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On this day, because @elonmusk made the hard decision to leave money on the table in Brazil, where free speech is critically endangered, I subscribed to Premium. This was a decision I was putting off, as this is a pseudoanonymous account, but, well, he already had my phone#.

@tslaming This is cool. Also shared? Or is SpaceX going to monetize this one? Just looking at the headline, I can GUESS what it'd take, but, yeah, I agree, patent-worthy. *satellite-satellite handoff *doppler compensation

@MeidasTouch @elonmusk Correction. I flubbed the math. 15135, or <15135?

@MeidasTouch @elonmusk So. How many voters? 1635? Or <1635?

🚨NEWS: Democrat Andy Thomson has won the Boca Raton mayoral race by just ONE vote. 🔵 Thomson — 7,568 🔴 Liebelson — 7,567 With 100% of votes in, Thomson becomes the first Democratic mayor of Boca Raton in over 30 years. One vote decided the election.

@MyMuseModels @TheQuartering It's this stuff that's only really good for wiping your rear with. The good stuff comes in rolls, about six inches wide and across. Plain white. Soft. The bad stuff comes in folded sheets, with the words "New York Times" at the top. It smears. But that's all it's good for.

@TheQuartering What’s a paper? 🗞️ 📰

Post a picture of yourself holding today's paper and I'll send you $100.

@s1halfdone @dave82083 @danielledsouzag This. I watched it on Rumble. Most watched it on YouTube.

@dave82083 @danielledsouzag Even that 21m is more than the Oscars. But of course, they'll be counting more than one platform.

The Oscars, which mocked Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl halftime show, got lower ratings than the TPUSA halftime show. TPUSA’s Halftime Show got 25 million household views. The Oscars got 17.9 million views. The American people are done being lectured by out-of-touch elites.

@LiberalHivemind Containerized, 30-year, microreactors? Small pebble-bed reactors? Suits me.

NUCLEAR POWER. FINALLY!!!!!

@TheQuartering @Grok. Quick. I need a picture of "me", holding "today's paper". Stay away from trademarks, and I don't really care what you make me look like.

It does seem...problematic to put someone in a leadership role who hasn't yet been steeped in a thing. Both "Chesterton's Fence", and the possibility of them, er, "blending" what they "knew" with what they now know present themselves as possibilities. Then, there's the whole seed on rocky soil issue. That said, they SHOULD be engaged early. Doing SOMETHING. Just, not leadership. Usher? After-service cleanup? Parking attendant? Choir? Just, probably not worship team. Some place where they can feel useful.

I learned a lot over a decade working in youth ministry within the Catholic faith. One of the biggest lessons was to never put a recent convert into a leadership role. Conservatives should take note.

In seriousness, MOST of what you see probably IS humans. BUT, with machine-based curation, it would come off as inauthentic, anyway. Just because a human wrote the text, that a machine offered it up to you, specifically, means the machine might as well be the author, from YOUR perspective.

I know what I am about to say is a cringe comparison but it just happened, I finally see it, it's like when Neo finally saw the Matrix. It's all bullshit, almost nothing on X is real. Dead internet theory is however real.

@TheQuartering I don't believe you. I think you're probably a bot. I'll wait until an actual human tells me the internet is dead, thank you. ...Any time now...

@johnkonrad 60 days doesn't seem long enough. How long does it take a cargo ship to slow-steam across the ocean? How far out is shipping scheduled? That's like inviting someone for dinner while they're putting on their coat to go out for the night...to a different restaurant.

And there it is folks. The moment Jones Act haters have been waiting for… gcaptain.com/trump-waives-j…

@0hour1 You know. You CAN exercise solo. A few do manage. But, for MOST people, it's better to exercise with an exercise buddy, to keep you honest, and/or a coach, to help you do it effectively. The same can be said about one's faith journey. Church is a gym for the soul.

Church is overrated I don't need to walk into a building to have faith. Jesus also needed no building.

