*Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one* - Puddleglum, The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis
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I'm pretty simple. I won't follow Israel First into putting Israeli or Jewish interests ahead of the United States. I also won't follow the New Right into hating Israel, Jews, or having a "strange new respect" for Islam. I'm not sure why this position is becoming so uncommon.
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The idea that Hispanics voted against Trump in 2026 because of immigration instead of Cost of Living fails to hold up bc in 2024 Hispanics voted for Trump when he campaigned on mass deportations
Also kind of insulting to Hispanic voters
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I can’t emphasize enough that tech bros with seemingly little to no understanding of humans and their behavior have not and cannot “predict” our future.
I can tell you, it is not going to go the way any of them are saying. Are they screwing everything up disastrously? Yes. Will we need skills after that point? Absolutely and completely.
Keep your children and teenagers engaged and educated. They will absolutely still need it.
Remember, they will outlive these guys.
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Plenty of people warned that Republicans would draw the wrong lessons from a midterm blowout.
There has never in history been a case where the GOP lost an election in a landslide and then concluded that they needed to tack further to the Right as a result.
Handing the Democrats a landslide historic victory only breathed life back into the 2013-era amnesty push. We're already seeing it with some of the remaining House Republicans who survived last Tuesday's wipeout. Maria Salazar in FL-27 is still pushing for amnesty, and Marlin Stutzman in IN-3 is too.
Any push for amnesty is a massive betrayal of the GOP base that elected Trump in 2016 and 2024. Immigration remains THE single most important issue of the age, and anyone who doesn't understand this has no business being in Congress as a Republican.
NEW: Sec. Mullin told me this morning he is open to a bipartisan immigration deal that includes DACA permanent legal status. But draws red line on amnesty.
Mullin told Trump that Dems (ie No Labels) have called him and Trump encouraged him to engage.
“The president said ‘let’s start working with them and then let’s meet at some point.’”
W/ @MyahWard
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Granting permanent legal status IS an amnesty deal
Now we're just negotiating the scope of the amnesty
NEW: Sec. Mullin told me this morning he is open to a bipartisan immigration deal that includes DACA permanent legal status. But draws red line on amnesty.
Mullin told Trump that Dems (ie No Labels) have called him and Trump encouraged him to engage.
“The president said ‘let’s start working with them and then let’s meet at some point.’”
W/ @MyahWard
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Last night, Douglas Wilson made his debut on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Happy November!
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I want everyone in the White House to know that Susie is executing a systematic strategy to throw President Trump under the bus.
Below is Susie’s stenographer sharing her leaks that it was not in fact Susie who was captured by Ballard, but the President.
Brian Ballard said in writing he didn’t lobby Susie or White House staff on glyphosate. Since Ballard’a disclosure below said he personally lobbied the White House in the quarter of the EO’s release, he is either lying or throwing President Trump under the bus. Which one is it @BallardFirm
James Blair is angrily texting saying “my problem is obviously with President Trump” and sending quoted to media blaming him for the corporate capture in the first two years
Additionally, Ballard is running a public relations campaign to explicitly defend Susie Wiles and say that President Trump is the sole reason the administration has caved to the tobacco and pesticide industries.
What’s most demonic is that Susie and Ballard are taking aim at the foundational claim I’ve made that she and her cronies on K street didn’t prioritize corporate interests to a larger degree than Americans voted for. Ballard is actually making the argument with a straight face they didn’t materially coordinate with Susie to rig policies.
The Joe Rogan episode has caused cultural impact because everyone watching knows it’s true.
Susie - I’m not intimidated and you will not scare me. Again, please stop sending me emotional texts. This is not personal - this is civilizational.
If America doesn’t move on from the revolting version of politics you represent, our country will cease to exist. A lot of Americans feel that.
To current and former leaders in the admin - it is time to speak out. It is time to speak to the press about what you saw. The weapon we have is truth. Let’s identify the problem - so Stephen Miller and President Trump can solve it.
Whatever side of the aisle we are on, we should pray for Stephen Miller’s to exorcise Susie’s culture of corruption from the admin and get us on a posture advocating for voters, not Ballard.
