Polly Darton

Common sense is not so common anymore.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

“There will be no art, no literature, no science… There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.”

Orwell, 1984

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

James O'Keefe's undercover team busted Ilhan Omar's former coworker saying Ilhan Omar came up with the plan to pay people for votes — RIGGING elections! 👀

Ilhan Omar should be REMOVED from the United States!

[Erin (Air-Ren) Thatcher @eethatcher]

@RuthlessPodcast @HolmesJosh @ComfortablySmug @MichaelDuncan @JohnAshbrook This is a GREAT READ on Talarico’s character going back decades

[Observing Consciousness @holonabove]

Elon's comment to spin up Amazon competitor isn't a fluke... Amazon has major problems...

Amazon has become a Chinese flea market operating inside an American distribution empire... 55.9% of its top 10,000 sellers are now China based, while American entrepreneurs invest in developing products, building brands, proving demand and creating the very markets that overseas competitors move in to capture...

The pattern is well documented... an American inventor develops something successful, Chinese knockoffs flood the marketplace, prices collapse, original listings get hijacked, and fraudulent intellectual property complaints can even force legitimate sellers offline...

Forearm Forklift watched revenue and American jobs disappear, Drop Stop fought Chinese made patent infringement, PopSockets took its counterfeit problems to Congress, and federal investigations have exposed fraudulent takedowns and insiders manipulating seller accounts...

All inside a marketplace where Amazon controls visibility, advertising, enforcement and access to the customer, collecting $172 billion in seller services and another $68 billion in advertising revenue annually...

Now Elon Musk suggests building an Amazon competitor after reports of Amazon blocking Grok purchasing bots... and suddenly this connects directly into the larger architecture I've been mapping around American manufacturing, tariffs, the elimination of de minimis exemptions, autonomous logistics, alternative financial rails and Super Intelligence (SI)...

Imagine verified American manufacturers connected directly to consumers through intelligent purchasing agents that authenticate product origins, protect intellectual property, compare actual value and bypass the machinery that allows innovators to be displaced inside their own marketplace...

With X potentially providing discovery, Grok providing intelligence and an entirely new commerce network connecting production, payments and delivery...

The implications reach far beyond Amazon... China has leveraged America's retail infrastructure to reach American consumers at extraordinary scale, while American innovators have become increasingly dependent on the same platform that exposes them to imitation and marketplace abuse...

I've been mapping the rebuilding of America's sovereign industrial stack from production through distribution... Musk's comment opens another potential front, connecting that machinery directly to the American household...

America creates the product... the next battle is over who controls the marketplace, the purchasing decision and ultimately the economic value of American innovation...

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Parents are FURIOUS after a 67-year-old Maryland school bus driver who bought EVERY KID SCHOOL SUPPLIES ON HER ROUTE was STRIPPED OF HER CERTIFICATION...

...because she stopped on an empty country road so a 10-year-old boy could RESCUE AN INJURED KITTEN!!!

Yes, you read that right...

A little boy saw a hurt kitten on the side of the road, his bus driver let him save it, and she lost her job for it.

Her name is Cynthia Morgan.

For 11 years she drove kids in Harford County, most recently to North Harford Elementary.

Parents say every fall she BOUGHT SCHOOL SUPPLIES for EVERY child on her bus.

Oh, and she also bought:
-> Christmas gifts.
-> Birthday cards.

All out of her own pocket, for all her bus stop students.

In one mom’s words:
“She is an angel. She is the most caring person.”

Then one day... in rural Pylesville, the boy spotted an injured kitten by the road.

He was the ONLY child on the bus

Cynthia stopped, he hopped off, scooped up the kitten, and held it the whole way to school.

On October 5th, the district’s transportation director sent a letter to the contractor that employs her and stripped her of her certification.

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition to bring her back.

Even freaking PETA wrote to the Board of Education TODAY demanding a review of the situation

The boy’s mother is BEYOND FURIOUS... if you can't let a boy rescue a kitten on a country road, what CAN you do?!!!!

WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!!!!!!!!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.

The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.

Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.

The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.

In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.

For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.

Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My dear American friends, I've shown you where the disease came from and who sells it. Now I want you to look at this email.

January 5, 2020, 2:44 in the morning. Peter Thiel writes to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen. It became public years later, in a lawsuit between the state of Tennessee and Meta. The subject line is one word: Millennials.

Thiel starts from a number: 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist.

Read that again. Seven out of ten young adults in the richest, freest, most innovative country in human history say they want the system that ruined every country that tried it.

