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imperfect follower of Christ, husband, former Active Duty Marine, retired NC Guardsman, telecom tech, problem solver, and observer of human nature.

[izzy one @kosherdill1]

@BillIsaacs7 @yasminalombaert Good take! Hey, do I know you?

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@VP Now do all those in the Dow and S&P 500!

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@TamponTimsTaint @nicksortor The best version of Mitch ever, I'm sure!

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@Oklahoma_Brave As a former active duty Marine, I received the same speech at Parris Island. I believe based upon the female Charlie Uniform blouse and smaller female Ssg Chevrons, and Black duty belt, this is a female Senior DI. The Senior DI was never the one you feared...

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@pakaluxavierog @elonmusk Looks like the best water tanks in Cuba...

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@catturd2 Was he challenging the helicopter to a haircut?

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Great post and substack article, Katy (link at the bottom, a must-read). Thank-you for sharing your knowledge and understanding of the pressures Marty faced in office, and what is happening to healthcare at the highest levels.

[Katy Talento @KatyTalento]

Marty Makary used to ambush a Virginia courthouse every other Friday.

That was the day the local tax-exempt hospital reserved the docket to sue its poorest patients.

Marty would show up at the door with a lawyer and intercept them on the way in.

They were working-class people in job uniforms, embarrassed, grim-faced, expecting to lose.

He reviewed the bills on the spot, for free, as a medical expert. Pointing out fraud, upcoding, inappropriate care, contradictions to the court.

Then his counterpart, a young lawyer named Joey Kirchgessner, argued until the hospital cried uncle.

They won A LOT.

I drove down one Friday to watch. I was working in the Trump White House at the time. I was so proud of him I could barely stand it.

That's the man the WSJ op-ed page wants you to believe is the problem.

Read or listen to the full story here: https://t.co/Qp3wl4sZpL

[Dennis Michael Lynch @TrustDML]

The Dignity Act sucks. It's amnesty. Rep Salazar couldn't answer even 1 question w/certainty. "How do we vet 17m people? How do they afford to live if they pay taxes? When they can't find jobs do they get free stuff? How do Americans compete w/more foreign labor? What about housing competition? She's a deer in headlight. A must watch/share video.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

I'm going to keep posting this Alstair Begg clip "The Man on the Middle Cross" (less than four minutes in length) every Holy Week, because its message is true in 2026, it will be true in 2036 and it will be true in 3036.

"If i take my eyes off the cross, I can then give only lip service to its efficacy while at the same time living as if my salvation depends upon me.

And as soon as you go there it will lead you either to abject despair or a horrible kind of arrogance.

And it is only the cross of Christ that deals both with the dreadful depths of despair and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says you know, I can figure this out."

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@glennbeck have your producer DM me for possible link to get terminals 2 where they need to go...

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

We had a good thing, Britain.

A really good thing.

You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks.

The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls.

That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world.

That was the deal.

Now look at you.

You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state.

You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM.

You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain.

You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City.

Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks.

You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today.

Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock.

Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what?

We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund.

Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t.

You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships.

You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them.

The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies.

You had one job.

Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits.

That’s it. That’s all we asked.

And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us.

But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Hoffman,

Your wording that “FBI cleared me” as opposed to “I’ve got a clear conscience” did not go unnoticed.

To that end…. Guess what?

Have you been following all those OpenClaw posts on social media and what a game changer it is?

Yeah, I’ve been relatively quiet not for lack of effort, but because I’ve been hard at work automating myself using OpenClaw. Not for the boring (and socially risky) use cases of social media or email monitoring. No, I set to build a full-fledged research assistant that has access to FEC records, 990s, and has a strict entity resolution pipeline. Every question I ask it, it gets smarter because it automatically rolls in its own discoveries to the various graph databases it has.

One of the problems in tracking money flows is that the same funders have multiple pass-through sources. Which means that any given nonprofit will often have an intractable money flow graph with thousands of nodes.

So naturally… one of the first things I did with OpenClaw was to identify root funder philanthropies and group them. This was a completely unsupervised process. That grouping alone eliminated 80%+ of edge/node traversals because the big families love obscuring their own trails. Just look at how many foundations Pierre Omidyar owns.

And wouldn’t you know it? OpenClaw identifies YOU among one of the 30-ish root funding mega-rich families ruining this country.

Exact report:

• Aphorism Foundation (EIN 46-4347021) — $68M across 51 grants (2022-2023). His and Michelle Yee's main charitable vehicle. Top recipients: Stanford ($10M), New America Foundation ($4.2M), Chan Zuckerberg Biohub ($4M), MIT ($1.8M), Harvard ($1.5M)

• Apercen Partners LLC (EIN 83-1589303 / 83-3181719) — Two c4 entities, $1.85M out. President/Chair. Recipients:

• Rapid Resist Action ($755K) — anti-Trump rapid response
• IPI Action Fund ($500K)
• VoteAmerica ($250K)
• Catalist ($200K) — Democratic voter data firm
• Grab Your Wallet ($100K) — Trump boycott org
• More Perfect Union Action ($45K)
BOARD SEATS:
• Lever for Change (EIN 83-3044655) — MacArthur Foundation affiliate, $20M budget. Director 2020-2023
• Kiva — microfinance platform (board member)
• Endeavor Global — entrepreneur network
• B Lab — B Corp certifier (also gets $1M from Aphorism)

