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20 million new voters when native-born population only rose by 2 million 🤔
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The Atlantic blames @HarmeetKDhillon for the “destruction” of the DOJ’s civil rights division on the grounds that 70% of the Biden-era lawyers who worked there quit during her tenure.
What The Atlantic does not tell you is that Dhillon’s predecessor was progressive activist Kristen Clarke, an extremely controversial Biden appointment who, prior to joining the DOJ, was best known for antisemitism. She famously invited the author of a hate tract called “The Jewish Question” to speak on the Harvard campus under the auspices of the Black Student Union.
At DOJ, Clarke used the Civil Rights division to force state and local governments to adopt illegal DEI programs and dismantle policing and criminal justice enforcement. She was the threat of government legal action pushing the adoption of the most noxious woke policies during the Biden era.
She did immense damage to the DOJ and the country, she forced the adoption of unpopular and ineffective policies and she filled her department with ideologues, activists and diversity hires who do not belong anywhere near the levers of power.
The transformation of the Civil Rights Division and the removal of Kristen Clarke’s loyalists is one of the biggest accomplishments of the Trump administration. Dhillon is a hero and has done a great service to her country.
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This former illegal immigrant is threatening to jail the new White House chief of staff for helping the President execute federal law?
Import the third world, become the third world.
Official statement from incoming Oversight Chairman @RepRobertGarcia on Stephen Miller being announced as White House Chief of Staff:
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🚨 BREAKING: A missing memory card has FLIPPED the apparent outcome of a Georgia House race.
Republican Gerald Greene went from trailing Democrat Harry James by 58 votes to LEADING by 262 after uncounted votes were discovered in Seminole County.
Officials found a 388-vote discrepancy during routine checks.
If the result holds, Democrats will have just a ONE-SEAT majority in the Georgia House.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched an investigation into the error.
Maybe Democrats can agree that we should now go to ALL PAPER BALLOTS?
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1. Twitter was the epicenter of wokeness
2. Twitter allowed the left to live in an echo chamber that both rewarded their worst instincts and persuaded the institutional libs to go along with them
3. This locked elected Dems into a Catch 22 where if they were normal about something Twitter would get mad at them; but if they acted Twitter about something, normal people would be annoyed.
4. Elected Dems weighed their options and decided to appease the terrorists
5. Everyone got pissed off at them because they were crazy
6. Elon bought Twitter and turned it into X
7. The left self exiled to BlueSky and secret caves outside of Kabul to regroup
8. Elected Dems and hopefuls felt liberated to signal that they were normalsauce by wearing jeans and hats and eating meat and stuff that would get them literally not figuratively crucified under Woke 1.
9. The exiled left coalesced around a few radicals in terrorist enclaves like NYC and Minnesota and Michigan and told the libs that if they opposed them they’d blow up their cars
10. Free from strict woke constraints imposed by Old Guard Twitter the libs and the left and the rube centrists joined forces and won every single race in the world including the usually right leaning race for assistant comptroller to the garbage collectors union of Swinefister, Nebraska after the candidate wisely deleted a bunch of old tweets about how he wanted to drown every single cop in a vat of acid to free Palestine.
11. So really this is all Elon’s fault.
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For nine years, Jacob Zuma outmaneuvered the entire South African state apparatus, turning a G20 economy into a private piggy bank.
While the world watched in absolute disbelief, Zuma ran a petty, blatant looting operation that dismantled public institutions to enrich a single family network.
A sitting head of state effectively outsourced the appointment of cabinet ministers and the awarding of multi-billion rand state contracts to three immigrant brothers from India.
While millions lived in squalor, hundreds of millions in public security funds vanished into upgrading Zuma's private rural mansion, complete with a "fire pool," cattle kraal, and amphitheater.
Under his watch, the crown jewels of South Africa's public sector, Eskom, Transnet, and SAA, were systematically hollowed out, their balance sheets bled dry by political cadres.
He weaponized his struggle-era espionage skills to capture the National Prosecuting Authority and the Hawks, ensuring absolute immunity while the looting occurred in broad daylight.
The true absurdity of the Zuma era was the compliance of the masses and the intellectual gymnastics of his party's defenders.
The ANC repeatedly used its parliamentary majority to shield him from dozens of no-confidence votes, sacrificing the country's sovereign credit rating to save one man.
The media documented the rot in real time, yet the looting continued unabated because the state machinery was entirely compromised.
