St. John O’Callaghan

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is stunned by fresh IRS data. It’s not just billionaires fleeing the state. Between 2020 and 2024, 892 companies left New York — taking $47 billion in income with them. Florida grabbed 341 of those companies. Texas and North Carolina took big chunks too. Middle-class professionals, small business owners, and working families are voting with their feet. They’re escaping sky-high taxes, crushing regulations, remote-work freedom, and a declining quality of life. The result? A shrinking tax base. Those who stay get stuck paying even more. Hochul once told unhappy New Yorkers to “just get on a bus.” Now the exodus is accelerating — threatening jobs, services, and the entire state economy. Actions have consequences. #NewYorkExodus #TaxFlight

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The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by @jmurtazashvili: 1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe." 2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests." 3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster." 4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war." The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.