Ben Scherrey 🌻

Ben was sooo right!

🚨 THIS WEEK: we are formally referring US Senator John Thune & his campaign Treasurer Nicole Weyers for felony criminal charges - money laundering, identity theft, wire fraud, bank secrecy act, false statements to the feds & more. We found the legal path to step into the shoes of the U.S. Attorney General. We have a live federal lawsuit against the FEC on Thune's campaign committee. Take the #ThuneOut Pledge with me: 🚫 NO votes 🚫 NO donations …to ANY 'Republican' until Thune is removed as Senate Majority Leader. Why? Just one example: while President Trump waits on recess appointments, Thune is running 33-second Senate 'sessions' to BLOCK them. These aren't Republicans - they're saboteurs. "Republicans" have now taken our spending and debt to all time historic highs in nominal dollars since the founding of our nation, as a second example. We now have 8 federal lawsuits against corrupt U.S. Senators. With real resources we'd have 70 lawsuits filed against US Senators- that is how bad it is. The purge starts with Thune. 🇺🇸 ElectionWatch.info and see if your name is being used by the corrupt John Thune for laundering money into his campaign (all are over the age of 65): -go to our website -scroll down to the USA map, click on the desired state -let it load, a list comes up of Smurfs, i.e. victims -click on Show Search, or Smurf Search or Advanced Search (use a laptop or PC) -click on the small green box to the left of any person's name -an interactive chart will come up: red line is the number of contributions that day, green line the corresponding dollar amount -click on anything in green text for more data/info

I am not voting for any Republican until @johnthune is removed as Leader of the United States Senate. Take the "Thune Pledge" with me. I will cast a ballot in each election by picking one independent, so my ballot is not stolen. @WisGop @RNC @JudiciaryGOP @GOP Also, I will not donate to any Republican candidate, none, until Thune is removed as Leader of the Senate. No matter if it takes a month or years. Those who say "then Democrats will win". With guys like Thune, there is no difference. Thune and his goons won't pass the save act, but it is much worse. Thune has been blocking President Trump's agenda, blocking Trump's appointments. I will be directly noticing my local GOP chairman, the state GOP and various candidates there will be zero votes, zero money, for any Republican. Peter Bernegger

Tucker, Candace, Joe Kent: “Iran isn’t trying to build nuclear weapons. The Ayatollah said nukes are immoral!” Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”

@chuckswindoll @DavidLimbaugh He spoke Aramaic, didn't he?

Six hours on the cross. A brutality that staggers the imagination. And yet, what those who stood at Calvary heard was remarkable. Words of forgiveness from the One bearing the weight of the world's sin. He leaned His head back, the same posture John describes as resting on a pillow before sleep, and gave up His spirit. His work was done. Mission accomplished. Tetelestai. Paid in full.

i've been exchanging with a friend of mine who live in iran. he hasn't left his apartment since the beginning of the war. i asked him if he feels the west is winning or loosing. he told me something interesting. he said: i don't know who's winning but i know iran has already lost. i asked him what does it mean. he said "they're now using their women in our streets, they're doing rallies of cars filled by women and children only, going allover the city with the islamic republic flags, reciting their quoran interpretation through speaker. [...] the regular army is fully disarmed because else they will stage a coup' i then asked him if he feels like topling the regime is out of reach or not. he told me that yes, it still is but with a caveat. "if it was just them it wouldn't have been out of reach, but they have imported mercenaries from iraq. and under each bridge there are search stops, each with 3 people tops. afraid, very paranoid - but at the end, it's three people. [...] for the people to march and take control, yes, it is still definitely out of reach. but with any tiny amount of weapon distribution it's gonna happen. [...] people are behaving different, not like people under missiles. they are planning and they a sitting ready. people on the street talk about their list of government employees that they are gonna attack." finally, i asked him what is the general opinion about the coalition operation, if the overall population is still supporting the united states & israel which is literally bombing their country. his answer was VERY interesting: "the irgc are trying very hard to change the narrative, they did the same last time Israel attacked, after the 12 days war, and it worked with a lot of people. not all but there were too many people (for my liking). they try to touch the nationalist in people. insinuating that the united states and israel are attacking iran and not the irgc. but, tt worked last time, but not this time. no one is buying the narrative, especially after the way they handled the protests. [...] mainly, don't believe most of the iranians on twitter or the internet. lot of them are regime members who got a white sim card, not regular people"

