Alan Shore

x.com/TheChiefNerd/s… "The vaccine stops transmission"

@ossoff @grok who did Trump draft?

Draft-dodging Donald loves sending other people's children to war.

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done. A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence. The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.

“Your honor, my client is American because he committed his crimes in America”

So basically: a) ICE deploys somewhere b) TSA lines plummet c) Traffic vanishes d) ERs clear out e) Construction sites are ghost towns f) Class sizes shrink ...and we're still supposed to believe there are only 11 million illegal aliens in the country?!

These replies are incredible because it shows how little these people seem to know about JCPOA. Out of the 6 listed demands, Obama’s deal achieved none of them. Not one. It didn’t address the missile program at all. In fact, they actually reduced sanctions related to that program. It did nothing to address funding and arming regional terror proxies. It did not require them to decommission nuclear reactors. It did allow for enrichment, which they could and did ramp up to a higher level over time.

So hard to pick just one. So, here are my top 10 in no particular order:

The DOGE kids are getting deposed because the Left knows how to impose costs. The ACLU harassed me for years, ran up my legal bills, because of my work eliminating woke with DeSantis. They have a whole playbook for punishing productive right-wing people.

When Thune goes on vacation he’ll use pro forma sessions to block Trump’s recess appointments. Only POTUS in history blocked by own party. Recess Appointments: Reagan: 240 W. Bush: 171 Clinton: 139 H.W. Bush: 77 Washington: 39 Obama: 32 Kennedy: 29 Trump: 0 McConnell & Thune

I think we should let England or France drop the last bomb on the mullahs, it would be like one of those heartwarming videos of the mentally challenged kid getting to take a shot in his last high school game

@RepThomasMassie x.com/i/status/20286…

The administration admits 🇮🇱 dragged us into the 🇮🇷 war that’s already cost too many American lives and billions of dollars. Before it’s over, the price of gas, groceries, and virtually everything else is going to go up. The only winners in 🇺🇸 are defense company shareholders.

@redsteeze No it's not. Most of the guys who served in Iraq and Afghanistan say now that they don't understand why they were there. Forever wars fear is not busted. If we enter into conflict we must have a clear objective to achieve and then achieve it and end the conflict.

The "forever wars" Dem talking point is just so busted. Iran has been at war with the United States ever since I've been alive. I've had friends who are service members who survived Iranian IED attacks in Iraq. The "forever wars" talking point works on 25 something year old Democrat staffers but not on anyone else who has a lived history with that shithole regime.

@obiopiah @HowardKurtz Yes, which is why we deride the liberal justices as activists. Sotomayor claimed "impartiality" was "merely an aspiration." That statement should have been disqualifying. Liberals strive to appoint activists, conservatives strive to appoint judges.

@HowardKurtz Do you have the same standards for the liberal justices? How often do Kagan, Sotomayor or Jackson stray from the party line in their opinions?

Neil Gorsuch & Amy Coney Barrett did exactly what we say judges should do--study the issues & interpret the Constitution. Does that only apply when they rule in favor of the president? Otherwise it's lawlessness (VP's word)? Why SCOTUS broke with Trump tinyurl.com/mt35nvsr

@derekahunter The liberal justices are activists, not judges.

When was the last time a liberal Justice broke from the others and upset the left on a major issue? Has it ever happened?

@RapidResponse47 So you appointment impartial justices instead of sycophants. That's to be celebrated.

Lindsey Vonn Announces She Has Joined The U.S. Paralympics Team buff.ly/tnvNpZj

@travisakers @grok do the countries with mail-in voting require ID to register to vote or to cast a vote?

A list of countries that currently have mail-in voting: Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Poland Portugal Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe

Republicans are reinforcing the idea that enough disorder, threats of violence, actual violence, and mob intimidation produces results — which is exactly how you incentivize more of it. No serious country allows its immigration policy to be dictated by emotional mob blackmail and no serious country would even consider telling its law enforcement to stop enforcing federal law because activists might get upset. And no serious party would ever treat violence or threats of it as a legitimate political tool for shaping policy outcome. Republicans’ message will not calm tensions but only escalate them. If Republicans want less chaos, they need to stop rewarding it.

@jonbrooks Not move for the next 10 years.

Lennar is now selling their houses for less than 2018 prices (net of incentives) Imagine being the person who bought in 2022… If you’re that person, what do you do?

@peterbakernyt @Schwartzesque Correct, they're not ruling based on the law. We are a nation of laws, not men, and these judges seemingly forgot to show up the day they taught law in law school.

Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025: Trump appointees: 92% Other Republican appointees: 68% Democratic appointees: 27% @Schwartzesque Emma Schartz nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/…