R Herrold 🐸🦠

Burned often enough to be skeptical of elite driven, Progressive, ideological, Utopian borderless world-view. UMich Law, Chicago School (monetarism) economist

[R Herrold 🐸🦠 @herrold]

As to suggested #2A compromises:

No legislature may bind a future one. _Stare decisis_ is one of many principles of judicial decision-making, but nothing which may be 'enforced' at the Supreme Court level.

There is, in all sincerity, no 'compromise' possible of the #2A right

[R Herrold 🐸🦠 @herrold]

Envy, and theft of property are so ugly

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American.

And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars!

You don't think that's worth it?

[Ackchyually @Ackchyually2000]

@MrAndyNgo Why does Europe continue to attack their own citizens to protect criminal foreign nationals?

[Chastity Creates Paradise on Earth @ChastityCreates]

@MrAndyNgo

[Na Pali Nai'a @HeartCoherance]

@RightScopee They were brought in to terrorize communities.
New Anthem

[Right Scope 🇺🇸 @RightScopee]

🚨 HEARTBREAKING & INFURIATING CALL FROM LONDON 🚨

A terrified British woman breaks down in tears on TalkTV, exposing the nightmare ordinary people are living through:

"WE'RE NOT RACIST — WE'RE PETRIFIED!"

"What are these politicians doing to us? They're putting EVERYONE in danger!"

"I don't leave the house without a man anymore."

- Her local shop: 3 stabbings and 1 murder
- Her friend: murdered last year
- A girl she knows: murdered in the park
- Her cousin: murdered
- Now begging her son to flee the country

"OUR FRIENDS. OUR FAMILY ARE DYING."

This is what open borders, soft policies, and zero enforcement get you. Time to wake up and put citizens first — before it's too late. 🇬🇧

(Share if you want real leaders who secure borders and restore safety.)

[MrTruthBomb @realMrTruthBomb]

500 armed men could take down the Irish government and announce the end of any affiliation with the EU.

One political party.
New elections for parliament.
Copy and paste American constitution/Bill of rights into Irish (granting Irish citizens free speech and the right to bear arms).
Mass deportations.
Bring back the Irish punt.
Bring back Irish language.
New trade agreements with UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A small town, Friday, 5 p.m. Every shop hung the same sign — CLOSED, GONE TO THE GAME — and I assumed the town was being evacuated.

The barber. The diner. The hardware store. All sealed. The streets emptied in one direction, like water finding a drain.

"What is happening?" I asked a man loading folding chairs into his truck.

"Friday night football. You coming?"

"Who is attacking?"

"Westfield. They're 4 and 1."

The whole town flowed to one field of light at the edge of the dark. Grandmothers with blankets. Babies in team colors. The man who fixed my fence had painted his face. And beneath the lights, the warriors took the field — and they were children. Sixteen years old. Seventeen.

In my land, a castle town stopped for two things only: the lord's procession, and fire. Here, everything stops because the sons of the bakery and the daughters of the bank are playing a game, and the town has decided this is the most important thing happening on Earth tonight. And so it is. Importance is a decision.

The boy who bags my groceries caught a pass, and the stranger beside me seized my shoulder and screamed into the night, "THAT'S MY NEPHEW."

"He is a fine warrior," I said.

"HE FAILED CHEMISTRY. LOOK AT HIM GO."

I screamed as well. For a stranger's nephew, under lights, in a town with no open stores. I do not fully understand what came over me. I have stopped trying.

We lost, 21 to 17. The town walked home in the dark, already planning next Friday. The defeat lasted one evening. The lights are eternal.

A town that closes for its children is never truly closed.

My fence can wait until Saturday. Everything here can.

That is the whole secret, and they do not even know they know it.

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

This is what a hippopotamus swimming in the depths looks like…

[FedSlayer @FedSlayer]

Fighter pilots get posters.

The A-10 got loyalty.

Ask enough grunts what aircraft they wanted overhead and you’ll hear the same answer over and over.

Not because it looked cool — because it showed up, stayed low, and earned trust.

That reputation wasn’t built in a briefing room.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

@aapetrenko Hollywood can’t even get American insignia right. It’s not “Americans” it’s California, I swear.

[NotPeaches_Sab @notPeachessab]

@WassonWatch

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

The thing they say never happens…keeps on happening…

A 17-year old has been randomly stabbed in Britain…If you share this video, you’ll be called a racist…

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A diner entrance. There is a glass tower beside the register, and inside it, pies revolve slowly. Like planets. Like trophies. Like a test.

I stood before it longer than is socially acceptable.

In my land, the spoils of victory are displayed once, humbly, then put away. Here, the spoils ROTATE. Lit from within. Cherry passes. Lemon meringue rises over the horizon. Chocolate cream descends like dusk. The display has seasons.

"You want a slice?" the waitress asked.

"Which one is correct?"

"...They're all correct, hon."

