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Also, the fact that Talarico just raised $64 million suggests that he's quite comfortable with rich people so long as they share his politics.
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🔴 Iran Update:
There is an absolute IRGC bloodbath happening in the Iranian region of Sistan & Balochestan. Assassinations everywhere and almost daily.
I haven't spoken much about this particular battlefield.
As an Iranian nationalist I will never approve of separatism, nor will I blindly praise the JMM militant group. I don't know this group, and as of writing this I don't trust them either. They claim to fight for all of Iran after merging several militant groups together, but at least one faction among them are historically Baloch separatists. They are also very conservative sunni muslims.
Therefore, I won't boost their videos or statements for the time being. Until I know where the Shah and his team stand regarding this group and where they stand regarding him, I won't give them my attention.
However, I can speak about what the last few weeks of fighting could mean for Iran:
Regardless of what I think of JMM, their targets have Iranian blood on their hands and undoubtedly deserve it.
IRGC thugs, basijis, regime linked clerics and foreign proxy terrorists are all being killed at a growing rate. Police stations, bases and checkpoints are raided. Patrols come under attack as they drive through cities. There's been at least one case of fighting reaching the Kerman region. Today, a female basiji commander was assassinated in front of her house. Yesterday, dozens of Afghan proxy terrorists were wiped out. Last month, a regime linked sunni cleric was shot dead. Many of the assassinations are very high ranking.
I don't know what suddenly changed, but it's gotten very deadly and dangerous to be an islamic regime figure in S&B.
What does all of this mean?
1) The islamic regime is losing control.
2) Regime thugs used to feel safe and protected. Now they don't. Psychologically this will do serious damage, especially to lower ranking demoralised basijis who aren't receiving their blood money salaries anymore due to sanctions.
3) If this keeps up, the islamic regime will have to send large forces from other regions to go fight in S&B. I shouldn't have to explain that this will benefit the rest of Iran when the next uprising happens. Thousands of IRGC terrorists forced to fight in the South East means thousands fewer IRGC to oppress Iranians in other provinces. It means evening out the playing field.
Again, this is an analysis, not an endorsement of JMM. They still need to clarify their stance on Iran's territorial integrity, their stance on the Shah, and their stance on separatism and islamism. We also need to know what their actual goal is once the islamic regime is overthrown.
Until then, as far as I'm concerned, the IRGC is getting killed in big numbers from within Iran and seemingly without any outside assistance, and that's what I will focus on.
What's happening in S&B is going to have huge consequences for Iran in the coming months, and everyone should pay attention.
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Abdul El-Seyed’s surrogate Hasan Piker: “I don't give a fuck what Black people care about. Let's go back to a better time, when lynchings were happening.”
1.4 million black people live in Michigan.
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A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
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AJ Kern has done extensive research on Ilhan Omar’s citizenship verification. When an adult parent gains citizenship through the naturalization process, their minor children ‘derive’ citizenship through that parent. Since minors cannot naturalize independently and adults cannot derive citizenship from their parents, Ilhan Omar has repeatedly claimed that she ‘derived’ citizenship through her father as a minor at the age of 17.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) does not allow records requests to be processed for a living foreign-born person without their permission. However, the USCIS will process a record request for a deceased foreign-born person.
Since Ilhan Omar’s father passed away in 2020, AJ Kerm submitted the request to the USCIS in June 2022, for her father’s records and she received a response on June 20, 2023. It turns out that the USCIS has no record of her father being a naturalized US citizen.
Therefore, this is probably why the Biden Administration’s Justice Department launched an investigation into Ilhan Omar in June 2024, and why a Democrat judge signed off on a search for Ilhan Omar’s home. Of course, CNN, MSNBC, and Democratic politicians will never mention any of this because it does not fit their narrative.
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Ilhan Omar's office called today's search of her home "unprecedented." Bernie called it authoritarian. One federal judge signed the warrant. Zero doors got kicked in. And the precedent they forgot involves $90,000 in a congressman's freezer and gold bars in a senator's closet.
What actually happened: before dawn Monday, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Omar's D.C.-area home. DOJ confirmed it on the record. Fox's reporter on the block said nobody knocked down doors and nobody came in with weapons drawn. Agents were there about four hours and left with boxes. Sources say it involves immigration paperwork from her childhood. No charges.
What they said:
o Omar's office: "an unprecedented escalation"
o Bernie Sanders: "Trump is an authoritarian"
o Elizabeth Warren: "a dangerous abuse of power"
o Rep. Delia Ramirez: "We must dismantle DHS"
o Hasan Piker: "the american democracy project might be totally over"
That's a 12-piece bucket of stupid, served hot.
Now the precedent. 2005: the FBI searched Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's home and found $90,000 in his freezer. January 2022: agents searched Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar's home about six weeks before his primary. June 2022: agents searched Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez's home and found about $486,000 in gold bars and cash. All court-authorized. Two convictions.
Unprecedented, apparently, means "happened to a Democrat three times before and nobody burned down the republic."
And "dismantle DHS"? DHS also runs the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA. Somebody in that caucus has a leak in the think tank.
Authoritarians don't ask a judge for permission first. They don't confirm the search on the record the same morning. And they don't lose in their own courts.
To be fair, a search is not a conviction. If the paperwork is clean, I'll say so out loud. Even duct tape can't fix stupid, but evidence can fix a rumor.
