Josh Dudley

[Josh Dudley @dudleyjosh]

"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs, it's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you." -Tim Keller

[Yaroslav Mar @yaroslav_mar]

Israel has become the ultimate litmus test for one’s values.

Pro-Israel? Nine times out of ten you can accurately predict the rest of their worldview: men cannot give birth, there are only two genders, mass migration is bad, capitalism works, religious freedom must be protected, and Judeo-Christian values are the bedrock of Western civilization.

Anti-Israel? You can safely assume they’re either an Islamist, a communist, a neo-Nazi, or a teenage LARPer shrieking “Deus Vult” from his mom’s basement. “Palestine” is what unites the worst people in the world.

Israel didn’t ask for this role. It’s perfectly fine to have no strong opinion on a faraway Middle Eastern country. But in the current climate, a person’s stance on Israel instantly tells you whether they’re worth your time — or a waste of oxygen.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists:

Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story.

Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century.

That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion+ spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory.

A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser.

https://t.co/PHVlqFB3Zg

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

I haven't forgotten how stupidly most of Earth's population behaved from 2020-2022, and it will forever inform how I navigate the world.

[New York Post @nypost]

Hamas hid tons of baby formula to damage Israel with starvation claims, Palestinian activist says https://t.co/Us6GhKHxri

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

You should trust science, NOT its apparent product

Science is a process. It is worthy of trust because it is uniquely self-correcting. Our problem is that almost all of what looks like science in modern times does not use this method, and actively avoids learning from its errors

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Absolutely incredible story of a reporter who wanted to write up a Palestinian redemption story about a Gaza woman who he thought would have reformed after Israel saved her life twice over.

What he discovered interviewing her shocked his conscience.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Bret Weinstein breaks down the three foundational vaccine technologies, arguing that none are fundamentally safe. Each carries a severe, inherent downside.

1. Live Attenuated Vaccines: The risk here is unpredictability and evolution. A virus weakened for one person may cause a serious infection in another. Crucially, it can revert to a pathogenic, transmissible form—a "contagious vaccine." The historical case of the oral polio vaccine causing numerous polio cases stands as a stark warning.

2. Inactivated Virus/Fragments (with Adjuvant): The problem is immune misdirection. A dead virus alone is unconvincing, requiring an "adjuvant"—a chemical alarm bell. This non-specific signal causes the immune system to "freak out," not just at the target antigen but at anything present, like pollen or gut bacteria. Indiscriminately triggering a systemic immune response is a dangerous gamble.

3. mRNA Technology: The danger is haphazard biodistribution. The mRNA instructions travel unpredictably, instructing cells anywhere in the body to produce the foreign antigen. The immune system then rightly identifies these cells as infected and attacks them. This random destruction of healthy tissue—for instance, in the heart—is an unacceptable and fundamentally unsafe mechanism.

The conclusion is sobering: our current technological paradigms for vaccination are built on foundations with profound and unaddressed safety trade-offs.

[Josh Dudley @dudleyjosh]

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[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

The Climate Scam is Over..
Peer-reviewed AI analysis completely debunks all of the "man-made" claims.
Please click on the link to read or listen to the essay:
https://t.co/2rpa0ADk8C

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

FDA will soon be sued for an invalid clinical trial.

We petitioned FDA, on behalf of @ICANdecide, to withdraw licensure or require a valid trial for both Hep-B vaccines indicated for use in babies because both were licensed based on inadequate trials: one with only 147 children and 5 days of safety monitoring and the other with only 4 days. (See FDA docs cited in petition below.) FDA's approval was thus not only scientifically invalid, but morally and ethically bankrupt. FDA had 180 days to substantively respond to the petition but so far has had nothing but excuses. Despite the passage of over 3 years, FDA has failed to provide any further data to support the safety of these products. Lawsuit soon to follow and we encourage everyone to write to FDA to support ICAN’s petition here: https://t.co/q1w3Neyn61

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

It's getting easier to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

And that's good.

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

What a joy to watch renowned Harvard Physicist Eric Weinstein shut down Piers Morgan as he attacks social media users for damaging science during Covid!!

Instead Weinstein seized the moment to name Fauci the greatest threat to science with his amplified contradictory pronouncements.

