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@burackbobby_ Le Batard is a progressive Lib Tard. Progressives have destroyed all journalism. When truth is relative, your journo job becomes narrative development. When truth dies, journalism dies and it becomes simply propaganda.

Dan Le Batard declared sports journalism "dead." So I asked him about all the things he did to kill it, like defending Deadspin for falsely accusing a 9-year-old of blackface and dropping his pants for Doug Emhoff. He didn't have a response. foxnews.com/outkick-analys…

Activist academics are squealing that with RCP8.5 / SSP5-8.5 being dead, critics will argue that the tens of thousands of papers published that used the IPCC's worst-case scenario are invalid and cannot be used for regulations and litigation against coal, oil, and natural gas companies. This is an admission that these hacks simply do not care about science and correcting the record; they care only about political activism. They have shown their true colors. 🎨🖌️

The argument against zeroing out taxes for the bottom half is that they would then have no skin in the game and any tax increase for the bands above them would seem to be a pure benefit—it’s always easier to tax some else. Result: higher taxes and spending, same problem as now.

A US hospital has taken a billion dollars from taxpayers to help poor patients. But INSTEAD of helping poor patients, they paid executives millions, built an art museum, built an NBA practice facility, and a buiding in Abu Dhabi. Meet Cleveland Clinic.

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!! An Atlanta judge let a man WALK OUT OF JAIL EARLY for BEATING a woman's face so badly, he SHATTERED HER ORBITAL BONE on a public train... ...TWO MONTHS AFTER HIS RELEASE, HE ST*BS A WOMAN TO DE*TH ON WALKING PATH!!! HE GOES ON TO ASSAULT A POSTAL WORKER WITH A ROCK BEFORE HE IS CAUGHT BY POLICE... In January, Jahmare Brown got on top of and beat a female attorney as she stepped off a MARTA train to go to work in Atlanta... he broke her NOSE and then shattered her ORBITAL BONE. She needed 25 STITCHES. ...MARTA Police charged it as a MISDEMEANOR!!! The incident report DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE BROKEN BONES. Brown was sentenced to 120 days... but he was released early, and only served 60. He was out in March. Two months later, he beat a postal worker with a ROCK and st*bbed Alyssa Paige to de*th at noon on the Atlanta Beltline. If Brown had served the full 120 days the court gave him, he would have STILL BEEN IN JAIL the day he k*lled her. Alyssa Paige would be alive. STOP. LETTING. VIOLENT. OFFENDERS. OUT. OF. PRISON!!!!!!!!!!

@jasonwhitlock Race grifters gotta grift. Otherwise, they need to get an honest job!

The NAACP has called on all black high school athletes to reject enrolling in state schools in states that suppress black voters. This is another example of how outdated the organization is and how desperate they are for attention.

@EndWokeness Bald chick has a spiritual illness. Envy, anger, victimhood. She can't see reality anymore. But she learned to make money on race and gender grifting. So she grifts.

Rep. Pressley: "Every bit of prosperity you all enjoy was built on our black backs" She then demands reparations

I don't care if you're living in a shanty at the bottom of some hollow in West Virginia, fill out a 1040 and send in a check for $50. Even if it's only symbolic, everyone must participate in funding this shitshow government, otherwise known as "skin in the game." Otherwise you'll vote like an idiot.

If socialists could start building the means of production instead of seizing it, that would be great.

Madison Preparatory Academy has 37% reading proficiency and a 95% graduation rate. Not sure what they're celebrating...

@RedWavePress Terrible idea. The people who pay nothing and contribute nothing to the government are VORACIOUS in their demands for others people's stuff. Their demands INCREASE the less they pay.

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?” “So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!” “Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?” “That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.” “And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.” “We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.” “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.” Exactly!

@sfmcguire79 Incentives matter. Why even ask undergrads this question.

Now get rid of student course evaluations.

@amar_4inc @MarcoFoster_ Insane take. Teachers, nurses and immigrants do the easier jobs with high supply. Illegal immigration is a godsend for many colpanies (thanks Dems). Hence lower wages. Supply and demand.