@JoeyMannarino Well, I know of ONE immigrant who was anti-something. He was a gas. Tried doing fine art but couldn't cut it, so migrated to Germany from Austria. But, yes. REQUIRING that a significant portion has interests that ARE NOT shared with their nominal countrymen is VERY suspect.

Berlin has just imposed INSANE immigration quotas on the judiciary system. Now 40% of candidates for judges and prosecutors must have an immigrant origin. Is that so they can just let all the migrant criminals off easily without any repercussions at all? How the hell is this not a systematic version of racial replacement of Germans? Do the Germans ever plan on fighting back?

@balajis This chart is missing home video rental. Yes, it's practically dead NOW, but it was a factor within the timeline of your chart.

Hollywood is over. It's all Internet now.

@joelpollak Couldn't they have done this BEFORE Easter 2013? Of course, it COULD be as simple as he was anti-unfiltered immigration, because it depressed native-born farm worker wages.

As predicted: the Cesar Chavez allegations are terrible. And Dolores Huerta is one of the accusers. The union movement knew for decades and covered it up. nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

As I understand it, "Hearts and Minds" is an extension of the Marshall plan, which did pay dividends. On the flip side, saddling Germany with all the blame, and reparations, post WWI, probably contributed to them being the bad guys in WWII. That said, we had reasons to court both Japan and Germany post WWII. Those reasons were U, S, S again, and R.

@DataRepublican @redhead_1862000 @CynicalPublius Any Military person or politician that still stands behind the "win hearts and minds" strategy needs to be removed. The strategy has never worked. It failed in Vietnam, Afghanistan & Iraq. The only thing that works is complete surrender, and the will to do it.

Hello Mr. Evans, Today, War on the Rocks published a "rebuttal" which disclosed the real-life identity of @CynicalPublius . What the article did not mention: you had already posted his name on Bluesky before the WOTR piece published. The WOTR article cited his being “already known” as justification for printing his name. The person who made him “already known” was you. You manufactured the predicate for your own publication’s decision. You then blocked me. And then called me out. Repeatedly. You engaged me, mentioned me, tagged me — even said publicly that you were looking forward to what I had written about War on the Rocks. Blocking someone on a platform and then continuing to publicly engage them is not what a person who wants to be left alone does. It is what a person who wants the attention without the accountability does. You're framing your own just desserts as a “mass witch hunt” initiated by a Hello post I addressed to Brad Duplessis, your contributor, who named Cynical Publius in his debut WOTR piece without disclosing that Anderson’s recommendations for War College reform included eliminating the kind of permanent civilian faculty position Duplessis holds. You are being dunked on because of what you did to Cynical Publius, not because of anything I wrote. Blaming the letter for the blowback is like blaming the smoke alarm for the fire. Cynical Publius wrote that military institutions had drifted from their original professional mission toward ideological conformity and required reform. You responded by publishing his name. The question your letter to me does not answer — and the question a lot of people are now asking — is why an outlet that once existed to challenge that kind of institutional behavior became the one enforcing it. You yourself provide answers to that question. You launched War on the Rocks because you understood something true: the United States had spent two decades losing wars it shouldn't have lost. Twelve years later, when a pseudonymous retired Army officer argues that the War Colleges have drifted from warfighting competence toward ideological conformity, the platform you built publishes his name in the opening sentence. That is not an accident of character. It is how institutions stop being able to learn. Armies that cannot receive criticism cannot conduct honest after-action review. Institutions that cannot correct what they're getting wrong keep losing — and keep being surprised that they're losing, because the people tasked with explaining the failures are the same people defending the institutions that produced them. In short: Mr. Evans, you have been captured by the foreign policy expert class has presided over Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. And you don't even realize it. Wake up. And be on the lookout for a Substack article where I explain your history more thoroughly.

And here, RIGHT here, is why age-verification laws, that don't incorporate some form of zero-knowledge proof, are a TERRIBLE idea. Those who hold the power to expose WILL use it to silence those who hold the mirror, or the floodlight. They would make dissent physically, and economically, dangerous. And they like it that way, because they can not tolerate dissent.

