Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

[Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it. @raised2b]

If you don’t value and respect freedom, I have no respect for you. I can find common ground with anyone that respects that core tenant and none with those that don’t. It’s shocking to me how much freedom is being ridiculed and mocked by those around me.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

Across the country, our government has identified hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters—so far.

With at least hundreds of non-citizens voting there, New Jersey is no exception! The @CivilRights Division @TheJusticeDept is investigating.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The world is constantly getting better and if you think it's not it's because you're a malcontent whose brain has been destroyed by social media.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Europe's AC phobia leads to 175,000 deaths every year. And yet 80% of Europeans still have no air conditioning, thanks to complex permits, regulations, and noise ordinances.

AC is not a luxury; it saves lives, says Cato’s @chellivia.
https://t.co/H7Px3wF7PF

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The real truth is that elite institutions are building a two-tier moral system.

Privately, the successful still teach their children discipline, delayed gratification, planning, stable families, property ownership, emotional control, precision, and competition.

Publicly, those same traits are increasingly described as culturally suspect when attached to people lower in the hierarchy.

That is the mask.

The people at the top are not abandoning these behaviors. They are monopolizing them.

They will keep the schedules.

They will protect the assets.

They will marry strategically.

They will send their children to selective schools.

They will cultivate self-control, networks, literacy, and long-range thinking.

Then they will tell everyone else that these habits are oppressive constructs.

That produces dependency.

A person who can reason clearly, plan ahead, form durable bonds, save money, protect property, and act without institutional permission is harder to manage.

A fragmented person is easier.

A person trained to interpret every standard as domination becomes permanently dependent on institutions to explain reality, assign blame, define justice, and distribute status.

That is why racializing competence is so destructive.

It strips useful human traits of universality.

It tells one group that ordinary discipline is morally contaminated.

It tells another group that competence belongs to them by historical inheritance.

Both messages are poison.

The first weakens agency.

The second breeds arrogance.

The institution gains power from the conflict.

The truth is that the ideology cannot survive without the civilization it criticizes.

The museum uses schedules.

The researchers use evidence.

The payroll system uses arithmetic.

The building relies on property law.

The exhibits depend on preservation, classification, linear reasoning, and future planning.

The doctrine condemns the operating system while running on it.

That contradiction is the whole structure.

The list also contains some genuinely culture-specific assumptions, such as rigid gender roles, one narrow family ideal, emotional restraint, and aggressive control over nature. Those can be examined honestly.

Bundling them with scientific reasoning, responsibility, punctuality, and protection of property is the manipulation.

It makes scrutiny impossible.

Anyone defending a functional virtue can be accused of defending the entire historical order.

That is how language becomes a trap.

The broader movement is trying to replace universal standards with positional truth.

Under universal standards, an argument is judged by evidence.

Under positional truth, an argument is judged by the identity of the speaker and the power history attached to that identity.

Once that shift completes, reality loses authority.

Institutions become the referees of legitimacy.

That is the prize.

The coming consequence is institutional decay hidden behind moral language.

Standards weaken.

Competence retreats into private networks.

Public systems become less functional.

Elites route around the damage.

Ordinary people absorb it.

Schools stop teaching mastery while wealthy families buy mastery privately.

Public order weakens while wealthy neighborhoods buy security privately.

Family stability erodes while elite families preserve lineage and networks privately.

The public doctrine produces chaos.

The private doctrine preserves power.

That is where this road leads.

The final truth is this:

A ruling class can weaken a population by teaching it to distrust the habits required for independence, while practicing those habits with greater intensity behind closed doors.

That is what this kind of rhetoric ultimately serves.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Last year I was determined to make a contribution to America's 250th Anniversary. This documentary, The Thread of Liberty: Keeping Our Republic, is what came of that desire. I've posted it here in its entirety, as well as at https://t.co/Dnb8CMyjQq. We have an incredible nation, the first ever rights-based government in the history of the world in which the people are sovereign. We should appreciate it and, more importantly, love it. But loving requires understanding and then restoring. There is a great deal to celebrate and there is also a great deal of work that lies before us if we're to restore the republic. One of the central questions for the future of the American Republic is do we still feel an obligation to our experiment in free government? I believe one of the places that we renew the obligation, and begin the restoration, is with a rebirth of instinctive patriotism. I sincerely hope this documentary plays a role in that rebirth. Keep America Free.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Past a certain level — a few million dollars — money is no longer consumption. It is capital: a claim on the future, to be allocated toward the best possible use. Whoever allocates it most productively serves not themselves but everyone – generating value, progress, and the next platform on which others build.