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Republicans want open borders for cheap labor.
Democrats want open borders for cheap labor and votes.
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AI is owned by the world's richest people who also control the world's largest information sharing channels – and you're telling us that people opposing them are the ones pulling the strings?
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🇺🇸 Meanwhile on the Streets on New Jersey
What happened?
Indians Celebrating Dilwali happened
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Oh God, not again.
There’s fraud in every election, but in no universe was it enough to name cause what happened Tuesday. If this is the case, why isn’t the DOJ doing something?
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The "Dignity Act" is a trojan horse for amnesty. A rose by any other name is just as sweet, and amnesty by any other name is just as treasonous.
Well done, Mr. President!
What you described on 60 Minutes is what the Dignity Act is all about.
A Republican-led immigration bill with BIPARTISAN support.
“Get the killers out.” You said it. ABSOLUTELY!
You said it: Keep “good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel” who have been contributing to America for years.
You said it: Those who have been here for 10 or 15 years: “Work a deal for them.”
That’s the core of the Dignity legislation.
Immigration is not just border security. It’s about the ECONOMY and AFFORDABILITY: housing, groceries, healthcare, manufacturing.
Mr. President, I have said it repeatedly. YOU can bring Republicans and Democrats together to finally fix our broken immigration system.
A 40-year problem.
You can surpass Reagan’s legacy by delivering a historic immigration reform.
This is your moment.
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If President Trump softens on immigration enforcement, it will be a disaster:
60 Minutes: "So you think your deportation policy went too far?
President Trump: "I think it was too tough."
60 Minutes: "It was too tough?"
President Trump "I think it might be too tough, yeah."
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I was looking for any acknowledgement at all that America delivered a message on Tuesday. That they demanded action on affordability and corruption.
America was listening for acknowledgement, but it seems like he didn't get the message.
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If more than half of illegal aliens are on welfare, then not only should they not be here in the first place, they are a net negative to our country. Now add in all the other crime, lack of assimilation and the growing animosity to the very country they are in. Deport them all.
About 61% of households headed by illegal immigrants use at least one major means-tested program (food aid, Medicaid, cash, housing), per CIS analysis of 2024 SIPP data.
Most of that flows through U.S.-born children, who are eligible. Undocumented adults themselves are barred from nearly all federal benefits except emergency Medicaid and limited exceptions, so individual receipt rates are far lower (around 20% for heads of household in related CIS work).
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Black American goes to Dairy Queen and gets 2 water cups
Instead of filling them with water she fills them with Hi-C Pink Lemonade
Someone tried to intervene and tell her the water cups are for water and she says “Be quiet before them folks come ova here”
So she knows she’s stealing, but she’s intentionally doing it anyway and doesn’t care. She’s even trying to hide her crime
This is the reason places are putting the soda machines behind the counter and are switching to QR codes
Bad actors ruin it for everyone else
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🦔Rough time to own a handful of trucks. Small carriers pay more for fuel and financing than the big fleets do, and they don’t have the cash to wait out a slow stretch. The freight hasn’t disappeared either (couriers added about 17,000 jobs in October). More of it goes to the giants now, and trucking usually cracks before the rest of the economy does. A Fed rate hike would push a lot more of these owners to hand over their keys next year.
Hedgie🤗
BREAKING: 221 US trucking companies have filed for bankruptcy so far in 2026, on track for the highest annual total in 23 years.
This marks the 3rd consecutive year with at least 220 bankruptcies.
By comparison, annual bankruptcies were below 100 in both 2021 and 2022.
Furthermore, ~66% of small US trucking firms, typically operating 20 or fewer trucks, reported flat or declining revenue YoY, according to a Truckstop and Bloomberg survey of hundreds of carriers.
At the same time, ~40% expect to leave the industry or are unsure of their future over the next 6 months.
This comes as surging diesel prices, rising insurance premiums, and higher interest rates are increasingly squeezing smaller trucking companies.
The US trucking industry needs help.