KEY GRANTEES WORTH NOTING:
• New America Foundation — $4.2M. Major think tank, Google-linked
• Center of Complex Interventions — $3.2M. Behavioral research
• UBI Charitable — $1M. Universal basic income advocacy
• Cortico — $1M. "Constructive dialogue" / media narrative tech
• Mercatus Center — $360K. Libertarian-leaning (George Mason)
• Players Philanthropy Fund — $1M. Fiscal sponsor (like Tides)
• Aspen Institute UK — $307K

Sooooo…. If all this is right… then..:

You’re adjacent to the powers that be which have been in control of the entire Western world for a century, and thus are responsible for its failure.

You don’t get to squirm your way out of this.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

There are pictures on my wall that don't exist anymore.

All seven of us. Five kids. Two parents. Two dogs. Taken before the exodus started.

Three of my kids live in Florida now. The oldest two left first. The third followed when he turned eighteen. My wife and I are in North Dakota with our two youngest girls and two dogs who still answer to the names of the ones we buried.

Chester. Ginger. We call the new ones by their names without thinking. Our mouths remember the ghost dogs before our brains catch up.

Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel in 1940 called You Can't Go Home Again. Published after he died. The last lines still cut like a blade:

"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood... back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory."

I didn't understand that quote until this year.

My dad was an Army Ranger. Police captain. The kind of man who made you feel like nothing on earth could touch you as long as he was in the building. I remember the smells of my mom's cooking. The noise of me and my brothers fighting and doing dumb things. My younger brother getting caught up in our foolishness whether he wanted in or not.

I remember the feeling of safety. That bone-deep knowing that your father has it handled.

I can't go back there. Those smells are memories. That noise is silence. That safety was a season—not a permanent address.

I'm a child of the 80s. Music was always playing. Always. And now a song doesn't remind me of a time—it relocates me.

Duran Duran and I'm in Germany.
An old country song and I'm in North Carolina.
A 90s track and I'm in Hawaii.

Three chords and I'm standing in a place that doesn't exist anymore.

The other day I was writing. Apple Music dropped in a song I didn't ask for.

"Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd.

The opening synth hit me first. Then the lyrics.

Welcome my son. Welcome to the machine.

I stopped typing. Looked at that picture on the wall. All five kids. My wife next to me. And the thought came uninvited—are we inside a machine? Some system grinding us through its gears while we smile for photos we'll weep over later?

I grounded myself fast. The Word of God is my anchor and I don't drift long.

But the thought stung.

Because this week "Christian social media" was buzzing about the Grammys and Kid Rock and the TPUSA Super Bowl halftime show. Everyone had an opinion. Everyone was outraged or celebrating or performing discernment for an audience.

And all of it, every take, every hot post, every argument, reminded me of one thing:

We are not home.

Wolfe was right. You can't go home again. But Wolfe didn't have the answer. He diagnosed the ache. He couldn't name the cure.

Solomon could.

"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." —Ecclesiastes 3:11

That word—world—is olam in the Hebrew.

Eternity.

God set eternity in your heart.

That's why the pictures make you ache. That's why old songs teleport you. That's why you call the new dog by the dead dog's name. That's why you sit in a quiet house remembering when it was chaos—and realize the chaos was the gift.

You were built for a home that doesn't decay. Where time doesn't steal your children or silence your kitchen or bury your dogs in the backyard.

The ache isn't a malfunction. It's a homing signal.

"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." —Hebrews 11:13
That's what Wolfe felt but couldn't name. That's what Pink Floyd reached for but couldn't grasp. That's what every 80s kid feels when the right song plays and the chest tightens and you're eight years old again for three seconds before time drags you back to the present.

You can't go home again.

Because you were never home to begin with.

"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." —John 14:2

He's building it right now.

And when you walk through that door, you won't have to leave again.

I wrote the full version of this tonight on Substack. It goes deeper. If this hit you in the chest, go read it.

@biblicalman

[izzy one @kosherdill1]

@clayandbuck Clay, love you man but your mic feedback ( hollow ringing) is soo off-putting today. Not sure I'm going to make the full show today.

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@ClayTravis bro, love you man but your mic feedback ( hollow ringing) is soo off-putting today. Not sure I'm going to make the full show today.

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@overstreet_anne @NC_Governor Thanks for being helpful, but might want to fix ur link. Its https://t.co/NCUDv1anL4. ur link wont work on some search engines and browsers.

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@hwsynv @KurtSupeCPA I agree. While the hit as Single filer is heavier than Married, she has plenty of room to afford the higher brackets kicking in earlier. The problem is when the couple did not save enough to begin retirement with a comfortable cushion.

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@ElonMusk_LordX Affirmative.

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@TrevorSheatz While I understand the point of your statement, I dont think it is well received without much further explanation and clarification. We Christians alienate so many we try 2 bring to Jesus. A simple question to weigh your statement, Was the thief on the cross next to Jesus saved?

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@NC_Governor Wow, what courage! Almost as powerful and meaningful as exclaiming, "Bring back our girls" to Boco Haram...