More tragic news reminding us of the brutality of the Iranian dictatorship: from a friend: Another troubling news. The dictatorship today executed two more members of the MEK. Since Monday Six member of the MEK and an 18-year-old protestor were executed, all charged with their resistance against the dictatorship. We are doing our best to get more attention to these executions. Many more are on death row.  Here is more details:  (2) Maryam Rajavi on X: "At dawn today, Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer were hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj. The two heroic members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) have now joined their comrades who laid down their lives in the struggle for freedom, including t.co/aIVQYrXu7d" / X

.@JMilei: “Being leftist is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐒: “𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐁𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄” Godfrey Bloom — a former UK Independence Party Member of the European Parliament, Sandhurst graduate, and self-described “dyed-in-the-wool monarchist” whose family held commissions under Charles’s mother and grandfather — just delivered the most devastating address to the British crown in modern memory. The background: Buckingham Palace confirmed this week that King Charles will 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 in 2026. He did issue one last year. But this year — the most important holiday on the Christian calendar — the head of the Church of England went silent. This from the same King who recorded a Ramadan greeting in February, acknowledged a Nigerian president’s “sacrifice” during Ramadan at a State Banquet, and has repeatedly elevated Islamic observances in public addresses (Buckingham Palace; 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥). Bloom opened by establishing his credentials — and then dismantled Charles’s claim to the throne on constitutional grounds. “𝘐’𝘮 𝘢 𝘥𝘺𝘦𝘥-𝘪𝘯-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘞𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦.” This wasn’t an attack from the outside. It was a family intervention. Then the charge: “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 — 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩.” And here’s where Bloom’s argument becomes impossible to dismiss as bigotry. He preempted it: “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘐’𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘐’𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯. 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.” His objection isn’t theological — it’s 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥. The British monarch’s role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England isn’t ceremonial decoration. It’s a 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of the Crown, codified since Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy in 𝟏𝟓𝟑𝟒. A king who won’t perform it has abandoned the terms under which he holds the office. The demand was unambiguous: “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦.” Then the closer, delivered with the kind of controlled fury that comes from a man who believes in the institution his king is betraying: “𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.” David Limbaugh shared the clip with five words: “Bless this courageous and principled man.” Over 𝟕𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 in under 24 hours. The video struck a nerve because the grievance isn’t just British — it’s the same pattern playing out across the entire Western world. Leaders who were entrusted with preserving the institutions of their civilization are systematically hollowing them out from the inside. 𝐇𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠.

@GBNEWS In other words, a minority. 😎

More than 2 in 5 Britons think UK 'too close' to US and should distance itself from Donald Trump gbnews.com/politics/uk-us…

nope - tool ability is an indicator but is neither unique to humans nor a definition of intelligence. You're conflating the word "built". The architecture is built, the "intelligence" is emergent. There's no serious system pursuing computer or biological intelligence that doesn't presume emergent intelligence. Meanwhile, it's all pretty much marketing talk until a "definition of done" is defined and the Turing test is not it.

I don’t think i have to, to refute what he said but to cite one; tool using ability is a human level intelligence . He is confabulating concepts because he has a misconception that AI should be “built” -symbolic reasoning , and should not “emerge”; despite the latter formation is closer to HI. Most CS profs are in pain bc they spent decades to build an intelligence on symbolic reasoning and failed and labs did it another way. That’s the main context.

