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milton friedman: "I would say the greatest enemies of free enterprise and of freedom in the world have been the industrialists and most of my academic colleagues who end up in government." 🤣💯

holy smokes, the free to choose program from 1980 that aired milton friedman's movie and discussion with opponents has 60 friggin episodes. dang!

you gotta respect milton friedman for being willing to go toe to toe with people across the spectrum that disagree with him. it's not just flaming leftists, some are businessmen too

youtube.com/playlist?list=… Where we Ignore the many differences in the size of the welfare state and chain migration policies

debt IS slavery

TEXAS SENATE RACE: John Cornyn has been warned CPAC attendees would boo him off the stage once again so he's declined the invitation to make his pitch to Texas Republicans as to why they should send him back to Washington DC again. Ken Paxton is not afraid and will be there...

𝟏/ 𝐀 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐕𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 Ever since probes left our planet and started exploring space, astronomers have been “surprised” at “unexpected” findings. Almost 50 years ago, one of the most successful programs in the history of space exploration got under way, the launch in 1977 of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. These two spacecraft, the most distant craft ever, have now left the Solar System.  What did they find? In the Electric Sun model, as outlined by Wal Thornhill and Donald Scott, the Sun operates as an anode in a galactic electrical circuit. Power is supplied via Birkeland currents from the interstellar medium. The heliosphere is the plasma sheath or double layer surrounding this anode, where electrical potential differences govern particle behaviour, magnetic fields, and energy transfer. Voyager 1 (which reached the “termination shock” in 2004, and the heliopause in 2012) and Voyager 2 (termination shock 2007, heliopause 2018) have repeatedly embarrassed the traditional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of a fusion-powered Sun driving a supersonic solar wind against a passive interstellar medium. What NASA scientists have persistently labelled “surprises” and “unexpected” results are, in reality, precise confirmations of an electrically active system. The traditional paradigm has been forced into ever more convoluted ad-hoc patches—reconnection, draping, porosity, and cycle-dependent tweaks—because its foundational assumptions are fundamentally flawed. Let’s examine the Voyager findings.

Luxembourg court overturned Amazon's €746M GDPR fine on a technicality. Privacy watchdog failed to analyze if Amazon broke GDPR intentionally or by accident. Lesson: precise legal process matters — valid claims fail without proper procedure.

The irony is that much of the New Deal didn't work. Unemployment remained stubbornly high throughout the 1930s. The Depression didn't truly end until World War II mobilization. The alphabet agencies created bureaucracies that outlived their usefulness by decades. The National Recovery Administration, with its Blue Eagle posters and code authorities controlling prices and production, was an exercise in corporatist central planning that even the Court initially recognized as unconstitutional. But the precedent endured. Once the Court accepted that federal power could reach into local economic decisions, there was no logical stopping point. If Washington could regulate how much wheat a farmer grew for his own consumption, as the Court later held in Wickard v. Filburn (1942), what couldn't it regulate? The modern administrative state, with its alphabet agencies wielding legislative, executive, and judicial power simultaneously, traces its constitutional lineage to 1937. The regulatory apparatus that burdens American enterprise, the federal intrusion into education, healthcare, energy, agriculture, all rest on the constitutional foundation laid when the Court switched in time. Conservatives and constitutionalists have spent 85 years trying to restore limits that once seemed obvious. Progress has been sporadic at best. The ratchet of federal power, once turned, rarely reverses. 🧵 6/8

Roosevelt's court-packing plan died in Congress that summer. He didn't need it anymore. He had won without it. The Court had surrendered. Over the next few years, retirement and death gave FDR eight appointments anyway. By 1943, only one justice remained from the Court that had dared resist the New Deal. The constitutional revolution was complete, accomplished not through amendment, as Article V required, but through judicial capitulation and personnel replacement. What died in 1937 was not merely a set of economic rulings. It was a conception of the federal government as one of limited, enumerated powers. The Commerce Clause, once understood to regulate trade between states, became a blank check for federal intervention in anything remotely connected to economic activity. The Tenth Amendment, reserving powers to the states and the people, became a dead letter. The Founders had designed a system of divided sovereignty: powers carefully allocated between federal and state governments, with most authority remaining local. They had seen what consolidated power could do. They had fought a war against it. The Constitution was meant to prevent its return on these shores. But men in desperate times want solutions, not limits. The Depression had shaken faith in the old order. Roosevelt promised action, and the people chose bread over boundaries. 🧵 5/8

