Brian Johns

ATL UTD, Tottenham, Braves, Falcons

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Justice Thomas: "I'm not sure that today's opinion will stand the test of time. The Citizenship Clause 'added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.' Today's opinion devalues that citizenship."

Tragically, he's 100% right.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Why must air traffic controllers retire at 56, FBI agents at 57, and pilots at 65—yet politicians can keep making decisions for future generations until 90?

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

Liberals: "If you need 30 rounds to hunt, you suck at hunting."

Conservatives: "If you need a disarmed society to govern, you suck at governing."

[Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten]

That SCOTUS had to rule that (i) "temporary" means "temporary" and (ii) "arrives in the United States" means "arrives in the United States" is kind of remarkable

[GrainStats 🌾 @GrainStats]

the legal system in the US is completely compromised at this point and you can’t convince me otherwise

[Brian Johns @mtb1ker]

@BasedMikeLee

[Chairwoman Lisa McClain @RepLisaMcClain]

You have to SEE THIS to believe it. 🇺🇸

This week on the Severn River near Annapolis, a man was knocked overboard and his boat took off with the engine still running, racing and circling with no one at the controls. As his son sped through the water to pull him to safety, a Coast Guard crew chased down the runaway vessel, pinned it during a turn, and one brave officer LEAPT aboard the speeding boat to shut it down.

Ordinary Americans and the heroes who protect them, rising to the moment together. THIS is who we are. Share it!

[Rep. Andrew Clyde @Rep_Clyde]

If the NFA registry no longer records the payment of a tax on $0 taxed firearms, then it exists solely to register the firearms themselves.

This directly conflicts with the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act.

END NFA REGISTRATION.

[Kate Cornell @KateCornell]

Can I just buy a copy of Word? I shouldn't have to pay for it every year. The subscription model has ruined everything.

[greg @greg16676935420]

Why would I drive 10 minutes to pick up dinner when I can stay seated and have it delivered slightly cold for only $38 more

[David Shafer @DavidShafer]

Two weeks ago, the Judicial Qualifications Commission confidentially notified the Democrat backed candidates for the Supreme Court - Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin - that it was investigating them for violations of the Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct.

The Democrats immediately filed a secret lawsuit against the JQC to stop the investigation. The lawsuit was assigned to Stacey Abrams's sister, a federal judge appointed by President Obama. Judge Abrams, again in secret, blocked the JQC from investigating.

The Democrats continued their violations with impunity.

Over the weekend, the Court of Appeals overruled Abrams. Today - one day before the election, after nearly a million Georgians have already voted - the Judicial Qualifications Commission issued a statement that Jordan and Rankin have engaged in multiple, serial violations of the Code.

This is a stunning abuse of the legal process by lawyers who are seeking to become judges - impartial dispensers of justice.

VOTE FOR THE STATEWIDE JUDICIAL INCUMBENTS IN GEORGIA.

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Brian Johns @mtb1ker]

@teachthemx3 @CE_McEnerny shame on him!

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

A losing presidential candidate calling for the end of the constitutional process for selecting a President feels awfully fascisty

[Brian Johns @mtb1ker]

@shsatlga @DavidShafer and Hank Johnson out of Hank Johnson's district. Term limits, please!

[Habeas Corpus Linguistics @HabCorpLinguist]

The Supreme Court should not be “balanced” or seek to give wins to “both sides.”

Its job is to correctly interpret the law. If one side keeps advancing interpretations of the law that are incorrect, they should lose more often.

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

A Reckoning with the Highest Court

I have just published what may be the most unflinching autopsy yet performed on the single most corrosive appointment to the United States Supreme Court in the modern era.

In the essay below, titled “Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Worst Supreme Court Appointment in American History,” I trace, with forensic precision and without apology, the ideological fever dream that installed Justice Jackson not through constitutional merit but through the explicit racial-and-gender quota of a desperate administration.

From her formative years steeped in grievance ideology, through her systematic leniency toward child predators on the district bench, to her dissents that openly subordinate the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of colorblind equality to the therapeutic imperatives of equity and identity, the piece lays bare a jurisprudence that is not merely mistaken but pathological:

a mind that dissolves law into sociology, history into perpetual victimhood, and justice into reparative redistribution.

This is no partisan polemic.

It is a philosophical and constitutional indictment rooted in the original public meaning of the text, the common-law tradition of Blackstone and the Founders, and the hard-won lessons of Reconstruction.

Even Justice Amy Coney Barrett, paragon of intellectual charity, has found Jackson’s approach untenable, the collegial veneer cracking under the weight of an equity-driven vision that treats Article III as an obstacle rather than a limit.

The stakes could not be higher.

When a sitting Justice reframes the Constitution as an instrument of racial atonement rather than a charter of limited government and individual right, the American experiment itself is placed in mortal peril.

The full essay is long, detailed, and unsparing...precisely as the subject demands.

It draws on Jackson’s own words, her record, her dissents, and the historical record she so selectively ignores.

I wrote it in the spirit of lethal clarity:

not to inflame, but to illuminate the rot at the heart of progressive jurisprudence and to arm every reader with the intellectual ammunition required to defend the Republic against its quiet undoing.

And because ideas this consequential must not be gated behind any paywall, the entire piece is free for all readers...subscribers and non-subscribers alike.

Read it. Share it. Debate it.

The survival of constitutional fidelity may well depend on how many Americans still possess the courage to look this pathology squarely in the eye and name it for what it is.

The essay begins below. The truth, delivered without anesthesia, is rarely gentle.

https://t.co/Ik8Kgt311V

[Carson Bowen @CarsBow910]

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Can we just start a class action lawsuit against the US government? US Citizens v United States. Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start. Who’s in?