Hace 4.500 años existió una civilización tan grande como Egipto y Mesopotamia juntas. Tenía ciudades con alcantarillado, baños en cada casa y agua corriente. No hemos hallado ni un solo rey, ni un ejército, ni una guerra. Y nadie sabe leer su idioma. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Death Valley National Park experienced its first major superbloom in a decade this year, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.
On Monday night in NYC I presented Larry with an award for his singular contributions to intellectual freedom. It's nice to see @bariweiss giving him the credit he is due in a much wider manner. He's a treasure indeed.
Dont let go of the family at the center of yesterday's Supreme Court property tax ruling.
In 1991, Scott Pung bought a small three-bedroom home on half an acre for his wife and two children. It was their family home. When Scott died in 2004, his wife stayed there. When she died in 2008, their son and his family stayed. Same home, same family, more than two decades.
The whole time, it was their primary residence, taxed at the lower rate Michigan gives a family home. Then in 2010 an assessor decided, wrongly, that they should be taxed as if it were a second home. The family took it to court and won. The tribunal ruled they did not owe it.
The assessor's response, in her own words about the judge who ruled for the family: "I don't care what he says." She imposed the tax again. She left it off the original bill and added it later. When the family came in to pay, they brought a driver's license to prove it was their home, and paid what they actually owed.
It did not matter. Over roughly $2,242 that they did not owe and had already beaten in court, the county foreclosed. A trial court tried to give the home back over a notice failure. The county appealed to stop that. In 2018, after 27 years, the family permanently lost the home Scott Pung bought in 1991.
This is what the property tax can do. Not in theory. To a real family, over a bill that was never owed, because one official decided she did not care what the court said. And the Supreme Court said the Constitution will not make that family whole.
I reached out to the Pung family, and they gave me their blessing to share their story and this photo. My thanks to them, and my respect for the fight they carried all the way to the highest court in the land. It will help families they will never meet.
This is exactly why we are working to end the tax that made it possible.
Photo of Marc and Tia Pung at the U.S. Supreme Court, shared with their permission.
I don't know what broke in the matrix, but watching John Bolton not only plead guilty to a felony but the specific felony he spent decades depicting as the most egregious -- calling for life imprisonment or execution for it -- is a level of karmic justice I didn't know existed.
Christopher Nolan on one of his favourite movies - Jules Dassin's "Topkapi" (1964):
"I've no idea what the critical consensus is on this one, but as style-over-substance movies go, 'Topkapi' (1964) is fabulously entertaining. I love it not just for its often imitated dangling-from-the-ceiling heist sequence but also for Peter Ustinov's incredible comic performance"
("Nolan's Favourite", Nolan Fans Forum)
In my column today when I said the old Palace of Fine Arts from the World's Columbian Exposition had fallen into ruin before it was rescued and turned into the MSI in 1933, this is the ruin I was talking about.
feng shui is real. declutter your room. clear your camera roll. unfollow people. clean your desk.
wash the dishes. get rid of what’s expired. watch how much mental energy comes back
🚨 CHICAGO / ILLINOIS MEDICAID FRAUD CASE 🚨
As the RICO continues…
Federal prosecutors say Daniel Robinson, 51, of Palos Park, was charged in connection with a $67 million Illinois Medicaid fraud scheme tied to behavioral health services that were allegedly never provided. According to the Justice Department, the billing was so outrageous that claims allegedly showed 500+ hours of counseling and therapy in a single day — more hours than any real staff could provide, even working around the clock. (Department of Justice)
The feds say this wasn’t just sloppy paperwork — they say millions were diverted into brokerage accounts, luxury cars, jewelry, real estate, and other high-end purchases including The yacht, which was bought in early 2025, has since been renamed “Butt Nekkid” and is docked at the 31st Street Harbor in Chicago. while Illinois Medicaid was being billed for services patients allegedly never received. Prosecutors also say data showed some of the supposed patients were hospitalized elsewhere on days Robinson’s company billed Medicaid for treatment. Robinson was reportedly arrested at the airport while allegedly trying to leave the country. (Department of Justice)
So while everyday Illinois residents are fighting for housing, health care, and basic stability, the question is simple:
How much fraud, waste, and abuse has been hiding in plain sight while taxpayers keep footing the bill?
Chicago Flips Red is watching the Illinois Medicaid pipeline very closely.
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https://t.co/NSOZGGEMsu
#Chicagoflipsred
Third world communists are the enemy. They've taken over our greatest American city. They're taking over one of our two major political parties. They hate this country. They hate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions. This is the fight. Get in the game or go away.
All DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped.
Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department.
If anyone had actually died as a result of DOGE, their names would be worldwide headline news!
On the other hand, USAID did help fund the Wuhan Virology Institute, which caused the deaths of millions, and the revolution that started the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Bolsheviks were a tiny extremist group nobody took seriously. They could have been crushed at any time. Until one day, they couldn't. Soon they had control of all of Russia. They were insane. But that did not matter. They were organized and committed. They ruled for 74 years.
Prince was such a massive fan of THE MUPPETS, he asked if he could host the Muppets Tonight show in 1997, leading to one of the rare instances we saw a more comedic version of himself instead of the quiet and reserved persona fans were used to 😂👏
Why did the press act as cheerleaders & mass behavioral guides rather than investigators or principled skeptics - their traditional roles - during COVID?
How was this transformation effected?
I'm tired of hearing only abt Fauci etc.
I want to know abt the media orchestration.