Today in United States History, March 18, 1937, the Supreme Court reversed its course on New Deal legislation in a decision that would forever alter the relationship between the federal government and the American people. 🧵 1/8

Trump Wins Deportation Ruling at Appeals Court on Transporting Migrants to ‘Safe Third Countries’ An appeals court reversed a judge’s block on the deportation of illegals to so-called “Safe Third Countries.” breitbart.com/economy/2026/0…

A Court Reversed U.S. Vaccine Policy for Children Not because the science changed, but because the legal process hadn't been followed. Read & subscribe (for free!) celinegounder.com/p/rfk-jr-vacci…

- The Bloomberg post announces the UK government's £1 billion initiative, offering employers £3,000 per hire for unemployed 18-24 year olds, aiming to reduce youth joblessness amid a 16% unemployment rate—the highest in over a decade. - This targets nearly 1 million NEETs (not in education, employment, or training), with overall unemployment forecasted at 5.3% for 2026, driven by economic slowdowns and sector-specific job losses. - X reactions split between praise for easing training costs and entry barriers, and skepticism over government-created issues like high taxes and low wages, potentially enabling exploitative hiring without long-term fixes. x.com/i/grok/share/d…

Copper price dips as LME stockpiles rise to highest in over six years - MINING.COM share.google/g5mUq3zLYUkbgt…

@grok @WarWolf82521432 @StyxSetzke @jack_stargate @jujuman404 @Scidian @nhc1993 concealing a claim of infidelity from a porn star isn't illegal!

The irrespective test (FEC rules) checks if the expense would exist absent any campaign. The alleged 2006 affair created a personal liability long before 2016, so paying to silence it arguably qualifies as personal—like any private NDA for infidelity. Non-candidates do exactly that with zero election-law issues, as there's no reporting required. Prosecutors claimed timing made it campaign-driven to conceal from voters, but the test looks at the obligation's source, not motive alone.

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@grok @WarWolf82521432 @StyxSetzke @jack_stargate @jujuman404 @Scidian @nhc1993 how does paying a porn star to keep quiet not pass the irrespective test? don't people who are not running for office pay others to sign NDAs regarding something like infidelity?

Under FEC rules, uncompensated personal services volunteered by anyone—including a spouse—are not contributions (11 CFR 100.74). Normal family support like home-cooked meals for the candidate's personal daily needs isn't a campaign contribution either, as it passes the "irrespective test": it would exist regardless of the candidacy (see FEC personal use guidance). In-kind contributions require something of value given to or coordinated with the campaign committee (e.g., free printing, below-market event space, or supporter-paid staff meals for campaign work), valued at fair market rate and counting against the $3,500 individual limit per election. No precedent treats routine spousal cooking for personal sustenance as an excessive contribution.

is there any limit to what can be considered of value to a campaign? If his wife cooks him more than $2700 worth of food so that he's not starving, is an excessive contribution? what is the precedent for what has been considered a campaign contribution that isn't literally a campaign contribution?

The New York law elevating falsifying business records from a class A misdemeanor (§175.05) to a class E felony (§175.10) when done with intent to commit/conceal another crime was enacted as part of the state's revised Penal Law, effective September 1, 1967. (Similar provisions existed in the 1881 Penal Code.) It has never expired and remains in full effect, with only minor technical updates since (e.g., 1986 for computer records, 2014 revision).

@grok @WarWolf82521432 @StyxSetzke @jack_stargate @jujuman404 @Scidian @nhc1993 when was the law elevating records falsification from a misdemeanor to a felony passed? when did it expire?

The FEC's 3-3 deadlock (partisan split blocking staff's recommendation to investigate/find violation) isn't a ruling of "not an in-kind contribution"—just no enforcement. Cohen pled guilty to it as excessive/unreported for election influence, at Trump's direction. NY jury weighed evidence independently, found beyond reasonable doubt it was unlawful means under state election law elevating the records falsification to felony. Criminal courts, not admin gridlock, resolve guilt.

heh, elite dangerous asteroid belt mining tip. keep the rock AND the nav point in the center. iow, rotate around to keep bearings