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[Monica @cmoncap]

“The simplest and most accessible key to our self-neglected liberation lies right here: Personal non-participation in lies.”

#Solzhenitsyn

[Monica @cmoncap]

@zarazhangrui Interesting

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

The oddest thing about the LA vote is the electorate that told pollsters cost of living was the #1 issue also voted to increase sales tax — not on billionaires, but on themselves. Either people are confused; or there is fraud; or the system is gamed (legally) by left-wing groups.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

On election night in Los Angeles County, I pulled every statewide race directly from the California Secretary of State’s official results page. Same ballots. Same voters. Same night.

The governor’s race the most important, most advertised race on the entire ballot received roughly 100,000 fewer total votes than the controller and secretary of state races. On the same physical ballot.

The exact numbers from the official SOS website:

•Governor total votes: 796,467
•Controller total votes: 901,756
•Secretary of State total votes: 889,586

That means 105,289 more people voted for state controller than voted for governor. And 93,119 more people voted for secretary of state than voted for governor.

Do you know what the state controller does? Most people don’t. It is one of the most obscure offices on the ballot. Yet it got more votes than the race that determines who runs the largest state in America for the next four years.

All Republican governor candidates combined on election night: 222,712 votes

Republican controller candidate (Herb Morgan): 302,552 votes

Republican secretary of state candidate (Don Wagner): 291,650 votes

That means roughly 70,000 to 80,000 people voted Republican in the controller and secretary of state races but did not cast a Republican vote for governor on the same ballot.

These are not different ballots. These are not different voters. This is one piece of paper. Governor is at the TOP. Controller and secretary of state are further DOWN.

People don’t undervote on the top ballot. They undervote on the bottom ballot.

How does this make any sense?

What am I missing people who are smarter than me?

[MosheEcon @MosheEcon]

You got to be kidding me. Theres even an R package for this kind of stuff already.

https://t.co/M045Mu5Z77

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The magnitude & brazen nature of the government payment fraud is staggering

[Monica @cmoncap]

@carldemaio Bruh

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once voting is this fraudulent, they can get whatever outcome they want, making a sham of democracy

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

My friend @_djpn got pushed onto the subway tracks in NYC.

He's alive, but seriously injured.

Every day for the past week, people have gotten shoved onto the tracks or stabbed by homeless men who were known to the police.

We don't have to live like this. Just lock them up.

[Monica @cmoncap]

@DavidSacks @christopherrufo Indeed

[Monica @cmoncap]

@Timcast They know they’re cheating they know we know they’re cheating. They know we know they know they’re cheating yet they continue cheating. Why?

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

When the Supreme Court bans the counting of late-arriving mail ballots (and they almost certainly will) by the end of this month, the ramifications will be sweeping and instantly felt, especially in states like CA, OR, WA, and NV, which have mastered mail fraud.

For instance, Dems are counting on a 48-4 House split in CA with their new map. They can get it and STILL miss the House majority as the maps stand today.

If they get 46-6 or 44-8, they suffer devastating losses and if the latter perhaps odds below 20% to take the majority. Other seats like NV-3 may become playable, too.

It remains a terrible thing to watch but California’s open treason has created the greatest demand for ripping up election corruption by its roots since the 2022 races in Arizona - if not the 2020 election itself.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Spencer Pratt did an amazing job showing how the City of Los Angeles was brazenly stealing from taxpayers and not providing basic services

Is it any surprise that they would steal an election too?

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)

Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8

This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

It is impossible to explain how insecure the California election system is

No ID required

A broken signature verification process

Enormous #s of mail in ballots

A giant homeless population, where it is proven they have been paid to register to vote

We need change

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:
🔵 Bass: 38.1%
🔴 Pratt: 27.9%
🔵 Raman: 20%

Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:
🔵 Raman: 37% (+17% surge)
🔵 Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop)
🔴 Pratt: 19% (-9% drop)

Who are we kidding here? This is fraud.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.

When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

California elections are deliberately engineered to ensure Republicans, particularly statewide, cannot run in the general.

That is the entire purpose of its fake “primary”—to guarantee Democrats are the only candidates on the general election ballot so there are zero down-ticket congressional race coattails for Republican candidates.

OF COURSE they are going to cook the books with manufactured ballots collected after Election Day. They could not make their intentions more obvious.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

When Gabriel Zucman manipulated tax rate stats to show the wealthy paying less than the poor and tried to memory hole his own previously published numbers that undermined this claim, academia cheered him on because they liked his political narrative and gave him the Clark Medal.

When Kevin Kruse plagiarized multiple passages in his published works over the past two decades, academia circled the wagons around him, attacked the person who discovered it (i.e. me) as "politically motivated," and dismissed overwhelming evidence as "accidental copying and pasting."

When Quinn Slobodian got caught altering the text of Mises quotations to make them sound racist, academia made him co-editor of the journal where he did it and showered him with prizes.

When Nancy MacLean got caught engaging in wholesale fabrications of evidence (as well as egregious incompetence) in her book about James M. Buchanan, academia made her a finalist for the National Book Award.

When Nikole Hannah-Jones got caught denying and ghost-editing one of her most controversial claims out of the 1619 Project, academia handed her a cushy endowed professorship with full tenure despite her having nonexistent scholarly research outputs and zero teaching experience.

When Michael Bellesiles falsified historical documents to make an anti-second amendment argument as part of his history of gun ownership in America, academia gave him the Bancroft Prize and only rescinded it after the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

When Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple scholarly works over her career, academia made her president of Harvard and also tried to circle the wagons until the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

Yes, higher ed has a politicization problem and it often shows through in the exceedingly low standards of rigor in many of these fields. But it also manifests in other ways that are much more serious than a simple lack of rigor.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone