The New Number Six 🇺🇸

Escaping

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Germany's Chancellor Merz admits:

Trump often applies pressure through a very forceful approach.

The last American presidents politely asked us, "Please, finally do a little more for your own defense," but across Europe those requests largely fell on deaf ears.

Now there is an American president who says, rather bluntly, "Enough is enough."

And I cannot blame him. Just look at the numbers: the United States spends around 80 percent of NATO's defense resources, while Europe accounts for only about 20 percent.

That is unacceptable. It has always been unacceptable.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Trump almost skipped the NATO summit. He only showed up because it was in Turkey.

Cannons saluted him. A finance minister met everyone else.

But the real story was Putin's 85-minute call two days earlier — and what Erdogan and Putin see that Europe can't.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

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[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok 4.5 context window will upgrade to 1M probably by next week

[Phantom II @Phantom2Phlyer]

Remember the 9/11 Commission's conclusion, that 9/11 happened because of three 'failures of imagination?'

I seriously wonder if anyone in the administration has the imagination to accept what we're up against. I can't state it any more plainly than this: Iran is run by delusional people who actually believe (and that's the key- they're not just saying it for emotional effect) that their God is commanding them to destroy the world.

This delusion has two effects: first, there is no middle ground, no ability to negotiate with people who believe something like this. They will not stop until they destroy the world. Everything they do is done with that complete motivation in mind.

Second, their total and complete belief in what their God is commanding them to do has also deluded them into an absolute belief that their God won't let them fail.

That level of fanaticism can't be negotiated with. They will never come to the point where they sit back and say, "Hey, we're constantly getting the shit kicked out of us. Maybe, just maybe, we're wrong about what Allah wants us to do."

The only thing we can do to end this war, IMHO, is to remove this insane regime. That should be the goal. Anything less than that will simply lead us nowhere. We need to take out the IRGC, who are driving the military attacks, and then either destroy the Shi'a leadership or send them into permanent exile.

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

Tomorrow we’re unveiling the most advanced robotic hand in human history

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We will continue to make refinements to the Grok Build harness and the 1.5T foundation model almost every day in response to user requests.

The 2T model will finish training this month and be available to customers next month.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

The state of white men in the Democrat party:

Guy who dresses like a hobo recovering from a stroke tells a pretend socialist with multiple homes to stop promoting a rapey guy with a Nazi tattoo.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

113 active spies from foreign countries arrested.

Counter intelligence arrest have jumped 53%

4,800 cartel arrests, and 850 active plotters stopped.

77% surge in cyber indictments.

This @FBI is doing the work!

-DKP🇺🇸

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show—and now I’m banned.

I told the story in the Washington Examiner, out this morning:

https://t.co/IubzC65BoC

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

L’Europe est une métastase qui essaie de survivre après qu’on lui a coupé le glucose.

Ce qui est intéressant en ce moment, c'est qu'on assiste à la chose en direct : l'emprise qu'ils étaient censés avoir pour dérouler tout ça leur échappe totalement. Et c'est logique. On leur a coupé le glucose. Il ne reste qu'une tumeur qu'on vient d'affamer.

Une tumeur, ça ne se pilote pas d'en haut. Ça se nourrit. Effet Warburg : la cellule cancéreuse brûle le sucre à un rythme délirant, très au-delà de ses besoins, parce que la croissance sans fin coûte une énergie folle. Coupe le glucose, tu ne la tues pas d'un coup, mais tu l'affames. C'est exactement la scène qui se joue.

Le glucose, c'était quoi ? Un flux ininterrompu de légitimité, d'argent et d'attention. La machine américaine d'abord — pas le parti électoral, l'appareil : médias, universités, agences fédérales, la capture du récit. Un organisme qui grossissait tranquille parce que personne ne coupait l'arrivée de sucre.

Et comme tout cancer qui prospère, il s'était fabriqué ses propres vaisseaux pour amener le sucre jusqu'à lui. C'est l'angiogenèse. Regarde l'Europe, c'est écrit noir sur blanc : entre 2021 et 2023, 7,4 milliards d'euros de fonds publics versés à des ONG, dont 4,8 directement par la Commission. Des ONG financées par la Commission qui font ensuite du lobbying auprès de la Commission et du Parlement. La Cour des comptes européenne l'a acté en avril 2025 : opacité, concentration sur une poignée de bénéficiaires, activités de lobbying non déclarées. Le détail qui dit tout : la Commission a dû publier en 2024 une consigne pour cesser d'exiger des ONG qu'elles fassent du lobbying. Qu'une telle interdiction ait seulement été nécessaire raconte à elle seule l'histoire. Les fondations irriguent les médias, qui légitiment les agences, qui subventionnent les ONG, qui lobbyient les institutions, qui refinancent les fondations. Un réseau vasculaire construit par la tumeur, pour la tumeur.

Voilà les tenants. Le forum de Davos qui théorise la gouvernance public-privé. La Commission de von der Leyen qui la coule en règlements. Les grandes fondations, Open Society en tête, qui financent ouvertement les causes. Et voilà les obéissants : les gouvernements nationaux qui transposent sans lire, les médias subventionnés qui relaient sans vérifier, l'administration qui n'a jamais appris à dire non, et le citoyen encore assez poli pour signer là où on lui montre.