The economy is fundamentally an allocation problem. Resources are finite. Uses are infinite. The question is never who has how much – it is who directs the next unit of resource most productively. The market answers this through distributed information – millions of simultaneous signals that no central authority can collect, process, or replicate. This is Mises’ calculation problem, stated in 1920: central planning is not merely inefficient, it is mathematically insoluble. The information simply doesn’t exist in any one place.

Profit is not a reward. It is information – proof that resources were directed toward something people value enough to pay for. The larger the profit, the larger the value created. Loss is the same signal in reverse. Bureaucratic deficit is the signal nobody reads: consumption exceeding production, value destroyed, called redistribution.

Whoever generated most profit should naturally be most trusted to allocate most capital. Not a moral claim. A track record argument – the same logic by which you trust the best surgeon with the most complex operation.
This is called capitalism – the system where it happens most naturally. The system in which capital flows toward those who have proven they use it best, rather than toward those who have proven they can win elections.

Two types of actors move through any economy:
The entrepreneur takes personal risk to identify a problem and build a solution. If wrong, he loses. If right, everyone gains – customers, employees, suppliers, the state. He is the cell of progress.
The bureaucrat takes no personal risk. He cannot create. At best he maintains. At worst he destroys through regulation, misallocation, and perverse incentives that discourage those who produce.

No society has ever progressed by taxing its creators to subsidize its administrators. The civilization that forgets this is borrowing against a future its policies are making less likely.

[Chelsea Olivia Follett @chellivia]

Inequality concerns have become more prominent despite inequality's decline. Why?

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Everyone is sharing this study as a skin story. They're burying the part that matters.
Scientists took the aorta of a 75-year-old donor, applied a single engineered enzyme, and stripped away more than 70% of the molecular damage — bringing it down to the levels you'd see in a 30-year-old artery.
Published five days ago in Nature Communications. Revel Pharmaceuticals, with Calico and the University of Colorado.
Here's what they erased.
Sugar reacts with proteins in your body the same way heat browns bread — slowly, over a lifetime. It leaves behind a residue called CML, the most abundant advanced glycation end product in aging tissue. It welds itself onto collagen and elastin in your skin, your eye lens, and your arterial walls.
Two things follow. Your arteries stiffen. And CML latches onto a receptor called RAGE, which drives chronic inflammation — the exact fire I've been writing about for months as the engine of heart disease.
Since the 1980s this damage was considered permanent. Your body has no enzyme to remove it. Every existing approach only slows new damage from forming. Nothing touched what was already there.
So they built an enzyme that doesn't exist in nature. They screened 45,000 protein structures, then ran five rounds of directed evolution across more than 500 million variants until they had CMLase — a molecular lawnmower that oxidizes the CML off the protein and restores the original, healthy lysine underneath.
Not patched. Reversed.
Over 70% cleared from elderly arterial tissue. Over 55% from elderly skin — below the levels found in 31-year-old skin. 45-78% in lens proteins. The CEO said they expected 20% and were floored.
Arterial stiffness drives systolic hypertension, heart failure, and stroke, and I have no drug that reverses it. I can slow the process. I cannot undo it. This paper says undoing it may be possible.
The caveats are real and I won't skip them. This was done on donated tissue in a dish, not in a living person. No functional data yet — we don't know if that artery got measurably more elastic. Delivering a large enzyme deep into human tissue is a hard, unsolved problem. Clinical trials are years away.
But something considered permanent for forty years just came off human tissue.
We spent a century learning to slow aging. Someone finally figured out how to erase it.
Thank you @theallinpod @friedberg @chamath @pesottas

[Ascendant Power @AscendantPower]

People who are incapable of creating advanced civilizations are equally incapable of maintaining them.

[Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik]

🚨🚨FULL STATEMENT on Jack Smith’s Illegal Weaponization Spying on Congress and Subsequent Perjury 🚨🚨

“The American people have long known that Joe Biden’s hand-picked prosecutor weaponized government at the highest levels, and I have long suspected that he unconstitutionally spied on Members of Congress — including me — and then perjured himself in front of Congress.

The newly declassified records confirm exactly that. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team unlawfully and unconstitutionally accessed my private text messages, along with 43 other Members of Congress, in clear violation of the Constitution.

