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How Socialism Quietly Took Root in America It didn't start with a revolution. It started with labor unions and universities. In the early 1900s, socialist ideas gained real traction through unions. Eugene V. Debs ran for president five times on the Socialist ticket, pulling nearly a million votes in 1912 and 1920. Communists were deeply involved in organizing strikes and industrial unions during the Depression. It wasn't fringe — it was part of the fight for better wages when capitalism looked shaky. Universities gave these ideas intellectual oxygen. By the 1960s, the New Left didn't seize factories, they seized college departments. They stayed on campus, earned PhDs, and transformed humanities and social sciences. That's the "long march through the institutions": change society by controlling education, media, government, and culture. Those graduates fanned out into K-12 teaching, journalism, Hollywood, nonprofits, government bureaucracies, and corporate HR. Ideas about class, power, and "oppressor vs. oppressed" spread through elite credentials, not shop floors. Today, surveys show many university departments lean overwhelmingly left — often 10-to-1 or more. The pipeline keeps reinforcing itself. Joseph McCarthy was right that Soviet infiltration was real. Declassified Venona files proved spies were inside the Manhattan Project, State Department, and elsewhere. The Communist Party USA took orders from Moscow. But his sloppy methods and wild accusations discredited legitimate anti-communism and ruined careers on innuendo. The real, lasting shift wasn't spies in the 1950s. It was a slower cultural takeover through universities and institutions — one that happened after McCarthy was gone. That pattern explains a lot about where we are today.

BREAKING: The 3x leveraged long semiconductor ETF, $SOXL, attracted a record +$1.03 billion in inflows on Tuesday. At the same time, the 3x leveraged short semiconductor ETF, $SOXS, posted -$230 million in outflows, the largest daily outflow since late March. Furthermore, the 3x leveraged long Nasdaq 100 ETF, $TQQQ, saw +$161 million in inflows, the highest daily intake since March 31. In other words, $SOXL inflows were more than 6 times larger than $TQQQ inflows, as investors concentrated their bullish bets in semiconductors. $SOXL is now up +354% since the March 30th bottom, the largest 31-day increase since the fund launched in 2010. This comes as the semiconductor sector, $SOX, is up +68% over the same period, the 3rd-best 31-day performance on record. The run in semiconductor stocks is truly historic.

China Reports Agreement Between Xi and Trump on Strategic Stability Framework

@MrsErikaKirk My son Charlie joined us this February. He is named in honor of your Charlie.

May 14, 2024 7:47AM daddy was the first to hold you. Together, we spoke over you all the prayers and blessings for your future. I can’t help but rewatch these videos, endlessly, and I know as you grow up, you’ll be the same way. There’s moments I wish I could step back into…especially the moments of your “firsts” that daddy was alive to witness. You’re forever our little love. Our little peacemaker. It’ll be the honor of my life to witness you becoming a trailblazer for the truth, for goodness, for patience, for joy, and for faithfulness, with the presence of the Holy Spirt and all the angels in Heaven, including Daddy, cheering you on. Happy 2nd Birthday sweet boy. You heal my broken heart in ways I’ll never be able to articulate.

When Theodore Roosevelt spent a year in the African bush after his presidency, he could not imagine going that long without reading. His sister curated 59 of his favorite classics and rebound them in tough leather. These included The Odyssey, Don Quixote and Shakespeare.

@AmericanCrime01 There are very few nursing homes that could pass an honest, rigorous surprise inspection.

😡Family Outraged After Father, 89, Left On Assisted Living Floor for 22 hours😡So AWFUL!!😢 89-year-old man spent more than 22 hours naked and alone on the floor of a Gilbert assisted living facility without staff ever finding him in need of help. 😡

@VP @WHFraudTF @WhiteHouse Once all this is rooted out and the guilty are fined and sent to jail, us regular tax payers should receive permanent tax relief. Our pay has been taken by force and basically given to criminals.

Vice President Vance's Task Force has uncovered BILLIONS in fraud. The work is just beginning

I am here for it.

@boolou2020 @hothingsgirlsay Here is the answer for them: stop being spineless cowards.

@hothingsgirlsay I am good friends with the father of a female in that room. He told me 5 of the 7 School board members are Republican, but have been threatened in a 4th circuit case that they can be held liable and personally sued, so they don't really know what to do. 🤦

Girls keep having to beg for the bare minimum.

@WhiteHouse If you could just post videos of A-10 strafing runs on fast boats, we'd all be a lot happier.

Bing, Bing, GONE!!!

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS Does NYC realize what a colossal mistake they made yet?

.@POTUS: Mayor Mamdani "came down to the Oval Office twice. He's a nice person. I really like him, he's a nice guy—but you can't tax people out of New York. When you tax people out of New York you never get them back...it's a very dangerous thing that's happening right now."

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🚨 Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang in California has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China in the United States. Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 - promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC’s direction to promote their interests. She has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty. @FBI and our federal partners continue to move aggressively to root out this kind of influence in American institutions all over the country. nypost.com/2026/05/11/us-…

BEIJING IS CONSIDERING SHIPPING AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO IRAN VIA OTHER COUNTRIES TO MASK ITS INVOLVEMENT, SOMETHING TRUMP HAS THREATENED TO PUNISH WITH 50% TARIFFS: TELEGRAPH

Significant signal IMO when coupled with UAE leaving OPEC.

In honor of Bobby Cox, here’s almost 20 minutes of him getting ejected. Legend.

Perfectly reasonable.

No big deal, right?

