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@AliceFromQueens In commenting on his debate with Nassim Taleb a few years ago, Sailer said: "I’m not as smart as Taleb, so the only way I can out-argue him is to use better facts and logic." His Obama tweets here don't surprise me at all. His views are more nuanced than people think.

CODDLED: Obama didn't read and wasn't even smart. STEVE SAILER (!): No actually Obama read a lot and was very smart. I love Twitter.

Can't believe this guy has a medical license. Obama read nonfiction, too. (Duh.) My point is that he *even* found time to keep up w contemporary novels as president. There's a word for ppl like that: readers. Coddled learned from his hero Trump to double-down on the stupid.

@jackcashill @TonysKansasCity @jasonwhitlock @PeteMundo @markalford I had the opportunity to meet Ron Freeman last year, he's great. His book goes hard against "poverty pimping race hustlers" like Sharpton etc.

The Sacking of Lee's Summit: A Case Study open.substack.com/pub/jackcashil… @TonysKansasCity @jasonwhitlock @PeteMundo @markalford

The islamic regime murdered countless girls in 2022 for defying the mandatory dress code, only for their own loyalist whores to show full cleavage in 2026

Vote Restore. They have the momentum.

764 bundles of Iranian human hair found during attempts to smuggle it across the Armenian border from Iran since January. These are just the ones that are known. Many women’s bodies were not returned after the January Massacre. They took their hair. panorama.am/en/news/2026/0…

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐋𝐀’𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 — 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 $𝟏 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐇𝐔𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏, 𝐙𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐒 “𝘏𝘜𝘋 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘓𝘈𝘏𝘚𝘈’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘜𝘋, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓.𝘈.” — HUD 13-page letter The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — LAHSA — has received 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 $𝟏 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐔𝐃 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏. In that same period, roughly 43,000 people still live on the streets of Los Angeles. Tonight the Trump administration announced it is cutting off federal funding while a federal investigation runs. A 13-page HUD letter obtained by Fox News explains why. The letter is specific: LAHSA’s “repeated false statements” and “irresponsible actions and failures, including its lack of financial management, internal controls and safeguards against conflicts of interest, pose a threat to HUD, the public and those living on the streets of L.A.” Los Angeles County has already pulled its own funding. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞. The agency that spent a billion dollars on a problem that visibly wasn’t solved is now under federal investigation for how it spent the money. Karen Bass put out a statement saying she disagrees with cutting federal funding. She did not dispute the findings in the 13-page letter. She did not explain what happened to the billion dollars. $𝟏 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧, 𝟒𝟑,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩. Los Angeles has been the national showcase for progressive homelessness governance — billions in spending, sprawling bureaucracy, unchanged outcomes. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟒𝟑,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭.

𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐔𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐃 — 𝐊𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐈𝐓 “𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃” “𝘞𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 $100 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨.” — Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney, Central District of California When Bill Essayli became U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, he stood up a 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 with a simple mandate: follow every dollar. Within months, his team found where the money went. Across multiple LA homelessness operations, the task force has now charged nearly $100 million in fraud. The signature case: Alexander Soofer, CEO of Abundant Blessings, a South LA nonprofit. LAHSA — the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — handed Soofer more than $23 million to house over 600 homeless Angelenos. Instead, Soofer bought a $𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝, a $125,000 Range Rover, and spent freely on private jet travel and luxury-hotel stays. He’s now facing wire fraud charges and pleaded not guilty. LAHSA itself? Unable to account for where the money went. On June 11, 𝐇𝐔𝐃 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐀𝐇𝐒𝐀 after finding a “clear pattern of obvious fraud.” The agency’s former CEO had also directed more than $2 million in federal contracts to her own husband’s employer. California has spent more than $24 billion on homelessness over five years. The homeless population got worse, not better. Karen Bass’s response to the Essayli investigation: a letter claiming she has “grave concerns” about LAHSA and had directed the city to “evaluate how to move away from the agency” — the same agency her administration oversaw for years. Her office simultaneously told reporters that cutting funds “jeopardizes the progress Mayor Bass has led.” Essayli’s challenge on camera: “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨?” 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟔𝟎𝟎 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚 $𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 “𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.”