Zuma didn't just steal money; he broke the structural spine of a capable state, leaving a legacy of rolling blackouts and ruined infrastructure that South Africans will be paying for across generations.
Jacob Zuma ran South Africa like a personal ATM.
From 2009 to 2018, Zuma presided over what his own prosecutors later called "state capture": a systematic looting operation organized around the Gupta family, who appointed cabinet ministers, directed government contracts, and collected state-owned enterprise revenues as though Eskom and Transnet were subsidiaries of their mining interests.
McKinsey, KPMG, and SAP each paid back hundreds of millions in fees extracted through fraudulent Transnet and Eskom contracts. Eskom alone borrowed R350 billion during this period, executed virtually no productive infrastructure, and left the country with Stage 6 load-shedding.
Capital hates uncertainty. Foreign direct investment collapsed from $8.3 billion in 2008 to under $1.3 billion by 2017. Unemployment hit 27 percent before the pandemic arrived to finish the job. When the state cannibalizes its own institutions, private investors leave.
Property rights are the foundational signal that tells capital: build here, stay here, it's safe. Zuma's ANC spent nine years corroding that signal through cadre deployment, BEE rent-seeking, and prosecutorial institutions gutted of anyone inconvenient enough to actually prosecute. South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority under Shaun Abrahams became a mechanism for protecting Zuma, not the public.
The ANC can accurately be described as a criminal organization in control of an entire country.
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Tu t'appelles Charlotte. 23 ans. Tu étudies à Sciences Po Paris. Tu milites à La France insoumise et tu vas à la techno-parade contre la vie chère ce weekend.
Ton père, Philippe, est ingénieur chez Total, à côté de Bizanos.
Il travaille depuis 36 ans dans l'énergie, a commencé foreur et dirige maintenant le projet "Exploration puits 2035" avant de partir à la retraite.
Philippe te fait un virement tous les mois pour financer ton 2 pièces à 1350€ dans le quartier latin et tes cours de pilates reformer.
Tu as un tote bag « taxez les riches », un iPhone 17 Pro et un abonnement à Mediapart.
Tu considères que les grandes entreprises sont "une catastrophe sociale et écologique". Tu as d'ailleurs écrit un mémoire de 42 pages sur les violences symboliques du capitalisme.
Philippe qui se lève à 6h depuis 1987, te paye tes études grâce ses à anciennes stocks-options chez Shell.
À Sciences Po, tu as enfin rencontré des jeunes qui partagent tes convictions. Leurs parents sont avocats, médecins, hauts fonctionnaires ou dirigeants.
Vous avez fondé un collectif de "house music" en résistance au néolibéralisme.
Vous vous réunissez chaque jeudi dans un café du 11e pour discuter de la lutte des classes autour d'une bouteille de vin naturel orange à 38€.
Tu n'as jamais travaillé dans une usine, mais tu connais parfaitement les conditions de vie du prolétariat grâce à tes stages à l'ONU et au PNUD trouvés par les contacts de ta mère Christine à L'Oréal.
Tu expliques à ton père que les grandes entreprises exploitent les travailleurs.
Il te propose de venir rencontrer les techniciens de son usine pendant les vacances. Tu peux pas car t'as anniversaire de Julie à Santorin.
À Noël, tu rentres au "pays".
Ton père vient te chercher à la gare de Dax avec sa nouvelle Tesla.
Pendant le trajet, tu lui expliques que les cadres supérieurs sont complètement déconnectés des réalités populaires et que Elon Musk est la lie de l'humanité.
Philippe sourit nerveusement.
De retour dans ta maisonnée de famille, Philippe demande si ta recherche de stage en cinéma militant avance en te proposant du foie gras et du serrano-manchego.
Tu lui dis que tu es vegan depuis cette année et qu'il est insensible à la cruauté animale.
Philippe se sert un verre de Jurançon, s'asseoit sur son fauteuil Roche Bobois et te demande si tu es pour la taxation de l'héritage à 100%.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted George Soros lackey Democrat Senator Chris Murphy cheated on his wife to engage in an adulterous affair with George Soros-funded Democrat operative and founder of the Soros-funded propagandized fake news network Courier Newsroom Tara McGowan. Chris Murphy feeds like a pig at a pig trough on campaign cash from George Soros and the Soros Clan.
