SimianLiteratus

Fairfax County intensifies its efforts to exercise tyranny upon my beloved homeland.

The American Revolution was bankrolled by one man. The richest in America. He died broke in debtor's prison. Robert Morris. In 1781, he raised $1,400,000 on his own personal credit to march George Washington's army to Yorktown. The Continental Congress had no money. The states refused to send any. France had stopped. The final $20,000 came from Haym Salomon, a Polish-Jewish broker who personally underwrote the rest. The richest man in the country put his balance sheet behind the war and ended it. AOC said this week that "the American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time." The math doesn't survive the source documents. Morris signed the Declaration of Independence. He signed the Articles of Confederation. He signed the Constitution. One of only two founders to sign all three. He served as Superintendent of Finance from 1781 to 1784, ran the Continental Navy as Agent of Marine, and chartered the Bank of North America. The financial machinery of the United States was built by the merchant who had spent the prior decade running the largest shipping firm in Philadelphia. John Hancock was the wealthiest man in Boston. George Washington owned 8,000 acres at Mount Vernon. The signers were merchants, planters, and lawyers at the top of colonial society. The complaint was taxation without representation, levied by a Crown an ocean away. The Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts hit merchants hardest. That's why merchants funded the war. Then the math finished Morris off. He owed nearly $3 million by 1798. He sat in Prune Street debtor's prison for three years. George Washington visited him there. Congress passed the Bankruptcy Act of 1800 in part to secure his release. Morris died in 1806 with a five-line obituary in the Philadelphia papers. $1.4 million in personal credit. $3 million in personal debt. The richest man in America bankrupted himself funding the war AOC says was fought against him.

@joooooody777 @defense_of_fam I speak as an acquaintance. It's not that she didn't want it. It just didn't happen. Not her fault.

she chose her path, CEO etc the prob w/ 'successful' women is they can't find a man that is up to their caliber one must 'condescend' to marry when one is a business exec (female) u need to get after it and find urself a man - section 132 ministering angels are a thing this is a big problem in manhattan i left NYC to find a husb to have children with at age 30 and i got 7 hallelujah it was an effort

Motherhood is doctrine.

@defense_of_fam Oh she definitely did that!

@aReadingApe Or perhaps God has used her to teach women in all circumstances that they have a divine nature and an eternal destiny.

@ewarren So when you doing Disney?

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger consolidates power, crushes workers, and squeezes consumers. When one company controls what stories are told and what news is reported—that's not just bad business. That's dangerous for democracy.

‼️🇺🇸 Utah is about to become the first US state to legally target VPN use as part of online age verification. The law goes into effect Wednesday, May 6, 2026. 🔴 If you are physically located in Utah, you count as a Utah user, regardless of whether you use a VPN, proxy, or any other tool to disguise your location. Websites are now legally responsible for age-verifying you anyway. 🔴 Sites that handle "material harmful to minors" are banned from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN, or from offering any means to bypass geofencing. The EFF calls this a "liability trap." Websites cannot reliably tell where a VPN user actually is, so the safest legal move is either to block every known VPN IP outright, or to force ID-based age verification on every visitor worldwide. Either path subjects millions of users to invasive identity checks, regardless of where they actually live. The Cato Institute put it bluntly. When a policy can be defeated by a privacy tool millions of people legitimately use, the policy is the problem. The collateral damage is, as always, the people who actually need VPNs: 🔴 Journalists protecting sources 🔴 Domestic abuse survivors hiding from stalkers 🔴 Activists in hostile environments 🔴 Remote workers tunneling into corporate networks 🔴 Travelers banking from abroad 🔴 Anyone who simply does not want their ISP, employer, or data brokers reading their traffic This is not staying in Utah. The UK's Children's Commissioner has called VPNs a "loophole that needs closing." France's Minister Delegate for AI and Digital Affairs has named VPNs as "the next topic on my list." The EU is rolling out age verification across all 27 member states by end of 2026, with EVP Henna Virkkunen openly admitting they have no plan for VPN bypass yet. Utah is leading by example. EFF: "Attacks on VPNs are, at their core, attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy."

In my latest article, I offer a humble argument for why BYU should consider an annual conference for men to complement BYU Women's Conference. I absolutely love that we give women dedicated time for their issues, and I think men could benefit from similar treatment.

@pnwguerrilla This explosion in ticks likely started a few years ago and is only getting noticed now. Surveillance of Lyme disease was poor during 2019 and 2020 but there was a massive increase in 2022 and 2023. cdc.gov/lyme/data-rese…

Ticks are now being found on snakes.

So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process. "Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner." Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.

This is extremely scary.

I just came across this in an Open Society Foundations document about how to fix public “mistrust” of liberal "democracy," and I honestly feel sick reading it. I've read many alarming quotes, but few are so "mask off" like this. "I believe the time has come for a responsible, courageous elite, those who care far more about addressing the genuine social problems than about election results. Only a political elite with vision, prudence and a focus on the general good—to whom the electorate… can cede part of their sovereignty in the elections—will be able to justify public trust and spearhead... our struggle to survive."" Read that again. The proposed solution to the public's distrust in democracy... is less democracy. An unelected "elite" to whom the public should cede sovereignty. Abolish democracy to save democracy. This kind of thinking is what we're up against.

Great article from Amanda Smith on my Ford patent overreach YouTube video that went viral. aol.com/finance/ford-l… If you haven't watched the video, I uploaded it here on X and of course on YouTube, and I'll have those links in a reply to this.

This is a MUST watch... one of my recent videos, MILLIONS of views. Ford filed patents to read your lips, scan your iris, monitor your heart rate, and run your face through a criminal database. In your own truck. Without telling you.

The academic publishing cartel dumbfounds me. How can some of the most 'intelligent' people be so stupid? Start a website. Self-publish. The reviewers aren't paid anyways, what incentive do they have to do it through a journal other than peer-pressure?

@jaredadairbell More of this!

Last night, I went full on autist and made a graphic of all the callings in our ward. I must’ve spent 2 hours on it, easily. I doubt it’ll ever be helpful. I initially wanted it to look more like a Venn diagram, but that seemed impossible.

@loyalmoses Love your work, keep it up! Maybe one day we'll get clean cars again.

@aReadingApe Thank you!

If you're not paying attention to Loyal Moses you should. @loyalmoses - showing encroaching tyrrany

@jaredadairbell That's not surprising. Probably due to decreased dietary minerals. Bone demineralization is a secondary effect of appetite suppression (the main effect of Ozempic).

Guys, Doctors have been seeing dental implant failures in patients more frequently. The doctors have been examining the medical intake forms of these patients to see what could be the reason. The patients are having one thing in common: Ozempic

@SenatorHick This requires everyone to make a meaningful contribution to the economy. What's your plan for those who don't?

We are the wealthiest country in the world. Health care should be affordable, accessible, and universal. Full stop.

Do it. Make sure it applies to all our 'futuristic' cars too.