Thomas De Jong, M.S.

Christian, husband, dad to 5.
@ThePlanningFirm owner, planner w/@MoneyConcepts.
Host of #MoneyConceptsRadio podcast on your favorite podcast app

[Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_]

Senator Ron Johnson just grilled Democratic medical expert witnesses in a Senate hearing on the COVID mRNA shots.

They claim the injections are safe and effective, but when pressed, they couldn’t explain how the modified mRNA actually works in the body.

How do you tell millions of Americans it’s completely safe when the people promoting it don’t even understand the mechanism?

These are the “experts” we’re supposed to trust.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Fauci's right-hand man was just indicted for conspiracy and destruction of federal records. And now we learn Biden officials silenced their own FDA scientist who was finding serious vaccine safety issues, like heart attacks, strokes, and sudden cardiac death. This cover-up goes all the way to the top.

https://t.co/3FbcBGaAJz

[Thomas De Jong, M.S. @thomasidejong]

rough

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Staffers for Seattle Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson abruptly stop interview after she can't answer basic questions

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

It’s taken me a few years (brain cancer and all) but I finally published a look-back at legacy media claims during early COVID.

You know they were bad. But do you *really* remember how bad? I didn’t. Read at my newsletter, @Holden_Court, and linked below.

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

The United States has completed its withdrawal from the WHO.

This is a major victory for national sovereignty and medical freedom.

The same global health establishment that failed during Covid should never again control American policy.

We will not be ruled by unelected bureaucrats.

[Thomas De Jong, M.S. @thomasidejong]

What a great Biden win for flyers!
#AgedLikeFineWine

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue-@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.

@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.

This is a Biden win for flyers! https://t.co/lJFGS3ucv3

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The Hormuz crisis is the precipitating factor in the current energy crisis, but the underlying cause is too little oil and gas production outside the Persian Gulf.

Had the world spent the past decade building the oil, gas, LNG, pipeline, and fertilizer infrastructure that engineers designed and companies proposed, the Hormuz crisis would still be a serious geopolitical event, but it would not threaten to cause a recession.

North America

— The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile natural gas line from West Virginia to North Carolina, saw its cost double from $4.5 billion to $8 billion during years of environmental litigation before Duke Energy and Dominion Energy cancelled it in July 2020.

— The Constitution Pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York died the same year.

— The PennEast Pipeline won its case at the United States Supreme Court in 2021 and still could not get built because New Jersey refused to issue state permits.

— In Canada, TransCanada abandoned the $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline in 2017 after the National Energy Board required an unprecedented review of upstream and downstream emissions.

— In January 2024, the Biden administration paused all pending approvals for LNG export terminals shipping to non-free-trade-agreement countries, freezing projects representing tens of billions of cubic feet per day of potential capacity.

— Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Louisiana, designed for 20 million tonnes per annum, sat in regulatory limbo for over a year.

— NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG in Texas, with 48 MTPA of planned capacity, stalled alongside it.

— PTT Global Chemical’s proposed $10 billion ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio, first announced in 2015, remains on indefinite hold after failing to attract financing partners amid climate-driven investor sentiment.

— Across the US Gulf Coast, nearly 60% of planned plastic and petrochemical production projects sit on hold.

— LNG Canada, the Shell-led terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, took over six years from construction start to first cargo, with its pipeline running 263% over budget. Environmental review, Indigenous disputes, and contractor cost escalation all contributed.

— Pieridae Energy’s Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, a 10 MTPA facility first proposed in 2012, was abandoned in November 2023 after more than a decade of permitting and financing obstacles.

Australia

— Australia’s Santos’s Barossa gas project was halted midway through construction after a Federal Court ruling overturned its environmental approval.

— Woodside’s Scarborough project faces ongoing litigation from the Australian Conservation Foundation seeking to block it on climate grounds.

Africa

— Perhaps nowhere has the damage been more consequential than in Africa. At COP26 in 2021, wealthy nations pledged to halt overseas development finance for gas projects, a commitment that fell hardest on the continent least responsible for climate change and most in need of energy infrastructure.

— The World Bank stopped financing oil and gas extraction in 2019 and imposed restrictive conditions on downstream gas projects.

— The European Investment Bank announced a complete ban on unabated fossil fuel financing by the end of 2021, with its president declaring that “gas is over.”

