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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump."

It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.

[kate bush’s husband @airbagg3d]

Pop a perc for Charlie Kirk today

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

So on day 653 he will bring prices down. Not day 1. Got it.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

BREAKING: Trump says he will give every adult citizen $5,000 if GOP wins the midterms

Idiocracy was so far ahead of its time 🤣

[Idara @Idarabasimi]

I've genuinely watched this 15 times 🙁😒🙁😒🙁😟🙁

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Warning: Once you see this monk's 3-minute demonstration on "how to stop thinking," you can't unsee it.

Ajahn Brahm says:

"Your mind never actually stops. It just fills every gap you fail to notice."

His demonstration works because he exploits something neuroscience has quietly confirmed for years that "the thinking mind cannot generate thought and pay full attention at the same time."

Attention and cognition compete for the same neural real estate. When one runs at full volume, the other goes quiet.

Most people never experience mental silence because they've never once given attention *anything* to fully occupy it with.

What Brahm does in those 3 minutes is deceptively simple.

He asks you to listen to the *gaps between his words*.

The silence between syllables. The pause between sentences. And the moment you shift your attention to those gaps, your internal narrator goes quiet.

The reason is you directed your awareness with such precision that it fully engaged your attention and left no room for extra commentary.

Meditation traditions have circled this insight for 2,500 years.

The Pali term for mental chatter is *prapañca.*
Transaltion: Conceptual proliferation.

One thought spawns another, which spawns three more, and within seconds you're rehearsing an argument from 2014.

Brahm's technique interrupts the mechanism at its source. You cannot proliferate thought while genuinely tracking silence, because silence has no content for the mind to grab onto and multiply.

This is why most meditation instruction fails people. They're told to "clear the mind," which is like being told not to think of a polar bear. The very act of trying activates the machinery it's supposed to silence. Brahm inverts the entire approach.

Instead of asking you to stop, he asks to divert your attention somewhere so refined to rest that stopping happens on its own, as a side effect.

There's a deeper reason this demonstration hits so hard.

Modern life has trained our nervous systems to treat silence as a threat that must be filled with a podcast, a scroll, a snack, a plan.

We've forgotten that silence is the medium consciousness actually rests in. Sound is the interruption. It's not the other way around.

Once you experience even 5 seconds of genuine internal quiet, your relationship with your own thoughts permanently shifts. You stop believing every mental voice is *you*. You start noticing there's a witness underneath the chatter that was never anxious to begin with.

Please throw in your thoughts on this.

[Jeff Strater @jeffstrater]

Wow. I’m deep in Ken Paxton territory this afternoon, out in Heritage Ranch in Fairview in Collin County, and I cannot believe how many Talarico signs I’m seeing. 👀

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump signs an executive order directing a review to delist Mexican gray wolves from the endangered species list so ranchers can kill them.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75. https://t.co/WMXj13XLgy

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The 100 wealthiest Americans own more than the bottom half of the country.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

NEW AD: Why is Ken Paxton refusing to debate James Talarico?

Because his billionaire handlers won't let their favorite puppet answer questions in public.

Go ahead, @KenPaxtonTX. Prove us wrong. 🐓

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

163 missing kids rescued in Florida.
3 white men arrested. 🤦🏾‍♂️🙏🏾

[Jean Allen @peakcapitolism]

It's 2027. The AI bubble has popped. The US dollar has bust. It's 500 dollars to buy a burger and it makes you immediately have diarrhea. The sun has been renamed America.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NYT: Donald Trump is not planning to attend the ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks after being told he could not give a speech, as the annual ceremony has a longstanding policy barring politicians from giving remarks.

Trump’s team had made advance visits to the site and initially indicated to officials in New York and Washington that the president planned to attend.

Instead, Trump will attend a midterm political convention in Texas on September 9 and 10 before traveling to the Pentagon.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier films the extent of the destruction and rubble. Gaza was razed to the ground, leaving no homes standing, and entire families were killed, leaving no one alive.

A video that the world must never forget.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Scott Bessent looks to be intentionally crashing the $.
I studied currency collapses and found that there were 7 indicators that preceded every major currency collapse in modern history.
I then measured the US dollar against those 7.
And as of right now, based on what Scott Bessent did last week, we have hit all 7 indicators.
No country in modern history has met all 7 and avoided a currency collapse. None.
And this doesn't look to be happening to us, it looks to be being done to us, by the people who swore an oath to prevent it. And they are getting rich while they do it.

Full article is up on Substack now (link in bio and it's free). I also give the things I am eyeing to hedge it and what we can do to fight it.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

A bunch of MAGA are hanging out in front of Governor Gavin Newsom’s house in Fair Oaks,California where he no longer lives any longer while they dance to YMCA thinking he’s there.

[Dhruv kumar @Dhruvkumar16797]

This guy literally explained why some people become successful while other stay average.

The reason is uncomfortable. Game Theory

Watch this:

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Linda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"