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✝️ Christian

[The Reclamare @TheReclamare]

Re this story, some truth to share🧵

Away from X, I am a world 'expert' in a field
I was openly critical of Govt policy, in my field, under a personal account

Then I got a random call from a Deputy Minister, (not Joly's) who asked why I am openly critical of government?

[AJ @JGrrrrr321]

@BowTiedYukon Tastes like crushed smarties

[James Dueck🇻🇦 @JamesDueck]

Danielle Smith should call an election. She did exactly the thing she said would be failure. She no longer represents the will of Albertans.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Congratulations Alberta, you just bought yourselves a TransMountain-like pipeline.

If all goes well it will be operational by 2035, and will only cost $50 billion in taxpayer money.... money we don't have.

Let's run some very simple economics.

It will transport 1 million barrels per day, at a fee of $10/barrel. That means it will generate $10,000,000/day in revenue, which is $3.65 billion/year. But it will cost at least $1 billion/year to operate (power, labour, chemicals, maintenance, interest on the borrowed money, carbon tax, etc).

So the initial payout is $50 B divided by $2.65 B/yr. which is 18.8 years. Who wants to wait almost 20 years before they get a return on their investment?

The economics don't work because the regulations make the pipeline too expensive and risky. There was a time, lest than 15 years ago, when the private sector could have built this for $10 billion.

This is not a win. The real problems aren't being addressed, and this is making things worse.

[Matthew Kolken @mkolken]

@FischerKing64 The executive branch can suspend all visas for expectant mothers.

[Hayduke ⏹️ @GWHayduke97]

A quite moving plaque in the cloisters of England's Durham Cathedral:

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is an incredible idea, @StephenM.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

How MicroSoft murdered Ensemble.

In a side note, Elon Musk himself dropped in on my Quake thread from a night ago. Sir - with respect, what are you doing commenting on my puny thread? Go take humanity to Mars!

Anyway, Microsoft's purchase of Ensemble (as described yesterday) was great for us. Our worthless Ensemble stock became valuable MicroSoft stock. I paid off my house. And MicroSoft's ownership didn't change much because they were already our publisher and we already had spent time working with their idiot marketers.

MicroSoft had learned lessons. When they bought FASA, they moved the company to Redmond, broken it up in different teams (different buildings even) and then FASA basically never did much again. When they bought Bungie, they moved them to Redmond, but kept them all in the same building working together. It took Bungie 6 months before they were able to produce. So when they bought us, they just left us in situe, in Dallas, figuring we'd become an awesome cash cow. Which we did.
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[American Reformer @AmReformer]

American Reformer is pleased to announce that effective July 1, 2026, Daniel Strand will be stepping into the role of Editor-in-Chief as Timon Cline transitions out of that position.

We are deeply grateful for Timon’s entrepreneurial spirit, energetic mind and steady service to American Reformer. His work has helped shape the publication’s voice, grow its audience, and strengthen American Reformer’s contribution to the political and cultural discourse. Timon has brought intellectual courage, conviction, and good humor to the role, and we are thankful for the many ways he has served our writers, readers, and broader community. We are particularly grateful for how Timon’s editorial work developed and elevated a new generation of compelling authors for broader audiences. This transition comes with our gratitude and best wishes as Timon turns more of his attention to other work and commitments, including the publication of two forthcoming books.

At the same time, we are delighted to welcome Daniel Strand as our next Editor-in-Chief. Dan is a longtime contributor to American Reformer and a scholar of Christian ethics, political theology, and the just war tradition. He serves as Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Air War College and Ethics Chair for Air University, and is the author of the forthcoming Gods of the Nations, a study of Augustine’s political theology in City of God. Dan received his BA from the University of Minnesota, MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and PhD in religion and ethics from the University of Chicago.

Dan and his family live in the Auburn, Alabama area and attend First Presbyterian Church of Opelika. He brings to the role a thoughtful editorial vision, a deep commitment to American Reformer’s mission, and a generous spirit of collaboration.