But what do I know, I'm only a teacher who checks the precedent before grading the word "unprecedented."
So answer one question for me, Democrats: if a judge-signed warrant on a Democrat is authoritarian, what was the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022?
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🚨 If Ilhan Omar thinks this raid is just about marrying her brother, she has another thing coming.
Her wealth skyrocketed to over $30 million while she was drawing a congressional salary. Her financial disclosures listed her husband’s venture capital firm and winery in the millions — a jump that triggered Trump’s call for an immediate investigation into financial and political crimes.
She has ties to the Feeding Our Future fraud schemes that stole hundreds of millions in taxpayer money meant for kids. Friends, campaign workers, and donors from her orbit have already been arrested.
And she’s been alleged to funnel American tax dollars back to Somalia, including claims that money from Minnesota fraud networks ended up supporting terrorism in Somalia.
The feds didn’t kick in the door over one marriage certificate. It's MUCH bigger than that.
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Are the Feds being too hard on Ilhan Omar possibly?
Don't many American women accidentally file joint tax returns with a man who's not their husband? While not filing jointly with the man who is actually their current husband? And who is also their brother?
Probably a clerical error.
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Welp.
Here's my personal little anecdote of the quality of our voter rolls in AZ.
As many of you know who have been following me for a bit, I've been trying to get my eldest who registered at 18 and hasn't lived in AZ since he left for college in CA.
He's 37.
Guess what I got in the mail today? His ballot.
I've checked the box, I've RTS'd them.
It's a good thing I'm honest.
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Most men need a lifetime for their defining moment and many never have one. 35 years ago today, Clarence Thomas needed 3 minutes. I’ve watched this 1000 times and every time still feels like the first. The dishonesty, the media, and the early machinery of lawfare. He saw it all.
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I can't tell which polls are worse.
College Football.
Professional Football.
Political polls for literally any race.
Do you own work, figure it out for yourself and you'll be smarter than 98% of everyone else.
That's my poll. 😘
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WOAH 🚨 Investigation into Baltimore City School Board members finds their names connected to 14 nonprofits according to IRS filings
One member Mujahid Muhammad has a nonprofit where he’s getting a salary of $427,201 per year WITH NO EMPLOYEES
Another nonprofit called The Gary I. Strausberg Children’s Cable Education Fund, EVERY Baltimore City School Board member is listed as an officer of this nonprofit, including Mohammed
Its mission is to enhance the educational resources of city students by installing cabled television and related equipment. In 2025, the nonprofit reported more than $3 million in assets and $243,000 in revenue
Taxpayers are being robbed blind by these criminals
One school board member named Ashiah Parker is with ‘No Boundaries Coalition.’ She is executive director making $1.5 million in revenue, with her salary compensation reported as $120,000
We are being ROBBED BLIND
Ohh I looked it up, they’re ALL Democrats or appointed by the Democrat mayor
What a shocker
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Maine SOS Shenna Bellows said that tabulators are like modern-day abacuses, they are never connected to the internet and they can’t be hacked by cyber adversaries.
That’s not what election-security experts say.
J. Alex Halderman testified to the Senate that voting machines don’t have to be directly connected to the internet for a remote attacker to target them. Researchers have demonstrated attacks through election-management systems, removable media, physical access and software vulnerabilities.
Being air-gapped reduces the risk of remote attack. It does NOT make a voting system impossible to compromise.
Even The Center for American Progress (who is hosting Shenna) explicitly addressed this in its 2017 report “9 Solutions to Secure America’s Elections”. It said voting machines and tallying systems can be attacked even when they are not connected to the internet, citing techniques such as Stuxnet and Brutal Kangaroo.
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QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!!!!
Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’!
I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!”
Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes.
And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it.
Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner.
Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes.
And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush.
When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived.
The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story.
Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent.
Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why.
Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work.
They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on.
So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard.
Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week.
It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle.
Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth.
It’s truth....God is Good, God is Great, I thank HIM for this day and everything I have!!
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Since the pro-terrorist mob in NY is holding up a photo of their martyr Yahya Sinwar, let’s talk about him:
1) While in prison for terrorism in 2008, he developed a brain tumor. Israeli doctors operated and saved his life.
2) In 2011, he was released along with more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in return for hostage Gilad Shalit
3) Sinwar went on to plan the 10/7 attacks against Israel
4) He was given justice on October 14, 2024 and is dead
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Worth noting that Cornell, like many elite universities, goes out of its way to encourage deviant sexual behavior among its students. Do these campuses have any countercultural forces promoting a gentlemanly ethos and its counterpart for women?
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A grandson begged Spanberger's parole board not to release the man who broke into his grandparents' home and murdered them. The convict was serving three life sentences.
Spanberger’s parole board released him anyway.
🚨New: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s hand-picked parole board released eight out of ten felons during Thursday’s parole meeting.
These are people who were convicted of murder, rape, robbery and child abuse. Many of them had decades left on their life sentences.
WJLA analyzed all of Spanberger’s parole board’s decisions since their first meeting. I found that out of the 205 discretionary and geriatric parole cases the board considered, Spanberger’s board granted 48 felons parole. That’s almost ONE in FOUR felons who requested early release being granted parole.
It's a significant jump compared to former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s parole board.
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Twenty five years ago today.
2,977 people went to work and never came home.
Never forget.
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