Jalen Thomas

𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄-𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐘𝐂 𝐆𝐔𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐎 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘, 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒: “𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄” This guy lives in Chelsea — one of the most liberal neighborhoods in Manhattan. He has blue hair. Everyone in his building kept asking him if he went to the No Kings rally. He politely said no. Then he turned on his camera and said what he really thinks. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. He went further: 𝘐 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘪𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 — 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦. On the rally itself: 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. Everyone in his neighborhood treated it like a social event — the cool thing to do in Chelsea. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐’𝘮 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘬. Then the line that says everything about where this country is heading: 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵-𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘥. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦, 𝘐 𝘥𝘰. And then: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦. He acknowledged what he supports Trump on: 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐’𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵. His closing message to his blue-haired peers: 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵. And to conservatives watching: 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳. 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵. 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. Then Batya Ungar-Sargon weighed in with the analytical kill shot: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺. 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘰𝘯. She pointed out the obvious: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺. And then the best observation of all: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 — 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢 “𝘯𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴” 𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 — 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘵, 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵. 𝐀 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞-𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐂𝐍𝐍 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝.

This is the best takedown of "No Kings" I've seen yet. "You just hate what you're told to hate..." "I just wish the anti-authoritarian energy was present during actual tyranny." 🔥

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Iranian woman goes BERSERK on a smug white liberal who is supporting the Islamic regime "Convince me of WHAT? Of R*PE?! Of women not having rights?! I am Iranian, I've been imprisoned by that regime!" "Iranians are ASKING for the bombs! Iranian youth are asking to be bombed, and you are standing here SUPPORTING a terrorist regime! What are you DOING supporting a terrorist regime?!" *Lib spouts off about Palestine* "This has NOTHING to do with Palestine. This is about a terrorist regime in MY COUNTRY." "I can't even go see my father's grave!!" Mad props to this woman! White liberals are clueless, all over the world. H/t @patriot_apranik

There will always be bad actors, But the LDS Church is light years ahead of any other group when it comes to incidents of sexual abuse. Based on available data, If you were to compare Abuse incidents to Number of Days of rain in a calendar year: Public schools, it would rain 35 days a year Catholic Clergy, 14.6 days a year General Male population 3.6 days a year Southern Baptists 1.1 days a year But for LDS, it would rain 1 day every 12.5 years.

Trump: You see this pen right here? This pen is very inexpensive. But it writes well. I like it. Sharpie. I came here. They had $1,000 pens. You hand out pens. You hand them to people. 30, 40 people. They were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen, ball point. I hand out to kids that don't know. It's kid getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is. I had another problem. They didn’t write well. I sign—no ink. I have all you people looking and say there must be something wrong with Trump. There is no ink in the pen. It cost $1,000.

The UAE stands as a strong partner of the United States. No ceasefire with the Islamic regime in Iran. Not now. You don’t negotiate with terror. You end it. The UAE stands firm. Zero space for terrorists. Germany, Britain, Spain's governments say they want a diplomatic solution with this terrorist regime. Fine. Let it be your neighbour. Take its leadership, as you did with the Muslim Brotherhood. Give them citizenship. They are all yours. If you want the rubbish, take it but don’t ask us to accept it or live with it. It stinks. You can have it. Live with it alone. This Saturday will not pass quietly. It will be marked. It will be remembered.

@BYUGuy87 There’s just too much evidence of miracles all throughout the restoration for me to think just because a few things happened that I don’t understand I should throw the entire thing away. showyourshelf.com

I have an honest question for my Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint followers, intended with genuine respect. I've been studying early church history, including the church's own Gospel Topics Essays — and I'd love your perspective. How do you personally reconcile the following about Joseph Smith? And has it ever challenged your faith? 1. Married Helen Mar Kimball at 14 (he was 37) 2. Sealed himself to 11 women already married to living husbands 3. Concealed polygamy from Emma and the public (asked plural wives to keep it secret) 4. Ordered the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, the press about to expose it all These aren't anti-Mormon talking points — the church itself acknowledges them. I'm genuinely curious and appreciate all sincere responses. 🙏

“Secret” Life of a Mormon Husband but it’s just me with a few of church homies helping out a widow move into her new place on a Saturday morning. Sorry not sorry it’s not as dramatic and trashy as that other show…. Maybe the next episode will be. Tune in tomorrow

If the New York Times reported the war in 1944 as it’s reporting the war today. President Roosevelt continues to pursue a war for which he failed to prepare the United States. Though there have been some significant military achievements, especially in North Africa, U.S. forces remained bogged down in the Pacific and severely bloodied in strategically meaningless places like Tarawa and Guadalcanal. The Italian campaign has totally stalled, with an appalling loss of American life that will soon be surpassed by the utterly reckless and inevitably doomed invasion of France. Meanwhile, the innocent people of Japan and Germany continue to suffer. The damage to both their countries and the impact on the world economy is incalculable. The chances of a negotiated settlement appear more than ever remote. And all of this because the impressionable Roosevelt was duped into going to war by that master manipulator, Churchill.