As President Trump has said, the illegal weaponization and abuse of power was not just against the President, it was against all his supporters who spoke out against it, and now we see it extended to duly elected Members of Congress. This is not an isolated incident. It is the latest and most egregious example of the most widespread and dangerous weaponization of the federal government in our nation's history that I have spent years fighting to expose. As a leading voice in Congress on the House Intelligence Committee and the Select Committee on Weaponization, I have worked to investigate and expose the Biden Administration’s collusion with Big Tech to censor Americans, the FBI’s illegal targeting of parents at school boards and traditional Catholics, the Russia collusion hoax, lawfare against President Trump and his allies, and the broader pattern of the deep state illegally targeting political opponents.

These bombshell records confirm that unaccountable special counsels and federal agencies used their power to secretly and unconstitutionally surveil elected representatives without proper legal process. Accessing the private communications of lawmakers is an assault on the separation of powers, Congressional independence, and the Constitutional rights of every American.

There must be criminal consequences for this egregious, unconstitutional, and illegal abuse of power targeting duly elected Members of Congress and the American people. Those responsible must be held fully accountable, and we must enact strong reforms to prevent any future administration from weaponizing government tools against the American people or their elected representatives.

The American people sent us to Washington to defend the Constitution, not to allow it to be shredded by politically motivated prosecutors. I will continue leading the fight against this weaponization and abuse of power until real accountability and lasting reforms are achieved."

[Handre @Handre]

Two countries split from the same colonial body in 1965. One picked economic freedom. The other picked handouts and racial spoils. You already know how this ended.

Singapore had no oil, no farmland, no hinterland. Just a swamp and a port. Lee Kuan Yew looked at that and trusted trade, low taxes, and hard money. Central planners hate what he did.

Malaysia went the other way. In 1971 Kuala Lumpur launched the New Economic Policy, a state program handing quotas, contracts, and university seats to ethnic Malays. Politicians decided who got what. A commissar fantasy dressed in liberal language.

Now let's look at the numbers. In 1965 both places sat around $500 per capita. Today Singapore clears $84,000. Malaysia sits near $13,000. Same climate, same starting line, one sixth the result.

The Singapore dollar holds its value because the Monetary Authority of Singapore manages it against a currency basket and refuses to print its way out of trouble. The ringgit has lost roughly two thirds of its value against the Singapore dollar since 1981.

You cannot subsidize your way to wealth. You cannot redistribute what you never let people produce. Every ringgit funneled through a quota is a ringgit some bureaucrat spent on his own vision instead of a customer's.

Malaysia bet on planners deciding outcomes. Singapore bet on people deciding for themselves. The gap between $84,000 and $13,000 is your answer.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Patriotism is love for your country’s culture and people. It is defensive.

Nationalism is love for your country’s state. It is power-based.

This is the essence of the distinction Orwell drew between the two terms.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This is the most badass shit ever.

h/t @Geiger_Capital

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.

He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.

Two years later, it was over. 🧵

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Knowledge is not the same as encounter.

An all-knowing ground can contain every truth in principle and still express itself through finite life to meet those truths from the inside.

Fear as a body.

Love as risk.

Faith without proof.

Loss without escape.

Courage under a clock.

The point of limitation is not information.

It is contact.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True https://t.co/7fmliNMklw

[JOSE GEFAELL @ChGefaell]

Greenland: In the last 12 000 years, there are many periods with temperature increases similar to —or much faster and more drastic than— the current one, without any human-caused CO₂ emissions and with much lower levels of total atmospheric CO₂. Some of these periods are:

Anno Domini
1880 – 2023 (143 y): +2.10 °C
1700 – 1770 (70 y): +1.60 °C

Before Christ
190 – 30 (160 y): +2.13 °C
1050 – 970 (80 y): +2.21 °C
2330 – 2190 (140 y): +2.44 °C
6210 – 5970 (240 y): +3.36 °C
6210 – 6030 (180 y): +2.87 °C
8290 – 7970 (320 y): +3.57 °C
8570 – 8490 (80 y): +2.06 °C
8890 – 8670 (220 y): +2.34 °C
9410 – 9330 (80 y): +2.73 °C
9700 – 9630 (70 y): +6.11 °C

Blue curve on the graph: Temperature reconstruction for Greenland over the past 12,000 years based on the six ice cores shown on the map.
Black curve on the graph: Instrumental measurements from 1880 to 2023.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4