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I wish more Republicans understood this. Education is one of our country's few genuinely existential problems. Our K through PhD system is a vast communism factory. It barely gets mentioned in our political debates.
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About 1 out of 4 young white men will vote
While 7 out of 10 elderly women will
Politicians work for those who show up
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The important word in the tweet.
Elon Musk has plowed nearly half a billion dollars into elections in the 2026 cycle, a spending spree that makes him the single, largest disclosed donor in modern American politics and one of the Republican Party's largest-ever benefactors. cnn.it/3V0Yu6h
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reminder about what Citizens United was about
a group made a movie critical of Hillary Clinton and the federal government banned its release and advertising
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You should IPO in the Netherlands! Sure, the taxes are higher, but the regulations are also stricter. You'll need to fulfill diversity quotas but you also submit 50,000 pages a year of environmental impact studies. There's less capital here but also you pay $5b/yr in fines.
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The criminal clock can run out. The immigration file doesn't.
Most federal crimes, including marriage fraud under 8 U.S.C. 1325(c), carry a 5-year statute of limitations. But if a marriage is found to have been entered to evade immigration law, INA 204(c) permanently bars any later petition for that spouse. No expiration date.
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Te das cuenta que vivimos en la pos-verdad cuando dos grupos de gente ven un mismo hecho de maneras diametralmente opuestas.
Cristina Kirchner está condenada en todas las instancias y está comprobado con pruebas visibles y tangibles, a tal punto que la plata choreada fue identificada y está en proceso de decomisión por la Justicia. Es una política que está presa. Pero la izquierda dice que es una presa política.
Jair Bolsonaro se tomó un avión a Disney con sus nietos tras entregar el poder sin ningún tipo de obstáculo, pero cuando volvió fue preso por intentar dar un "golpe de Estado". En realidad, a un juez designado por su principal rival político se le ocurrió armarle una causa directamente desde la Corte Suprema (sin instancia de apelación) diciendo que tenía en su cabeza un plan para impedir que Lula asumiera... un plan que obviamente nunca existió ni se ejecutó. Es un preso político. Pero la izquierda dice que es un político que está preso.
La verdad existe pero ya no importa. Solo importa a quién le preguntes.
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Legacy media will never run this list, so I will.
2018, Flint, Michigan: Elon funded filtration systems for schools with unsafe water. Over $480K.
2018, Thailand: SpaceX engineers built a mini-submarine within days to help rescue a boys' soccer team trapped in a flooded cave.
2020, COVID: He sourced and delivered ventilators and supplies to hospitals for free.
2021: He gave Tesla shares worth about $5.7 billion to charity.
2021: He funded a $100M XPRIZE for carbon removal, one of the largest incentive prizes ever.
2022: Starlink kept Ukrainians connected when their networks went down.
2022, Tonga: Starlink helped reconnect the island after a volcano cut its undersea cable.
Wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes: Starlink terminals keep showing up for rescuers and families.
And the biggest one, the one that's easy to miss: he's spent his fortune and 20+ years building clean energy, safer cars, and a future for humanity among the stars.
They call him a villain. The record says otherwise.
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There's a strange thing that happens online and in real world conversations, where understanding or explaining an idea or phenomenon is interpreted as SUPPORTING it.
As a result, people pretend to not understand things, lest they be seen as advocating them.
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Well, I am an Arab, and at @idicenter we have more than 50 Arabs involved, and all of us agree with Robert Kennedy.
We don’t call him a racist or a bigot for describing the fact that 500 million Arabs have failed to achieve even 1% of what 15 million Jews have.
On the contrary, Arabs have given the world little except war, terror, and millions of immigrants living off social services.
The few Arabs who managed to succeed are those who abandoned their Arabism, which is an Islamized identity, and embraced Westernism.
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Holy. Shit.
The NYT is reporting that despite their denials, Mary Peltola's staff and Democratic operatives flew all over Alaska in secret to find and recruit a man named Dan Sullivan.
They put him on the ballot to purposefully steal votes from Republican Dan Sullivan.
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I used to review officer-involved shooting reports generated by a D.A. explaining the decision to exonerate officers, and recall often thinking “I mean, could that *really* be how it went down?” I suspected there may be some fog of war or selective memory or post-hoc justification to give the officer a rational justification and paint the victim in a negative, irrational light.
But with the post-2020 adoption of body cams, I now believe it all. There is no behavior too insane for a huge number of suspects when confronted with literally any command by an officer requesting some form of compliance.
Even I thought body cams would shine a light on some substantial percentage of clear officer abuse, but it’s clearly negligible, while dangerous and erratic behavior by suspects is widespread. It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count.
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i absolutely want that
this correctly aligns local incentives
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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.
The wolf begged to be freed.
“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”
The shepherd cut the rope.
The next night, three lambs were gone.
Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.
By winter, half the flock was dead.
An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”
The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”
The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”
That’s the lesson.
Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.
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Lisa Murkowski was appointed by her governor daddy to the Senate
She voted with Obama 72.3% of the time in 2013
She opposed Brett Kavanaugh for SCOTUS but supported Kentanji Brown
She voted to convict Trump in his 2nd impeachment
She’s lost 2 GOP primaries and been censured by the Alaska Republican Party
She confirmed Lloyd Austin but not Pete Hegseth
Lisa Murkowski is a Democrat