Current AI is based on the simplest possible theory of intelligence: none. Unfortunately that means it’s 100% hacks.

@aykutuz @pmddomingos Ok - then define it.

@pmddomingos Good rage bait . Intelligence is an abstract notion which doesn’t have to manifest in a single form. Human intelligence is a form of intelligence just as AI is.

@fernanb @pmddomingos It's demonstrating not that computers can be intelligent (no evidence they can) but rather humans only rarely act intelligent. Mostly they sleep through life and respond to their environment like Pavlov's dogs. Makes for some useful drones but nothing even remotely close to SGI.

@pmddomingos And human intelligence has no "hacks"? How it emerges from simple behavioral patterns? . Why it feels effortful if its based in simple evolutive driven attributes? Why it isn't used all the time?

@NPARGH @academic_la @joshrogin Was a feint! 😎

@academic_la @joshrogin Did your buddy have a theory as to why they let us kill all their leaders and bomb the shit out of their entire country first?

Just had a long talk with a former IAF commander on why Iran is managing to shoot down these US planes. He told me that since the 12 day war Iran has rethought its entire system after seeing how easily it was bombed. The new system is far better and more resilient and Israeli pilots have noticed how difficult it is to operate there now: 1) Each of Iran's 31 zones now has the authority to operate independently if central command is cut off, allowing local commanders to launch missiles and engage aircraft without waiting for orders from Tehran. That was a major problem for them in the past. 2) Recognizing that fixed sites are easily destroyed, Iran moved many of its restored air defenses into missile cities, deeply buried underground tunnels and rugged coastal terrain that serve as cover for mobile launchers. These targets are now hardened. 3) Since traditional radar gives away a system's location, Iran has leaned into passive infrared (heat-seeking) sensors and new software algorithms that can track jets without emitting detectable signals. 4) Iran has increased reliance on mobile, medium-range surface-to-air SAM systems. Its mobility allows shoot-and-scoot tactics that make it difficult to target with pre-planned airstrikes. 5) Iran has moved away from Russian missiles to its own Bavar-373 which appears to be superior to the S-300 and possibly to the S-400 too. Recent upgrades include increased autonomy for launchers, allowing them to operate even if centralized command centers are destroyed. 6) They use new Majid system, which relies on passive infrared detection rather than radar. Because it doesn't emit radar signals, it is significantly harder for aircraft to detect before a missile is launched. 7) Most important, he confirmed to me that Iran is using HQ-9B, the best long-range surface-to-air missile China has to offer. It has both active radar homing and a passive infrared seeker. This makes it harder for aircraft to spoof the missile with standard electronic countermeasures and improves its ability to track stealth. It seems to be exceeding expectations. He told me, "the days when flying over Iran was a walk in the park are over." In sum, new tactics and a switch from Russian technology to Iranian and Chinese technology have turned Iranian airspace into a contested space. Air superiority there is gone. The IAF and USAF will have to adapt accordingly or lose more aircraft.

I agree Iran has adopted their air defense - as they should. But you can't claim it's working given the number of sorties (with B-52s even!) that deliver over their air space without hindrance. They couldn't even capture the pilots in their own territory before they were rescued! Sorry but America/Israel have total air dominance and that isn't changing.

“Tucker reads the symptoms well enough. It is the remedy he reaches for that gives cause for alarm. He watches the Arab Gulf states project confidence onto the world stage and mistakes what was renounced for what was retained. The skylines are real, the sovereign wealth funds are real, the global ambition is real. What he gets wrong is what produced them. Tucker sees this vitality and attributes it to Islamic identity, to some civilizational coherence the secular West has abandoned. He has the causation exactly backwards. The Gulf states are thriving precisely because they retreated from Sharia, not because they embraced it.” Tucker Carlson: You've praised a culture of genocide and terror. dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

@BrianRoemmele How many orbits around the moon?

Artemis rendezvous.

Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.