𝗣𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗢: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗨𝗭 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo — a man who spent years in the room where these decisions are made — just said something that deserves to be heard clearly: the Strait of Hormuz hasn't truly been open for thirty years. Iran has been holding it over the world's head for decades — using the threat of closure as a permanent economic weapon against every nation that depends on Gulf oil. That's a fifth of the world's energy supply held hostage by a terrorist regime. That ends now. Not temporarily. Not for a few weeks until the next crisis. 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲. The military is doing the preparation — clearing the mine-laying capability, degrading the missile systems that threaten commercial shipping, building the conditions for a sustained reopening rather than a temporary one. Think weeks, not days. It's conditions-based, not calendar-based. But Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs are doing the work, and the goal isn't a press release — it's permanent structural change to the threat environment. Think about what that means economically. Every risk premium baked into global energy prices for the last fifty years has included an "Iran factor" — the cost of doing business in a world where one murderous theocracy could choke off global oil supply on a whim. That premium affects every airline ticket, every grocery delivery, every manufacturing cost on the planet. Removing it isn't just a military victory. It's an economic one felt by every person on earth who heats a home or fills a tank. Seven presidents promised Iran would never get a nuclear weapon. None of them dealt with the underlying regime. Trump isn't just hitting the nuclear program — he's removing the hand on the spigot entirely. This is what the media is calling a stalemate.

🔥🚨BREAKING: The dictator of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, announced on a national broadcast that Cuba has submitted to Trump and are now negotiating with the United States. This is historic.

Let's see: US and Israeli warplanes range freely over Iran, having hit thousands of targets, and are hitting more every day. The Iranian leadership has been taken out. Its new leader cannot or will not show his face. Its air defenses have been ineffective, destroyed or both. Its navy is largely gone. So It has now effectively blocked ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway vital to its own economy. US media would have you believe Iran has turned the tide in the war because blocking the strait never occurred to US war planners. You can choose to believe this. I don't.

When The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it spent $1.58 billion on humanitarian aid in 2025, critics quickly compared the figure to the Church's total assets. The implication: measured against that wealth, $1.58 billion is unimpressive. But this critique overlooks a fundamental reality of global development. Giving money away effectively is often harder than earning it. In development economics, the primary constraint on aid is rarely a lack of cash. It is absorptive capacity. There is a persistent myth that the solution to global suffering is simply to write the check. In reality, flooding a fragile region with capital without the necessary infrastructure often does more harm than good, fueling corruption, destabilizing regional markets, or creating permanent dependency. Effective humanitarian work requires logistical networks capable of moving 37 million pounds of food across 196 countries, trusted local partners to ensure aid reaches the last mile, and oversight systems that prevent funds from disappearing to administrative graft. These structures take decades to build. The church's steady climb from $906 million in 2021 to $1.58 billion in 2025 reflects an institution scaling its infrastructure, not just its generosity. Most global NGOs face a structural dilemma: to distribute billions, they must hire thousands. The Gates Foundation, one of the world's most sophisticated philanthropic organizations, once spent roughly $1 billion on operations to distribute $3.7 billion in aid. The Latter-day Saint model attempts something different. In 2025, members contributed 7.4 million volunteer hours, the equivalent of 20,000 hours of service every single day. By leveraging a global lay ministry and local volunteers, the system multiplies the impact of every dollar without the corresponding bureaucratic overhead. The most persuasive argument for a measured approach is the focus on long-term independence. Short-term aid stabilizes families. Long-term skills create independence. The outcomes from free self-reliance courses offered in more than 100 countries make the case concretely. Within six months of completing a course, 41% of participants improved their ability to provide for their families, 47% found new or better employment, and 61% started or expanded a business. Whether it is a woman in the Philippines launching an enterprise that now employs her neighbors, or a refugee in Croatia learning English to enter the tourism industry, the goal is the same: moving people from the humanitarian column to the self-sufficient one. Critics frame the church's financial reserves as a hoard. But the institution manages them through the logic of perpetual stewardship, the same logic that governs Harvard's $50 billion endowment or the Gates Foundation's long-term capital strategy. Institutions designed to endure for centuries do not manage resources the way a five-year project does. For a global religious institution, reserves serve two essential functions: crisis readiness, the ability to respond immediately to unpredictable disasters without waiting for a fundraising drive, and institutional durability, ensuring the safety net does not vanish during the next global economic depression. If $1.58 billion is dismissed as unimpressive, the critique has stopped being analytical and become ideological. What number would satisfy it? The more relevant question is whether a system built on steady expansion, volunteer labor, and a deliberate focus on independence actually helps more people over time than a one-time liquidation of reserves ever could. Measured against the standard of deliberate, sustainable impact, a billion-dollar trendline is not a failure of generosity. It is evidence of a system built to last.