Puis on a coupé le sucre. Musk rachète X, le monopole du récit saute. Trump revient, l'appareil perd l'État. Le DOGE ouvre les livres et montre par où coulait le glucose — les milliards, les circuits, la même mécanique qu'ici. La tumeur primaire tombe en hypoglycémie. Elle ne meurt pas. Mais elle a faim, et elle le sait.

Que fait un cancer affamé ? Il métastase. Il expédie ses cellules là où le sucre coule encore. Ce site, c'est l'Europe. Bruxelles n'est pas l'origine, c'est la métastase — pas la conquête, la survie. Pas de Premier Amendement, pas de Musk, pas de DOGE. Un terrain riche et des tissus dociles.

Et la métastase dépose ses capteurs un par un. La caméra infrarouge braquée sur ton regard, obligatoire dans chaque voiture neuve depuis le 7 juillet, et le règlement qui annonce déjà son élargissement d'ici 2027. Le Chat Control qui veut scanner tes messages avant même le chiffrement. Le portefeuille d'identité numérique eIDAS. L'euro numérique. Toujours le même réflexe : un capteur de plus dans le dernier organe encore sain. Ce qu'on voit : vingt-cinq mille vies sauvées d'ici 2038. Ce qu'on ne voit pas : l'organe qu'on colonise.

Sauf que la prise leur échappe. Le pass, l'attestation, le silence de 2021, c'était la santé insolente d'un cancer bien nourri. En 2026, coupée de son glucose, la tumeur n'a plus la force de faire avaler ce qu'elle imposait sans effort. Les peuples ont senti la casserole une fois, et une grenouille qui a sauté ne se rendort pas.

Ne te méprends pas. Une métastase, ça peut encore tuer. Mais ça ne conquiert plus, ça survit. Et un organisme qui survit au lieu de conquérir est un organisme qui a déjà commencé à perdre.

[The Rubber Duck ™ @TheRubberDuck79]

on June 3, 2019 - Julian Assange explained that the Russia Hoax of 2016 was a brilliant Hillary Clinton strategy because she used the [soros] media to project the crimes she was guilty of onto Donald Trump, as it was Clinton that had the connections to Russia - not Trump.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

If you’re making a new gas turbine, how big should it be?

Decades ago, the computing industry figured out that large arrays of blade servers were both cheaper and more reliable than a small number of expensive mainframes.

Yet the energy world is still largely powered by gigantic “frame” turbines that are hard to make and difficult to install.

I think the future of energy—particularly for off-grid “behind the meter” generation —is small modular production.

But how small should you go? If you go too small there is a big loss in efficiency (due to things like higher relative blade tip losses).

But there’s a sweet spot in the 40-50MW range where the turbine has most of the efficiency of a gigantic unit yet is also much more manufacturable and deployable. This is the sweet spot is in total cost per unit energy, inclusive of capital expenditure.

This is why Superpower sits at the ever magical 42MW.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

There was literally a Bolshevik takeover of the Smithsonian.

Democrats can never be allowed to take power again.

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

Ohio used to be the most affluent region in America.

In 1949, 4 of America’s 7 richest metro areas were in Ohio; Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Akron, every one out-earning New York and San Francisco.

6 of the top 15 richest metros were in Ohio, more than any other state;

[Sapiens - KalshiBackTest.com @BitcoinSapiens]

In 1967, Buckminster Fuller said:

“Wealth isn’t gold, it’s energy. By 2000, there will be a scientific accounting system for wealth, aligned with the laws of physics.”

He described Bitcoin before it existed.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The U.S. no longer has to compare itself to Europe as a whole to show divergence.

Individual American mega-states are starting to look like peer competitors to major European nations.

That is a huge tell.

The hidden variable is operating leverage.

Texas sits inside the American platform: dollar system, U.S. capital markets, U.S. military umbrella, U.S. tech ecosystem, U.S. legal and corporate infrastructure, massive domestic consumer base, and free internal migration.

France carries sovereign responsibilities Texas does not carry. Texas does not have to run an independent currency, nuclear deterrent, national pension architecture, foreign policy, or full welfare-state balance sheet on its own.

So the comparison flatters Texas and slightly cheats. But it still reveals something brutal: the most dynamic U.S. regions now compound faster than legacy European nation-states because they combine American-scale capital access with state-level policy flexibility.

Texas is not merely a place. It is a growth machine.

Energy is the core. Cheap and abundant power sits underneath everything: AI data centers, petrochemicals, LNG, manufacturing, grid expansion, Bitcoin mining, defense industry, industrial reshoring, and population growth. Europe spent years moralizing energy policy while Texas kept treating energy as civilization’s base layer. That difference compounds.

The next geopolitical split is not simply America versus Europe. It is high-energy, high-capex, high-migration growth zones versus low-energy, high-regulation preservation zones.

Texas is one of the clearest examples of the first category.

France is one of the clearest examples of the second.

Europe still has culture, beauty, history, education, engineering depth, and institutional memory. But growth power is moving toward places that can build, power, permit, finance, and absorb people faster. Civilization is becoming more infrastructure-bound again. Energy, land, grid, ports, chips, compute, and capital velocity matter more than postwar prestige.

Final read: this chart is not just bragging about Texas. It is a map of the new world.

The future is flowing toward jurisdictions that can turn energy into capital formation without suffocating the process.

France represents inherited civilization.

Texas represents compounding civilization.

Right now, compounding is winning.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Biden did not allow Ukraine to do this with US weapons. Trump is.