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[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Endless fraud.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Aaron, this is you cheering the shadowbanning of @DrJBhattacharya, whose research identified the correct Covid mortality rate. Meanwhile, your icon Fauci privately knew the correct rate in January 2020, but lied to Congress, telling them it was massively higher.

You should sit out any "Covid misinformation" discussion.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

After their slave revolt, Haiti’s founder ordered the killing of all white people on the island. Soldiers went house to house killing thousands including women and children.

They took full control, purged the population they blamed, and turned the richest colony in the Caribbean into the poorest and most dysfunctional country in the Western Hemisphere.

Today, their descendants demand entry into the West they fought to escape, refuse to return to the mess they and their ancestors created, and are for some reason strongly convinced that borders are racist.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

This little girl is not in the video. She wasn't even born. But she is moved to tears watching her mother and father get married. Why?

Marriage researcher and family therapist Pat Fagan once told me:

"When a child sees their mother loving their father they feel like their mother is loving them. When they see their father loving their mother they feel like their father is loving them. It is the only time in the human experience where you can be loved indirectly. No one's even looking at you or touching you or talking to you, but you feel loved."

That is not the case with a step parent, he said. The child may tolerate the romantic expression. But they do not experience that same circuitous love. More often they feel competition or jealousy.

If every child could order their own world, this is what they would say:

"I want my mom and dad to love me and I want my mom and dad to love each other."

Sometimes that's not possible. Woe to a culture that intentionally denies that to children in the name of adult freedom.

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

For centuries, families across Britain slept in what was known as a box bed, a wooden bed built into the wall or enclosed with doors, designed to keep out the bitter cold of winter.

Far more than a place to sleep, the box bed was a practical solution in cottages where space was limited and every bit of warmth mattered. By enclosing the bed, families trapped precious heat, reduced draughts and gained a little privacy in homes where several generations often lived under one roof.

These humble beds witnessed every stage of life. Children were tucked into them at night, babies were born in them, and loved ones spent their final hours there, surrounded by family. In many cottages, the box bed even formed part of the wall itself, helping divide the living and sleeping areas of a single-room home.

To modern eyes they may seem cramped, but to those who lived through harsh winters with little comfort, the box bed was a warm, secure refuge, a simple piece of craftsmanship that helped ordinary families endure generations of rural life.

Sometimes the greatest achievements of the past were not castles or cathedrals, but the quiet ingenuity that made a house feel like a home. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Leland @ItsLeland]

I’m often reminded of the Chappelle skit on this.

[Handre @Handre]

In 2003, a photographer named Kenneth Adelman posted an aerial photo of the California coastline online. One of 12,000 such photos. Nobody cared. Then Barbra Streisand sued him for $50 million, claiming the image showed her Malibu mansion and violated her privacy.

Before the lawsuit, six people had downloaded that photo. Two of them were Streisand's own lawyers.

After the lawsuit? 420,000 people visited the site within a month. Every major newspaper ran the photo. The mansion Streisand desperately wanted hidden got plastered across the entire internet.

The judge threw out the case. Streisand paid Adelman's legal fees.

Streisand's legal team looked at a quiet corner of the web and decided the solution was to create a massive public spectacle pointing directly at the thing they wanted nobody to see.

The lawsuit became the story. Her lawyers spent real money achieving the precise opposite of their goal.

The Streisand Effect is a lesson to be careful when you try to suppress information; you might achieve the opposite. Also, she looks like a complete moron.

[lynk @lynk0x]

A documentary gave a homeless man $100,000 with no strings attached. Six months later, it was all gone.

In 2005, filmmakers handed Californian Ted $100,000, free financial advice, and a camera crew to record what happened.

At first, his life improved. He moved into a motel, then an apartment, and finally had stability.

But as the money disappeared, he rejected expert advice, trusted only his instincts, and eventually returned to living under the bridge.

