Satori

You can just do things. Be useful.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

If Elon owned Twitter in 2020 they would not have been able to pull off COVID.

Mass censorship was the key.

Facts.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Why did the press act as cheerleaders & mass behavioral guides rather than investigators or principled skeptics - their traditional roles - during COVID?

How was this transformation effected?

I'm tired of hearing only abt Fauci etc.

I want to know abt the media orchestration.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

my work here is done

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Good chat with President Trump tonight

He’s not giving up on the SAVE America Act

Neither am I

He’s as convinced as I am that we can get this done if the Senate’s willing to do the hard work

Pass it on if you’d like to see that happen

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good idea

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Please allow me to be approximately the 250,000th X user to express outrage that you seem completely unconcerned about the approximately 250,000 English girls raped by the rape gangs you and Labor imported.

[Warren Redlich - Chasing Dreams 🇺🇸 @WR4NYGov]

Since 2008, $15B taxpayer dollars have been invested in California High Speed Rail. There is no working track and zero passengers so far.

In the same time frame $12B in private funds were invested in SpaceX pre IPO.

SpaceX has 10,000 Starlink satellites serving 10 million customers and has taken 74 passengers into orbit.

Politicians tell you they’ll do better with Elon’s money than he does. California shows the truth.

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

This looks like an anus

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I don’t just “claim” it

It’s irrefutable

And a matter of public record

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

What would Americans lose if the Senate were to debate the SAVE America Act for at least four consecutive weeks—requiring filibustering senators to speak—in an effort to pass it?

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Sen. Chuck Schumer warns the Save America Act will “remove 25 million people” from the voter rolls.

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

This is wild. And I imagine a lot of this stems from requests for details about the money going into the new capital building.

[Seth Cohen @OverReactor1776]

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species.

Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty.

Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve.

As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers.

I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing.

If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own.

My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!)

Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future?

America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

The White House is finally doing something to curb the foreign "forever students" who never go home | Not The Bee

Get a load of this greatness!

For years, we've been told that American universities are sacred temples of higher learning where the world's brightest come to enrich our culture, innovate, and … pay full international tuition to subsidize gender studies departments and DEI commissars.

Well, the Trump administration just took a small step to stop treating F-1 student visas like an all-inclusive, stay-however-long-you'd-like handout.

According to Bloomberg Law, the White House has cleared a final rule from DHS that would replace the ridiculous "duration of status" policy — where foreign students could basically stay indefinitely as long as they were "pursuing" a degree — with a fixed four-year admission period.

After that, they'd have to get their stay approved by Homeland Security.

This is nothing new from Trump. From Bloomberg Law:

The DHS proposal renewed an effort from the first Trump administration that was opposed by medical organizations and college groups, who said it would disrupt students' completion of degrees with unnecessary administrative hurdles.

Predictably, the higher ed crowd is pretending this is some kind of apocalyptic disruption that will prevent students from finishing their degrees.

(As if four years isn't enough time for most programs, or as if extensions couldn't be granted for legitimate cases.)

It's not gonna be that bad, folks.

Seriously, universities have been hooked on this international cash for decades now.

Chinese students alone poured billions into the system.

Some of these students were genuine scholars, sure.

Others were spies, IP thieves, or just part of the larger game of flooding the country with people who have no intention of assimilating.

Amazing that it took this long to get this done.

https://t.co/D1IOC9YAer

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

There are currently 190,000 children in Chicago living below the poverty level.

For the price of the $900 million Obama library, we could have given each one of these poor children in Chicago $4,736.

Am I doing this right?

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We have 50 votes for the SAVE America Act

With the @VP, we have a simple majority

The fact that we don’t currently have 60 votes for cloture doesn’t mean it can’t pass

It just means we have to work harder to break the filibuster

We have to shed the defeatist attitude

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

With all this talk about Newsom being under DOJ investigation. Take a look at this CA Dem Director we caught on hidden camera talking about how Newsom is using Prop 50 fundraising to funnel it into his own 2028 Presidential campaign.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The popular vote win in 2024 was due to MAHA. Look at the Iowa gubernatorial primary. More needs to be done for MAHA. Then the midterms are a lock.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Covid let to a home school revival as the lockdowns and zoom schools woke up parents. Iran war is similar. Now we know how much domestic capacity must be brought up. That’s the silver lining to this.

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

All the critics of the ODNI under the leadership of Tulsi Gabbard, always missed one fundamental and important aspect. The main opposition to the efforts of the DNI was not the silo you think (CIA) it was the silo you didn't recognize, the FBI.

No organization did more to impede the effort of DNI reorganization than the FBI.

There's an uncomfortable reason for that, that @LauraLoomer et al, will never articulate.

John Ratcliffe was more of a partner to ODNI than Kash Patel. It was the inability of the FBI to rely on their "soster agency" that created most of the friction.

The FBI is the manipulative silo within our body politic. The IC is a method used by the FBI. Take away a political IC and the political FBI lose their most valuable weapon.

There are many IC problems. But for the sake of this specific point, the FBI is the PRIMARY problem that remains unaffected on day #516.

Pulte will hopefully come to a quick realization of this issue; the American people are blind to it thanks to the efforts of misplaced critics like Loomer below.

The FBI is the problem.

The FBI does the leaking.

Reset. Re-review. Reevaluate, and the rest starts to make sense.