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[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Good morning!

As I continue work on yesterday's project, I want to share the most valuable tool I've ever created—published under my real name.

This resource cross-references Bible verses with the Ante-Nicene Fathers, a 19th-century classical series documenting early Christian writings. Click on any blue-highlighted verse, and you'll see which Church Fathers (pre-325 AD) referenced it.

Why does this matter?
The New Testament is unique in all of antiquity—it can be largely reconstructed entirely from quotations in contemporary writings. By comparison, the earliest surviving manuscript of The Iliad dates to the 10th century AD despite being written in 8th century BC, yet it is still considered the second most well-attested ancient text in history.

The very existence of the Gospels affirms Luke 16:31.

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[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

🚨 Investigating "Grassroots" Donations 🚨

ActBlue, the platform championed for facilitating Democratic donations, is under fire for allegedly manipulating donation data to create an illusion of grassroots support.

My investigation uncovered damning evidence of thousands of micro-donations, with ActBlue being the recipient of most of these donations, potentially masking the true origins of these funds.

In just 10 minutes on https://t.co/3QX4bAXgts, I found striking data on four individuals (there are thousands of examples), ALL listed as UNEMPLOYED, who reside in average housing:

2023-2024 Election Cycle:

Amy, OR: $42,256.15 over 7,975 donations
Sandra, CA: $30,051.30 over 6,797 donations
Carolyn, NJ: $53,345.67 over 5,998 donations
Thomas, WI: $69,340.56 over 2,656 donations

These seemingly average unemployed citizens have donated a staggering $197,993.68 across 23,416 separate donations, averaging 10 donations per day, every day, each since 1/1/23.

Between May 1st, 2024 - May 4th, 2024

1,689 individuals made more than 15 separate donations each to ActBlue. Have you ever heard of someone donating 15 times within just 4 days?

This pattern raises serious questions about the transparency and honesty of these fundraising tactics, suggesting a concerted effort to deceive the public and misrepresent the scale of grassroots support. What is being done to investigate these types of donations?

Disclaimer: No fraud or wrongdoing has been proven. I am simply reporting activity that seems suspicious and would appreciate any honest feedback or valid explanations for this.

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@JeninYounesEsq This is a terrible take. Please rethink your own hate.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Why were college students forced to take it? Why did healthy young people lose their jobs if they didn’t take it? Why was @DjokerNole forced to withdraw from the US Open if the COVID “vaxx” was only meant for elderly vulnerable people?!!!

She’s such a liar. The whole pitch for this shitty shot was that it stopped infection and transmission. Long after it was quite obvious to everyone that lie was still being weaponized.

Can’t believe she has the nerve to spread this garbage. The lying makes me even angrier than I thought it would.

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@VPrasadMDMPH Pancreatic cancer and GBM studies should get rid of placebos. They are unethical

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

The CDC lied about the efficacy of cloth masks
Number of kids dead of covid
Risk to kids from covid
That 2 year olds need cloth masks
Efficacy of vaccine on transmission
Myocarditis
This is a good start at restoring trust

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@KJ_Parker1 @justin_hart I bet his wife helps

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

I'm having an impossible time getting this chart out of my head.

Doesn't this very strongly imply that the entire bureaucratic apparatus around our nation's capital is geared to serve one party?

How else would one describe this?

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

I cannot believe @CNN is hand wringing about a lack of transparency from @DOGE when DOGE literally tweets everything they’re doing. CNN covered for Biden’s senility for 4 years & now they insist on transparency!! GTFO.

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@AnthonySabatini Awesome. Good luck to Blake!

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@DataRepublican @SteveDeaceShow Woah. Started following you recently and had no idea. So impressed with all you’ve done and shared!

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@RobertMSterling Amen

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

If people were as loud about what they love as they are about what they hate, then humanity would elevate in consciousness.

So much of people's personalities and perspectives revolve around what they are against.

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@MarinaMedvin @RitaPanahi Heartbreaking

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Palestinians killed his wife, both of his daughters, his brother, and even his dog. They starved and tortured him for 491 days. They paraded and humiliated him at their last opportunity, forcing him to read lines in some sadistic show they put on.

Eli Sharabi didn’t know what happened to his family until he was released today. His only relatives left are his mom and sister.

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@DOGE So. Much. Waste.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Paying taxes hits different when you see just how many places it gets blown for nothing.

$100 million here, $500 million there, $5 billion over there, $300 million there.

People work their entire lives to pay $500k in taxes, and it’s a rounding error on one wasteful program.

[Just me @keepinthemoment]

@DOGE @NIH Should have been done a long time ago, but better late than never I suppose