Chris Murphy is just as sleazy and immoral as Eric Swalwell and Ruben Gallego. Murphy just spent time in Europe bashing America and President Trump and now Murphy's cheering for the Islamic Iranian terrorist regime to defeat the United States. This is what the Democratic Party has devolved into: perverts, predators, antisemites and enemies of the American people.
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Scott Galloway is a despicable fool and a deranged madman. No @profgalloway, you're the traitor to the West for spewing this invective against the man who has saved Ukraine, and you're now officially dead to me and millions of others who once upon a time thought you had the occassional interesting take.
FACT: Without Elon, Ukraine would collapse.
FACT: Ukraine's drones use Starshield, the military product, not Starlink. The Dept. of War controls that system and Ukraine contracts through the Pentagon.
FACT: There was a 7-10 day period of disruption when Musk closed a loophole in Starlink, the commercial service, from being used to launch Ukraine's interceptor drones. Service was quickly restored, but Scott believes this justifies lining Elon up against a wall to assassinate him.
FACT: Most if not all Ukrainian drone flights would be grounded immediately without Elon's technology and the frontline would collapse. US military and Ukranian officials confirm this.
If Scott Galloway really cared about Ukraine and the West, he would prostrate himself before Elon, kiss his boots, and say thank you.
But like all leftists, he'd rather go full comrade, normalize talk of political violence, murder Musk, steal his company, and nationalize it.
And somehow in his twisted, demented commie mind, he's the good guy in this story.
Total scum.
Scott Galloway calls Elon Musk a “traitor to the West” and invokes the Rosenbergs, who were EXECUTED after WWII.
GALLOWAY: “We took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors.”
“And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I’ll make it and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.”
“If this had happened in any other age where we were not obsessed with innovators and money, a much different reaction would be playing out to Elon Musk.”
These people are absolutely unhinged.
CONTEXT: Scott Galloway is not some random but a bestselling author with a top podcast who regularly appears on cable news. His net worth is over $100 million, and he’s openly suggesting Musk deserves death.
This is what the Democratic Party has become, and people voted for it.
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Here's some fuel for all the Europoor haters:
Germany just told us we'd have to fire one of our 3 founders to qualify for funding.
I was in talks with a German state-backed fund of fund managing billions, with one single mandate: invest in German funds to drive innovation and economic growth in the country.
They literally told me they like us a lot and are also impressed by our track record and performance so far, and even though not everyone in their team is a fan of our thesis, they believe in it.
But they passed for a whole different reason:
Because our all-male team of 3 people isn't "diverse enough" lol.
they literally told me: hire two more female partners (impossible on the economics of a fund our size), or let one of the three of us go to make room for a quota hire. do that, and they'd strongly consider investing.
I won't even get into how discriminatory this is toward men in the first place. nobody takes that seriously anyway, and honestly I don't care.
but what actually gets me is something bigger: as a German, I have to face the fact that the whole world continuing to laugh at Germany and overall Europe is completely justified.
a system that quietly kills the smallest, hungriest teams, the exact ones this money was created to support. and then everyone acts surprised that talent and capital keep leaving the country.
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Thomas Sowell: “One of the things that disturbs me tremendously is about this enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders and Socialism, at a time when people are literally starving in Venezuela, an oil-rich country. I don’t think most people that are out there cheering for Bernie Sanders have given a thought to Venezuela.”
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Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.
The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.
MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."
HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."
MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."
HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."
MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."
HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."
MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"
HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."
MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."
HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."
MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."
ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."
MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."
CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.
And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.
Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.
A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.
If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
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Miles Taylor was put in charge of cybersecurity at DHS and got hired by Google to set their security policy. He ended up exposing a bunch of people's PII to the extent that even leftists called him out on it. blog.hagerstownrapidresponse…
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There is no fact-based argument for a reduction of data center build out due to an already expected split government midterm result or the state voting initiatives.
1. If a local/state gov doesn’t want to make a deal, the cloud/hyperscaler will move to one who will . This isn’t binary, most locals are making deals. The builds over the next 1-1.5yrs are already permitted.
2. If the US as a whole rejects enough land mass where the demand for AI factories cannot be fulfilled in the US, those AI factories will move offshore repeating the prior 3 decades of globalization and hollowing out of our middle class. It was dumb back then and even dumber now given the geopolitical national security implications of AI sovereignty…
@HalftimeReport @TheJudgeCNBC
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Focusing specifically on AI, it seems to me that the midterm elections have been very detrimental to the development of AI in the United States.
