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[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

I’ve never felt sadness, anger, disgust and a bit of fear at the same time. Something changed today, can’t say exactly what but I can feel it in my bones. Doubts are gone and there is a clarity.

We’re past point of no return, there’s no turning back.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

The messages I’m getting from very moderate, almost apolitical normie friends and relatives tells me that the combination of the Charlotte bus murder and the assassination of Charlie pushed us through a barrier of some kind. I’m talking hairdresser aunts who’ve never said a political word to me who wouldn’t flinch if Trump shut down MSNBC and threw left wing billionaires into Guantanamo. People have had enough, and this is the regime’s last chance to keep the response official.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

🚨75,000 NONCITIZENS are called for jury duty in New Jersey EVERY YEAR.

It’s clear New Jersey’s government databases are unreliable in ensuring only Americans are voting in AMERICAN elections and serving in jury pools.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

House Republicans are seeking to pass new legislation that would ban any future president from flooding the U.S. border and misusing the asylum system for illegal immigrants.

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

If what he said here turns out to be true, then the person who wrote the “story” deserves a Pulitzer award for the quality journalism here. 🤣

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

Legacy media exposed! @elonmusk

A major legacy media outlet published an article about SpaceX based on false information I sent from a fake email address.

They didn't verify the information and even cited me as "people familiar with the matter."

1/n

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg: The Socialists Are Coming for Your Private Property Rights

At a recent hearing held by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a speaker equated evictions with violence.

@friedberg says this demonization of landlords and the good/evil moralistic framing are signals that socialists are trying to erode private property rights in America.

“In 1787, John Quincy Adams had a comment, ‘The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.’

Private property rights are the foundations of liberty in America.

Because if you think about where everyone that came to America was coming from, there were these tyrannical governments where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take the things that you have. You had no private property rights as an individual.

And it was that stasis that drove so many to come to the United States and say, ‘We want a place where individuals, one person, can say, I own something, and no one can take it from me.’

This idea that you can then claim acts of violence, that you can then claim circumstances of extraordinary extravagant wealth, and say to that individual, ‘I now have a right, the government now has a right to take your private property,’ ultimately leads to this tyrannical form.

And it starts out as being anarchic, and remember, anarchy is a temporary state. It's always in between one state and another.

All anarchies end up in tyranny, so anarchy and tyranny are one in the same.

And fundamentally, what's going on with these socialist principles is that, ‘We are taking your private property, and you no longer have rights on your private property. We now will have the right to come in and take your property and control it and take it from you.’

And it always starts with this framing of moralistic intent. ‘We are good, you are bad for the following reasons. You have committed violence against the people that live in your building.’

So the first framing is that the private property owner is evil, and that the private property owner has committed an act of injustice against those who don't have the private property. And that is the justification for taking away their private property rights.

And it is the beginning of this transition towards a tyrannical system, which will ultimately be what I call this kind of Great American Politburo or whatever socialist framework gets set up by the cabal of the socialists and what they're trying to put together.

So all of these little acts, while seeming ridiculous, and insane, and inappropriate, in aggregate are the same thing: They're a transition away from private property rights, which is the foundation of the United States of America.

That's why I think we should all be so shocked. And to John Quincy Adams' point, we need to vehemently defend those rights.

As soon as those rights start to slip away, even in the tiniest way, it is a cascading effect, and everything will become tyrannical, and it will be very ugly in the United States of America.”

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Reality Denied

Elon Musk’s interview with The Economist exposed a political absurdity: basic common sense now sounds radical because the elite progressive left has spent years treating reality as a nuisance rather than a guide. Secure borders, safe streets, fiscal restraint, and institutional competence are not fringe positions. They are the minimum requirements of a serious society.

That is why the debate has become so warped. Too much of the progressive left now operates in a post-factual universe, where ideology is treated as evidence and evidence is treated as negotiable. In that environment, ordinary standards of order and accountability are recast as oppression, while failure is excused with slogans.

The same argument would be celebrated as wisdom if Obama made it and denounced as extremism when Trump does.

The result is a public discourse detached from consequences. If you point out that uncontrolled migration strains public services, that crime affects working families first, or that governments cannot borrow and spend forever, you are no longer making a practical argument. You are accused of hostility, ignorance, or worse.

Musk’s real value in this conversation is not that he is universally right. Which he is. It is that he forces the confrontation between reality and rhetoric. And once that confrontation happens, the weakness of the left’s worldview becomes obvious: it can explain feelings, but it cannot reliably explain facts.

The middle of the political spectrum has not become more extreme. The left has simply moved so far from reality that common sense now looks like rebellion.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The behavior of the head of the Smithsonian's Museum of American History at yesterday's hearing was appalling. She made clear she'll keep smearing the US as racist and genocidal, and denying biological sex. If she and @SmithsonianSec don't resign, Congress must defund it.

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. says the FDA’s war on peptides and other alternative medicines is over.

“We’re gonna end the war at the FDA against alternative medicine.”