@MarcoFoster_ Fran Lebowitz is right. Billionaires threaten to leave every time fairness is mentioned ,yet workers, teachers, nurses, and immigrants are the ones who actually keep cities alive. Wealth without contribution is just greed with good PR.

Fran Lebowitz on the billionaires: “Every time someone suggests [a wealth tax] they say I’m moving. Go! They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people. All this money magic employs no one. Goodbye, go. We don’t need you”

Jeff Bezos on NYC spending: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."

I am not a military analyst. I'm a financial analyst focused on macroeconomic risk. That different lens might explain why I see something most military strategists and investors are missing. --- The New Rules of Warfare—And Why We Can't Opt Out For nearly a century, warfare belonged to whoever controlled the biggest defense budget. Aircraft carriers. Stealth bombers. Multibillion-dollar weapons systems. That model is changing in ways many aren't appreciating. Ukraine and Iran are showing the West what 21st-century conflict actually looks like: decentralized, highly iterative, fast-changing, unmanned, and cheap. Neither the US nor Russia—beginning in 2022—appears prepared. We might now have no choice but to show we can fight and win such a war. The Ukraine Approach Faced with a small defense budget, a much smaller population, and a vastly outnumbered army, Ukraine had to get creative. They couldn't match Russia's industrial capacity or spending. So they abandoned that playbook entirely. They developed an entirely new way to fight, highly decentralized, iterative, and most importantly, cheap. They also created Brave1—a completely new way to conduct war. Frontline commanders log into an iPad and bypass central command entirely. They spend digital points to purchase equipment directly from hundreds of (Ukrainian) manufacturers. When they encounter a new threat, they message the manufacturer directly and work with the engineers to find a solution, even if that means they visit to the front. The result is hardware or software upgrades that once took months now take days. Here's the crucial part: hundreds of manufacturers compete fiercely for these dollars by offering the best possible product as fast as possible. This isn't centralized procurement. It's a market. Competition drives innovation at scale. Weapons evolve as the enemy evolves in real time. Units are also awarded points for confirmed kills, uploaded from drone video—a powerfully eloquent way to grade effectiveness. But the real innovation might be how they decentralized manufacturing itself. Instead of building weapons in massive, centralized factories that make perfect targets for Russian bombing, Ukraine distributed production across hundreds of small manufacturers—workshops, machine shops, garages, and yes, kitchens. Each produces components or complete systems. This approach serves two purposes: speed and survival. You can bomb a tank factory. You destroy production for months. You cannot bomb ten thousand kitchens. If one workshop gets hit, ninety-nine others keep producing. The network regenerates faster than Russia can destroy it. This is why the manufacturing process includes actual kitchens—it's not a metaphor. It's a strategy. The Metric That Defines a New Era The result is staggering: at least 70% of battlefield casualties now come from drones. This is the first time in over a century that the primary cause of combat death is neither a bullet nor an artillery shell. Since World War I, industrial warfare meant industrial killing. Ukraine has broken that equation entirely. As a result, Russia is now controlling less territory than at any point since 2022 and going backward. In March, Ukraine made gains while Russia recorded no gains for the first time in two and a half years, and Drone-led offensives recaptured 470 square kilometers while paralyzing 40% of Russian oil exports. Ukraine has lowered the "cost per kill" to less than $1,000 per casualty—a 99.98% reduction from the millions of dollars that were common in the post-9/11 wars. This isn't an incremental improvement. This is a complete inversion of modern military economics. Yet the Western defense establishment is not learning from this. Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger mocked Ukraine's entire approach. In The Atlantic, he called Ukrainian manufacturers "housewives with 3D printers," dismissing their work as "playing with Legos." They are not studying this revolution. They are mocking it. And the "housewives with 3D printers" are beating the Russian army! Ukraine Is Now in the Middle East The US Military and Gulf states face an eerily similar problem. Iran's Shahed drones threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz—a chokepoint that funnels 21% of global oil. They cannot fend off Iran by firing a $4 million Patriot missiles at $20,000 drones. They need what Ukraine has discovered: a decentralized, rapidly adaptive defense network that doesn't require centralized industrial capacity. That's