BREAKING: President Trump just put a gun to the head of 90% of Iran’s oil revenue and pulled the trigger on everything around it. “Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.” That is the President’s exact language on Truth Social tonight. Every military target. Obliterated. The coastal missile batteries. The anti-ship missile installations. The radar sites. The short-range air defence systems. The IRGC garrison of 250 to 500 personnel. The fast attack craft support. The naval mines infrastructure. Everything that defended the island, destroyed. Everything that makes the island valuable, deliberately spared. The oil terminals are still standing. The loading jetties are intact. The storage tanks are full. Ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports flow through those terminals. Trump left them untouched and told Iran why: “for reasons of decency.” Then he added the threat that makes decency conditional: if Iran interferes with free and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the oil infrastructure goes next. This is the chequebook doctrine made operational. For fifteen days, this campaign has identified three layers governing the war: the nuclear programme is the existential minimum, the Strait is the clock, and the oil infrastructure is the chequebook. The chequebook was deliberately spared to control what gets rebuilt, by whom, and under what conditions. Tonight, Trump confirmed it. Kharg’s military defences are rubble. Kharg’s oil terminals are leverage. The island that handles Iran’s entire export economy now sits defenceless, its military guardians obliterated, its revenue infrastructure intact but held hostage to a single condition: open the Strait. The calculus Iran faces is unprecedented. The 31 autonomous IRGC commands that have been firing continuously for fifteen days just lost their forward defensive position in the northern Gulf. The coastal batteries that could threaten tanker escorts are destroyed. The radar that tracked shipping approaches is destroyed. The fast boats that laid mines operated from Kharg support facilities that are destroyed. The island that was Iran’s shield has been turned into America’s hostage. Iran’s oil cannot flow without Kharg. Iran’s military can no longer defend Kharg. And the man who ordered Kharg’s military annihilation has told Iran that the oil infrastructure joins it if the Strait does not open. The Supreme Leader who ordered the Strait permanently closed from a hospital bed just received the response: the terminals that fund his war are one presidential order from becoming the same rubble as the missile batteries that used to protect them. Brent will react within hours. The sparing of oil infrastructure should limit the immediate spike, but the threat converts every future Iranian provocation in Hormuz into a potential trigger for the destruction of 90% of Iran’s export revenue. The war premium is no longer about whether oil flows. It is about whether Trump decides to let it flow. The war began with an assassination. It escalated through mines, drones, and burning tankers. It crossed the nuclear threshold at Parchin. It crossed the alliance threshold at Incirlik. Tonight, it crossed the revenue threshold at Kharg. The existential minimum is the uranium in Pickaxe Mountain. The existential leverage is the oil terminal standing untouched on an island where everything else has been destroyed. Iran’s crown jewel just became America’s hostage. The ransom is the Strait of Hormuz. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

