Jon Terry

Watch Jillian Michaels run circles around a “body positivity” advocate in a debate about excess fat. WOMAN: “You’re saying that it is inherently unhealthy to live in a fat body.” MICHAELS: “Yes.” WOMAN: “Where did you get that evidence?” [Michaels lays out the evidence] MICHAELS: “Have you heard of something called adiposopathy?” WOMAN: “Mmmhmm.” [Answers wrong] MICHAELS: “No, that’s not what it is.” [Educates her] WOMAN: “I want to pause.” MICHAELS: “Of course, you do want to pause because it’s irrefutable. You don’t even know what I’m talking about.” [Audible gasps]

Exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi outlined a vision for a post-regime Iran that ends support for militias and proxies, halts sensitive uranium enrichment, fully cooperates with IAEA, and fosters regional peace including expanded Abraham Accords ("Cyrus Accords"), urging Arab countries to back an organized transition for stability and prosperity. Pahlavi on Thursday wrote an op-ed for Asharq Al-Awsat titled "To Our Arab Neighbors: The End of the Regime Will Open a New Era of Peace," presenting his detailed vision for a post-regime Iran without proxies or nuclear threats, reassuring Arab states.

This simply isn’t true Read the SAVE America Act before you mischaracterize it Starting with the text beginning on line 22 of page 12—which makes clear that this argument amounts to paranoid fantasy

I'll be honest I think "the share of plastic waste which is plastic pollution" seems like a really fantastic real-world indicator of what we're kinda getting at with economic development.

New from me: Up to 1.5 million 'American' children are being raised in China thanks to birth tourism and a grotesque interpretation of the 14th Amendment. This decade, many of those kids reach voting age. nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-…

@wretchardthecat Help us beat the Iranians and the energy problem goes away for the foreseeable future

"We swore we'd learn. We promised things would change but here we are," a highly frustrated European diplomat told me. He asked for anonymity so as to be able to speak openly. The focus of his teeth grinding was Europe's growing energy shock, triggered by the burning conflict in the Middle East and threatening to dominate a summit of European leaders in Brussels on Thursday. bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨BREAKING: Scott Bessent says Iranian leadership is FLEEING and their bank accounts are being FROZEN: “We’re starting to see defections at Treasury. We now know where the Iranian leadership bank accounts are, and those are being frozen.”

CNN just fact-checked Chuck Schumer live on air and wrecked him. Schumer claimed the SAVE Act “appeals to only the most fringe element of the MAGA base.” CNN instantly put up the numbers: White Americans: 85% support voter ID Latino Americans: 82% Black Americans: 76% The anchor straight-up said: “Voter ID is NOT controversial in this country. Not by party. Not by race. The vast majority of Americans support it.” Schumer just called 76% of Black Americans, 82% of Latinos, and 85% of Whites “fringe MAGA.” They don’t oppose voter ID because it’s unpopular. They oppose it because it works. Time to nuke the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act.

Madness

Just left the Senate chamber after another long day and speaking for the last 90 minutes At the end of the second full day of debate, I still haven’t heard Senate Democrats make even a single persuasive argument against the SAVE America Act I have, however, heard a lot of lies We’re winning We can’t stop debating this until we’ve won If we keep this up, we will win

“We have to stop bombing Germany. We’re just creating a whole generation of Nazis.” — nobody, ever

@CynicalPublius @esrtweet Yes. The media are the enemy

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

@Lifeabundantly5 @marcthiessen She laughed

Was it true, yes... Was he making a point... yes... Just because something is true, doesn't mean you should say it. PM Takaichi clearly didn't find it amusing, she was shocked. Trump speaks off the cuff, he has no filter. That can be funny behind closed doors, but this was incredibly inappropriate. I voted for Trump yet I am always astounded at how much slack he gets when he takes shots like this, playful as it might be. If it had been biden to say something like this, would he have been given this kind of defense from you people? lol no. No he would not.

The divide in America is between those who think this is hilarious and those who find it horrifying. (H/T It’s hilarious)

Why did world leaders listen to a mentally ill child for years?

BREAKING: The US says it is seeing defections from all levels of the Iranian military-Reuters

Eliminating the head of the Basij won't work because other Basij will just take his pl -- oh shit the new guy is gone too. But a new Basij leader will still repla -- fuck he's gone too. OK, maybe this will work.

🚨The Trump admin has filed its reply brief in the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court. It opens: The “main object” of the Citizenship Clause was to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, whose allegiance to the United States had generally been established through generations of parental domicile. By contrast, aliens who are just passing through the United States, and those who cross our borders illegally, lack ties of allegiance and do not obtain the “priceless and profound gift” of citizenship for their children. To receive citizenship under the Clause, a person must be both born “in the United States” and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof…” That language grants citizenship to children “completely subject” to the United States’ “political jurisdiction.” Children of temporarily present or illegal aliens do not qualify because their parents are not domiciled in, and thus do not owe the requisite allegiance to, the United States. Temporarily present aliens are by definition not domiciled here, while illegal aliens lack the legal capacity to form such a domicile.

NEW CBS POLL: 80% of the US favors a law to require photo ID to vote 99.5% of House Dems voted against it

Now THIS would be the real deal on immigration Self-deportation through soft power is far more important and more optical than physical raids (which should still continue to happen)