Joe Rivest

@DataRepublican Impressive and insightful.

This political compass map may look nonsensical at first, but it follows a consistent internal logic. Within the rules-based international order, freedom is not understood as a set of inherent natural rights that must be protected. Instead, it is framed as a continuous process of negotiation, where individuals and groups form voluntary associations through multilateral institutions. From that perspective, being born into a particular nation or culture is seen more as bondage. Look at the map again with that definition of "freedom" in your head. It'll snap into place. American political traditions and the globalist framework rest on fundamentally different epistemological foundations. The American model is grounded in the idea of natural rights; the globalist model prioritizes institutionalized pluralism and negotiated order. You can see this distinction in Soros’s own words:

@johnkonrad 😂

I don’t know who should control the Strait of Hormuz if Iran falls but I’ve got a very firm list of who absolutely should not be allowed anywhere near it…. UN NGOs China World Bank NATO Marxists Any Nation in Europe except Poland CIA NSA Diplomats Any World Economic Forum member USAID Soros-funded anything Climate people Think tanks NGOS Ivy League graduates Former journalists Current journalists Future journalists Adam Kinzinger Election observers Democracy builders Any Marxist church Half the Catholic Church Any mosque or temples Techbros Technocrats Georgetown grads Navy Admirals MBAs CEOs Conflict-resolution negotiators Cheney family members Russians Ukrainians Palestinians Israelis Human-rights monitors Greta Thurnberg Any Activist Andrew Tate PR agencies Hollywood Neocons Somalia Democrats Globalists Keir Starmer Carbon-credit brokers Academics Influencers Hipsters Boomers IMF And most of all McKinsey consultants

@baby_maumau 😂 The struggle is REAL!!

Take note ward organists: The organist follows the lead of the conductor, not the other way around. See how the organist is looking to the conductor to see how long to hold the notes and adjust tempo as needed?

@mattvanswol @HistoryBoutique @NateSilver538 You're awesome Matt!

I was going to stay out of this, but I'll jump in here. The only reason I am big on X is because "the media" literally left an entire open lane for me to fill in 2024. After the first initial days of Hurricane Helene, nearly all MSM packed up and left. I continued to share the stories of Helene victims LONG after the media was gone. It had nothing to do with me as a person, but everything to do with filling a void the media left behind. That's why X is so amazing. A literal nobody with a camera and a drone can make massive change in the world. It took me awhile to understand the entire gambit, but what the media chooses to cover and what they choose not to cover has absolutely NOTHING to do with the amount of views the content will recieve. My videos of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the stories of survivors got tens of millions of views on X. The NYTimes could have shared those stories too. They just chose not to. The media will literally give up revenue just to push a narrative. They made a calculated decision that the suffering of people in Western North Carolina was not useful to the political narrative during election season and they left. And once you understand that, you can never look at a news broadcast the same way again. The stories they run are selected. The stories they skip are selected. The stories they choose to omit are just as deliberate as the coverage. They don't just shape what you think. They shape what you think ABOUT. I'm just a guy. I'm nobody special But I showed up and they didn't. That lane is STILL wide open. And there are thousands of stories just like that waiting for someone to tell them. And the truth is that people are HUNGRY for those stories... if you do the work to find them. I am so grateful for X and the people that choose every single day to share the stories I post or my thoughts. You all make real change in the world, and I am so grateful.

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

@jmillincook How long we have wandered As strangers in sin And cried in the desert for thee! Our foes have rejoiced When our sorrows they’ve seen, But Israel will shortly be free.

In the spirit of #GeneralConference What line from a hymn is pretty much guaranteed to make you emotional every time you hear it? I’ll go first:

@DadsClub99 Me too! ♥️

I literally cried during the solemn assembly today.. I was In no way prepared to cry over it. It just came on all of the sudden. The spirit witnessed to me that Dallin H Oaks was called of God.

@2Sticks1Nation I had the same experience singing "The Spirit of God" in a solemn assembly on the DC temple. Indescribable.