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You’re telling me that @RoKhanna and @RepThomasMassie didn’t know that Plaskett (D) was texting buddies with Jeffrey Epstein?
Can someone help me out? Where's the epstein-brain left screaming about this?
This woman was literally texting Epstein in 2019 DURING a congressional hearing being coached by Epstein on what to say
@micah_erfan @adammocklerr @harryjsisson @chrisdmowrey INSANE epstein story for you!
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It looks like the truce of not talking junk on Elon has thawed for Dario and Anthropic.
Don’t trust these Effective Altruists - ever.
They now use paid shill surrogates to do the Anti-Elon talking now.
As a paid sponsor.
Very astute reporting by @KatieMiller.
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.@MIT?
How does Kristin Knouse meet MIT’s standards for character, ethics and humanity?
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE — KRISTIN KNOUSE AND IZABELLA PEÑA DISCUSSED DAVID M. SABATINI’S POSSIBLE SUICIDAL DISTRESS WHILE PLANNING FURTHER EFFORTS TO PREVENT HIS PROFESSIONAL RECOVERY.
🔱 A SHOCKING REVELATION IN THE DAVID M. SABATINI ORDEAL
In a recent @DailyMail interview (November 4, 2026; full article linked in the first reply), Professor @DMSabatini disclosed the devastating personal consequences of his ordeal, revealing that he had suffered severe depression and attempted to take his own life by hanging.
This disclosure takes on particularly disturbing significance in light of private communications obtained and examined by ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 — COURT EVIDENCE: KK014898–KK014911
While discussing a video of Sabatini accepting a prestigious scientific award, Izabella Peña wrote:
🔴 “I actually could start seeing the suicidal in hum” — subsequently correcting the final word to “Him.”
In the same exchange, Kristin Knouse wrote:
🔴 “i actually feel better lol”
🔴 “nah this is a dead man talking”
🔴 “dead inside”
These messages reveal that Sabatini’s apparent psychological deterioration was being openly discussed. Rather than expressing concern for his well-being, Knouse described feeling better after seeing his visibly distressed condition.
The communications then turned to concerns about Sabatini’s potential professional recovery.
Knouse wrote:
🔴 “But it's always a delicate balance be if nothing is done he will revive himself”
🔴 “So I try to act when needed”
🔴 “but i think we plant a few seeds then get back to science and watch them grow”
The messages document discussions about mobilizing others, influencing public attention, and encouraging third parties to act while avoiding direct involvement.
⚠️ THE DEVASTATING HUMAN CONSEQUENCES — AND THE INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
A jury found Kristin Knouse liable for defamation and tortious interference in the David M. Sabatini case.
But the consequences of this ordeal extended far beyond the courtroom. Sabatini has now publicly disclosed that he suffered severe depression and attempted to take his own life.
The role of @WhiteheadInst’s leadership in creating and sustaining the institutional circumstances that facilitated Kristin Knouse’s defamatory conduct and tortious interference, contributing to Sabatini’s devastating professional and personal losses, demands full scrutiny and accountability.
🚨 RUTH LEHMANN MUST FACE ACCOUNTABILITY
As ScienceGuardians™ previously exposed, court evidence establishes that Ruth Lehmann (@REMLehmann), Director and President of the Whitehead Institute, personally received and acknowledged serious warnings about the aggressive, accusatory, and intimidating conduct alleged against Whitehead’s investigators on March 30, 2021.
Despite those documented warnings, the investigation proceeded, and Whitehead subsequently took actions that contributed to the devastating consequences for Sabatini’s professional standing and livelihood.
A PUBLIC APOLOGY, HER RESIGNATION AS DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE, AND FULL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HER ROLE IN THIS ORDEAL ARE THE MINIMUM STEPS THE COMMUNITY IS CALLING FOR.
📑 EXAMINE THE ORIGINAL COURT EVIDENCE BELOW.
🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team
🔱 MORE COURT EVIDENCE. MORE REVELATIONS. STAY TUNED.
@SciGuardians 🔱
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Thanks to America’s unrivaled entrepreneurial spirit and dynamism, the re-industrialization and re-privatization of the American economy are gathering extraordinary force.
Today’s jobs report shows our great American companies have created nearly 400,000 private-sector jobs in the past three months. Manufacturing employment has now risen by over 100,000 in 2026 alone.
We are fundamentally rebalancing the American economy, away from government-led growth and toward private investment, productive employment, and the revival of our industrial base.