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California literally banned masks on cops starting Jan 1, 2026. So much for 'systemic ableism': the actual system went from mandating masks to outlawing them in five years flat. Performative fabric has an expiration date.

jury duty is now just an audition for an intersectional daytime talk show 11 jurors hijacked a murder trial to push a political agenda, completely abandoning the law. Thank God one man had the spine to say no. today advancing an ideology is more important than justice for three murdered children. this is the moral rot of America

Claiming Disney is scared of the "optics" of black led projects completely ignores their modern track record. This studio spent years race and gender swapping legacy characters, INCLUDING Simon Williams to cast Yahya. Does anyone remember Ariel, Tinkerbell, or Snow White? Lumping Wonder Man (low viewership) in with Blade (development hell caused by terrible scripts, not Mahershala Ali) is just dodging the truth teapawt.net/DiscussingFilm/status/…

in 1973, sweden was the kind of country where bank robbery was something that happened in american movies. then one thursday morning in august, an escaped convict walked into a bank in central stockholm, fired a submachine gun into the ceiling, and took four employees into the vault. what happened over the next six days confused every expert who watched it. and it's still confusing people this week the four had every reason to hate him. instead, 131 hours later, they came out defending him. a 23yo clerk got the prime minister of sweden on the phone from inside the vault and told him: i am not afraid of these two men. they protect us. it's the police i am afraid of. when the siege ended with tear gas, six days in, nobody dead, the hostages refused to testify against their captors. one of them stayed in touch with hers for years. the psychiatrist advising the police watched an entire country struggle to explain it, and gave the mechanism a name. what he had seen was not love, and it was not politics. it was arithmetic. when every exit from a story is unbearable, the mind sits down in the one seat it can survive in and the only bearable seat in that vault belonged to the man with the gun. the victims-to-be could not afford their own perspective, so they borrowed his. this week, three hundred people in matching pink shirts stood outside an american courtroom in support of a mother whose acts nobody in the room disputes. there is no vault this time. there is a livestream, which is better than a vault. it locks a million people in a room with one face for a month, and the victims faces never appear at all. you cannot borrow a perspective from the dead. so empathy walks through the only door left open, and calls what it finds there compassion. in 1973 this took a gun and a locked door and it happened to four people. now it takes a trending topic on TikTok and it happens to a whole culture at once. the evolutionary psychologist gad saad has a name for empathy at that scale with its compass broken: suicidal empathy. compassion so miscalibrated it overrides the survival instinct, until a society sides with aggressors reflexively and calls the inversion virtue. because empathy is not free. every ounce spent on the one with the gun is subtracted from somewhere, and it is always subtracted from the same account: the people who cannot appear on the livestream to claim it. a swedish psychiatrist would have predicted the pink shirts fifty years ago. the bank he stood outside was on a square called norrmalmstorg, but nobody remembers the square. we remember the city. stockholm. teapawt.net/EndWokeness/status/209…

Gavins like the guy who crashes your car, then asks for a tip because he called the tow truck. he ignored this hospice fraud for four years while hyper fixating on banning plastic straws and pushing the trans agenda. The feds literally had to step in and name California the "Kingdom of Fraud" to get him to act. Lost billions, found pennies, and expects a parade. teapawt.net/CAgovernor/status/2042…

in 1969, canada was the kind of country that called itself proudly peaceable. montreal did not have a crime problem. then one tuesday morning the city's police walked off the job, and for sixteen hours everyone got to see exactly what had been holding the place together. the most important witness was a 15yo who was certain nothing would happen… the boy was a teenage anarchist. he had read bakunin. he believed people were naturally good, that order came from within, that police were the problem. his parents told him that if the law ever laid down its arms, all hell would break loose. he laughed at them. october 7, 1969. 8:00a. the police walk out over a pay dispute. the looting started in broad daylight. by nightfall, six banks robbed. a hundred shops looted. twelve fires. forty carloads of storefront glass on the sidewalks. three million dollars in damage, in 1969 money. taxi drivers stormed the garage of a rival company, and in the violence a provincial police corporal named robert dumas was killed. this was not a failed state. this was montreal, on a tuesday it took the army to end it. sixteen hours, start to finish. the boy watched his theory die in an afternoon. people were not waiting to be freed from enforcement. some of them were just waiting for it to fail. he grew up to become one of the most cited psychologists alive, a man who studies human nature for a living, and he has said plainly that his anarchism did not survive that day. his name is steven pinker. his convictions met an empirical test, and he adapted. this week a new york assemblywoman said no one should be arrested, much less jailed, for stealing a tube of toothpaste. the argument is that the consequence does more harm than the theft. montreal once ran the starkest version of that experiment. nobody designed it, nobody voted for it, and it was shut down in sixteen hours because a city cannot afford to let it finish. a deterrent looks like it's doing nothing right up until the moment it's gone. steven learned that when he was fifteen. When will they? teapawt.net/EndWokeness/status/208…

