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JUST IN: Trump urges communities to embrace data centers, declaring, “You can’t fight it.”

To get a conviction, the judge allowed the father of the 9 year-old to lie about his family being the beneficiary of a GoFundMe page. When Shiloh Hendrix's lawyer wanted to show the still live page, the judge threatened him with contempt of court.

Come on. It just objectively is bad that, if you scuffle with a bum for 45 seconds to protect your girl, make out with that same lady against the wall outside a nightclub, or drive 25 miles over the speed limit anywhere...a robot can fly to your house and charge you with two A Misdemeanors. This is especially the case given that (1) only taxpayers with addresses can get targeted in this fashion and (2) this will immediately get political in both directions.

The next Louisiana Purchase? Here’s an idea: the United States acquires the Baja California Peninsula from Mexico for $1 to $5 trillion. Every Mexican citizen living in Baja receives dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship, plus a $50,000 investment account. Then America gets to work: world-class infrastructure, deep-water ports, desalination, nuclear energy, housing, universities, and industry. Tijuana and Mexicali could become major reindustrialization zones. In return, the United States gains nearly 1,800 miles of some of the most spectacular coastline on Earth and the chance to build the great new economic region. Is this a crazy idea? Of course. But so was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting. Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something? Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

🚨 BREAKING: Apple is suing OpenAI for stealing trade secrets APPLE: OpenAI “deliberately and systematically” stole confidential info from Apple employees Chang Liu (ex-Apple engineer) kept his Apple laptop, found “bug” to access Apple cloud storage Liu: “LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny” >downloaded confidential files WHILE working at OpenAI Tang Tan 24 YEARS at Apple >VP of iPhone and Watch design >now OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tan used Apple codenames to extract info from Apple employees interviewing at OpenAI Tan told candidates to bring “actual parts” (batteries, logic boards) for “show and tell” Tan circulated Apple offboarding doc to teach OpenAI hires to dodge Apple’s exit security >400+ Apple employees POACHED Apple emailed OpenAI about it in February >OpenAI never responded Filing says OpenAI’s hardware business is “rotten to its core” and this is “the tip of the iceberg.” (Jony Ive mysteriously not named) Apple is suing OpenAI for stealing everything Demands jury trial

My wife hates my lifestyle. Even though I’m averaging $300-500k a year from trading she hates that I trade for 2-3 hours a day then play playstation and chill for the rest of it. It doesn’t matter how much I make, she treats me like her unemployed bum husband who won’t get a job.

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet. The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax. So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K. Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail. Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card. The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price. Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

I am seeing a lot of bad faith actors take my comments from this interview out of context. So here’s the full interview, and let me expound. This interview was about the rise of communism on the Left, and I was asked by Jesse Watters why so many young people are buying the false promise of “free stuff” being sold by communist politicians. My answer: a combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long. There are far-left educators pumping students’ heads with garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won’t pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead. I went on to say that’s why President Trump is a huge advocate for school choice, and why so many parents I know are turning to homeschooling. Good parenting matters more than anything, but a solid, civics-based education is also vitally important. I care enough about our country to tell uncomfortable truths. And it’s an undeniable fact that a growing number of young people in our country are falling for the lies of socialism and communism, sold to them by anti-American politicians who’ve never built anything, offer no real solutions, and are intent on tearing down everything that makes this country great. At the same time, it’s also true that many Gen Z Americans are hardworking, entrepreneurial, and deeply patriotic, and it’s vital we protect the American Dream for them. That’s why I am honored to work for President Trump and speak on behalf of an administration that is implementing the right policies to do this: lower taxes, less regulation, stopping Wall Street from purchasing single-family homes, Trump Accounts, and the deportation of illegal aliens who are taking our housing and jobs. There is more work to do, which is why President Trump and our entire administration won’t stop fighting to make life better and more affordable for young people. As the President has correctly warned, “communism is the enemy of free people everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the enemy of July 4, 1776.” So I will continue to call out the radical Democrats, socialists, and communists who are lying to our youth, and I know the President will continue to pursue an economic and domestic agenda that expands and strengthens the American Dream for generations to come.

NUCLEAR IS NOT A CLIMATE SOLUTION Say no to Nuclear: Call Gov. Hochul now! Nuclear is a costly and dangerous distraction from building renewable energy. CALL: 877-796-1948 Radioactive waste is still being dumped into rivers and radioactive smoke is in the air.