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A third straight weekend in a row when the #F1TV feed on TV starts off perfectly smooth, only to deteriorate into a choppy, stuttering mess after a while with the audio increasingly delayed and out of sync. Works perfectly on the phone…
This is becoming a recurring problem, @F1. Request an urgent fix!!
#F1Live #F1 #SpanishGP @AlexJacquesF1 @jpmontoya @therealdcf1
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The quest begins.
🎥 Scene Setter presented by @FollowMercy
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Since there are so many new 4th amendment "experts" on twitter these days. I've decided to make a thread.
Over 20 years on multiple circuits, courts have repeatedly held ALPRs are not invasive, do not require a warrant, and are not like cell phones/GPS tracking.
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I've learned a lot in nine years of building @Flock_Safety. Some of it from our customers, and some of it from the communities they serve.
Today we’re announcing the changes that came from listening. A new standard for privacy, security, and accountability in public safety technology.
We're also asking state legislators to go further. Mandate real auditing on every law enforcement data system. Raise the penalties for misuse. And if your state wants help building it, we'll do it for free.
flocksafety.com/blog/flock-g…
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LPR tools can speed stolen vehicle recovery (studies show 2-3x more hits/arrests vs manual checks), deliver real-time alerts for missing persons/warrants/Amber cases, and supply vehicle movement data for post-crime leads.
Flock reports ~120k cameras, 20B monthly scans; their 2025 census claims support for 1M+ investigations, ~20% of cleared cases in customer areas, and ~10k missing persons located yearly. Independent research confirms higher auto-theft efficiency but mixed overall crime-reduction results.
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Oklahoma HC Skip Johnson on what the last month has been like for this team and the constant prayer internally & externally. Wow.
“It's like LJ (Mercurius) just said a minute ago, it was really a God thing…there's a lot of people out there praying for us. Every day I get texts about, ‘hey, man, we're praying for you guys.’ It's really a God thing. It really is. And it's amazing. I mean, he took that game over tonight.”
“I was sitting there praying for Kyle every at-bat. I'm like, Jesus, let him take over. He's an unbelievable kid. And those kids are really selfless. I mean, they're really selfless.
And it was amazing how they came together and started caring a lot about each other.” — @CoachJohnsonOU
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Elon just endorsed it.
Gad Saad dropped the hammer on Fox this morning.
We now live in a world where:
- Rape victims get less sympathy than their rapists
- Homeowners get less than the squatters breaking in
- American vets get less than illegal migrants
- Repeat felons with 186 charges get 200 more “chances” because “society made them do it”
This isn’t kindness.
This is suicidal empathy.
Universities spent decades teaching our judges, leaders, and elites that personal agency is a myth if you check the right oppression boxes. So criminals become victims, victims become bigots for complaining, and the whole system rots from the inside.
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📍 WARNER, OK - High School Students Learn How To Build A House From The Ground Up!
A dozen students in a construction class at Warner High School have completed a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home, which is now for sale.
The school district is accepting sealed bids for the home at 1003 E 5th Avenue in Warner, with a minimum bid of $210,000.
The bids will be opened on May 15th.
Teacher Ira Jackson returned to the classroom after retiring to teach the hands-on work.
“The goal of the program is to produce students who can read a tape measure and understand the basics of carpentry and building, and move on from there,” he said.
Several students already have job offers after working alongside licensed trades workers during construction.
Ethan Atkerson, a Warner High School senior, said he helped with cabinetry, guttering and lighting, and is certain he’ll pursue a career in construction.
“I’ve loved doing every part of this,: he said. “It’s all been enjoyable to me. I like being able to work with my hands, and this is something that I can work with my hands and look at the work and think, I did that, I’m proud of that.”
Every high school in America should be doing this!
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Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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What if the government told your family ranch you owed $3.7 million… for a pond your cattle have been drinking from for decades?
That’s exactly what’s happening to a fourth-generation ranch family in Washington State.
Wade and Teresa King have been running cattle on their land for generations. Like thousands of ranchers across the West, they built small stock ponds so their cattle have water in dry country.
Now the Washington State Department of Ecology says those ponds aren’t ponds.
They say they’re illegal wetlands.
The state has already issued the ranch a $267,540 fine and claims the family may have to spend over $3.7 million restoring the land.
On top of that, the Washington Department of Natural Resources terminated grazing leases the ranch had held for around 60 years, removing nearly 15,000 acres of grazing land their operation depended on.
The King family says these are man-made cattle ponds, something ranchers across the West have built and maintained for generations.
The state says they damaged rare wetlands.
Now the fight isn’t just about ponds.
It’s about property rights, agriculture, and whether ranchers have the right to defend themselves in front of a jury instead of a government administrative court.
If the state wins, this case could affect thousands of ranches across the western United States that rely on stock ponds to water cattle.
This isn’t just one ranch’s fight.
It could shape the future of American ranching.
If you believe American ranchers deserve truth, trust, and transparency in the food system, help us rebuild a producer-led beef supply chain.
Visit
GoARABeef.org
to learn how ranchers are working together to bring transparency and fair markets back to American agriculture.
Because the fight for American land, American ranchers, and American food is just getting started.
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#Ranching #PropertyRights #AmericanRancherAlliance #AgNews #FoodSystem #FarmLife #TruthInFarming #CattleCountry #AgTok #FarmNews
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NO ROOM AT THE INN!
@HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement.
When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.
This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?
