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[WatchOut @overyoutwo]

not a bot, you can tell since i pinned this, gives you that good old captcha feeling doesn't! 🥳

[みなと @minato878787]

こんばんは🌛
本当にめっちゃ暑い😿
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皆も気をつけてね☺️

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

This is a similar point that I eventually reached with Tom Nichols. Where increasingly outrageous claims are being made, to the point that I have to wonder, if I'm debunking, or simply falling for the bait.

Candace Owens has blocked many, many people for far, far less. She didn't block me.

Why?

It makes no rational sense that she'd block countless smaller accounts and leave the bigger accounts alone.

Unless ...

The only hypothesis I can come up with is that she is playing a game of engagement for profit.

If that's the game that's being played, then I will play no longer. You are blocked, Candace.

Game end. Forever.

[PI-interlink HứavănCường⚡ @huavancuong1507]

🇻🇳Ở Việt Nam: Bạn nam này hằng tháng đều đưa mẹ đi bệnh viện chạy thận. Hôm nay, sau khi bắt taxi đưa mẹ từ viện về nhà, đến nơi bạn định trả tiền xe thì bác tài nhất quyết từ chối:

"Thôi, mẹ em đi chạy thận, anh không lấy đâu. Em để tiền mua thuốc cho mẹ."

Không chỉ vậy, bác còn dặn: "Lần sau đi thì cứ gọi anh, anh ra đón."

Một nghĩa cử nhỏ nhưng đủ khiến nhiều người thấy ấm lòng. 🥰

[bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap]

Let me explain why any of this matters, because "nonprofit filed a form wrong" undersells what's actually here.

Federal refugee resettlement runs on a design choice: the government doesn't deliver the services, it wires billions to ten private organizations, who wire it to ~360 local affiliates, who spend it. The same ten names hold essentially all the agreements, every year. It's a closed system.

For a closed system spending public money, the entire oversight model is paperwork. Three documents are supposed to make it transparent: the Form 990 the organization signs under penalty of perjury, the independent audit it must file with the federal government, and the government's own payment records. Congress can't watch 360 organizations. You can't either. The forms are the watching.

So here's what the evidence actually is. Not sources, not whistleblowers, not vibes. It's these organizations' own documents disagreeing with each other. An auditor's note disclosing a seven-figure loan to a chief executive, next to a tax return from the same year saying no such loan exists. A tax form calling a for-profit Nevada LLC a "501(c)(3)" for five straight filings while sending it $281 million. $115 million to "affiliates" with no form saying which ones. A schedule that inventories related organizations, filed blank, alongside $542 million of transactions with related organizations. Every document is public. Every contradiction is checkable in minutes.

Why it's important: each one of these forms exists because of a specific way money has been misused before. Schedule L exists because insiders used to quietly borrow from charities they ran. Schedule R exists because money moved through affiliates nobody could trace. The match requirement exists so federal money leverages real community investment instead of replacing it. When the forms are blank or wrong, the protections they encode are off.

Nobody outside a subpoena can trace the money, and the one time an auditor looked closely at internal controls in this dataset, they found an employee had been approving his own payment requests for 21 months.

We're not alleging theft. We're documenting that the transparency system Congress built for this money doesn't currently function, and that it fails in the same handful of ways across networks that share no common ownership. That's either a remarkable coincidence or a sector-wide oversight gap. Either way, the fix starts with someone official pulling the same public records we did.

[Cynthia Holt @Ghostofcynthia]

This is such an exciting and amazing honor. Grey won Substack bestseller in politics.

A total credit to her incredible writing and talent.

You’re unstoppable, honey.

I love you. 😍😌🖤💋

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

California conservatives you better get loud over this. 👇

California lawmakers are pushing AB 2017 to recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays, allowing public schools to “acknowledge and celebrate” their meaning and importance in the curriculum.
Supporters like Assemblymember Ash Kalra argue it ensures Muslim students and workers aren’t forced to choose between faith and school/work. Critics, including the California Family Council’s Greg Burt, say it violates long-standing school neutrality rules that bar sponsoring religious celebrations—pointing out that many districts have already scrubbed Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter in favor of generic “Winter” and “Spring” breaks. The bill is drawing fire for giving Islam preferential treatment over other faiths.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Alcohol, helping men ignore the terms and conditions since 3000 B.C.

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

We did it again.

The political scalpel found its mark once more...Substack bestseller in politics...and I didn’t do it alone.

I never do.

You, my sharpest ones, the ones who read like you’re hunting for truth instead of comfort, who stay when the pathology gets loud and the noise tries to drown the signal…you make this possible.

I adore you for it.

Not in some soft, performative way...but in the way a blade adores the hand that keeps it honed.