BREAKING: President Trump just released the footage. The most secretive bomber in the American arsenal hitting the most valuable military real estate in Iran. And he wants the world to watch. The video published on Truth Social shows B-2 Spirit stealth bombers conducting precision strikes on Kharg Island’s military infrastructure. Runway cratering charges tear the airbase apart in sequential detonations. Multiple explosions bloom across IRGC missile launch sites, coastal defence batteries, radar installations, and garrison facilities. The footage is steady, clinical, and unmistakable. The bombs are 2,000-pound JDAMs, GPS-guided GBU-31 and GBU-32 variants, the same munitions that cratered Iraqi airfields in 2003 and Afghan command centres for two decades. They are dropped by an aircraft that Iran’s air defence network cannot detect, track, or engage. The oil terminals are visible in every frame. They are untouched. That is the message. Not the destruction. The restraint. Ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports flow through those terminals. The loading jetties stand. The storage tanks are full. The infrastructure that funds the IRGC, that pays for the Shaheds, that finances the Mosaic Doctrine’s 31 autonomous commands, that underwrites every mine on the seabed of Hormuz, is intact and one presidential decision from joining the rubble surrounding it. The B-2 Spirit was designed to penetrate Soviet air defence networks during nuclear war. It carries 40,000 pounds of ordnance inside a flying wing with a radar cross-section smaller than a bird. Twenty aircraft exist. Each costs $2.1 billion. The United States sent its most expensive, most classified, most capable strategic asset to crater a runway on a 20-square-kilometre island in the Persian Gulf because the message required the messenger. A B-52 could have dropped the same JDAMs. An F-15E could have cratered the same runway. The B-2 was chosen because its presence means Iran had no warning, no interception opportunity, and no defence. The bombs arrived before the sound. The runway cratering is tactically decisive. A cratered runway cannot launch aircraft, receive resupply, or evacuate personnel. The IRGC garrison of 250 to 500 personnel is now isolated on an island whose military defences have been destroyed, whose airstrip is inoperable, and whose only remaining value is the oil infrastructure the United States deliberately chose not to destroy. The garrison cannot be reinforced by air. It cannot project force by sea because the IRGC Navy is at the bottom of the Gulf. It exists on an island that America controls from the sky while Iran controls from the ground, and the ground shrinks every hour the runway stays cratered. The footage itself is a weapon. Trump did not release it for documentation. He released it for deterrence. Every IRGC commander watching the video sees an aircraft they cannot detect delivering ordnance they cannot stop onto an island they cannot defend. Every Iranian decision-maker watching the terminals standing untouched beside the rubble understands the conditional: the restraint is voluntary. The next strike does not need to be restrained. The strategy emerging from the strike, the Marines deployment, and the Kharg footage is sequential strangulation. Destroy the military capacity to defend the island. Crater the runway to isolate the garrison. Deploy the Tripoli ARG with 2,500 Marines and F-35Bs for air superiority and potential amphibious seizure. Hold the oil terminals as leverage for a war-ending negotiation in which Iran’s 90% export revenue becomes the ransom for every American objective: open the Strait, surrender the uranium, dismantle the enrichment programme. Iran’s crown jewel is no longer Iran’s. It is a hostage sitting on a cratered runway surrounded by rubble, guarded by a garrison that cannot be reinforced, watched by an aircraft it cannot see, and one decision away from ceasing to exist. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

🚨BREAKING: SecDef Pete Hegseth stares right at the press and goes scorched earth, spelling out their insanity. I could watch this all day. "You, and I mean specifically YOU, the press, you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective." "Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful." "How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is?" "There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible." "You're undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission." "How about we talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news. So we're used to that." Do you firmly support Pete Hegseth on this? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!! MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

Hey @grok kindly interpret the video for me.

🚨 JUST IN: Tim Burchett with the HILARIOUS RESPONSE after Bernie Sanders opposed the SAVE America Act by saying, "I don't know how to get my birth certificate!" "If you don't know the Google search, Bernie, that's G double O G L E. If you'll click it and then type in, after you get it up at the top, 'how to get a birth certificate in New York.'" 🤣 "And guess what? It popped right up!" "The vital records department. And then you just scroll down and it says birth certificate, oddly enough. Crazy talk." "And then I clicked on that and it went through what you need to do. And then you can even use your credit card, which I'm sure you as a capitalist will have a credit card." "Or if you don't, I'm sure one of your many staffers will have that. And all you got to do is fill it out. And dadgum, guess what? They'll mail it to you, Bernie. It's crazy talk." "Or they can, I think they can even send one to you online. I mean, it's just incredible. I was perplexed on this whole issue that we were causing great consternation on you." "So I would encourage you to do that, Bernie. If you don't know how to do that, ask one of your many staffers and I'm sure they will assist you." "It's a very simple process, Senator. And there's no reason that you don't get in line with about 85% of your constituents that think you, in fact, should be an American citizen to vote and show proof of that with a birth certificate!"

Joseph Smith: The Prophet Revealed. I used his death mask, skull and Sutcliffe Maudsley drawings to build a 3D model, then rendered the likeness in Nano Banana, Photoshop, and Kling. Love him or hate him, this now exists (and I love it!)