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In 2015 an @Oregonian staffer came up to the sales & marketing floor and asked for ideas for their recipe section. I suggested Recipe Box and they're still using that brand today! 🗞️

“Corporate farming methods” are why you don’t have to do backbreaking work as a farmer anymore and why starvation is the exception rather than the rule around the world today

Opening keynote at #B2Bmx loading…

The 1979 Iranian revolution was a hinge point in history that dramatically set back the values that progressives claim to care about, including women’s rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and rationalism in public policy. In “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi recalls the story of Niloufar, an 18-year-old communist activist sentenced to death by the clerical regime. The religious jurists have no problem with the death penalty for Niloufar, but they worry that as a virgin she may go to heaven. So they arrange for her to be raped by a prison guard before her execution. Later the authorities send Niloufar’s family a small dowry to commemorate this “marriage.” Ali Khamenei led this murderous medieval regime for nearly forty years. This is a regime that beat women for showing their hair and publicly hanged gays from cranes. It’s a regime that ignored the needs of its own people to fund jihadist groups in, among other places, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian Territories. It’s a regime that committed murder in dozens of countries, including Germany, France, India, Australia, Argentina and Saudi Arabia. Just weeks ago, it slaughtered thousands—possibly tens of thousands—of its own citizens for protesting its repressive policies. Because the Iranian revolution offered a template for Islamist rule, albeit a Shia variant crafted by Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamists of all stripes took inspiration from it. Few countries adopted the extreme measures favored by the mullahs of Iran, but the revolution’s malign influence was felt from Morocco to Mindanao. In the 1980s it also sparked a theological arms race with Saudi Arabia, which spread its own regressive brand of Islamism around the world. Progressives in democratic countries who mourn the death of Khamenei come in different flavors. Some are simply Islamists or Islamist adjacent. Their ideology conceals the deeper religious passions that motivate them. Others are so blinded by their hatred of America and Israel that they reflexively oppose any action by them. Yet others are simply so ignorant of the nature of the Iranian regime that they can’t see the absurdity of comparing Khamenei with Dumbledore from Harry Potter. But all of these people have one thing in common. They spit on the suffering of the talented Iranian people who have had to endure nearly 50 years of brutal clerical rule.

From Gorsuch concurrence.

The manufacturing boom President Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse on.wsj.com/4kCatQ1

15% of the population of Ireland entered the US between 1851 and 1860 9% of the population of Norway entered the US in the 1880s 6% of the population of Italy entered the US from about 1900-1910

This is why it’s funny that the White House keeps taking credit for crime falling. The decline was already noticeable in 2024, and Trump said that data was “ridiculous” and “a lie.” Now the numbers are magically reliable. That’s…not how this works.

The Constitution isn’t optional. The point of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement is to hassle the government. It’s supposed to be difficult to search or arrest people. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature of our American republic.

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents illegally demand a woman prove her citizenship, then lie about having a warrant for someone connected to her home, and refuse to show it, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. In the video, ICE agents confront a woman outside her home and demand she hand over her ID to “prove” she is a U.S. citizen, something they have no legal authority to require without reasonable suspicion of a specific crime. She asks why they need her ID. They tell her they have a “target” who lives at the address. So she asks, “Who is the target?” An agent responds, “We have to make sure you aren’t our target,” then immediately asks, “Do you live at this address?” She says yes. The person filming points out the obvious and tells her she should call 911, because she already stated she’s a citizen and ICE has no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. That’s when the agent says, “She never said she was a citizen. Calm down.” The woman corrects him. She clearly states she is a citizen, and explains they never asked her about her status, they just demanded ID, which again, is not legal. The agent repeats himself, claiming they have a target connected to the home and want to make sure she isn’t that person. She then asks the only question that matters: “Do you have a warrant?” An agent says, “Yes, we have a warrant for their arrest.” She asks to see it. They refuse. Instead, the agent says, “I’ve got to make sure you are the person.” That’s still not how warrants work. If ICE actually had a valid warrant, they would already know who they were looking for, would not be guessing, and would be legally required to present it on request. Standing outside a home doesn’t change that. You don’t have to identify yourself just so federal agents can decide whether their claimed warrant applies to you. This is a textbook ICE intimidation tactic… demand ID, lie about warrants, deny proof, and hope people don’t know their rights. ICE/Border Patrol agents are harassing U.S. citizens in their own neighborhood, fishing for consent they are not entitled to. And this is how rights get erased, not all at once, but slowly, through lies, pressure, and people being told to “calm down.”

