Americans are being ripped off by low taxes. Wait - LOW taxes? Yes, low taxes.

Healthcare costs are skyrocketing to a significant extent because the US is insisting on a weird private insurance model instead of just taxing.

Building energy code is forcing huge costs on new...

homes that are very inefficient with respect to their stated goals. If reducing carbon is the goal, it would be cheaper and more cost effective just to build cleaner power plants instead of overregulating construction.

The results of the above are wasteful and clear for all to see. Thus, they erode trust in government. The irony is that this distrust makes Americans want to insist even harder on not solving these problem through taxation.

In other words, psychological lock-in, to a bad system.

Well, well, well. LOOK at that.

Christmas has come early!

Far left Socialist "Carolina Federation" offshoot, "New Hanover For All," has released their candidate endorsements.

Carolina Federation is operationally tethered to Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO), and acts as a "state-based initiative aligned with its strategic goals."

"Last week, our members came together at the culmination of a rigorous endorsement process.

We are excited for a primary ballot that features values aligned candidates who will fight for our students and our families and are committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations."

Pay attention to that last sentence.

This is a thread.

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New Hanover For All >> Carolina Federation >> Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO).

And what are their goals?

📍"Strategic Alignment"

• Liberation Road’s 2022-2025 strategy explicitly highlights the need to "build state-based independent political organization and power" in the U.S. South to combat what they term the "New Confederacy."

The Carolina Federation serves this purpose in North Carolina.

📍"Leadership and Collaboration"

• Key figures associated with Liberation Road, such as Whitney Maxey

📍"Network Integration"

• The Carolina Federation works alongside other organizations often associated with similar leftist, progressive, or socialist, and social justice coalitions within North Carolina.

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Let's break down what "committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations" ACTUALLY means.

Translated, it means, "These candidates have pledged to align with far left Socialist-aligned organizations, at the local (county) and state level, to govern in such a way that their decisions will prioritize alignment with the Socialist agenda."

That's problematic for a multitude of reasons. Those organizations do not represent the values of all ~184,533 registered voters in New Hanover County. 

The current breakdown of registered voters by party affiliation is as follows:

•Unaffiliated: 79,435
•Republican: 54,871
•Democratic: 48,744

Liberation Road has "historically focused on building "21st-century socialism" through deep engagement in labor, racial justice, and electoral work in the South."

Allow me to introduce you to a newly created stillborn child of Mahmoud Abbas - the new Palestinian constitution. Its preliminary draft was published on February 10, 2026 and it has multiple issues that will make it, well, essentially, useless and lacking any authority

Thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/palestine_un/status/2021275836184252638

I have read it through, so you don’t have to

The preamble

Right in the first line the text states that it is based on the pure pan-Arab ideology. This constitution (I would argue, correctly) identifies ethnicity as Arab and nationality - as Palestinian. So, technically, everyone living in this region is Palestinian, whether Jewish, Arab, Druze, Circassian, like everyone living in Britain are British (whether they are ethnically English, Indian, Polish, Pakistani, Scottish and etc.). However for the last couple of decades the Palestinian Authority, anti-Israeli activists and “journalists” from the media like Al Jazeera tried to equate Palestinian not to a national identity, but to an ethnic identity, while this constitution returns back to the original notion of Palestinians being just Arabs who live in the historic Palestine

Secondly, they put in the constitution the notion of “ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank” while also tying it to the “right of return” - that every Palestinian in every generation is entitled to return to what was once historic Palestine (that usually means they are including Israel and current Palestinian Authority territories, but somehow excluding Jordan territories)

Thirdly, the preamble states it is the “cradle of heavenly religions” (while not naming yet the religions, but it will, later in the constitution), and also separately referring to the Messenger of God (here the authors imply Muhammad, of course) and it being a cradle of civilization

The cherry on top - it puts the capital in Jerusalem, a territory currently controlled by another state for almost 60 years, and which territory was never intended to be under control of either Arabs or Jews back when UN partition plan was established. I remind you this is the constitution of a future state whose establishing organizations along with neighboring Arab states waged several wars against another state (Israel) and lost all of them, yet they put out this as if they have triumphed in the war they have started and not ended up with this vague and unlikely to be ever implemented claim to Jerusalem. It would be like Japan after WWII claiming Korea is still the territory of Japan, or Koenigsberg is still the territory of German Prussia, for example

Let’s move on to some other articles

Article 1 - again pan-Arab ideology - Palestinians are Arab and part of Arab people (this is ideology of Nasserism 101) - all Arabs are the same and doesn’t matter where they live, in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine or Egypt - they are not different from one another and should be all unified eventually in one state

Article 3 - back to the capital part. Again, reiterated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the state and all religions and their sanctities are protected there… but this time the authors list those religions - Islam and Christianity. Yep, only those two religions apparently have sanctities in Jerusalem, meaning all the rest can be razed to the ground as they do not have protected “historical, political, cultural or spiritual” status. Good luck with trying to negotiate anything even with left wing peaceniks if they ever take control of the government, when the explicitly claim anything that is related to Jews is neither protected nor even mentioned

Article 4 - Islam is the governing religion and the state will be essentially religious as Sharia law will be the law of the land. Christianity is acknowledged, but that’s about it - the followers of it will be “respected” (whatever it means). That thing called Judaism is non-existent again

It's all coming together...

On Tuesday, James Karbach, the Director of Legislative Policy at the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender spoke AGAINST HB26-1082 to put criminals convicted of child sex trafficking in jail for life...

