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Intelligence is the ability to accurately predict second-order consequences. 1980s & 90s Democrat.
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J.D Dutton retweeted
2017: Austin spent $35 million on homelessness. 2,036 homeless counted.
2025: $118 million. 3,238 homeless.
Spending more than tripled and homelessness went up 59%.
If you service the homeless lifestyle, you will get more of it.
The NGOs that run this system get paid by the problem of homelessness, so they have no reason to end it -- in fact, their only incentive is to make sure the problem grows.
The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.
The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
J.D Dutton retweeted
Political extremism on both sides is bad, but the reason I tend to zero in on the far left is because it’s hijacked everything I’ve ever loved—literature, art, music—and has convinced almost the entire world that the value of art lies in its relation to social justice.
The freest economy in American history produced the greatest explosion of living standards the world had ever witnessed, and the people who benefited most were the poor.
Between 1870 and 1900, real GDP per capita roughly doubled. Steel output went from 77,000 tons in 1870 to over 11 million tons by 1900. Kerosene dropped so cheap that even working-class families could light their homes at night. Carnegie drove down steel prices while paying wages that rose faster than inflation. The market did that. No regulator in Washington achieved this.
Federal spending in 1870 sat at roughly 3.7% of GDP. Congress had no income tax until 1913. The regulatory state was microscopic. Capital formation exploded precisely because entrepreneurs kept what they built.
But there is a villian here: the progressive revision of this history. Academics frame the Gilded Age as a catastrophe of exploitation, demanding the state as savior. The numbers destroy that story. Real wages for unskilled labor rose 50% between 1860 and 1890. Infant mortality fell. Life expectancy climbed.
What about technology? Could some important things have been invented during that time? Only AC power, the lightbulb, the telephone, the camera, the automobile, the airplane... nothing really important.
Property rights worked. Contract enforcement worked. Sound money, anchored to gold, kept capital allocation honest and prevented governments from inflating savings into dust.
The progressives arrived after 1900 and systematically dismantled each pillar: the income tax in 1913, the Federal Reserve in 1913, regulatory agencies multiplying through the 1920s. Growth slowed. Then the Fed contracted the money supply and Congress passed Smoot-Hawley, and you got 1929. The state caused that collapse and later blamed it on the free market.
J.D Dutton retweeted
Memeber of the Long Island DSA after getting SMOKED in a county wide election last night.
These people should be nowhere near power.
J.D Dutton retweeted
“Woke 1.0 was crazy huh lol anyways did you see that video of Greta Thunberg accusing Ed Sheeran of war crimes?”
J.D Dutton retweeted
Media lies and hoaxes are endless, but the dumbest -- not the most consequential, but the leader for sheer stupidity -- is when CNN spent days pretending that Trump threatened to execute Liz Cheney because he said she'd be less of a warmonger if she had to fight and face guns.
Behold, CNN fake news in all of its glory.
October 31, 2024. Trump criticized Liz Cheney (and others) for being warmongers who constantly push for war from the comfort of nice buildings in DC. Then he said the line about wondering if Cheney would still be so bravely calling for war if she was the one facing the guns.
At no point did Trump call for Liz Cheney to be executed by a firing squad, but virtually every host on CNN said that he did.
Lying to its viewers about a candidate right before a Presidential election. Is that what a "news organization" is supposed to do?
Erin Burnette even said the word "quote," blatantly lying because it wasn't a real quote.
This is CNN.
J.D Dutton retweeted
Me, Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw have 15 Super Bowl wins between us.
Schools cannot function with bad, unruly kids in them. Those kids have to be removed if a school is going to work. School choice is mostly about getting your children away from students who are not there to learn.
There’s a lot to say about this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones; but one thing that really jumped out at me is the scathing (if subtle) indictment of the teacher’s union embedded all throughout her account.
nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…
The CBO number only accounts for the federal budget. It leaves out the costs to states and cities.
CBO’s own follow-up report from June 2025 looked at state and local budgets for just 2023. The surge population generated $10.1 billion in state/local tax revenue but cost $19.3 billion in spending—mostly K-12 education and emergency shelter. Net drain of $9.2 billion in one year.
cbo.gov/publication/61…
FAIR’s full accounting (federal + state + local) puts the annual net cost of illegal immigration at $150.7 billion. Taxes paid cover only about 17% of what they use. That’s $8,776 per illegal immigrant and their U.S.-born kids every year.
fairus.org/issue/publicat…
Manhattan Institute lifetime estimate for the recent illegal immigration surge: $1.15 trillion net cost to taxpayers. Low-education arrivals (the majority of the recent wave) are the ones driving it.
manhattan.institute/article/……
New arrivals now have lower education than they did even 6 years ago. 46% of recent adult immigrants have no schooling past high school. This is not a high-skilled group that pays more than they take. The majority of the costs get dumped on states and cities.
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J.D Dutton retweeted
I think we can call an official end to the latest oil price panic around the attack on the Saudi East-West pipeline. What we learning - over and over - is that the global oil market is way more resilient and robust than the $200 oil crowd likes to admit...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/…
J.D Dutton retweeted
Elizabeth Warren is just anti-everything.
Every time I see her it's pause this, kill that.
At what point do we start calling progressives regressives?
J.D Dutton retweeted
New York Regents member Felicia Thomas-Williams on why she thinks students shouldn’t have to take Regents exams to graduate:
“You don’t assess a fish on climbing a tree because fish can’t climb trees”
Maybe asking a student to read or do math on a test is a little more reasonable than asking a fish to climb a tree? 🤔
J.D Dutton retweeted
Remember that time Carlson went to a Russian grocery store and was amazed at the prices? Funny that even with those low prices, Russians spend 25% of their budget on groceries
On September 11, Tucker Carlson goes on Russian state TV to claim that he discovered that Russia is the future when he visited: Moscow is a "thriving city" that is "infinitely nicer" than New York.
He then proclaims that America is "ending in the worst way."
Pure, unfiltered Russian state propaganda.
What are we doing? This isn’t right.
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There is no serious party, just so we’re clear. If you think Trump is bad and ridiculous, then fine, whatever, I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just telling you that there is no serious alternative. You might as well pick the people who don’t hate you.
This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S.
I’m proud to have signed onto @RepPressley ‘s letter to address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While the letter cites 10 hanging cases in 2026, local law enforcement and medical examiners have ruled the majority as suicides, including the cases of Juliana Nzita and Kyle Bassinga. Only one case is currently being investigated as a homicide. charlotteobserver.com/news/local/art… people.com/death-of-black…
J.D Dutton retweeted
Great Canadian Norm Macdonald’s prescient parody turned into actual Canadian news headline.
25 years since 9/11, Canada is not further ahead on tackling Islamophobia: advocates ctvnews.ca/canada/article/25…
It’s not the “power of AI” they’re worried about. It’s the power to control speech and decide what information people get to see. That’s why they’re stirring up so much fear. They want people to beg the government for control.
This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?