𝐋𝐔𝐍𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 — 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐃, 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐀𝐗 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is backing legislation to 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 — the December 2019 Ukraine/quid pro quo impeachment and the January 2021 January 6 impeachment — citing the Russia collusion hoax as the corrupt foundation the entire enterprise was built on. In Luna’s words: “𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘹.” H.Res.1211, introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) with Luna and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan among more than 20 Republican co-sponsors, would formally declare both impeachments expunged from the House record “𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴.” The resolution states both impeachments were “𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦” and products of “𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦” claims — including the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that falsely alleged Russia interfered in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf, the genesis of the collusion hoax that drove the first impeachment. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞. This matters. Not because expunging the record reverses the constitutional mechanics — impeachment is a House act, and the votes happened — but because the public record should accurately reflect what those proceedings actually were. Both impeachments were launched by Democrats who had decided, before the first article was drafted, to use the constitutional process as a political weapon. The Durham Report, the declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents, and years of subsequent reporting have confirmed what Republicans said at the time: this was a coordinated political operation dressed in constitutional language. Trump was acquitted twice. Every major prosecution launched against him during and after his first term — New York, Georgia, the Jack Smith federal cases — has since collapsed, been dropped, or been formally closed. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐚𝐱. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐨.

@USAttyEssayli @latimes Knowing the public's attention span I expect this story will soon fade. So I'm glad that your investigation will go on.

The @LATimes headline says voter fraud claims are “unfounded” — then their own reporting confirms it. Their article documents homeless individuals being paid cash to register to vote. That’s a federal crime under 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c). “Three people told The Times they accepted a couple dollars to sign, with one saying he signed multiple signatures using various names and received $10." That’s not unfounded. That’s voter fraud and it’s exactly why there must be investigations. latimes.com/california/sto…

𝐔.𝐒. 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐔𝐃 “𝐔𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃” — 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓 U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli read the LA Times headline — homeless voter fraud claims are “𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝” — then read the paper's own reporting, which lays it out in black and white. Buried in the same article: 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧, one of them saying he signed multiple names for $10. Essayli notes that paying people to register is a federal crime under 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c). And it is already being prosecuted. In May, the DOJ secured a guilty plea from a Marina del Rey woman who 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 so they could sign ballot petitions. She was paid by the signature, and listed her own old address so ballots went where the "voters" never lived. “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.” Essayli wrote. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝. x.com/USAttyEssayli/…

@MichaelARothman The call to prayer is another encroachment, and Minnesota has been lax on that too.

𝐀 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐒 𝐀 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐌 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑, 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏 𝐀𝐓 𝐀 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 Rochester Public Schools in Minnesota is set to 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐄𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐥-𝐀𝐝𝐡𝐚, and the way it is being done tells the real story (Libs of TikTok). A board member waved it off as simply “𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴” — an open admission that this is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭. It never arrives all at once. It comes one calendar change, one accommodation, one “𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯” policy at a time, until the institutions of an American town look nothing like they did — and 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝. 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

@MichaelARothman DeSantis takin' care of business again.

𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀’𝐒 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄 — 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺.” Starting January 1, 2027, every non-citizen who applies for or renews a Florida driver’s license will see the letters 𝐍𝐂 — Non-Citizen — printed directly on the card. Governor Ron DeSantis signed the SAVE Act on April 1st for election security. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞: it requires proof of citizenship for voter registration, eliminates student IDs at the polls, and mandates paper voting — one of the most comprehensive election-integrity packages any state has enacted. Democrats called it discrimination. Escambia County Democratic Party Chair Derek Scott warned the marking would lead to over-policing: “𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥... 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.” Republican Congressman Jimmy Petronas pushed back directly: there is nothing wrong with being a non-citizen — the NC designation marks legal status, not criminality. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. Tax collector Scott Lunsford, who oversees Escambia County DMV offices, says his staff already stops document fraud every day — fraudulent permanent resident cards, forged birth certificates — and that employees are trained on document recognition. Driver’s licenses are a standard gateway to voter registration. The NC marker closes that gap at the moment of issuance, before any fraud can occur. Every state still handing out licenses with no citizenship marker is leaving that gap open. 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧.

@MichaelARothman I hate to think how she treats her staff, I'm guessing like "Get out of my f**king shot!"

