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[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

‼️Y’all Ain’t Gonna Believe This BS‼️

A new teacher has been hired at Apex’s Middle Creek Elementary School by Principal Sarah Stephens, whose dissertation was titled “Equity-Focused School Improvement.”

The teacher? “Aria” Canon Derrick.

That’s right. Aria is a “nonbinary” man. His music students will be forced to address him as “Ms.”

Even worse? Parents weren’t notified. Those who don’t know will find out tonight when they’re blindsided at the teacher Meet and Greet.

It gets even better: Principal Stephens is refusing to reply to concerned parents’ emails.

And oh yeah, WRAL knows and hasn’t said a peep.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The city of Phoenix Arizona started a ‘Photo Safety Program.” They setup speed cameras that take a photo if you go 11 mph over the speed limit

🚨 A private company then comes to your door to serve you the ticket and get your signature, dressed very similar to Amazon

The city outsourced the ticket program to a company called Verra Mobility

The private company handles basically everything, they

- Installing and operating the cameras
- Processing of the images
- They mail the notice
- They then go out and serve people who don’t respond their ticket

The private company Verra Mobility gets a base fee of about $3,000 per camera per month plus $20 for every ticket that gets paid

This creates a clear incentive to pursue collection aggressively

This is insane… We now have private companies with access to all our information….. sending people out to actually serve and collect money….

[GeneFoto @genefoto]

https://t.co/j9F3KXWVNA

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk described the government in four sentences and never made a political argument. He read out the schematic.

Musk: "Government is a corporation in the limit. It is the most corporate thing. It is maximum corporation. And it's also a monopoly, and also is the only one that's allowed legally to do violence."

Take the flag off it and look at what's underneath.

It collects revenue. It employs millions. It owns land. It writes the rules it operates under.

That's a corporation. Line for line.

With three edits.

You cannot choose a competitor.

You cannot decline the transaction.

It is the only one on earth permitted to use force to make you pay.

Every other relationship in your life required your consent. This one required your birth.

Musk: "Why would you want to give a corporation with no competition that can't even really go bankrupt more money?"

There is no condition under which it stops. None was ever built in.

Everything that has ever gotten better got better by being allowed to die. Evolution runs on extinction. Science runs on falsification. Markets run on bankruptcy. Your own body runs on cells that kill themselves on schedule.

Failure isn't cruelty. It's information. It's the only mechanism in the universe that tells a system it was wrong.

Take it away and the system doesn't become permanent. It becomes blind.

A company that misreads the world loses customers.

A government that misreads the world receives a larger budget the following year.

It's the only structure we've built where failure is what feeds it.

Musk: "I think the role of government should be that of like a referee, and not a player on the field."

A referee was never supposed to be weak. He was supposed to be outside the outcome.

The moment he starts scoring he isn't corrupt. Corruption would mean he broke a rule. He wrote the rules. He's just playing, and he's the only one allowed to keep score.

A system like that never gets caught. It only gets old.

Every civilization that collapsed did it with its institutions still standing.

The buildings stayed. The titles stayed. The revenue arrived on schedule.

What died was the feedback. The signal telling it that reality had moved and it hadn't.

Rome didn't fall in a day. It stopped listening for a century and called it stability.

That's the actual danger. Not tyranny. Deafness with a budget.

And it runs deeper than politics.

Everything you love is precious because it can be lost. A promise means something because the person making it will die. Your time matters because you don't get more of it.

Mortality isn't the tragedy of being human. It's the only reason anything costs anything.

Then we built one institution exempt from all of it. No death. No scarcity. No consequence. A thing that can never lose anything, deciding what everything is worth.

It bills in dollars. It's paid in hours. And it has never once felt what an hour costs.

It can be wrong for a century and feel nothing. You get eighty years and have to be right the first time.

It doesn't have to win the argument. It only has to outlive the person making it, and it has never lost that one.

It borrows against people who don't exist yet, and they will pay, because it will still be standing when they arrive.