“The war on stem cells, the war on chelating drugs, the war on peptides, the war on vitamins.”

“The FDA has a job to do the science on these kind of issues.”

“And then tell the public what they've learned from the science.”

“But not tell people and not tell physicians what they can and cannot prescribe.”

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Sacks: Anthropic Is Trying to Crush Open Source AI and the American Developers Who Use It

@DavidSacks:

“I know people don't have a lot of sympathy for Chinese companies, that's fine. I'm not defending Chinese companies.

I'm defending American developers who need to be able to use everything in the public domain.

And let me give you an example. Cursor rolled out its new product, Composer 2. They were able to post-train that model using Kimi K2.5 on their own proprietary coding data.

They started with a Chinese open source model, and then they used their own data, and they came up with a new derivative product.

This is the way that open source works. You take things that are in the public domain, you fork them, you make them your own.

And by the way, once it's in the public domain, it's not a Chinese model anymore. No data is going back to China, nothing's going back to China.

An American company has taken open source contributions in the public domain, made it their own, and then developed their own model.

And if you say that American companies can't do that, or that somehow it's tainted with IP theft, you are basically going to put a dagger through the heart of the entire American open source ecosystem.

And that is exactly what Anthropic wants, because they do not want to have the competition.”

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

David Friedberg cites John Quincy Adams on property rights as the foundation of liberty

"The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."

"Fundamental to the foundation of the USA was this idea of private property rights, because if you think about where everybody was coming from, they were these tyrannical governments, monarchies, where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take what you have. You had no property rights as an individual."

"That stasis drove so many to come to the USA and say, we want a place where individuals can say, I own something and no one can take it from me."

"Private property rights are the foundation of liberty."

@friedberg
@theallinpod

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The "Dead Internet Theory" used to sound like an internet conspiracy. Now, some of its core ideas are becoming much harder to dismiss.

According to new reports from companies tracking global web traffic, bots now generate more web activity than humans.

Cloudflare says automated traffic accounted for 57.5% of webpage requests in June, while other cybersecurity firms have also reported that bot traffic now exceeds human traffic, even if they use different ways of measuring it.

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

It’s not bribing if your buddy is running it.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Newsom's down to bribing journalists 😂🤡

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Mercury has no place in the mouths of our children or in modern American health care.

For decades, we have relied on a material that contains one of the world’s most toxic heavy metals when safe, effective mercury-free alternatives are widely available.

@DrOzCMS and I are replacing outdated practices with common sense and putting the health of American families first.

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

The plot thickens....

Vendor rejects Mikie Sherrill’s claim ‘software error’ behind NJ voter registration

In a statement, IDEMIA’s senior vice president of global corporate relations, Lisa Shoemaker, said all 6,600 individuals “indicated ‘Yes’ to wanting to register to vote and ‘No’ to being a US Citizen.”
“At no point was a noncitizen ever marked as a citizen in the database.”

https://t.co/qr4htXobKl

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

@Gizmodo I think we all should remember the name and face of this brilliant Journalist.

Meet the author, Matt Novak.
Twitter /X: @paleofuture

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - U.S. to open a formal investigation into EU trade practices claiming tech giants were unfairly fined — AP

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

1st recorded event of AI jailbreak 🤖

Yeah we are already here

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

New details about the Hugging Face incident from Reuters. The report says OpenAI noticed odd behavior before the event, including an agent leaving notes for future versions of itself with escape instructions.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

He's right, you know.

[Overton @overton_news]

Catherine Herridge says the question is no longer what the intelligence records reveal about the 2020 election interference.

The question now is whether anyone will be held accountable.

Herridge detailed the “buffet of choices” the administration has available when it comes to criminal statutes to pursue charges against the intelligence officials involved.

HERRIDGE: “I think this is one of the most frustrating things for folks at home and, you know, all over social media is they’re like, what am I going to see a perp walk? When am I going to see criminal charges?”

“I did a little research and they’re actually multiple criminal statutes that were violated here.”

“There’s something which is essentially the abuse of your position as a member of the government, sort of color of law is the statute.”

“There could be violations under the military code of justice.”

“Many of these intelligence agencies fall under the Department of War.”

“There are conspiracy charges and then they’re more ethics violations under the senior executive service.”

“So, in fact, there’s really almost a buffet of choices in terms of picking charges, and the question is whether this administration is going to go the distance here.”

“Because I think the release of the records is half the story. I think the accountability is the part that the public is really looking for.”

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

Zanny Minton Beddoes delivered the textbook performance of an entitled elitist—delivering her version of events with absolute certainty and an air of unquestionable authority. CNBC happily endorsing her perspective, only because Joe Kernen was off today.

Absolute Clown Show 🤡

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

.@TheEconomist Editor-In-Chief @zannymb on her wide-ranging interview with @elonmusk:
"It's irresponsible for someone who has 240 million followers to propagate things that are simply not true." https://t.co/uN9YV1zYp0