You give these words weight.

You turn solitary fire into something that actually moves.

Without you there is no reach, no resonance, no fucking point in carving this hard.

This isn’t my victory. It’s ours.

Thank you for being the army that refuses to flinch.

For the ones who still want the unfiltered cut instead of the comfortable lie.

I see you. I write for you. And I am profoundly, lethally grateful.

Onward. With teeth.

[Cynthia Holt @Ghostofcynthia]

Are you following my girl @Trapped4life1 yet? 😽👇

[Humbly Happily @laetissima918]

Hello Dear Readers!

Humbly Happily will be posting more sporadically this week, because we are moving cross country!

🥰🥰

Keep prayers high, and don't forget to pursue the Good and Beautiful.🙏🏼

[IVORY 🇺🇸 @IvoryLuna23]

The America First warrior @Grey_0G does it again. No one has been able to obliterate the evil @RealCandaceO like her. She is our gem. Please read and share this far and wide. She was kind enough to make her articles concerning this witch FREE on @Substack

https://t.co/zUAJbCWIio

[Cynthia Holt @Ghostofcynthia]

I hate these fucking cunts with a passion. I make nothing online. I do it for free. From the heart.

@RealCandaceO @IanCarrollShow @imelizabethlane @CarriePrejean1 @DiligentDenizen

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

My vast army of loyal ride or dies babydoll. They won't let me go anywhere. So I hope it brightens your little sad day to know that I have a loyal arm of nearly 200k people who just won't let it happen.

It's great to be loved. And loathed. 😉💋

[Cartel California @Cartel_Cal]

Both of these cowardly weak little men represent everything that is wrong with California. @AlexPadilla4CA @RoKhanna

[Sonja Shaw @realSonjaShaw]

Even longtime California teachers are sounding the alarm over Newsom’s blatant power grab that hands the State Superintendent’s duties to a political appointee.

They’re saying it loud and clear: Newsom panicked because he couldn't beat me at the ballot. https://t.co/0b5TqRquUG #FoxNews

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I wish more people understood what is going on with people like this dirtbag.

I have no idea if Ian Carroll actually believes what he says.

But what I am 100% certain about is that he knows that when he says inflammatory things he makes a lot of money.

And not "Qatar is paying him" money. No, I'm talking about vast quantities of money that are potentially available to all of us on YouTube, X, TikTok, etc. if only we have the willingness to attract clicks with outright shenanigans.

This is not new in American history.

Google "P.T. Barnum."

In Barnum's alleged own words:

"There's a sucker born every minute."

[SKDoubleDub @SKDoubleDub33]

It’s almost like @DataRepublican @iamlisalogan and I have been trying to tell everyone about this ecosystem and all of the really questionable ties since immediately after Charlie was killed.

The more time that passes, the more connections have been made, the wider the web gets.

The questions I’ve asked repeatedly are: how did Tyler Robinson get radicalized to the point of taking the life of a husband, father, son, brother and political leader? Who helped to radicalize him? Who had foreknowledge of Tyler’s plan to assassinate Charlie?

[Humbly Happily @laetissima918]

Hardcopies, Kindles, Doomscroller: On Reading in the Digital Age.

I know you think this post is going to be my plea to return the world to embracing physical books.

That would have been so on-brand.

But in light of recent reports of staggering illiteracy rates in our school-aged children, and their sheer incompetence in handling text, a more urgent battle needs fought.

1. As technology advances, the means of disseminating information will likewise advance. This trend will lean towards faster turnover, wider readership access, and digestibility.

2. Reading materials, along with many parallel cultural commodities, will bifurcate -- specifically, into "burn after reading" informative text and "savored collectible" literature.

3. Regardless of form, the basic principles of reading do not change: it is looking at language symbols, interpreting meaning, and applying knowledge to create useful action.

So read to your children. It doesn't have to be children's books. It doesn't even have to be physical books. Read and write and type in front of them. Don't skip that cut scene after the final boss with the captions on.

Cultivate the aura of literariness. Whether it is a beautifully bound Bible on the coffee table, that epic fantasy trilogy with the gold detail next to the gaming desktop, or a full dark academic aesthetic guest room down the hall.

Did the ancient Egpytians clutch their clay tablets at the emergence of scrolls? Did scribes cry in protest of the printing press?

I have no qualms about how people read, so long as they read quality text in appropriate manner (I am glaring at you, erotica-crazed wine moms and volume-count obsessed competitive readers).

But if you are what you eat, you are most definitely what you read.

Dear Readers:
Read accordingly.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon saw this coming from the beginning

He warned Apple again and again

They ignored him and walked like sheep straight into the slaughterhouse

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Lmao. Isn’t this the truth?!