Ryan. Hi.... It's me again... how grotesquely arrogant to presume you alone decree whose pseudonym merits protection and whose deliberate veil may be ripped away for sport. Your smug exoneration of the doxxing of Cynical Publius...unmasked by your own War on the Rocks platform...is no dispassionate analysis; it is a venomous apologia for digital vigilantism, a lethal rationalization that courts foreseeable harm to a man whose only “crime” was daring to speak from behind the shield he chose. Spare me your selective historiography and your facile “he benefits” dismissal, complete with not-so-subtle nods to Trump-era sinecures. The Founders’ “Publius” was never mere vanity, classical cosplay, or “worst-kept secret” parlor trick, as your cherry-picked citations to Warner and Wood would have you believe if read without ideological blinders. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay deployed that pseudonym as deliberate armor...protection against reprisal, duels, defamation suits, and political violence in a republic still trembling on the edge of collapse. Cynical Publius invoked that exact legacy with purpose. Stripping it does not honor tradition; it betrays it, transforming the arena of ideas into the blood sport the Founders explicitly sought to prevent. Your “live by the sword” sophistry is a grotesque false equivalence: anonymity is not aggression...it is the last bulwark against the very mobs and inquisitors you now cheerlead. Psychologically, your insistence that exposure inflicts “no professional consequences” and may even advance a career is textbook bully pathology: the sadistic thrill of dominance reframed as tough love, the gaslighter’s taunt that dismisses the shattering of agency, the perpetual shadow of targeted malice, and the raw terror of knowing one’s family, livelihood, and physical safety now lie exposed to ideologues, opportunists, and stochastic violence. This is not insight; it is projection born of insecurity...the compulsion to police and unmask because veiled voices pierce the curated narratives you cannot control. You do not get to arbitrate another man’s vulnerability or declare his involuntary outing a net positive simply because political winds have shifted. Legally, while federal statute lacks a blanket “doxxing” crime, your publication and defense tread directly into actionable territory: intentional revelation of identifying information calculated to invite harassment violates cyberstalking provisions (18 U.S.C. § 2261A), intentional infliction of emotional distress, and an expanding lattice of state anti-doxxing torts and criminal statutes...Washington’s civil remedies, broader privacy invasions, and platform rules that explicitly ban precisely this conduct when it foreseeably endangers life or livelihood. Your “none of it applies” posture ignores the asymmetry entirely: the Founders operated among lettered elites with limited reach; we navigate an ecosystem where one article can summon swatting teams or career-ending smears overnight. None of your erudite rationalizations apply because they rest on callous outcome-based ethics rather than principle. You are no guardian of the Republic’s traditions, Evans. You are their Judas...weaponizing historical knowledge to justify modern barbarism the Founders would have recognized as tyranny by another name. The discourse you claim to defend demands better than your venomous hypocrisy and lethal indifference to the very human cost you pretend does not exist. 💀⚖️

@WhiteHouse They don't want to lose the war. They ARE willing to concede the war if it means THEY win and YOU lose. That's how anti-American they are, that they put their position above that of our country. They'd be happy with the war, if it was being fought on THEIR say-so. Not yours.

Another intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media. ⬇️

@AutismCapital I'm about to switch to only phone-pay. And only if it gives me an instant update of any purchase made using it, & requires a biometric to release ONE payment. Frankly, I think we need a bluetooth "credit card" peripheral for those times when you can't use phone-pay apps.

Always use tap to pay guys!

@tonycartman1 @wil_da_beast630 You know? There’s a parallel the English, (British), took Irish and Scottish, (British), and shipped them to Australia and Georgia.

@wil_da_beast630 If British had captured British people and sold them to Africans, can anyone imagine blaming Africans ?

Nonsensical. Slavery Was Very Bad, but the idea that we can definitively identify the worst thing in history - and that it was the 10-20% of the historical human slave trade led specifically by whites - is just damned absurd. Some other contenders: The Mongol Conquests The Fall of Rome WW2/the Holocaust The Black Death New World population collapse Communism The Steppe and Bantu Migrations The Arab conquests/slave trade Etc.