We are thankful for Timon’s work and excited for Dan’s leadership in the season ahead. Please join us in expressing appreciation to Timon and in warmly welcoming Dan to this new role.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Carney government already clawing-back ‘MOU’ promises made to Alberta https://t.co/9b34yVRtx3

[Raymond Ibrahim @RaymondIbrahim5]

JD Hall appeared on Tucker Carlson saying that Muslims were "very kind" to Christians, didn't "tax churches," and even "took care of our holy sites."

In this brief video, I debunk these claims with the actual historical record:

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The next generation coming up, especially at Reindustrialize, is more than OK. We just have to keep the system from falling down. Not easy but if we can stop this communism stuff, a golden age for factory workers and skill trades is upon us.

[Let Alberta Decide @LetABDecide]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Let Alberta Decide Responds to Calgary Chamber: “The Real Economic Risk Is Alberta Staying Under Ottawa’s Control”

Calgary, Alberta, June 24, 2026 — Let Alberta Decide is responding to today’s Calgary Chamber of Commerce news release by saying the Chamber has focused on fear while ignoring the larger economic reality: Alberta’s economy has been held back for more than a decade by federal policies that have driven away investment, constrained resource development, and limited Alberta’s potential.

Keith Wilson, K.C., co-lead of Let Alberta Decide, said the Chamber’s release misses the central issue.

“The Chamber is measuring fear, not opportunity,” said Wilson. “It is warning Albertans about hypothetical uncertainty from independence while ignoring the real uncertainty Alberta businesses have lived with under Ottawa. The greatest threat to Alberta’s economy is not Albertans having a democratic vote on their future. The greatest threat is allowing Ottawa to keep blocking, capping, taxing, delaying, and politicizing the industries that built this province.”

Wilson said Alberta remains one of Canada’s strongest economies despite federal policies that have discouraged investment in energy, infrastructure, agriculture, and resource development.

“Alberta’s farmland is not moving. Alberta’s oil and gas reserves are not moving. Our skilled trades, engineers, entrepreneurs, service companies, infrastructure, and young workforce are here,” Wilson said. “Alberta is not a branch office economy. Alberta is a producing economy.”

Let Alberta Decide says the Chamber’s release also ignores the massive capital flight Canada has experienced under the current federal policy environment, with recent economic analysis reporting that more than $1 trillion in investment left Canada between 2015 and 2024.

“Businesses do not leave because a people debate their future,” Wilson said. “Investment leaves when governments make the rules unpredictable, and Ottawa has done that to Alberta for more than a decade. That capital did not leave Canada because Albertans were discussing independence. It left under the current federal system.”

Wilson said independence would give Alberta authority over resource regulation, taxation, immigration policy, infrastructure approvals, trade policy, pipeline approvals, and market access.

“Albertans should be making the decisions that shape Alberta’s economy,” Wilson said. “Those decisions determine whether projects get built, whether jobs are created, and whether young Albertans can build their futures here at home.”

Wilson rejected the Chamber’s reliance on Brexit as a comparison.

“Brexit is the wrong analogy,” Wilson said. “The UK moved away from its largest market. Alberta independence would allow Alberta to negotiate directly with our largest and most important market—the United States—without Ottawa sacrificing Alberta’s interests to protect Central Canadian priorities.”

Let Alberta Decide noted that the Chamber’s survey was not a representative poll of Albertans or Alberta businesses. It was a survey of Chamber members who chose to respond. Even then, the Chamber’s numbers show that a majority of respondents did not say they would relocate if Albertans voted to begin the independence process.

“If the Chamber wants its poll treated as evidence, it should release the evidence,” Wilson said. “Albertans deserve to see the questions, sample size, response rate, and methodology.”

“Alberta has the resources, institutions, workforce, and economic capacity to be a successful independent country,” Wilson said.

Media Contact:
Let Alberta Decide
[email protected]

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

This mission is a bold demonstration of American ingenuity that could change how we maintain, upgrade, and operate spacecraft for years to come.

Every new capability we prove today expands what’s possible tomorrow.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

We don’t need fake history from a sketchy “pastor” to guess how Muslims treat Christians when Muslims are in a majority. We see how they act as minorities in the UK. It will only get worse.