Plus his ability to shut down dissenting voices, notably Oxford and Harvard scientists like Bhattacharya.

‘What you’re seeing is not a failure of science. What you’re seeing is a failure of science to disavow public health. Public Health is not science.’

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[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

One of the reasons why government absorbs so much money and takes on ever increasing powers is that it is home to so many people whose beliefs could not withstand the draconian tests of science, the marketplace or a scoreboard. What we the taxpayers are ultimately paying for is their insulation from reality, as they pursue the heady pleasures of power.

As if that were not enough, the left promotes the idea that there is something wiser and nobler about having decisions made by third parties who pay no price for being wrong.

[Jason Helmes @anymanfitness]

Just finished this book - Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier

This is one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read. It's a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well.

The book dives into trying to figure out why kids are having so many mental health problems, when there are so many resources devoted to improving mental health outcomes.

Anxiety, depression, suicide, etc are all higher than they've ever been with kids, even though their lives are arguably better than ever before. It just doesn't make sense.

A few key takeaways from the book:

A constant attention on how kids are "feeling" or "thinking" is causing negative outcomes.

Constantly ruminating on your emotions and how you feel negatively impacts your mental health. If all you do is focus on your emotions, you are destined to be anxious or depressed.

We incessantly ask kids how they're feeling, if they're happy, how their mental health is, etc, and this is creating kids who think they're fragile instead of resilient.

Trying to solve every problem for kids has caused a generation who can't do anything for themselves.

We (Gen X) were told to "suck it up" or "you'll live" or "rub some dirt on it" all the time. Many of us came to the conclusion this is "bad parenting" because our feelings were neglected, and we vowed not to do this to our own children.

Because of that, kids immediately over-dramatize everything that happens to them, making mountains out of molehills, and thinking the world must revolve around their emotions and feelings.

You develop confidence and strong mental health by doing things, not by thinking or via therapy.

You can't think your way out of anxiety. You don't gain confidence by analysis of your thoughts or mental health issues.

You gain confidence and eliminate anxiety by doing gradually more difficult tasks, excelling at them, and realizing you are a competent, capable person.

The non-stop attention therapy gives to these small, common emotions we all feel blows them out of proportion to their seriousness (not talking about genuine disorders here, just normal anxieties that millions of people go to therapy to try to avoid).

One of the best ways to decrease your happiness is to chase it.

Our society constantly tells kids they should be "happy" and asks them if they are.

Happiness isn't a state you should be in 24/7. That's not realistic. Joy and bliss aren't permanent states - they are fleeting.

Contentment, stillness, and being even-keeled are much better goals to aim for mentally.

The happiest, most well adjusted kids come from families with loving parents that have strict rules for the household.

This one really set off the confirmation bias in me... I feel really blessed we have 2 well adjusted middle school kids who do great in school, are very respectful and well mannered, and we barely even need to parent them.

But for years, we were very strict with them. Bedtimes, family rules, how we do things, etc. The in-laws and lots of friends thought we were totalitarian.

In reality, we just had high standards. And it's really paying off right now. I found it really interesting that strict rules equals happy kids. Makes sense, though, as kids need to know what their boundaries are.

Constantly surveying school-age kids about their mental health causes more issues than it solves.

Mental health resources is big money. Districts need to validate all the resources allocated towards mental health, and they often do that via surveys.

Asking kids non-stop questions like:

- Have you thought about self harm?
- Have you thought about suicide?
- Have you been so anxious you can't get out of bed?

Etc, etc puts into their heads the idea that themselves, or many of their peers are broken and cannot function properly in the real world.

It normalizes situations that would be incredibly rare at any other time in history.

There's a lot of other takeaways, too, but I'll stop there.

It's a fantastic book. Go pick it up and read it. This isn't an affiliate thing or a promotion thing at all. I just really enjoyed it, and it will further shape the way I parent moving forward.

[UngaTheGreat @UngaTheGreat]

Bret Weinstein: Every Public Truth-Seeking Institution Is Under Simultaneous Assault

Dr. Bret Weinstein’s message is a wake-up call.

“In every single institution dedicated to public truth-seeking, there is a state of collapse,” he asserts, highlighting a disturbing pattern of systemic attack on the very fabric of societal enlightenment.

He highlights the systematic attempt against building down the base of public trust and intellectual integrity.