And Thiel, one of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley, says something important. Don't just dismiss them as stupid or brainwashed. Understand why. His answer: when you're crushed by student debt and housing is unaffordable, you have no capital and no way to build any. And if you have no stake in capitalism, you turn against it.

He's right. But follow the thread one step further, because that's where it gets interesting.

Who made college unaffordable? Washington flooded universities with easy federal loans, and universities raised their prices year after year, because they could. The same universities that then taught those students, for four years, that capitalism is the problem.

Who made housing unaffordable? Zoning rules, permits, environmental reviews, endless regulation that makes it nearly illegal to build. Remember Piketty's famous rise of capital? It was mostly housing. Scarcity created by the state.

So here's the full picture. The state creates the scarcity. The universities teach that capitalism caused it. The politicians sell socialism as the cure. The arsonist is selling fire insurance.

That's why 70% is not a natural opinion. No generation wakes up one morning wanting central planning. It takes decades of teaching, a captured culture, and an economy rigged to give young people no stake in it. In a healthy country, that number would trigger a serious public investigation into what American universities have been teaching for fifty years. This is not a debate. It's the result of a long, patient operation, exactly the war of position Gramsci described from his prison cell.

Now let me tell you what history says happens when an ideology captures a generation and turns it against everything that came before.

China, 1966. Mao unleashes the Cultural Revolution and hands it to the youth. Students become Red Guards. Their mission: destroy the "Four Olds," old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas. Temples, books, art, centuries of history, smashed.

In August 1966, at a girls' school in Beijing, students beat their vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death. She was one of the first. Teachers across the country were humiliated, tortured, killed by the children they had taught.

In 1970, a 16-year-old boy named Zhang Hongbing denounced his own mother for criticizing Mao. She was executed. He spent the rest of his life trying to apologize for it.

Children were taught that loyalty to the Party came before loyalty to their parents. Historians estimate the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of people.

The Soviet Union did it first. It turned a boy named Pavlik Morozov into a national hero for denouncing his father. Generations of Soviet children were raised on his story.

Cambodia, 1975. The Khmer Rouge declare Year Zero. Teenagers with rifles empty the cities. Wearing glasses was enough to mark you as an intellectual. In four years, roughly a quarter of the population was dead.

Every time, the same pattern. Take the young. Teach them that the past is guilty. Teach them that their parents, their teachers, their history are the enemy. Then give them power.

So when you see statues pulled down, words banned, books rewritten, and parents treated as obstacles in their own children's schools, understand what you're looking at. It's not the end of the story. It's the opening act. It always starts with the young, and it always starts with good intentions.

If the West ever gets its Marxist youth revolution, it won't end in Scandinavia. It will end the way it has ended every single time it was tried for real. And we will have learned nothing.

Thiel saw the number. I'm telling you where it leads.

The answer is not to hate the young. It's to give them back a stake in the system. Let them build. Let them buy a home. Make college worth its price or skip it. Let them start companies instead of drowning in debt. A generation that owns something defends it. A generation that owns nothing will burn it down.

I come from your future. Don't let your children write the next chapter of this story.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just so we are all on the same page:

Illegals are voting.
Illegals are getting free food.
Illegals are getting free childcare.
Illegals are getting free education.
Illegals are getting free tax credits.
Illegals are getting free healthcare.
Illegals are getting free housing assistance.
Illegals are getting free legal representation.
Illegals are getting free mental health services.
Illegals are getting free college tuition in over a dozen states.

It is the most insane scam ever perpetrated on the American people.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds.

Read that again.

Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen.
Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED.

For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families.

Follow the money.
Audit everything.
Prosecute whoever broke the law.

Thank you, Sec. Bessent. 🇺🇸

Do you firmly support Scott on this?

[MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican]

This was so good! I hope everyone will watch because Glenn Beck and his team made this information so understandable. We are in a war. Watch it and then vote RED!

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

We have undercover people in the inside midterm campaigns across the United States.

We are not releasing the footage yet because we are checking facts, corroborating sources, and obtaining comment to make our stories absolutely bulletproof.

I will also be showing up in person over the weekend to confront the people who say they are breaking the law.

We are announcing this because I want you to know I’m watching every single thing you ALL are doing.

STAY TUNED…

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I traveled to Hungary, to Soros' personal archives.

I scanned all the documents that I could and used AI to translate them.

What the documents proved was that Soros set up the global mass migration network.