why Ukraine just signed historic 10-year defense deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Over 220 Ukrainian specialists are now on the front lines of the Persian Gulf—exporting not just weapons, but a completely new doctrine of how to fight. The precedent is set. The model works. Everyone is watching. Mosaic On April 1st, Trump threatened to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages" if they don't reopen the Strait within weeks. It's the classic 20th-century playbook: overwhelming offense force, massive bombardment, industrial-scale destruction. The problem? That playbook doesn't work against distributed, cheap, rapid-iteration systems—especially when your enemy is organized under a mosaic structure. Iran's "Mosaic Defense" doctrine is a decentralized command system where authority and capability are distributed across multiple geographic and organizational nodes. Each region operates semi-autonomously with overlapping chains of command and pre-planned contingencies. It's designed so that when you destroy the center, the edges keep fighting. You cannot decapitate a system with no head. You cannot out-bomb your way to victory when your enemy is not centralized; this was the solution for 20th-century industrial warfare. Defense Wins Championships 21st-century asymmetrical threats require defensive shields, not aggressive offenses. Ukraine has built exactly that: rapid-iteration defenses, decentralized manufacturing, commanders empowered to buy solutions in real time and rewarded for success. That same defensive model may hold the key to opening the Strait of Hormuz. Not through massive offense, but through the ability to adapt and defend quickly. Why We're Stuck Whether you viewed this as a war of choice or not, it has now become a war to keep global trade open. And that makes it inescapable. This is precisely why the US cannot declare victory and walk away from the Strait of Hormuz— or TACO. Every adversary on the planet will interpret American withdrawal as confirmation that cheap asymmetric systems work against powerful centralized platforms. And these adversaries might have sent us a message last month. In mid-March 2026, an unauthorized drone swarm penetrated Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, home to the U.S. Air Force's Global Strike Command. The fact that this happened not overseas but in the United States, and that these tests occurred just weeks ago, underscores how close this threat is now. They didn't attack. They announced their presence. Every adversary watching learned that cheap drone networks can reach into the US. The Global Supply Chain Risk If the US abandons the Gulf while Iran holds the Strait contested, markets will price this as validation that cheap systems can hold global trade hostage. The current market disruptions will become permanent. Supply chains will have to pivot from "just-in-time" efficiency back to "just-in-case" redundancy. Inflation returns as safety costs money. Trade routes diversify away from vulnerable chokepoints. The global friction tax becomes permanent. The Unavoidable Truth Once you prove that cheap, asymmetric systems can hold global trade hostage, that knowledge spreads globally and irreversibly. Every adversary learns the same lesson: you don't need a $2 trillion Navy—you need $20 million in drones and the will to use them. Withdrawing while the Strait remains contested would permanently validate this model. Supply chains shift to "just-in-case" redundancy. Insurance costs rise. The friction tax becomes structural—baked into every global transaction for decades. The cost of staying is measured in months. The cost of leaving is measured in decades of economic drag. We cannot leave unfinished business.

@WestsideLAGuy 💯. Seeing this already.

One of my blackpill predictions is that crime will skyrocket in coming years as female law school graduates become judges & DAs. They will let violent criminals go due to their suicidal empathy & virtue signaling.

@ellymelly Truth

A wealthy private sector makes the nation rich. A wealthy public sector makes the nation poor. That's just how reality works.

I’ll agree to those terms, just tell me who you are 🤷🏻

@WallStreetApes Why are we funding so many worthless degrees.

Americans graduating college already know they have no chance in this job market and will end up with low paying jobs “Hi, my name is Layla. I’m getting my Bachelor of Arts degree, and I’m gonna be a grocery store bagger” “Hi, my name is Julia Irwin. I’m graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and I’m gonna be a barista at Starbucks for 20 years.” “Hi, I’m Liv. I’m graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and… I’m unemployed.” “Hi, I’m Therese. I’m graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, and I’m gonna be a housewife.” “Hi, my name is London Boyd, and my major is BFA, and I’m unemployed.” These students are 100% correct, they likely will have a very hard time finding work. Even if they do they’re young and AI will certainly be a threat to their long term employment