Boyd Ready
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Boyd Ready
@ReadyBoyd
Retired contractor. Worship leader. Local historian. State House candidate 2018 & 2020. For agriculture, liberty, & home rule. Hawai'i resident since 1970s.
Haleiwa Katılım Kasım 2023
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Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies.
I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics.
It makes Nixon look like a boy scout.
cnbc.com/2026/05/18/tru…
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@ReverendWarnock Isn't that the green enviro types 'sue and settle' playbook that's been used for decades to avoid court scrutiny of their sweetheart deals? At least this $ doesn't go to Trump, it goes to people persecuted by the FBI and DC courts.
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The President just used his power to exempt himself and his family from audits on every tax return they've ever filed.
If that is not corruption to the highest degree, then what is?
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@RepCDMenefee @TheBlackCaucus 'Black' voting rights are not changing. Racially segregated districts are. Why are 'progressives' advocating black majority districts? Wasn't Alabama Governor Wallace's motto "segregation now, segregation forever?" Are you still, gasp, Democrats?
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College sports became a billion-dollar industry on the backs of Black athletes. Now, as Black voting rights face attacks across the country, too many SEC schools are staying silent. That’s why the @TheBlackCaucus and I are taking a stand. We cannot support the SCORE Act, a proposed federal bill to set national standards for college athletics, while institutions profiting from Black talent refuse to speak up for Black rights.
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@hashjenni They let the IRS release private taxpayer information of high networth individuals and got some blowback. FAFO. As for the released 'criminals' most were entrapped then cruelly treated. The prior plan to do so has come out from FBI records.
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@SethAbramson Baloney. The plan is to help States make sure only citizens are newly registering to vote. That's not a bad thing. States hold elections, he can't stop that, it's ridiculous to assert it.
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This is only the beginning.
He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight.
The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone.
Choose who you'll be in this moment.
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@CREWcrew No, he is putting an end to the harassment he's faced, at least from one agency, on the part of multiple Federal and State organizations who used lawfare as a political tool. IRS can't reveal, or any contractors to reveal, private information. They did.
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After Nixon’s “I am not a crook” tax scandal, the IRS mandated that the president’s tax returns be audited yearly.
Every president since Nixon (except Trump) publicly released theirs.
With the new DOJ settlement ending his audits, Trump is essentially announcing “I am a crook.”
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@warDaniel47 For most of our history adherence to Islam was a disqualifying characteristic for immigrants. Their fundamental doctrine is at odds with the US Constitution. When and why that changed doesn't matter. It's still disqualifying.
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🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Brandon Gill just dropped TRUTH NUKES on repelling Islam from the West
"It's going to destroy us just like it's destroying Europe RIGHT NOW!"
"Islam is largely ALIEN to American history. It certainly didn't come into the United States on the Mayflower! It's something that we deliberately imported as a matter of immigration policy into our country."
"It's our job to stand up to that, to stand up for our values and to prohibit alien cultures and alien ideologies that do not comport with our own government governing framework, and that's why I'm proud to be part of the Sharia Free America Caucus."
Time to WAKE UP! 🇺🇸
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@CREWcrew This, or something like it, is what the people who elected the President wanted. In a government of the people, for the people, by the people, expertise is not the highest value. The old joke about what's an expert? "An unknown drip under pressure."
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So far this term at the DOJ:
-406 officials with 4,404 years of expertise have resigned in protest
-202 officials with 1,619 years of expertise have been fired for political reasons or refusing to carry out orders believed to be illegal
This is NOT okay.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
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To bring down costs for U.S. farmers, the Trump EPA has been blazing through an aggressive agenda that has restored Right to Repair, significantly reversed Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) deratements, eliminated the requirement for DEF sensors, and so much more. We will not slow down or relent on any day. We are finalizing a new definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) in line with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sackett that will eliminate the need to hire an attorney or consultant to tell you whether water on your property is a WOTUS subject to federal overreach. We are also now finalizing a new proposed rule to eliminate DEF deratements altogether. And we are just getting started!
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@CREWcrew 'Green' environmentalists and EPA have been doing 'sue and settle' scams for decades. The IRS got fast and loose with its duty to protect privacy under Obama, and was used Chicago style to harass. Trump is one guy who gets even, most IRS victims had to just eat it.
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The DOJ has created a $1.776 billion slush fund as part of the settlement in Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS—and did it quickly to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process.
This is the most brazen act of self-dealing in the history of the presidency. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
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Justice Clarence Thomas took a blowtorch to the 8 Supreme Court Justices who established the despicable “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that sanctioned racial segregation.
Justice Thomas says they acted with “cowardice.”
“It could not have taken my Court sixty years to know that Plessy was a hideous wrong and that racial segregation was grossly incompatible with our colorblind Constitution.
The Justices must have known it all along.
The right thing to do, as Justice Harlan spelled out in his lone dissent at the time, was obvious as it so often is.