ALL correct. Then the rotation is not a ranking. I had assumed the tower was an order of merit — the strongest pie ascending, the weakest cast down. No. They circle as equals. Eternal. Unranked.

I watched two full rotations. The man behind me waited, then gave up and pointed.

"Apple."

Just like that. No vigil. No study. He pointed at a moving target and committed his evening to it. The decisiveness of this country will never stop humbling me.

I confess what I did next. The lemon meringue came around a third time. Its golden peaks caught the light. I raised my hand as it passed, like a man hailing a ship.

"The yellow one. Before it escapes."

"It's not going anywhere, sweetie."

It is going somewhere. It is going in a circle, and a circle is a journey too.

The pie was perfect. I ate it facing the tower, so the others could see that their comrade was honored.

The pies do not turn to tempt you. They turn so that no pie is ever first, and no pie is ever last.

Next visit: cherry. It has been making eye contact for three rotations.

[cbustruth @cbustruth]

I’m grateful to the brave @ColumbusPolice personnel who brought this unethical contract and the clear conflicts of interest embedded in it to my attention. I’m proud to have been able to support them by making the public aware and for having prompted this story. @DrChenelleJones claims that it wasn’t a conflict are laughable on their face. The conflicts are specifically why the Board’s attorney (@CityAttyKlein) ordered her to disclose it.

It’s important to note that, per the reporting here, this contract was the idea of CPD leadership - @1stACPotts most likely. This is just one more example of the corrosive Detroit culture she and Bryant have worked so hard to instill at CPD. The contract was cleverly written and priced, with the help of co-conspirators @ColumbusSafety Deputy Director George Speaks and Director Kate Pishotti, to avoid public disclosure. By pricing it $49,950 and manipulating the scope of work to accommodate that price, the Directors could hide the contract from @cbuscitycouncil approval. It is the opposite of transparency.

I’m not done. Dr. Jones used her position on the board, and her employment with @FranklinU, to influence the Civil Service Commission to ignore its own policies and the objections of CPD/Safety regarding the background of her boyfriend - a CPD applicant. Everyone involved was aligned on the position that he was unqualified and unfit for hire, right up until the moment Dr. Jones lobbied @MayorGinther staff chief Dawn Tyler Lee to reverse the Commission’s decision. The public record of her actions doesn’t include any evidence that she disclosed the romantic relationship.

I do not fault the officer involved here, and I’d like to find accountability for Dr. Jones without having to drag him into this. He may be a fine officer. Maybe the concerns regarding his background are in the past. There’s no evidence that he did anything wrong in the hiring process. The misdeeds lay at the feet of Dr. Jones and her decision to engage in an unethical and corrupt influence campaign on his behalf.

[Lauren Witzke @LaurenWitzkeDE]

Wells Fargo shut down my bank accounts when I was 17 hours away from home with no other way to pay for anything. I was stranded. They sent my entire bank account and savings to loss prevention in 2021, mailing me a check a month later.

Even today, Wells Fargo refuses to cash checks I bring in from their clients (they told me they don’t keep cash at the bank—seriously). When I tried to open a business account, they kept letting the application “expire” to indirectly refuse doing business with me, despite me signing everything and submitting all applications on time.

I am very happy to see that there is finally an investigation into Wells Fargo and the corruption going on within these big banks. No American should have to suffer financial blacklisting. Give them hell, Judge Jeanine!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

First ever photograph of a newly hatched electrician (with the eggshell still on top of his head) 😂

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

There was just a BEHEADING in Florence, Italy.

An African migrant BEHEADED a woman.

This is where Europe is now.

I hadn’t heard of beheadings in ages and this week we’ve heard of at least three attempted or successful beheadings.

Import the third world, become the third world.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

DAY 11 — NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH THE CITY THAT TRIED TO MAKE THIS IMPOSSIBLE.

Yesterday I told you about Robert Engle. The 22-year-old church usher who had to walk to his car to get his firearm while seven people were shot. I told you that the walk to the car is a body count.
Today I am going to tell you about a man who did not walk anywhere.
He was already ready.

April 17, 2015. Logan Square neighborhood. Chicago, Illinois.

It is just after midnight. A man named Everardo Custodio, 22 years old, is in an argument. The argument escalates the way arguments in that neighborhood escalate — fast, past words, past the point where anyone is going to de-escalate it with a conversation. Custodio pulls a weapon and opens fire on a group of people standing on the street.

Six people are shot.

Then a man steps out of a car.

He has a legally-issued Illinois concealed carry permit. He draws his firearm. He shoots Custodio, who goes down.

Nobody dies.

The Uber driver — because that is what he is, a man who was dropping off a passenger — did not give his name publicly. He did not want the credit. He wanted to go home.

Chicago Police confirmed he was within his legal rights. No charges. No news conference. No ticker-tape parade.

No national coverage.

Go ahead and search his name right now. You cannot. He never told anyone what it was.