[AJ @JGrrrrr321]

@pronounced_kyle

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

This is about as dense a summary as you'll find of my space warfighting piece, and it's still 1,000 words long!

Thanks for the write-up, @AI_in_LEO.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Yesterday I told you about Starfall, and how bringing orbital material to Earth is critical to the post-terrestrial economy.

Today, I'm going to talk about the Valar reactor.

In the future, we build things in space because space has infinity free power. Build a solar panel once and milk it forever.

Elon Musk is trying to sell you solar panels on Earth so he can develop them for space. Solar panels are awesome in space.

But they suck on Earth.

What's awesome on Earth is fissionable material. These special rocks just radiate free power. And I don't mean a little bit of free power. I mean a huge amount.

Like, you may think your modern automobile is pretty cool because it gets 30 miles to the gallon of gasoline. But a gallon of gasoline weighs 6 pounds.

If you could run your car on HALEU nuclear fuel instead, then those same six pounds would drive you 11.3 million miles.

You know, just in case you wanted to drive to the Apollo landing site and back.

23 times.

But that's only 17 years of continuous driving, so you should probably put that six pounds of fuel in your Tesla instead. That way you could drive to Mars. In 69 years.

At the end of your journey, you would have a bunch of highly dangerous radioactive waste, of course... six whole pounds of it.

You would have to dispose of it by taking extreme precautions, such as handling it with gloves. And burying it one meter deep. In a coffee can.

Do I have your attention yet?

Now, the spicy rocks are really great because they're super spicy, but the traditional way of using them involves building a great big power plant that weighs about hundreds of thousands of tons, has to be built on a full square mile of wherever you want your power to be, and, for legal reasons, needs to be covered in the thick layer of federal bureaucrats to make sure things cost more, take longer, and generally suck.

So that's where this dude, @isaiah_p_taylor, comes in.

And he says "Wait a minute... if the spicy rocks are so goddamned spicy... why do we need a whole bunch of them in a huge containment vessel surrounded by acres of power plant?"

That's old thinking. Based on our preconceived notions of what a power plant is, which we got from burning coal and oil and other stuff that can't bring you to Mars with one coffee can.

Why not build a little tiny power plant? Like, a power plant the size of a train car? A power plant that you can load onto a train car, or a the back of a semi-rig, take it wherever you need it, and just set it down right there?

Each one holds a wee bit more than that 6 pound coffee can. Like, maybe 90 of those. That'll get your Tesla to Neptune, if you have 4000 years to spare.

Of course, that's not San Onofre. It won't power New York City by itself.

But that's what the word "modular" means. Bring as many as you need. Need one? Bring one. Need ten, bring ten.

If you actually do need to power New York City, bring 2000.

And 2000 isn't an unrealistic number. Because that's also what the word "modular" means.

Standardized.

Interchangeable.

Perfect the process with one, and then churn them out systematically. At scale.

No individualized custom site design. No years of construction. No environmental impact study committees. No thick layer of bureaucrats.

One design. One set of safety standards and protocols. One approval process. Then you crank them out forever.

The concept is already proven. How do you think the Navy gets from San Diego to the Strait of Hormuz? Immigrant galley slaves? Sailcloth?

And that's exactly where you get your workforce of modular plant operators... Navy vets who were running submarine reactors when they were twenty-two years old.

Except you can put these on a construction site because they're not a big box of weapons-grade plutonium. They're a barrel of low-grade fuel you have to handle with... gloves.

In the Robert Heinlein future, you run your factories in space with solar panels, because don't even get me started on how much power the sun gets from six pounds of hydrogen.

But on Earth, you run your air conditioner like this.

[🇺🇸𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓭🇺🇸𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷🇺🇸 @Texas_jeep__guy]

This is freaking hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

Woman: Oh my god. Are you okay?

Man: Yeah, I'm okay.

Woman: What happened?

Man: I was running on the trail and I stepped in some dog shit. And I sat down to try to clean it off my shoe and this guy come running by and he stepped in it. I laughed at him and said I just did that. He come over and fucking punched me in the face like three times and called me a nasty son of a bitch. 🤣🤣🤣

Woman: oh my god, I’m so sorry.