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Observer. Listener. Pattern Recognizer.

[Lane Brown @lanebrown_3]

Hero Principal Kirk Moore—who tackled a school shooter at Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma is crowned prom king!

This man deserves a raise! Hero.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

A brain expert just said what no one wants to hear about screen learning.🤯

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

This is starting to get really scary!

🚨 A “CLUSTER OF UFO’S” HAS BEEN SPOTTED NEAR THE MILITARY BASE WHERE 11 AIR FORCE SCIENTISTS RECENTLY DIED OR WENT MISSING 🚨

[Undiscovered History @HistoryUnd]

Cybill Shepherd, 1972.

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

At least they’re not on their phone 😂

[RafT @Rafael_T]

@FFT1776

[RafT @Rafael_T]

@sesamestreet

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad.

Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average.

They ranked dead last out of 65 countries.

Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.

[RafT @Rafael_T]

@beautyshowcase 2

[R T @RDog861]

BTW, Gallego is also close friends with Alex Soros. It just gets better and better.

[Carrie Severino @JCNSeverino]

A descendant of West African slaves, Clarence Thomas was born into poverty in the Jim Crow South and went on to become one of the greatest Supreme Court justices.

His story is the epitome of the American Dream.

“This is a great example of why the messenger is just as important, if not more so, than the message...” - @Kerri_Kupec

📺 @FoxNews

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Ronald McDonald in 1858 (colorized)

[RafT @Rafael_T]

@DaAcervo

[Fox News @FoxNews]

FULL SPEECH: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warns of progressivism as a threat to America.

“Progressivism is replacing the core principles of the Declaration of Independence.”

“If you think it’s losing confidence...get up and participate. You don’t sit on the sidelines.”

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I wonder why 🤔

[Handre @Handre]

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress.

The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely.

Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on.

The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors.

Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.