What was one of his arguments? If someone solicits sex from someone they thought was 18 years old and they turn out to be a minor, the "john" get life in prison... he thinks that's a bad idea...

And then two days later, House Democrats introduce a bill to decriminalize prostitution...

What timing...

https://x.com/FreeStateColor1/status/2021387739179122930

Of note, here are the organizations whose lobbyists registered opposition to HB26-1082, the bill that would put child sex trafficking criminals in jail for life:

The ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
League of Women Voters Colorado
New Era Colorado

And here are the organizations whose lobbyists registered opposition to SB26-015, the weaker anti-child rape bill that will only slightly increase penalties:

ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Colorado Freedom Fund

Happy (almost) Valentine's Day! Feels like the perfect time to spread some love to our ecosystem.

Here's what you missed this week 👇

@SushiSwap went live on Stellar 🎉

https://x.com/SushiSwap/status/2021298217275851021?s=20

@K2_lend is also now live on Stellar!

https://x.com/K2_Lend/status/2019208000901369939

Why would members of Congress search their own names in the Epstein's files if they weren't concerned about what would be found? If they did not know him and never met him, there would be no need.
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When members of the U.S. Congress go into a SCIF (often pronounced “skiff”) and search a computer, they are interacting with one of the most tightly controlled information systems in the U.S. government.
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Here’s what that really means — and what gets collected.
A SCIF is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. It’s a sealed room designed so that no signals can enter or leave without authorization. Inside are networks used by agencies like:
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While Epstein didn't seem to be very bright with language or mathematics, I'm starting to think of him as an idiot savant concerning SYSTEMS.

He could see the systems in place, and plan how to work with them, or subvert them. And he could anticipate adversaries' plans to

https://twitter.com/AmberWoods100/status/2022393237479240051

understand, penetrate, and subvert his plans.

By hovering above the chessboard, he could casually see all, and lull/deceive all adversaries down false pathways. And with a few phone calls, neutralize any person/organization by having his colleagues wrap a web around them.

I'm thinking of Reilly, the Ace of Spies. He was working with British Intelligence in 1917/18 to try to stop the Bolshevik Revolution.
What nobody knew was that Reilly had a plan above their plans. He was using British Intell resources to overthrow the Bolsheviks - but his goal

Mini-🧵

Excellent response to the BMJ article 'Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”'!

Highlights two fundamental misconceptions:
* Vaccination is the best prevention
(No - avoiding infection is)

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* The unspoken assumption that infection is inevitable; the surrender narrative
(No - mitigation of airborne transmission is wholly possible)

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"This is not a question of going back to 2019; we have an unprecedented opportunity to move forward into a new era of public health protection.

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evidence of a malicious actor’s having exploited DVS Democracy Suite
5.5-A’s vulnerabilities:

DVS Democracy Suite 5.5-A declared the wrong winners in DeKalb 2022 Commission
primary and a hand count was employed to certify the correct results.----see See
O.C.G.A. 21-2-368(c)

(c) No kind of optical scanning voting system not so approved shall be used at any primary or election and if, upon the reexamination of any optical scanning voting system previously approved, it shall appear that the optical scanning voting system so reexamined can no longer be

be safely or accurately used by electors at primaries or elections as provided in this chapter because of any problem concerning its ability to accurately record or tabulate votes, the approval of the same shall immediately be revoked by the Secretary of State; and no such optica

GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics.

We’re releasing the result in a preprint with researchers from @the_IAS, @VanderbiltU, @Cambridge_Uni, and @Harvard. It shows that a gluon interaction many physicists expected would not occur can arise under specific conditions.

openai.com/index/new-resu…

Gluons carry the strong nuclear force, which is the force that binds quarks together inside protons and neutrons.

Without the strong force, atomic nuclei would not exist.

It is one of the four fundamental forces of nature and a core part of the Standard Model of particle physics.

For decades, one specific gluon interaction (“single-minus” at tree level) was widely treated as having zero amplitude, meaning it was assumed not to occur.

When an amplitude is zero, physicists may ignore it. But this preprint shows that the conclusion is too strong: in a carefully defined situation — where the particles’ motions satisfy a specific alignment condition — the amplitude is not zero.

CPUs are getting worse.

We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.

Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!

*When* exactly the problem occurred is hard to pinpoint.

The possibility was brought up at the Dependable Systems and Networks conference in 2008.

The first real SDC disclosure happened in 2021 with Meta. Google and Alibaba also confirmed later.

Perhaps more terrifying is that cores can *become* mercurial over time.

Chips are pushed so hard that electromigration aging can make compute “more wrong”.

No one knows for sure what process node started the phenomenon...but it's statically likely to be 14nm or 7nm.

🚨 For those who still doubt that Sharia seeks to intimidate and infiltrate our society—our communities, local governments, and neighborhoods, etc.

Take a look at this thread. 👇🏻

Yasir Qadhi of Plano, TX — EPIC’s “resident scholar” — praised Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy in the summer of 2025 as a “victory for the Ummah,” while criticizing @GregAbbott_TX for trying to block the large Islamic development proposed in my district and proclaiming that Muslims need to enlarge their population in America, just like they did in Europe.

@GregAbbott_TX Abu Usama At-Thahabi at the Masjid As-Sunnah in Kissimmee, Florida, this summer — caught on video: “[Muslims] don’t apologize for jihad; they are not afraid of jihad.”

When people tell you who they are, believe them.