What the documents also proved was that Israel was a thorn in Soros' and the globalists' side.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A research into cat behavior shows that domestic cats regard humans as social peers rather than superiors, often perceiving their owners as large, awkward kittens.

Far from being aloof or defiant, a cat’s apparent indifference stems from a profound interspecies mismatch in social expectations.

As anthrozoologist John Bradshaw explains, cats—unlike dogs—never evolved to recognize humans as dominant leaders or authority figures. Instead, they filter all interactions through an exclusively feline framework. Behaviors like kneading on your lap or licking your hair are not mere displays of affection; they are the same grooming and bonding rituals cats reserve for close kin or pride members. In their eyes, we are simply enormous, somewhat clumsy fellow cats who require inclusion in the group.

This absence of hierarchical deference accounts for cats’ frequent disregard of commands or household rules. Treating us as equals, they follow cat-to-cat social protocols in every encounter. The “gifts” of dead prey on the doorstep or constant shadowing around the home are acts of care toward what they see as a big, furless, rather inept companion.

Recognizing this mindset transforms the human-cat relationship from one based on authority and obedience to one of mutual companionship. It turns out that while many owners believe they have domesticated their cats, the cats themselves are quietly convinced they are patiently tending to their oversized, adopted family members.

[Bradshaw, J. (2013). Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet. Basic Books]

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

The Left's Empire of Fraud, Theft, and Lies is Finally Collapsing

Here are the FACTS:

The mask has finally slipped off the face of the leftist monster, and what we see staring back is a grotesque reflection of pure, unadulterated greed. Look at Minnesota. Look at the absolute rot that has festered under the watch of Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, and the entire Democratic machine. They scream about "helping children" while their own community leaders were busy feeding our future into a black hole of fraud. We are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Money meant for hungry American kids, money meant for disabled children with autism, stolen line by line by a network of grifters who looked at the taxpayer as a fool to be exploited.

This was not a mistake. This was a business model. The "Feeding Our Future" scandal is the largest child nutrition fraud in American history, and the details should make your blood boil. They claimed to serve meals to children who did not exist. They invented ghosts, fabricated lives, and then cashed checks for them. Where did that money go? It did not go to feed a single hungry child. It went to luxury cars. It went to vacations. It went to buying Chevrolet Equinoxes and sending cash overseas to Somalia and Dubai. While American families struggled, while our veterans waited in line for help, these criminals were living like kings on the backs of lies. And who was leading the charge? Who was protecting this ecosystem of theft? Ilhan Omar.

Now, the FBI has raided her home. Good. It is about time. The long arm of the law finally caught up with the hypocrisy. For years, she has stood on the floor of Congress, preaching about morality, crying about "racism" whenever anyone dared to ask for accountability. She called for defunding the police. She called for open borders. She called for us to ignore the laws of our nation. And while she was screaming, her community was dismantling the very safety net she claimed to protect. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife. She talks about "human rights" while her associates were stealing the lifeblood of disabled children. She talks about "justice" while her friends were indicted for fraud on a scale we have never seen.

The pattern is undeniable. It is a web of deceit that stretches from the autism clinics billing for twenty-four hours of work in a single day to the housing programs that exist only on paper. The Trump administration had to step in and freeze hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds because the corruption was so rampant, so brazen, so complete. They found claims that were physically impossible. They found beneficiaries who did not exist. They found a system designed by the Left to be a one-way street for taxpayer money. And when the Trump administration tried to stop it, when they tried to claw back the stolen funds, who screamed the loudest? Ilhan Omar. Tim Walz. Keith Ellison. They protected the fraudsters. They called it "racist" to investigate. They called it "political" to enforce the law.

Let us be clear. This is not about race. This is about crime. This is about a culture of entitlement that has taken root in the Democratic Party, a culture where the rules do not apply to them, where the laws of the land are suggestions to be ignored, and where the American taxpayer is nothing more than a resource to be plundered. They tell us that we cannot question the integrity of these programs. They tell us that we are "xenophobic" for pointing out that the majority of those charged are from a specific community. But silence is complicity. And the Left has been silent for too long. They have been active participants in the destruction of our trust, our safety, and our future.

And it does not stop with fraud. Look at the sanctuary cities. Look at Illinois. Look at the case of Adelfo Garcia-Torres, an illegal alien with a fake ID who was allowed to roam free because of sanctuary policies, only to prey on a child. A child. A five-year-old. While the predators were being protected by the very system designed to stop them, the victims were being ignored. The Left cares more about the feelings of the criminal than the safety of the child. They care more about the narrative than the truth. They care more about their power than your daughter.