In fall of 2017 as an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple. We had a temple devotional in the Solemn Assembly Room. The choir sang “This is the Christ.” When they sang that song, it sounded as if the Choir of Heaven had joined them, surrounding the room with the singing of this heavenly testimony. Now every time I listen to that song, I weep. My simple testimony during this sacred Holy Week is that Jesus is the Christ, the Healer of my soul! @Ch_JesusChrist #JesusChrist #GreaterLove #SaintsOnX

@mattbunker @BYUSportsNation 😂 sorry!

@BYUSportsNation @jrivest

BREAKING NEWS! AJ Dybantsa announces he is returning to BYU for his sophomore season next year. “I have unfinished business.”

Hello Punchbowl News, The central finding: "Most K Street leaders (88%) say the Trump administration's approach to immigration enforcement will harm Republicans in the midterms." Eighty-eight percent of K Street leaders. Let me introduce you to Main Street. McLaughlin & Associates conducted a national survey of 2,000 likely voters between February 27 and March 3, 2026 — the same window as your K Street poll. Here is what actual Americans said: 🔹 Seventy-two percent say addressing illegal immigration is an important priority. 🔹 Eighty-two percent agree immigration policy should serve the interests of American citizens, including 71% of Democrats and 81% of independents. 🔹 Seventy-eight percent agree immigration to the United States is a privilege and not a right, including 60% of Democrats and 70% of Hispanics. 🔹 Seventy-six percent agree the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens, including 57% of Democrats and 72% of Hispanics. 🔹 Two-thirds support deporting migrants who enter the country illegally, including 62% of independents and 59% of Hispanics. Your 88% says immigration enforcement hurts Republicans. America's 72% says it's an important priority. Your 88% says the GOP is in danger. America's 66% says deport them. Your K Street leaders are not predicting the midterms. They're telling you what they want, and you're publishing it as news. Now let's talk about who's in the room. Your article identifies the survey partner as "independent public affairs firm, LSG," hyperlinked to teamlsg[.]com... which redirects to locuststreet[.]com, the Locust Street Group. LSG is a Washington, D.C. public affairs firm whose website describes its services as "integrated strategic communications and public affairs campaigns." That is not an independent research firm. That is a lobbying and public affairs shop with registered LDA filings, running legislative campaigns for corporate clients who need things from Congress. And you called them "independent" in the same sentence where you presented their survey of K Street lobbyists as a news finding about American politics. You surveyed the lobbying industry, in partnership with a lobbying firm, many of whose partners also sponsored Punchbowl, and reported the result as though it were a measure of political reality. Eighty-eight percent of K Street wants immigration enforcement to stop. That is an interest declaration from the people who profit from the status quo, laundered through a press credential. About that credential. Senate Standing Rule VI governs the congressional press galleries. The rules require that credentialed members are "(a) not engaged in paid publicity or promotion work" and "(b) not engaged in any lobbying activity and will not become so engaged while a member of the gallery." Your 2026 sales deck offers corporations $300,000 for custom content "mutually agreed upon" between sponsor and outlet. It prices "Fly Out Day" lawmaker appearances at $75,000 to $100,000 a month. It sells newsletter sponsorships at $225,000 per week. Goldman Sachs, PhRMA, ExxonMobil, Meta, JPMorgan, Blackstone, and the American Investment Council (all documented sponsors) are not buying journalism. You are conducting paid publicity for corporate clients under a credential whose rules explicitly prohibit paid publicity. No wonder why John Thune felt comfortable passing a bill at 2 AM that defunded immigration enforcement while 76% of the country, including 57% of Democrats, agrees the government's first duty is to protect American citizens. He didn't need to read the polls. He read Punchbowl. The Standing Committee of Correspondents should review whether Punchbowl News meets the requirements for congressional press gallery credentials. If "mutually agreed upon" content for $300,000, lawmaker appearances priced at $100,000 a month, and surveys conducted in partnership with a registered lobbying firm do not constitute "paid publicity" or "lobbying activity" under Rule VI... then the rule has no meaning, and the press gallery is just another K Street address with better hallway access. You are the story, Punchbowl News.

