JAY W PEREGRINE

“ridurre ai principii”

[JAY W PEREGRINE @duck_hawk]

As an old geezer originally from Chicago I can say that the result of lack of effective law enforcement always results in the rise of crime - specifically organized crime. Organized crime usually starts within some families of recent immigrant communities. It is often a continuation of crime activities in the old country. The more it takes hold it becomes more and more difficult it is to control. The only way to control it is - effective law enforcement. Really a no- brainer. Just look at history.

[Monica Yatooma @MonicaYatooma]

🚨 Beware of the media spin.

The headlines say the FBI arrested eight people connected to “pro-Palestine advocacy” at the University of Michigan.

Sounds harmless, right?

According to the DOJ indictment, these individuals were tracking down the home addresses and photographs of university officials while discussing poisoning and bombing their families.

That’s not “advocacy”. That’s criminal conduct.. and borderline insane.

Yet much of the media, including mLive, chose to frame the story in a way that downplays the allegations and paints law enforcement as the problem.

This is exactly why trust in the media keeps collapsing. Too many outlets act less like journalists and more like public relations firms for the radical left.

Michigan voters: always read beyond the headline. The truth is usually buried several paragraphs down. This is the media bias we’re up against every day.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

The most surreal thing of our trip so far. Currently driving towards Louisiana and the radio station we were listening to started talking about our trip and played Ella Langley especially for us😭😭😭

[GnosisWolf @GnosisWolf]

Whether by accident or intentional, it’s clear the Liberal/Leftist worldview cannot handle facilitating a reasonable and neutral education environment.

👉 I believe this is a top 3 problem in America. Do you?

[⚓️ Sailor Jim 🔱 @JimHendley4NC]

I can’t recall any President in my lifetime doing this many projects in one year to make America great.

Can you?

[JAY W PEREGRINE @duck_hawk]

@rustbeltkid1 I actually waterskied on Lake Geneva, but it was the 60's. So much fun. Time flies.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In April, Meta was handing out titles like "Token Legend" to employees who used the most AI. This week, they sent a memo capping it. The company is spending $135 billion building AI this year. One employee's tab came to $1.4 million.

Every time an AI does anything, it processes tiny pieces of text called tokens. Think of one token as roughly 4 characters, about one syllable of a word. A short question uses maybe 30 of them. An AI writing code might burn through tens of thousands. An AI running on its own in the background for hours can eat through millions.

Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth became a true believer early in the year. He told staff one top engineer was spending the equivalent of his salary on tokens and getting five to ten times more done. "Keep doing it. No limit," he said. One employee built a leaderboard called "Claudeonomics" (named after Claude, the AI tool Meta used heavily) that ranked the top 250 token consumers across all 85,000 Meta workers. The leaderboard handed out titles: "Token Legend," "Session Immortal," "Cache Wizard." Some started leaving AI programs running for hours just to climb the list. In one month, the company burned through 60 trillion tokens, or roughly $300 million at published rates. The top user alone averaged 281 billion tokens a month, about $1.4 million.

Tuesday's memo reversed all of that. Meta is now building a platform to track and cap each person's usage. Bosworth had already started pulling back in an earlier note: "Nobody should be using AI tools just for the sake of using them."

Meta's AI infrastructure budget for 2026 (data centers, chips, and power) sits between $125 and $145 billion. The 8,000 layoffs from April save roughly $3 billion a year, about 2% of the low end. Motley Fool pushed further: even firing every single Meta employee would only recover around $27 billion, one-fifth of this year's construction bill.

Uber burned through its entire $3.4 billion AI budget by April 15. Microsoft canceled most of its Claude Code licenses and moved engineers to an internal tool instead. A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study in April found why costs spiral so fast: AI agents (software that works through multi-step tasks on its own in the background for hours, rather than one question) use up to 1,000 times more tokens than a normal conversation. Give people a leaderboard, and those agents run all night while no one is watching.

Whether any of this spending is working, nobody has proven yet. Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald said "that link is not there yet" between all this spending and shipping better products to customers. Code churn (code written by AI that engineers immediately throw away) reportedly jumped 800% at companies leaning heavily on AI coding tools. Meta's CTO championed the whole idea without a data point to his name. The biggest AI builder on earth is now rationing AI to the people building it.

[IDI @idicenter]

No, Pope Leo, you are wrong. Al-Andalus wasn't an interfaith utopia, it was 800 years of jizya, beheaded monks, forced conversions, and Maimonides fleeing for his life. You're peddling a fairy tale that gets Christians killed.

https://t.co/GREwxa1395

[JAY W PEREGRINE @duck_hawk]

@anishmoonka I loved that movie.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

You know how laugh tracks are used to make lame jokes seem like they brought down the house? And how they make laugh tracks sound realistic by turning them down then up a bit then way WAY up?

That's what these simulated elections are like.

They're laugh-track elections.

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

I’d heard so much about the newly renovated Reflection Pool, so I decided to come see it for myself. It’s absolutely beautiful. Thank you, Donald Trump, for helping restore our nation’s capital!

[JAY W PEREGRINE @duck_hawk]

@MarkPaoletta @EchoesofWarYT I never knew that. Thank you!

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

The truth is that the D political machine in LA and California is in so deep with bad bad elements that it must either deliver for them or else. Above the compromised are the ruthless, above the ruthless are the diabolical. Etcetera. None are really free. Corruption creates a pyramid of hostages.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Credentialism is one of the strangest religions ever invented. A piece of paper signed by the right stranger is treated as evidence of wisdom, while actual results are treated as anecdotal.

It’s what mediocre people build when reality keeps asking for proof of competence.

[JAY W PEREGRINE @duck_hawk]

@bennyjohnson The worst thing to the common (older) man like me is the lack of respect this reporter has for the President of the United States. I'll never get over it.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

Sending ballots in the mail to people who moved out of California years ago is corrupt.

Sending ballots in the mail to people who didn’t request one is corrupt.

Sending ballots in the mail to every address someone has lived in for the past 10 years is corrupt.

Letting activists sign up mentally unstable people for a ballot by using phony addresses is corrupt.

Not letting third party law enforcement officials check the voter rolls is corrupt.

Letting one political party control the entire process for decades leads to corruption.

[James Hohman @JamesHohman]

Michigan's property tax:
Raises 22% more than inflation since 2013
Largest tax levied by state and local governments
Rate is 27% higher than national average

[Cowboy Gospeler @CowboyGospeler]

@christopherrufo The Democrat minority have to keep their fraudulent control over Californians or they'll lose 44 congressional seats and any chance of holding nationwide power ever again.

[JAY W PEREGRINE @duck_hawk]

@midwestern_ope Only if Michigan gets Toledo back.