@hasanthehun "I only like it when my party does the gerrymandering."

the va supreme court denied the results of the redistricting referendum. scotus gutted the voting rights act and tennessee carved up the last dem district destroying black voter power in the state. those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable

@sentdefender We all trust the CIA, right?

According to the Washington Post, citing people with knowledge on the matter, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a confidential assessment to administration officials with the key judgment that Iran can weather the U.S. blockade for at least three to four months. Additionally, the assessment reportedly says that Iran still retains significant ballistic missile stockpiles despite U.S.-Israeli strikes on underground facilities. Per the report, and tracking with past reporting on the subject, “75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles.”

The ultimate goal? Logically tracing the full arc we've discussed — from early 20th-century union/university footholds, through the "long march through the institutions" by 1960s radicals and their academic heirs, into corporate/government capture via DEI and credentialed grads, amplified by foreign opportunistic cash and social media — the ultimate goals of this network aren't a secret conspiracy but follow directly from Marxist and neo-Marxist theory plus real-world incentives. The domestic ideological core (university-shaped activists, NGOs, and institutional infiltrators) seeks cultural and then systemic transformation of America into a socialist society. Drawing from Gramsci's "war of position" and Marcuse/Dutschke's explicit "long march through the institutions," the strategy was never storming the Winter Palace but capturing education, media, HR departments, law, and bureaucracy to make socialist ideas the new cultural "common sense." Once hegemony is secured: Economically: Replace private ownership and profit motive with social/democratic control of key industries, wealth redistribution ("equity" over equality/merit), and needs-based allocation. DEI in corporations is the current vanguard tool — it erodes competence hierarchies that sustain capitalism, as seen in productivity drags and market backlash. Culturally: Dismantle "bourgeois" structures (traditional family, patriotism, individual rights, Western canon) and redefine oppression around identity (race, gender, etc.) as the new class struggle. The goal is a post-liberal order where group-based justice supplants individual liberty. Politically: Incremental "democratic socialist" reforms (Medicare for All, Green New Deal, reparations, defund-style policing) build toward irreversible state dominance, with universities and media as the propaganda and cadre factories. This isn't abstract; the pipeline we mapped (PhDs → K-12, media, HR, civil service) is designed to normalize it so resistance feels like bigotry. The foreign opportunistic layer (China via Singham's network of Code Pink, People's Forum, Tricontinental, etc.) doesn't share the exact same endgame. Beijing and its proxies aren't primarily trying to install full communism in America — they exploit the existing domestic infrastructure for geopolitical weakening of the US. Documented flows of tens to hundreds of millions fund protests, media, and narratives that: Sow internal division (anti-US, anti-Israel campaigns framed as anti-imperialism). Whitewash Marxist regimes while demonizing American power. Distract and drain US resources abroad. The logical payoff for China: A fractured, less competitive America that can't check Beijing's rise. It's classic "useful idiots" strategy — domestic radicals get funding and reach; China gets chaos that accelerates multipolarity under CCP leadership. In sum, the convergent end-state is a hollowed-out United States: economically stagnant under equity mandates, culturally fragmented, politically paralyzed, and globally diminished. For true believers, it's the long-awaited socialist triumph. For foreign backers, it's a cheaper way to win without firing shots. The corporate impacts we've seen (Boeing, Disney, Bud Light, banking lawsuits) are early proof-of-concept: real friction on prosperity and cohesion. Whether it succeeds depends on pushback, but the trajectory follows directly from the premises we've traced. #Socialism #Maga #whichwaywesternman

How Socialism Quietly Took Root in America It didn't start with a revolution. It started with labor unions and universities. In the early 1900s, socialist ideas gained real traction through unions. Eugene V. Debs ran for president five times on the Socialist ticket, pulling nearly a million votes in 1912 and 1920. Communists were deeply involved in organizing strikes and industrial unions during the Depression. It wasn't fringe — it was part of the fight for better wages when capitalism looked shaky. Universities gave these ideas intellectual oxygen. By the 1960s, the New Left didn't seize factories, they seized college departments. They stayed on campus, earned PhDs, and transformed humanities and social sciences. That's the "long march through the institutions": change society by controlling education, media, government, and culture. Those graduates fanned out into K-12 teaching, journalism, Hollywood, nonprofits, government bureaucracies, and corporate HR. Ideas about class, power, and "oppressor vs. oppressed" spread through elite credentials, not shop floors. Today, surveys show many university departments lean overwhelmingly left — often 10-to-1 or more. The pipeline keeps reinforcing itself. Joseph McCarthy was right that Soviet infiltration was real. Declassified Venona files proved spies were inside the Manhattan Project, State Department, and elsewhere. The Communist Party USA took orders from Moscow. But his sloppy methods and wild accusations discredited legitimate anti-communism and ruined careers on innuendo. The real, lasting shift wasn't spies in the 1950s. It was a slower cultural takeover through universities and institutions — one that happened after McCarthy was gone. That pattern explains a lot about where we are today.

@FOXNashville The 20 year plus efforts to totally ruin Nashville marches on.

12 South Taproom is closing May 25. Ownership tells FOX17’s Johnny Maffei a $20K+ property tax increase didn’t make things easy Will Shuff tells us a Ralph Lauren is going into the location that was a local spot for 20+ years The taproom isn’t the only local favorite to fall in “Broadway South” on “Redneck Rodeo Drive,” urban planning researchers tell us what can happen to prevent this. Follow Johnny & FOX Nashville for more, and read the full story here: bit.ly/4uwMztf