for most of the 20th century, Americans were not allowed to own their telephone. you rented it from the phone company. every month. forever. and the company swore the entire network would collapse if you were ever allowed to plug in something of your own. then a radio salesman from a small texas town decided to find out if that was true… his name was tom carter. 1924 mabank, texas. born a radio kid. world war two. juneau, alaska. he runs a broadcast station beaming news to troops scattered across the territory. after the war he starts a small company in Dallas, wiring up oilmen and ranchers with two way radios. and his customers keep asking for the same thing. patch the radio into the phone line, so a man out on a rig can talk to his wife at home. the phone company's answer was no. not because it couldn't be done. because the rules said no foreign attachments. nothing touched the network that the company didn't lease to you. it was the largest corporation on earth, and it had already gone to court once to stop a plastic cup. that was the hush a phone, 1956. a cup that snapped onto the mouthpiece for privacy. the company argued even that would damage the system. in 1959 carter built his thing anyway. a small acoustic cradle. you set the handset in it and it carried the voice across. nothing wired into the network at all. he called it the carterfone. the company responded by threatening to cut off phone service to anyone caught using one. November 29, 1965. carter sues. one small Dallas peon against the biggest monopoly in history. the sensible move was to settle. he spent years and nearly everything he had fighting. june 26, 1968. the FCC rules that any device that does not harm the network may connect to it. that one sentence is the crack the modern world walked through. the answering machine. the fax machine. the modem. when the internet came, it dialed in through the door tom carter opened. even the 1984 breakup of the phone monopoly traces back to his case. carter never made real money from any of it. he died in 1991, running a small mobile phone shop in gun barrel city, Texas. the smithsonian keeps a carterfone. this week the companies that sell games announced the future: streaming only, discs discontinued, ownership retired. access is enough they say. this is the new way now. a company that rents you the thing you use will convince everyone that ownership breaks the 'system'. they said it about a plastic cup. they said it about a cradle for a telephone handset. the system was never the thing that broke. so gamers, let me say the quiet part as a plea. i implore you, even if you're rolling your eyes while the chaos descends - buy some physical. pick your top five games and buy them cheap, now, on disc, while discs still exist. worst case, you spent a few dollars on things you already love and they sit on a shelf. best case, ten years from now you own the only copy anyone can still play. the downside is a shelf. tom carter would have told you the same thing. own the equipment. teapawt.net/DiscussingFilm/status/…

The scary part isn't just that she holds these views... voters saw this and said, 'Yes, that’s who represents us.' WTF happened to Wisconsin teapawt.net/JonathanTurley/status/…

No one calls men 'semen producing entities.' This isn’t 'progressive', it’s a targeted, clinical erasure of womanhood as a result of severe mental illness Gtfo teapawt.net/libsoftiktok/status/20…

the babies were each given two mothers. one was built of bare wire and held the milk. the other was wrapped in cloth and had nothing to offer at all. every one of them chose the cloth, and crossed to the wire one only when hunger got bad enough, and then hurried back… the year was 1958. the man running it was harry harlow at the university of wisconsin, and the infants were rhesus macaques taken from their mothers within hours of birth. the accepted theory then even had a name. cupboard love. affection was understood as a byproduct of feeding: the infant attaches to the mother because the mother is where the food is, and the rest is sentiment. harlow built the two surrogates to test it. a wire frame with a bottle, and a wire frame wrapped in terry cloth with no bottle. half the infants were fed by the wire mother, half by the cloth. which one fed them turned out not to matter. they spent up to eighteen hours a day on the cloth and went to the wire only to eat. when he frightened them, every one of them ran to the cloth, including the infants it had never fed once. they would grab hold of it, and then, still holding on, turn around and face the thing that scared them. he titled the address he gave that year "the nature of love." the work was cruel and he knew it. the isolation studies that came after are among the most disturbing in the history of the field. what they bought was the end of a hospital era in which sick children were kept clean, fed, and almost never held, because holding them was thought to be medically pointless. this week the chief executive of openai suggested parents connect the family calendar to a chatbot so it can produce a personalized podcast for the drive to school. one kid's soccer game that afternoon. another kid's birthday coming up. some news. the drive to school is twenty minutes in a closed box with nowhere else to be. no audience, no schedule until the door opens. it is one of the last places a kid will tell you something sideways, staring out the window, that they would never say across a dinner table. the podcast fills that silence with content about their own life, produced overnight, narrated by no one. harlow's monkeys had every need the wire could meter, and they still spent eighteen hours a day holding the mother who gave them nothing but herself. the finding was never that food doesn't matter. the finding was that presence is not a delivery mechanism, and the infants knew the difference before anyone could teach it to them. everything a child needs, on schedule, from the wire. everything except the reason they hold on.

This is astonishing and won't stand if the WNBA has any respect for it's own rules The WNBA CBA strictly prohibits wagering under Section 5(c) yet the league's initial disciplinary response to active players betting on a game is simply removing the video why should fans take anything else in the WNBA seriously? When a league’s social media team films, edits, and posts its own star players placing a wager on a game, and the entire disciplinary response is just 'delete it'.. it tells you everything you need to know. You can't market yourself as a serious professional sports league while treating your own rulebook like a suggestion. Maybe they were never serious in the first place anyway teapawt.net/espn/status/2082911037…

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30% discount on government groceries is just a taxpayer funded hustle. The city is dumping $70M of YOUR money into a bureaucratic black hole to bankroll union deals, state waste, and sheer incompetence. You still pay full price, just through your tax bill. Even worse? These subsidized shops will actively crush the independent local grocers and neighborhood bodegas who actually pay taxes to survive. teapawt.net/EndWokeness/status/208…