Then we handed it the only gun.

This isn't a conspiracy. Conspiracies need competence and coordination. This is a design flaw, and design flaws only need time.

That's the good news. A conspiracy can't be proven or fixed. A design flaw can be both.

Everything good in your life exists because something was permitted to fail on the way to it. Every medicine. Every machine. Every idea that survived contact with reality.

The one institution that cannot fail is the one holding the gun.

That isn't a warning. It's an engineering problem.

And every permanent thing on earth was designed by people who weren't.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime.

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here's what "fighting crime" actually looks like:

> 84% had no case number at all
> The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
> Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
> "Test" and "training" show up as reasons, run on real people's cars
> The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock's AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor's tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn't even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone's camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein's money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

If you have a son or daughter who's starting to think that socialism is the answer to our problems, I want you to try something and report back:

Next time you talk, don't argue. Sit down, ask these questions, and just listen:

- When you say "socialism," do you mean that you want the government to pay for a bigger safety net like in Denmark, or that the government owns the means of production? Because those are two very different countries.

- You say the system is rigged. Who rigged it? And who should be handed the power to un-rig it?

- Who sets the price of bread? If not a single person or corporation, what causes that price to remain steady or go up?

- Can you name a country where the state took ownership of the means of production and the poor got richer?

- When borders open or the walls fall down, anywhere in the world, which direction do people run? Towards the free market system or the socialist system? And before the boundaries fell, which way were the guns pointed?

- Would you rather be poor today, or rich in 1900? By the way, only one of those has antibiotics.

- If you and I make a voluntary trade, and we both walk away happy, who got hurt?

- Someone has to decide what your work is worth. Would you rather it be you and the person paying you, or a bureaucrat with an army who has never met either of you?

Try having this conversation with your kids this week. Don't argue. Only listen. And if you want, call into my radio show and tell me how it went.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The countries you hold up as proof socialism works outrank America on business freedom.

Every single one of them scores higher than the United States on how easy it is to start, run, and close a company according to the Heritage Foundation’s own index.

They have more billionaires per capita and their corporate tax rates sit lower too: Denmark and Norway at 22%, Finland at 20%, Sweden at 21.4% against roughly 25.8% here.

Sweden has also run a nationwide school voucher system since 1992 so parents can send their kids to any public or private school they want, for-profit included, and that policy came straight from Milton Friedman.

These countries fund large welfare states by taxing the middle class at high rates, and that only stays sustainable because they keep free markets that grow the pie in the first place.

So if you want a welfare state that lasts, raise business freedom to Nordic levels, keep corporate taxes competitive, expand school choice, and protect the open markets that actually generate the wealth.

Stop doing the exact opposite and expecting similar results.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

This guy is a paid agitator.

He discusses how he gets paid.

Democrat protests are NEVER organic.

This guy proves it.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Well, I have some news that's going to make some people uncomfortable...

My wife and I are pulling our youngest out of North Carolina public schools and my wife will be homeschooling him.

And no, we're not sorry about it.

We didn't come to this decision lightly. We prayed on it, argued about it, ran the numbers, lost sleep over it.

But every road led back to the same common theme: nobody on God's green earth loves that boy more than his mother and I do, and nobody is more responsible for who he becomes than us.

Yet, rather ironically, despite believing this somewhere along the way, we handed that responsibility to strangers and... trusted them with it.

His mind. His values. His time. His education. His TRUTH.

...and this past year, for the first time, we stopped and asked whether they'd earned that trust.

We don't think they did.

So we're taking it back.

Yeah, we're scared. Scared we'll get something wrong. Scared of the workload. Nervous about what people will say.

But I'll take the fear of us doing it ourselves over the quiet horror of watching our son be indoctrinated in utter BS woke nonsense and be laughed at for believing in God and mocked for liking President Trump (all of which occurred this year.

So yeah, he's going to read the hard books. The ones they'd rather he didn't.

He's going to learn history that hasn't been run through an anti-White woke filter.

