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@simonmaechling To be fair, there was a pretty good reason …

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

@DanielTurnerPTF All the farmers I work with are buying fertilizer now. So I guess it probably depends on the production system. It ours all buy in the spring/early summer

No farmer is buying fertilizer today. They buy fertilizer in the fall after harvest. You’d know this if you really represented farmers. But you’re a city boy. Dems gerrymandered western mass to ensure farmers get an ignoramus to use them as props. 30 years in DC. Try harder.

Judicial Watch found that Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall registration rates exceeding 100%; and that Oregon had the highest known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation. Oregon was failing to remove inactive registrations as required by federal law. @TomFitton judicialwatch.org/oregon-voter-r…

BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio hits back at claims of a U.S. oil blockade on Cuba: "Here's what's happening with Cuba, okay? Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela. They would take like 60% of that oil and resell it for cash. It wouldn't even go to benefit the people. So the only blockade that's happened is ... the Venezuelans have decided we're not giving you free oil anymore." "The reason that I can't fix it is not just because they're communist. That's bad enough, but they're incompetent communists."

Rubio’s latest role as Press Secretary was phenomenal today. He knocked question after question from a frenzied press corps out of the park. He gave a perfect answer when he was asked, “What is your hope for America at a time such as this?” Rubio responded: “My hope for America is what it’s always been… We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. Where you’re not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity - but frankly it’s a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential… Our history is not one of perfection, but it’s still better than anybody else’s history. Ours is a story of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer… As we come upon this 250 year anniversary, I think we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history. It is one of perpetual and continuous improvement, where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding.” I know that was spoken like a true politician, but it was damn good 🇺🇸

@JeffMerkley I could have sworn I kicked you out of my feed

Oregonians have voted by mail for decades. It's safe and secure. As Trump and Republicans continue attacks on vote by mail in red and blue states alike, I will fight to protect and expand access to vote by mail!

This feels Islamophobic. The hundreds of millions who were killed by the Noble Faith of Perpetual Genocides over the past 1,400 years was mainly as a reaction to the Zionist occupation of Palestinian land since 1948. I learned this in the course that I took with @ZohranKMamdani's dad at @Columbia.

As an Iranian still inside Iran, writing through Starlink with a broken heart and burning rage, I am showing you what the regime desperately tries to hide Look at these streets. Look at the blood. They killed so many of our brothers and sisters on January 8th and 9th that the ditches filled with blood, the streets ran red, and the walls were soaked with the blood of innocent protesters. This was one of the most savage massacres of peaceful demonstrators in modern history — and the Islamic Republic’s internet blackout is their attempt to bury the evidence. Yet while Iranians the ground reject their lies — IRGC propaganda gets almost zero traction and tiny impressions on our social media — the English-speaking world, especially Western platforms, keeps consuming and amplifying the regime’s propaganda non-stop. This is not the free world. This is not independent journalism. This is betrayal. Stop listening to the Islamic Republic’s propaganda. Stop giving oxygen to the butchers who murder our people and then cry “victim” in English. While they hunt Starlink users with $2,000 bounties, torture fathers to death, and roll out their loyalty-based internet tiers, mainstream media stays shamefully silent on the rivers of blood we have shed. For 47 years we have lived this nightmare — economic pressure crushing every family, blackouts, arrests, and now open bounties on anyone seeking truth. We danced with pure joy when Khamenei was removed because we saw the beginning of the end. That hope still lives in us. We are willing to endure everything — the fear, the threats, the hunger, the daily terror that our children feel — because our country and our people are on the line. But we will not let our suffering be in vain while the outside world platforms the regime’s lies. President Trump sees through them. The rest of the free world must wake up and do the same. The blood on these streets cries out. The souls of our martyrs demand justice. The Lion and Sun will rise again. #IranMassacre‌ #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #FinishTheJobMrPresidentTrump

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

@itsrosesm Me!

IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO PROUDLY VOTED FOR TRUMP ALL THREE TIMES, WITH NO REGRETS?

I hope SCOTUS rules wisely on BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. We must stop it. China has sent 1M women to the US to have their babies at these nice birth centers but raise their babies under CCP until they’re eligible to vote in the US. “Soft Power Invasion.”

@doogadoo11 Giving your pronouns. Dead giveaway.

It's funny how you can determine someone's political Party with a high-degree of accuracy just from a handful of characteristics. For instance, these generally = Libtard. - Unmarried - College Educated - Lives In a Major City - Non-Religious What other characteristics are strong indicators?

That is literally their plan

587 days. That's how long the Canadian healthcare system took to call me back about the spinal surgery I needed immediately or risk losing the use of my legs. In 2024, I broke my back in Singapore. The neurosurgeon there said surgery was urgent. After 3 weeks fighting my insurance from a hospital bed, I flew home with medical support. The Canadian hospital quoted an 8-month wait. I'm lucky I could afford to go private. The next day, I had the operation. Today, 587 DAYS LATER, the public hospital called to say they're ready for me. People say Canadian healthcare is free and great. It's neither. It's horrible!

@Jani__Gee Why?

This legitimately makes me skin crawl.

Don’t worry. They’ll insist that this doesn’t fit the definition of colonization because everyone was just happy to accept their glorious Islam. You know, in between the beheadings, enslavement, torture, genocides, and forced marriages.

E. Jean Carroll said she could not remember the day, month, or year that this "rape" occurred. The reason she could not be pinned down to a date during depositions was because President Trump had his business calendars which showed where he was every hour of every day for decades. If Carroll had stated a date, then President Trump could produce the records that showed he was at another location, state, country on that date. Carroll's inability to remember is a disturbing fact and indicative that her entire claim is fraudulent. No one forgets the day they are raped. They spend their life trying to forget it. If they are lucky the anniversary will pass without them remembering, but they will note later that their ability to let the day pass without a triggering event is a sign of healing. If pressed to remember, especially under a deposition environment, the victim will remember the year, month, and date. They will even remember the time, clothing they were wearing (that was in existence at that time) and a million other little details.

This is not accurate, and it matters. Only one officer, Brian Sicknick, died after January 6 Capitol riot, and it was ruled natural causes (strokes), not an “attack.” The other three, Howard Liebengood, Jeffrey Smith, and Gunther Hashida, tragically died by suicide later. Tragic? Yes. But “4 officers killed by J6 attacks”? That’s not what happened. But the left will say they saw it all on tv so it must be right.... right? Say it right or don’t say it.

The number of white male American sprinters competing in the Olympics 100 meters event has been zero in the last 66 years, offering a warning about what can happen if you just let people compete fairly on a level playing field.

@TheBirbNest Doesn’t this just show that the value of the dollar has dropped a ton over the past 60 years? Or am I thinking about this wrong?

In 1965 the world needed 5.3 barrels of oil to produce every $1,000 of GDP. In 2024, its 0.3 barrels. The economy runs 94% more efficiently on oil than it did 60 years ago. So next time someone tells you rising crude in 2026 will crash the global economy like the 1970s Show them this chart. Does oil price still matter to your trading decisions in 2026? Drop your view 👇