HERE IS THE PART OF THIS STORY THAT IS GOING TO MAKE GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES PHYSICALLY UNCOMFORTABLE.

That man — that anonymous, name-unknown Uber driver who stepped out of his car in Logan Square and ended a mass shooting before anyone died — was only legally carrying a firearm in the state of Illinois because a FEDERAL COURT FORCED ILLINOIS TO LET HIM.

In 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Moore v. Madigan that Illinois' total ban on public carry of firearms was unconstitutional. Illinois was, at that point, the only state in the entire country that completely prohibited civilians from carrying firearms for self-defense. Every other state had some mechanism for it. Not Illinois.

The state fought it. Chicago fought it. They went to court and argued, with a straight face, that the people of Chicago did not have the constitutional right to carry firearms for self-defense on the streets of the most violent major city in America.

They lost.

Illinois passed a concealed carry law in 2013. One year before that Uber driver got his permit. Two years before six people were shot in Logan Square and someone who was actually ready ended it before anyone had to call a funeral home.

Chicago spent decades and millions of dollars in taxpayer money fighting to keep its citizens defenseless. The result was the highest per-capita gun murder rate of any major American city, sustained for years while the politicians who created the policy collected awards for their advocacy.

Quinn's Law Number One. Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. Chicago wanted fewer gun deaths through disarmament. They got more gun deaths because of it. The policy that was supposed to produce safety produced body counts — and the one moment of mercy in that Logan Square parking lot came from a law that the city of Chicago would have prevented if the courts had let them.

What next — Chicago will tell us gun bans make cities safer...

Wait.

I was just informed they already said that. For thirty consecutive years. While people were dying at record rates.

THE DATA THAT DOES NOT MAKE THE JUNE AWARENESS POSTERS

Dr. John Lott and economist William Landes did something that nobody else had done: they studied the effect of right-to-carry laws specifically on multiple-victim public shootings — not just individual crime, but the mass casualty events that June awareness campaigns are actually about.

Their finding, from data covering every state that adopted right-to-carry laws during the study period:

Multiple-victim public shootings fell by 60 percent. Deaths and injuries from those shootings fell by 78 percent.

Not a small decrease. Not a marginal effect. Sixty percent fewer mass public shootings. Seventy-eight percent fewer people killed and wounded in the ones that still occurred. And the reason the injuries dropped faster than the incident count is exactly what you would expect: when citizens are armed, shooters are stopped earlier, before they can reach their intended full body count.

Here is the second number. According to Lott's county-level data covering all 3,054 counties in the United States over eighteen years: in many of the safest states, the majority of individual counties recorded zero murders in a given year. Iowa: 71 of 99 counties. Nebraska: 72 counties. North Dakota: 44 counties. Vermont: 9 of 14 counties.

What that means is this: when politicians in Washington, D.C. propose gun control policy for "America," they are actually proposing gun control policy for rural Iowa, suburban Nebraska, and small-town Vermont — communities that have near-universal firearm ownership AND near-zero murder rates — because a handful of specific ZIP codes in specific Democrat-run cities are generating almost the entire national body count.

The gun crisis is not an American crisis. It is a specific urban governance crisis. It is a Chicago crisis. And Chicago, as we have just established, already ran the experiment of maximum disarmament and produced the maximum disaster.

Telling farmers in Iowa what they can own because of what is happening in the neighborhoods Chicago created is not a policy. It is a category error dressed up as compassion.

THE LEGAL REALITY THAT DOES NOT CHANGE

DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989) and Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005) are binding Supreme Court precedent. The government — the police, the state, all of it — has no constitutional duty to protect you as an individual. The officers who arrived in Logan Square after the shooting was over arrived after it was over. They did their jobs professionally. They were not there when Custodio opened fire, because they are never there when it starts. No one is. That is not a criticism of police. That is physics.

The only variable that mattered in that parking lot was whether one private citizen with a legal firearm decided to be there.

He was. And he was ready. And nobody died.

But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who treated wounded soldiers in the same country that manufactured the weapon that ended my career, a published textbook author, a science teacher at a high-need Career Tech district where the public schools gave up on these kids, and a father of four who has never once needed a sign on his door to tell a criminal he was unarmed. The anonymous Uber driver wanted to go home that night. He did. Because he was ready.

IF THIS ARTICLE MADE YOU THINK: LIKE it so the algorithm shows it to the people who need to see it. SHARE it — the man who saved those six lives in Logan Square never gave his name. The least we can do is give him an audience. COMMENT below: Chicago spent thirty years telling us gun bans save lives. Six people in a parking lot in 2015 proved them wrong. Tell me what you think.

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@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Ben Habib @BackBrexitBen]

After the horrific attempted beheading in Belfast, Labour’s answer is to amend the Online Safety Act and force social media platforms to remove content faster during “times of crisis”.

Not fix the border. Not answer the public. Not restore trust. But instead censor the reaction. They do not want answers, they want total control.