— At least 21 other development finance institutions followed suit.

As a result:

— TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project sat under force majeure for four and a half years after the UK Export Credit Agency and other backers withdrew climate-motivated financing.

— The East African Crude Oil Pipeline lost financing commitments from more than 30 major international banks under pressure from climatists.

Europe

— France prevented the completion of a third gas interconnector with Spain, citing climate neutrality goals.

— The United Kingdom imposed a moratorium on fracking in 2019 despite sitting atop one of Europe’s most promising shale gas formations.

— Germany, which shuttered its last three nuclear plants in April 2023, compounded its gas dependency by refusing to develop domestic shale resources.

— CF Industries permanently shut the UK’s largest ammonia plant at Billingham, a facility that also produced 60% of Britain’s food-grade CO2.

— Yara International curtailed output across plants in France, Italy, and Belgium before permanently closing its 400,000 tonne per year ammonia facility at Tertre, Belgium, in October 2024.

These closures occurred because European climate policy made gas too expensive for the domestic industry to survive.

[Thomas De Jong, M.S. @thomasidejong]

This is not the way.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani THREATENS TO RAID the pension reserves of New York City employees to increase government spending.

I bet the teachers union is now regretting their endorsement of Mamdani.

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

@elonmusk

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

DISTURBING: A bombshell study has found the genetic “fingerprint” of the COVID vaccine embedded in the DNA of a 31-year-old cancer patient—the first direct proof that mRNA fragments can integrate into the human genome.

The finding shatters years of assurances from Big Pharma and health officials who swore the shots could never alter DNA. Researchers described a “perfect storm”: tumor-suppressing genes switched off, DNA repair mechanisms broken, and cancer-driving pathways ignited.

The woman, once healthy, developed stage 4 bladder cancer within a year of three Moderna doses. Genetic fragments in her tumor matched vaccine sequences with odds of “one in a trillion.” Co-author @NicHulscher warned the world “cannot afford to ignore” what may point to turbo cancers, strokes, and even inherited DNA damage.

The implications are staggering. @zeeemedia's report exposes what regulators are desperate to bury—don’t miss it.

Watch the full episode:👇
https://t.co/z0ZYsuzXwv

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

This is a must watch.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The share of college students who say "Using violence to stop a campus speech" is acceptable rose from under 20% to 34% btwn 2020-2025. Students "furthest to the left have been the most accepting of violence for as long as we’ve asked the question." Time to de-radicalize schools

[Dr. Henry Cloud @DrHenryCloud]

You don’t win by stooping to their level. You rise by staying at yours. Even if the other person treats your perspective with contempt or disrespect, you can still adhere to these principles from your side of the table.
When you lower your defenses and allow others to glimpse your inner world, you foster deeper connections and more meaningful dialogues.

Today’s world exists in division, but you don’t have to join the conflict. https://t.co/MJgYtG0Ul1

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

Aaron Siri just exposed what doctors don’t know about vaccines.

”There is not a single routine injected child vaccine that was licensed based on a trial that affirmed its safety.”

A typical pediatrician or infectious disease doctor knows nothing about vaccine safety. They’re taught to trust a slogan — not science.

The evidence is disturbing.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[Thomas De Jong, M.S. @thomasidejong]

@MrsErikaKirk prayers for God's grace, peace, and comfort in this unimaginable tragedy. May you find hope in the assurance that you will see him again, at the greatest family reunion ever.

[IvanV1 @Ivanv1]

@megynkelly Charlie Kirk at his absolute best:

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

The religion of vaccines was on full display today by Senator Blumenthal and his Stanford Professor witness. Evidence, not slogans and beliefs, won the day. Truth and justice are coming.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

WATCH: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary just dropped a BOMBSHELL—multiple Big Pharma CEOs privately want drug ads BANNED from television.

If no one’s advertising, it levels the playing field...and ends the multi-billion-dollar arms race.

Makary said: “To be honest with you Joe, I’ve had at least two Big Pharma CEOs tell me confidentially, that they’d love to see these ads go away.”

“They don’t want to be in the arms race of feeling like they need to run them.”

So it’s a game of pharmaceutical musical chairs.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

David Sacks: "Until the Democrats confront why they really lost… and change their policies, then I think they're going to continue losing."