He's going to know exactly where he comes from and what he believes.

Most importantly, he's going to grow up watching his mother choose him, to spend every day, all day with him, over what was easy.

They had their shot. They blew it.

We've got him from here. 🇺🇸

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Elon just called The Economist’s editor-in-chief a traitor to the West, plain and simple.

She accused him of backing fascists.

He clapped back that wanting secure borders and actual cultural integration is just basic common sense.

The media keeps trying to make Elon the villain for saying the quiet part out loud. Most people are over it.

@elonmusk

Writer: Claudio

[North Carolina Basketball @gotarheels2362]

My predictions for the top 10 recruits of the class of 2027:

Beckham Black: Arkansas
CJ Rosser: UNC
Cayden Daughtry: Iowa
Demarcus Henry: UNC
Adan Diggs: UNC
Lewis Uvwo: Duke
Nasir Anderson: Michigan State
Reese Alston: Kentucky
Jordan Page: UNC
NaVorro Bowman Jr: Texas

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This shows why so many young people today are turning to socialism

Patrick Bet-David talks about previous jobs he’s worked at for only $4.25 per hour, he says he worked hard and now makes millions

The woman says he was only able to make it because he grew up in a different time and that working hard has nothing to do with it

She blames capitalism for her not being able to afford anything and she blames millionaires for selling the false narrative if you work hard you can make it

She’s just lazy, hates capitalism and wants free stuff handed to her

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

An important, must read, side-by-side comparison of Mao’s communism and the Democratic Socialist platform.

To summarize, the DSA is a grave threat to our democracy.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

People say "Capitalists get rich by taking money from others—Jeff Bezos’ $50 billion means the rest of us have $50 billion less!

Bunk.

That’s MYTH 1 in my “Myths about Capitalism” series.

It’s wrong, says economist @danieljmitchell, because the economic pie grows:

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Your walk can make you a target, or make predators look the other way.

Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras shared a study that still lands hard. Researchers filmed people walking in New York City, then showed the footage to convicted felons and asked who they’d pick as prey. The inmates chose the same types every time.

The distracted, sloppy walkers who weren’t paying attention. And the small, timid ones who looked uncomfortable in their own space. Those two groups got selected on sight.

The ones left alone walked with quiet control, deliberate, present, owning the space without overdoing it.

We send signals with our bodies whether we notice or not. How you carry yourself out there actually changes how you’re read.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

This is how the Christian majority in Lebanon came to an end.

“Lebanon was the only Christian country in the Middle East, and also the only one to accept Palestinian refugees.

Lebanon had an open border policy. We wanted to share our knowledge with our Muslim neighbors. But when they became the majority, they started slaughtering the Christians who welcomed them.”

Pay close attention!

[Smartphones sans Google (GAFAM) @Sans_Google]

First known US case: American charged for using a “duress” password

Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, is being prosecuted for allegedly giving border agents a passcode that wiped his phone.

The feature comes from GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android OS. Entering the duress code triggers a full factory reset.

This is believed to be the first time federal prosecutors have brought such charges.

The incident happened in January 2025 at Atlanta airport. Agents demanded access to his phone without a warrant, saying he hadn’t yet officially entered the US. When they entered the code, the phone wiped itself.

Tunick has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers argue the seizure was unlawful and that agents were investigating his activism against “Cop City.”

The case raises big questions about digital rights at the US border.

What do you think?

Article: https://t.co/tV806yWtyW

#Privacy #GrapheneOS #DigitalRights

[Carolina Basketball @UNC_Basketball]

Squad getaway 🌊

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Pretty much. Sorry, Nichole.🤣🔥🇺🇸 https://t.co/BV8wjEHgKm

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

.@VDHanson : “We didn’t storm the beaches of Normandy… didn’t bleed and die in the trenches of World War I…. didn’t sacrifice everything in World War II…. just to be lectured by newcomers on why America is ‘racist’ and ‘flawed.’” Victor is right.