Mikeze ™

Use your smile to change the world, never let the world change your smile.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Every decade in modern American history can be identified and defined by its own style, its own approach to music, film, fashion, its own aesthetic. That seems to have stopped right around 2010. The 2010s don't really have their own unique feel, even in retrospect. The 2020s certainly don't. We're more than halfway through the decade. What are the movies, music, style, and trends that this decade will be remembered for? It's like we fell into some kind of cultural blackhole 15 years ago.

[X @XaviercMiller]

Everyone waiting on a Drake album after hating on him for a year+ straight is exactly why you can’t attach your identity to public opinion. The same crowd that cheers you today will boo you tomorrow.

[KAYLA PARRILLA @kaylaparrilla]

Being scared to start anything is how you look up in 5 years and be stuck in the same exact spot

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Americans are suffering. It is way too expensive just to live for most families. Our cities aren’t safe. Our country is being transformed every day by foreign migration. Our elections aren’t secure. The SAVE act was not passed and won’t be passed. It’s time to end this war in Iran and focus on our country, our people, our future. Far too much of Trump’s second term has been spent on foreign adventures. It has to end. Turn the attention back home.

[The Media Mines @TheMediaMines]

We lost another cartoon legend

Barry Caldwell, a veteran animator, director, and storyboard artist who helped shape countless iconic animated shows and films, has sadly passed away.

Thank you, legend. Rest in peace

[𝕄𝕒_ℤ𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕠 @Nomagugu_xo]

Adulting has humbled me a lot. I finally understand why so many adults stop posting on social media or even deactivate their accounts.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

💔🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. & ISRAEL murdered 57 elementary school girls this morning

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

A famous American General once said, The only things worth counting on are people you can count on…so never waste a minute worrying about people who don’t like you or aren’t helping you make a difference in your life. Instead focus on people who will help you make a difference.

I say this because something is happening in our country, and most of us don’t fully understand it.

The world feels upside down. Every day brings more confusion, more lies, more fear. We’re told who to trust, who to doubt, and who to ignore, but how are we supposed to know who is telling the truth?

The institutions we were taught to rely on—our government, the media, the courts, even big corporations—feel broken. Allies turn into enemies overnight. Yesterday’s heroes are today’s villains. Stability feels like it’s slipping through our fingers. So many are left scared, frustrated, and searching for answers that don’t come.

We want brutal honesty. We want safety. We want a future for our families. Instead, we get manipulation, deception, and chaos. Too many of the wrong people have been protected for far too long. To change this, we must educate ourselves, ask tough questions, and demand transparency from those in power.

We are at a turning point in America, not red versus blue, but truth versus lies, the people versus the system, freedom versus control.

If justice comes, if corruption is truly exposed, it won’t just change politics; it could shake the foundations of our country and the world!

We feel the weight of history pressing down, and deep down, we know this isn’t normal. What we need now is collective courage, honesty, and moral clarity. Most of all, we need to stop pretending everything is fine because it isn’t.

A society that abandons truth abandons everything.

As Thomas Paine once said, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

Stick to those people you can count on. Take control of what you can control. Get involved and speak up. One life to live, make it matter.

[Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 @ANTHONYBLOGAN]

President Donald Trump's Truth Social account shared a video about fraud in the 2020 election. Near the end of the video, a brief 1-2 second segment showed former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama's faces superimposed onto the bodies of apes.

[Dr Boyce Watkins - Wealth is Power @drboycewatkins1]

I was really annoyed by this video until someone showed me the entire thing

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful is pointless.”

— Kobe Bryant

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right

[Mikeze ™ @Mikezeyy]

@mariolopezviva Brooo it’s the ghettooooo

[Leon @MindMatterMoney]

Nobodyyyyyyyyyyy is more stressed than a man who has seen his potential and knows he is not living up to it.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

I'll add: it's bizarre how few people really seem to get the housing element of this stuff.

Lots of moneyed creative types try to settle in expensive parts VT, pricy WY and MT, big cities as if these could be the future of some great 'scene.'

The math isn't hard to do. Every great 'scene' involved low enough cost of living that it could attract a diversity of people -- ranging from wealthy patrons to abjectly poor painters, bums, and wandering scholars.

The Mad River Valley in VT, CO mountain towns, expensive coastal areas -- they can only attract rich people. And I'm sorry to say it, but you can't actually effect much meaningful cultural power by centering your efforts on a place that can literally only attract wealthy people, because the rich can't seem to do it alone.

In truth, the rich are like oxen and the poorer, more working class artist & writer set are like songbirds. Sing the right song and the oxen will move gracefully and with a quickened step. But a stable full of oxen? They're directionless. They have great power, but they are lost as to where to put it. So they languish.

The "magic" only happens when you can mix the starving artist and the wealthy patron in the same environment. This no longer happens in the big cities. It certainly isn't happening at wealthy ranches in the West, or in million-dollar organic market garden zones of New England.

You simply must have an ample supply of $40k houses and $500/mo apartments. If you fail to settle in a place with these, you'll simply plunge into a ghetto of directionless rich people. Yet people keep making this same mistake over and over again, without taking a hard look at how great moments of cultural renaissance actually emerged.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

This is why, and I say it again and again -- the only places capable of being net producers of original art, culture, writing, and so on are LOW RENT places.

Whatever a creative thinks he gains by moving to NYC or LA, he loses because of RENT.

Rural America is the last bastion of affordable, low-effort housing for people who'd rather paint / sculpt / write / play music / think than work a 9-to-5.

Yet every time I meet a creative type, they're thinking of going to NYC or LA, and like clockwork, within a few years, they give up on whatever their passion was and get sucked into the grind -- because they have to earn money to piss away into the rent-hole.

Meanwhile I am here (alone) buying multiple homes for under $50k. If I don't want to work I don't have to. I live on basically no money. Others could do it, too, but they're not interested. They'd rather post videos from Brooklyn about how "everyone is an artist until rent is due," I guess.

[B O B B Y || 👨‍✈️ @bobbthetrader]

@DailyLoud Are positive Black shows disappearing or are we just not supporting them when they actually exist?

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Woman is going viral after questioning the disappearance of positive Black TV shows from modern television 👀

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

🚨 URGENT
Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens.
In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination. Yes, you read that correctly. More specifically, that the green light was given to a small team in National Gendamarie Intervention Group. I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assasination squad and the plans were formalized.
Again, this person provided concrete proof that they are well placed within the French government apparatus.
Further to this point, this person claims that Charlie Kirk’s assassin trained with the French legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement.
Journalist Xavier Poussard’s life is also at risk. This is deadly serious. The head of state of France apparently wants us both dead and has authorized professional units to carry this out.
I ask that every person RETWEET and share this.
I do not know who in the American government can be trusted, since this source claims our leaders are aware. But I have more specific information which is definitively verifiable, should they care to reach out to me.
To the brave official in France who did this because they were so moved by the evil of Charlie’s public execution to risk their own life— May God bless you. Truly.

Let all be revealed.