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[Helvidius Priscus ⚖️ 🦈 @HelvidiusPrisc]

@howertonjosh Let’s be real honest here. Most Christian pastors have abdicated their role in leading their church in social issues and won’t be addressing any of this. If they haven’t gone hard in the paint over trans’ing kids, they aren’t doing it for immigration.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

The Republican Party of Texas has announced its eight legislative priorities for the 2027 session:

-Secure Texas Elections
-Don’t Sharia Our Texas
-Completely Eliminate All Property Taxes
-Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
-Secure Texas Grid, Water, Energy, -Agriculture, and Property Sovereignty
-Border Enforcement
-Protect Texas Kids
-Protect Life

So let me tell you what will probably happen next.

We might get two or three of these through the legislative session. Two will end up challenged in court. One will pass without any real teeth and won’t change much of anything. A RINO legislator will carry it, then spend the next two years patting themselves on the back and campaigning on it.

Meanwhile, Abbott will likely ignore these legislative priorities altogether. He has a long history of creating his own priorities and disregarding the voice of the delegates — the grassroots activists who spent their time, money, and energy showing up and doing the work.

For the better part of a decade, Abbott has campaigned on eliminating property taxes. Every cycle, we hear the same promises. Every cycle, property taxes remain. And every cycle, someone else gets blamed.

I’m not saying this to discourage anyone. I’m saying it because this is what Texas grassroots conservatives have put up with for years.

The question isn’t whether these priorities are good. Most of us agree they are.

The question is: what are we going to do differently this time?

Because if we keep doing the same thing, we should expect the same results.

So grassroots - what are we going to do to make sure the will of the delegates is actually carried out instead of ignored?

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Europeans aren’t having children because they can't afford to support them.

Muslims have children because Europeans support them.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Today I learned $1 Trillion in wealth is excessive but $40 Trillion in debt is totally cool… 💁‍♂️

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Why don’t history books refer to Muslims as colonizers, oppressors, genociders, slave traders, or imperialists?

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

People need to understand…

Being put on a plane and flown back to your country is the most moderate and benevolent punishment for violating our laws and illegally entering our nations.

Mass deportations are the opposite of radical.
Want to see radical? Open a history book.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

WHY THE HELL AM I PAYING TAXES TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT:

>CANNOT DEFUND THE TALBAN
>CANNOT SECURE OUR ELECTIONS
>CANNOT BALANCE A BUDGET
>CANNOT READ THE BILLS THEY VOTE ON
>CANNOT PASS TERM LIMITS
>CANNOT PASS DOGE CUTS

WHY ARE WE PAYING TAXES?!!!!!!

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

LASIK isn’t covered by insurance. Neither is most cosmetic surgery.

Both got cheaper and better every single year for two decades.

The one corner of medicine where patients pay cash and see prices.

Funny how the “market failure” vanishes the second the market’s allowed to exist.

Friedman called this in 1980. The tape doesn’t lie.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Pro-life Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy credits her baby girl with Down syndrome, Valentina, for “perfecting their family.”

This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life. ❤️

[William Lamb @BedeBecketBacon]

@AuronMacintyre "There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.”
- C.S. Lewis

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Grace 🕊️ @grace2youu]

@DawnDeL82031880 @CLT_Exam @grok what’s The Mayor of Casterbridge about?

[Grace 🕊️ @grace2youu]

@TheDemocrats Cringe.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is SO MASSIVE that eliminating it alone could balance the ENTIRE federal budget

"The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars."

"We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them."

This should infuriate EVERY taxpayer.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

For most of human history, women did not experience children as some rare interruptions to adult life. Babies were everywhere, in arms, on hips, asleep in slings, playing under tables while bread was kneaded and laundry was folded. A young girl did not grow up in a world separated from motherhood.

So how can women want babies when they rarely see babies?

A baby changes the atmosphere of a room, people smile more, they speak softer, they are gentler, there is more joy.

Perhaps the desire for children has not disappeared nearly as much as we think. Perhaps many women have simply been separated from the very thing that used to awaken that desire in their hearts.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

This is the longform version of the master plan to remake America’s government, a plan I’ve outlined in pieces across various threads.

The protests and foreign-policy interventions are all moving toward the same end: a transformed American system of governance designed to prevent another Trump from ever taking power again.

In effect, the United States has become its own democratic-transition project. We are living through a color revolution.

Read more below.