Tim Walz, the man who wants to be Vice President, the man who claims to care about "communities," was subpoenaed for obstructing federal immigration enforcement. He tried to stop the investigation. He tried to hide the truth. He and his cronies in Minneapolis and St. Paul actively worked to undermine the law, to protect the fraudsters, to keep the money flowing. They created a sanctuary for criminals, a safe haven for grifters, and a no-go zone for justice. And now they have the audacity to cry foul when the law finally knocks on their door.

The raid on Ilhan Omar's home is not an attack on democracy. It is the restoration of it. It is the sound of the bill coming due. It is the realization that no one, no matter how powerful, no matter how connected, no matter how much they scream about "racism" or "witch hunts," is above the law. The American people are tired of being played for fools. We are tired of watching our money disappear into the pockets of criminals while we are told to be quiet. We are tired of seeing our children endangered by policies that prioritize illegal aliens over citizens.

The Left has built an empire on lies. An empire of fraud, of theft, of deception. They have stolen from the dead, the disabled, and the dying. They have betrayed every trust placed in them. They have sold out their own communities for power and profit. And now, as the walls close in, as the indictments pile up, as the truth comes out, they want us to feel sorry for them? They want us to believe that they are the victims? Never. We will not forget. We will not forgive. And we will not let them off the hook.

This is a warning shot. The era of impunity is over. The era of accountability has begun. We will follow the money. We will expose the lies. We will prosecute the fraud. And we will protect our children, our borders, and our future from the scourge of the Democratic Party. They thought they could get away with it. They thought we would never notice. They thought we were too stupid, too divided, too weak. They were wrong. We are watching. We are angry. And we are ready to take our country back. The time for talk is over. The time for action is now. Let the chips fall where they may. Let the justice system do its work. And let the world see the true face of the Left: greedy, corrupt, and utterly devoid of honor. They are the scum of the earth, and we will flush them down the drain of history where they belong.

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

When the editor of the world’s most prestigious medical journal concluded that much of the clinical research it published could no longer be trusted, the problem was no longer abstract.
Marcia Angell, a pathologist who joined the New England Journal of Medicine staff in 1979, rose to executive editor and then served as interim editor-in-chief from 1999 to June 2000. She stepped down after more than two decades at the journal, formally to write a book. The deeper context was her growing conviction, formed from years of editing manuscripts, that pharmaceutical industry influence had compromised the independence of clinical research. She and previous editors had enforced strict conflict-of-interest rules, yet industry-sponsored studies continued to arrive with designs, analyses, and selective reporting that favored the sponsor’s product. Negative results were often suppressed, side effects minimized, and “academic” authors frequently carried undisclosed financial ties.
In a widely cited 2009 New York Review of Books essay, Angell wrote the line that crystallized her position: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” She described an industry that had shifted from discovering useful drugs toward marketing, co-opting academic medical centers, researchers, and even the journals that were supposed to serve as independent arbiters. Her 2000 editorial “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” and later book The Truth About the Drug Companies expanded the critique, arguing that commercial priorities systematically distorted what research was done, how it was conducted, and what reached publication.
Angell’s departure marked the end of an era of tighter editorial resistance to industry influence at the NEJM. Her public statements afterward made clear that she viewed the problem as systemic rather than isolated: once the bulk of clinical research depended on commercial funding, journals could no longer function as reliable filters of medical evidence.

[Nick Specter-Vlacic @NickVlacic]

I rode the Goliath ride at Six Flags over Georgia @sfovergeorgia a few months ago and they had major delays in queue because one the trains kept being pulled and tested due to restraints opening. They knew this ride is a liability for a long time and they ran it anyway until someone died. #sixflags #breakingnews‌

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Pundits came up today one villain short of a MAGA conspiracy in the Omar case. The warrant was reportedly approved by Judge Matthew Sharbaugh, who is a registered Democrat and a Democratic appointee. He is also a Hillary Clinton donor, who was sworn in by Judge James Boasberg.

[Polly Darton @pollydartonOG]

@ELIASBEAUCHAMP @LauraLoomer @IlhanMN Ummmm hello @ELIASBEAUCHAMP The LEARING Center fraudulent Somali childcare center? Where gave you been the last few years? "Lear" is the joke...look it up or ask Grok.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

President Trump just went scorched earth on crooked IIham Omar, and I’m here for it.