𝐀 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃 𝐅 𝐁𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 A constituent told Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell that her party is not doing enough, and the congresswoman’s response was not a policy answer — it was a meltdown. “𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘧∗𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬”, she snapped. From there it only got more revealing. Rather than engage the actual grievance, Dingell reached for the oldest deflection in the Democrat playbook: vote harder. “𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴”, she lectured. “𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮”. 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫. Then came the part that says the quiet thing out loud. “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘧∗𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦”, she told the room, before insisting Republicans “𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱” and that no one should “𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵”. 𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 — the eternal posture of a politician who mistakes casting symbolic votes for actually delivering. Notice what is entirely absent. No humility, no “𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘶𝘵”, no acknowledgment that a citizen showing up to demand more from his representative is democracy working exactly as intended. 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦, as if frustration with Washington were a personal insult to be shouted down. This is the contempt that usually hides behind the press releases. A long-serving member of Congress, confronted by one of her own, could not get through a single exchange without two f-bombs and a finger pointed back at the people she represents. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞. 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.

@MichaelARothman The SPLC has over $700M in assets. Why aren't lawyers going after it, with lawsuit after lawsuit? Or maybe they are & I've missed it.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐂 𝐏𝐔𝐓 𝐀 𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄-𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐅𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐆 “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨 𝘶𝘱 — 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴.” That is Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL), testifying before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center. The flag in question is the Appeal to Heaven flag — also known as the Pine Tree flag. It was one of America’s original revolutionary war banners, flown by George Washington’s Continental Navy fleet in 1775. It bears a pine tree and the words “𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯” — a reference to John Locke’s argument that when earthly authority becomes unjust, you appeal to God. It is a flag of prayer and founding-era principle. 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐂 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞. There is no allegation that Moore organized a militia, published a manifesto, or advocated discrimination. There is no documented incident, no investigation, no formal complaint filed against him by any aggrieved party. The SPLC looked at a 250-year-old flag — one that flew before the Constitution existed — and added an elected U.S. congressman to a hate watch list. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. The broader hearing exposed the full scope of the SPLC’s one-directional targeting. Rep. Chip Roy asked the organization’s CEO to name leftist or antisemitic hate groups on its map. She couldn’t provide any. He then asked for Islamist designations — organizations that march in American cities with open terror-support chants. Also none. Rep. Darrell Issa gave the CEO eleven seconds to say whether she’d recant Charlie Kirk’s listing. She refused. Ari Hoffman, the Orthodox Jewish editor of The Post Millennial, testified that as a Jewish man, 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 — 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐇∗𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇∗𝐳𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡, a point the SPLC’s threat-mapping apparently does not register. Being listed by the SPLC is not an academic matter. The organization’s hate designations have been used by major financial institutions to deny payment processing to conservative groups, by platforms to justify deplatforming, and by federal agencies to disqualify organizations from grants and contracts. 𝐀𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 — 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 — 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐂 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 — 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭.

@CynicalPublius Bison are NOT dangerous, this is a right-wing conspiracy theory. The actual number of bison attacks on humans is infinitesimal. Sorry, my head is stuck in Los Angeles right now.

If a bison had run this guy to ground, I would have been on Team Bison. Such stupidity.

@heynavtoor This is why AI like Grokipedia will never surpass Wikipedia, which with all its faults & biases remains valuable, because it is written by humans. Can AI help Wikipedia with writing, editing, factchecking, etc.? Perhaps, but be careful guys, you stay in charge!

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

@RNCResearch Sounds like Jeffries has a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories. A coffee table book about coffee tables!

Q: Homeless people on skid row are bribed with cash, drugs, and other incentives to vote Democrat does that change your stance on whether or not these elections are rigged? JEFFRIES: “I wouldn’t be surprised if those were a part of some far-right conspiracy theory.”

If 10% of harvested ballots are illegal, and 90% are legal, but it is impossible to isolate the 10% from the 90%, should it continue to be allowed?

@californiapost Becerra & Bass, two empty suits with pasted-on Cheshire grins. This is the best California can do? If they're not careful they're gonna get smile mask syndrome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_mas…

LA Mayor Karen Bass was asked three times about the city being sued by her older sibling Kenneth Bass, 78, but she refused to respond on each occasion. trib.al/IikxAqd