The experiment showed that money can create opportunity, but without the habits to manage it, opportunity can disappear just as quickly.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Jay's study absolutely showed that Covid a) was far more infectious than believed and b) the mortality rate was far lower. And Fauci didn't have new studies, he had a new (wrong) estimate by the WHO - one of the worst pieces of misinformation in the crisis https://t.co/NL3s2wP600

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

We sent our 52-page autism study directly to RFK Jr...

Days later, the CDC changed its website to say: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is NOT an evidence-based claim.”

The 30-year lie that “vaccines don’t cause autism” has officially been TERMINATED.

Our peer-reviewed study found 79% (107 of 136) of vaccine-related studies showed a POSITIVE LINK to autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, and/or brain damage.

Autism prevalence skyrocketed 32,000% as vaccine makers obtained full liability protection and the vaccine schedule grew to 72 doses.

[Just Jen ℞ 🫡🇺🇸 @JustJenRX]

This aged like 🥛

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Fauci & co at the NIH knowingly “put out a killer drug” during the HIV crisis. That drug was AZT which mimicked the progression of Aids so family members thought the disease was killing their loved ones when it was really the drug. Sound familiar? It should. The AZT of Covid was Remdesevir which also killed people while family members thought they were dying from Covid.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Here's a fun one:

Majors, stratified by highest and lowest lifetime earnings!

There's one major that tends to earn less than people who don't earn any college degree.

[Uncle Walt’s Little Known Facts @UncleWalt1971]

The pirate accent Robert Newton used as Long John Silver in “Treasure Island” was actually his own; it’s an exaggerated West County (England) accent that actors since then have emulated, right up to Geoffrey Rush’s Captain Barbossa.

He was so good he got stereotyped (he played Silver again in an independent film called “Long John Silver,” and TV series “The Adventures of Long John Silver” (neither were produced by Disney), and played Edward Teach in “Blackbeard the Pirate.”

Sadly, he was a chronic alcoholic and died just six years after “Treasure Island.”

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

Muslim armies invaded Spain in 711 AD and occupied it for nearly 800 years.

The Reconquista was not a myth or “colonial project.” It was a centuries-long Christian struggle to reclaim their own homeland from Islamic rule. It ended in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella took Granada, the last Muslim stronghold.

West, take note: civilizations that forget how they were conquered once can be conquered again.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

Suddenly everyone in the WNBA is very clear about what a man and woman is when it comes to head coaching jobs

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

This is CNN.

We take six years to figure shit out.

Then act like it’s news.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

On when Harvard turned Gayatri Spivak’s theory of “strategic essentialism” into a quiet discrimination system against Asian kids.

Spivak coined the term in 1987 so marginalized groups could temporarily collapse themselves into one fake unified identity to seize political power even while knowing the category was nonsense.

But she understood that it was a double edged sword. That same artificial unity that builds solidarity can just as easily be used to erase the people inside it.

Like when Harvard shoved Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, and Indian applicants into a single “Asian American” box so the high performers could be averaged down and held back.

Peter Arcidiacono’s analysis showed that on academic scores alone, Asians should have made up more than half the admitted class. But somehow, Harvard’s own personal ratings scored them the lowest of any group.

Students for Fair Admissions sued in 2014 because that one collapsed category was hiding the penalty against specific ethnic groups, and that’s how the Supreme Court finally ended “race conscious” admissions in 2023.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

The strategy CNN management chose was silence. Just say nothing, and hope the controversy fades away.

It's been almost 10 days since Fauci diary entries revealed that two of CNN's top anchors were private pals with the man they were supposed to be objectively covering.

From "friendship building" dinner parties, backchanneling interview questions, to texting insults about Republicans, none of it has been addressed by Tapper, Bash, Stelter or anyone else at CNN.

Just pretend like it never happened.

And to many people who aren't on 𝕏 or don't consume right-leaning media — it never did.

Ethics. Transparency. Journalism.

This is CNN.

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

The reason men explain a lot of things to women is that in general knowledge tests men outperform women in almost every category.

The reason men know more general knowledge is they find it interesting when something is explained to them, not condescending.