Matthew Pen

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[Enes 🇹🇷 @enesovat22]

Enough said ✝️

[Joe Oltmann @Joeoltmann]

This is not even real… the State of New York sent a bill for $118,000 to three little Amish schools, one room schoolhouses out in Clymer, Heuvelton, and the Canajoharie settlement that do not take a single dollar of public money, because 59 of their children are not vaccinated.

And that is just one day. By the state's own position in the Second Circuit case, every day an unvaccinated child walks into that schoolhouse is a fresh violation and a fresh $2,000 fine, per child. Dygert Road got billed $52,000 for 26 kids, Pleasant View $46,000 for 23, and Shady Lane $20,000 for 10. Run that out over a 180 day school year and you are looking at roughly $21 million owed by families who already said they cannot pay the first bill… and their own attorney, Aaron Siri, told the New York Post the only way they pay is if the state takes their land.

Think about how we got here. These families had a religious exemption for decades. In June 2019 Albany repealed it, Andrew Cuomo signed it, and Kathy Hochul has left it sitting right there in force the entire time she has been governor. The fines came down in December 2022, the Second Circuit ruled against the families on June 30 of this year, and now Joseph Miller, Jonas Smucker, and Ezra Wengerd are asking the Supreme Court to let them live by the faith they have lived by their whole lives.

Meanwhile these are the same people who spent years screaming my body, my choice… and yet when a quiet Amish father says he wants to decide what goes into his own child's body, Albany sends the collection notice. Where did that crowd go? Lara is right that money is the weapon here, because they cannot drag the Amish into court in handcuffs for praying, so they fine them until they sell the farm or leave the state, and some of those families are already talking about leaving.

Ask yourself honestly… if they can do this to people who keep to themselves, farm their land, run their own schools, and ask nothing from the government, what exactly do you think they will do to you?

I read those numbers and I had to read them twice. Informed consent is supposed to mean something, and religious liberty is the very first freedom in the Bill of Rights, not a favor the governor hands out when it suits her.

Kathy, your sign says "Keeping New Yorkers Safe"… drop the fines, give these families their exemption back, and leave the Amish alone.

But God.

[Sensei Seagal's body double @seagalstuntman]

A legal system that doesn't hang someone like this is immoral and illegitimate. A legal system that gives someone like this a chance to ever get out is straight up evil.

[Old Stock Appalachian 🇺🇸 @TheAmRev]

We told a generation to study STEM, pay 10x the cost of an Indian degree, and take on debt.

In 2025, 228,000 US computer/math workers were unemployed, while Washington approved 252,000 computer related H-1B petitions, new and continued.

Politicians sold out our youth.

[James Fishback @jamesfishback]

Vance is *saying* the right things, but today's "massive crackdown" only stops Microsoft & Adobe (2 companies out of 50K) from converting H-1Bs to permanent residents.

It does not stop them from firing Americans and replacing them with H-1Bs.

Bread and circus. Move along.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@Yodertoter40 How can we help, Eli?

[OG Colonist @350years]

@Yodertoter40 I’d rather go to war with NY state to protect the Amish than go to war with Iran.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK Jr. says pro-vaccine researchers found girls given the DTP shot were 10 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE over the next three months than unvaccinated children.

The girls weren’t dying of diphtheria, tetanus, or whooping cough. However, they were dying of sepsis, respiratory problems, and common infections.

So on paper, it “worked.” Then a pro-vaccine Danish team looked closer and reached an unexpected conclusion: the shot was killing MORE children than it saved.

Girls dying at ten times the rate of the unvaccinated, and the media ignored it. This should be front page news.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@visegrad24 Just 1 year for murder! Outrageous.

[Eli Yoder @Yodertoter40]

New York Democrats have declared WAR ON THE AMISH. Thanks to their unconstitutional attack on religion, they're now able to fine EACH unvaccinated Amish child $2,000 EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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The $118,000 bill is one day, not the cap. Three one-room schools alone already owe that much for 59 children, at $2,000 each.
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Health Commissioner Mary Bassett imposed it on December 15, 2022. She called the sum conservative because it assumed only one day out of compliance.
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Dygert Road was billed $52,000 for 26 children. Pleasant View was billed $46,000 for 23.
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Shady Lane was billed $20,000 for 10.
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Footnote 9 of the Second Circuit opinion records the state's view. Each day an unvaccinated student attends is a fresh violation and a fresh $2,000 fine.
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Another day for those 59 children is another $118,000. A 180-day year at that rate is about $21 million, and the families say they cannot pay the first bill.
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Joseph Miller, Jonas Smucker, and Ezra Wengerd run the schools. The schools sit in Clymer and Heuvelton, plus the Canajoharie settlement, and take no public money.
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They had a religious exemption for decades. On June 13, 2019, Democrats repealed it after measles spread through Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Rockland County.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill. Governor Kathy Hochul left it in force.
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A parent may not excuse a child for faith.
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Senator James Skoufis said the exemption was made up and fake. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz called it utter garbage.
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Counsel Aaron Siri told the New York Post the families can pay only if the state takes their land. Some in the community have talked of leaving the state.
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The case is Miller versus McDonald. The Second Circuit ruled against them on June 30 in 2026.
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A Supreme Court petition was due around September 28.

Make sure EVERYONE sees this. If WE don't stand up for these incredible men and women - WHO WILL?!?!?!
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Where is the “my body my choice crowd now”? 

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have just completed what I believe to be the most comprehensive evaluation of Charlotte NC arrest records in history.

This project has taken me 3 months to complete, combing through over 50,000+ arrest records and mugshots.

I've found what appears to be massive fraud.

Thousands of Hispanics have been labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" in the arrest records... THOUSANDS.

In fact, I found over 500 cases where Hispanics who were arrested more than once... had their "Ethnicity" CHANGED from "Hispanic" to "Caucasian" from one arrest to another.

Horrifyingly, I found HUNDREDS of these "White Caucasians" were actually ILLEGAL ALIENS from foreign countries with ICE detainers.

Perhaps most disturbing...

Many of the illegal aliens who were labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" had already been released back into the public, DESPITE the ICE detainer requesting they stay in prison.

We have a serious problem.

[Matthew Pen @PensMatthew]

@poperespecter1 Vatican II - protestants are separated brethren. Gavin is extremely charitable and sets an example of how to dialogue for everyone.

[Matthew Pen @PensMatthew]

@cottage_st3w Friend just told me a teacher at his preschool was arrested for sodomy on one of the kids. Privy to other situations among people I know. Given the stakes, the hysteria is justified.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The upside of extremism

[rciv @rcivNFT]

pov: I ask my 3 year old if it tastes good when she offers me the iced tea/chocolate/lemon/Parmesan/cherry tomato/edamame drink she just made https://t.co/GUmOKJsAIH

[Matthew Pen @PensMatthew]

@Cernovich @TuckerCarlson It's not white people, it's Christendom.

[Matthew Pen @PensMatthew]

@Cernovich Totally. Super weird to select that name for it.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Because all of you would just be trying to "share" slam poetry and bad pottery and then 40 million people would starve

[Matthew Pen @PensMatthew]

@wcmclaa Just call it penance for a 50 year cover up.

[Matthew Pen @PensMatthew]

@realpeteyb123 To be honest, if you're shooting for higher quality food (organic dirty dozen, etc), the grocery bill is way low.