The @nytimes has compiled an incredibly detailed and comprehensive account of the massacre committed in Iran, by direct order of Supreme Leader Khamenei. It was so graphic and so harrowing that I was unable to read to the end. If you know someone downplaying what happened or peddling conspiracies please show them this. @farnazfassihi nytimes.com/2026/01/25/wor…

I strongly reject this dangerous rhetoric. Do not threaten Members of Congress. Republican or Democrat. It’s deeply wrong with no exceptions—ever.

Tim Ferriss just revealed his exact system for learning ANYTHING faster than 99.9% of people on Diary of a CEO. After mastering languages in weeks and advising Uber, he broke down the DSSS framework. Here's how it works + 8 other principles for superhuman performance he revealed: The DSSS Framework: Deconstruction - Break goals into parts Selection - Pick the 20% that gives 80% Sequencing - Right order matters Stakes - Create incentives "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with six pack abs." His language hack is wild: Spanish has hundreds of thousands of words. Tim reached fluency in 8-12 weeks using just the 500 most frequently used words. Stop learning random vocabulary. Learn frequency lists. Tim's career planning rule: He's NEVER had a 5-10 year plan. "If you have a reliable 5-10 year plan, you're playing so safely you're selling yourself short." Instead? 6-12 month projects with 2-4 week experiments inside. How he picks projects: Two criteria ONLY: 1. Relationships (new or deepening) 2. Skills that transcend the project Example: StumbleUpon advisor → friends with founder → years later founder texts about "taxi problem" → becomes Uber advisor. The "mini retirement" rule: Once a year, disappear for 4 weeks. No laptop. No phone (except Maps/Uber). Forces you to: - Build systems that run without you - Test if your business needs you constantly "If you panic, that's your wakeup call." His relationship rule from annual reviews: "Did I spend enough time with my top 5-10 people last year?" If NO → Reinvest in them FIRST Only overflow goes to new relationships. He's had the same annual reunion for 25+ years. Why most quit before winning: "People expect linear progress. It doesn't work that way." There WILL be plateaus. There WILL be dips. If you know they're coming, you weather them. If you don't, you quit right before the breakthrough. Tim's ONE optimization rule: Energy over passion. "Passion is imprecise." Energy is simple: - More awake or sleepy? - Can you do this 5 more hours? - Want to stop in 15 minutes? Optimize for biological energy, not philosophy. His sequencing secret: Learning swimming? Forget breathing first. Learn gliding. Kicking. Get comfortable underwater. THEN add breathing. Most try everything at once. Tim asks: What's the FIRST domino that unlocks everything else? My key takeaway? Stop treating subjects as silos. Swimming, Spanish, startups—same principles. Master the FRAMEWORK once. Apply it to anything. "Develop ONE framework you apply to ANY subject." Bottom line: Pick the right 20%. Sequence properly. Create forcing functions. Compound over 6-12 month projects for YEARS. That's how you go from suicidal college dropout to world-class performer.

Bitcoin is officially a $2.5 trillion asset, the 7th most valuable asset in the world.

Duck fans, appreciate you! #GoDucks

Wow and the Ducks win it just like that!

Rose through the noise. #GoDucks

It’s happening (but conservatives must not overplay their hands: people react to reactions)

Seems to me that Charlie Kirk is one of those figures who people have pre-judged based on vibes and aesthetics. I’m seeing so many normies and libs who had an ick about him, having to update their priors after actually watching reams of Charlie’s video content. It’s why Stephen King erroneously proclaimed that Kirk supported stoning gays to death. He’s never followed him, but he sees the odd Turning Point clip here and there, and in his mind Kirk exists as an avatar of the ugliest MAGA caricature. It’s sad that it took his death for people to look into this, but Charlie’s arc, I think, bends towards his inevitable canonization because his consistency as a young man who engaged with all respectfully and honorably is clear for anyone who actually watches his videos. I think his legacy will only grow and no amount of hit pieces and op-eds by the legacy corporate media will change that because people have eyes and can see for themselves.

Bold to send out the guy who apologized this week for saying we should give homeless people lethal injections en masse.

@BridgetPhetasy How about just caring about free speech?

A lot of people with the same beliefs Charlie held woke up last week and realized some of their neighbors & friends & family members would celebrate if they got killed—and today the Left is asking them to care about a late night host who also hates them and got fired. Tone deaf.