make women's sports XX again.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Pro-life, pro-family Catholic politician and father of nine, José Antonio Kast, has been sworn in as the President of Chile after defeating his communist rival in the election.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

@ZacGoldsmith Not one. Cowards and hypocrites.

[JC @chluski]

@SenFettermanPA Stop it! You have too much common sense.

[Rishi Vohra @rishivohra]

🚨 My Tesla literally saved my life yesterday. What started as a normal drive turned terrifying fast.

I unintentionally fasted for 17 hours, took some medicine, and had a severe allergic reaction. My body shut down—I passed out while driving on the freeway, mid-conversation with my wife on the phone.

Thank God my Tesla had Full Self-Driving engaged. It detected I lost consciousness (thanks to the driver monitoring system), immediately slowed, activated hazards, and safely pulled over to the shoulder. No crash. No danger to anyone else on the road.

My wife heard me go silent and knew something was wrong. She used @Life360 to alert emergency services—they located me within 5 minutes.

They attended to me enough for me to tell them, 'I don't want to abandon my truck here on the freeway.' So the Tesla autonomously drove me the rest of the way to the ER. I walked in, got admitted, and they stabilized me overnight.

I'm being discharged today—levels back to normal, feeling grateful and alive.

Huge thanks to my incredible wife for staying calm and acting fast, and to @elonmusk @Tesla @tesla for engineering cars that literally protect lives when the driver can't. This isn't just convenience—it's life-saving tech. 🙏⚡❤️

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

@iAnonPatriot @bonchieredstate None of them will make the connection. They'll blame "greedy landlords."

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

My 12yo son over my shoulder "so what are they saying now? Are they saying we didn't know at the time..." Oh, my sweet, summer child. They will ignore completely and never mention it again.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

For her personally too the effects will be long-lasting. All elite sports is heavily dependent on psychological strength. She wasn't just assaulted, she was humiliated. By her team, by the public, by the Olympics organisers. Going to have a lot of psychological rebuilding to do.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Between 60-80% of Central American women and girls are r*ped on the journey through Mexico toward the U.S. border. Women take birth control before they leave home because they expect to be r*ped on the way here. R*pe is not an “unfortunate possibility” in your open‑border fantasy, it is the operating assumption.

They happen under trees in the desert where underwear is hung like trophies, in stash houses where women are lined up and passed around to pay off smuggling “debts,” in buses and safe houses controlled by men you will never name. They happen to women who have no police to call, no lawyer, no camera, no hashtag. Their suffering existed for years without your protests, without your essays, without your threads. Not one of you virtue signaling fakes care.

Where were you when American citizens were being killed by men who never should have been here in the first place? Where were your marches for the families who buried daughters and wives because someone you insist is “no threat” drove drunk for the third time, or stabbed someone in an alley, or shot a woman on a pier after multiple deportations? Where were your social‑media crusades for the women joggers who never made it home because they ran into a man who walked through an open door you demanded stay open?

You did not flood the streets for the women and girls r*ped on the route. You did not fill your feeds with their names, their faces, their stories. You did not camp outside cartel safe houses. You looked away. And then, the second you were offered a domestic villain with a badge and an American flag patch, you suddenly “discovered” your conscience. Don’t remember why “say their name” marches.

Now you have the audacity to turn all that emotion, all that rage, not at the men running the r*pe trees and stash houses, not at the repeat violent offenders who kill Americans and illegals alike but at the agents whose job is to find them, arrest them, and get them out of this country?

You are not brave.

You are not compassionate.

You are morally bankrupt and brainwashed useful idiots for a communist movement that you don’t even understand. You operate only on emotion and you have no logic or common sense that would even allow you to realize how stupid you look.

You are so intoxicated with your own self‑importance that you think this is all about which party holds power. And how many likes you get. You act as if morality flips like a light switch every time the White House changes hands. When it was your side signing the deportation orders, you were silent.

When it became useful to paint enforcement as evil, you started calling the exact same work “fascism.” You left your common sense and your basic moral instinct at the door to join a propaganda chorus run by professional agitators who see you as disposable.

The agents you are threatening and trying to intimidate did not write the statute. They did not draft the budgets. They did not design the broken system. They put on a vest, step into the dark, and go knock on doors knowing that the people behind them might be armed, desperate, or willing to do anything not to go back.

They are enforcing federal law you abject morons.

Isaiah 5:20 was written for moments like this: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”

You have inverted morality so completely and all in the name of ego. You all pray at the altar of yourselves because if you actually stop to think about the nonsense, you were saying you would realize how insane you sound, but you don’t because this entire thing is about stroking your own ego like the morally bankrupt, baby Bolsheviks in training that you have become.

I don’t know anything more embarrassing than these virtue signaling brainwashed pod people.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

This isn't actually that hard:

-- You're not allowed to obstruct law enforcement officers in the course of their duties. Protest is fine; obstruction is not.
-- Law enforcement officers who are being obstructed in the course of their duties are allowed to use force against those obstructing them.
-- State and local officials should be protecting immigration officials as they fulfill their duties to ensure order so that protest does not cross the line into obstruction. Failing to do so increases risks of violence and death for both state officials in the course of their duties and those obstructing them.
-- You can't kill someone and immediately call them a terrorist in advance of any investigation of the circumstances of the killing
-- You can't kill someone and not investigate whether wrongdoing occurred
-- Law enforcement officers have to act reasonably and are given reasonable latitude to make the wrong calls if they had a reasonable basis for acting in the manner the did even if it results in harm or death.
-- Law enforcement are subject to criminal liability where they act negligently or maliciously to harm or kill without a reasonable basis for doing so.
-- These rules and norms strike a balance between lawful protest and the legitimate enforcement of the law.
-- Immigration enforcement is legitimate and all attempts to render it illegitimate are themselves illegitimate. The intellectual and political movements, legal and extra-legal, that seek to render immigration enforcement an act beyond the moral and political pale must all be defeated through argument and effectual administrative action to shut down subversion of this legitimate act through all lawful means.