Every body of experts fails utterly; if they won’t buckle, they are marginalized or forced out.

@BretWeinstein
@SenRonJohnson

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

It took Libertarian President Javier Milei nine and a half weeks to balance the budget and create a surplus.

NINE. AND A HALF. WEEKS.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I finally figured out what's wrong with "everything."

It's a system problem. The introduction of Trump into the system(s) broke almost everything, and in multiple ways.

The fake news created a White Supremacist hysteria, which led to the Fine People Hoax and the George Floyd Hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence in all of our systems at once.

Add wokeness and cancelation and we can't discuss the issue, much less fix it. That's a system problem. The corrective mechanism (free speech) has been removed.

On top of that, the Trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt. They probably always were, but as long as we didn't notice, things limped along okay.

Now we notice.

Now we don't accept "the science" we know is corrupt. We don't accept the omnibus bills we know are corrupt. We don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy. We don't accept elections we can't fully audit. We don't trust the news, for good reason. We don't trust our intel services to not be agents of one party. And we see the justice departments weaponized.

While all that happened Soros found a way to take control of all American systems via funding of non-government entities and integrating them into the American systems.

But at the head of the snake is the fake news and fake science. There is no correcting mechanism.

The X platform is the only counterforce, and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out, and Musk at the same time.

[Gina Carano 🕯 @ginacarano]

Today is an important day for me--I am filing a lawsuit against @lucasfilm & @Disney

After my 20 years of building a career from scratch, and during the regime of former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, Lucasfilm made this statement on Twitter, terminating me from The Mandalorian: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm & there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural & religious identities are abhorrent & unacceptable.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is I was being hunted down from everything I posted to every post I liked because I was not in line with the acceptable narrative of the time. My words were consistently twisted to demonize & dehumanize me as an alt right wing extremist. It was a bullying smear campaign aimed at silencing, destroying & making an example out of me. 

The thing is I never even used aggressive language. I shared thought provoking quotes, pictures, memes & occasionally I used my own words, not with aggression but with respect & the occasional comedy to keep the mood light in dark times.

Look with your own eyes at what I posted and ask yourself, for example, where did I compare Republicans to the Jewish people in the holocaust? I didn’t. Ask yourself why they were calling me a racist, was there any merit behind that or history of it whatsoever?  No. Look at why I was called a transphobe--for making droid noises from Star Wars? “Beep, bop, boop” was obviously directed to the online bullies and did not in any way denigrate transgender people. 

Were my questions about masks, lockdowns & forced vaccines ok to ask & push the subject into the light? Should we have been allowed to publicly discuss those topics at that time without being harassed or censored? Absolutely.

Hollywood says they support female representation & equal rights. Why then were my male co-stars permitted to speak without harassment & re-education courses or termination, but I was not afforded the same right to exercise my freedom of speech.

Artists do not sign away our rights as American citizens when we enter into employment. I have spoken to all my co-stars since I was fired & there is nothing but care and kind words between us. I respect their right to free speech & do not have to think the same on every issue to be their friends & work with them & I know they feel the same towards me.

A couple months ago @ElonMusk tweeted that if you had been fired from using the platform (X) for exercising your right to free speech, he would like to offer these people legal representation. Quite the noble offer, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought anyone would take on my case against Lucasfilm/Disney.  Still, I did respond back “I think I qualify” & thousands of people agreed--but I did not expect anything. 

To my surprise, a few months ago I received an email from a lawyer who had been hired by X to look into my story & many others. Turns out after sending them as much information as I could gather these past few months, my now lawyers & X believe whole-heartedly in my case & are moving forward.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude & thank you to @ElonMusk & @X for giving me an opportunity to bring my case to light.

As for me, I would love to pick up where I left off & continue my journey of creating & participating in story-telling, which is my utmost passion & everything I worked so hard for. It has been difficult to move forward with the lies & labels stuck on me, backed & encouraged by the most powerful entertainment company in the world.  I am grateful someone has come to my defense in such a powerful way & look forward to clearing my name. 

Thank you to all the people who have supported me & made your voices heard. I pray God blesses each & every one of you. 

With love,

Gina Carano

For inquiries contact:
[email protected]

[Penfold @elbow112]

Oh, if only!