What stood in the way was cowardice.
The Justices were afraid of the societal consequences.
They were afraid of coming under political fire.
They were afraid that, if they began to enforce a colorblind Constitution, they would have to address interracial marriage next.
So, for sixty disgraceful years, they made American children like me grow in racial caste system because it was easier to do nothing than do the right thing.”
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Because the Justices used social science (the infamous doll study) to strike down racial segregation in schools in Brown, rather than on an equal protection clause basis, the Court delayed striking down anti-miscegenation laws until 1967, another disgraceful episode.
THAT is why Justice Thomas has criticized Brown. In his view, the Supreme Court should have struck down those disgraceful laws on equal protection grounds, echoing the Declaration’s promise that all men are created equal.
In Justice Thomas’s view, the Justices hid behind social science out of fear of reaffirming the simple truth that all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.
This is why Justice Thomas does not give a damn about judicial precedent. He has personally felt the lash of a barbaric ruling and there was no reason whatsoever to give it any deference. And he believes there are many cases like this.
Justice Thomas’s courage to take as his guiding light the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without any regard to the barnacles that have attached to these documents is why he is our nation’s greatest Justice.
The speech is titled “Remarks on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” delivered at @UTAustin on April 15, 2026. (link below to full speech)
Mark Paoletta@MarkPaoletta
Another excerpt from Justice Clarence Thomas’s epic speech on the Declaration of Independence: The second paragraph of the Declaration proclaims: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights….” Throughout my youth, these truths were articles of faith that were impervious to bigotry or discrimination. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines “self-evident” as “obviously true, and requiring no proof, argument or explanation.” Whether they had a divine source, or a worldly one, they were never questioned. They were the Holy Grail, the North Star, the rock – immovable and unquestioned. Despite the multiplicity of laws and customs that reeked of bigotry, it was universally believed among those blacks with whom I lived and who had very little or no formal education, that “in God’s eyes and under our Constitution we are equal.” This was also the case with my nuns, most of whom were Irish immigrants. At home, at school, and at Church, we were taught that we are inherently equal; that equality came from God; and that it could not be diminished by man. We were made in the image and likeness of God. That proposition was not debatable and was beyond the power of man to alter. Others, with power and animus, could treat us as unequal but they lacked the divine power to make us so. Somehow, without formal education, the older people knew that these God-given or natural rights preceded and transcended governmental power or authority. When you lived in a segregated world with palpable discrimination and the governments nearest to you enforced laws and customs that promoted unequal treatment, it was obvious that you did not get your rights or your dignity from those governments, but from God. Though not a literate man, my grandfather often spoke of our rights and obligations coming from God, not from the architects of segregation and discrimination. Men were not angels. They were subject to the constraints of antecedent rights. And, we were not subject to them even as we were subjected to their whims. We knew that life, liberty, and property were sacrosanct. These truths were self-evident to the adults in our lives and were taught to us as undeniable truths. Those around us could endure with dignity the insults of segregation because they knew that, in God’s eyes, they were equal. Link below to the full text and video of speech on YouTube
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Boyd Ready retweetledi
Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.
Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.”
Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.
Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.
He suggested they use excavators instead.
Someone pushed back.
“But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.”
Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?”
One sentence.
That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.
The teaspoon is not a punchline.
It is the actual policy.
Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.
Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.
Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.
Teaspoons.
The system doesn’t want excavators.
Excavators finish the job.
And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford.
So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.
But this isn’t about laziness.
It’s about control.
A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better.
Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan.
Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.
Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions.
That’s the point.
The economy doesn’t run on productivity.
It runs on the appearance of productivity.
Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.
They know it.
Their managers know it.
The people who sign their budgets know it.
But the teaspoon stays in their hand.
Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.
And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.
That’s the thing the system can’t survive.
Not unemployment.
Free time.
Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan.
He described the longest con in modern governance.
Keep them digging.
Keep them busy.
Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.
Friedman told that story sixty years ago.
He meant it as a warning.
The system heard every word.
It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.
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Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.
In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year.
Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve.
Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads.
They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.
The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week.
These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley
Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.
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@Phil_Lewis_ Why does a 'black' need a 'black' representative? Where's the racism here?
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The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
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trump says his January 6 terrorists must be compensated because their families were destroyed. Oh really? The families of the cops they killed would like a word. All you MAGA fucks can shut the fuck up about “law and order” and “backing the blue” forever.
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It's almost as if it's been a racket: administrators' 'prestige' and cushy work conditions, the loan shark bonanza with do-gooder gov't cash to the naive marks, the racketeers got money without needing thugs to collect debts, the marks paid it back to someone else. Why not hire more admin?
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Thirty five Christians a day are being killed in Nigeria, and their families and friends are forbidden to carry arms. Meanwhile the killers are fully armed on the black market.
conservativewoman.co.uk/nigerias-perse…
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