In advance of the upcoming general conference leadership session (April 2, 2026), The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced upcoming adjustments to the Sunday class meeting schedule to support members in their efforts to be lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ. The adjustments will strengthen gospel learning in homes and congregations throughout the world. Beginning September 6, 2026, the alternating weekly schedule for Sunday School and quorum or class meetings will be replaced. Under the updated schedule: • Sunday School, Relief Society, elders quorum, Young Women and Aaronic Priesthood quorum meetings will be held each week. • Sacrament meeting will continue to be 60 minutes, followed by brief transition periods. • Sunday School and quorum and class meetings will each be 25 minutes. • Primary will continue every Sunday and will be 55 minutes, held while adults and youth attend their respective classes. • Where local circumstances necessitate, units may begin with Primary and quorum and class meetings and conclude with sacrament meeting. Visit the link below to learn more: Newsroom.ChurchOfJesusChrist.org/article/change…

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

@Ma11Chris1ensen Same 👍

My wife and I went to the Utah GOP Caucus tonight for the first time. I am now the new Salt Lake County delegate for our precinct and she is the new vice chair. I am tired of sitting on the sidelines watching our representatives not represent the interests of Utah citizens. I am not interested at all in getting into politics. I just want to be useful. Thank you to @Jensen_Utah @goud4utah @BradEBonham @NormieUtah @disagreebutter for raising awareness.

Amazing analysis!

. @SenJohnCurtis I am told you pride yourself on being a nice, open-minded person. Many have begged me to go after you. I didn’t because we need you. But just now, your office just sent me the most patronizing message in response to the very real testimony I offered on the behalf of @realJeremyCarl weeks ago. Not just that, but that Carl retweeting one of my posts was a possible factor in you denying his nomination. Senator Curtis, I’m really struggling here ethically. Genuinely. You are my Senator and I respect you especially in the light of a swing vote. But the message your office sent me just now is very upsetting and patronizing, and shows you don’t listen to your own constituents at all. Let me ask you a simple question. Are you willing to communicate with me and get to know me? Yes or no? Silence will be taken as a “no.”

I try and not ask for help in boosting. But please boost this. I am still reaching out in good faith that he prides himself on a kind Senator. But sending me an email weeks after I sent a heartfelt one, timed just after @realJeremyCarl withdrew his nomination with a literal request for me to follow Curtis on X, is rapidly changing those priors. @SenJohnCurtis please reach out to me. We can still fix this relationship.

@shipwreckedcrew You're a treasure!

Because the SG's office reviews all litigation in which the US is a party thru the Court of Appeals to determine if there is an issue that it wants to pursue cert. That is literally thousands of cases each month. In addition, the SG must be consulted on whether the US files appeals in the first instance in Circuit Courts, both criminal and civil. The SG makes a judgment about the risk/benefit of decisions to appeal taking into consideration the risk of an adverse outcome in the appeals court. So, yeah, the SG has an entire portfolio of work beyond simply cases that SCOTUS agrees to hear.

🚨 WOW! Even ABC just ADMITTED it: "I've covered 5 different presidents. I have NEVER seen one other than Donald Trump, who regularly takes phone calls from reporters!" "I've spoken to him over the phone 3 times since the military operation started." "In each of those cases, I simply called him and he answered!" Most transparent president in history. 🇺🇸

@johnkonrad I've saved many of your posts, but that one got you your own folder!

We had a good thing, Britain. A really good thing. You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks. The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls. That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world. That was the deal. Now look at you. You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state. You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM. You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain. You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City. Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks. You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today. Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock. Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what? We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund. Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t. You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships. You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them. The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies. You had one job. Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits. That’s it. That’s all we asked. And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us. But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.