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The Blessings of Liberty come after the establishment of Justice, the insurance of domestic tranquility, the provision for the common defense, and the promotion of the general Welfare in the US Constitution.
The rule of law was such a cool concept.
US tax authorities will be barred from pursuing claims against the president, his eldest sons and the Trump Organization under a deal to halt a $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. ft.trib.al/vE3tyLt
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To all the athletes representing @TeamUSA: I'm so proud of you. Your talent and perseverance have brought you to this moment, and Michelle and I will be joining Americans from across the country cheering you on.
I love that people are community noting @BarackObama that "he did it too" when the entire premise of the current rise to power was that it wasn't being done the right way.
“Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom.” -Camus
no law enforcement has shot an innocent person. illegals are committing violent crimes everyday.
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Video evidence and police statements show the man shot by federal agents was a U.S. citizen ICU nurse with no criminal record holding a phone, not a gun, when approached; his holstered weapon was removed before he was shot. nytimes.com/live/2026/us/m… theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
Keep the conversation going. Show disposable income after housing and food by income level next.
This chart shows that the top 1% of California taxpayers are responsible for more than 33% of all tax dollars.
The top 0.1% of California taxpayers payers (~17,500 people) are responsible for more than 16% of all tax revenues.
The point is that only a few people, in a state of 40M people, pay a huge portion of the state’s revenues. As one of them, I can tell you categorically that we’ve had enough. We will all move if this tax insanity doesn’t stop and pockets are organizing already to do so en masse.
The middle class will then be left alone to pay for all the waste of the politicians you’ve elected because they have no ability to stop.
“An inequality of property, with all the power and influence that naturally attend it, is as much to be dreaded in a republic as a hereditary aristocracy.”
-John Adams
John Adams viewed property as essential for liberty, seeing it as a buffer against government overreach, a source of personal independence, and crucial for a virtuous republic, though he also warned against concentrated wealth.
As a national security strategy “peace through strength” (etched in the framed gift below) can be necessary, but you also don’t need to know much more than what you learned in kindergarten to understand that it is not fundamentally peaceful.
The country feels like Bud Fox in Wall Street sucking up to Gordon Gecko, and despite the entertainment, we all knew Lou was right:
“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
Clarifying whether a private company is allowed to train its AI models on government and military data is probably the closest thing to an existential question
a country will ever have.
Some people complain about Trump’s overreach but we too easily forget when Biden’s EPA tried to destroy SpaceX with a $148,748 fine for violating the Clean Water Act.
Elon Musk explains how he was extorted $140,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for dumping freshwater on the ground in an area that…rains 😂